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During WW II, Allies suspected that the Germans were using the Leaning Tower of Pisa as an observation post. Leon Weckstein, a U.S. Army sergeant sent to confirm this. But he was impressed by the beauty of Tower and thus refrained from ordering an artillery strike, sparing it from destruction.
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GM recalled 800k cars in 2014 for faulty ignitions. The cars would shut off while being driven which meant drivers lost power steering/brakes, and the airbags wouldn’t deploy. They knew about the problem since 2005 but never fixed it because it would be ‘too expensive’. 124 people died.
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During the Great Depression, banker Mark Welch Munroe convinced struggling families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares that traded at 19 dollars. Later, the town became the single richest town per capita in the US with at least 67 millionaires.
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Environmental activist Julia “Butterfly” Hill lived in a 1500 year old California redwood tree (known as Luna) 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days in order to prevent it from being chopped down by Pacific Lumber Company. She successfully saved the tree.
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People with dementia think that stuff like a black doormat isn’t a doormat, but a deep hole in the floor. Due to these visual perception problems, people with dementia avoid stepping the doormat, and this is sometimes used to keep them from leaving their care facilites.
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Before trying (cannabidiol) CBD, people first want to know how it will make them feel. Primarily, most individuals want to know if this cannabinoid can intoxicate in the same way that (tetrahydrocannabinol) THC does. While studies continue every day, researchers have found that CBD boasts a calming, relaxing result without the buzz or “high” associated with THC. While the cannabinoids are relatively identical in every other way, this is their only and distinct difference. These are the two prominent cannabinoids in the cannabis genus, with CBD being most abundant in hemp species or “cannabis Sativa L.” The compound means to
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There have been some truly magnificent video games made over the past 20 years, but there are still definitely some true classics from before 2000.
“What pre-2000 video game will always be a banger?”
“Rollercoaster Tycoon 
“ -matuzo
“O how the theme park manager that wanted to kill and or trap guests till death came came out in all of us!” -Gomer428
“I made drinks free but toilets $100” -Brad_Breath
“The key was to make umbrellas cheap until is started raining. Then jack the price up to 15-20 bucks. Capitalism at its finest!” -chronoboy1985
“If I had guests who were angry I would drop them into a pit with entertainers and security guards. They could only leave if they were smiling. I didn’t want them to spread ill feelings about the park after all.” -Innercepter
“if you’re doing a mission that required a certain happiness rating, your best bet was to round up as many unhappy people as you can near the end and drop them in the lake. the trick was to kill them close to the end, so you didn’t get the safety violations dragging you down until after the mission cleared.” -skivian
“Zoo Tycoon, the original game was older than me and It genuinely was my childhood. It’s such a genuine shame you literally can’t access really anymore like Rollercoaster Tycoon. Microsoft just literally rerelease the game to be accessible everywhere and you’d make a killing.” -PyroTech11
“Command and Conquer Red Alert.”
“Granted it’s a slightly modded version I play still, but damn does it hold up nicely with a tight little community.” -schofield101
“Best. Soundtrack. Ever.” -DrainageSpanial
“I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical man… that was the one my best mate use to run around and sing 
“
“Age of Empires was another favourite x” -pikachu_cat
“Diablo. I remember being like 5-6 years old and absolutely terrified of the butcher. ‘Ahh fresh meat!’” -AFerretWithAHuge
“And the caves had a sick metal soundtrack.” -DrunkPole
“My brother and I would watch my dad play. We were too young to be “brave enough” to play past the opening church levels, so the Butcher and Leoric were about as far as we would ever go on our own.”
“My dad used us to farm too. I managed to get the timing down on the duplication glitch, so I would just get him stacks of gold, potions, and scrolls while he was at work.” -Jester04
“I miss that! Actually having strong emotional reactions to video games. They are so much more immersive when you’re a child.” -ElbowStrike
“Diablo 2 is alive and well (if you ignore the awful servers lol). I’m playing it right now haha”
“They just remade it in more modern graphics and added QoL upgrades. Player base is extremely active right now” -ExileOnBroadStreet
“This was the greatest game of its time. I remember buying it when it said it needed a P60 but I was sure it would run on my DX4 100 that I’d recently built…it didn’t.”
