In an effort to preserve the truth, a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. She accumulated a vast collection of 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes, which were stored in her home and in apartments she rented specifically for this purpose. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed […]
People Share Facts So Ridiculous They Almost Sounds Fake But Are Totally Real
Knowledge is power, and there is so much to take in.
What’s funny though, is that in some situations, some knowledge we acquire can sound more like made up storytelling.
There have been plenty of times where an Onion article became reality.
Go figure.
Redditor SuruchiSushi wanted to discuss all the fascinating facts about life that leave us reeling because it sounds more like fiction.
They asked:
“What is a fact so ridiculous that it sounds fake?”
Let’s talk about what’s really real.
Pre-Zombie Menu
“We’ve eaten mummies into rarity.” ~ Daylight_The_Furry
“Yep, it was all the rage a few hundred years ago in Europe. Largely for medicinal purposes, ground up into powder and mixed with stuff, mostly.” ~ Reddit
“I mean, this was around the same time that British scientists categorized aboriginals as fauna. I don’t think they had a very good sense of who counted as people.” ~ Callmecaesar1
“Not only eaten, but they used to be ground up to make pigment for paints. Literally called mummy brown.” ~ThatOneAsianGuy33
Missing Parts
“Some moths emerge from the cocoon without a mouth or anus.” ~happy_cake_babe
“Serious response: a lot of what we think of as ‘insects’ are actually the adult forms, and often don’t live very long as adults.”
“Basically they emerge as adults, go find another to make babies with, and then die once the eggs are laid.”
“If they’re only going to live a few hours or days, they can get by without mouths or buttholes.”
“A lot of insect species spend most of their time as little maggoty things, and only take their distinctive adult forms for a brief portion of their life.”
“Insects are weird, yo.” ~ AndAzraelSaid
Bad Words
“The term ‘prime minister’ was first used as a slur.” ~ ____andresito____
“The term ‘Prime Minister’ as we know it today emerged in the 18th century, during the prolonged conflict between Britain and France.”
“It was first applied insultingly to Sir Robert Walpole, who is now considered the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.”
“It was used by members of Parliament against Walpole, who served for 21 years and oversaw the increasing power of his role and simultaneous withdrawal of King George I from cabinet meetings.”
“The derogatory nature was derived from its comparison to France’s Chief Minister, Cardinal Richelieu.”
“The British were proud of not to be an absolute monarchy, like France, so the comparison was intended to be offensive.”
“Source” ~ Zhyko
Among the Stars
“When two galaxies merge, almost nothing collides despite each having trillions of stars.” ~mrbigmac61
“Yep, it’s because there’s really just far too much space between objects when you zoom in.”
“Even the asteroid belt has thousands of miles of empty space between each asteroid.”
“If you flew through the asteroid belt, you’d only crash if you did so on purpose.” ~ nsci2ece
Hey Rubber Ducky
“In 1992, shipping containers with around 28,000 rubber ducks were lost at sea(in the Pacific Ocean)…. they’re still being found today.” ~ BlueSparkle2810
“Imagine being lost at sea for a few days, you see something in the water in front of you.”
“Maybe a clue to where land is? No. It’s a friggin’ rubber duck.” ~ DancingDoggos
A Massive Population
“Bangladesh, a really tiny country has a population larger than all of Russia.” ~ R4zerSins
“Just scanning over Bangladesh on Google maps satellite view is incredible.”
“Even in areas that look green from zoomed out, there’s villages absolutely everywhere when you zoom in.”
“And then when you do get cities, they’re mega-densely populated metropolises with huge slum areas. It’s mad.” ~PillarofSheffield
Give me the keys…
“It’s legal to own, and drive a tank in the USA.”
“You can even drive it on the road if you replace the steel tracks with rubber tracks. The guns and cannon must be disabled though.” ~ KKKKOOOOBBBBRRRRAAAA
“Actually that last ‘fact’ is untrue. You do not need to disable the gun, in fact you can buy tank shells.”
“The reason however most are disabled (there are a few not disabled) is its ridiculously expensive and requires a lot more paperwork.” ~corbear007
Flying High
“On the 29th of September 1940 two planes had a mid-air collision, got stuck together and successfully landed.”
“The pilot used the controls of the top plane and the engines of the bottom plane.”
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp478Tgm5gg“. ~ alphaechothunder77
Meeting your maker…
“France didn’t stop executing people by guillotine until 1977.” ~ whereismattdamon
“Yeah, like all the modern execution methods. And the guillotine is even more sure than getting shot in the head.”
“The ol’ chopper is the method I’d choose if I had to be executed.”
