People Discuss What They Didn’t Realize Was Expensive Until They Became Adults

I remember the when I had to replace the timing belt and the water pump in my car…let’s just say I was on the verge of tears…because that ain’t a cheap fix…

My point in telling that story is that you don’t have any idea how expensive some things are until you really start “adulting…”.

And here’s what AskReddit users had to say about this.

1. Ugh.

“Interest.

I didn’t realize how much paying interest on debt can actually cost you when you add it up.

It’s like a f*cking punch in the gut.”

2. For the ladies.

“Bras.

I’ve given up and buy the $100 ones that properly fit me, because I’m a larger size. I buy 3-4 at a time, probably once a year or once every two years. I only stop wearing bras if they break or are really the wrong size (due to weight fluctuations).

I keep the bras that don’t fit if they are still in good condition, hoping they’ll fit again one day.

Throwing down $300 CAD for bras isn’t something I’ll ever get used to but I’ve resigned myself to it.”

3. Very expensive.

“Taking your family to Disney.

When you’re a kid you’re like man what’s the big deal but when you’re an adult, it’s literally almost like the cost of a vacation in itself just to go to the park for a day.”

4. Never-ending taxes.

“Property taxes, especially in some states.

Our $200k house is paid off, but I still have to pay $7,500 a year in property tax to keep it.

Rural Upstate New York. Over 4 hours from NYC.”

5. An unfortunate one.

“Having an illness.

I thought sick people were just taken care of.

Now I know, depending on what country you live in, it can cost you somewhere between most of your disposable income, to your entire house and all your possessions.”

6. Kids are pricey.

“Baby formula.

That sh*t is like, $20 a can, and there was a period where our daughter was demolishing a can a day. There was a point in time where my kid’s formula was costing us $600 a month, which was 1/3rd of our combined income at the time.

I found myself in the position of having to skip 2 meals a day just to afford to feed the rest of my family.”

7. Home ownership blues.

“House ownership.

It’s one thing to see a mortgage bill and think, okay I got that covered and still have money to eat and maybe go skiing next weekend.

It’s a while other thing when you discover you have rats in the attic, the A/C leaks, the weeds in the yard are giving the neighbor an aneurism, electricity is 3X more expensive than you every imagined it could be, and then the dishwasher breaks and the stovetop fan collapses one night.

And that wallpaper in the master bath really needs to go, oh and that fan over the shower is squeaking, so we stopped using it and now we have mold everywhere.

And then we had kids…”

8. You gotta eat…

“Food, to be honest.

I had no idea it would cost ~25% of my salary just to not starve.

I could bring that down to around 20% but had no idea how time consuming cooking is.”

9. BS.

“Pillows. Any pillow.

Throw pillows are like $25 minimum. If you get a $25 sleeping pillow it’s sh*t and you’re replacing it several times per year so you have to “invest” in a good pillow for a task that you literally do nothing to perform but if you don’t perform it well, you’re gonna have a bad time.

It’s bullsh*t.”

10. It’s worth it.

“A good pair of shoes.

We had bought bargain shoes growing up, and I continued that practice for a good portion of my adult life. I never thought paying an extra $40-$100 would be worth it.

But I remember the first time I tried on a paid or $120 hiking boots. My feet were in heaven. It was shockingly so much better. I bought them on the spot and they lasted like 5 years. I wouldn’t spent the same, if not more, in sh*tty shoes over the same timeframe.

Since then, I find I spend more on shoes that are comfortable and they last longer.”

11. Isn’t that ironic?

“Ironically, having a job.

Between transportation (car, gas, insurance, parking, bus/subway fare) work clothing, haircuts and razors if you have to shave, and depending on the job other equipment, that can get expensive fast.

And a lot of it can’t be written off on taxes.”

12. Ouch.

“Health insurance.

It actually cost me less to fly to the Philippines, get amazing dental work done and have a two week vacation for half the price of the procedure here.

Healthcare is a f*cking joke here, yet people swear this is the greatest county on earth.”

13. Bills, bills, bills.

“Household utilities.

Growing up, I didn’t understand why Grandma yelled at us for “Running up her light bill”, or my mom telling us to stop wasting water (I once forgot the hose was on while filling the horse trough and it ran for hours. Thought my mom was going to sell me to pay the water bill.) or leave the thermostat alone.

Now that I’m an adult and paying the bills, I find myself policing the family on their utility usage. I go around turning off lights, telling them to get a blanket cuz I’m not turning up the heat, and demanding shorter showers.

Why does a 10 year need a 45 minute shower? What exactly is she doing in there that is so time-consuming? She says she’s enjoying the hot water. That’s great. You get Ramen for dinner this week.

No one told me that becoming a responsible adult turned you into a penny-pinching worrywart.”

Oh, boy…adulting…

And now we want to hear from you!

Tell us what you didn’t think was expensive until you became an adult.

Do it in the comments, por favor!

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What’s Your Biggest Flex You Don’t Talk About? Here’s How People Responded.

Some people love to flex about their accomplishments.

That is totally their prerogative, but some folks out there are extremely humble and just like to keep all the cool and amazing stuff that they do on the down low.

And we love that kind of stuff!

People on AskReddit admitted their biggest flexes that they’ll never tell anyone.

1. Epic!

“Once I was in the passenger seat of my car while my wife was driving down the freeway.

A truck driver and me locked eyes and started communicating using hand signals (waving and such) he was drinking a up and go and gestured in a way that was asking me if I wanted one. I obviously said yes and we both rolled our windows down, he threw it to me and I actually caught it!

We both laughed and I have never enjoyed a drink more in my life. It was a had to be there moment that I remember fondly but no point telling anyone really.”

2. Man of mystery.

“I was quoted on some literary website one time for something I said off the cuff in an argument.

I also got to play a few shows with some of my favorite bands of all time, but I’m so far removed from that music scene now that no one I know would ever care about it except for me.”

3. Dancing Queen.

“When I was 15, I won a scholarship to study ballet in Russia.

It was totally amazing.”

4. Well, you’re a genius.

“I got accepted into Mensa and then immediately realized I don’t want to hang out with the type of people who join Mensa so I never went through with it.

I’m too embarrassed to tell anyone I took the test”

5. Don’t bother correcting him.

“I bought some then relatively worthless Apple stock because I thought I’d be able to eBay the stock certificate with the rainbow Apple logo when the company went out of business.

My investment guy just thinks I’m really clever. I’ve not corrected him.”

6. A good deed.

“I was in the grocery store and saw an older woman standing in the aisle comparing what was in her cart to what was in her wallet, obviously counting to see if she could afford everything. Based on her body language as she walked away I could tell that the answer was no.

So I took a 20 out and walked up to her and said, “M’am, when you were over there just a second ago this fell out of your wallet.” I handed her the bill, and just walked away so she wouldn’t be embarrassed if she figured out I was lying. I did hear her say thank you, so I half turned and told her “you’re welcome, have a nice night.”

It was only $20, but I think it made a difference to her, and that felt amazing.”

7. Good for you!

“I raised $100,000 for a scholarship fund in the memory of my deceased twin brother.

Since that time we’ve given away over 200 scholarships”

8. Nice work!

“I was out on a date with a hot girl. After dinner her car wouldn’t start. “Pop the hood”, I said.

I saw an engine….I’m pretty sure, not a clue what ever else I was looking at. she looked at me and i punched the battery with the side of my hand and told her to try again. Car started! I felt like Fonzie, got so laid.”

9. Teacher’s pet.

“Had a class where the professor was pissed that everyone did really bad on an essay and was yelling at the class.

He said that aside from one person who got a 97 percent he was disappointed with everyone there. I had the 97 percent.”

10. He approved.

“I saw Elton John in Vegas. Red Piano Tour.

During Benny and the Jets (I can whistle extremely loudly), I nailed the whistle part that is on live version of the song that plays on the radio.

He smiled.”