“But when I was able to run it it was the best multiplayer experience I’ve ever had. Me and my mate spent weeks finishing it. Good old coaxial and IPX/SPX.” -blue_nowhere
“I was 8 when I started playing with my brother, and he said ‘go to hell’ and our mother gave him the meanest look.”
“‘No really I’m going to hell to defeat Diablo the lord of terror’” -Wyvern69
“Age of empires 2” -AdventurousExternal9
“The intro to the first game with the short clip of a guy running head first into a horse ass is still the most random shit of an intro to any game.” -Thehunterforce
“It’s got a robust community even in 2021. I will binge-watch matches on Youtube. It’s crazy how skilled the really good players are to be able to plan and execute so quickly.” -scrambled_cable
“I’ve never had much interest in the game, with maybe a total of a few hours played way back when it was new. I have watched almost all of Hidden Cup.”
“I think it’s mostly that I enjoy T-90’s enthusiasm and knowledge, but it’s also just a really good fair game for competition.” -onioning
“Very close to a perfect game imo” -aBitofRnRplease
“Definitive Edition fixes AI problems, which was one of the few issues in the original and HD Edition.” -pazza89
“Ranked multi is where it’s at. Incredibly well balanced game with how many race options?!” -Slateclean
“StarCraft” -Bartos565
“I often find myself thinking of cool features I’d love to see added to modern strategy games… only to remember that Brood War was already doing that 20+ years ago. Far and away one of the greatest games of all time.”
“If the pro players weren’t bored from 10,000s of hours played (and hadn’t moved on to MOBAs), I feel like it would still be one of the most-watched eSports.” -LeigusZ
“It still is one of the most watched esports and more illegal money moves through sc betting than any other esport.” -joedude
“SimCity 2000. The music and sound effects still pop up in my head sometimes.” –Codfish_Joe
“‘YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!’ Take it easy, Reggie, they’re just roads- oh I see…” -campex
“I loved building a city, and then exporting it to Streets of Sim City so I could drive around in said city.” -Jetshadow
“The first game I lost several days to my life to.”
“I accidentally played all through the night without getting sleep 3 times in a row. Forced myself not to “just one more minute” the game and just go to bed.” -golgol12
“Super Mario 64.” -PrxnceZuko
“(throws penguin off the cliff)” -UnsolvedParadox
“I’ve put a lot of hours into that since I got it Xmas’98. Helluva lot of fun.” -Randyfox86
“Even when you’ve done absolutely everything there is to do in the game, it’s still a blast to just run and jump around in.”
“You can speedrun it, you can make your own challenges, you can swoop through the moat with the wing cap at maximum velocity. It’s just a crazy fun world.” -DeathbyChiasmus
“Heroes of Might and Magic III” -joltsiboltsi
“Fell down a rabbit hole on HOMM on Friday, actually. It was so well done, used to play multiplayer with my friends and family. Brilliantly done, great story, great expansions, etc…”
“Reading up the wiki on the history, the changes with 3DO (before they went bankrupt), and so on was pretty wild.” -cavscout43
“I still play to this day.” -Jahzen6
“Same, I only play it every few years but every time I do I spend 8-10 hours straight playing. Been doing this for over 20 years.” -MrMooMooDandy
“Same. And for anyone looking to get back into it…”
“Don’t buy the HD edition on steam, buy the complete edition on GoG. And then if you want to go the distance. Go type in ‘heroes 3 HotA’ and download and install that.”
“It’s a player made expansion and balance patch. Also allows things like simultaneous turns in multi-player so you aren’t always waiting on your friends moves!”
“r/heroes3 is also a good reference!” –ApexIsGangster
“Unreal Tournament is the best game nobody talks about anymore. It’s a goddamn crime that Epic just abandoned it.” -TheRealGrifter
“M-M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL” -redx1105
“I used to play UT every day for years. Just one of the best gaming experiences for me.”
“It is a shame that Epic abandoned it.” -Teleneki
“I was spending hours jumping between buildings (morpheus map) with my rocket launcher. Loved this game. (*Similarly loved Quake 3 at the time).”
“To refresh memories, a sample of someone’s gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IP909D0mlE“ -MACARLOS
“Baldur’s Gate.”