“Course, I’d request that they quickly grab my chopped head and show me my body. That’d be sick.” ~ 4_P-
The Missing
“20% of foster children are missing at any given time.” ~ SagiTsukiko
“20% of foster care children are missing.”
“A lot of this is due to runaways.”
“My girlfriend works in foster care and every week she has at least one foster child runaway, mind you these are just her cases and not her coworkers cases who also have constant runaways.” ~ skuzzlebut90
“98%. 2% are unaccounted for. It’s still a major issue that so many foster kids are running away, though.”
“A glimpse into how inadequate the system and many foster parents are.”
“It’s not always their fault that they cannot adequately care for a foster child, though, and many foster parents who are not abusive simply just were not prepared for a lot of the issues that may arise with a traumatized child who has been removed from their birth family and shuffled around.” ~ SagiTsukiko
Playing the Devil
“2 actors have died playing Judas in live biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real in his death scene.” ~ acronicality
Death
“The last time an inmate in the USA was executed by firing squad was on June 18th, 2010.” ~bob4for4
“Ronnie Lee Gardner (January 16, 1961 – June 18, 2010) was an American criminal who received the death penalty for shooting a man in the face and killing him during a robbery in 1985, and was executed by a firing squad by the state of Utah in 2010.”
“https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Lee_Gardner“. ~ Reddit
Well that was a lot of knowledge to devour at once. Some fascinating, the rest surprising.
We were still using firing squads in this century?
I have no words.
Now we’re all one step closer to Jeopardy.
People Share The Facts That Completely Changed Their Perspective
“You never know.”
That is an age old saying that may also be one of life’s truest truths.
We do never know. Because there is so much out there to know and learn and sometimes random things happen.
And sometimes your new knowledge changes everything.
Redditor ettleboy wanted to discuss the knowledge some of us have acquired over time, that lead our thoughts and opinions in a different direction.
They asked:
“What fact totally changed your perspective?”
Let’s share some perspectives…
Switching Metals…
“It took mankind 4 times longer to switch from copper swords to steel swords than to switch from steel swords to nuclear bombs.” ~ Im_gonna_fart
“This sucks because I am having way harder time cutting my steak with my nuclear bomb, compared to when I used to do it with my steel sword.” ~ hyelander
resist, Resist, RESIST!!
“The longest a nicotine craving will last is 180 seconds. That means all I need to do is resist for 3 minutes.”
“My last cigarette was January 25 2008.” ~ nivla73
“YMMV. I saw this fact (have no idea if it’s true) when I was a heavy smoker and it helped me ease back on my intake.”
“I decided that if this is true then what I’d do is think back to my last craving.”
“If I had a cig last time then I’d skip this one and wait for the next craving to go have one.”
“As my body got used to only smoking 5 a day instead of 10 then I was smoking 4 or 3, then 2 until finally I was only smoking when I was out with friends or particularly stressed.”
“Now I only smoke on occasion and while I want to eliminate that entirely.”
“I also don’t think it’s unreasonable to have one every so often (maybe once a month now) as long as I don’t go buy a pack and start back up smoking regularly.”
“This approach simply doesn’t work for some people. No solution is one-size-fits-all.” ~ ej255wrxx
“I quit, after 30 years of smoking, in 1995. Even after 23 years I sometimes (rarely) get a craving.”
“Mine last less than a minute and are not intense. I will never go back to smoking. Smoking killed my wife before age 70.”
“She just didn’t have the willpower or motivation to give it up.”
“At the end, after being released from the hospital because she had almost died from COPD, she went back to smoking.”
“Two days later she was taken in Emergency and she died about a week after. “
“By that time we had been divorced for 14 years.”
“The divorce was partially caused by her inability to change her bad habits.” ~ La_Lanterne_Rouge
With each passing minute…
“Time doesn’t stop.”
“That speech I’m about to give in front of my class and I’m sweating balls over, in the next 2 minutes, it’s going to be done with. 2 minutes is two minutes.” ~ DinoTerrorisT
“This has helped me so very much in life. I always tell myself the same thing – this time tomorrow, it’ll be in the past, a distant memory.”
“I’ve just got to get through it, but it will be over.”
“I hope your speech went well!” ~ BasketballShooter
“I love thinking like this.”
“I kind of adopted it from the movie ‘We Bought a Zoo’ where they talk about how all it takes is just like 30 seconds of insane courage to do something.”
“You wanna ask someone out on a date? You want to ask for a raise? You want to try something crazy like skydiving?”
“All it takes is 30 seconds where you are just unstoppable and you just do it!” ~ Reddit
“Hope your speech went well.”
