With all that’s been in the news lately, one can easily think that humans are just the Earth’s waste. And while that probably applies to some of us, there are plenty of awesome people as well. At least that is what the subreddit r/HumansAreMetal is trying to prove. With over 539,000 members, the community is sharing random acts of kindness and heroism in hopes of restoring our hope in humanity. From honoring firefighters who lost their lives during 9/11 to car crash survivors showing the lifesaving effects of seatbelts, it is doing one heck of a job, too. Continue scrolling and check out some of the most popular posts on the subreddit.

#1 Aitzaz Hasan. 7th January 2014, He Lost His Life Stopping A Suicide Bomber From Entering His School. He Saved Hundreds Of His Peers, At Only 15 Years Old

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#2 Salute To Sir Bishnu Shrestha, Thanks For Being A Hero

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#3 Daryl Davis Attended Kkk Rallies As A Black Man. He Befriended The Members And Convinced Over 200 To Leave

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#4 These Are The Words This Jogger Screamed At Her Would-Be Rapist In A Public Restroom, And The Squiggly Lines Are The Gps Trail Of Her Evading, And Beating Her Attacker. Respect

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#5 Literally Metal

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#6 Joy Andrew. From York, England

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#7 Willlem Arnodeus Fighting Nazis

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#8 Student Archers Take Position To Battle Police After Writing Their Last Words

“These are protesters in Hong Kong who started protesting an extradition bill, however after several months of protests and many instances of police brutality, including policing killing protesters, the protests have become about much more.

What is happening in that photo specifically is two protesters going to defend their college from police. As of a few days ago police have started attacking universities as most of the front liners are young and coming from said universities”

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#9 Terry Fox

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#10 Iconic

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#11 Dads Are Metal

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#12 Dr. Alfa Sa’adu, 68, Came Out Of Retirement To Fight This Pandemic. Today, He Became 4th Doctor To Die From The Virus In The UK

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#13 Fire Fighters Rule!

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#14 Nadya Tolokonnikova Risks Her Life To Protest Authoritarianism In Russia

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#15 This Morning, Mike Bruno Continued His Tradition On 9/11. Climbing 110 Flights Of Stairs In Full Gear To Honor The Firefighters Who Lost Their Lives

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#16 Car Crash Survivors Show The Lifesaving Effects Of Seatbelts

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#17 Theresa Kachindamoto Saving The Children

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#18 Can’t Beat Intelligence

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#19 Barry J Marshall Infects And Cures Himself

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#20 I Understand Completely

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#21 A Child Was Born Among The Rubble. Life Despite Everything

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#22 Actress Audrey Hepburn, Living In Nazi Occupied Netherlands In Wwii And Suffering Malnutrition, Raised Funds For The Dutch Resistance By Dancing In Underground Concerts

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#23 Anti Vaxxers Will Say It’s Fake

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#24 A True Hero

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#25 Ronald Mcnair

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#26 At Age 71 Jack Wilson Eliminates A Would-Be Mass Shooter With A Headshot 30 Ft Away

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#27 Nothing Is More Metal Than This

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#28 She Used What She Had Learnt

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#29 Anita Ekberg

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#30 Firefighters In Ukraine Are Dealing With Radioactive Fires In Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Mad Respect To This Brave Guys!

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#31 Let’s Never Forget Willie

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#32 Grandpa vs. Neo-Nazi

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#33 No Arms, No Problem

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#34 My Dad, 67yo, Has Been Working 7 Days/Week As A First Responder And Police Officer. Turned Down 3 Different Chief Positions Because He Loves The Beat. Here’s To All You Emergency/Healthcare Workers Who Are Working Even Harder Than Normal

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#35 Juliane Koepcke, A 17 Year Old In 1971 Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning. She Fell Two Miles To The Ground Strapped To Her Seat And Survived. She Spent The Next 11 Days Alone In The Amazon Jungle Before Being Rescued By A Logging Team

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#36 Let’s Keep This Badass Soldier Train Going

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#37 I Present Götz Of The Iron Hand

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#38 His Life Continued To Rise After The Titanic Sunk

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#39 “And We’re Back.” Cnn Reporter Omar Jimenez Immediately Goes Back To Covering The Minneapolis Riots After Being Released From His Unlawful Arrest By The Mpd

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#40 Brave Kid

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#41 A Man Dresses Up As Death To Not-So-Subtly Remind People There’s A Pandemic

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#42 His Contribution To Humanity Will Be Forever Remembered. Song Yingie

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#43 Indonesian President

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#44 Wish They Would Make A Movie About This!