“Can’t count the number of times I’ve started, cheated, and stopped playing the first 4 hours of that game.”
“Edit: Just wanted to say, I actually recently(i.e.: about two years ago) bought the Enhanced Edition(and BG2EE, and Planescape, and NWN1EE and 2, and Icewind Dale….) and played through it and BG2, as well as the little bridge campaign they built (Siege at Dragonbridge?).”
“Had a fantastic time and will definitely be doing it without cheating one of these days. 
(I used big boy cheats to give my character like 200 9th level spell slots and just steamrolled from one side of the game to the other just to get the story)” -Alouitious
“My mother who never ever played videogames actually played through a few baldurs gates. It has to be on the list.” -BaronVonBadAsh
“Zelda OOT [Ocarina of Time]” -evilblizzardemployee
“It was that long ago? You mean I’ve been hating the Water Temple since last century?” -Kamikaze_Bacon
“Since last millennium too.” -Fission_Mailed_2
“Came here to say this. Ocarina is infinitely replayable.” -tlermalik
“Maybe I’m just a freak, but I’ve always enjoyed Majora’s Mask more than OOT. MM just feels like a more complete and vibrant world.”
“OOT is relatively unpopulated and lonely when I’ve replayed it recently.”
“Both are fantastic though.” -Piano_Fingerbanger
The graphics in older games might not be great, but some of the gameplay mechanics and stories are amazing.
They’re definitely worth giving a try if you didn’t play them when they first came out.
There have been some truly magnificent video games made over the past 20 years, but there are still definitely some true classics from before 2000.
“What pre-2000 video game will always be a banger?”
“Rollercoaster Tycoon “ -matuzo
“O how the theme park manager that wanted to kill and or trap guests till death came came out in all of us!” -Gomer428
“I made drinks free but toilets $100” -Brad_Breath
“The key was to make umbrellas cheap until is started raining. Then jack the price up to 15-20 bucks. Capitalism at its finest!” -chronoboy1985
“If I had guests who were angry I would drop them into a pit with entertainers and security guards. They could only leave if they were smiling. I didn’t want them to spread ill feelings about the park after all.” -Innercepter
“if you’re doing a mission that required a certain happiness rating, your best bet was to round up as many unhappy people as you can near the end and drop them in the lake. the trick was to kill them close to the end, so you didn’t get the safety violations dragging you down until after the mission cleared.” -skivian
“Zoo Tycoon, the original game was older than me and It genuinely was my childhood. It’s such a genuine shame you literally can’t access really anymore like Rollercoaster Tycoon. Microsoft just literally rerelease the game to be accessible everywhere and you’d make a killing.” -PyroTech11
“Command and Conquer Red Alert.”
“Granted it’s a slightly modded version I play still, but damn does it hold up nicely with a tight little community.” -schofield101
“Best. Soundtrack. Ever.” -DrainageSpanial
“I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical, I’m a mechanical man… that was the one my best mate use to run around and sing “
“Age of Empires was another favourite x” -pikachu_cat
“Diablo. I remember being like 5-6 years old and absolutely terrified of the butcher. ‘Ahh fresh meat!’” -AFerretWithAHuge
“And the caves had a sick metal soundtrack.” -DrunkPole
“My brother and I would watch my dad play. We were too young to be “brave enough” to play past the opening church levels, so the Butcher and Leoric were about as far as we would ever go on our own.”
“My dad used us to farm too. I managed to get the timing down on the duplication glitch, so I would just get him stacks of gold, potions, and scrolls while he was at work.” -Jester04
“I miss that! Actually having strong emotional reactions to video games. They are so much more immersive when you’re a child.” -ElbowStrike
“Diablo 2 is alive and well (if you ignore the awful servers lol). I’m playing it right now haha”
“They just remade it in more modern graphics and added QoL upgrades. Player base is extremely active right now” -ExileOnBroadStreet
“This was the greatest game of its time. I remember buying it when it said it needed a P60 but I was sure it would run on my DX4 100 that I’d recently built…it didn’t.”
“But when I was able to run it it was the best multiplayer experience I’ve ever had. Me and my mate spent weeks finishing it. Good old coaxial and IPX/SPX.” -blue_nowhere
“I was 8 when I started playing with my brother, and he said ‘go to hell’ and our mother gave him the meanest look.”
