Our senses help us make our way through the world, but they are not always as reliable as we like to believe. Sometimes all it takes is a chair draped with clothes to send our imagination racing in the middle of the night, until we realize it was never anything more than a sleepy illusion.
While moments like that can be stressful in real life, having our perception tricked on purpose can be surprisingly entertaining. That is exactly what today’s photos offer. Taken from confusing perspectives, they make being fooled part of the fun. Scroll down to see them.
People have long debated just how much we can really rely on what we perceive. Entire philosophical movements were built around this idea, with some arguing that the only truth we can know comes from direct experience. Others, going as far back as ancient Greece, were far more skeptical. In 350 BC, Aristotle famously noted that while our senses can often be trusted, they can just as easily be fooled.
One of the earliest recorded examples of this is something many people still experience today without realizing it has a name. Aristotle observed that if you stare at a flowing waterfall and then shift your gaze to nearby rocks, the rocks appear to move in the opposite direction. Today, we call this the “motion aftereffect” or the waterfall illusion. It happens because the brain adapts to constant movement and briefly misfires when that movement suddenly stops.
As centuries passed, scientists became more interested in why these strange tricks happen. In the 19th century, according to the BBC, researchers began carefully studying vision and perception, creating simple illusions to understand how the brain processes shapes, size, and space. This era marked the true beginning of illusion research as a scientific field.
One famous example from this time is the Ebbinghaus illusion. It showed that our brain judges size based on what objects are next to each other. A circle can look bigger or smaller depending on what surrounds it, even if its actual size never changes. This revealed something surprising: our eyes don’t measure reality directly. They constantly compare.
Another classic is the Ponzo illusion, which explains how we perceive depth. Two identical lines can look completely different in size when placed between converging lines, like train tracks. Because our brain reads those lines as distance, it assumes one object must be farther away and automatically “rescales” it. Pretty neat trick.
By the 20th century, scientists began looking deeper inside the brain itself. Thanks to new technology, researchers David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel discovered that some neurons in the visual cortex react only to certain shapes and angles. For example, specific cells fire when you look at something like a square or a triangle. Their findings helped change how we understand vision and earned them a Nobel Prize in 1981.
In more recent years, scientists have linked many illusions to the way our brain processes time. Because there is a tiny delay between what our eyes see and what the brain fully understands, the mind often predicts what should happen next to keep everything feeling smooth. Some illusions take advantage of this by creating the impression of movement or change even when nothing is actually moving.
#20 I Dropped My Broom In The Lake. The Way My Light Shines, It Looks Like A Screenshot Of A Glitch In Some Game
Even today, new illusions continue to appear, and scientists still don’t fully understand all of them. Brain scans show that different areas light up for color, motion, and form, yet how all of this information blends into one single picture remains a mystery. In many ways, illusion research is still ongoing.
While photos taken from confusing perspectives are not carefully designed optical illusions, they still prove an important point: just because our eyes take in everything around us does not mean they always show us what is really happening. This gives us a reason to be a little more skeptical of what we see, but also a chance to enjoy those moments when our perception is gently fooled.
The world is a dangerous place, and it might be scarier than we think. Many people even worry about the fate of our civilization, as 70% of the global population expects a major worldwide conflict in the upcoming 25 years. But there are a lot more things that make living scary.
For example, have you ever thought about just how much of your data social media companies and apps are tracking? And have you ever heard about the Baby Scoop Era when newborns were taken from unwed mothers and fathers and given to those who couldn’t have children?
If you haven’t, this is a good opportunity to learn more about these and other phenomena. Folks have been sharing all sorts of unsettling facts in a thread where one netizen asked, “What is a disturbing truth that you know?” Here is a compilation of the most scary random facts that you might not have known yet!
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#1
I work in Research Funding, so have a pretty wide ranging view of the problems our species and planet are facing. Soil quality, falling crop yields, rising sea levels, microplastics, pollinators, biodiversity, rising temperatures, anti-microbial resistance, AI power drain accelerating climate change and water shortages and so, so much more. Far, far too little is being done and far too late.
A great deal of effort, money and resource is being put into distracting people from these issues and stoking social divisions. If everyone is angry about engineered problems they won’t blame those responsible for the real ones. Ask yourself why the richest people on the planet own a lot of the media.
Crows can remember human facial features and they hold grudges, remembering bad interactions with people for many years. They can also pass this knowledge to their offspring, creating a generational grudge.
As nurses, we sort of “lie” to family all the time, particularly in hospice which is what I do and will speak from.
Let me explain non-maleficense: my care is for the patient. Do no harm. The benefit is for the patients benefit only.
Example: Is there anything more we can do for my 92 year old cancer ridden heart disease grandma to get more time? Her son will be here in 4 days!
Yes… I could… fluids subq, o2, meds, pull back the morphine, push Ensure protein drink if they have a feeding tube for calories and less ativan JUST a smidgen and I could def get her a few more days…. and in much more pain and anxiety…
My answer: im sorry, theres nothing we can do.
I dont care that you want more time with your mom or dad or grandma, I will tell you there is nothing more, because there is nothing more for the patient here… it’s just needless suffering for the family to benefit from.
And so I offer the pain meds, I offer to increase with MD approval, and with that approval I know I’ll be walking them to the veil at this point to cross over. (Let me edit in a disclaimer here: all drugs education and risks are laid out as part of what I do as reflex and training, ww dont mention drugs without risks and benefits, as in “this could be what does it but it will make them more comfortable” etc)
My mind prepares to get you all to acceptance as in 45 minutes, their breathing will stop when it hits. They will blame the meds or say it was too strong etc.
I once had a woman barely retirement age sorta, vomiting blood every 30 min, got the whole family to acceptance, cheered her on telling her how beautiful she looked, how incredible she was doing, how we were almost there and almost done. She smiled, sipped water, vomited blood, I wiped her face, put a cool cloth on her forehead, and gave her more water. She closes her eyes and I offer her pain meds and her dilauded and she said yes. We all smiled and nodded at eachother, tears in our eyes, and she said she felt better, vomiting slowed a little, she had some energy to talk to everyone and I said you need to say all that you can, now.
2 hours later she was gone.
I didn’t tell them that I came to assist. It wasn’t for them, it was for her.
After she’s gone it will be all about the family for the next 13 months. That’s a bereavement team, my goal is pre-bereavement acceptance.
#4
Abortion bans in the US mean that OBGYN residents in ban states are unable to access the training needed to practice to the full scope of their specialty, including managing pregnancy loss, miscarriage, and other vital services.
That a majority of Americans lack the literacy and education but also the critical thinking capacity and motivation needed to do the kind of knowledge work and even factory work needed in the next 30 years.
The USA has the worst outcomes for maternal & infant mortality among all industrialized countries. It takes an education one can’t get by being passed through the assembly line, to avoid being a statistic. Most of the morbidities & mortalities are preventable. The problem is the system of care.
This isn’t super disturbing but it disturbed me, I used to work in a charity shop in London and it really opened my eyes. About **80%** of the clothing donations never made it to the shop floor — they were sold off for pennies per kilo to a “rag man” for *textile recycling.*
*Most fast fashion items don’t have a resell value ( ie Shein, Temu, Primark etc)*
But here’s the thing: most of it isn’t actually recycled. It gets packed into bales and shipped to countries like Ghana to be resold, but the quality is usually so poor that a huge percentage ends up as waste.
