Thursday, October 1, 2020

Dumbest Things People Actually Believed


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the dumbest things that people actually believed. Sometimes, you end up making it in life till you're 25, believing that sugar was out there growing in caves (hence sugar rock candy), and then you learn that the whole world as you knew it was a lie. Knowledge might be power, but dang, it can sting sometimes. 

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Text - Narniach • 5h 5 Awards I used to think that people exclusively wore hats if they were bald, because that's why my dad wore a hat. Reply 16.1k ...

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Text - azzwhole • 4h That reindeer wasn't an actual animal but specifically a mythical animal that santa claus used. I believed this until I was 23 or so when I saw some nature documentary talking about reindeer. I was like.. whaaaaaaaaat? Reply 1.3k ...

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Text - sangbum60090 • 5h 1 Award I was convinced that Greeks still worshipped Zeus and other gods for awhile after I heard the word Greek Orthodox Church as a kid. Reply 1 7.8k ...

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Text - terminatoreagle • 4h That someone could shoot me from the otherside of a phone during a phone call. Whenever kid me was on a phone call, I always tried to end the call as soon as possible, and get away from the phone as fast as possible.

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Text - ilovetab • 3h 7 Awards When I was a little kid, I believed that when people got divorced, they had a divorce ceremony, like where they had to go to church and say, "I don't," and I imagined the woman wore a black divorce dress (like her wedding dress had been dyed black), and that everybody went to the reception where the ex-bride and ex-groom sat on opposite sides of the hall and there was a divorce cake where the bride and groom had their backs to each other with their arms angrily cros

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Text - ms_horseshoe • 4h 1 Award That I could smell something while underwater. When I was around 10/12 years old I was in a tropical themed water park where also happened to be a herbal bath. It smelled very nice, which I had not expected. Most of the tropical plants were fake plastic plants, so I figured the water in the bath was normal swming pool water and the smell was coming from something else. The bath was surrounded with a small aromatic herb garden which didn't look fake. I sneakily to

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Text - rogerofdale • 4h That turkeys drowned by looking at the sky during a rainstorm. I am dumber then a bag of hammers Reply 101

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Text - wieners69696969 • 3h I used to be so confused about the amount of time it would take to make movies because I was convinced they did it all in chronological order and when they did flashbacks to childhood, I was like "wow those actors are so committed" or I would think it must take a long time for their hair to grow or change in anyway and never considered it could be a wig lol Reply 290 ...

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Text - Badbishop12 • 6h That I couls see atoms spinning in the air. Turns out it was visual snow ¬_¬ Reply 515 ...

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Text - Hartsock91 • 5h 15 Awards As a kid, my sister told me that we had an older brother that died. She said he died when playing bowling and his fingers didn't come out the ball and slid all the way down the alley then he turned into a skittle. Reply 27.1k ...

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Text - kaimcdragonfist • 5h O 1 Award If you turn off a video game without pausing the hero is left paralyzed and defenseless. Yes I actually believed that Reply 752

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Text - slotwima • 5h That the trees created wind. I was a child at the time, but I feel so dumb about that one. Reply 30 ...

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Text - _always_sunny_• 6h 5 Awards That the Great Wall of China had a cat adoption program. I was meeting my friend's boyfriend for the first time, and he mentioned that he had just adopted one of the retired Great Wall of China cats. China trains these cats to patrol the Wall and kill vermin, and at the end of their 7 year stint they are retired and adopted out to a forever home. I kept asking questions about it: How do you apply? Are they a specific breed? How do they get transported worldwide

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Text - ThatOneWhoSparkles • 5h A watermelon/apple tree will grow out of my stomach if I eat the seeds Reply 1.9k ...

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Text - kingcillian • 4h I used to think tv static was a bunch of some type of microorganisms floating around in my tv that could electrocute you. Reply 30 ...

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Text - Eviezz • 1h I thought sugar grew in sugar caves, similar to salt caves. I believed that sugar crystals (like rock candy) just grew in caves and there were parts of the world with beautiful crystallised sugar caves. I was 25 years old when I brought it up in conversation with my fiance. I tried to prove to him they were real and it was when I reached my 4th page on Google, I realised my whole world was a lie. Reply 1 17 ...

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Text - ghost0427 • 6h O 6 Awards When I was a kid I used to think professional wrestling was real, and The Undertaker scared the living shit out of me during his whole Ministry of Darkness phase. I thought he actually was Satan's minister or something. Like yeah, he's an undead overlord of hell, here to bring an eternity of darkness and misery to this planet, but he also has to make a weekly television appearance to win a wrestling competition, and you can buy his action figure at Toys R Us. Rep

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Text - Arbitrary121 • 3h When we played Pokémon Mystery Dungeon my little sister used to accept the lamest missions and not get good rewards. I told her about it and she responded with "How would you like it if you were a poor Pokémon that lost its mom and was stuck all alone and had nothing to give someone to save you?" I laughed my head off at her because "it's not real, duh" but secretly, I feel that in my soul sometimes. Reply 580 ...

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Text - WeatherwaxDaughter • 4h That Yoda came from rotten potatoes... Reply 28 ...

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Text - SaltySaltFingers • 6h 3 Awards When I was little, I genuinely believed the Telly Tubbies were evil and that if I didn't watch them on TV every night (even though I hated the show) that they would come and get me. To be fair though they're kind of creepy. Reply 6.0k ...

