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95 Times Reality Served Up Something So Unexpected People Had To Share It
Sometimes the world manages to catch us off guard. You might see something beautiful, strange, oddly satisfying, or so unexpected that you need a second look. It’s a good reminder that there’s plenty out there to surprise us, even when we think we’ve seen it all.
That sense of discovery is what makes this online community, ‘Mindblowing,’ a rare gem. It’s a place for interesting finds that make you pause for a minute and marvel at the wonders around us. The posts cover everything from nature and science to art, everyday life, and some wonderfully strange things in our wild world. Here are some of the most fascinating ones.
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Never Thought Of That Before
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Meanwhile In Mongolia, 8 Years Old Archer Girl Angarag
That’s all I yam 3 days ago
Continuation of one of the most important parts of Mongolian history : - )
There’s actually a good reason we’re so easily drawn to things that surprise us. Our attention tends to perk up when something is unfamiliar or doesn’t quite behave the way we expected. Researchers call this an “uncertainty” principle. This is when we can’t immediately predict what we’re seeing, and our brains have a reason to pay closer attention.
So when something catches us by surprise, that little urge to stop and look closer is actually pretty natural.
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The First Star Wars Trilogy Used So Detailed Paintings As Backgrounds In The Movies That They Tricked Everybody
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How Did I Never Realize
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And We Even Had A TV Channel That Only Played Music Videos
That’s all I yam 3 days ago
Here's what Lenovo says: CD burning uses a laser inside your computer to record data onto a blank disc. It shines a focused beam of light to change microscopic spots on a special dye layer. This creates a pattern of light and dark areas that stand for digital ones and zeros, which a CD player can read.
Surprise can also be an effective teacher. Studies on babies have found that they pay more attention to objects and events that violate their expectations, and they’re more likely to investigate them afterward. In other words, curiosity starts early, and humans have been getting distracted by weird stuff since before we could even talk.
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I Met This Guy At A Party City Cir. 2018, We Were Both Visiting Our Gfs Who Worked There. We’re Both Named Ian. Never Met Him Before Or Saw Him Again
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Our curiosity doesn’t disappear when we grow up. We still want to understand the things that catch us off guard, especially when there’s an explanation somewhere that might make sense of what we’re seeing.
A strange image can pull us in for a closer look, an unusual fact can leave us wondering how it could be true, a clever piece of art can make us see something familiar in a completely different way, and an unexpected discovery can show us a different side to something seemingly ordinary.
#10
Avengers Got It All Wrong
#11
Let That Sink In
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Respect You Sir
Some discoveries remind us how much we can miss because we’re looking the wrong way. Human attention is surprisingly selective. We can be staring directly at something and still fail to notice it when our attention is focused elsewhere, a phenomenon psychologists call inattentional blindness.
It’s the reason an ordinary scene can look completely different once someone points out the detail you overlooked.
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See Subreddit Name
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Beautiful, Had To Stare For A While
Kelly H. Wilder 3 days ago
I had to start with the foot (tip of the tail) and work backwards to be able to see it.
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Percentages Are Reversible
Ace 3 days ago
Yeah X * Y is always the same as Y * X. When I was young I found it amazing that, say, five times four was always the same as four times five. There just didn't seem to be any real reason or rule why it should always be the case. TBF I was only around 8 or 9, learning my times tables.
The appeal of a collection like this is that you don’t need to travel somewhere exotic or uncover a scientific breakthrough to find something fascinating.
Sometimes you just need to look a little longer at a peculiar shape, an unusual natural phenomenon, an unexpected piece of craftsmanship, or a detail hiding inside an everyday scene, and that can become the most interesting thing you’d ever see.
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Nature
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I'm Shook
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I Thought It Was A Photo At First
This portrait was painted by Leng Jun, and for the sake of precision and detail, it is clear why this is currently considered the most realistic image in the world.
A good artwork can take something familiar and make you see it differently, while scientific images can make things that are normally impossible to see feel almost tangible. The Smithsonian Magazine wrote about the relationship between science and art, noting how visual creativity can help people understand scientific subjects that are otherwise difficult to imagine.
We think there’s something satisfying about seeing an idea explained through a picture. A good visual can sometimes make a complicated concept click in a way that words alone can’t, helping us understand it better and remember it long after we’ve seen it.
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Oh God
#20
This Is How Bridge Foundations Are Made
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Never Thought Of It The Other Way Around 🤔
Lady Gypsy Rain 3 days ago (edited)
The flat earthers must think this is what is on the other side of the flat globe
We think there’s something satisfying about seeing an idea explained through a picture. A good visual can sometimes make a complicated concept click in a way that words alone can’t, helping us understand it better and remember it long after we’ve seen it.
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Dammmmn
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1000 Year Old Tree. Man For Scale
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This Is The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Specimen Ever Unearthed. This Mummified Nodosaur’s Bones Remain Covered By Intact Skin And Armor — 110 Million Years After The Creature’s Death
The real charm of Mindblowing is that the community doesn’t try to fit every post into one category. The fun comes from the possibility that the next thing you see could be completely different from the last one.
One post might teach you something, another might make you laugh, and another might leave you staring at the screen trying to figure out what on earth you’re looking at.
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3D Halloween Makeup
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Not Mine, But I Am Still Mindblowing
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Look At That Cute Little Deadly Guy
2WheelTravlr 3 days ago
The blue ringed octopus is a 2020s version of my 1960s fear of quicksand. After a quick bit of research I discovered that quicksand is not very deadly and surprisingly, neither is this little beauty -- only 16 known cases of d***h have been recorded.
