Getting up to scrape ice off your car in the snow just to get yelled at for being late to work is an inconvenience, but this? A 4-foot pompadour of snow all over your car? Just throw the whole thing away.

It's happened to everyone. You saw something. An event that you couldn't explain . You can't tell anyone because it's just too out there. But you swear it happened. You saw it with your own eyes. Could it be that people are highly suggestable, get their eyes tricked, and often misremember dreams as memories? That's true. And also I saw a goblin. A real life goblin. It started right back at me with its beady little eyes and not a soul believes me. And it was ANGRY.

America. It's not the only place that exists in the world, but to Americans it often sure feels like it. It's always a fun reminder that the way things are here are completely non-ubiquitous. A lot of stuff that seems extremely basic is just not a thing in other places. So hold up a glass for root beer and garbage disposals. For some less than flattering things that we do, here are some obnoxious things done by American tourists .

Totally normal, not weird things.

Hearing footsteps around your house isn't a very freaky thing. Unless of course you live alone. Here are some times people experienced the heebie jeebies when there should have been no one else around to know about it. And for some more creepy encounters, here are people's creepiest “something's not right here” moments.

Everyone has a prized fact.

People are definitely creative.

We live in a great big world with all of these features. And it doesn't take a whole lot of cognitive estrangement to realize that this world we live in has some very particular and off-the-wall junk that we totally take for granted. Like how your tongue is just in your mouth, like all the time. Or that a bath is like you making you-flavored soup. To really freak out the squares, here are completely legal but super weird things one can do.

"Yes, it is me, mister doctor, the professional doctor man."

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Delightful and twisted all at once.

Eyes are kind of easy to trick.

If there's one thing knowing facts about our world helps us with, it's having a better understanding of the context we find ourselves living in. Knowing that lemons haven't always been, or that there are sharks older than the United States can help us better comprehend our own place in this weird and wacky world. For more of this junk, here are strange science facts to ponder.

Everybody's family is a little weird in some way , but as a kid, you don't know any better. This leads to most of us having an awkward moment later on with friends; it turns out everyone else's parents created weird little falsehoods that only they've ever heard of, too. Whether it's pronunciations, explanations for the amount of random kids who stayed with your family, or simply the financial situations between private and public school families, people perceive the world in their own little w…

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