11. The gate keeper.

“I lived with my grandparents my whole life who lived in a small little house across the street from a big fancy neighborhood development. They lived in the same house for 40 years before the development.

It was a very bad hill on a busy road with the neighborhood entrance at the bottom of the hill which was across the street from our house. Me and my grandpa would pull people out of wrecks all the time. Saved a bunch of lives but sadly saw over 10 people die on that hill growing up.

The big fancy people in that neighborhood would always bring us food and gifts, they called my grandpa the gate keeper.”

12. You have a gift.

“I saw a lizard in the middle of a busy road.

I bent down on the side of the road and called for it as I put my hands out and he ran straight into my arms. I carried him to safety and didn’t think anything of it until I heard a stranger behind me go, “Did y’all see that sh*t?? She’s a lizard whisperer!”

Man I wish there was another witness because I bet I looked cool.”

13. Let them take the credit.

“When I was in high school we did a “toy drive” with our homeroom classes around the holidays where each class was assigned a family in need to donate money to or buy toys for. By the last day almost none of the toys had been bought from the kid’s lists, we’d just collected a modest chunk of money for the family.

I went home and told my mom that I didn’t need anything but I would like to get some of those things the kid’s asked for. My mom and dad talked, they’d both grown up poor and knew the money we’d collected would probably be used on necessities, not toys. So my mom and I went out and came back home with about $300 worth of toys the kids had asked for.

I brought them in early before school started and submitted them and the receipts for them to my homeroom teacher. Later on one of my classmates, who I had great disdain for ever since the third grade when he blatantly stole my new pencil, came in and announced he was making the biggest contribution of our class with a $40 donation.

The teacher made eye contact with me but I remained neutral and shrugged, so the teacher didn’t correct him, just smiled and said thank you to him. I figure he needed that affirmation more than me and I never liked being center of attention anyway.”

How about you?

What’s your biggest flex that you don’t think you’ll ever tell anyone?

Sound off in the comments!

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What Cooking Tips Should We All Know? Chefs Were Nice Enough to Offer Their Advice.

No matter how much experience you have working in restaurants or even just in your home kitchen, you can always learn new tips about how to make food and make the process smoother.

And that’s exactly what we’re going to dive into today!

Let’s check out some awesome cooking tips from folks on AskReddit!

1. For beginners.

“Two things for beginners:

First, taste as you cook. At various stages of cooking, while safe (not raw meat) taste your food as you cook it. This lets you know if you have too much of something or too little. It also helps you develop your palette for what different seasonings do.

Second, if you’re just starting out and don’t know which spices to buy. Pick a specific cuisine you like. Are you a fan of Italian food? Focus only on Italian recipes for a while. Most use similar herbs and spices because the cuisine of the area used what they had available to them.

This will let you learn several recipes without having to buy massive amounts of spices to make it work. Eventually you will build up a good stock and be set to handle most things.”

2. Yummy.

“Soy sauce goes on more than Asian foods.

Try a dash in scrambled eggs or towards the end of your caramelized onions.

It is a savory salt flavor that compliments many dishes.”

3. Some tips.

“The spice measurements in most online recipes are way too small. I usually double them.

Cinnamon isn’t just for sweet foods. It can be really really good in savory foods.

Don’t forget the acid. A bit of citrus juice or vinegar can really make a dish pop and bring out the other flavors.

Don’t be afraid to deviate from a recipe, but be careful with baked goods. If you make big changes in baked goods you might get a dud unless you know how it will effect the baking process.”

4. Spice it up.

“Salt is seasoning. It makes food taste more like itself.

Acids, like citrus or vinegar can also do this. If your food tastes flat, or like it is missing something, try some salt or acid. Acid is also critical for balancing very rich fatty foods.

The reason Americans love tomato ketchup so much is the fact that it adds acid and salt to their food. Adding a bit of “heat” like a pinch of cayenne can also accentuate a the flavor of a dish. Spices are something else. They bring a new and different flavor to the dish.

In sweets, sugar often takes the place of salt and is usually balanced by acid – see passionfruit, raspberry, citrus, etc. But salt plays an important role in sweets as well – often in unexpected ways. Try putting a pinch of kosher salt into your next batch of whipped cream.

I could keep going but I’ll leave it there. If you can master these concepts you will have a big advantage over most home cooks.”

5. Nice and easy.

“If you’re getting annoyed because it’s taking you too long to peel garlic, place an unpeeled garlic clove under the flat side of your kitchen knife and press on it with your hand.

The garlic peel will separate easily and your garlic will be crushed.”

6. Ouch!

“A falling knife has no handle.

The worst cut I’ve ever had was from trying catch one on reflex.

I got sliced across all my fingers, great tip to internalize.”

7. Good advice.

“Everything in it’s place. Have everything cut, seasonings and ingredients measured before you start cooking. This way you can focus on cooking.

Brown meats in small batches, do not overcrowd the pan. It will cause meat to sweat and will not brown properly.”

8. Keep it simple.

“Learn basic cutting techniques for cutting vegetables.

Keep it simple. The number ingredients doesn’t say anything about the taste of a dish. Go for dishes you can make in 30 to 40 minutes with 6 to 8 ingredients.

Keep a notebook. Gather a list recipes and dishes you do regularly. Expand gradually with new stuff. Don’t just buy cookbooks you never really use.

Adding is easy, removing is hard. People here argue to liberally add butter and seasoning. Tastes differ, though. It’s totally fine to put in less if that’s what you fancy.

You don’t need a gazillion utensils. In your daily cooking, a basic kitchen knife already does a lot of the heavy lifting. Learn to use that properly.

Observe. How do ingredients act when you combine them? What happens when your put them in a pan or pot and apply heat?

Always be cleaning. You have idle time? Clean the sink.

Don’t be afraid to fail. Learn from your mistakes. Also, don’t pretend you know better then the recipe. Especially if you never made a recipe before.”

9. All about timing.

“The amount of garlic flavor is dependent on WHEN you add the garlic.

Add it early for light flavor, add it late for bold flavor.”

10. Fond.

“Massively improve the quality of your proteins with fond. Doesn’t matter the protein. Bird, beef, pork, tofu. Fond is the dark brown stuff that sticks to your pan when you’re cooking.

Its not burnt unless is actually black. To get it off the pan on on the food, pour in either an alcohol or acid to dissolve it and get the now brown liquid to coat your protein. Different proteins work best with different alcohols.

Good rule of thumb, dry white for chicken or any lighter meat. Red for beef. Lemon juice works great for almost everything.”

11. Brine is good.

“Brine your dang birds.

Like salt, sugar and water makes a basic brine; let it sit in there overnight.

Juicy bird guaranteed.”

12. Good stuff here.

“Your pan does not need to be on maximum heat.

You have to cook meat to a specific internal temperature to kill bacteria, anything more is just trying it out (generalized).

Lemon zest and garlic with a cream sauce makes anything delicious.

Wash your hands, tools, and area after dealing with raw meats. Watch the water splatter from the sink when washing aswell.

When a recipe calls for you to let something ‘sit’ or ‘rest’, do not rush this step. Good things happen to the food in that time.

You are less likely to cut your self with a sharp knife, compared to a dull one.

Sifting flour, when adding it to baking recipes, can improve the results.

Test your yeast before committing to using it.

When cooking for a group, season lightly, and use hot spices sparingly; they can both be done after its served.

Puree or fine grate veggies such as carrots or zucchini into sauces, or even peanut butter, to get kids to get some nutrients.

Buy a rice cooker. Uncle Roger said so.

Sanitize, sanitize, sanitize.

Wet hand / dry hand while breading or coating food.

Never pry anything out of an electrical appliance. No metal in toasters or microwaves.

Dishwashers have a ‘gunk trap’ or general area where stuff collects. Clean this. Also check the water outlets as lemon seeds and other things can clog them.

Herbs and spices can be annoying to eat, such as twiggy pieces of rosemary or peppercorns. Put them in a cheese cloth, or emptied out tea bag, draped in the liquid, to give their flavours but not the textures.