A lot of it ultimately gets:
* **Dumped** in open landfills, on beaches, or near waterways * **Burned** in the open because there’s no proper waste infrastructure * **Polluting the environment** with microplastics and chemicals as it breaks down
On top of that, the flood of ultra-cheap second-hand clothing can undercut local textile industries, making it harder for local manufacturers to survive.
It’s wild how much of our “donations” are basically just waste exports.
If you have a smart anything, smart fridge, camera sensors etc there are millions of unsavory people all over the world that already have your information.
If you are living paycheck to paycheck, it’s not because you are not trying hard enough. It’s because the system is designed for you to fall and fail.
The fact that misinformation spreads faster than the truth online is pretty chilling. It’s like we’re living in a world where facts don’t matter anymore.
For a lot of people in nursing homes, nobody is really checking on them. Families visit less and less, staff are overworked, and if something bad happens, it can go unnoticed for a long time.
Measles resets your immune system. All those antibodies you’ve got from years of colds and stomach bugs and sore throats? Yeah, measles is cleaning those out. If you’re lucky enough to recover from measles, you could still be catching every disease you’ve ever had all over again.
There are extremely poor parents in 3rd world countries all over the world who actively have and sell their children for as little as 10k usd, which is a life changing amount of money for many of them, to the groups behind the operation of places like what happened on Epstein Island, which is still going on somewhere else right now.
I’m a Home Healthcare Aide for senior citizens, and the amount of seniors living in neglect and squalor (even in facilities, and often times of the senior’s own choosing) is appalling. The number of times I’ve walked into a home and thought *”adult protective services really needs to step in here because this place is a biohazard”* has been far too many.
If (god forbid) you get cancer and need chemotherapy, when they administer the chemo through the IV, you can taste it. It tastes like chemicals. No one prepared me for that. Absolutely disgusting.
No matter how careful, aware, gentle, or rough we are with our kids we WILL [mess] them up somehow. And that we also cannot fully protect them from predators.
Also, religion doesn’t impact our experience of the dying process as much as one would hope. A life well loved does.
Pervasive mental illness (schizophrenia/bipolar/etc) can truly appear out of nowhere anywhere in life, but primarily in your teens/twenties.
There could be a girl locked upstairs in any house on my street for the last 10 years and I’ve spent 10 years not knowing I could save her.
Ariel Castro, the one who did have 3 women in his house for more than a decade, including one having at least one baby and the other being beaten until she miscarried repeatedly, that was in a neighborhood maybe 20 minutes from here. Nobody had a clue.
Even mild covid infections can cause serious health problems and permanent damage to your body.
It’s mostly disturbing because people act like because it hasn’t hurt them, it won’t. Not true. And people act like catching repeatedly is totally fine. It’s not.
#25
I’ve been working in biodiversity conservation/climate change mitigation for over 20 years. We are [in a predicament]. Maybe not in a purely apocalyptic way, but anyone born in the next 10-15 years will grow up in a massively different world than the rest of us. And it won’t be good.
That nobody is immune to propaganda or scams. Even the most diligent, intelligent and hyper aware people can find themselves wrapped up in a cult where they believe the democrats in the government are 5th dimensional beings from another planet hellbent on drinking childrens blood. Or find themselves spending thousands of dollars on cleanses and obvious pyramid schemes.
I worked for TJ Maxx in college. When retailers ask for “donations” at the register, those donations don’t go to the actual charity. In our break room we had a poster for a charity drive we were running. It said the goal was a certain amount of money. But the truth was the store already made a donation slightly smaller than that. And the donations customers gave was the store recouping its loss and then some.
Most apps track way more about you than you’d ever willingly tell another human.
biffbobfred:
Facebook was accused of listening in on microphones. Their defense “ha we weren’t doing that we just know so much about you it can seem like we’re listening to every word”. And somehow this was supposed to make people feel better.
Freak_Among_Men_II:
I hate living in the information age. For all the minor conveniences of modern technology, we are made to surrender our very identities to the endless maw of soulless profit-driven corporations.
Life isn’t always fair, and sometimes bad things happen for no reason. But it makes me appreciate the little moments of kindness and happiness even more.
#36
Phosphate mines will be empty around year 2100, at constant rate of extraction. Our present industrial agriculture, beyond petrol, is using phosphate to fertilize the fields. It will be absolutely impossible to keep doing this if there is no more phosphate to be used, and phosphate isn’t something you can synthesize, let alone create ex-nihilo. To put it another way, industrial agriculture based on inputs will be completely impossible and will disappear.
Mycorrhizal fungi are the organisms capable of accessing soil phosphorus when it’s in a form that plants cannot assimilate (it always happen at one point or an other). They provide phosphate and other nutrients to the plants in exchange of sugar, as they are unable to do photosynthesis themselves. An agriculture with soils rich in mycorrhizal fungi will be our only option by 2100. This suppose an undisturbed or very seldomly disturbed soil, meaning no-till farming, agroforestry, syntropic agroforestry and so on.
#37
You’ve already forgotten most of your life, and you’re forgetting more every day.
A huge portion of what we treat as “normal life” is actually shaped by economic relations that benefit a tiny minority, while most people don’t realize how much of their daily struggle is structurally produced rather than personal.
#40
The same field that is advocating for your mental health is teaching businesses and AI how to send you predatory advertising based on psychological weakness.
There are tiny bugs living in your eyelashes right now. They’re called demodex, and they eat d**d skin. Most of the time they’re completely harmless and you’d never even notice them, but sometimes you can have an overpopulation of and/or an allergy to them that can cause irritation. I’m not personally disturbed by them (I think of them as my little eyelash friends) but I’m sure that’s horrifying information for some people.
The vast majority of our thoughts, decisions, and actions are controlled by unconscious processes. Our conscious self often only comes up with a logical explanation for what our subconscious has already done after the fact.
#46
That it can take quite a few shocks to bring you back after heart surgery. I read the notes on my last one and it took eleven to bring me back.
There’s no guarantee that this isn’t my last day on Earth.
#52
That dentists and traditional medical surgeons will fight over the costs of bodies and in particular the heads of bodies donated to science for teaching purposes. Weirdest meeting of my life.
#53
Horses’ legs are built like fingers, meaning they’re basically running around on fingers all the time and that’s why they break their legs so easily.
Your smallest cruelty—may have changed someone forever, and you’ll probably never know it.
#55
I worked in a plant that makes your pig and poultry food. They are fed straight up plastic before you eat them.
These facilities recycle waste food in to pig and poultry food. So we’d get whole trailers of everything you can think of. Gum, peanut butter, noodles, granola, cereal. It all came in its original packaging and we’d throw it all in to one massive pile of slop. That slop would get ran through a grinder, packaging and all, mixed with different liquid fats and grains to manage nutrition content, and then ran through a dryer. The finished product looks similar to saw dust. But when you pick it up and sift through it, you can see all the bits of micro plastics and packaging material. It gets picked up and brought to factory farms like Jenny O and Gold n Plump.
That just because you do everything right, work hard and try your best; things will still not work out like you imagined.
#57
The chainsaw was originally designed as a medical instrument used in childbirth to widen the birth canal.
There is evidence that some of the Challenger crew survived the initial explosion as several breathing packs were activated before the module hit the water.
