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Modern soldiers' PTSD triggers will probably shift from fireworks to the sound of a drone. Which is unfortunate as drone shows are replacing firework shows.
u/scoobopdan  ·  2026   ·  26,201 pts
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The 'richest people' list in actuality is the 'legally richest people', which is only close to the actual richest people list. There are tons of illegal super rich people.
u/JLF2411  ·  2025   ·  25,957 pts
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When you eat at home with your partner, it's weird to eat different entrees, but when you eat at a restaurant with your partner, it's weird to eat the same entree.
u/unclefishbits  ·  2025   ·  19,527 pts
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In the Harry Potter Universe, technically anybody could legally and freely explore the body of anyone else if they really wanted to and whenever they wanted, so long as they had access to a single strand of that person’s hair and some Polyjuice Potion.
u/clam-inspector  ·  2025   ·  19,223 pts
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If you sleep 5 hours per night and die at age 75, you'll still have spent just as many years awake as a person who sleeps 8 hours per night and dies at age 89.
u/odbal  ·  2025   ·  17,644 pts
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If you are an identical twin, there is a non-zero chance your parents got you confused for your sibling as an infant, so you aren't who you think you are.
u/CarltheWellEndowed  ·  2026   ·  17,350 pts
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The reason the Internet was so great compared to TV was because there were no ads, people could say whatever they wanted, and the content was made by regular people. None of that is true anymore.
u/toastronomy  ·  2026   ·  16,910 pts
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The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but heat death is around 10¹⁰⁰ years away, so it has effectively used 0% of its lifetime meaning the universe is still basically a "baby", and we’re living in its earliest, most active era.
u/HalfEntity  ·  2026   ·  16,002 pts
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I bet the person whose Social Security number is 420-69-8008 wishes they could tell everyone what it is.
u/InItsTeeth  ·  2025   ·  15,987 pts
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If you didn’t watch it air, you’d never be able to catch up with the Truman Show.
u/Jlw2001  ·  2025   ·  15,440 pts
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Aliens wouldn't invade earth to enslave humanity or for Earth's resources. Aliens can travel across the galaxy, universe, dimensions. They will have all the technological advancements and the entirety of the infinite vastness of space and all of its resources.
u/2ingredientexplosion  ·  2025   ·  15,221 pts
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If the "use it or lose it" theory of neuroscience is correct, then we're going to have an absolute explosion of AI-induced Alzheimers in the future.
u/SopwithTurtle  ·  2026   ·  14,610 pts
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If radio was invented today it would be controlled by four companies and locked behind a paywall.
u/Doctor__Hammer  ·  2025   ·  14,297 pts
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There's almost certainly a demographic of young people, currently discovering their sexuality in the context of AI-generated porn, developing specific fetishes for the glitchy artifacts and malformed anatomy it produces. There might be a kink-driven demand for crappy AI porn for many years to come.
u/ei283  ·  2025   ·  14,162 pts
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The invention of clothes likely helped boost human birthrates, by inadvertently increasing sexual arousal when someone occasionally sees another’s genitals.
u/clam-inspector  ·  2025   ·  14,144 pts
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Temperature can reach trillions of degrees, meaning we actually live extremely close to absolute zero.
u/synthphreak  ·  2025   ·  14,091 pts
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Multiple choice tests having a "don't know" option that provides a fractional point would reward honesty and let teachers know where students need help!
u/robert-at-pretension  ·  2025   ·  13,752 pts
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I’m just intelligent enough to know that I’m not really that intelligent.
u/MyMonody  ·  2026   ·  13,282 pts
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An alien invasion wouldn't unite humanity; nations would be selling each other out at the first opportunity.
u/DarthWoo  ·  2025   ·  12,967 pts
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A gold medal Olympic athlete is better than 8.3 billion people. A bronze medal Olympic athlete is better than 8.3 billion people.
u/Vast-Intention  ·  2026   ·  12,707 pts
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Superman must have to go to sleep every night hearing the cries of people begging for his help.
u/improbsable  ·  2025   ·  12,638 pts
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If puberty is confusing for humans, metamorphosis must be extremely confusing for caterpillars.
u/B0kke  ·  2025   ·  12,087 pts
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Social media should have a "This Is AI" button for post's readers.
u/lelorang  ·  2025   ·  11,823 pts
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Waking up when your body is done sleeping, not when a machine tells you to, is a profound privilege that many of us won't get to enjoy as adults.