Dont pan fry bacon in the morning with no shirt on.

Buy local as often as you can.”

How about you?

What cooking tips would you like to share with the world?

Do it in the comments, please!

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People Share the Strangest, Most Unexplainable Things They’ve Ever Seen

We live in a weird world.

And this world is filled with odd things that happen that we can’t explain…but I guess that’s part of the fun, right?!?!

What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever seen that you can’t explain?

Let’s see how AskReddit users responded to that question.

1. Missing time.

“I was around 6 and on Wednesday evening I went to bed. I woke up and it was Friday.

I remember asking my mom why is it Friday when yesterday it was Wednesday. She said yesterday was Thursday, obviously.

I asked her what I did on Thursday because the last thing I remember is going to sleep on Wednesday. She named some activities and I remembered none of that. I never found out why I don’t remember the Thursday.”

2. Huh?

“When I was a kid I was awfully sick at one point- completely bed ridden. I was super hungry or something so I wanted to go get my mom, so I fell out of bed- but I couldn’t move after that.

I was just sorta worming around in agony. Until four,,, I want to say hippies? Tie-dye shirts, baggy bell-bottom pants, long hair. They just appeared in my room and I instinctively knew they were in a band? One of em was like, “yo,,, dude,,, your mom’s asleep. Want us to go get her?”

So I just mutely nodded, they disappeared, and a few minutes later my mom came up and checked on me.”

3. I know you!

“Doing some door-to-door work, I knocked onto a house I’d only driven past in a city on the other side of the world from where I grew up.

As I looked around the deck I was standing on, I noticed a particular window had a view through another window. I distinctly remembered all the details of what was outside the second window, even though I had never before seen it in my life. As the door opened, the lady standing at it gave a bewildered face that I must have mirrored.

The first thing she says is, “I know you!” I promise, there is no way our paths had previously crossed. As we got to talking, I was sharing a personal story, of which she finished the last details for me. I was stunned, and she said, “ I’m sure you’ve told me that before.”

I was tripping out, and ended coming back to the house a few times to just chat and see where or if anyone we both knew had crossed paths. To this day I still can’t explain it.”

4. It’s not time yet.

“My dad had a really complicated case of trombosis; it was bad that only two hospitals in the country were equipped to handle it.

Long story short he was in intensive care and had to be airlifted to the most famous hospital in Brazil; this process took the whole night. I remember my mom telling me at 6am that he was stable and the visitation time would be like 7 hours away, so I went to get some sleep.

I don’t remember specific details, just a very obvious loving figure that sounded just like my grandpa (his dad, already deceased) telling me to relax, it was not my father’s time.

When visiting time came, due to my good mood and spirit, my dad asked me if I understood what he had, since doc told us his chances of recovery were slim; then I told him about the dream he cried and hugged me. He spent over 10 days in ICU and over a month in recovery, but is healthy and happy today.

Never had my grandpa, or anyone else, visit me, before or since.”

5. Scary.

“I was driving away from a gas station. Out of nowhere a guy in a suit comes running up to my mini van and starts yanking the door.

As if he knew me, he began pleading “c”mon, LET ME IN.” Luckily my doors were locked, I asked him who the hell he was through my window. He looked genuinely surprised that I wouldn’t let him in. After I refused to let him in, his facial expression inverted; as if he just realized something horrible.

He let go of my car, said something to the effect of “you’re one of them, aren’t you?” Then he ran away behind the gas station and into the woods. Full suit and tie, nice shoes, extremely frantic in nature, zero explanation.

I’m praying it was some elaborate troll or m*th or something, because the look in that man’s eyes was pure terror when I didn’t let him in.”

6. I felt it…

“It wasn’t what I saw so much as felt.

I was on my way to Petersburg, a small island in Alaska but the runway was to foggy so I had to stay in Juneau at a hotel for the night. Anyway the next morning I was sleeping and had my hand dangling in between the bed and the wall and I swear on everything I felt something grab my hand.

It had a grip like a very firm handshake and it literally woke me up out of a dead sleep. I actually got up and checked under the bed and nothing was there. It was very weird.”

7. Spooky.

“My three year old daughter walked up to my husband one night and straight up said, ‘Grandpa’s dead.’

A few moments later we get a call from my husband’s sister saying that their father had passed away. Happened a few months back.

Still creeps me out.”

8. The meteor.

“So in 2013, I was with my buddy and his schizophrenic neighbor.

The neighbor suddenly acts like he just got hit with an energy wave, and he runs out into the yard. He starts dancing and chanting about, “The Meteor.”

He said that he felt it falling, and then with a final jerk, he said the meteor had exploded. At that same time, on the other side of the world, an enormous meteor exploded over Russia.

If you are wondering, no there was no advanced warning.

And yes, part of me does suspect that he somehow knew.”

9. The black square.

“Was driving home from work one afternoon with my brother and cousin in the car. As we were sitting in traffic I noticed high up in the sky and way out in the distance a small motionless black square.

I pointed it out and both my brother and my cousin spotted it quickly so I know it wasn’t in my head. It just remained still for about 45 minutes and then the sun had set and it was too dark to spot it any longer. It just stayed in the exact same spot the whole time and while it was really far away you could still tell it was a perfect square shape.

Once I got home I went online to see if there were any mentions of it anywhere and there was nothing. To this day I still think about it and wonder wtf I was looking at.”

10. What happened?

“I was taking a trip with my then-girlfriend and we had to cross the Hudson River to get to where we were going. There are only a handful of bridges across, and I know them all from having grown up in the area.

On that particular trip we were supposed to take The Bear Mountain Bridge, but I got off the wrong exit and passed it. We decided it wasn’t a big deal. The next bridge, The Newburgh-Beacon, was actually closer to where we were going.

It would just bring us over little bit past our destination, but not enough to really matter. So we kept on driving, not really paying specific attention to where we were since it was probably 20 – 30 mins until we got there.

Well, we never crossed the Newburgh-Beacon that day. We also never crossed the Bear Mountain. And we certainly didn’t drive an extra half an hour to the Mid Hudson or turn around and go back to the Tap. When we did take a minute to check where we were, and how close the bridge was, we found we were already on the other side of the river. No bridge, we were just already there.

So either there’s a secret tunnel somewhere under the river, we had our memories erased, or we found some kind of spatial rift somewhere in the Hudson Valley.”

11. In the dorm.

“I was an RA when I was in college. All the RAs would come back a week before the winter semester started for training, which meant no students were back in the dorms – we were the only ones in the building.

One night, I heard the door to my shared bathroom open. The sound of the doorknob turning woke me up, so I kind of groggily said my suite mate’s name (she would sometimes come through the bathroom to talk or ask me for advice). Then I realized – my suite mate was on an extended holiday in Italy, so no one should have been in our suite at all.

I immediately shot up and looked toward the bathroom door. It was almost pitch black in my room, but next to the bathroom door, I could see the perfect outline of a human face wearing a flat-brimmed hat – I couldn’t see the details of the face, but I could see shadows where the eyes, mouth, and nose would have been.

It was as if someone was standing next to the door, staring at me. I had no idea what to do – because no one was back in the dorms, I knew that the nearest RA was two floors away and wouldn’t hear me scream for help. I stared at the face for a few seconds (and it stared back), then I shifted slightly on the bed and it completely disappeared. I got up to check the door, and it had been closed the whole time.

It’s been almost 7 years and it still freaks me out when I think about it.”

12. Deep in the forest.

“When I was young, my parents and I relocated across the country to Maine.

We lived in a very small town and our house was old, beat up and on many acres deep in the forest. It had two stories, with the top story being the main level and the bottom story being the bedroom level. My bedroom had several large windows that looked out into the forest.

I don’t remember having curtains or blinds but I’m sure I must have, because my mother never forgot details like that when decorating my bedrooms as a child, but I must have left them open one night.