That we waste the majority of our life due to worry about money.
Many will [pass] without doing the things they could have or should have done, due to money.
We postponed a lot of things that never got done later. The things we said we’d get to “when things calmed down” quietly slipped through our fingers while we were busy doing life. We never took that cruise in the British Virgin Islands with friends. Sure, you saved the money and got a lot of work done at the office. But now that our health is slipping and friends are [passing away], that extra money seems kinda pointless. We’d much rather have the memories and experiences. At this point you will be making plans to give that extra money away to a charity when we [are gone].
Medical personnel from nurses to pharmacists to doctors make numerous mistakes routinely in hospitals, many of which are potentially harmful to fatal for patients.
#61
There is a lake in northern Oregon not to far from civilization but upstream nonetheless. Recently (within the last 8 years), recreational scuba divers just goofing around. Came across a trove of more than 20, 55 gallon drums with biohazard signs on it and weird army coding which said (2-4D)and (2-4-5-T). After contacting authorities it was determined the containers contained a military defoliant, Agent Orange to be exact. The drum are estimate to be at least 50 years.
They have been considering ways to remove them but they are “so fragile” that they can’t. Like I said this has been there for years and one day those bottle will leak and a lot of trees will die, and alot babies will be born deformed.
I have a simple solution, or divert the stream that fills the lake. Drain the lake. Drill in to the top facing side of the drums safely s**k the contents out. Remove the canisters once empty, and do any environmental protection. Practices required due to potential contamination. But, I doubt that idea has even crossed the committees mind.
#62
We are capable of much more than we believe.
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This is either a very uplifting statement or an absolutely terrifying one.
#63
I’ve seen the charts of how many insects are allowed per pound of ground coffee in popular brands.
I have a regular intruder trespassing in my attic, and there is nothing I can do about it. Rented apartment and landlord will not believe me.
#65
I brewed my coffee like I did any other day, then after my husband and I enjoyed our cups I went to discard the filter and grounds only to discover the boiled corpse of a broad-faced sac spider under the filter.
I now compulsively inspect the coffee machine before brewing.
My husband still doesn’t know and I’ll be taking this to my grave.
#66
I once saw someone say that many charities for awareness and treatment of mental illnesses like Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder HOPE for a celebrity to come out and admit that they have that condition so it can be more understandable for the common people to see what people with the condition are like.
#67
Bank security can shut your account/freeze it down at any time for essentially no reason if your account activity is perceived to pose a security threat or risk.
#68
You’ve never seen your own face… only reflections and pictures. Everyone else knows what you really look like except you.
If you grew up poor (or at least relatively poor), some of the things you and your family did (or didn’t do) because of this have probably stuck with you through the years. Even if you’ve found a better life and aren’t poor now, it’s quite likely that you still remember all of the things your family did differently compared to some other well-off families.
Well, Redditors have recently got together to share their stories on this topic. Reddit user u/SnooBeaz went to r/AskReddit to ask everyone who grew up poor what was a thing that they considered a luxury. Over 26,000 people responded in the comments (and the post itself got over 60,000 upvotes), explaining some of the most interesting things that they considered a luxury back in the day.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best answers and made it into a list. Scroll down to read them all, and upvote as well as comment on the ones you liked or related to the most! Oh, and if this isn’t enough, you can check out our other list on the same topic here.
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#1
Mom’s are the best, she is a boss. My mom was single and I was the youngest of 3 children so I only ever got hand me downs. At Christmas time we couldn’t even afford a tree so she made one out of lights on the wall and asked us each which 1 present we wanted the most. She somehow always made it happen. Years later she told me it was her lunch money she saved for weeks by not eating. She gave everything for us and always did her best. My mom lost her battle to colon cancer in July of 2017. She fought for 3 years and went through 7 rounds of chemotherapy. I was lucky enough to be there and take care of her during it all and was with her the moment her heart stopped. It warms my heart to feel so much love from you all and helps me to know that humanity will always prevail. Please stay safe and continue to be amazing human beings.
I don’t know if anyone can relate, but in about 3rd maybe 4th grade, me and my twin brother had a music class where we were both required to buy a recorder. (Like a plastic flute thing) well my mom said we didn’t have the money so my twin brother and I tore the whole house up in search of $6 for two recorders. We brought a ziploc bag full of change pennies, nickels, dimes etc. I think the teacher felt sorry for us, cause she paid for our recorders when the rest of the students left the room. Gave us the ziploc bag back. Thank you Mrs. Albrecht
In high school, my boyfriend (who became my husband) and his family picked up pretty early on that I was poor, and that my family was pretty dysfunctional. They really let me into their family and took care of me in a sweet, not pity, way. I was super into art, so his mom found a neighborhood art teacher that did like basically small group art classes and it was so so cool. Anyways she usually charged like $100 for all the supplies, time, etc. My mom knew how excited I was, and I never asked for anything so she told me to ask the teacher to wait until her next paycheck. The teacher was like “sure!” By the time I brought that check to her, I think my boyfriend’s mom talked to her, and she ripped it up and said I got a “scholarship” for the class. Honestly it gives me such good vibes thinking about it till this day.
Grew up pretty poor in Arkansas in a trailer. I literally got a door to my bedroom for Christmas one year. It probably still was the best gift I ever received.
My parents won 1500 bucks at a lottery once. They bought a new sofa (to replace a 25yo sofa), a phone, and we went to a mid-range steakhouse, first restaurant for whole family. I was 20.
School parties where everyone brought something to share for lunch. “If you don’t bring something, you don’t get to participate…” I brought two carrots after not being able to afford school lunch for two years. Even the teacher laughed at me. My young self just decided that day that some people don’t deserve lunch.
My folks always had three meals a day for us but clothes were always a treat. It might be a pair of pants and a shirt but my folks always made sure it was something that we were able to pick out and it always felt so special. They sacrificed a lot for it. In fact, my Mom told me a few years ago that in order to provide that my parents didn’t buy new clothes (or much of anything) for well over a decade when we were younger. With my first real job out of school I was able to take my Dad to a shop and have him pick out a suit of his choice and get it fitted. He’s confessed that it’s one of the moments that’s really stuck with him; he still has that suit and has worn it to both my sister’s and my weddings. But yeah, some of those feelings and habits don’t really go away. Regarding clothes, they still get worn till they can’t be patched anymore and I loathe to throw them away. I gotta stop there because this is actually making me surprisingly emotional.
In middle school I was on reduced school meals so it would be .40 for lunch. So my parents would always give me 2 quarters every morning for lunch, now the cafeteria would also sell cookies which wasn’t part of the lunch set for .50 each. So saving .10 each day I could afford one cookie by Fridays lunch. Good times
Staying at someone’s house who wasn’t poor, like a relative or friend. Their house was also so clean, beautiful, pictures on the wall, knick knacks on the counter, and carpet you could play on because it was clean. I spent my entire teenage years hiding where I lived.
Going places during school vacation. The kids would be all like “what!? you’ve never been to xyz amusement park!?” No, Trisha. My family doesn’t even have a car.” Which is another luxury to me.