u/sparquis  ·  2025   ·  11,613 pts
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You don’t realize how much of your personality is built around avoiding discomfort until you try to change.
u/Ahmerz06  ·  2026   ·  11,279 pts
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There are people out there you haven’t met yet who will love you.
u/rayQuGR  ·  2025   ·  10,937 pts
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Babies being so helpless is a real flex for humans as apex predators.
u/hihihihihihellohi  ·  2025   ·  10,766 pts
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If you lose a leg, your BMI goes down. If you lose another leg, your BMI goes up (BMI is based on weight and height).
u/lelorang  ·  2025   ·  10,747 pts
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Phone cameras need a "junk photo" setting for all those throwaway photos you take to remember where you parked, what's on a menu, QR codes, and all the other random stuff we use them for now.
u/Patarokun  ·  2026   ·  10,581 pts
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We just automatically assume that eggs in recipes means chicken eggs.
u/thesmartass1  ·  2025   ·  10,449 pts
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Five stars being the default leaves no room to reward people who go the extra mile.
u/JCMiller23  ·  2025   ·  10,194 pts
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It is likely that if inbreeding wasn’t a problem genetically, it would not be taboo.
u/Glitch0110  ·  2026   ·  10,191 pts
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You'd think evolution would have stopped snoring long ago: being loud at night while sleeping seems like a bad survival strategy.
u/thesmartass1  ·  2026   ·  10,176 pts
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What would have been relegated to shock sites 15 years ago is commonplace on social media today.
u/Mrqs1997  ·  2025   ·  10,109 pts
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People who use em dashes regularly in their writing might be the most underrated victims of the ChatGPT/Al boom.
u/xThe-Legend-Killerx  ·  2025   ·  9,720 pts
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Every day for the next ten days is going to be the same backwards:5/20/25 5/21/25 5/22/25 5/23/25 5/24/25 5/25/25 5/26/25 5/27/25 5/28/25 5/29/25
u/crossedwires89  ·  2025   ·  9,639 pts
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Next year, Stranger Things will have been around for a whole 10 years, thus making the 80s revival era as long as the actual decade itself.
u/SethRollins_  ·  2025   ·  9,624 pts
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It’s weird how TV episodes usually have names but TV seasons never do.
u/karmagirl314  ·  2025   ·  9,560 pts
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It's convenient that water can't get cold enough that drinking it injures us the way that really hot water does.
u/CaptainMonocle07  ·  2025   ·  9,460 pts
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In the 80s/90s, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV (instead of chatting) was seen as a sign of social decay. Today, an entire family sitting in the living room watching TV together (instead of each lost in their own screen) is seen as a sign of social bonding.
u/elephvant  ·  2026   ·  9,430 pts
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If people had no sex drive, most people would think sex looks disgusting.
u/mike5f4  ·  2025   ·  9,414 pts
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In video games, "old" items are typically bad, but "Ancient" items are usually good.
u/Within_a_Dream  ·  2025   ·  9,398 pts
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If Captain Underpants (from the children's series by the same name) were a woman instead of a man, it would not be considered suitable for children and likely never get published.
u/Chanocraft  ·  2025   ·  9,368 pts
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It is highly likely that you never pressed the 8 button on a microwave.
u/TheAnzus  ·  2026   ·  9,367 pts
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AI would creep me out less if it talked like a robot instead of mimicking natural human speech.
u/MyUsernameIsAwful  ·  2025   ·  9,239 pts
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April Fools doesn't hit as hard when your default reaction to everything on the internet is disbelief or skepticism.
u/DrMux  ·  2026   ·  9,101 pts
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Generative AI has the same pitfalls as teaching apes sign language, in that it creates information based on what it thinks we want, rather than an understanding of language.
u/CMDR_omnicognate  ·  2025   ·  9,018 pts
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The power of invisibility would make you blind when active, because light would just pass straight through your eyes.
u/MyUsernameIsAwful  ·  2026   ·  8,913 pts
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The "room temperature IQ" zinger hits much harder outside of the US.
u/COHERENCE_CROQUETTE  ·  2026   ·  8,866 pts
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Every single world record will eventually remain forever unbroken, some of them are probably already unbreakable right now.
u/Linorelai  ·  2025   ·  8,750 pts
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