I remember waking up in darkness, with a faint glowing orb of light hovering just outside my window. I watched it in utter terror as it went slowly across one window, and then the next – before pausing, flashing briefly into my bedroom, before shifting into the third and final window and disappearing altogether. I was so upset by the ordeal that I went and woke my parents up, and my stepfather stormed the backyard with his gun in hand.

There was nothing and no sign of the strange orb.

My eyes are watering as I write this. Deep down, as an adult looking back, I realize that orb was anything but magic. It was someone’s flashlight.

It never happened again, but I’m still afraid of having window blinds open at night.”

13. Up in the air.

“Former Egyptian Airforce Mirage 2000 pilot here.

I was one of the “unlucky few” that got selected to serve their mandatory years as pilots, it was considered unlucky because you stayed in the army alot longer than soldiers and officers because of the amount of training that comes with flying a fighter jet.

Anyway fast forward 2 years I’m a fully trained mirage pilot though I don’t know much about dogfighting and fighter jet weapons as I didn’t take it on full time like I said this was mandatory service that everyone had to do, it’s just I was selected to be a pilot for some reason, I only flew like 6 times in the 3 and a half years I served.

Anyways picture this, it’s a pitch black night and I go out for patrol on the Red Sea border between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. My friend is commanded to patrol the border on Sinai and Israel (that’s usually the most actively patrolled border).

Anyway here I am flying in Egyptian airspace when an extremely bright light shone through the cockpit almost blinding me for a moment, it was so bright it got right through the tinting on the windows and my helmet, it was almost like that memory wiper in MIB it lasted at least a minute.

So just as I’m about to call this in to get a possible explanation the air tower guy starts frantically sort of shouting but not loudly like he’s talking really fast and in a very worried tone and I can’t hear him through the radio that well so I couldn’t tell what he was saying, I tuned into the frequency the other pilots were on and they were all just as shaken as me.

30 minutes later a calmer voice instructs us to all land immediately as there is an emergency being investigated by the more experienced pilots (dogfighters). So we land two at a time, I steer my plane into the hanger and I get out, everyone has this frightened look on their face eyes wide open, mouth shut and sort of lost.

Like you talk to them and they’re like “sorry what were you saying again?”, So I go straight to the base commander hoping for an explanation that puts my mind to ease, when I get there I find that he’s in his office on the phone shouting about unidentifiable aircrafts infiltrating Egyptian airspace and that’s when I really got scared.

I have finished my mandatory service years ago now and I’m currently studying law in Washington but that night I constantly think about.”

How about you?

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve seen that you just can’t explain?

Tell us your stories in the comments!

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What’s the Weirdest Thing You’ve Seen That You Can’t Explain? Here’s What Folks Said.

A friend of mine swears that he was once driving down the street at night when suddenly he saw an airplane that was on fire fall from the sky and explode in the distance.

This was before cell phones, so he rushed home and turned on the TV expecting to see something about it on the news. And there was nothing. And he never heard anything about it.

Had he hallucinated? This happened over 20 years ago and he still talks about it…WEIRD.

Folks on AskReddit talked about the weirdest things they’ve experienced that they can’t explain.

1. Dad’s truck.

“My dad passed away in 1992. Among other things I inherited a 1980 Chevy LUV pickup.

It may have been through ignorance but I had looked high and low for 4 bolts that needed replaced on the U joint. They were special and shouldered.

I stopped everywhere looking for these bolts. Chevy nor Izusu had them. I was at my wits end as I had been looking for two months .

One day a buddy of mine and me stopped at a hamburger joint that had a parts store next to it. We got out and I said I am gonna check this parts store and i had one the bolts in my hand .

As we were walking to the store , a guy that I can only describe that looked like the Jesus your grandmother had a picture of on her wall walked by us and said howdy or some sh*t .

But here is what freaked me out…

He said, those look like they are U joint bolts for a Chevy LUV pickup . I bet you are having a heck of a time (yes he said heck) finding them . Come over here I think I have some in my truck .

He walked over to his truck looked in a 5 gallon bucket and handed me 4 perfect bolts exactly like I needed.

My jaw dropped. I tried to pay him or buy him a hamburger and he said no , just help someone else out if you get the chance . That was 28 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday.”

2. Weirdo.

“For about 10 years a man would call my home, ask for me, and then ask me if my feet were ticklish.

This was 30 or so years ago – no caller ID or anything like that. I would engage him if my family was home. If I said my feet were ticklish he’d ask me to ask the person sitting closest to me to tickle them. He always hung up before we could ask questions to figure him out.

Sometimes he’d get me on a pay phone. Like, I’d be walking home from school and a pay phone would ring. It was always him.

Still don’t know who it was…”

3. Crazy!

“I had a dream one night that a former coworker (Friend 1), who I rarely interact with, was pregnant.

In the dream I was back at my old office and they were explaining to me that I was going to fill in for her. I was very alarmed and like “oh heck no, I left y’all last year and went to new place.” She came up and was very pregnant and was like “oh come on it’s just while I’m on leave.”

I told my husband because it was weird and we joked about how awful it would be for me to have gotten out of that workplace just to have to go back.

Maybe a week later I dreamed about a different friend (Friend 2) I rarely speak with being pregnant as well.

The next week I run into Friend 1 somewhere and joke about the funny dream I had where she was pregnant. She is like OMG tells me she is and they haven’t told ANYONE yet, that she’s waiting. I laugh it off and later tell my husband about it. He jokes and is like “didn’t you dream Friend 2 was pregnant, lol you should give her a call.”

It’s even funnier because Friend 2 is my age and like me has older children, we’re waaaay too old to be starting over. I laugh it off.

The next day, as an afterthought, I’m bored and driving a long distance, I call Friend 2 about the funny dream and my husband’s joke that I should call her.

Turns out she IS ALSO PREGNANT and they haven’t told anyone because they’re having ultrasounds and amniocentesis first due to her age and all.

Completely crazy!!”

4. Wow.

“Years ago, when my wife was pregnant with our second child and about to give birth, my Mom came to stay with us for a few days to help take care of our oldest child.

One early evening Mom asked for a pen, paper and an envelope. When I gave them to her she wrote on the paper, sealed it in the envelope and gave it to me, saying put this in your pocket and don’t open it. “You’ll know when,” she said.

Thirty minutes later my wife announced it was time to go to the hospital, she was in labor. So we did and about 9 hours later our second daughter was born at 3:45AM. She weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 inches long.

This being pre-cell phone days, I called my Mom from the hospital to tell her the news. She answered the phone and immediately said, “Before you say anything, open the envelope.” I did. It said:

Girl 3:45AM 8 lbs, 11 oz 20 inches

I kept that paper for years. When my Mom died, I went to our documents safe where we kept it, but it was gone.”

5. Premonition.

“A week before my twin brother died I was in the passenger side of the car and an awful thought with visuals that popped in my mind.

I was at his house and it was empty, his door was shut but I had an overwhelming feeling he was no longer alive. It was the first time I’ve cried over just a thought.

I also had him visit me in a dream after and ask where he was and he didn’t know he was dead yet I showed him his death certificate and all the paperwork my mom was filling out.

I can’t explain it but seeing that a week ahead helped me process his death better than my siblings and mom. His 10 yr is coming up in March and I’ve been trying to dream about him no luck.”

6. Was it a prank?

“Living in a dorm, no roommate.

Night before a two-hour open book final, I put my book in the middle of the floor so I’ll stumble over it on the way out. The floor has nothing else on it.

In the morning its gone. I look all over the room, can’t find it. I think I’m hysterically blind, so I feel over every inch of the floor with my hands. Nothing. I go get a cup of coffee and come back, still nothing. By now there’s only one hour for the test. I go any way and do the best I can.

Naturally when I get back the book is in the middle of the floor exactly where I put it .

Probably a prank, but how? I’m not that heavy a sleeper. Nobody took credit for it.”