I remember in 8th grade on my birthday at school one of my teachers asked me what gifts I had received. He asked in front of the whole class, I excitedly shared that I would be getting contact lenses. My parents let me choose one thing that I wanted and I desperately wanted to stop wearing the broken glasses I had, which I usually didn’t wear. One of the boys in class made a comment like “contacts aren’t a present..?” And my teacher had to explain to him- again in front of everyone- that for some families they were too expensive not to be a luxury. After that experience I worked two and three jobs in high school so I could buy myself and my brothers the things we needed. The first thing I bought with my money from my first job as a hostess at a diner was a queen size bed because my twin mattress was about 20 years old and at 15 I was having back problems and issues with rusted springs poking me.
Christmas presents. I was a kid and one year for Christmas when I was young, before I could recognize that I was making any kind of larger point, I said that I wanted my parents to just give my presents to the kids who didn’t have anything. But I didn’t know that I was one of those kids. I wonder what they thought when a kid said that to them. I wonder if it hurt them or inspired them.
Until the age of 12, I thought that you weren’t allowed to buy things that weren’t on sale. My mom only bought things when they were on sale and/or she had a coupon, so I thought that the “non-sale” items weren’t being sold.
A hot shower. Cold showers were always available, but when you scraped enough cash to get some diesel fuel and get the burner to kick on long enough to have a hot shower man, absolutely nothing better.
#18
New clothes. I grew up pretty poor (no TV, no toys, but had a Sears catalog). My dad got in a serious accident when I was in 4th grade and almost lost his life. He won a small settlement from the community college he was working at and I was able to buy new clothes for the first time in my life. Before this all I ever had were hand me downs from my cousin and donation clothes from the church. Most were worn to the point of having patches on the knees. The worst part about getting new clothes for the first time is I felt terrible the whole time picking out new clothes because I always felt like a financial burden to my parents. I remember going to Miller’s Outpost and picking out typical 80’s clothes (OP, TnC, etc.). It’s funny how growing up poor affects my everyday choices, for better or worse. I’ll never outgrow some of the feelings I had as a poor kid and I feel for any kid who has to endure a childhood of poverty. It will affect them and their choices for the rest of their life.
Restaurants were definitely somewhere at the top of my list. I lived through the tail end of Apartheid in South Africa so we weren’t allowed into restaurants. Also, non-iceberg lettuce. Dairy products, like a full glass of milk, cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, flavored milk. Lawns. A dining table and family meals at the table. Vacations that didn’t involve staying with relatives.
#20
Pancakes But now as an adult and knowing how cheap pancakes really are, I think my mom just didn’t want to make them
Honestly didn’t know that pasta roni was 1$ until I was a grown a*s man. I thought that was some gourmet s***.
#30
McDonald’s Clothes that fit Soda Having a toy that other kids thought was cool
#31
Electricity lol. Thanks for paying the bill this month, mom.
#32
Taking a bath. I mean we bathed every night, but it was by heating up water (that we would go to the park down the road to get in 5 gallon jugs) and filling up a mop bucket to wash off with. Staying over at a friend or family members house and getting to take an actual shower was amazing though.
#33
Owning books.
#34
It’s a long time ago – but when I was young (about 6-8 years old) back in the early 1960’s we had meat once a week for the family dinner – on Sundays.
#35
For my school’s spirit week, they had a “thrift shop” day, where most everyone dressed in old ratty clothes, or the weirdest stuff they could find in a thrift shop. Needless to say, as someone who’s clothes were 80% second hand, it was an eye opener.
Renting a movie from blockbuster the first weekend of every month. My brother and I got to pick any movie we wanted as long as it wasn’t rated R. On really special nights, we even got a 2-liter bottle of Sprite for the family to share.
#37
Having breakfast. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t eat in the morning because my body is so used to waiting
#38
Air conditioning. Sometimes we had a jacked up old window unit that would cool down my parents room on the hottest of summer nights and we would sleep in sleeping bags on their floor. Sometimes it was broke. Sometimes it just wasn’t hot enough to justify running it. Never during the day though, that’s what the library was for.
#39
A new winter coat. I don’t remember having a new winter coat until I was probably 14 or 15, they had always been hand-me-downs from my cousins. They were usually at least ten years old by the time I got them and the stuffing would be all clumped up.
Our bodies can be our best friends, or, well… sometimes it takes years of hard work and self-love to accept them for what they are. It’s no secret that sticking to your health and body goals can be nerve-wracking, and sometimes, one of the hardest things you go through in life.
So, this time, we’re looking at people who fought hard and harder, fell down and stood up, made it through tears and sweat, and the gloomy days where it all seemed impossible. Thanks to the subreddit Progress Pics where 1.5 million members have been sharing their incredible body transformations since 2011 when the group was created, we now know that every single thing is possible.
From losing an amount of weight equal to your second self, to beating an eating disorder and learning to have a healthy relationship with food, to… I am not crying, you are. Let’s just all give these unreal folks a great round of upvotes!
#2 436lbs > 354lbs (7 Months Progress). I Used To Eat Takeout Everyday And Avoided Any Physical Activity, Now I Try To Only Satisfy My Cravings Once A Month And Started Doing Yoga! I Know I Still Have A Long Way To Go But I Just Wanted To Share How Far I’ve Come So Far
#3 Same Chair. 3 Years Later. Focused On A High Protein/Low Carb Diet With A Foundation Of Calorie Deficiency. Hoping For Skin Surgery Soon. Currently 12.2% Body Fat
If you or your loved one has ever been through a weight loss journey, you should know how hard it can be. It takes time, the process is slow and not very rewarding, and you have to make some significant lifestyle changes that put you under even more pressure.
Finding something that motivates you is crucial because this is what will keep you going throughout the journey. One way is to list the reasons why you’d like to become healthier and tell yourself how it’s gonna change the way you feel. Maybe it’s a boost of self-esteem, a better mood, or being happy with what you see in the mirror.
On the other hand, it’s all about finding the right balance, whether it’s some healthy amount of exercise, a nutritious diet, or a good night’s sleep. Going into the extreme ends of these three can cause long-term damage and harm your body image, relationship with food, and the ways you perceive yourself.
#4 Anorexia Recovery. Getting To Know Myself Again And Learning To Value Myself For Things Other Than My Weight
In times when dieting and extreme health routines seem to be everywhere, from social media to television, it may be tempting to become obsessed with unrealistic body goals. Therefore, before going on a journey towards a healthy body and a healthy soul, it’s best to consult an expert who will give you advice on how to help yourself in ways that bring out positivity and self-love.
#7 280lbs > 182lbs. Salesman Grows Ginger Beard And Becomes Gq Model
#9 Just Over Three Years Ago I Decided To Take Control Of My Life And Make Some Drastic Changes. This Sunday I Ran My 5th Run Disney Half Marathon And Finally Got A Photo Where I Feel Like I Truly Look Like An Athlete!!!
#12 159.5 Lbs Lost Over 9 Years. It’s My Golden Birthday In Just 10 Short Days And I’m Simply In Love With The Me I’ve Finally Become (Inside And Out) After Almost 50 Years! Y’all Come On And Help Me Celebrate Life!
