Okay, the eye-exploding was a hyperbole. But why would you want to look at these if you knew they would make your eyes literally explode? These pictures of skewed perspective will make your eyes do some acrobatics in order to understand what's actually going on. In case this isn't enough eye-confusing strangeness then here's some more.
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Rory Turnbull, kickstarted the viral Twitter thread, after he shared how much more dramatic his job would be, if portrayed on the big screen. Twitter users shared their hot and spicy takes on other jobs they could imagine being a whole lot more ridiculous and prone to fits of melodrama, if shown on the big screen. The resulting tweets are definitely entertaining!
The story goes like this: over 70 years ago a World War II soldier filled 31 rolls of film with pictures, and in 2014, The Rescued Film Project, recovered all 31 of those rolls. What follows, is a video showing what went into the development of these photos, and then as an audience, we even get to see some of them! Pretty neat.
This stuff is the flotsam of the internet. Like, after all the particularly funny, wholesome or generally positive stuff has been scooped up, there's this. The creepy, weird, cringey and all-out strange images that have nowhere else to go. At worst, mildly uncomfortable. At best, just plain creepy as hell.
Some pieces of trivia can stick around in cultural consciousness for way too long, especially if they're untrue. It can be tempting to repeat a myth just because it sounds shocking and "unbelievable." There are oodles of misconceptions that people have about the past and future that just never seem to die.
As bad as things get, which they do very often, we're still impressed by incredible coincidences that just seem to happen all the time. It's not every day that you meet someone who played such an important role in your past. This is the stuff that hearts were warmed from. If you're in the market for some more wholesome stuff, here's a guy realizing his neighbor Gene is cooler than he expected.
As nice as it would be to fix our agriculture system by having a box of blob-shaped apples sent to your house every month, apparently things aren't as easy as that. Dr. Dara Taber elaborates on the concept of food waste in America.
The world is stupid and your body is dumb, but luckily there's simple tricks to solving tons of life's inconveniences. From sleeping on a particular side to cleaning an annoying mess, people have figured out some innovative techniques to addressing these weird and particular issues.
These zookeepers experienced some alarmingly close brushes with unexpectedly dangerous animals. Whatever you might see in an animal's appearance is just that; it's what's taking place in the brain that occupies their skull, you need be wary of. With no way to understand animals on a verbal level, we've gotta fall back on our crazy thing called an animal instinct.
People found themselves petrified with fear and overwhelmed by paleontoligists' recently shared findings about the 100-million-year-old hagfish slime's capabilities. This eerie, eel-like creature sounds like it swam and slithered right out of a feverish nightmare. If you're curious to learn more about why you'd never want to see one of these in the wild, check out the original article that sent everyone into a frenzy, here.
With every job comes a slew of misinformation about what it is you do all day. Wouldn't you believe it, Law and Order SVU isn't actually a terrifically accurate depiction of what forensics specialists do all day. Here's a smattering of the dumb conversations people have to have about their jobs.
There's a lot going on behind the closed doors of a kitchen, judge's office, IT company, etc, that would break down your preconceived notions of how people in a particular industry, operate. Jobs are just that, and the people that work them can be an absolute contradiction to what they perform, professionally, and what they are, on the inside. See for yourself!
Pavlovian Responses are those bizarre times our bodies respond to external stimulus, and we find ourselves ravenously hungry at the smell of a rose, or strangely alert when we get a whiff of fresh ground coffee. These people shared their quirky, occasionally relatable Pavlovian responses; and it is a bit of a trip.
Ever wished you had a job where you could get to just sit there and play video games all day? Well you can, especially if your position is almost completely unnecessary! While that kind of thing has a tendency to get a little boring, people's reviews of those kinds of jobs are...mixed.
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Nothing will ever be the same. This is the conspiracy theory to end all conspiracy theories! Things are going strong in this video until that riff about the government paying people to be your families. If you need more conspiracy theories to obsess on, check out this AskReddit threadabout the craziest tin-foil wrapped conspiracy theories we could find.
Your brain is capable of amazing things like calculating complex equations and experiencing empathy. That said, it is also afraid of the color red, can be tricked into thinking it's drunk, and would rather experience pain than boredom.