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Text - shicole3 • 3h Last night I saw this weird tiktok about mermaids and went to the comments and all the top comments were about how mermaids are real and all this evidence and people talking about documentaries they saw and alll this shit and there was so much discussion. So for about 4 minutes I was thinking "holy shit mermaids are real and they are carnivorous beasts holy shit everyone needs to know about this" idk what happened to me but I snapped out of it after that. Reply 18 ...

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Text - chinchillerino• 5h Someone convinced me for like, 5 seconds that unicorns were real, they just lost their horns through evolution and now they are plain old horses. Reply 565 ...

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Man Pays Lowest Rated Fiverr Artists To Draw Him


Honestly, some of these really weren't that bad. It's the effort that counts. 

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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Washington State DOT Uses M-60 Tank For Avalanche Control


The Washington State Department of Transportation uses multiple methods to make sure that drivers stay safe from avalanches. This particular method might be the most striking though. The DOT fires live artillery rounds at unstable snow to trigger avalanches while drivers aren't out on the roads. 

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Bill Hader's Best Celebrity Impressions


Maybe the most impressive part about all these tremendous impersonations is Bill Hader's ability to nail the pitch of each celebrity's voice as well. 

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Hogwarts Express Sighting Blocked Perfectly By Regular Train


In a wonderful moment of mass disappointment, these onlookers who waited just to see the Hogwarts Express had their time expertly ruined by a regular commuter train. That timing is perfection.

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Ex-Boyfriend Takes Advantage Of Lease, Gets Reported To Landlord


At its core this whole dramatic scenario sound like the sloppy manifestation of a nasty breakup. One person ends up moving out and the other ex-boyfriend swings low by having a ton of people move in that basically pay his way, while his ex has to make full payments on the rent. So, his ex reported him to the landlord, and he was screwed from there. Just a textbook petty revenge between a bitter couple of ex lovers. 

Check out another petty revenge with this story about some loud neighbors that deprived a family of sleep, so the kids took revenge.

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Text - r/pettyrevenge + Join u/dppick09 • 354d I Informed Our Landlord About Non- Leased Tenants To Screw Ex Over TL;DR on the bottom. On mobile etc. This was quite a long time ago. I was in my early twenties and had just gotten out of a relationship. The separation wasn't exactly a pretty one. We had lived together and I was beyond ready to move out and never speak to him again. There was just one problem: we were only five months into a one year lease at our duplex. We had a 2 bedroom duplex b

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Text - Find someone to take over my portion of the lease for the remaining months. He refused to do that and said he would NOT find someone to take my portion. • Breaking the lease. I felt like this would have been a good option because he had a ton of family who would have easily taken him in. He refused this option as well and said 'he wasn't making me move out, I chose to, so l can deal with the consequences of my actions.! He just REFUSED to compromise with me at all. I had friends/family re

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Text - However, a few months later I was hanging out with a friend of mine. He was a friend of both my ex and I. He decides to let me know that my ex very recently had FIVE people move in to our apartment. Three of them were unemployed and staying there rent free. The other two had jobs and were each paying 1/3 of HIS portion of rent. I won't lie, if they would have covered my entire portion or even just PART of it I most likely would have let it go. The fact that he found people to live there a

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Text - The next day I made a call to my landlord and told him everything. He immediately contacted my ex, made him pay a fine and told him that each and every one of the tenants needed to apply to be on the lease. All of them applied. NONE of them got approved so they were all kicked out. He had to continue to pay his portion for the remaining months of the lease. Pretty sure he never found out it was me who ratted him out. TL;DR: Ex and I broke up, I moved out but was still on the lease and pay

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Stuff That Looks Like Tasty Food But Isn't


We're geared to look for tasty things to eat and there's nothing we can do about it. Well, the one thing we can do is not eat something that's obviously a rock or bowl of poison. The thing is, there's so much tempting stuff out there that looks like food but isn't. It's hard to keep track of it all.

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Rock - so-called "scientists" don't want you to know about the beef mines

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Motor vehicle - TOBLERONEM

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Plant - These are not grapes. This is how chalcedony spherulites look like - a translucent mineral, a cryptocrystalline fine-fiber type of quartz.

4. Forbidden Prosciutto

Food - Nice

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Rock - おもしろい石たち Amusing stones 三枚肉 Boned rib of pork Clam 目玉焼き Fried egg Beef

6. Forbidden Spaghetti

Yellow

7. Forbidden Electric Pizza

Food

8. Forbidden Mantis Salad

Food

9. Forbidden Pocky

Material property - GLOSS PAINT clas ohlson

10. Forbidden Popcorn

Fungus

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Asphalt - TO

12. Forbidden Baklava

Rock

13. Forbidden Syrup

Product - er W5 DISHWASHING IG LIQUID SWEET MAPLE N 100% 100% 500ml 500ml

14. Forbidden Pretzel

Red

15. Forbidden Milk

Floor

16. Forbidden Cookie

Rock

17. Forbidden Chocolate

Plywood

18. Forbidden Fruit

Skin

19. Forbidden Insulation Bread

Food

20. Forbidden Melted Car Taffy

Red

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Water - FAMILY SIZE DAWN ULTRA CAPN CRUNCHS OCEAN BLUE ARTIFICIALLY 50% LESS SCRUBBING MAPLE 3X SREASE CEANING HOREPOWER SMONULIRA DAN DISHWASHING LIQUD "FLAVORED SYRUP 638 m (35 P) Z15 AZ 100 24 FL OZ m0

22. Forbidden Cookies

Python family

23. Forbidden Candy Corn

Food

24. Forbidden Fried Chicken

Fried food

25. Forbidden Spaghetti

Floor - TACK

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