“‘No really I’m going to hell to defeat Diablo the lord of terror’” -Wyvern69
“Age of empires 2” -AdventurousExternal9
“The intro to the first game with the short clip of a guy running head first into a horse ass is still the most random shit of an intro to any game.” -Thehunterforce
“It’s got a robust community even in 2021. I will binge-watch matches on Youtube. It’s crazy how skilled the really good players are to be able to plan and execute so quickly.” -scrambled_cable
“I’ve never had much interest in the game, with maybe a total of a few hours played way back when it was new. I have watched almost all of Hidden Cup.”
“I think it’s mostly that I enjoy T-90’s enthusiasm and knowledge, but it’s also just a really good fair game for competition.” -onioning
“Very close to a perfect game imo” -aBitofRnRplease
“Definitive Edition fixes AI problems, which was one of the few issues in the original and HD Edition.” -pazza89
“Ranked multi is where it’s at. Incredibly well balanced game with how many race options?!” -Slateclean
“StarCraft” -Bartos565
“I often find myself thinking of cool features I’d love to see added to modern strategy games… only to remember that Brood War was already doing that 20+ years ago. Far and away one of the greatest games of all time.”
“If the pro players weren’t bored from 10,000s of hours played (and hadn’t moved on to MOBAs), I feel like it would still be one of the most-watched eSports.” -LeigusZ
“It still is one of the most watched esports and more illegal money moves through sc betting than any other esport.” -joedude
“SimCity 2000. The music and sound effects still pop up in my head sometimes.” –Codfish_Joe
“‘YOU CAN’T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!’ Take it easy, Reggie, they’re just roads- oh I see…” -campex
“I loved building a city, and then exporting it to Streets of Sim City so I could drive around in said city.” -Jetshadow
“The first game I lost several days to my life to.”
“I accidentally played all through the night without getting sleep 3 times in a row. Forced myself not to “just one more minute” the game and just go to bed.” -golgol12
“Super Mario 64.” -PrxnceZuko
“(throws penguin off the cliff)” -UnsolvedParadox
“I’ve put a lot of hours into that since I got it Xmas’98. Helluva lot of fun.” -Randyfox86
“Even when you’ve done absolutely everything there is to do in the game, it’s still a blast to just run and jump around in.”
“You can speedrun it, you can make your own challenges, you can swoop through the moat with the wing cap at maximum velocity. It’s just a crazy fun world.” -DeathbyChiasmus
“Heroes of Might and Magic III” -joltsiboltsi
“Fell down a rabbit hole on HOMM on Friday, actually. It was so well done, used to play multiplayer with my friends and family. Brilliantly done, great story, great expansions, etc…”
“Reading up the wiki on the history, the changes with 3DO (before they went bankrupt), and so on was pretty wild.” -cavscout43
“I still play to this day.” -Jahzen6
“Same, I only play it every few years but every time I do I spend 8-10 hours straight playing. Been doing this for over 20 years.” -MrMooMooDandy
“Same. And for anyone looking to get back into it…”
“Don’t buy the HD edition on steam, buy the complete edition on GoG. And then if you want to go the distance. Go type in ‘heroes 3 HotA’ and download and install that.”
“It’s a player made expansion and balance patch. Also allows things like simultaneous turns in multi-player so you aren’t always waiting on your friends moves!”
“r/heroes3 is also a good reference!” –ApexIsGangster
“Unreal Tournament is the best game nobody talks about anymore. It’s a goddamn crime that Epic just abandoned it.” -TheRealGrifter
“M-M-M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL” -redx1105
“I used to play UT every day for years. Just one of the best gaming experiences for me.”
“It is a shame that Epic abandoned it.” -Teleneki
“I was spending hours jumping between buildings (morpheus map) with my rocket launcher. Loved this game. (*Similarly loved Quake 3 at the time).”
“To refresh memories, a sample of someone’s gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IP909D0mlE“ -MACARLOS
“Baldur’s Gate.”
“Can’t count the number of times I’ve started, cheated, and stopped playing the first 4 hours of that game.”
