r/50yearsago↗
50 Years Ago...
Posting tidbits about what happened 50 years prior.
22k subscribers168 posts / mo in Sep 202620 authors / mosince 2014
r/50yearsago has 22k members (+150% over the last 12 months). It gets about 168 posts a month from 20 people. Top topics: Richard Nixon and Watergate, Billboard Hits and Vietnam War.
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Share of the subreddit's posts
- Richard Nixon and Watergate1.8%
- Billboard Hits1.0%
- Vietnam War0.9%
- Plane Crashes0.6%
- Spanish Anarchism and Franco Era0.6%
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- IMDb
- TIME
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