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  1. TIL that monkeys in Japan learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water to clean them. They later switched to washing sweet potatoes in salt water. It is theorized that this is because they like the salty taste more than plain potatoes.

    40162 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2021

  2. This express lane sign with correct grammar

    40162 upvotes • comment • may 10, 2021

  3. "how did you get soo big so fast?" I love her

    40162 upvotes • comment • jul 19, 2021

  4. To make a cute panorama picture

    40161 upvotes • comment • feb 04, 2021

  5. Thought it was a parking ticket. Only to find a millimeter sized nick.

    40160 upvotes • comment • oct 04, 2021

  6. Cleaning the Uda River, Russia

    40159 upvotes • comment • sep 05, 2021

  7. TIL checked bags used to be free. US Airlines started charging fees due to after-effects of the 2008 recession and they’re staying now mainly because the public has largely accepted the fees.

    40158 upvotes • comment • sep 01, 2021

  8. Protesters hold up signs as they march down Congress Ave

    40158 upvotes • comment • sep 03, 2021

  9. Elon Musk Saves the World in 2023

    40156 upvotes • comment • feb 10, 2021

  10. My Grandpa eating a sweet strawberry

    40155 upvotes • comment • mar 20, 2021

  11. I don't like where this is going.

    40155 upvotes • comment • dec 08, 2021

  12. The ability to clap does not make you intelligent

    40155 upvotes • comment • oct 01, 2021

  13. I was the only Toyota tech in the dealership this week due to a tech family emergency, and another on vacation. 111 hrs booked in a 40 hr week. I'm exhausted.

    40154 upvotes • comment • aug 21, 2021

  14. What job or activity do you normally associate with jerks?

    40154 upvotes • comment • oct 08, 2021

  15. TIL at a water plant in Poland, there is eight clams with sensors attached to their shells. If the clams detect toxic level of metals or pesticides, they will automatically close, triggering the sensors and shut off the city water supply.

    40153 upvotes • comment • mar 12, 2021

  16. Hol Up, This is Ringing Some Bells in My Head

    40152 upvotes • comment • aug 04, 2021

  17. Acting FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel could save net neutrality

    40152 upvotes • comment • jan 25, 2021

  18. Being from the US I fully agree.

    40148 upvotes • comment • mar 22, 2021

  19. Best we can do

    40144 upvotes • comment • feb 18, 2021

  20. He Was Murdered At Age 12

    40144 upvotes • comment • dec 19, 2021

  21. 🔥 Mushrooms growing on dead leaf on almost perfect alignment

    40143 upvotes • comment • feb 27, 2021

  22. This guy made a great real plane, it took him 6 months

    40142 upvotes • comment • apr 26, 2021

  23. A volcano eruption from the International Space Station

    40142 upvotes • comment • oct 10, 2021

  24. A man fell into the lower falls at Golden Ears park, a group of Sikh hikers took off their turbans to make a rope and rescue him

    40139 upvotes • comment • oct 17, 2021

  25. Cursed_serial killer friend

    40138 upvotes • comment • may 20, 2021

  26. Roommate

    40138 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2021

  27. They always go for the 'pervy old man' look..

    40136 upvotes • comment • jun 15, 2021

  28. Alright time to leave since I am bad at this.

    40135 upvotes • comment • sep 25, 2021

  29. I made TNT that mines tunnels for you automatically!

    40133 upvotes • comment • feb 26, 2021

  30. Watchin’ the sunset

    40133 upvotes • comment • aug 06, 2021

  31. Update bodycam footage of cop throwing baggie in the backseat of a citizen's car

    40133 upvotes • comment • jul 25, 2021

  32. 4 years ago, I walked into a homeless shelter lost in my addictions to drugs and alcohol with no healthy relationships and no hope. This week, I closed on my first house free from drugs and alcohol for the last 4 years. I have a great job and am now a college graduate working on my masters degree.