7. What was that?

“My family used to travel between Utah and Nevada a few times a year when I was growing up and we often saw wildlife.

There’s one thing that still baffles all of us, though: It was in the middle of the day, on a long, hot, empty stretch of road.Myself, my mom, and a couple of my siblings saw something scurry across the road.

It looked like a huge egg (the size of an ostrich egg, maybe larger) with two skinny legs and feet poking out the bottom of it. We cannot figure out what it possibly could have been.”

8. Where did the time go?

“A friend and I were driving what would normally be a 3hr drive. A little way in, we hit the heaviest rain/lightning storm I’ve ever driven through.

I was driving about half the speed limit and could barely make out the car in front of us. When that car pulled over (clearly wasn’t confident driving in that weather) I drove on for about 15-20mins before also pulling over as we passed a small town. The rain eased off and we continued on our way.

When we got home, according to our phones/the wall clock in the house/the car clock – the trip had taken less than 2hrs. We had somehow shaved a whole hour off the trip by going almost half speed for most of the way.”

9. That’s random.

“I sneezed my back into place after being couch bound for nearly a year and half.

Within 15 minutes it felt like that year and a half was a distant memory.”

10. Unsettling.

“I was once standing in line at Target.

A mother and her (I guess) three year old were in front of me in the checkout lane. I never met them before in my life. The child was riding in the shopping cart and the mother went forward to better unload it.

The child looks dead at me, smiles, laughs and said my first name, very clearly, twice. I have an uncommon first name, which made it even stranger.’

11. This would terrify me.

“I once saw someone who looked and dressed exactly like me, with my mannerisms and posture, standing outside a pub I had visited only a week earlier around the same time in the evening.

He was finishing a smoke and went back inside a few seconds after I’d been able to notice and get a good look at him. I smoked at the time as well, so it was something I’d have been doing.

Not sure if I saw a glimpse of my own past from a third person perspective or what, or if I just have a twin somewhere in Dublin.”

12. The creature.

“My dad, sister and I all saw something that wasn’t an animal and wasn’t human. This was in winter 2015 in rural Saskatchewan.

We were driving and it ran out in front of us on the road. It was so fast it was a dark blur but we all agree we saw long gangly limbs like a deer but it had human looking “arms” and “legs”.

We still talk about it.”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, please tell us about the strange things you’ve seen that you can’t explain.

Thanks in advance!

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People Share the Strange Things They’ve Seen That They Can’t Explain

The world is full of unsolved mysteries that baffle even the most hardened skeptics out there.

Are ghosts to blame? Spirits? Some kind of energy we can’t comprehend?

None of us have those answers, but I think we can all agree that some things will always remain mysterious.

AskReddit users talked about strange things that they just can’t explain. Let’s take a look.

1. Shook.

“I am really not spiritual or have any belief in psychics, ghosts, mind-reading, fortune telling…any of that. But, only a couple weeks ago there was an exchange that shook me a bit.

I’d taken the train out to do a hiking trail and camp for a few days, finishing up in a town I’d only ever briefly visited once a couple years prior on bonfire night. As I made my way towards the station I was stopped by a perfectly ordinary looking middle aged woman.

“You don’t believe in souls” she said.

“What?”

“You don’t believe in souls. But you also know you lost yours”

“What do you mean.”

“You have absolutely no aura”

I started to walk away and she just raised her voice to shout after me.

“You had a procedure, a medical procedure, on your brain and your soul left.”

Of course it sounded like madwoman bullsh*t to anyone that could hear, but fifteen years ago when I was eighteen I had sixteen sessions of ECT. Being a large number of sessions in a short space of time at an young age, it left many difficult and long lasting negative effects on me that I still struggle with.

But one of the most pervasive feelings is what I have only ever been able to describe as whatever it was that made me me. Like the essence of me, my spark, had disappeared.

I never really knew how to put this feeling into any accurate words, so despite my lack of belief, I’d always described it as feeling like I’d had my soul removed.”

2. Still have nightmares…

“I was driving one night in a really foul mood and speeding. Like when I say speeding I mean at least 25 over the limit.

Anyway this car gets behind me and for some reason I can just tell it wasn’t a cop. It was a full tinted Chevy truck with weird lights on it (like comically large after market front headlights). Once it got behind me I got a really eerie feeling I can’t explain. Like my body just knew something was wrong.

Anyway I figured if it was a cop they would light me up for speeding but for some reason they just kept pace with me, also speeding themselves. So at this point I’m getting a little weirded out so I turn off the freeway and they follow me.

I turn into a gas station and get out. I figure if I’m going to get ax murdered at least the cameras will pick it up and give my family some closure. Something just didn’t sit right with me. I knew something was up.

As I’m getting out of my car the truck rolls it’s windows down. And what I saw still haunts me to this day. It was a heavily disfigured guy the only likes of which I can compare to that guy Rocky Dennis from the movie about the guy with a crazy disfigured head who falls for that girl who loves him for him and not the abomination that is his face.

And he starts to motion me with his finger like telling me to come closer. I don’t care if he was going to give me the winning powerball numbers there was no way in hell I was going to approach his car.

I bolt inside the gas station at this point my whole body is shaking. I try and tell the clerk what’s going on as they stare at me probably thinking I’m drunk or high off my *ss as my story doesn’t make any sense.

I go to look outside and the truck is gone.

I still have nightmares to this day.”

3. Guardian angel?

“Fall 2009 I was sick – like superrrrrr sick.

It was a few weeks before my amputation and I was battling a severe bone infection. I was hopped on all kinds of antibiotics (I had a PICC line and would dose my antibiotics through these little balls) and pain medication.

I’m a huge Yankee fan so my best friend got us tickets for the ALCS game at Yankee stadium. She pushed me around the stadium in a wheelchair with a sh*t ton of blankets on me (it was freezing) just to put a smile on my face.

My friend leaves our seats to go get some hotdogs and stuff. This is where it gets weird.

As soon as she leaves (to my recollection) an older Irish gentleman sits by me. He offers me some of his spiked hot chocolate, but I said no thanks and explained that I was on a lot of medication. We begin talking and I told to him what was going on with my life.

He asked if I was scared to have my leg amputated, and I told him that I was. I was really frightened of the unknown. He gave me some pretty valuable life advice and comforted me. He assured me that it would be fine. He told me that, “if you have to be an amputee, try to be the best d*mn amputee that there is!”

My friend comes back with food and asks who I was talking to. There’s no one next to me. I guess I must’ve hallucinated this but idk..it felt more like some kind of angel or being that came to me to let me know it would be okay.

I guess my guardian angel is an Irishman with spiked hot chocolate!”

4. The fish man.

“A tiny humanoid creature underwater.

To this day i still search the internet in hopes that what i saw was an actual type of fish but i still haven’t found anything. I was snorkeling at the age of 16 off the coast of Australia with my Dad. Seeing all the fish was so beautiful. My Dad drifted a little far from me but there was a reef protecting us from any large sharks so I wasn’t scared of snorkeling on my own.

I swam down towards the coral to get a closer look at a small octopus when something caught my eye. A human face. A human face with an eerie smile and big eyes. It was sort of “standing” casually leaning against the coral with a body about 4 inches tall and head no bigger than a grape. It resembled a naked human male but had gils by its neck and webbed feet. Smooth all over like a ken doll.

I stared at him. He stared at me. I stared back and tried to rationalize what i was seeing. I reached out to touch him/it and he casually evaded me by stepping to the side, all while his creepy smile remained. I could see my Dad has turned around and was swimming closer to me. So i called him over to see this crazy creature. The creature turned toward where my Dad was swimming over, seemed to notice him, then look back at me coyly.

Then it walked away. Like walked on its little webbed feet on the coral and disappeared down through a little whole on the rocks. I tried explaining to my Dad when he came over but he couldn’t explain anything like that either. He just said something about Aboriginal spirits and i shouldn’t mess with it.

