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Reddit (05 Jun 2024)

  1. TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.

    40912 upvotes • 2515 comments • jun 05, 2024

  2. Scammer gets a shock after getting caught by hacker

    37247 upvotes • 1218 comments • jun 05, 2024

  3. Remote Amazon tribe finally connects to internet — only to wind up hooked on porn, social media

    36690 upvotes • 1616 comments • jun 05, 2024

  4. Best man?

    29697 upvotes • 288 comments • jun 05, 2024

  5. broke for eternity

    29238 upvotes • 468 comments • jun 05, 2024

  6. Roman Horilyk, a checkpoint controller at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, has returned after two years of captivity in Russia. In March 2022, he and 168 other National Guardsmen responsible for plant security were taken hostage by the Russians and transported out of Ukraine.

    26639 upvotes • 1770 comments • jun 05, 2024

  7. Can we be done now

    24807 upvotes • 3110 comments • jun 05, 2024

  8. Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further

    23059 upvotes • 1668 comments • jun 05, 2024

  9. Joe Biden suddenly leads Donald Trump in multiple battleground states

    20251 upvotes • 2499 comments • jun 05, 2024

  10. CNN: Russians are increasingly raping Ukrainian men on occupied territories [nsfw]

    19486 upvotes • 1924 comments • jun 05, 2024