#14 Lost 110 Lbs. I Used To Get Called A Fat f****t Which Forced Me To Hate Myself. This Week I Got Offered A Commercial Modeling Contract (Something I’ve Been Working Hard For). The Weight Loss Helped, But Loving Myself (Especially My Gayness) Helped The Most
#17 24 Months Of Diet, Moving More, But Most Of All A Mindset Overhaul. A Complete 360 Transformation Is Possible! You Can Literally Not Recognize Yourself From The Person That You Use To Be. All Things Are Possible And It Starts With The Mind
#24 Face Gains! I’ve Decided To Stop Actively Trying To Lose Weight Now And Focus On Maintaining After Being Told By The Doctor That I’m Healthy All Round! It’s So Nice To Have My Jawline Back Finally
Let’s admit, our Mother Nature could be easily titled as one of the most—if not the most—prominent artists on the face of the earth. The masterpieces she creates each and every day never fail to inspire us and make us feel things. Unfortunately, though, our daily lives and busy routines often distract us from noticing them. Luckily, there are people who do their best to remind us how magical nature truly is.
Kirill Bakanov (@WeatherSarov1 on Twitter) is a guy from Russia who has a Twitter account dedicated to sharing daily updates on the weather in Russia. Each of his posts includes an impressive picture presenting the mesmerizing piece of art the weather conditions that day have created. With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look through some of the most fascinating Russian weather updates from Kirill Bakanov’s Twitter account. Besides, we had a chance to ask Kirill some questions—you should definitely scroll down for the interview.
“My name is Kirill. I have a science degree in ecology and geochemistry. Five years ago, after a severe storm which hammered my city, killing two people, I started to be interested in meteorology and severe weather,” the owner of the Twitter account told Bored Panda.
When asked, how the idea to post these weather updates came to him, Kirill told us this: “I realized that to get more complete information on meteorology it was necessary to interact with scientists and amateurs from all over the world. That’s how I discovered Twitter. When I started browsing Twitter, I saw that there is very little news on natural disasters from Russia, or it comes with a big delay. In 2018 I decided to share news from Russia with foreign readers.”
“Most of the photos and videos I find on Vkontakte (most popular social media in Russia), Instagram and Facebook. I use keywords to search for news. For example, смерч (tornado), ураган (severe wind) etc. I also monitor the situation on volcanoes and thunderstorm activity,” Kirill told us. “Approximately 5 percent of the content I do myself.”
When asked, what he enjoys the most about posting these updates, Kirill told us this: “When I post the news, first of all, my goal is to tell the world about beautiful and extreme weather events in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. When a post gets a lot of views, I understand that people need such content.”
Some people collect stamps. Others prefer art. And since you’ve clicked on this link, we’re guessing you enjoy gathering interesting facts. A connoisseur of curiosity, a hoarder of trivia and perhaps even, a walking Wikipedia.
One can never have enough knowledge. The more random the better. You might never use the information you learn in a meaningful or life-altering way. But you probably will bring it up casually during a coffee date, or a boring moment of awkward silence. If your cup of facts is running dry, head over to a corner of the internet aptly called Random Facts.
The community is dedicated to sharing intriguing, unusual, and thought-provoking facts from across the world. They cover everything from science and history to everyday curiosities. You’ll find gems like “cheese is the most stolen food in the world” and “frogs can freeze solid in winter… then thaw back to life in spring.” Who could possibly resist?
Bored Panda has put together a list of our personal favorites from the page for you to scroll through ahead of that family gathering you’re meant to go to. Let us know yours by upvoting them.
70% Alcohol is a better disinfectant than 99% Alcohol (extra water content slows evaporation, therefore increasing surface contact time and enhancing effectiveness).
Nostalgia is proven to reduce stress and make you feel less lonely — your brain uses memories to heal.
#19
Japan has one vending machine for every 40 people.
#20
When you’re in a cold place and you suddenly feel hot don’t take off any clothing, because it means you have hypothermia.
#21
There is a forgotten letter in the English alphabet.
The letter thorn (looks like a p but more of a line on top) was used to represent the th sound. That meant that it would be pe (pretend the p is thorn) there was one issue however. The French couldn’t pronounce it! They used y as a substitute. So ye came into creation. So ye is actually the. The letter became obsolete once printing presses were developed because the English who border France didn’t use the letter. Boom facts.
#22
The prefrontal cortex hasn’t fully developed in teens, so the decision making function is taken over by the amygdala, which is also the part of the brain responsible for emotions. This explains why teens usually make rash decisions based on emotions.
#23
The expiration date on a water bottle isn’t for the water, but for the bottle itself…
#24
It takes 118 hits for the dvd logo to hit the corner.
#25
The Earth is 1,086,781,292,542,889,208,714,362,880 centimeters cubed.
AdrenalineNod:
Okay but how do you say that number??
Kriilliin:
One octillion, eighty-six septillion, seven hundred and eighty-one sextillion, two hundred and ninety-two quintillion, five hundred and forty-two quadrillion, eight hundred and eighty-nine trillion, two hundred and eight billion, seven hundred and fourteen million, three hundred and sixty-two thousand, eight hundred and eighty centimetres cubed.
#26
Richard Nixon’s resignation letter was 11 words long.
“I hereby resign the office of President of the United States.”
If you go north long enough you will eventually go south but you can go east or west forever.
#28
The character ‘Biang’ is the most complex character in the chinese language. It had 59 strokes and is the character for a type of noodle that makes the sound ‘Biang’ when it is hit against a table.
#29
In your lifetime, you’ll produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.
#30
The Four Corners is the only spot in the US where you can stand in four states at once: Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
If you’re having an asthma attack, drink something with caffeine in it. The caffeine will pry open your lungs and help you breathe (trust me, I have asthma).
#32
There is a punctuation mark used to signify irony or sarcasm that looks like a backwards question mark ⸮
#33
The average female lifespan is 81.2 years which is 2560723200 seconds.
The average male lifespan is 76.4 years which is 2409350400 seconds.
That’s 151372800 seconds longer for females and it also means you wasted about 20 seconds reading this. If you took 20 seconds to read this and you are a 16yo male you could read this 95238719 more times.
I am bored.
#34
The distant part of the sea that is hazy and joins the sky is called the offing.
#35
Louis XIX was a king of france for just 20 minutes.
#36
Chocolate milk was invented in Jamaica in the late 1700’s.
#37
If all the land on Earth had the population density as NYC, there would be about 5.3 trillion people on Earth.
#38
One gram of uranium is 20 billion calories.
#39
2520 is the smallest number to have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 as factors.
#40
I was today years old when I learned that the color orange was actually named after the fruit.
#41
On the bottom of every Ferrero Rocher chocolate is a small gold letter that represents which factory line it came off of. Should there be an issue, they can pinpoint where the problem originated.
#42
The phobia of phobias is phobophobia.
#43
Babies are born without kneecaps, it’s cartilage until you’re like 4.
#44
If you smell something, particles of it get into your nose. Now imagine a public restroom.
Think about all the companies that have stores in your local area. When you start to count them all, the odds are that you’ll suddenly come to the realization that the world’s a very busy place with a lot of big-name companies having chains seemingly everywhere. From fast food places like Subway (aka Pete’s Subway) to stores like Walmart and more.
However, like all things, even the best and biggest conglomerates had humble beginnings. And the vintage pictures from these companies’ early days are incredible to look at. For all of you history and photography buffs out there, Bored Panda has collected this list of rare vintage photos of some of the world’s most iconic photos for you to enjoy.
Upvote your fave pics and let us know which early designs you enjoyed the most and why, as well as which companies you personally believe changed for the better over time.