I swear i think about that little fish man every day.”

5. Ghost story.

“When I was in my 20s in the early 1990s I had a car accident that kept me in hospital for about a year. It was a Catholic hospital and most of the nursing staff were nuns and besides the normal checks they regularly just stopped in to chat and see how I was doing.

Early one morning there was a knock and this nun came in that I hadn’t seen before and introduced herself as Sister Greta, a member of the nursing staff. She sat on the side of the bed and we spoke for a few minutes then she asked if she could say a prayer for me. She held my hand and said a prayer then wished me well and left.

About five minutes later there was another knock and one of the regular sisters came in to say hi. I remarked it was going to be a good day because I’d already had one visit from Sister Greta and now I was getting another one. She said there wasn’t a Sister Greta on the staff and there was only two sisters around, it being so early.

I pointed to the bed which clearly showed where she had been sitting and described her and the habit she had been wearing now getting a bit unnerved. The sister basically shrugged and bustled off.

She came back about half an hour later with a book about the hospital’s history and showed me a picture of some nuns from the 50s. Their habits were exactly the same as Sister Greta’s that I’d described. Turns out that patients regularly mentioned talking to nuns in old garb that definitely weren’t part of the current staff.

I never saw her again or anything similar while I was there… kinda freaky but not overly disturbing. I can’t really explain it but I guess it’s the sort of ghost story I’m okay with, if that’s what it was.”

6. Mystery man.

“I remember this vividly from when I was in elementary school.

My and 2 of my friends played football after school sometimes. The football field where we played was between a couple of open fields owned by farmers and on the other side a bit of wooded area, not as big as a forest but a small but densely packed wooded area about 100 meters away from the football field.

What happened was this, almost every time we would play there, we would see this man. The first time he was standing in the trees, not on the path between the trees, actually in the bushes. It was a man in a red and blue tracksuit and he was just staring at us. The first time we thought it was a friend of ours and we would call him and wave, but he never responded.

This happened almost every time. We also saw him in different places. One time he was just standing in one of the farmers fields, just looking at us. He was always there, always.

When I really freaked out was when I was playing with another friend. We would play army man in that wooded area. We picked up sticks and pretended we were soldiers completing missions. We even had a little base camp, we built a sort of safe house we called it. The thing every one has done as kids, build a hut.

We were just playing and sitting in the hut we build, when we heard footsteps on the path in the woods. We checked it out and just as we got out of the bushes, we just made out that it was that man in the tracksuit and he was running away. We followed him and there was a bend in the wooded area, we got around that bend and he just disappeared without a trace. The footsteps just stopped and he was gone.

The next day we returned to our hut and there were bits of food and cans on the floor. We never brought that type of food there, but we didn’t really think much of it. However a couple days later the hut was completely destroyed.

We asked one of our friends (he wasn’t involved in the earlier stuff and wasn’t there for the previous encounters) who lived next to the wooded area and he said that a man in a red and blue tracksuit destroyed the hut.

There were rumors that a homeless man was living in our hut, but it was never proven. Nobody actually saw him living there.

These type of encounters continued to occur for the following years, until the wooded area was cut and for the most part removed.

The last time I can remember that I saw him was about 2 years after the woods got removed. My room is in the attic of our house and looks out towards the football field, but in front of it is an old small building that the school uses for PE classes.

I remember that I was looking out of my attic window and see a man staring straight at me from the roof of that small building. I immediately recognized him, still wearing the same red and blue tracksuit. I kept looking at him until I got called downstairs. When I came back he was gone and that was the last time I saw him.

I know this sounds hard to believe maybe, but it was one of the creepiest things I’ve been through. In the end me and my friends wouldn’t even be surprised to see the man staring at us when we were playing football, it happened that often.”

7. Huh?

“Standing outside of a convenience store.

I saw two different cars park (about a minute or so apart) and go in the store. It was obvious the two didn’t know each other (at least it seemed).

After shopping, they each left in the other’s car. Still can’t explain it today without going down the CIA conspiracy route.”

8. Red light in the sky.

“Waterville, Washington in 2013.

Saw a red light in the sky that did not move in the way a normal airplane would. It eventually made its way to a three whitish lights formed into a triangular pattern.

It was unsettling.”

9. Double take!

“My friend and I drove past a car in the road going the opposite direction about 15 years ago.. still to this day, gun to our heads, we both saw a dog driving…sitting upright in the driver’s seat.

It took roughly 10 seconds to process what we saw, we then looked at each other and started yelling in disbelief. We’ve been buddies since second grade or earlier and this sighting was a long time ago during a period of time well after we both hand driving licenses and our own vehicles.

We still talk often and live on opposite sides of the country just about but every once in a while we will ask each other if we still remember that day and what we saw.. we laugh and reflect and are still 100% certain without out spec of doubt we saw a dog driving a car. All on its own.”

10. A sign.

“I had moved to Venice beach, CA about 8 years ago and it was the first time I had moved away from my home and family in PA.

After 4 months I hit a rough patch and had to sell my car to get back home. One night while trying to fall asleep I had a mild anxiety attack from over thinking my current situation at the time. Both of my roommates had left a few days prior so I had the apartment to myself for the last few days. During my mild anxiety attack I was talking to grandma who had recently passed away to ask for some help (note I have never been spiritual, and I identify as agnostic).

A little while later (early morning about 2am) I notice a flickering coming from my roommates room. I open the door to find a freshly lit candle. I did not light that candle.

As a child my grandma would always take me with her to church and my favorite part was getting to light a candle to say a prayer. Love you Nana.”

11. You should think twice.

“When I was younger I used to have this “troubled” friend. He had his brand new bmw we used to be bad boys and buy alcohol with fake IDs.

We were only 16 but we had a lot of fun just doing nothing, smoking weed drinking, dating girls, doing whip it’s. Think the movie mid 90s almost to a T. Well one time we got detained by the police we were just in the wrong area at the wrong time. I was very respectful to the police and my friend was not so much.

The female officer pulled me to the side and said “look kid, you seem like a respectful young man. Why are you hanging out with this kid? He’s bad news. I really think the next time you want to hang out with him. Think twice.”

So the following Friday he said he was going to pick me up and we were going to pick up some booze and hang out with these chicks. I told him unfortunately I can’t tonight. I have to stay in tonight. That night he was in a high speed chase and lost control of his vehicle and hit a curb, his car went straight into an apartment building and he died instantly.

Somehow, I ended up running into that police officer again a few weeks later. Which she made a joke that’s it not good if she keeps seeing me. I literally busted in to tears and just hugged her.

I feel like she saved my life. She seemed somewhat confused and I told her what happened.”

Have you ever seen something that you just couldn’t explain?

If so, please share your stories with us in the comments.

We’d love to hear from you!

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People Share Life Hacks for Our Bodies

You should ALWAYS, ALWAYS listen to your friends, family members, and even complete strangers if they offer you advice about your wellness and overall health.

Because we’re all works in progress and there’s nothing wrong with learning some new tricks to help ourselves out.

So, what are some good life hacks for our bodies?

Let’s see how folks on AskReddit answered that question.

1. Give it a shot.

“I put lavender oil in my diffuser and turn it on about 30 min before I got to bed.

Fills my room so that I can fall asleep faster than my 1-2 hour normal. I call it my knockout gas.”

2. Foot massage.

“If you use a standing desk at home, buy a lacrosse/cricket/baseball and roll your feet around on it while you stand.

It’s like a high pressure foot massage”

3. Listen to your body.

“Lots of water and lots of sleep can cure SO many things.

Hydrate and rest.

Second favorite life hack is, when my body says “no,” I listen. I don’t mean a whiny no, like a little kid who just doesn’t feel like it, but an actual full stop Do Not Want.

I don’t argue with that.”

4. Pro tip.

“Take a shot of baking soda in water to immediately stop heartburn.”

5. Cut down on the meat.

“My digestive system operates most efficiently if I cut my meat consumption in half.”