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#45 Man Recognizes A Woman Having A Seizure And Catches Her Before She Hits The Ground

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#46 Chinese Doctor Says Goodbye To His Wife Before Going To Wuhan To Help Treat Coronavirus Patients

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#47 Three Teenage Girls Living In The Netherlands During World War II Spent Their Evenings Talking To German Soldiers, Extracting Information From Them And Then Luring Them Into The Woods And Shooting Them

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#48 A 9 Year Old Boy From Yemen Rescued A Fox From A Well That Was 3 To 4 Floors Deep Without Any Insurance Ropes

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#49 This Dude Traveling With His Parents, But They Can’t Move So They Must Be Carried By Him

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#50 She’s A Badass

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#51 “When You Take Your Master’s Degree Back Home To The Uncle That Helped You Survived The Walk From Ethiopia To Sudan In 1991”

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#52 Iraqi Protestors Sit On Government Chairs After They Take Over Government Buildings

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#53 Can We All Please Appreciate This. Rest In Peace

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#54 Meet Issac Wright Jr – American Hero

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#55 When You Have To Protect Your Baby From A Hail Storm

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#56 Memory 100

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#57 Hats Off To Iranian Doctor Shirin Rouhani Who Passed Away Due To Coronavirus. Due To Lack Of Medical Staff , She Kept Treating Cornaviris Patients Till Her Last Breath. Look Closely , She Herself Is On The Iv While Treating Patients. U Would Be Remembered Shirin ! Rest In Peace

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#58 This Metal Enough For You?

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#59 The Man Who Planted An Entire Forest!

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#60 Jonny Kim, Aged 36, Has Achieved Becoming A Navy Seal, A Trained Harvard Doctor, And Is Now Selected To Become The First Korean To Go To Space

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#61 I Am So Not This Cool

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#62 Wuhan Doctors Working Continuously For 12 Hours

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#63 Neerja Bhanot, 22, India. Head Purser Of Flight Pan Am 73. Saved 43 Americans By Hiding Their Passports. Shielded Many Kids From Bullets While Letting Them Escape In The Hijacking(1986). Metal As F***

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#64 Bouncer Takes Down Gunman Walking Into A Club

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#65 This 3.5 Years Old Little Hero (Ayla Gezgin) Trapped Under A Collapsed Building After İzmir Earthquaqe, Survived By Herself For 91 Hours And Just Got Resqued Couple Hours Ago

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#66 On 9/11, Firefighter Orio Palmer Single-Handedly Fixed An Elevator That Took Him To The 41st Floor Of The South Tower. He Then Climbed 37 Flights Of Stairs To Reach The Impact Zone And Died During The Collapse While Trying To Rescue Survivors

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#67 Jessica Cox Is The World’s First Licensed Armless Pilot, As Well As The First Armless Black-Belt In The American Taekwondo Association. She Was Born Without Arms Due To A Rare Birth Defect

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#68 Commander (Ayesha) Kaftar, The Only Afghan Female Warlord, Aged 70. She Fought Against The Ussr And Taliban Forces In Afghanistan With An Army Of Over 200 Strong, Losing Over 30 Family Members In Her Lifetime

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#69 Dialysis Machine

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#70 Someone Make This Into A Movie Right Now!

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#71 Famous Image Of African American Soldiers With Easter Artillery Shells

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#72 The Medical Staff At Wuhan Union Hospital Have Been Risking Their Lives Fighting The Coronavirus. True Medical Heroes. Great News That 11 Medical Staff At The Hospital Who Were Infected Have Turned Negative For The Virus And Symptoms Were Controlled After Treatment!

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#73 Dmitri Mendeleev

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#74 2 Surgeons After Successfully Removing A Set Of Brain Tumors During A 32 Hour Surgery

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#75 In San Jose, After Being Shot With A Concussive Round This Guy Got Back Up And Challenged The Cop To Do It Again

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#76 Jacklyn Lucas

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#77 This Is Riley Howell: A Hero Who Sacrificed Himself To Save His Classmates During The Unc Charlotte Shooting. “He Took The Assailant Off His Feet,” Stated Police, “Unfortunately, He Gave His Life In The Process. But His Sacrifice Saved Lives”

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#78 I Am Incredibly Proud Of My Progress Over The Last Five And A Half Months. The First Part Shows My First Steps With My New Legs, The Second Part Is From A Few Weeks Ago. Practice, Determination And Support From Friends And Family Got Me Here

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#79 Sudan, The Last Male Northern White Rhino, And His Armed Guards

