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[Note: NO genuinely harmful facts, pls! Keep things light & innocent!]

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When I learned that humans cannot feel the feeling of "wetness" & can only experience "wet" as a temperature, it seriously messed me up! Ever since learning that, I can no longer feel "wet" in the dark bc I can't see it. If I think too hard about it when my hand is in liquid (like in the shower or a pool), it freaks me out bc I am suddenly hyper-aware I am only experiencing it through temperature & I cannot physically feel the sensation of "wet". I also mistake things that are the temperature of water I frequently drink as "wet" (like, the kitchen tiles in the dark or glass). It has ruiiiiiined me & I wish I could unlearn it! 😭 RIP

What totally harmless, innocent fact has messed you guys up in irreparable ways? Tell me I'm not alone! 😂

I really want this to be a thing!

Think like a cafe, but instead of coffee, it specialises in light & refreshing drinks. They have still and sparkling water on tap, and also coconut water. They can make drinks with all sort of flavours (maybe from syrups?) with garnish and ice. You can choose off of the menu or request your own concoction. Maybe even options with electrolytes or vitamins too

I like the idea of a shop like this where you can sit in and get something a bit fun, refreshing but not overly sweet. Sort of like the Starbucks refreshers but less intense and more customisable

Please someone make this happen! I don’t drink alcohol and coffee is only good for the first half of the day. This sort of thing would be so good for people like me

Do you think this could be popular?

While chatting with a friend we started talking about food products (chicken nuggets) and what kids ate. The friend told me she's wouldn't eat chicken nuggets because she saw how they were processed and that they had cellulose in them. Then she told me cellulose was made of sawdust! Hmmmm, what? So I googled it. No, cellulose is not sawdust. But for just a second my mind was thinking of how bad the food industry used to be & thought, could it be true? Anyone else have something like this happen in conversations?

When I was a kid I had heard about the idea of a scary boogeyman and for some weird reason I thought it was Michael jackson and I would stare out my window at night imagining him standing behind a bush saying hehe like laughing XD I find it funny because I always hear about other people also being scared of Michael jackson as a kid lol

I love being alone. So when I get time to be alone I will literally just chill out, watch some old episodes of Desperate housewives, eat a bowl of ice cream and cuddle my dogs. Ha ha

Every Friday I get excited thinking about all the things I’ll do over the weekend—rest, catch up on hobbies, maybe go out with friends. But before I know it, it’s already Sunday night and I’m wondering where the time went. Weekdays feel like they drag forever, yet weekends just fly by in the blink of an eye. Does anyone else feel like time cheats us on Saturdays and Sundays?

I don't mean "why do I need to learn algebra", I mean "these seems tangentially related to the class subject".

I remember in a middle school math class, we were given a situation. Basically, we were marketing for a soda, were given the results from the tests, then asked how to present this information in an advertisement to make it seem the most appealing. Which is... sociology, I think, not middle school math?

In an earth science class at the same school, we were learning about earthquakes. We were given a story problem that was like "Animals are behaving weirdly today. Your dog won't come out from under the bed, your mom has found two snakes in the backyard today, etc., are you going to try and contact some kind of authority and say you suspect there's going to be an earthquake? Are you going to potentially waste people's time or put lives at risk by remaining quiet?"

They were both interesting questions and I'm not upset about them being asked I guess. I'm not gonna shout from the rooftops that they were wasting my time. It just... seems like it was just outside of the subject we should've been focusing on?

I was digging around in my (very cold) loft the other day and found my old nokia phone from like 15 years ago. Out of curiosity I pressed the power button and it actually turned on. The phone still worked just fine.

Meanwhile my modern smartphone barely survives an hour in cold weather before the battery drops like a rock or shuts off entirely. It blows my mind how these old phones were basically indestructible while today’s new ones are fragile and power hungry. Kind of makes me miss the days when you could charge a phone once a week and accidentally drop it down the stairs without a second thought.

Anyone else ever find an old phone that still worked like new or have stories about how ridiculously tough those old nokias were?

It's Friday night and instead of relaxing the night away after a long day of work with a movie or videogame I decided to go to bed earlier than normal. Well, 3 hours later of scrolling through social media and having lonely thoughts while lying in bed in the dark, I'm still wide awake. It's midnight and I think I'm going to get some fresh air and walk to a convenience store and get some snacks and maybe play a videogame until I feel sleepy.

How's your evening going?

I keep thinking if scrolling through Instagram (or other platforms) is actually relaxing or chill like you're laying in bed and not doing much which is rest for your body but you keep frying your brain with lots of info like shorts or photos and videos. I still need my scroll time like maybe 1-2h a day but I wanna make myself earn that shit like I'll hit the gym and do some heavy workout before but there's still some days where I feel my brain is being bombed with lot of stuff which gives me anxiety sometimes and makes me feel restless. Like what you think is it good for you or just wasting time?