    40132 upvotes • comment • jan 15, 2021

  33. Gamers will be the happiest retired people on earth.

    40129 upvotes • comment • mar 17, 2021

  34. Had to do it

    40129 upvotes • comment • mar 12, 2021

  35. Man saves a dog who suffered a heart attack

    40128 upvotes • comment • apr 23, 2021

  36. Kevin’s good, but Dave’s the 🐐

    40128 upvotes • comment • sep 07, 2021

  37. Visible confusion

    40128 upvotes • comment • oct 03, 2021

  38. GME and AMC Holders Right Now

    40127 upvotes • comment • mar 04, 2021

  39. Pharmacist pleads guilty to federal charges for intentionally sabotaging COVID vaccines

    40126 upvotes • comment • jan 27, 2021

  40. “The Great Resignation”: Upwards Of 40% Of Workers Are Thinking About Quitting Their Jobs - Workers Have Had More Than A Year To Reconsider Work-Life Balance Or Career Paths & As The World Opens Back-Up, Many Of Them Will Give Their Two Weeks' Notice & Make Those Changes They’ve Been Dreaming About.

    40126 upvotes • comment • jun 15, 2021

  41. My daughter's Tigger has distinct bright and dark stripes in normal light, but is entirely pale white in night vision.

    40125 upvotes • comment • dec 03, 2021

  42. TikToker licks "jellyfish", doesn't know it is a Portuguese Man 'o War, one of the most venomous animals known.

    40123 upvotes • comment • nov 04, 2021

  43. Look at what 'they' have done

    40123 upvotes • comment • may 31, 2021

  44. Another owner gets adopted

    40122 upvotes • comment • may 25, 2021

  45. Taliban takes over governor house

    40121 upvotes • comment • aug 14, 2021

  46. Wife and daughter of Governor-General Paul Doumer throwing small coins in front of Annamite children in French Indochina (current Vietnam), between April 1899 and March 1900, filmed by Gabriel Veyre

    40120 upvotes • comment • oct 14, 2021

  47. DEW IT!

    40119 upvotes • comment • feb 17, 2021

  48. Who would win?

    40119 upvotes • comment • apr 14, 2021

  49. Image of Neptune captured by the Keck telescopes last week.

    40119 upvotes • comment • oct 03, 2021

  50. welp

    40118 upvotes • comment • oct 11, 2021

  51. Crane with stabilizers

    40116 upvotes • comment • jul 26, 2021

  52. Thanks, I hate nuts

    40111 upvotes • comment • aug 13, 2021

  53. Well, we WERE promised flying cars by now.🤔

    40109 upvotes • comment • mar 17, 2021

  54. Moved into my new studio and finally started painting again!

    40108 upvotes • comment • dec 01, 2021

  55. The Japanese giant hornet is the world's largest and can sting you with a flesh-dissolving acid that acts as pheromone to signal other hornets to target you.

    40108 upvotes • comment • jun 27, 2021

  56. Anyone else love maps like these?

    40108 upvotes • comment • feb 15, 2021

  57. I picked this up today. It was impossible to leave the shop without it. Locally made.

    40106 upvotes • comment • jan 20, 2021

  58. Monkey doesn't like banana strings

    40106 upvotes • comment • jul 22, 2021

  59. I’m a fat girl (240 lb,) and I just walked a 5K!

    40106 upvotes • comment • sep 18, 2021

  60. Tomorrow shall be wild

    40105 upvotes • comment • mar 07, 2021

  61. This is business

    40105 upvotes • comment • jun 04, 2021

  62. Youngest Organ Donor ! (Link in Comments)

    40104 upvotes • comment • feb 08, 2021

  63. I've gotcha covered 🙂

    40103 upvotes • comment • dec 22, 2021

  64. LPT: If you like buying lottery tickets, start buying cheap stocks instead. It still has the thrill of gambling, the game lasts a lot longer, and the odds of making a million are much much much much much more in your favor mathematically speaking.

