the world

What starts as a story about a guy's irritation over another guy's lateness to the job, ends up manifesting into an eye-opening rollercoaster, where the tardiness is clearly absolutely justified. We can all benefit from stories like this that are able to shift one's perspective. 

What's normal to one country's locals might be looked on as nothing but pure madness to the rest of the world. Traditions are weird like that. Sometimes we'll grow up thinking that our family traditions were nothing outside the ordinary, only to go on to realize that they were truly bizarre. Like having the kids go out to play in a frozen tundra that is well below 0 degrees. 

People on the internet will break out in a fiery debate over just about anything. In this case, we have Tumblr users from various corners of the globe offering their hot takes on the proper way to measure time and space. Basically, there's always going to be a different way to measure time and space. For some more gold from Tumblr, check out this Tumblr thread about how the Rocky Horror picture show was freedom.

Aussies are connecting deeply with this very culturally accurate, Australian Gothic Tumblr thread. Apparently it's just about the Aussiest thing ever. 

The world is a strange place brimming with mind-blowing wonders that seem to escape the realm of reason altogether. Some of these allegedly "true facts" sound crazy enough to have been pulled out of thin air. Seriously.