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18.7M members. The best post we have captured here reached 53.8K upvotes, which works out to 3 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
New "Discovery Mode" turns video game "Assassin's Creed: Origins" into a fully narrated, interactive guided tour through a detailed recreation of Pto…
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A 1776 excerpt from John Adam's diary where he describes the time he had to share a tiny bed with Benjamin Franklin and, instead of sleeping, they ha…
Famous Viking warrior burial revealed to be that of a woman
3,000-year-old underwater castle discovered in Turkey's largest lake
Researchers built a database from 4000 year old clay tablets, plugged it into an economic trade model, and pinpointed 11 potential lost cities
My Jewish-American grandfather guarded Nazis in WW2 France. After the war, one his prisoners sent him this illustrated book of his time in the camp.
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700-year-old Knights Templar cave discovered in England
The "Harlem Hellfighters" were the first African American regiment in WWI who were assigned to the French forces. None were captured, never lost a tr…
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
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