    40103 upvotes • comment • mar 17, 2021

  65. 1 year after the first known US coronavirus death, over 450,000 families will never see a loved one again

    40102 upvotes • comment • feb 06, 2021

  66. I built a solar-powered paddlewheel for my canoe.

    40102 upvotes • comment • jan 04, 2021

  67. My 6th grade art teacher gave me an F on my first abstract work. I waited 22 years to try again

    40101 upvotes • comment • aug 19, 2021

  68. Which scene was the saddest?

    40099 upvotes • comment • jul 31, 2021

  69. It's a win win

    40098 upvotes • comment • dec 01, 2021

  70. Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell being personally blessed by the Pope

    40097 upvotes • comment • nov 22, 2021

  71. I just got my year end bonus and will buy a dollar worth of GME from CS for every upvote in the next 24 hours (capped at 15k cause that’s the size of the bonus). Trying to start a trend and I accept proof or ban.

    40095 upvotes • comment • dec 01, 2021

  72. What are your thoughts on parallel universes?

    40094 upvotes • comment • jun 20, 2021

  73. That’s what you get for inventing calculus

    40093 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2021

  74. This is quite unfair

    40092 upvotes • comment • jan 12, 2021

  75. NFL says coronavirus outbreaks among unvaccinated players may lead to forfeits this season

    40091 upvotes • comment • jul 22, 2021

  76. College-in-prison program found to reduce recidivism significantly. The study found a large and significant reduction in recidivism rates across racial groups among those who participated in the program.

    40090 upvotes • comment • dec 07, 2021

  77. …

    40090 upvotes • comment • dec 26, 2021

  78. This is the way

    40089 upvotes • comment • feb 22, 2021

  79. Years ago I was part of a team that did endurance events to raise money for charities. While in an airport a woman suggested we take a picture with a girl that was "going to be big one day" and we rolled with it. My hunt for that photo ended today.

    40088 upvotes • comment • aug 12, 2021

  80. AOC says disgraced Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, must immediately resign

    40087 upvotes • comment • mar 12, 2021

  81. meirl

    40084 upvotes • comment • sep 02, 2021

  82. Congress should impeach Trump again and bar him from holding any future public office

    40082 upvotes • comment • jan 04, 2021

  83. The snow on my mom's lawn looks like Florida.

    40081 upvotes • comment • feb 28, 2021

  84. Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard line stance on remote work

    40081 upvotes • comment • jul 15, 2021

  85. Day 2 of wankers parked in disabled spots. Absolute legend with disability badge has parked in front of them to trap them in

    40080 upvotes • comment • sep 07, 2021

  86. It's Official: 'Dune' to World Premiere at Venice Film Festival

    40080 upvotes • comment • jun 17, 2021

  87. Families pay to have their teenagers taken in the middle of the night across the US to do gruelling hikes on military rations in order to "solve teenager social disorders".

    40080 upvotes • comment • jun 20, 2021

  88. Try this again, Scotland don't fuck around

    40078 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2021

  89. Bird feeder accepts bottle caps for food

    40077 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2021

  90. TIFU by Loving my Wife

    40077 upvotes • comment • mar 17, 2021

  91. Man narrowly avoids being crushed by a tree struck by lightning: "I felt like Buster Keaton."

    40077 upvotes • comment • may 17, 2021

  92. Custom hatter accurately measures the size and shape of a person's head using conformer and formillion tools

    40075 upvotes • comment • jul 23, 2021

  93. Doorbell video captures police officer punching and throwing teen with autism to the ground

    40074 upvotes • comment • apr 25, 2021

  94. Scientists discover more than 30 viruses frozen in ice, most never seen before

    40071 upvotes • comment • jul 21, 2021

  95. Still resisting urge to say

    40071 upvotes • comment • oct 30, 2021

  96. My Mysterious cosplay

    40070 upvotes • comment • mar 03, 2021

  97. Activists who helped elect Kyrsten Sinema launch CrowdPAC to fund a primary challenger | Organizers say if Sinema doesn't vote to end filibuster and back Biden they'll “replace her with someone who will”

    40067 upvotes • comment • sep 29, 2021

  98. Ayyyyyyye we got the pepperocinio guy again!!!!!!!

    40067 upvotes • comment • jul 13, 2021

  99. My kitten loves this sweatshirt

    40064 upvotes • comment • mar 18, 2021

  100. But Thor dark world was a good movie

    40063 upvotes • comment • oct 29, 2021