“One of my favorite sayings related to a speech is, ‘For every speech you gave, there will be 3 versions. The speech you were prepared to give.”
“The speech you actually gave. And the speech you wished you gave.’”
“Unrelated to the question. But felt like sharing it here.” ~ tempemailacct153
Truths…
“I’m capable of being entirely convinced of something false.”
“As a result anything I’m convinced of doesn’t necessarily reflect reality.” ~ AssadTheImpaler
“The one thing we all had in common is that we all think we’re right.”
“Now you’ve gone and fucked it up.” ~ briffobroffhouse
Back in the Day…
“Can’t remember exactly where I saw this, but the first Western movies filmed in Hollywood were made around 1915, when the industry moved there.”
“At the time much of the area outside of Los Angeles was ranchland and there were still some sizable cattle drives going on.”
“Directors would hire actual cowboys for a pittance to train horses or be extras.”
“Basically they made movies fantasizing these big cattle drives and gunfights as American history, while people who had actually done all those things irl were chilling in the background.” ~ bradthaphoend
“They also used trained sharpshooters to fire real bullets at things before the invention of the squib.”
“All the cannon fire in the 1915 film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ were live. Blanks were available, but not pyrotechnics.”
“Someone was killed during the filming of Cecil B DeMille’s ‘The Captive’ because they forgot to swap out their live ammo for blanks in one scene.”
“The Captive (1915) Silent film review.” ~ behemuthm
All the Money in the World…
“There are real life castles that are less expensive to buy than a New York City apartment.” ~ yerrrdoobie
“You can actually get a free castle in France as long as you can provide a plan for how to keep up with upkeep of the castle so that it won’t become a ruin.” ~ Christian__N
“There are planets out there without suns, planets that are hurtling through space in absolute total darkness.”
“Imagine being there.” ~ Reddit
Run Faster…
“Balto only ran the last leg of the route.”
“The dog that ran the longest and most treacherous parts of the route (and at night) was named Togo.”
“Balto toured the U.S. as a hero, but couldn’t be bred because he was neutered.”
“Togo’s owner was pissed Balto got so much attention, and then his story got out and Togo got to tour the U.S. and was bred like crazy, so most Huskies are descendants of the greatest sled dog in history.” ~ FnkyTown
The Pull Around Us…
“How strong gravity is at a neutron star. If you were to stand on top of one, you’d be flattened at the subatomic level.” ~ verymuchlol
“What’s really cool, is that it wouldn’t just crush you, it would crush you so hard that the molecules that make up your body would stop obeying what we typically think of as fundamental laws of particles.”
“Everyone goes on about black holes, neutron stars are cool as crap.” ~ contrivedpanda
Shuffle Along…
“If you shuffle a standard deck of cards, it is most likely the only time that sequence of cards has ever been shuffled in the history of cards.” ~ Leaves_1991
Pets on Pets…
“An example of being mutually beneficial.”
“Giant tarantulas keep tiny frogs as pets.”
“The tarantula protects the frog from predators – and the frogs, in turn, eat insects that could possibly harm the tarantula’s eggs.” ~ Back2Bach
Well my brain is full for the time being.
I love new knowledge.
You just never know all there is to know.
Housekeepers Divulge The Biggest Secrets They’ve Learned About Their Employer
Being a domestic servant is a difficult job, no matter what position you’re filling.
People who work personally and privately for others in their homes always seem to have a mountian of tasks.
These jobs can also be tedious and humdrum. But they can also be intriguing.
One of the perks of these types of jobs can be the secrets and information you become privy to.
Honey, there are just some lives you learn about that could rival storylines on “Dynasty.”
After all, truth is stranger than fiction.
Everyone on Reddit wanted to drink up the hot, hot tea delivered by Redditor Hunterofshadows when they asked:
“Housekeepers of reddit, what do you know about the owners of the houses that they don’t know you know?”
Now this ought to be scolding darling…
What a Stinker!
“Not a house keeper but a nanny. A family once took me on vacation with them so I could watch their kids while they‘d go out and explore the area.”
“That week, my bed was the couch in the living room. It’s late at night, the kids are sleeping, I’m laying on the couch and the parents get back.”
“The dad says, “is she sleeping” referring to me? I didn’t say anything so apparently he assumed yes.”
“He then started farting very loudly.” ~ sisof2
One Day at a Time…
“Dog walker, here. I was dog sitting for an older work friend once and saw her “days sober” calendar.”
“I was simultaneously sad, because I had no idea she was struggling, and happy for her because she had almost a full month marked off.” ~ cleanandclaire
“I will hit 3 weeks on Sunday. This is the longest I have gone without alcohol in 10 years.”
