skills

Some things seem incomprehensible if you don't have a background in them, but just giving it 30 minutes of effort or following directions makes a lot of things surprisingly easy. If this made you feel even slightly motivated, here are life hacks and tips for becoming a slightly more effective person.

@Jdesmondharris asked twitter users what regular life skills they totally suck at. We know from just looking around that tons of people are crap at parking, but some adults freely admit to still being bad at tying their shoes. Sure, you don't need to be able to tie your shoes to understand a nuclear reactor, but it would probably put your coworkers on edge to hear about it.

If you thought that you'd never learn an incredibly strange, specific and completely stupid hobby, don't quit just yet. There's a guide for everything from identifying wood to crafting sexy origami! Like, even if you wanted a guide for stray shopping carts, by god it exists. For other strange relics, here are some weird and amazing forgotten items found in thrift stores.

With the NFL draft coming up, people were excited to share their own stats. When comparing themselves to actual athletes, twitter was understandably self deprecating.

Ignorance is bliss. We don't advise reading these "we're all doomed" moments from grateful pilots, who pulled things off, without any passengers getting wind of it. You can just feel the terror and panic in these stories. Flying is fun until it isn't!

Maybe you're the best Smash Bros or Ping Pong player among your friends. Nothing will prepare you for seeing someone who's actually really good at it. Sure, stay humble and learn from your failures, but here are some things to not get too cocky about before seeing someone who can really do it.

Thomas Romain is an animation artist who lives in Tokyo. He takes his sons drawings as inspiration and translates them into his own art style. Prepare to be jealous that your dad never adapted your own inventive childhood doodles into professional-level artwork.

Always wanted to be less awkward and better at life without having to try? Well with these tips, you'll still have to try, but it will make trying that much easier.

These poor folks had weirdly specific things happen to them, and people have a hard time believing them.