1131 thoughts

It is quite likely that within 100 meters / 300 feet of you there is a screwdriver.
u/CopingAdult  ·  2025   ·  5,166 pts
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The twist was once considered provocative but now it's a normal dance move. We'll probably see grandmas twerking at weddings in 50 years.
u/LetMeExplainDis  ·  2025   ·  5,147 pts
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Swimming is one of the only sports where coaches tell you to breathe less instead of more.
u/PromiseSilly4708  ·  2025   ·  5,116 pts
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Our pets could be having mild to moderate headaches at any time and we’d probably never know.
u/Miky617  ·  2025   ·  5,114 pts
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Sharks can sense electrical impulses. Because it is a sense like smell or touch, would certain patterns of impulses and voltages be more pleasurable to a shark than others? Like how strawberries smell better than burnt plastic. Would different things release reward chemicals differently?
u/McqueenKachow17  ·  2025   ·  5,105 pts
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Humans are the pinnacle apex predator on the planet and yet the majority of us would not be able to survive in nature for more than a few weeks.
u/Africannibal  ·  2025   ·  5,081 pts
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A planned encore isn't really an encore, it's just part of the set.
u/snakeravencat  ·  2025   ·  5,078 pts
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It’s weird how blue light filter glasses became mainstream before we ever proved they actually help.
u/WindowAfraid5927  ·  2026   ·  5,056 pts
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If you take into account bacteria and such, soap is probably one of the deadliest substances on earth.
u/Brainy006  ·  2025   ·  5,043 pts
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Future archeologists (and treasure-hunters) will have intense love-hate relationships with landfills.
u/Happy_Da  ·  2025   ·  5,030 pts
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It's absurd we accept rock losing to paper just because "paper covers rock."
u/aaahhhh  ·  2026   ·  5,001 pts
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It's somewhat unfair to Achilles, a great warrior and hero, that he is now best known for his one mortal weakness.
u/vonBoomslang  ·  2026   ·  4,961 pts
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I grew up when £1 was the perfect drink-or-snack amount. You could get a big drink, a big snack, or a bit of both, and it was a single coin. Kids today don’t have a nice, round “£1 amount” anymore.
u/RedditButAnonymous  ·  2025   ·  4,941 pts
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If the zombie apocalypse were to break out today, the undead would be significantly more uncanny due to the prevalence of veneers, fillers, and silicon implants.
u/riri1281  ·  2025   ·  4,861 pts
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There is an inky-black ichor bubbling beneath the earth's surface, composed of the congealed remains of the ancient dead, whose burning power can realize all of mankind's dreams, at the cost of slowly suffocating our world and returning it to its primordial state.
u/bajadasaurus234  ·  2026   ·  4,838 pts
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The cheaper the restaurant, the more likely you need to pay before receiving food. Expensive places let you order $100 meals and $200 bottles of wine in hopes you pay later.
u/Franklinricard  ·  2025   ·  4,792 pts
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About 75% of people in the modern era live to see the turn of a century (1900, 2000, 2100, etc.), but if you're under 25 today, you probably won't.
u/dan-lugg  ·  2026   ·  4,789 pts
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Recently saw a science post about the younger generation have smaller jaws and larger craniums and got me thinking. Are stereotypical aliens just future evolved humans?
u/Ashleyk3  ·  2025   ·  4,753 pts
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The stereotypical "cartoon monkey" does not actually look like any monkey species that exists in real life.
u/09232022  ·  2026   ·  4,751 pts
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There is a good chance that the only thing stopping undersea cities from existing is the relatively short lifespan of octopuses.
u/Silly_Percentage3446  ·  2026   ·  4,740 pts
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Once you find a 4 leaf clover, the chance of finding another increases.
u/Drink15  ·  2025   ·  4,711 pts
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You never really hear people talk about DEFCON levels in movies anymore.
u/Bang-Bang_Bort  ·  2025   ·  4,694 pts
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The human species won’t go extinct in your lifetime.
u/Vivi01224  ·  2026   ·  4,682 pts
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When your cellphone uses its vibration motor to warn you about low battery, it is ironically wasting even more of the battery you’re supposed to save.
u/mxosborn  ·  2025   ·  4,671 pts
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You never realize how loud your clothes are until you’re trying not to wake someone up.
u/lordgingerbread  ·  2025   ·  4,669 pts
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There's probably a LOT of money that will never be spent in the USA simply for the fact that it is comprised of $2.00 bills that people save because they're uncommon and interesting.