“The only times it was longer before that were the 3 times I was deployed overseas and no alcohol available.” ~ RSchnars
Not so loud next time…
“I’m a nanny. The last family worked for I overheard the Dad calling his insurance asking if a certain Rehab was covered.”
“He talks LOUD naturally. I heard what he was going for and everything.”
“Nobody knew not family not friends. Just me and them. They never knew I knew.” ~ Thesugarsky
Some special announcements…
“Our maid service found our positive pregnancy test in the bathroom trash, after presumably finding negative pregnancy tests in the bathroom trash for the previous 12 months.”
“Left us a nice little congratulations note on my wife’s nightstand.” ~ fizzleguy
“Mine found the “Best new daddy” mug I gave my husband.”
“Bless them, they hadn’t said a word about what had been in the trash.”
“Unfortunately, I had to follow that up with the miscarriage news a month or so later.” ~ ttcanuck
A Passage to Nowhere…
“House I used to work at had a secret passage from the master bed to the attic, also a secret passage from a cabinet in the great room leading to the exterior of the garage.” ~ madiet6uwu
“I grew up in a house with a trap door in the pantry floor that led to a bricked in “cell” in the basement.”
“The house was built in the early middle 19th century in an area that became known for Underground Railroad traffic and then as a Prohibition smuggling route.”
“So I’m sure that little room had some history to it.”
“Edit: Unless you guys know more about my house than the people from the university that came and checked out the house, please stop telling me it’s a cellar or root storage. It isn’t.” ~Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce
“I just worked in a house a few months ago that had this!”
“10 million dollar mansion built in the late 1800’s.”
“They started in the kitchen/servants quaters and ran behind the walls coming out in each room with staircases that went up to the second floor and down to the basement.”
“Some of them were sealed off but the ones in the living room, master bed and basement still had their functioning pocket doors.”
“It was really awesome and made me feel like a kid again exploring them.” ~ iHateMonkeysSObad
A Whole New World!
“A bit of an innocent one but while I was cleaning I saw this cabinet that was very large.”
“Like someone could fit a body in there. So, being curious, I opened it and saw A WHOLE ROOM.”
“It was crazy! Inside there was a bed and lights attached to these tall wood pieces.”
“Then a mini bookshelf with some books and a desk and computer. It was absolutely amazing.” ~ LemmeHear
Well that’s a surprise!!
“Where she keeps her sex toys. It’s not obvious.”
“One day I noticed that whenever I used the toilet the water was barely enough to send away my “deposit” so I opened the water tank to adjust it and I found not only one but several.”
“Well they are waterproof I thought.” ~ yaarty
“I’m not a housekeeper but my late aunt used to be. One of her clients, who was fairly well-to-do, had a whole closet full of genital themed toys.”
“And when I say “toys,” I’m not using a euphemism for “sex enhancement items” or anything like that. Literal genital toys.”
“Windup penises with googly eyes on them, PEZ dispensers shaped like the most browsed pages of a skin mag (I suspect these weren’t official PEZ brand).”
“Rather risque variants on “pin the tail on the donkey”, a Nerf-like gun that fired foam phalluses.” ~Times_Hunger
“My aunt is currently a house keeper.”
“The had this one client who would throw used feminine hygiene products under the bed; pads specifically.”
“No matter how I think about this I just can’t imagine how someone can get to that level of grossness.”
“If you’ve ever had a heavy menstrual cycle and wore a pad, you know sometimes not everything is absorbed into the pad.”
“You need to immediately sit down in the toilet or it can quite literally go everywhere.” ~ aamirazeal
She’s a Whole Hot Mess!!
“That she got a DUI. Typical religious white collar family; husband, wife, and 4 teen kids.”
“She had one of those at home breathalyzer tests from the court sitting in the master bathroom, it takes your picture as you blow into it and it sends it to your probation officer.”
“I only know because I was on probation a few years ago and had one too.”
“Curiosity got the best of me and I looked at her public record… yup.”
“DUI and she messed up on probation too, had another court date. After that I started noticing 12 step books and such.” ~ LunaTheFerret
The way people live
“Working in hotels is similar to cleaning someone’s house, because those comfortable will lay it out for you.”
“You can tell if someone is messy or tidy at home, how well they take care their things, what they eat, how much they drink, what medical problems they may have.”
“And if you get the chance to meet them you can piece together why they live the way they do by telling their stories.”
“I never made fun of our guests or judged them. That would be so unfair and intrusive.” ~ silly-noodle
I See You!
