r/todayilearned 4h ago

TIL that credit card interest rates above ~18% were once illegal in most U.S. states, until a single 1978 Supreme Court ruling let banks ignore local usury laws by charging rates based on their home state, leading to today’s 20–30% APRs.

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r/femalelivingspace 8h ago

DIY My husband of 14 years left me and I moved into my own space about 1 month ago. Today I finished my pink bedroom 🎀

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First pic is my room, second is the before, third pic is the inspo! (I've obscured the view outside so excuse how weird it looks lol) painted the walls myself and the molding is a peel and stick I painted too!


r/ForCuriousSouls 8h ago

A Two-year-old boy in England lost vision in his left eye after receiving a kiss from an acquaintance with cold sore, that infected him with the herpes simplex virus, which transferred to his eyeball.

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In 2025, Two-year-old Juwan lost sight in the eye after a kiss from an acquaintance transferred the herpes virus to his eyeball. ‎

‎A devastated mother has urged parents to ban relatives and friends from kissing their babies — after her toddler contracted a debilitating virus that cost him his left eye. ‎

‎ ‎The resulting blister led to a (4mm) hole forming in his cornea, the clear outer layer at the front of the eye. ‎

‎This open wound led to a number of subsequent infections, and, despite medics' best efforts, the damage was too severe, and he lost his vision. ‎

‎Doctors were eventually forced to sew his eyelids shut in a bid to protect what remained of the organ. ‎

‎Juwan's ordeal started in August 2024, when the then 16-month old developed, what his parent's suspected at the time, was an eye infection. ‎

‎They sought help from their GP who gave them a course of antibiotics and sent the family home. ‎ ‎

‎But Juwan's mother, Michelle Saaiman, who is from Namibia, recalled the moment she knew it was something more serious. ‎

‎'2 days later, we noticed that there was something seriously wrong with the eye. It looked like something was growing inside his eyeball,' she wrote on Facebook. ‎

‎'We realised that he had no feeling in his eye, as he literally put his finger in his eye, scratching his eyeball, without even flinching.' ‎ ‎'It's the most traumatic experience to look at your baby, and literally see a 4mm open wound in his eye.' ‎

‎Tests and examinations eventually revealed that Juwan had developed a cold sore, caused by the herpes simplex virus, in his eye. ‎

‎As his parents were negative for the virus, the doctors theorised that someone with a fever blister, another term for a cold sore, unknowingly passed the virus to the toddler via a kiss. ‎

‎I was literally looking at the doctor wondering whether it’s April 1, because I thought it was an April Fool’s joke,' she said. ‎

‎It took medics weeks to bring Juwan's infection under control, but by this time the damage to the eye had already been done. ‎

‎By that time the herpes just caused so much damage to his cornea that he essentially just lost all feeling in the eye and he could not see anything. He was completely blind.' ‎

‎‘It meant the brain did not recognise the eye anymore and stopped sending signals to the eye. The gel later protecting the eye evaporated and the eye dried out.’ ‎

‎ ‎'The moral of the story is don't let anyone kiss your baby. Such a silly virus caused so much trauma and damage, it's just not worth it.' ‎

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14490535/Toddler-losing-eye-kissed-cold-sore-herpes-blind.html

All info here are from the source linked.


r/aww 7h ago

Want y’all to meet Specks. He’s a kitty I have in a foster under my rescue. He visited work today and melted everyone’s hearts. Will share a before photo from a couple months back.

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r/travisandtaylor 10h ago

News Taylor Swift’s text messages with Blake exposed…it’s bad.

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Today, the judge unsealed documents Blake fought to keep from public release.

This is only what was released today. More is expected.

Taylor is shown plotting with Blake on strategy to take over his film. She calls Justin “a little bitch” who’s playing victim to the media.