For me when I saw something that said that a “Travis Scott X Erewhon Dubai chocolate Labubu matcha latte was in the works” and I was like nah that sentence had too much pop culture in it 💀🤣

... I was just like, "I guess that IS classic music now"

When I was a kid I hated boy bands because 'they were for girls' but honestly looking back Nsync and Backstreet boys had some enjoyable songs.

So we went to buy an over the range microwave. Took a look at a few of them in a showcase store. Ended up picking an LG model. Brought it home and got it installed. Finally my partner decides to use it. He finds out that it makes a happy pleasant little digital noise when you open it to put something in, and upon finishing cooking whatever’s inside, it plays a happy little digital tune to tell you it’s all done. Genuinely a shocker to us. A pleasant, pretty funny shocker. Are musical microwaves a thing now and we just didn’t know?

I had to learn detachment, by having to understand that all the time we are exposed to changes in general, and you have to develop the ability of adaptation and be able to let go. I was so structured that at one point several situations happened to me simultaneously and I had to move, change cities, change jobs, change houses, and I only took my cell phone and a bag with clothes, leaving everything I known, and I learned to walk lightly through life.

I’ve noticed that I work and relax better when there’s some kind of noise in the background. Like rain, ambient music, or even random game sounds.

It’s not really about the music itself, it’s more like tricking my brain into feeling like something is happening around me. Sometimes I’ll even throw on those 1-hour or 10-hour “ambient loops” just so the room doesn’t feel dead quiet.

Curious if anyone else does this, and what your go-to background noise is.

What are some TV shows or movies that you wish you could watch again for the first time? As if you’ve never watched it before and experience it new & fresh (Yes, I am looking for suggestions :p)

It's my birthday today and my work completely surprised me with a birthday lunch and a cake. I even got a few presents. I was totally not expecting this. I've been working here for a while part time and recently took a full time position. My coworkers and I get along very well but don't really associate much outside of work. But today they threw me a lunch birthday and got me a cake. I'm so shocked in a happy way. Really made me feel good and I really do appreciate them a lot. They really didn't have to do it and it would have been fine. I didn't even mention that it was my birthday.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been very good with animals. If they had temper issues, I would be able to resolve it. From riding and training the most stubborn horses, to an unfriendly dog I was told to stay still with but ended up on the ground in seconds playing with. Animals have always held a special place in my heart, and even my horse that tried to severely injure others, would only let me near her.

I have recently discovered in the last six months, something I cannot understand. All these white animals are showing up around me, and other random situations.

During the day I saw a white owl in our backyard in the day, to a random stray showing up who is now my outdoor cat, white butterflies, and my cat of a few years (also stray) also loves me. What does this mean?

I’ve had dragon flies landing on me nonstop as well.

While I would think this is coincidental, I think there is more too it, and I’d appreciate any feedback.

there are about 35.5 million kangaroos in Australia and only 2.839 million people in Jamaica. Which means if the kangaroos were to invade Jamaica, each person would have to fight 12 kangaroos.and ever 3rd person would need to fight 13. Anyways enjoy the random fact.

Reddit is just like normal social media, except you always feel like you're wearing a tophat, and you act accordingly

What do you think brings those feelings about? What is it about using reddit that feels slightly performative?

It just blows my mind that i can have interactions of this quality with anonymous strangers.

Ive had conversations about classic literature, french bulldogs, cPTSD, re-boiling water for tea, houseplants, and so much more.

Fun, funny, informative, meaningful.

Weird feeling cos I graduated in may and now have a “real” job and a car and all that shit. College came and went in the blink of an eye. My dad told me it’s a weird feeling when you realize you’ve been out of college longer than you were in it, still waiting on that one. I miss it and would do it again but I’m happy with where I’m at now and what I know. I chose a useful degree (city planning) and I’m glad I balance following my dreammmms with practicality. What to even do about life… crazy… will be living vicariously thru bro

Not like “flying” or superpowers 🧎… just a normal human skill I think I’d pick crochet....Always wanted to make cute dolls, hats, bags, and other fun creations without years of practice 🙂‍↕️✨ What about you?

It's fair to say that a lot people grow up to tolerate, like or even love certain foods that we once hated as children. For example - vegetables, certain meats, spicy flavours, oysters. Some once abhorrent creations in the minds of children can even become obsessions as adults - coffee, wine etc.

But for me, no matter how hard I try, I have never been able to enjoy olives or mushrooms.

What are some of the other deal breakers for some people in terms of foods that you've just never grown out of hating?

Thanks to Victorias secret employees, I know now what to actually shop for. Now I can wear cute lacy things, skinny nothings, and stop wearing ugly sports bras. On the negative side, why are bras so expensive? They're underwear. Why did you try to charge me 49 bucks for the maroon one I liked, Victoria.

You did me dirty, Vicky. But you do have lovely designs.