6. Wow.

“Stop eating processed sugar…

Life long meds for anxiety gone within 5-ish days.

My thinking is more crisp.

My ADHD is slightly more manageable now…”

7. Good for you.

“Cold showers.

My ability to handle the cold has greatly improved, can happily walk around outside in shorts and t-shirt while everyone else is in big coats, hats and gloves.

Really good for your mental and physical health too.”

8. Get that outta there.

“If you have something in your eye and can’t get it out, pinch your top eyelid gently and then just pull it down over your eye and it will take care of the issue.”

9. Beat the fatigue.

“Whenever I’m extremely tired, to the point where my eyes are slowly shutting, make yourself strong coffee (or energy drink for those non-coffee drinkers) and take a 15-30 min nap right after.

Helped me pull off some papers due the next day for a class in high school and university.”

10. Do it at night.

“Showering before going to bed is like telling my body “Don’t wake up until you’re fully rested, no matter what”.”

11. I like this!

“Want to get some “automatic exercise?”

Put on a 20lb or heavier weight vest and wear it as you do chores around your home, take a walk outside, etc.

After months of slacking off on exercising, I found that wearing it for a couple of hours a day resulted in toning and loss of a bit of waistline.”

12. Stretch it out!

“Stretching.

That’s all. Do it in the morning.

Doesn’t matter if you do a full on session or just a 1min “all the major areas” type thing (neck, back, legs).

Blood flows better and you feel looser in your skin.”

13. As simple as that.

“Eating well, sleeping enough, and regular exercise make you healthy and strong.

It’s insane how many people just let their health go to complete sh*t and then die years early for no reason.”

Now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, tell us about the hacks you use for your body.

We can’t wait to hear them! Thanks!

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People Share Street Smarts That Everyone Should Know

Learning how to be street smart comes with experience.

I remember when I was a teenager and I’d visit a big city, I felt kind of lost and overwhelmed. I didn’t know exactly how to handle myself and it was a bit intimidating.

Nothing bad ever happened, but as I got older and eventually moved to a big city, I learned how to carry myself better and how to ignore certain people so there wouldn’t be any kind of drama or weird situations.

So what are some basic street smarts that everyone should know?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. Alone on the street.

“If you’re alone on the street and you think you’re being followed, immediately call someone, forget about conversation starters, and give away your location. You should add ” I think I’m being followed”.

Speak loudly enough so the person you think is following you hears you doing it. If you’re right and they were following you, that will be a big turn off. If you’re wrong you have nothing to lose.”

2. Phone scams.

“It might sound harsh, but if anyone approaches you and asks to use your phone for anything ( especially emergency-related ), don’t fall for it.

They will usually tell you what the “emergency” is, so walk away, tell them you don’t have a phone/whatever, and for your inner peace call the emergency and give away that person’s location. Tell them exactly what the person told you.

Either they really needed help and you’re sending it their way, or they tried to trick you into something horrible and will most likely try it again with the next passerby.”

3. A bad idea.

“Please, for the love of God, stop using your earphones while on the street. At least try to only have one earbud in if you can’t help it.

It’ s not healthy (ear fatigue, potential risks to your hearing,etc.) but at least it won’t completely cover the background noises.”

4. Keep moving.

“If you’re walking and someone approaches, don’t break stride. You can carry on a conversation while walking, but people who are looking to proselytize, sell you something, or mug you will want you to slow or stop to address them.

If they want to chat, make them keep up with you. You can even tell them that you’re in a rush but would love to talk and walk.

They’ll likely find someone more stationary, because if you can make a person slow, you can make them stop. If you can make them stop, you’ve already adjusted their priorities and placed yourself at the top.

It’s a subtle power game. Keep going where you’re going, and you retain your power. Stop and cat, and you’ve given it up and opened yourself to possible problems.”

5. Bad drivers are everywhere.

“Pay attention when you cross the street on foot, no matter who has the right of way.

Vehicles will destroy you!”

6. It works!

“Walk fast and look p*ssed off.

This is how I deal with people on the street trying to market stuff to me.”

7. I belong here.

“Be aware of surroundings, look like you belong either through body language, attire, or occupation (without being oblivious to things around you).

The moment you look lost, out of place, or unsure is the moment you can look like a good target. If someone is looking at you with an expression questioning why you are there, be prepared to answer it with confidence and give an answer they would accept, or be prepared to leave before they can ask.”

8. Just walk away.

“Shut your f*cking mouth.

It doesn’t matter how angry you are or what they said to you. Shut your f*cking mouth and walk away.

Bruised ego is better than shot dead.”

9. Keep it hidden.

“Never flash your whole wad of cash in a public place while paying for something.

Keep a few bucks loose in one pocket for spending. Keep the majority of your cash in a separate pocket.

Don’t open a wallet full of all your money where other people can see you.”

10. I see you.

“Eye contact.

A lone assailant will often use the element of surprise to their advantage. If you’re walking alone and someone is following you, make eye contact to let them know that you are aware of them. This will often dissuade them from attacking.

This tactic has worked for me in the past.”

11. Might work?

“This reminds me of a comedian who was saying the best way to stay safe in a rough neighborhood is to fake a Russian accent cause Russians are terrifying.”

12. Beware of pickpockets.

“Here are a few of street smarts that makes it harder for pickpockets to steal your stuff:

Do not keep your wallet in the back pocket of your jeans. This is a super easy place for pickpocket to take it from.

When in crowed touristy areas it sometimes is better to wear your backpacks or purses to the front of your body. If you sit down in a restaurant, keep your backpack in front of your feet.

Be especially aware of your belongings when there is a bit of pushing, like when entering a subway or metro wagon.

Be alert in situations where a potential group of thieves try to distract you for example by asking you for directions on a map. While you are distracted by showing the person the directions another thief will open your bags and take your stuff without noticing.

Another thing to lookout are people in European cities asking for cash donations for the blind, deaf or handicapped. The huge majority of them are not for real charities but just to A) get some money from me and B) more importantly for an accomplice to see where you store your wallet.”

Do you think there are certain street smarts that everyone should know about?

If so, tell us what you think in the comments.

Please and thank you!

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People Share the Hilariously Obvious Conclusions of Scientific Studies

Have you ever seen a headline about a scientific study and thought “well, what did they expect?!?!”

I know sometimes the outcomes can seem obvious, but we can’t call them scientifically accurate unless we do the actual research, you know?

Still, if you’re looking for a laugh, these “well, duh!” research studies should definitely do the trick.

16. And yet, no one cares.

There are thousands and thousands of studies that conclude “too much sugar is bad for you.”

I get at least one new one every week on my google news feed.

Yes. That is true.

15. Yes I can see how that might happen.

People get more confused if you use longer words when you don’t need to.

14. Also of all humans. Don’t lie.

Picking one’s nose is a common trait of adolescent humans.

The study calls it Rhinotillexomania to make it look like they weren’t just asking if kids were picking their noses.

13. Walking with it at all, I would also guess.

Study shows walking backwards with a cup of coffee makes you more likely to spill it.

Of course, walking backwards may be less of a practical method to prevent coffee spilling than a mere physical speculation. A few trials will soon reveal that walking backwards, much more than suppressing resonance, drastically increases the chances of tripping on a stone or crashing into a passing by colleague who may also be walking backwards (this would most definitely lead to spillage).

I just can’t stop laughing at the idea of two people walking backwards to try to not spill coffee walking into each other, it’s like a Monty Python sketch. And now its John Cleese and Terry Gilliam in my head both over apologising to each other. Oh! even better, they can be snooty waiters carrying coffees in a restaurant!

12. Why might that be?

In the US, the majority injuries due to fireworks happen in July.

11. Huh. You don’t say.

A study of high school students found that those who had s^x were more likely to get pregnant.