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#1 Coca-Cola, 1886
The company produces Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton. In 1889, the formula and brand were sold for $2,300 to Asa Griggs Candler, who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in 1892.
At first, Coca-Cola was advertised as a drink that relieves headaches and was at first meant to be on sale in drugstores as a medicinal beverage. It was actually Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, who came up with the name of the drink and created its logo. The name, Coca-Cola, was chosen because of its two main ingredients at the time (coca leaves and kola nuts) and because of the pleasant-sounding alliteration of the words.
It’s very first ad read, “Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! Invigorating!” By 1895, Coca-Cola was so popular, it was being sold in every state in the US. And that’s in large part due to Candler mailing out thousands of coupons for a free glass of Coca-Cola. The marketing stunt worked and Coca-Cola forever cemented itself as a global brand.
#2 Harley-Davidson, 1903
The Harley-Davidson company was founded in 1903 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was one of only two American motorcycle manufacturing companies to survive the Great Depression, the other being Indian.
The roots of the company go back to 1901 when William S. Harley drew up plans for a small engine that could be used in a regular pedal-bicycle frame. Together with his childhood friend Arthur Davidson, they spent the next 2 years working on their motor-bicycle. Arthur’s brother, Walter, later joined the team.
The very first Harley-Davidson motorbike was built in a 10 by 15-foot shed (pictured) in the Davidson family backyard. By 1904, their racer prototype was functional and competed in a Milwaukee motorcycle race where driver Edward Hildebrand rode it to fourth place.
Harley and the Davidson brothers built their first factory in 1906. It was 40 by 60 feet big and made of wood. The company made around 50 motorcycles that year.
When the US entered World War One in 1917, Harley-Davidson motorbikes were adopted for military use. The US military bought more than 20k Harleys during this time.
The original formula for Dairy Queen’s soft-serve was developed in 1938. Dairy Queen owns Orange Julius. Dairy Queen itself is owned by Berkshire Hathaway
Going from corporate zero to megabillion hero is no easy feat. It involves years (and decades) of hard work, excellent employees, an uncanny ability to predict people’s future needs, and a big dollop of luck. Not to mention having a clear mission and a godly ability to communicate your goals clearly to customers and investors alike.
With so many resources, books, and videos out there explaining how to turn your company into a global icon, it can be easy to get lost in the noise. However, there are some lessons that seem to ring true in a lot of sources.
No matter which way you look at things, there are no shortcuts for creating quality products or providing services that people actually need. That also means getting to know your customers very well and being sincere in how you communicate with them and treat them.
#4 Subway, 1965
The first store was opened in Bridgeport, Connecticut in August, 1965 by Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck. Then, they set a goal of having 32 stores opened in 10 years. By 1974, the duo owned and operated 16 submarine sandwich shops throughout Connecticut. Realizing they would not reach their 32 store goal in time, they began franchising, launching the Subway brand into a period of remarkable growth which continues to this day.
Subway is one of the fastest-growing franchises in the world and boasts a whopping 41,512 locations around the world as of October 2019. The restaurant has stores in over a hundred countries, however, over half of its restaurants are in the United States. Subway is both the largest single-brand restaurant chain and the largest restaurant operator on Planet Earth.
And it all started with DeLuca borrowing 1k dollars from Buck to start ‘Pete’s Super Submarines’ back in 55 years ago. Just a year after opening their first restaurant, they formed Doctor’s Associates Inc. because it was DeLuca’s goal to earn enough money to pay for his tuition for medical school and because Buck had a doctorate in physics. It was in 1968 that the restaurant was officially renamed Subway.
Samsung initially sold noodles and other produce. In 1969 Samsung-Sanyo Electronics, which later becomes Samsung Electronics, was established.
The South Korean company Samsung Sanghoe, was first founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company. Over the next few decades, the group diversified into lots of different areas, including food processing, textiles, insurance, securities, and retail. By the 1960s, Samsung entered the electronics industry and went into construction and shipbuilding in the 1970s.
Samsung Electronics, one of the group’s most notable industrial affiliates, was the world’s largest information technology company, consumer electronics maker, and chipmaker in 2017.
Samsung’s affiliate companies produce around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports which goes to show the importance the conglomerate has in the country.
Keith G Cramer, who owned Keith’s Drive-In Restaurant in Daytona Beach, FL, partnered with his father-in-law to start the company. It was originally called Insta-Burger King.
When Insta-Burger King ran into financial difficulties in 1954, its two Miami-based franchisees David Edgerton and James McLamore purchased the company and renamed it Burger King. In the five decades that followed, the company changed hands a whopping four times.
The 1970s were considered to be BK’s ‘golden age.’
Due to copyright laws that protect the Burger King name with another Australian company, BK had to go with Hungry Jack’s in the country. Australia is the only country to have a BK franchise with a different name.
Creating customer loyalty means offering exceptional (and maybe even personalized) service and nurturing the relationships you create by maintaining genuine communication. In the digital age, it’s both easier and harder to do this than before.
On the one hand, you have access to all the social media that you could ever want. On the other hand, every business worth their salt is on social media, so your challenge becomes figuring out how to stand out from the crowd and prevent your voice from being drowned out by the noise from your competitors. Easier said than done, but it’s an important step on your way to becoming a famous company.
#7 Amazon, 1999
Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, left his job as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm to try and make a mark for himself in the Internet business boom. Bezos went on to start a company in his home garage that he called “Cadaver”. But a few months later when he heard a lawyer mispronounce the name, he decided to change it. The new name was Amazon, which he chose because it was a place that was “exotic and different”
Nintendo was founded in 1889 by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi. Originally, the company produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. After venturing into various lines of business in the 1960s, it distributed its first video game console, the Color TV-Game, in 1977. Nintendo gained renown all over the globe for its Nintendo Entertainment System that it released in 1985.
The rest, as they say, is history. Nintendo focused on producing consoles like the Game Boy, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Nintendo DS, the Wii, and the Switch, as well as releasing internationally-recognized video games. Among the video game franchises are characters we know and love, like Donkey Kong and Mario.
The first Starbucks was opened by University of San Francisco grads Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl in 1971 in Seattle, and just sold coffee beans. This all changed when Howard Schultz came on board who, inspired by Italian coffee culture, turned Starbucks’ coffee shops into the social meeting places we know today when he bought the chain in 1987
The first-ever Whole Foods opened up in 1980 in Austin, Texas with 19 employees. An old joke about Whole Foods’ first store was that it could be confused for a Volkswagen car dealership because of the abundance of VW Beetles in the parking lot.
Nokia traces its history to 1865, when engineer Fredrik Idestam opened a paper mill in Tammerkoski Rapids, Finland. Six years later, Idestam opened another paper mill on the banks of Finland’s Nokianvirta river, which inspired him to name his company Nokia Ab
#12 Mcdonald’s, 1940
The first McDonald’s restaurant opens in 1940 Siblings Richard and Maurice McDonald opened the first McDonald’s at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California, USA on 15 May, 1940
Wendy’s is named after Dave Thomas’ daughter, Melinda. As a child, she had the same issue pronouncing Rs and Ls that many kids do, and she referred to herself as “Wendy” or “Wenda.” Her likeness was also used for the famous pigtailed logo
Founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young in Brooklyn, Connecticut, as a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”, with the help of Charles Tiffany’s father who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. The store initially sold a wide variety of stationery items, and operated as “Tiffany, Young and Ellis” as of 1838 at 259 Broadway in Lower Manhattan.bThe name was shortened to Tiffany & Company in 1853, when Charles Tiffany took control and established the firm’s emphasis on jewelry.
