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Most people are disgusted by insects touching their food but happily enjoy eating honey, which is made by insects regurgitating nectar into each other's mouths.
https://redd.it/1ktpsvw
So many websites have an artificial delay when processing input to make you feel something important is happening. But it's simply robbing you of seconds of your life.
https://redd.it/1ktmpm8
Blind people would probably be really good at picking locks and cracking safes.
https://redd.it/1kt70kt
It's convenient that water can't get cold enough that drinking it injures us the way that really hot water does.
https://redd.it/1kt4hs3
There will soon be (if it hasn't happened already) an economically significant hack or leak resulting from exploiting or debating with a support AI.
https://redd.it/1ksqsfu
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
https://redd.it/1ksfj1q
Most people in the world are crazy, but they aren't classified as such because majority dictates the norm.
https://redd.it/1ks1vy8
We associate monocles with rich people despite the fact they didn't spend the money on a full set of glasses.
https://redd.it/1krjqnr
Why aren't there more topically-applied recreational drugs?
https://redd.it/1kr885q
It's weird how no one says anything after a cough. With a sneeze you get "bless you", but with a cough you just get awkward silence.
https://redd.it/1kqy54s
There are people alive today who have heard the camera-shutter sound-effect more often than they’ve heard real shutters.
https://redd.it/1kqbt3w
The existence of Junior Mints implies that there's a Father Mint.
https://redd.it/1kpto0h
No matter how absent-minded people are, nobody ever seems to forget the words "thing" or "stuff".
https://redd.it/1kpiin1
Your phone vibrating without any type of notification is a new form of psychosis.
https://redd.it/1kp7il9
You've very likely never seen a real monkey eating a banana.
https://redd.it/1ko6mn1
Your future self is watching you right now through memories.
https://redd.it/1ktpsy5
We spend more total time watching airline safety videos than the videos ever save in human life-years.
https://redd.it/1kt4dnp
The ISS is the most visible man-made object from space — not only because it is already in space, but because it includes and surrounds the most probable observer.
https://redd.it/1ksy4xv
Video killed the radio star, the internet killed the video star, Ai killed the internet star.
https://redd.it/1kt30bu
"Can I speak to a human?" will eventually replace "Can I speak to your manager?"
https://redd.it/1ksji5p
Your brain can generate a thought so complex that even you don’t understand it.
https://redd.it/1ks8zhf
You can probably now play "Degrees of Fortnite" like you could play "Degrees of Kevin Bacon" and link most media to Fortnite within a few examples.
https://redd.it/1krxfl0
The same people who are afraid of 5G and microwaves recommend sunbathing and are against sunblock.
https://redd.it/1kre03y
If the whole world relived the same day over and over, Groundhog Day style, it would probably take some people a while to notice.
https://redd.it/1kqxxf0
If "Night night. Sleep tight." is said to people who sleep at night, what are you supposed to say to people who sleep during the day?
https://redd.it/1kqw2ef
Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is an inverted Schrödinger’s Cat: Davy Jones and Will stab each other’s hearts, creating a quantum superposition where both are dead, alive, and captain at once—until an observer pulls a blade and seals the resurrecting heart in a box, collapsing the wave function.
https://redd.it/1kq7hcw
The hour hand on a clock rotates twice as fast as the earth.
https://redd.it/1kpsp35
Where someone aims their sneeze says a lot about their opinions of the people around them.
https://redd.it/1kpbc26
If you have a kid, you've created a sacrifice of life to the universe.
https://redd.it/1kp1y7p
If someone actually has the worst day ever, they’d probably brush it off because ‘other people have it worse’.
https://redd.it/1knxssn