Kind of like the fact that teen pregnancies drop sharply from age 20 onwards…

10. Faster isn’t always better.

My roommate and i took completely different paths to the same college every morning and evening. He would always tell me his way was faster. He walked 10 mins to the underground, switched twice, then took a bus to the campus. While I took a bus that left from a minute in front of our house and dropped off down the street from campus

He was adamant that his way was way faster. Finally one day we decided to test it, and left at the exact same time. He got to campus an entire minute ahead of me.

It was a “well sh%t” moment for him because for 5 months he had been putting in all the effort to save a minute of his day while I sat on the bus and read and study the entire way most days and didn’t move. He started taking my way after that.

9. Definitely try that.

In high school we each had to write and present a research paper on a unique topic, and my friend wrote about sleep deprivation

It was a very well crafted paper with credible sources, but he got some light ridicule for his conclusion: “Sleep is the best cure for sleep deprivation”

I get where he’s coming from though. Currently, there is no real substitute for a good night’s sleep. If you need 8 hours of sleep, you can’t regularly get only 5 hours and power through the day with caffeine. It’s not sustainable and you’ll feel the detrimental effects soon enough

8. Or for anything, I wouldn’t think.

Electric shock therapy administered to the face is not an effective form of treatment for rattlesnake bites.

A guy I know witnessed a bar bet where a couple of guys were daring each other to kiss a rattlesnake that they found outside. Of course, one of the drunk idiots got bit right on the upper lip. And the rest of the guys at the bar have heard that electric shock can neutralize the venom, so here is what they do. I have no explanation for how the hell they thought this was a good idea, other than that a lot of alcohol was involved.

They drag the guy to someone’s truck and hook jumper cables up to his face.

He was admitted to the hospital with third-degree burns, but he lived to tell the tale.

7. You’ve solved it!

I’m not sure if it was a ‘legit’ study, partially because I can’t find it anymore. But I remember a study that showed that married couples divorce more often!

My teacher presented it like it was the breakthrough of the century…

6. We are aware.

The recent cannabis causes an uptick in eating junk food study.

“You think marijuana does no harm — that’s pretty much the consensus today,” said Georgia State University economist Alberto Chong in an interview with The Academic Times. “But there are unintended consequences, and one of them is the fact that you really get very hungry and you start eating crap.”

5. That seems obvious.

Most car accidents are cause by the vehicle not being able to stop in time.

In a similar vein, “most car accidents happen within 5 miles of the home”.

Like no shit, that’s the only place I’m guaranteed to go through every time I go somewhere and when I go back.

And while we’re at it.

“Most accidents happen in the home”

Yes the place I spend most of my time is probably where I’m most likely to have an accident, that makes sense.

4. Funded by kids and toy companies everywhere.

Study Finds Buying Kids Toys Makes Them Happy.

3. Could someone inform my husband.

Scientists discover reason for noisy candy wrappers

Conclusion: “The unwrapping sound could be decreased with different wrapping materials that hold their form better or don’t produce so much sound when unraveled.”

2. Simple physics, I believe.

Science builds on other science. A breakthrough paper needs to reference other papers to make a foundation for its own findings. Often as a single, nearly throw-away sentence with a footnote to that study.

Therefore, there is a ton of ‘water is wet’ science out there. To that end, in my field (dentistry), the most obvious result study showed that the harder you pushed a cutting bur through a material, the more it cut.

1. They’re attracted to movement, so.

Most sharks attacks happen in shallow water close to a beach.

Makes sense as that’s where all the people are.

Some things really are just common sense, right?

I love it – share more like these in the comments if you’ve got ’em!

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Scientific Studies With Glaringly Obvious Conclusions

Water is wet!

People like to say that when someone says something completely obvious and the result of common sense, but when it comes to scientific studies, I think most of us expect the material to be a bit more convoluted to start.

Otherwise, what is there to really figure out?

These 13 studies, though, had to be full of researchers who knew exactly what they were going to find when they went in, but at least they’re here to delight us all with their completely expected results.

13. Was that some kind of test?

I once did a physics class-lab in high school. They had us measure the temperature of hot water in a jar across time.

Surprise surprise, the conclusion is that hot water cools down if you leave it out.

I had to get up at 5am for that class.

12. There must be a reason.

I’m a psychology student and many if the studies I read about have that quality.

“People are attracted to attractive people”,

“Too much emphasis on statistical significance testing”,

“Water is wet”!

11. I mean I’d be up for that.

A team of French researchers did a study to see if dogs felt the emotion Love.

All they are is fuzzy balls of love.

I think it was just a scam so they could get paid to play with dogs for a few months.

10. I guess it pays the bills.

Not psychology, but I’ve published a “duh” paper. But it was conventional wisdom that previously had not been documented or even discussed in the literature. So I conducted the research and published.

Many people in their twenties consider the geographic locations of their partners and families of origin when making career decisions. Previous literature focused solely on job tasks, work environments, and pay. Literature on families impacting career choices focused on participants in their 30s and 40s, and primarily on the impacts of participants’ children.

It turns out siblings and grandparents matter to many people in their 20s.

9. You don’t say.

The studies they do on universal basic income where they take like, 100 low-income people, give them a free chunk of cash every month for like, 6 months, and then declare the amazing conclusion that those people were happier, and none quit their jobs or stopped working.

8. For about a hundred reasons.

Rich people live longer than poor people.

A gigantic progress in medicine appeared when a doctor found strange that richer urban women would die more often during childbirth than poorer rural women. It lead to the discovery of the concept of hygiene.

Edit: In that case, he correctly deduced that the doctors were bringing something bad to the young mothers and made them clean themselves. I should have added that.

The considerations on water quality and sewage are also correct. Urban health really improved once chlorine was added in distribution water, sewage systems were created and garbage was collected.

7. The word is right there!

I wish I still had a link… It turns out that the most effective solution to the cycle of disinvestment in urban neighborhoods is- wait for it- investment.

6. Anyone who has had a cat knows that.

That cats do understand us to a point, they just don’t bother reacting. I could’ve told you that for free.

My favourite is that cats know their names but that they just don’t care! I have one that comes when called and does several “tricks”, the others are just apathetic to anything that we do.

5. There’s an evolutionary reason for that I think.

Study shows that humans are more empathetic towards puppies and babies than full size dogs and 30 year old men.

4. Where’s the study on that?

I think a lot of it is people raise dogs and cats differently. I know so many people that treat their cats as just a fluffy thing to pet and feed. Their dog however, they take on walks, play fetch with it, talk to it, call it by name since the day they got it, etc. It doesn’t surprise me when they say their cat does nothing when they call them.

I grew up with both cats and dogs, so when my wife and I got our cats we raised them like you would a dog. We spent time with them, played with them for hours, called them by their names, practiced their names. Practiced simple commands with treats. People are shocked when they come over that our cats are so sociable. Like yeah dude, cause I do stuff with them.

3. If only it were that easy.

Microsoft in Japan tested a 4-day work week for 5 weeks.

Productivity jumped 40%. They subsidized up to $920 for family vacations. Employees took 25% less time off even though work days had only reduced 20%. Electricity consumption went down 23% at the office. 59% less paper was used.

And wait wait, get this guys, you’ll never believe it:

92% said they liked the shorter week.

So productivity increased, consumptions decreased, the work got done, your staff are happier and take less time off, your profits in theory increased as your bills decreased…

Hmmm, wonder if it’ll catch on…

2. Is this…news?

That bisexual men exist. I, as a bisexual man, was shocked to say the least.

A lot of those studies have conclusions like, “Turns out, we are all attracted to the same sex to a certain degree!”

I suppose, but you would have to get straight men to admit that they know when other men are attractive first.

1. What if you like to drink both?

Harvard did a study that said beer drinkers are more likely to go to sporting events and wine drinkers are more likely to go to the theater.

Talk about no s**t.

My favorite part is how they still report the conclusion as if it’s supposed to be very exciting.

What’s your favorite example of a “water is wet” study? We want to hear about it in the comments!

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