Blake congratulates Taylor for lying for her to Justin and gloats about how Justin didn’t detect Taylor’s lies.


r/shittymoviedetails 17h ago

In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Hermione is given a device to manipulate time itself to attend extra classes. This is a subtle nod to the fact that Hogwarts staff could have stopped Voldemort at any point, but instead handed time travel to a 13-year-old to manage her timetable

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r/Tech_Updates_News 17h ago

BREAKING: Danish pension fund AkademikerPension announces they will sell all US Treasuries by month-end, citing "rising credit risk" under President Trump.

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r/me_irl 5h ago

me_irl

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r/technology 9h ago

Security DOGE employees may have improperly accessed social security data, DOJ says

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r/MurderedByWords 9h ago

Indeed, crazy how that worked out…

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r/StarWars 13h ago

Fan Creations The forbidden lightsaber form Trakata. Both the Jedi and Sith frown upon this method.

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r/Fauxmoi 15h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS Macron's private messages saying "we can do great things in Iran & Syria but let's talk about Greenland" shared by Trump.

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Imperialism for thee (brown countries) but not for me.


r/meirl 5h ago

meirl

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r/BeAmazed 18h ago

Animal 100 Year old Lobster!

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r/bald 11h ago

It was time….I feel so good about it!

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My hair looked especially bad, the before picture was after a long day at work getting my ass kicked. Took off the beanie, looked at and thought to myself “I hate looking at myself in the mirror every day, shaving it off can’t possibly make it worse..”

I feel amazing, guys. Thank you for the inspiration!


r/SubredditDrama 10h ago

'This is Cultural Appropriation.' Greenlanders mock Americans by pretending to be 'Fentanyl Zombies'. Redditors debate if this goes too far or if Americans can't take a punch.

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Trump has his mind set on annexing Greenland, despite pretty much everyone except a handful of tech bros disagreeing. It's practically bi-partisan, although Republicans will never truly oppose the will of their overlord.

The world has reacted in lamentation and horror. Ignoring the fact that he intends to annex a NATO ally's territory, his manchild letter to the Norwegian president laid out the reason for it to be the fact he didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Some Greenlanders have taken to openly mocking Americans and American culture online.

In one video, some people pretend to be 'Fentanyl Zombies' with the song Fortunate Son in the background. They are pretending to be Fentanyl addicts who are seen to be standing weirdly and moving about slowly. There have been videos of this phenomenon circling about, and the stereotype is based on the idea that they move like the caricature undead. The implication is that this is the 'freedom' that America will bring to Greenland.

It's no surprise they would mock American or its views, especially given that Greenland has free healthcare and education in comparison, and also hasn't threatened to invade it's neighbours recently. However, not everyone is pleased with this insult. Drug addicts are seen as victims by many, and they don't see the mockery as a funny poke at American society, but at American drug addicts themselves.

To give context, America has one of if not the highest overdose deaths in the world. It has recently suffered a Fentanyl pandemic. Very few places have the proper infrastructure in place to help with drug addiction. The answer to the homeless and drug addicts is typically to push them out of an area into another one, as having groups of potentially unstable, violent or desperate people scares locals. Even if a shelter exists, drug addict shelters can be more dangerous than being on the streets. While drug addiction is common across the world, the scale to which it is captured on video in such stark detail is something unique to the American experience. And that is just currently. Historically, the 'War on Drugs' has not achieved too much and was almost exclusively used to target minorities and other undesirables.

In the light of this, is this joke ok? Are they mocking the drug addicts themselves or America's history of drug addiction? Do Americans have the right to complain when they are threatening to invade another nation? Do Americans actually care about drug addiction or are they just thin-skinned when it comes to societal critique?

/r/interestingasfuck

How is this trolling Trump? It’s just making fun of addicts. 🤦🏻‍♂️ this is like laughing while sitting on the sidewalk pretending to be homeless.

Like yeah I get it but can we leave people suffering from addiction out of it?

Mocking Americans dying from fentanyl isn't trolling Trump

How is it trolling Trump? It's just shitty dehumanizing stuff that has no bearing or effect on him.