“My cleaning guy caught me leaving the house once.”
“Said he knew I smoked pot because he’d find stuff for it a lot and asked if he could find me some for a camping trip with his wife.”
“I freaked a little after he just said “I know you do marijuana”. I was like am I catching a lecture.”
“We moved like a month later so I never really saw him face to face again. Hope he enjoyed it.”
“They were good people and appreciated us more than they ever had to.” ~ 420Minions
See, if you have people in your house—personal or staff—assume you’re always being watched.
I’ve always wanted to be able to afford cleaning help, and if I ever can, I’m going to make sure to be on alert.
The walls really do have ears.
People Break Down The Facts That Sound Like BS But Are Totally True
Lies and truth are not one in the same, but the are related. That’s because the most fantastical tales are forged in reality.
Which is why they say truth is stranger than fiction.
I mean look at the world we’re living in. Look at the half decade we just survived.
There are things we’ve all been privy to that if we told our younger selves years ago about we would’ve laughed in disbelief.
But facts are facts.
No matter how wild they can seem, the details are real. We just don’t know how anyone is left stunned by truth anymore.
Life is an Onion article, get comfortable.
That is why a shy Redditor wanted to get together and share some shocking, pearl clutching facts we may not have been so willing to originally believe until we got receipts.
They asked for:
“The most BS-sounding-but-true fact you know?”
“The RAM is watching”
“Cosmic rays from outer space cause glitches in your electronics. In some electronics, cosmic rays are the primary source of soft errors.”
“Cosmic rays are one of the main reasons that servers and high reliability computers use error correcting RAM.” ~ random_reddit_accoun
EVERGREEN
“Trees have such intricate root systems that a tree low on one particular type of nutrient will acquire some from his neighbors and make up for it later.”
“This is especially prevalent during the winter months when some trees don’t have leaves and so need extra help from their evergreen friends.” ~ kewlkidmgoo
HOT SUMMER
“In the early 1900’s a wave a molasses rushed through the streets of Boston at 35mph killing 21 people. For decades later, locals said on hot summer days they could still smell molasses in the air.” ~ bartlechoo
I’m Melting
“If you melted down the Eiffel Tower, the pool of iron would be less than 3 inches deep (in a square area the same dimensions as the tower base).” ~ Reddit
“You know those arch things connecting the legs of the Eiffel Tower? If you know anything about architecture, you’d probably assume they make perfect sense.”
“They are there to transfer the load of the tower above down to to the legs. Arches are perfect for that.”
“Nope. They’re a scam. Eiffel designed the thing without them, but the guys holding the money thought it looked too rickety.”
“And people wouldn’t pay to go up in it. So they forced him to bolt on fake arch panels to make it LOOK stronger.” ~ DrColdReality
KABOOM!
“There were people who were killed by the Atom bombs who were born during Japan’s Samurai era.”
“Japans military went from swords, spears and bows to planes, tanks and aircraft carriers in a single humans lifetime. And people say Civilization is unrealistic.” ~ neohellpoet
APPROVED
“The United States in World War 2 created a bomb that used bats.”
“The bats would be carrying small incendiary charges and would be released from the bomb in mid air, causing them to fly and scatter to different buildings in the area.”
“The charges would then detonate and set all the buildings on fire. It was tested and proven to be very effective.”
“This was actually APPROVED by the government for development and production, and then cancelled because of the atomic bomb.”
“The idea was thought up by a Dentist who was friends with Eleanor Roosevelt: Link” ~ DinosaurFriend
Under the Sea
“The Pistol Shrimp can create a cavitation bubble that when collapsing can create a sonoluminescence that can reach temperatures near the temperature of the surface of sun and the sound competes with some of the loudest creatures in the ocean.” ~ DaddysWetPeen
NUMBERS
“If every star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, each with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second, and they’d been doing that since the Big Bang, they’d only just now be starting to repeat shuffles.”
“That was copied from this QI article.”
“The number of ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766, 975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000. ~ ccnova
The Choir Sings
“On March 1, 1950, the West Side Baptist Church exploded at 7:27 p.m., right when the scheduled choir practice was supposed to be occurring.”
“The explosion was powerful and swift, taking a nearby radio station off the air. However, not a single choir member got hurt.”
“All fifteen members were delayed from attending the practice. Two women had car troubles, one had trouble with a particularly difficult math problem, another was listening to their favorite radio station.”
“The list goes on and on. If they had been at the church on time for the choir practice, they would have died.” ~ SecretAgendaMan
Repeat…
“There is an immortal jellyfish. When it gets old it reverts itself back into it’s youngest stage and relives life over and over again!” ~ Rdken13
MICRO
“This is more scary that bull crap but its true nonetheless, there are thousands of micro tumors in your body right now and they only need correct conditions to become cancerous.”
