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6 unusual facts about reddit


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Reddit, from the "/r/" prefix appended to the names of sub-Reddits

Boldly Going Nowhere

On October 16, 2013, McElhenney confirmed in a Reddit AMA that they are once again working on the show.

Cry Baby Lane

A search began for the lost film, and in August 2011, a user from the website Reddit recovered a VHS copy recorded from the film's original broadcast and made it available online.

Danish Frogman Corps

Despite their efforts, The Danish Frogman Corps is very well known for photos and videos that has been shared around social networks Including Reddit, Tumblr and others.

Han shot first

Peter Mayhew, the actor who played Chewbacca in the original series, was asked in a Reddit AMA, "Mr Mayhew. Did Han really shoot first ? You were there. You saw it first hand. The truth needs to come out !"

Rebecca Eisenberg

Since May 2012, she serves as General Counsel of the social news website Reddit.


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Awesome Foundation

Alexis Ohanian, entrepreneur and Reddit co-founder, treasurer of The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies.

BarCraft

In May 2011, the user o Oskar posted a topic on reddit saying that on May 11, 2011, people could go to Chao in Seattle to watch that day's North American Star League games while drinking a few beers and enjoying the company of other StarCraft fans.

Hullabalu

Hullabalu's $1.8M seed round is led by a list of top-tier angels and funds including SV Angel; Rothenberg Ventures; Liberty City Ventures; Great Oaks Venture Capital; Alexis Ohanian, Cofounder of Reddit; Garry Tan, Cofounder of Posterous and Partner at YC; Gokul Rajaram, Head of Ads at Facebook and Brian Sugar, Founder of Sugar.

Jobstr

Jobstr features an "ask me anything" format, popularized by Reddit and Formspring, which deviates from the more traditional Q&A format employed by sites including Yahoo! Answers and Quora where any user may submit an answer to a question, after which other users can vote to indicate their favorite of all answers submitted.

Slender Man

In 2011, Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the sandbox indie game Minecraft, added a new hostile mob to the game, which he named the "Enderman" when multiple users on Reddit and Google+ commented on the similarity to the Slender Man.


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