In 1946, Erling Persson opens a women’s clothing store in Sweden called Hennes, which is Swedish for “hers.” About two years later, Persson bought a hunting apparel and fishing store, called Mauritz Widforss. When he combined that brand with Hennes, the store began to sell women’s and men’s clothing. That new store was called Hennes and Mauritz—more commonly known as H&M
The multinational clothing-retail company operated in 74 countries where it had over 5k stores as of November 2019. It had also employed 126k people in full-time positions at that time. H&M is the second-largest global retailer, just behind Inditex which is the parent company of Zara.
#17 Zara, 1975
After 12 years of making textiles, Amancio Ortega, founder of Inditex, opens the business’ first store in A Coruña, in Spain, in 1975.
Initially, Ortega wanted to name the store Zorba. But when he found out there was a bar by that name just two blocks away, he rearranged all the letters (plus a few extras) he had received for the sign of his store to make Zara.
The very first Zara store had low-priced lookalike products of much more popular, higher-end, and fashionable clothes.
Zara started its world conquest in 1988 by going international. It’s first leap abroad was to Porto in Portugal. Just a year later, it already entered the United States’ market, then France in 1990. Since then, it expanded internationally with each passing year.
Suzuki was started by Michio Suzuki in 1909. Like Toyota, it focused on making weaving machines and was called Suzuki Loom Works. It was renamed Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Company in 1920, which, due to the success of its weaving machines, started the side gig of making automobiles.
The name is a play on the letters ‘R’ and ‘B.’ And despite some claims that it’s an ode to their classic sandwich, it doesn’t stand for “roast beef.” Rather, RB stands for Raffel Brothers, a nod to founders Leroy and Forrest Raffel, who opened the first Arby’s in Boardman, Ohio, on July 23, 1964. Arby’s was the first fast-food chain to ban smoking in all its restaurants.
In an Albuquerque garage, in 1975, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft—originally named Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software—to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.
Microsoft dominated the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the 1980s, followed by the success of Microsoft Windows. After the company’s 1986 initial public offering (aka IPO) and the rise in tis share price, around 12k millionaires and 3 billionaires were created among Microsoft employees.
Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO of the company in 2000. Satya Nadella took over in 2014 who continues to rule the tech empire to this very day.
Among the well-known acquisitions that Microsoft has made are Skype (bought for 8.5 billion dollars in 2011) and LinkedIn (bought for 26.2 billion dollars in 2016).
The very first Ford sold was to Dr. Pfennig in 1903, for a grand total of $850. The “Model A” had a 2-cylinder engine, and could reach a max speed of 30 mph. In 1914 Ford offered its employees double the current market average, creating Henry Ford’s “$5-a-day.” The new salary, accompanied by a shorter working day and company profit sharing, minimized employee turnover, and was significant in growing the middle class and fair wages movement. Henry Ford was quoted saying he wanted to help his workers to a “life” not just a “living.”
The first Dunkin’ Donuts opened in 1948 in Quincy, MA and on Tuesday, January 16th, we’re opening our store of the future concept right down the street!
In 1893, American pharmacist, Caleb Bradham developed a drink at his drugstore that would aid in digestion. He named it “Brad’s Drink”. 5 years later, however, he changed the name to Pepsi-Cola after the Greek word for digestion that sounded like “Pepsi” and “cola” after the kola nut. By 1904, the sales of the drink had increased to 19,848 gallons a year.
Disneyland originally opened in Anaheim, California on Sunday, July 17th, 1955 with a total of 18 attractions. The park now has 51 attractions.
When the park opened, admission was just $1. It’s now $99. Over 84 million Mickey Mouse ears have been sold since Disneyland opened, making the ears the most popular Disneyland souvenir of all time.
As of December 2018, Disneyland had the largest cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world. It has had more than 726 million visits since opening its doors.
In 2018 alone, the park had around 18.6 million visits (it was in second place for the most visited theme park that year, just behind Magic Kingdom, also owned by Walt Disney).
After working with his brothers in their dry goods wholesale business in New York City, Levi emigrates to Gold Rush San Francisco. He opens his own dry goods business to serve the small general stores of the American West
On August 18, 1949, Adi Dassler started over again at the age of 49, registered the “Adi Dassler adidas Sportschuhfabrik” and set to work with 47 employees in the small town of Herzogenaurach. In the same year, he registered a shoe that included the registration of the soon-to-become-famous adidas 3-Stripes. From humble beginnings to a global success story – which was accelerated by a miracle …
When Xerox got off the ground in 1906, it was as a maker of photographic paper and photography equipment called the Haloid Company. The company didn’t introduce what we would think of as a copier until the Xerox 914 made its debut in 1959.
#28 J.c. Penney, 1902
The store was originally named “The Golden Rule.” Today, JCPenney says the original name set the standard for which the company has operated on for more than a century, treating others the way it, too, would like to be treated. The name JCPenney was incorporated in 1913.
The Walmart Museum is currently located in Bentonville, Arkansas, and has a variety of exhibits on display about the history of the firm. One thing that visitors see is that the museum is in the same location as the Walton 5 & 10 – another Ben Franklin franchise opened up by Sam Walton in 1950. This was also the first business that ever held the Walton name
When we’re on social media, it’s easy to get caught up in endless doomscrolling because the internet often feels like a big ball of negative energy. But from time to time, between the chaos of spicy comment sections, rage bait, and shady call-outs, something surprisingly wholesome pops up. Whether it’s a sweet memorial post or a hilarious photo of someone’s pet, they’re the posts that make you forget just how exhausting the online world can be. We’ve rounded up 50 of the internet’s most heartwarming moments that will make you smile in the best possible way, and maybe even tear up a little.
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#1 As A Child, Jason Arday Was Developmentally Delayed And Couldn’t Speak Until He Was 11. He Didn’t Learn To Read Or Write Until He Was 18. He Just Became The Youngest Black Professor Ever At Cambridge University
#12 I’ve Been Really Sick Recently And Can’t Leave The House, My Dad Said He Was Leaving For A Few Minutes. Got These Pics From Him As He’s Coming Home With The Game I’ve Been Saving Up For And Taco Bell
It might come as a surprise to learn that our brains actually light up in a few different areas at once when we consume funny content on the internet. These posts actually feel like small rewards to our minds, releasing mood-boosting chemicals that provide instant satisfaction and a brief emotional lift.
#13 My Grandps 98yo. Faked A Denied Renewal Of His Driving Licence. Drove Around 3 Days Terrorising The Whole Family Before Revealing Prank. F-Ing Legend!
#15 My Aunt Saved My Life By Being A Live Liver Donor For Me. Was Put On The Transplant List In February, Doctors Thought I Wouldn’t Make It Before I Got An Offer. My Aunt Volunteered And Gave Me The Gift Of Life. She Is My Hero!