“Your body kicks butt at fighting these micro tumors so you have nothing really to worry about.”
YUM
“Chocolate doesn’t have caffeine. Caffeine is added to chocolate because people, in err, expect it to be there.”
“In actuality it naturally contains theobromine which is a methylxanthine, like caffeine. This is what makes chocolate bad for dogs.”
“Also the toxic dose for them is similar between dogs and humans at around 150g/kg if I remember right.”
“Humans just weigh more and don’t tend to sneak into the pantry and eat a 2 lbs block of bakers chocolate.” ~ IRageAlotInIn
CARGO ISSUES
“In the Age of Sail, piracy was seen as simply part of doing business.”
“When approached by a pirate ship, a merchant vessel would almost never put up a fight, simply turning their cargo over instead. Why?”
“Because, as a cost of doing business, cargo was insured against piracy and there was no point in risking life and limb to protect it.” ~ Blenderhead36
They say don’t believe everything you read, but I just read a lot of stuff that makes sense.
Look at it this way, even if it’s odd, it’s still knowledge.
Collect as much of that as you can.
You never know when Jeopardy! will call.
People Share The Craziest Conspiracy Theories That Have Been Proven True
Conspiracy theories are attractive.
It might be easy to dismiss someone who believes that the moon landing was faked or that Covid-19 vaccines aren’t safe, but it’s a bit more complicated than that.
According to the Fight Fake News initiative at Louisiana State University (LSU), “Conspiracy theories are captivating because they provide explanations for confusing, emotional and ambiguous events especially when official explanations seem inadequate.”
People “naturally want to make sense of the world,” the initiative notes, observing that conspiracy theories “provide structured narratives of events that comport with how some people process information.”
So what happens when a conspiracy theory turns out to actually be true? Your brain just exploded at the thought, huh?
People were keen to share information after Redditor BrilliantKrill asked the online community:
“What are some popular conspiracy theories that have been proved?”
“The United States…”
“The United States really did engage in a secret and illegal bombing campaign in Cambodia during the Vietnam war.” ~ Redditor
To which this person replied…
“Yep. Led to the rise of the Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge. If you don’t remember, Pol Pot instigated a massive genocide in Cambodia.” ~ tface23
“He was a world-class drinker…”
“Hemingway went off the grid at the end of his life believing that the FBI was tracking him. He was a world-class drinker and not the best individual.”
“He wasn’t wrong about that.” ~ thatthingdo
To which this person replied…
“The sad part is that being tracked fueled his anxiety which eventually contributed to his decision to kill himself.” ~ TXR22
“The Black Hand…”
“The Black Hand did give Gavrilo Princip the gun he used to kill Archduke Ferdinand. They had other assassins on that route.”
“And even though this hits up all the marks of a conspiracy theory, it’s true.” ~ Bitlong_Salad
To which this person replied…
“The Serbian prime minister knew about the plans and tried to discreetly warn about it but was misunderstood.”
“The original assassination plan included grenades, but every assassin failed, Princip actually intended to kill one of his fellow assassins, who was caught and failed to commit suicide, when the archduke happened to pass by on his way to visit wounded officers in the hospital.” ~ GrandTheftPony
And on that same note…
“When you hear the full story of Ferdinand’s death, it’s much harder to consider it a conspiracy.”
“I mean, everything about it was so poorly thought out down to the fact that Ferdinand was the highest-ranking ally the Black Hand’s cause had within the government at the time.” ~ HandicapperGeneral
But what about phones, eh?
“That older Iphones are purposely being slowed down.” ~ mark484877
But hold up!
“It’s not so black and white, but you are correct. What a lot of people fail to mention is that Samsung does the same thing if not worse because you can ‘speed it back up’ for a fee.” ~ tireddrew
And then this happened:
“Have you heard of Verizon or Google doing the same? My Pixel 2 battery used to last me 2+ days easily before the phone was paid off.”
“Within a week of paying it off, my battery suddenly started lasting me about half a day with minimal use, and the phone started running slowly as well. Come to think of it, the GPS issues started around then too.”
“When using maps, the GPS can tell me where I am, but doesn’t update location once I start navigation.”
Looks like there’s some disagreement here.
“Service providers have no control over when your phone’s hardware clocks out. But a lot of Android phones usually die when they hit the 2-3 year mark.”
