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One of the biggest Hollywood lies is how detectives work almost non stop 24/7 to crack some murder cases.

u/ohdogwhatdone · 2026 · 8,650 pts

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0% of natural numbers have been spoken aloud.

u/JazzyGD · 2025 · 8,626 pts

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Batman and Superman should just swap cities for a week. They would take care of each others' villains in no time.

u/beingtwiceasnice · 2025 · 8,599 pts

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When watching porn, you have seen more verifiably real male orgasms than female orgasms on screen.

u/thuanjinkee · 2025 · 8,588 pts

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Inside Out set in a brain with Alzheimer's would be a compelling but terrifying horror film.

u/pasrachilli · 2026 · 8,579 pts

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It's easy to look down on bystanders of history. Until you realize you've become one yourself. Then suddenly there are excuses for it.

u/MarinatedPickachu · 2025 · 8,512 pts

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It must be insanely time-consuming to design fonts for Chinese and Japanese.

u/b3terbread · 2025 · 8,502 pts

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Why don't they make a massage place where you can just go sleep after?

u/keiiith47 · 2025 · 8,402 pts

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There is a non-zero chance humans may have already gone back in time to keep humanity from suffering worse historical and current events than we already have, and this is actually the brightest timeline.

u/Nagi21 · 2025 · 8,332 pts

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One day in the future, “Do you smoke?” will mean marijuana by default, not nicotine.

u/MusicPsychFitness · 2026 · 8,325 pts

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It took the universe around 13.8 billion years to write a complete copy of Shakespeare.

u/Idontknowofname · 2025 · 8,243 pts

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Since Wall-E knew how to repair himself, he knows how to repair all the dead Wall-E’s around him but chooses not to.

u/Chadadonia · 2026 · 8,113 pts

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u/NMLWrightReddit · 2025 · 8,103 pts

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There is a most listened to last song that played right before people have passed away.

u/Dillguy124 · 2025 · 7,973 pts

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Rose only loved Jack because he didn't live long enough to disappoint her.

u/ManMadeOfMistakes · 2025 · 7,846 pts

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A group chat named after you is the one you’re least likely to be in.

u/surya753 · 2025 · 7,813 pts

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People probably faked illness to get out of work even in the hunter-gatherer era.

u/littleproducer · 2026 · 7,753 pts

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The idea that you master something after ten thousand hours does not hold much water, as people still bite their tongue when they eat.

u/bladeDivac · 2025 · 7,748 pts

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Every single modern fetish had a pioneer (or group of pioneers) who had to be the first to declare "I find this hot".

u/CoreEncorous · 2025 · 7,681 pts

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There will come a day that when someone dies their middle aged adult children will have to sift through their tens of thousands of selfies.

u/d183 · 2025 · 7,630 pts

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Out of all the eras to be born into, I'm glad it's one with toilet paper.

u/d183 · 2025 · 7,609 pts

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It’s nice that rain doesn’t fall fast enough to do damage, or early humans would’ve been screwed.

u/PromiseSilly4708 · 2025 · 7,576 pts

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Sleep is one of the only things that becomes easier the less you do it.

u/Rex_Auream · 2025 · 7,564 pts

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The occasional shart aside, the ability of our assholes to distinguish between a shit and a fart has to be one of evolution's greatest accomplishments.

u/roboreddit1000 · 2026 · 7,540 pts

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Salt circles repel demons. So, if you packed a hula hoop fill of salt, would it become a portable demon shield?

u/TurtleKing0505 · 2026 · 7,494 pts

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A portion of dead people never knew what caused their death and if brought back to life, they would be surprised to learn that they had died.

u/EverettGT · 2026 · 7,358 pts

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Lungs are wet caves made of meat. Our immune system somehow keeps them infection free (hopefully).

u/drawliphant · 2025 · 7,282 pts

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Getting fat is easy, being fat is hard.

u/Highmassive · 2025 · 7,257 pts

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The money that IKEA spends on including wall-mounting brackets for furniture is effectively the premium for their anti-lawsuit insurance.

u/SexySwedishSpy · 2025 · 7,111 pts

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The tradition of wearing a white wedding dress has saved countless women from the dilemma of what color to pick for the dress.

u/uselessprofession · 2026 · 7,102 pts

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You will never see your actual face.

u/spilledmind · 2025 · 7,044 pts

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If the nuclear bombs start flying, it might actually be those countries that never had any that end up surviving.

u/iwishihadnobones · 2026 · 7,009 pts

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Very few people can actually keep their watch 5 minutes fast any more.

u/kepler1 · 2025 · 6,984 pts

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Your phone vibrating without any type of notification is a new form of psychosis.

u/FaxTimeMachine · 2025 · 6,973 pts

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If the famously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis is solved by an AI, we will never know if a human mathematician could have solved it.

u/jasonrubik · 2026 · 6,952 pts

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I wish I could just eat all of the food in my fridge at once, then not eat for 2 months like a snake.

u/Scruffy725 · 2026 · 6,934 pts

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For centuries, porcelain was considered a luxury item. Now, we make our toilets out of it.

u/It_Is_Blue · 2025 · 6,926 pts

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The smartest of astrophysicists have decided that it’s a good idea to dox our planet’s existence for the entire universe.

u/zav3rmd · 2026 · 6,917 pts

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We happen to exist in a tiny sliver of human history where we both have AI, and we can still tell when something was made by AI.

u/deten · 2025 · 6,875 pts

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Our parents used to remind us not to get too much screen time "because it will rot your brain", which is ironic because now our parents are glued to their screens with a constant stream of modern day algorithmic content that is literal brainrot.

u/bRKcRE · 2026 · 6,861 pts

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If you're skinny, shaving your beard makes you look skinnier. But if you're fat, shaving your beard makes you look fatter.

u/Sojorapo · 2026 · 6,777 pts

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Prior to the Bronze Age, the natural world was likely much more beautiful (even ignoring the extra trees), thanks to surface deposits of blue and green copper, and other gems and minerals considered rare now. They were picked up and used by early humans, just like all of the good shells at a beach.

u/carboncord · 2025 · 6,755 pts

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I don't think that I would be able to recognize my genitals in an album of genitals.

u/WildSoapbox · 2025 · 6,699 pts

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If dogs sweated like human beings, they probably would not be popular pets.

u/Bjarki56 · 2025 · 6,694 pts

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Statistically speaking, someone *is* the unluckiest person on the planet.

u/partiallycylon · 2026 · 6,680 pts

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Being reborn with all your memories would probably suck for a while. As a baby you are trapped in your mind unable to do much, and as a young kid it would be hard to make friends because you are too mature and intelligent for them, and older people you relate to still won't take you seriously.

u/nyancatdude · 2025 · 6,673 pts

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The fae couldn’t have red blood because of the iron in hemoglobin. It would likely be blue, like an horseshoe crab, which uses copper instead.

u/physchy · 2025 · 6,632 pts

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While humans aren't perfect, it is fortunate that the first species with the potential to dominate all life for billions of years evolved at least some empathy for other species.

u/andreasdagen · 2025 · 6,594 pts

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Missions to the moon used to unite and inspire great swathes of humanity. This time it feels like hardly anyone cares and we're all just focussed on the next global disaster.

u/Meowface_the_cat · 2026 · 6,555 pts

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The first person to learn that we sound different to ourselves than to others likely died less than 200 years ago.

u/MathProg999 · 2025 · 6,529 pts

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