“Edit: Just wanted to say, I actually recently(i.e.: about two years ago) bought the Enhanced Edition(and BG2EE, and Planescape, and NWN1EE and 2, and Icewind Dale….) and played through it and BG2, as well as the little bridge campaign they built (Siege at Dragonbridge?).”
“Had a fantastic time and will definitely be doing it without cheating one of these days. (I used big boy cheats to give my character like 200 9th level spell slots and just steamrolled from one side of the game to the other just to get the story)” -Alouitious
“My mother who never ever played videogames actually played through a few baldurs gates. It has to be on the list.” -BaronVonBadAsh
“Zelda OOT [Ocarina of Time]” -evilblizzardemployee
“It was that long ago? You mean I’ve been hating the Water Temple since last century?” -Kamikaze_Bacon
“Since last millennium too.” -Fission_Mailed_2
“Came here to say this. Ocarina is infinitely replayable.” -tlermalik
“Maybe I’m just a freak, but I’ve always enjoyed Majora’s Mask more than OOT. MM just feels like a more complete and vibrant world.”
“OOT is relatively unpopulated and lonely when I’ve replayed it recently.”
“Both are fantastic though.” -Piano_Fingerbanger
The graphics in older games might not be great, but some of the gameplay mechanics and stories are amazing.
They’re definitely worth giving a try if you didn’t play them when they first came out.
Job interviews are a major head game.
On one hand, they’re very exciting. An invitation to interview is one of the later steps in the journey to landing a new job.
And yet, they’re wildly performative, forcing us not to be ourselves, be polite, show off our skills and demonstrate general likability all in less than an hour.
It’s no wonder Redditor JimmySaulGene wondered about one of the more chaotic ways that could all go down.
“People who walked out of a job interview, why did you do it?”
“Years ago, I went to an interview, and sat down with the man who was to interview me. Sat in silence while he read something on his computer for a few minutes, then waited for a minute or so while he looked over my resume (it was a small business, he is the same person who called me to set up the interview and he’d had the resume for a few days.)”
“He finally looked up at me and said, ‘Well, I’m not sure why you applied for this job; you really don’t have any of the skills or experience I’m looking for.’ He was just so arrogant and I felt like he was trying to make a power move to make a lowball offer.”
“I didn’t apply to any job that I wasn’t qualified for. I was just instantly pissed that he was playing games. I calmly said, ‘Then I’m not sure why you‘re wasting my time,’ and I stood and walked to the door.”
“He said something like, ‘Oh, no, let’s talk,’ and I told him I wasn’t interested in working for him.”
“I had a job already, I just wasn’t terribly happy with it, so I really didn’t feel like putting up with his b.s.” — RumBunBun
“Showed up for a construction/trades workers ‘hiring event.’ I’m a plumber by trade and work was bleak as hell in my city at the time, so I went. Sh** looked legit until they sat us down to speak about the work scope.”
“They claimed to be one of the companies that were building Rogers Place in Edmonton. After they gave us sketchy details they said ‘however, if you don’t want to do that you can….’ And started speaking about how to do door to door sales of mostly chocolate in the higher end communities around the city.”
“They talked construction for maybe 15 minutes and the rest was door to door chocolate sales and unicef fundraising and how we can have an income of 150k+ a year doing that. I left probably 20 minutes into that. I had a friend who champed it out and stay the entire time. The stories he told me were hilarious.”
“Ironically, 30 minutes after I left, I got a call from a company who was actually a contractor on the Rogers Place job and ended up working for them for 4+ years.” — kokumslayer69
“The guy interviewing me interrupted the interview to scream at one of his employees. Like red in the face screaming and berating the guy. And then tried to just pick up where we left off like it was nothing. No thank you.” — DrunkBeavis
“I’m a vet tech. Interviewed at a primary care, single doctor practice. The manager was over 25 minutes late to my interview. While I waited for her, the front desk staff ignored me while they talked crap about the techs, manager, and clients.”
“The manager said they did not believe in referring to any specialists, because ‘Dr. A is a specialist in everything from grizzly bears to canaries.’ He was not, he hadn’t even done a rotating internship and definitely had not done any type of residency program.”
“I had already worked in a toxic clinic, but at least the doctors were competent. When she asked if I had any questions, I just asked if I could have my resume back, so I didn’t waste the paper.” — Karbar049
“Applied for a software developer position for an online retailer. First round of interviews was a traditional technical skills and whiteboard coding session, second round was a cultural fit interview with HR.”