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#80 This Is Ryan Newman. He Took A Car To The Face At 195 Mph Monday Night On The Last Lap Of The Daytona 500. This Was Taken This Morning

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#81 This Is Awesome

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#82 Rising From The Dead

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#83 Celebrities Can Be Metal

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#84 Danny Hodge, Former Boxer And Wrestler, Crushing An Apple With His Bare Hand At 80 Years Old

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#85 Social Distancing During Tiananmen Massacre Vigil, Victoria Park Hong Kong

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#86 French Protester Explaining His Ideas To Riot Cops, Place De La Bastille, 28th Of November

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#87 That Must Have Taken Some Planning

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#88 Fred Pepperman Died To Save His Three Daughters, Rescuing Them From A Ripe Tide Before Drowning Himself. His Last Words To Them Were “I Got You”

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#89 The Actual Robin Hood

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#90 This Is Cristina Zenato, Who Has Removed Over 300 Hooks From Sharks’ Mouths

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#91 Man Offers Water To Thirsty Cobra

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#92 Metal? Maybe. Do I Want To Party With These Guys? Yes

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#93 August Landsmesser Being The Only One Not To Give The Nazi Salute At A 1936 German Rally. He Was Later Sent To A Concentration Camp For Publicly Having A Relationship With A Jewish Woman

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#94 Chilean Cop vs. Protestor

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#95 This Homeless Man Is Next Level

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#96 Respect

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#97 Real Life Hero

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#98 15 Year Old Madlad

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#99 Old Lady Refuses To Be Intimidated By Hong Kong Police

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#100 Metal Man, Metal Mustache

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#101 Throwback To 5 Years Ago When Tony Fauci, At 74 Yo, Was Suiting Up To Treat An Ebola Patient Himself Because He “Wanted To Show His Staff That He Wouldn’t Ask Them To Do Anything He Wouldn’t Do Himself”. This Is What Leadership Looks Like

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#102 Decisive Moment Of Chess Game. Moscow, Ussr, 1950s

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#103 Mike ‘The Durable’ Malloy – History’s Most Stubborn Murder Victim

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#104 Thomas Fitzpatrick Lost A Bet To Steal A Plane And Landing It In Front Of The Same Bar The Bet Was Made Then Done It Again To Prove He Originally Did It

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#105 Kid(Age 10) Standing Tall After Arrested In Hong Kong For Shouting “Revolution Of Our Time, Glory To Hong Kong”

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#106 Shoutout To This Madlad

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#107 Old Lady India Yeets A Cobra That Wandered Into Her Home

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#108 Daryl Davis Changing Hearts And Minds

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#109 My Neighbor At Our Farm Riding A Horse To Celebrate His 102 Year Birthday. I’m Convinced He Will Never Die

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#110 One For All

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#111 That Guy Is Right

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#112 Wow

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#113 ‘monkey On A Tree’ Shoalin Trick

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#114 Please Let Others See This: This Guy Did Not Flinch, Move, Cry, Or Gasp. Austin, Tx. In Front Of Apd. Judging By The Boots Probably Former Marine

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#115 Wow

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#116 London Bridge Heros Take Down Knife Wielding Terrorist With Fire Extinguisher And Narwhal Tusk

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#117 Ah, It Looks Like It’s Beginning To Rain. *cries*

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#118 My Physics Teacher Defended Her House From Bushfires By Herself, And Then Waited Out The Fire In Her Pool Using A Scuba Tank

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#119 Metal Last Words

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#120 Firefighter Bobby Lehman With His Helmet & Bunker Gear Caked In Ice Tries To Thaw Out After Battling A Stubborn, Wind-Driven House Fire In Nahant, Massachusetts

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#121 Cambodian Man Takes His Childhood Trauma And Turns It Into A Lifetime Of Saving Others (Crosspost Of My Post From R/Humansbeingbros)

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#122 To Being Metal!

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#123 Paul Henry Carr

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#124 Intense Game Of Hide And Seek Huh

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#125 American Forest Bof Lost Both Hands In A Car Accident 40 Years Ago. When He Was Offered An Experimental Operation, He Decided Not To Refuse

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#126 Guy Single Handedly Saves 2000000 People

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#127 Major Dhyan Chand Of India, Who Refused Hitler

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#128 The Same Spot

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#129 One Punch Man

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#130 American Con Artist Steven Jay Russell

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#131 Carl Akeley, American Taxidermist. The Leopard Ambushed Him, Crushed His Left Hand, And Scratched Up His Chest With Its Back Claws. He Punched Down Its Throat, Body Slammed It, And Crushed Its Windpipe With His Knees, All While Recovering From Malaria

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