u/99999999999999999989  ·  2025   ·  4,653 pts
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Not being able to see your own butthole seems like a serious design flaw, yet it's true of almost all animals.
u/debauchasaurus  ·  2026   ·  4,591 pts
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Since human memory fades over time, Google Photos could be retroactively using AI to alter details in pictures we took years ago, and we would likely rewrite our own memories to match the file rather than notice the change.
u/ehtio  ·  2025   ·  4,580 pts
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Despite how loathed criminals generally are, they are, ironically, also responsible for the creation of millions of jobs around the world, from police officers, prison guards, and loss prevention staff to locksmiths, cybersecurity specialists, and legal professionals.
u/TheMegnificent1  ·  2025   ·  4,564 pts
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Everyone is modifying the way they write job applications and article submissions because of the way AI is triaging them. Humans are actually being trained by AI and not the other way around.
u/MoronTheBall  ·  2025   ·  4,549 pts
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People that grew up with abusive parents would probably survive longer in an 'A Quiet Place' scenario.
u/ObjectiveOk2072  ·  2025   ·  4,540 pts
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In Avengers:Infinity Wars, Dr. Strange saying 1 in 14 million, is actually not that many essential outcomes, we are talking 24 paths, that took place in a 5 year time span, (2^{23}=8.9M)(2^{24}=16.7M) The first of which was give Thanos the time stone or let Ironman die.
u/questionname  ·  2025   ·  4,527 pts
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The best possible way for a spy to stay hidden would be to occasionally joke that they are a spy, so that people will assume they are not a spy, because a real spy wouldn’t say that.
u/DumplingsOrElse  ·  2026   ·  4,500 pts
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Designer brands have convinced us all it’s completely normal to walk around every day with some dude you’ve never met’s name printed on your underwear.
u/SavvyOri  ·  2025   ·  4,483 pts
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At restaurants, we are asked how long we’d like our meat cooked but never our vegetables.
u/Safe_Bullfrog870  ·  2025   ·  4,483 pts
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It's hard accept that the toilet brush is the final form of toilet-cleaning technology.
u/Pandafour20  ·  2026   ·  4,481 pts
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For aliens observing us, seeing humans celebrate another revolution of our planet around the sun must look like applauding after a plane landing.
u/ThoughtfulRider  ·  2025   ·  4,470 pts
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Humans evolved a larynx optimized for speech, even though it makes choking more likely than in other mammals, because cooperation through language saved more lives than the anatomy cost.
u/WindowAfraid5927  ·  2026   ·  4,448 pts
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There are probably a non-zero number of people on Earth that don’t know water can freeze solid.
u/Fakjbf  ·  2026   ·  4,426 pts
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An unmarked Costco receipt would be really hard to find outside of a warehouse.
u/AznKwokBoi  ·  2026   ·  4,372 pts
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With it being the deadliest conflict in human history, I wonder if the planet felt emptier, quieter, after World War II.
u/JT-117-  ·  2025   ·  4,367 pts
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Everyone should have to experience a simulation of what going through a crash on the highways feels like before they get a license.
u/carinislumpyhead97  ·  2025   ·  4,352 pts
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The 3 Musketeers are famous for their swordsmanship, not their musketry skills.
u/thesmartass1  ·  2026   ·  4,326 pts
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Red and blue temperature indicators match the colours our skin turns at those extremes.
u/TomFerg_  ·  2025   ·  4,317 pts
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The praying mantis in A Bug's Life had a moth as a spouse because he loved his life.
u/aerialwizarddaddy  ·  2025   ·  4,304 pts
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Your parents have probably seen your butthole more times than you have.
u/[deleted]  ·  2025   ·  4,300 pts
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We teach kids to share before they’re old enough to own anything, then teach adults to protect everything they have.
u/RiceMuncher-007  ·  2026   ·  4,287 pts
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I imagine that the most powerful people in the world are at the top of the donor list for any organ they need.
u/NuttyMcShithead  ·  2026   ·  4,266 pts
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The average speed of all organisms is probably closer to 0km/hr than 1km/hr.
u/Fast_Introduction_34  ·  2026   ·  4,228 pts
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People are so quick (eager?) to misunderstand each other these days that we can no longer simply say what we mean, we also have to say what we don’t mean if we don’t feel like overly clarifying ourselves after people are already offended.
u/computer7blue  ·  2025   ·  4,226 pts
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