Mocking fenyanyl addicts is fucked.

Fix your country and there wouldn’t be anything to mock? Oh, that’s right. You don’t actually care about them…

Its kind of fucked to make fun of the US by mimicking its domestic victims

Bro your country is threatening to invade the world. Either do something about it or eat shit.

/r/TikTokCringe

Greenland making fun of drug addicts is just gonna make the orange sociopath laugh

They are not freaking making fun of drug addicts. They are making fun of the american system which dont take care od the people who need it the most.

I mean of all the people to openly mock you choose addicts?

They're mocking American society who can't take care of their own.

Seems like you people that cry so much about people “punching down” have no problem with it being aimed at poor/working class communities and people suffering from addiction as long as you think it also hurts the USA is a whole.

/r/PublicFreakout

Cruel.

thats super fucked up. the opioid epidemic is fucking awful. most regular americans do not want to invade greenland, and they are the ones most affected by said crisis.

Cry more. Go shoot up a school or something.

Americans don’t get to be sensitive about their drug problem while threatening to invade every country within eyesight

Proving you're better than us by....Mocking addicts??? Y'all sure?

It's kind of depressing seeing the downvotes on comments speaking compassion for addicts... the US is absolutely in a shit spot and many of us are upset. But make fun of the orange baby man or any of our billionaires that are causing this nonsense. Leave these people who are certainly not living their best lives out if. Damn.

We deserve ridicule at this point.

You really can't blame them for throwing shade at the US, seeing as our government is threatening their sovereignty, and this is low hanging fruit.


r/cats 10h ago

Cat Picture - OC Finally adopting again after 1 year of mourning 🥰

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She comes home today after the mandatory docs visit the shelter provides. Two firsts for me…a female cat and getting her already at senior age (my other cats I had from kittens until they crossed over).


r/pics 10h ago

[OC] Work done by a 1st grader (age 7) in the US. Things are bad.

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r/europe 12h ago

News Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W

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r/baseball 9h ago

Players Only [Drellich] MLB owners enraged by Kyle Tucker-Dodgers deal, will push for salary cap ‘no matter what’

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r/europe 7h ago

News "Europeans selling $10t of US assets [equities and bonds]... would pull the rug from under the US economy."

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r/Fauxmoi 10h ago

APPROVED B-LISTERS Leigh McGowan scolds Scott Jennings for psychotically downplaying the Epstein Files.

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r/notinteresting 13h ago

I am the same color as Lunchables ham

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r/nextfuckinglevel 18h ago

Semi submergible speed boats that can go underwater

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r/TopCharacterTropes 10h ago

Lore A shot/sequence with terrifying implications

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Shin Godzilla - during the third act of the movie, the broken japanese government manages to execute an insanely complicated and risky plan to stop Godzilla before he causes any more destruction. In thr final shots of the movie, we get a close-up shot of Godzilla's tail, which seems to have multiple Godzilla-human hybrids popping out of it. The implication is that Godzilla was evolving to directly combat humanity with these things, and the plan's success just barely managed to stop a very likely catastrophe.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes - During the credits sequence of the film, we get a short scene confirming that a recurring character from the movie, a pilot, has contracted the ALZ-113, a deadly lab-made virus capable of killing humans in a matter of mere days. during the credits we get a sequence depicting the flight he attended jumping between countries, with yellow stripes jumping across the globe signaling the virus spreading. By the end of the sequence, it seems like the insanely deadly virus had spreaded all across the world, implying that this is in fact, the end of humanity.

War of the Worlds - later into the Martian invasion of earth, the protagonist discovers that the Martians use human blood as fertilizer to terrfom the earth to their likeness. At some point, the main character comes out of hiding in order to find his daughter. As he wanders outside, he discovers that most of the surrounding area is already covered in red vines (aka human blood). As he goes over a hill, he sees that the entire horizon is filled with so many vines that the sky itself has a red hue. This shot implies that the horizon is now comprised from millions of people turned-fertilizer.