When someone works in a specialized field for many years, they’ll end up gaining highly specific knowledge and a unique understanding about how certain things work. While most of the population might live most of their lives believing a common misconception about how things get recycled, a garbage collector somewhere out there is probably tearing …
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15+ Amusing Posts That Are Technically the Truth
Communication is super complicated. Most of us do it every day, so we don’t think about it that much. However, what we often forget is that the way we speak with other people operates on so many levels of implication and cultural expectations. It is almost always vulnerable to misinterpretation, whether by accident or on …
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15+ Hilarious Times Twitter’s Community Notes Feature Humbled Egregious Liars
If you regularly visit this site, you will be more than aware that the app we aren’t supposed to be calling Twitter any more has undergone numerous massive changes over the past few months. The whole thing has turned into a game of ‘what vanity project and/or desperate profit-chasing incentive will Elon Musk introduce next?’. …
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Wisecracks Welcome: 26 Posts & Pictures that Elevate Being ‘Technically’ Right to an Art Form
Ladies and gents, nerds and trolls, welcome to the Internet’s gray area: the land of the ‘technically’ true. It’s the world where a smart quip can outshine the cold, hard facts, and a clever twist of words can make you question reality itself. After all, who needs total accuracy when you can have a well-timed …
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Operation ‘Acoustic Kitty’: Learn About The Hilarious CIA Fail Involving Training Cats To Be The Fluffiest Spies In The Cold War (Viral Twitter Thread)
Sometimes we wonder how much «intelligence» is in the CIA because, from our humble experience with cats, they are not most easily trainable. So the thought of training them as microphones to listen in on secret conversations in specific locations seems like a bit of a stretch to us, but hey, the Cold War was …
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Top Racing Random Thoughts for People Who Think A Sea
For overthinkers, the brain can be a powerful tool that is both as helpful as it is not; the chaos erupts serendipitously. The bad, the good, and the ugly expel themselves from amidst the high waves. We think to our own detriment. As Shrek would say, ‘Better out than in’, and better out it is; …
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People Discuss Sobering Truths That Many of Us Ignore
Denial is part of what makes us all human beings. If we weren’t all a little oblivious, or even just fully delusional about most things in life, the therapists of the world would be laughing their way to the bank a thousand times more than they are already. The fact of the matter is that …
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People Share Niche Facts They Can’t Help Sprinkling Into Unrelated Conversations
Everybody has at least one «fun fact» that they hold dear. It might’ve been something you learned during childhood or a weird true story you picked up in a college course. The fact I’m currently passionate about has to do with life expectancy throughout time. It’s come to my attention that a large portion of …
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People Discuss the Sobering Truths That Many of Us Ignore
Denial is part of what makes us all human beings. If we weren’t all a little oblivious, or even just fully delusional about most things in life, the therapists of the world would be laughing their way to the bank a thousand times more than they are already. The fact of the matter is that …
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Funniest Memes for Trivia Nerds Who Toss Vital Information Away and Only Remember Random Facts
If you’re the kind of person who only retains random facts, this is for you. Socializing might be hard if you aren’t with like-minded people. Some people want to talk about what’s going on with your life or what’s going on in the friend group, but all you want to talk about is the fact …
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