“As much as people hate on Apple, I’ve been a user since 2012 and have had an excellent experience. I used to be Android, but I had an LG phone that really soured the experience and now I’ll never go back.” ~ tireddrew
“A proposed CIA operation…”
“Operation Northwoods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods“
“A proposed CIA operation to train Cuban refugees to commit mass shooting sprees in cities like Miami, to help convince the public that we should invade Cuba and kill Castro. Luckily, JFK had the sense to reject the idea.” ~ Redditor
Oh, and speaking of that:
“Operation Northwoods is a classic example of a Western government planning a false flag against civilians to justify war.”
“I do see this example ‘refuted’ in the sense that it was merely in the brainstorming stages and not operationally ready, but it was meant to be implemented fairly soon after the memo was written – US planners anticipated Cuba would sign a defense pact with the Soviet Union in the coming months.”
“Such a pact would’ve tied America’s hands behind its back in trying to thwart the Cuban revolution.”
“I think it’s noteworthy how the generals casually throw in a reference to ‘Remember the Maine’, in connection with planning a false flag. I wonder if it’s an open secret in military/intelligence black ops circles that such incidents were actually carried out from the inside.”
“One scenario from Northwoods – the swapping of civilian airliners with drone aircraft – is thought by some 9/11 Truthers to have been used to carry out the September 11th attacks.” ~ 50YearPlanBro
Okay, okay… just hear me out for a moment here—just one more about this, okay? Okay? Good.
“As in it never got past the memo phase and was never close to being implemented? Have you even read the actual memo the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave JFK.”
“It’s so badly written that it reeks of someone telling their subordinates the government version of ‘I need pictures, pictures of Spiderman’. DoD wanted to prove it could come up with something and it was just….awful.” ~ CitationX_7N11C
And just listen to this observation:
“The term “conspiracy theorist” was coined during the JFK assassination to discredit the people that had a different interpretation from the official story.” ~ OttoManSatire
Is there something here?
“They turned ‘conspiracy’ into a dirty word. People act like it is some mythological creature but it is simply a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.” ~ OMGhateallofyou
According to Karen Douglas, Ph.D., a professor of social psychology at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, “Believing in conspiracy theories and being suspicious about the actions of others is in some ways quite an adaptive thing to do.”
We don’t necessarily want to trust everyone, she points out, so conspiracy theories have always been around.
Which one will surprise us next by turning out to be true? We have no way to know, but there are at least a few people out there who are bound to feel vindicated.
People Speculate How They Would Turn Lies Into Money
As Dr. House taught us, “everybody lies.”
He was able to turn that not-quite-epiphany alongside a fictitiously brilliant medical mind into big bucks and huge clout.
But what about those of us who failed chemistry or whatever? How might we spin lies into cash? Maybe through a scenario like this?
Every time someone lies to you, $100 gets deposited to your bank account. What is the fastest way for you to get rich? from AskReddit
Let’s get creative with the people of Reddit.
1. Psychics.
Walk down the alley of fortune tellers and future psychics.
I’m interested in two things: if they lie, I get $100 rather quickly; if they are telling the truth, then I found something game changing.
– crispybaconsalad
2. The DMV.
Go to work.
I work at my local DMV office and people can and will lie about everything.
– mommy876
3. Cut people in.
just say “tell me a lie and I’ll give you 10 bucks, no questions asked. Doesn’t even matter the lie, just tell me a lie.”
It would be a great YouTube video too.
– Nroke1
4. Rekindle a flame.
Get back together with my ex.
I figure in one month alone I’ll be a multimillionaire, sky’s the limit.
– MAXIMILIAN-MV
5. The pharmacy.
Go to work.
I’m a pharmacist, people lie to me (and themselves) all day, every day.
I wouldn’t have to keep working for long.
– thatmedicinegirl
6. Have kids.
I have small children.
Did you hit your brother? Did you break that? Have you brushed your teeth?
2 kids, both lying to each question, I’ll be able to hire a nanny and go sit on a private island within a week
– BaymaxIsMyPatronusv
7. Pretend to have kids.
Show people a picture of an ugly baby and claim that’s your kid.
Everyone says a baby is cute, even when they look like a gremlin that was fed after midnight.
– ChefChopNSlice
8. Enlist!
Go talk to a Marine Corps recruiter.
I mean, that was the old way….now we can just watch anything political on the major new channels
– avidtraveler81
9. Fairytale solutions.
Build a Pinocchio
– Geronimoguy
10. Start a business.
Become a freelance reporter and offer to interview multiple politicians. Or if you just wanna exploit it.
Instead of making it your main income you could just advertise that you’re literally the only reliable and scientifically proven lie detector. That way you can just set open a thing displaying your deposits and ask anyone anything and if is a lie you’ll get a deposit, otherwise you know it’s the truth.
