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r/Showerthoughts

34,017,565 subscribers — A subreddit for sharing those miniature epiphanies that make the mundane more amazing.

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Top posts this week

The 10 highest-scored posts from the last 7 days — ranking by real score over a week naturally filters out posts that got removed shortly after posting.

PostScorePosted
Ten years ago we thought $600 was a lot to pay for a phone.85507d ago
The first Goomba you encounter in Super Mario Bros. probably has the highest body count of any video game character ever.74393d ago
Waking up early is considered a virtue, even though people who wake up late are comfortable working even in late hours, which is also beneficial.61585d ago
At the end of Toy Story, Sid discovers the truth about the toys. He may be the only human who knows this truth.19305d ago
Many years down the line, you will be an ancestor of either every human alive or none.15724d ago
If the moon was made of Osmium, its gravity would be higher than the Earth's.15264d ago
Playing on The Price Is Right is one of the only scenarios where a very rich person is at a disadvantage.13253d ago
Insurance companies that have to hire celebrities for commercials, should not be trusted handling financial issues.9745d ago
To be overly sensitive can be both a great gift and a huge curse.9258d ago
Crosswords could be scrabble games first, and clues just added after. Tweaks would be thrown in, like multiple words and proper nouns allowed, but otherwise it could be near identical.3707d ago

Posting rules

  • All content must be original.
  • All posts must meet the minimum requirements for their flair.
  • Your entire thought must be in the post's title.
  • Submissions must be offered in error-free English.
  • No misinformation.
  • No done-to-death or banned submissions.
  • No spam or spam-enabling activity of any kind.
  • Remain civil at all times.

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  -H "x-api-key: ts_live_YOUR_KEY"

See /docs/posts for pagination, filtering with q=, and full response shape, or /docs/subreddits for the rules endpoint used above.

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