“I assumed it would be an one on one interview with HR, it was a room with 20 something people applying for anything from legal to finance.”
“They asked us to stand up, then crawl into a ball and pretend we were flowers opening. At this point I honestly thought it was some kind of prank, then I saw everybody around me doing it.”
“I just said thanks for the opportunity and left.” — neolabaque
“I once went to a job interview for a large welding shop, in the middle of a rain storm. After talking to the interviewer for 30 or so minutes, he walked me out to the shop floor to take a welding test. The machine we went to was in decent condition, but was literally sitting in a puddle of water.”
“The welding table’s legs were rusty and not grounded well, and also in said puddle. Over half the shop was flooded. I turned around and said ‘No thank you.’ Then proceeded to walk out the door. My life is worth more than $20 an hour.” — Alpha_Hellhound
“I should have; I stayed there out of morbid curiosity to see how low they would go, but I had made the decision I wasn’t gonna work there early in the process.”
“I’m glad I stayed. The last thing that happened in the interview was the CEO personally asking us all to promise that, if we ever make a mistake, the company will calculate how much that mistake cost us, and we will voluntarily pay the company that amount.” — Oudeis16
“I was approached at work (bagger for a major grocery store chain when I was 16) by a guy who asked me if I would be interested in making $1100 a week. He told me to meet him at one of the empty businesses in the same plaza after work.”
“He went on this long spiel about the melaleuka tree from Australia and how his company made soaps and shampoo out of it. Then he told me for $500 he would train me how to sell the products. I just turned and walked out the door with him yelling behind me that I would never amount to anything with my attitude.” — DeusEx-Machinist
“Slightly different – I actually interviewed and was hiring by a call center that focused on getting donations for a variety of non-profit organizations (I was desperate). It was on a Thursday, and I was told to show up the following Monday.”
“When I showed up Monday morning, the entire business unit was completely empty. Like, stripped to the floor, wires hanging from the roof empty.”
“When I was there the week before, I saw around 20-25 cubicles of people all working diligently, a managers desk at the far back, and waiting area chairs with a table, all in one large room. To this day I have no idea what happened, I just know they got out of there quick in 3 days time.” — Digideegs
“Pyramid scheme advertised as ‘sales and marketing.’ “
“It was a group interview. They served wine for fu**s sake! They had obvious stooges initiating conversation about how great this opportunity was.”
“I got very drunk and stopped being polite about it.” — wonderbrawl
For most of us, interviews are pretty standard fare.
But should they turn out like one of these, feel free to show yourself out.
If you’re in your nice clean home just hanging out enjoying the cleanliness, this article might come as more than a little distressing to you.
Because your home is probably nowhere near as clean as you think it is.
“What common household item is rarely if ever cleaned, although it should be?”
So listen, we’re going to be honest with you.
If Thanos popped up right now and said the fate of the world depended on finding someone whose fan blades, air vents and lighting fixtures were completely dust-free … well … it’s been fun while it lasted.
Lets take a look at what else is likely to get us Thanos-snapped out of existence.
“The bottom of my toaster is a graveyard of charcoal crumbs.”
– CubaGoodingIII
“Working from home I was in a meeting so boring I realized I hadn’t cleaned the crumb tray of my toaster in years.”
“Imagine a meeting so boring you think about the crumb tray in your toaster. And I wasn’t even in the kitchen.”
– JustaRandomOldGuy
“Once a month,the dishwasher gets the full treatment in our house.”
“Some family members are plumbers. They’ve seen things. They’ve smelled things.”
“Fun fact: most dishwasher pumps fail because of maggots. Clean your f*cking catcher and rinse off the chunks, people.”
“Maggot eggs are eeeeverywheeeerre. You can also get mould mites, drain flies, cockroaches….it’s a humid, dark environment with food scraps.”
– Taleya
“Your computer components and setup.”
“My mouse is clean as it’s easy to swab with a q-tip… my keyboard… my keyboard is one with the dirt. You can run it through the dishwasher and still have hair stuck.”