You could literally earn like 50k a day interviewing suspected spies and political prisoners.
– FreenBurgler
11. At church.
Go to a church and start asking people, “How much and what kind of p*rn do you watch?”
– genericname692
12. Have kids.
My kids lie to me dozens of times a day.
I could probably top that, but as it is I literally would pull in about $60k a month.
Not rich per se but definitely richer than anyone I know.
– Painting_Agency
13. Get the vax facts.
Go to an Antivaxxer Facebook page or website and ask them why they think vaccines are bad
If there’s enough Karens, I’ll be swimming in gold after an hour of typing.
– BLizardLeLizard
14. Tools of the trade.
Attend a huge trade show and listen to every sales pitch.
– EmEmAndEye
15. Recursive thinking.
Post “Can you tell me a 1 lie about yourself?” on r/askreddit
– PoinDexter90
And remember, as Dr. House would say, “It’s not lupus.”
Do you have another creative answer to this question?
Hit us with it in the comments.
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People in Long-Term Relationships May Know These 12 Things to Be True
There are some good things to being single, and there are advantages to being part of a couple.
Likewise, there are many, many hilariously terrible things about both scenarios – and below are 12 things only people in a long-term relationship will be able to read and laugh (to keep from crying).
12. It’s all about still being able to surprise the other person.
love you #longtermrelationshipbarbie11. That really gets your motor running…
. . . . . #kellieandpete #relationship #spooning #relatable #familylife #webcomic #artistoninstagram #illustrationdaily #bedtime #hugs #sleepytime #committed #longtermrelationship #aldi #summernights #summertime10. When you know you might have gone a bit too far.
#married #marriedcouples #marriagequotes #marriage #momlife #marriedlife #marriagememes #relationshipquotes #relationshipmemes #relationships #couples #couplequotes #couplegoals9. You know you’re tired when you argue DURING SEX about who has to do all of the work.
8. Toilet time is family time.
• • • #cmonmama #adulting #adultingproblems #thisisadulthood #adulthood #adulthoodproblems #parentingmemes #parenting #parentinghumor #thisisadulting #parentsbelike #parenthoodbelike #adultingbelike #thisisparenting #momlifebelike #parentmemes #momlife #realmom #marriagegoals #marriagememes #thisismarriage #thisisparenthood #thisismotherhood #realmomlife #mommingainteasy #momminainteasy #momsohard #imomsohard #mamaneedsabreak #sahmlife7. Who needs privacy?
6. Are you just going to stand there, orrrr?
@lm.rich.bitch 
5. Fine, I’ll try it. Just shut up.
4. How else do houses get cleaned?
3. Friday nights.
2. Seriously those are mine.
1. Your point?
Gotta love your partner, right?
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Women Share the Biggest Misconceptions Men Have About Them
And for all the things men and women have in common, there is A LOT that’s different. This has been the struggle between the sexes for centuries, but somehow we still find a way to coexist. How?
The time is now here for all your questions to be answered and the facts laid bare.
Well, at least 13 of them…
1. Yeah guys, you don’t have these chemicals inside of you!
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2. Don’t treat them like pieces of meat!
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3. Ewwwwww…. TMI!
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4. Guys, it’s not all for your benefit. TYVM!
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5. Yep… human beings want to be treated like human beings!
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6. OMG! Who calls women fat?!
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7. Don’t rush it. Things can happen eventually.
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8. Always acknowledge the WHOLE person…
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9. Express those emotions, fam!
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10. Yeah… why don’t you know the… well, I don’t know either…
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11. Haha, be more in tune with their passive-aggressiveness!
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12. You can be yourself. They won’t tell.
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13. They’re not flaws… they’re features!
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Gals, got any more advice for guys?
Leave those thoughts in the comments!
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No Matter Who You Are, We Can All Agree on These Tweets,
There’s just too much division in the world these days, so it’s nice to find something we can all agree on. Like these tweets, for instance.
So, let’s all take a chill pill and get ourselves on the same page.
1. I’ve been to Level 113
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2. They sense fear
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3. Two different worlds
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4. It’s over
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5. A bad situation
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6. You’re not my father
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7. Get rid of that
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8. I’m still waiting
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9. There are many types
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10. Instant anxiety
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11. I need you, mommy
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12. Please stop
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13. It gets ugly sometimes
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14. Like zombies
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15. Such a pleasure
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16. Smitty!
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17. Time to clean that off
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18. Me, too
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19. Bye bye
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20. I’m in the latter category
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All for one and one for all!
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