- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up
- Being able to tolerate the sound of your own voice in a video is probably the highest form of self acceptance
- If elevators hadn’t been invented, all the CEOs and important people would have their offices on the first floor as a sign of status, and the low-level workers would be on the 15th floor, just like in the old days
- Someone dreamt about you last night, and you have no idea
- Fire trucks are really water trucks
- Pavlov probably thought about feeding dogs every time he heard a bell
- Apparently, a lemon is not naturally occurring and is a hybrid developed by cross breeding a bitter orange and a citron. Life never gave us lemons; we invented them all by ourselves.
- Security at every level of an airport is absolutely ridiculous. Until you get to the baggage claim. Then it’s just like take whatever bag you want.
- The spiders that live in Buckingham Palace now are probably the descendants of the spiders that lived there during Victorian times – it’s a whole parallel royal family but with spiders
- Manuals for TVs are regarded as useless, but in five thousand years they could be as valuable as the Rosetta Stone: it contains the same text in over 20 different languages and alphabets.
- Teeth are the only problem where if you ignore them, they will go away
- Go to bed; you’ll feel better in the morning is the human version of Did you turn it off and turn it back on again?
- Every broken clock tells you the exact time it passed away
- Biting your tongue while eating is a perfect example of how you can still screw up, even with decades of experience
- On a galactic scale, amber and pearl are far rarer than gold and diamonds because they require life
- We’ll never really know what it smells like underwater
- Even when a balloon is half inflated, it is completely full
- Most people pull their phones out of their pockets to check the time. We are reverting to the era of pocket watches
- The tallest person in the world has physically experienced being the exact height of every other person in the world at some point
- Both concrete and glass are mostly made of sand which makes skyscrapers just really tall sandcastles
- Monopoly would be more realistic if the person with the most money got to change the rules whenever they liked
- A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you
- Wikipedia built the biggest modern information hub using nothing but nerds’ need to correct each other
- Clapping is just high-fiving yourself
- Air conditioning is just domesticated wind
- Nothing is on fire. Fire is on things
- Your right elbow will forever remain untouched by your right hand
- Normally, you empty your drink from the top, but when you use a straw, you empty it from the bottom
- Every word in every language started out as gibberish until one person convinced enough people what they said was a real word
- Your car keys have traveled further than your car
- Cells multiply by dividing
- Aliens invaded the moon on July 20th, 1969
- You may have once made a decision that saved your life without knowing it
- You will never see yourself in person
- When you look at stars, you are actually looking back in the past
- When you close your eyes, you are closing your eyelids, not your eyes
- The number of people older than you never goes up
- Some stranger remembers you for being kind to them when no one else was
- The way we treat moths versus butterflies is a real-life example of pretty privilege
- Generally speaking, when you feel stupid, it’s because you’re expanding your knowledge and getting smarter.