#16 My Hotel Room Cleaner Made Me A Towel Animal, And Over The Next Weeks He Left Them There Until It Became A Towel Zoo
I was staying in the Hilton hotel in Riyadh for several weeks for work, and my hotel room cleaner from Nepal left me a towel animal. I left him a note asking if he could leave it there the next time he cleaned my room, and he did. And over several weeks the collection kept growing until the day I checked out. Such a nice highlight to my extended stay and I left him a little hamper of snacks and a tip to say thank you (there was actually at least six more animals he made but they slowly lost their shape over time).
#19 Recently I Befriended A Neighbor In His 80s Whose Family All Live Far Away. Today He Made Me A Salad With Homemade Dressing, Peeled Pomegranate For Me, And Gave Me Chocolate On My Way Home From Work
Did you know that it has been proven that people are more likely to share bad news online than positive stories? This is because when something’s shocking, unbelievable, or depressing, it automatically feels more “share-worthy,” and is bound to spread faster than warm and fuzzy content.
#26 In 2023, A Random Private Jet Pilot From TikTok Helped Me Get My 15 Year Old Dog Back Overseas With Me. We’re Married Now
#36 I Live Alone And Have Been Suffering From Intense Depression. I’ve Been Struggling To Cook For Myself So My Mum Has Made Me A Variety Of Frozen Meals Equipped With Wholesome Notes 🥺
There’s actually a science behind why we find ourselves on social media for hours on end, and a lot of it comes down to doomscrolling. Recognized as a compulsive habit, this behavior is often motivated by an intense urge to feel safer and more in control by constantly staying in the know. Over time, doomscrolling can cause more anxiety, stress, and even make us feel more depressed than usual.
#37 I Took My Dad To The Match Fulfilling A 20+ Year Promise
#38 My Best Friend Sent Me Not One, Not Two, But Three Care Packages Full Of Ramen, Drinks, And Even A Little Duck Night Light After I Told Him I Was Short On Food And Mine Had Broken
If you have your favorite movie of all time, nobody can ever convince you it’s crap. Because film preferences are totally subjective, they vary from one person to another, and if you and your crush can’t find common ground about it, it raises a red flag.
All seriousness aside, some movies are genuinely nothing more than a piece of crap and it doesn’t take another person to prove that to you. So when someone posted the question “What 100% ruins a movie for you every time?” the comments started to pour in on r/AskReddit and reached 20.8k in total.
The inquiry has surely resonated with 32.6k people who pressed upvote, and many felt relief that finally, we just laid it all out on the table. From flawed characters to self-explanatory dialogues that make viewers feel like they’re first graders, these things will spoil any top-notch movie. Film directors, take notes.
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#1
Having to constantly have my remote in hand to turn down the absurdly loud action scene, to then have to crank the volume for the next dialogue that is far too low.
In a world where every single opinion counts, getting your voice out about a movie you just watched may be quite hard. Luckily, we live in the world of reviews, and if it’s not you who writes one, then there will be film critics who do this job for us. Or you may simply go to Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregation website, that will tell you the truth about what it is that you’d like to watch.
According to Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, the award for the worst movie of all time goes to Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002). Critics’ synopsis describes it as “A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or originality.”
The second worst entry is One Missed Call (2008), as it’s thought to be “one of the weakest entries in the J-horror remake sweepstakes,” completely undone by bland performances. The third worst is the 2012 movie A Thousand Words, which is described by critics as a “painful mess” with “bland jokes.” So yeah, not all movies are born to be perfect, but some of them are hardly watchable.
#4
“There’s no time… save yourself!” when there’s clearly ample amount of time for both characters to get to safety. made even worse by the fact that they usually waste a minute or more arguing about it, saying teary-eyed goodbyes, and making out before character 1 finally gets up and leaves.
Overused female tropes. The angry black woman, plus sized women always being loud and clumsy, and of course, the manic pixie dream girl. This isn’t some feminist soapbox, it’s just lazy and uninspired writing.
I can often tell when actors carry fake (well, empty) suitcases, and even when they carry empty to-go cups. There’s just something different in the way their bodies/muscles work then.
Jesus Christ, it’s a 50 million dollar movie, how hard would it be to fill the cup and toss a couple of bricks in the suitcase?
#8
Unnecessary sex scenes.
#9
Women wearing heels through out an action movie where they are running constantly and never once take them off.
When the premise for a major conflict in the movie is something that any sane person would have just said “oh no there’s a misunderstanding” and they all have a laugh and go on with their days… But instead it turns into some convoluted drama.
Fake snow and low temperatures that never matter. Like in Game of Thrones where nobody wore a goddamn hat on the wall. I was watching “his dark materials” the other day and I almost started to applaud when heroes actually got dressed for the cold weather.
When there is a timer and it takes longer to count down than the time that was called/shown. It drives me crazy.
Generic example, 50 seconds until a bomb explodes. Dialogue for 30 seconds. Timer is showing 30 seconds left. More dialogue for 40 seconds. Timer is at 5 seconds. Quick one-liner, bomb defused with one second to go.
When one character who’s an expert in some field stops to explain the most basic concepts to another character who’s also an expert on the same subject.
When there’s a 20+ year age gap between the leading actor and actress and it’s not addressed in the movie, especially when the movie pretends like they’re around the same age.
“We’re both experienced, leading scientists in our fields, even though I look like a grizzled war veteran and you’re fresh off the set of High School Musical.”
When it’s very obvious when someone isn’t actually having a conversation on the phone. They just say their lines without giving enough pause for the other person to respond. I also hate when you’re supposed to be looking at security footage but it’s clearly just a previous shot that’s had a filter put over it.
Just 10 seconds left before the bomb explodes. The hero is taking all the time in the world to kiss and hug his girlfriend a last goodbye before returning to deactivate the bomb..
I know it sounds cliche, but movie clichés. Like in hallmark films. Busy business woman doesn’t have time for love. Goes home for Christmas because something is wrong and could be her parents last Christmas. She meets a guy. Too busy to enjoy life. A parent dies. She realizes she needs to enjoy life more. Gets together with guy. You can just tell the way s**t is going to go because the movie is already cliché. Or in action films. Oh let me guess, X is behind that door isn’t he? Or he was. Look at that.
Teenagers who sound like screenwriters trying to sound cool.
Never in the history of humanity have two 15 year olds randomly recited 18th century poetry to each other on the day they met, and all those snarky remarks makes the kids sound insufferable and annoying a lot more than clever.
Also notice that somehow every clever 15 y.o. always listens to music that was huge when the screenwriter was growing up, never something that is… you know… listened to by 15 year olds… as if there was no good music around presently.
PS. Also the whole sarcastic genius with no social clues…yes we get it Dr. House was a hit 20 years ago, now can we get Cumberbatch to play any other freaking role?
A thrift store is a truly wonderful place for sustainable fashion enthusiasts and those looking to broaden their fashion horizons with some unique clothing pieces. Though if you’ve ever been to one, you probably know how bizarre they sometimes tend to get.
People following this one Instagram account called thriftstoreartknow this quite well. The account we’re talking about is purely dedicated to all kinds of weird and questionable art objects found at thrift stores, and it currently has over 6,000 posts and more than 183,000 followers. Yes, this account is pretty popular, and we’re not surprised about it at all.
Approximately half a year ago, we published an article highlighting some of the most bizarre thrift store finds shared on the account, but since then, a lot has happened and a lot more questionable items happened to be discovered. With that being said, we invite you to look through an updated list of some of the weirdest art objects ever found in thrift stores.
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