“I’m honestly not even exaggerating. I’ve had the same mechanical keyboard for 8 or 9 years and ran it through the dishwasher multiple times, but it’s impossible to get completely clean.”
“The key caps themselves never seem too bad, it’s just getting the film of grime and dirt out from under them and between the switches.”
– ApprehensiveAd3778
“Yeah, same with keyboard and mousepad, they’re absolutely disgusting.”
“Oh yeah and DO NOT forget the chair, I found moldy food under the pillows of my friends gaming chair. one of the most disgusting things ever.”
– marcago
“SOFA! maybe because it’s so hard to clean your sofa, but it’s really dirty and has dirt all over the years.”
– thitgahamtonghop
“I shampoo mine about once a month. The water is always brown.”
“I know people who have NEVER shampooed theirs. I can’t even imagine the water.”
– Gingerbrew302
“Here in Germany, we have several stores which rent out for free a big… Wet vacuum?”
“In one container, you fill a soap solution. You spray it on the sofa.”
“The vacuum then takes in the solution and dirt. It is often shocking.”
– Joe_Rapante
“Walls.”
“I went around my place last winter after I lost my job and started washing all my walls. My family was telling me it looked like I painted them.”
– Smil3yAngel
“I have a steam mop that has a handle that detaches so it’s like a wand.”
“I steam cleaned my bathroom walls because the previous tenant was a smoker and had that nasty yellow residue on the walls. Biggest pain in the ass project, but totally worth it.”
“Cleaning my other walls is on my to-do list.”
– spitfire07
“Shower curtains they get so nasty people!”
– Rat_Queen91
“I don’t understand how people let theirs get so nasty. My brother’s is slightly moldy on the bottom.”
“My last place was really (pre 1920s) old with a sh*tty bathroom and mold build up in the grout around the shower/wall tiling.”
“There was also a full sized fucking window in the shower (of all places to put a window lol) with unsealed wood trim that got moldy too!”
“I don’t know how my room mates could stand it! I replaced the shower liner every few months on my own due to mold, because they just wouldn’t.”
“So glad I moved somewhere new, no one should have to fear that they are breathing black mold every time they shower.”
– QuasarsRcool
“Blow-dryers.”
“Once every 4-6 weeks. Lint blocks the air. It’s a fire hazard and a bad hair day hazard.”
– Steen70
“I almost bought a new blow dryer one time because it had become so useless.”
“I realized how clogged with lint it was, cleaned it out, and it was like brand new!”
– pink_mango
“In your kitchen: The underside of your cabinets (as well as the top of them if you can).”
“All of the food you cook, sautee, etc. sends tiny particulates of oil and other parts of your meal into the air. It settles on all surfaces, but you clean most of them regularly.”
“The top of your cabinets is usually ignored, but it can develop quite the gunky buildup if you don’t do a fairly regular cleaning. Say, once a month or so.”
“The underside of cabinets – especially near your cook surface – should be cleaned every week or so. That oil and muck will eventually start to dry and cake on, attracting bugs and rodents and emiting a not-so-fresh smell.”
“Get a good degreaser cleaner and give those surfaces a thorough cleaning.”
– ilikemrrogers
“Can opener. Look at yours and despair.”
– IAmEggnogstic
“I literally never even thought of washing one until i moved in with my wife. Blew my mind when she threw it in the dishwasher”
– 1seacow
“Isn’t it the dirtiest thing in the house? I’ve seen that a lot. Because people never think to wash them.”
– appleparkfive
“The blade under your automatic can opener.”
“People use it for all sorts of things like dog food. It can get gross.”
– chillflyguy33
“How often do you clean your phone?”
“How often do you check your phone in the bathroom?”
– FatsDominoPizza
“Your phone.”
“If you actually use it for calls then it’s covered in your face oils, spit and germs from your mouth, and possibly ear wax.”
“If you’re a normal person who just texts a lot, then it’s covered in everything you and your grubby little hands have touched.”
“This is funny. I just noticed yesterday that I rarely clean the inside-top of my rice cooker.”
“Cleaned it last night and was like ‘I use this weekly and have never wiped this part down.’ Made me feel gross but yea.”
– [Reddit]
So now that you’ve seen what Reddit has to say, let’s talk about you.
What unclean horrors are you suddenly realizing you might need to clean?
Sound off!