So take your time with these, Pandas. Some of these discoveries may teach you something you didn’t know, while others might give you that lovely little jolt of surprise that makes the internet worth wandering around in. And if one of them sends you into a late-night search spiral, well, we accept no responsibility.
Which one of these discoveries surprised you the most? And what’s the most mind-blowing thing you’ve ever stumbled across? We’d love to read all about it in the comments!
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Really Reflective Car
Lady Gypsy Rain 3 days ago
Amazing. Went from what is that strange shaped thing to I see the car as soon as I read it.
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This Is A Cake!
Bored Jellyfish 3 days ago
I saw this video. They were leaving out items that looked real, but were cake, waiting for thieves to steal them. Funny!
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These Are Lenticular Clouds, And Are Perpendicular To The Direction Of The Wind. They Are Sometimes Thought To Be An Explanation Of UFO Sightings
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Facebook Antics. They Get Away With This On The Daily
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The Shell Of A Tortoise Is Actually Part Of The Skeleton
2WheelTravlr 3 days ago
In motorcycle terminology the shell would be considered a stressed-member. Meaning that the vehicle utilizes something other than a frame to hold things together -- on a bike it's the engine or transmission, on a tortoise it's the shell.
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We Were Always Anti-Social
Roman Arendt 3 days ago
They just had the decency to sit in silence on public transport and read. Nothing anti-social about it. To the contrary.
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Op🔥
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😱
2WheelTravlr 3 days ago (edited)
Buttttt, all my stuff is on the left side of the bed. What about my STUFFFFFF!!!
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Giant African Land Snail! 🐌
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Don’t Believe Me Just Watch
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Black Sand Dunes On Mars, Most Sand On Earth Is Made From The Mineral Quartz, Which Is White And Bright. On Mars, Most Sand Is Composed Of Dark Basalt, A Volcanic Rock
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An FBI Agent Delivering A $1 Million Ransom To A Plane Hijacker, In His Underwear. 1972
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Now You Know
#42
This Chain Is So Old And Rusted It Looks Like Wood
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Hold Up
That’s all I yam 3 days ago
Synopsis from comment on Facebook: Take the Grass Globe Illusion at Paris City Hall, for example. At first glance, it looks like a globe, but it's actually a park. French artist Francois Abelanet created this illusion using a technique called anamorphosis, which projects an image to appear three-dimensional when viewed from a specific angle. This 3D illusion, installed on a flat lawn in front of Paris City Hall, looks like a giant sphere when seen from the right spot. The installation took five days and used 1200 square meters of lawn and 300 square meters of sedum. The grass globe is 100 meters long, even bigger than it appears in photos.
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Wait A Damn Minute
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What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?
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Phoenix Guitar Made Out Of Colored Pencils
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Brooklyn Bridge Painters At Work In 1915
2WheelTravlr 3 days ago
I would get up there, get all settled in to work, dip the brush in the paint, then drop it.
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The Pacific Ocean Is Huge
Robin Roper 3 days ago
José Salvador Alvarenga, a Salvadoran fisherman survived 438 days as he drifting nearly 6,700 miles across the Pacific Ocean. He and an experienced fishing mate (his regular crew member couldn't go that day) who perished, set out from the fishing village of Costa Azul, near Pijijiapan, off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Fascinating book - "438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea" by Jonathan Franklin.
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Cashews Grow From Cashew Apples
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Last Time All Of Humanity Was On Earth Together
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Earth Seen From Saturn , Courtesy Of Cassini Probe
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Woah
2WheelTravlr 3 days ago
Excellent description of why things happen to the body the way they do during an accident.
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I Was Today Years Old
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The Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken Of The Sun, That Bright Dot You See Is Actually Mercury
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Soared Within 15 Million Miles Of The Star And Has Come Closer To The Sun Than Any Human Spacecraft Before It
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Mind.exe Not Responding
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Ann Hodges, The Only Human Being In Recorded History To Be Hit By A Meteorite. 1954
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World's Most Patient Pet Owner !
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Never Realized This
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John Sedgwick Was A Military Officer In The Civil War. These Were His Last Words Before Being Shot
Michael Largey 2 days ago
Those were not his last words, but his second to last. His last were an order to a soldier to come out of cover and fire against the enemy.
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Window Washer On 124th Floor On Dubai Building
2WheelTravlr 3 days ago
All that technology and they couldn't be arsed to design and build self-washing windows?
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This Is One Of The Most Fascinating Facts!
Lady Gypsy Rain 3 days ago
That explains a few things about the people that you swear that you could blow in one ear and get the air out of the other.
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Basketball Player Manute Bol In High School
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Tipfinger Through The Tulips
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In July, A Mountaineer Skied Down K2. At 28,251 Feet, It's Only 700 Shorter Than Everest. The Descent Took 7 Hours
Robin Roper 3 days ago
K2 is far more dangerous than Everest. The climb is much more steep. This guy was a beast to sky this.
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What A Handshake!
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Underwater Hotel Room In The Maldives
That’s all I yam 3 days ago
Had to look up info and pricing: The Muraka Residence, is separate from the main Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Resort on its own islet. The Muraka is an 6000 sq ft, two-story suite – one floor above water level and one floor 15 feet below. Starts around $10,000 to $18,000 per night during the low season, 4-night minimum, but frequently surges up to $50,000 per night during peak holiday seasons. (Underwater Hotel Maldives - Prices - Booking - Reviews)
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Just Wow
#70
That's Physics For You
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This Took Me 5 Mins To Figure Out What I Was Seeing
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Time Passes So Fast
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Just To Put The Pillars Of Creation Into Perspective
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Japan Was Building A Tesla Inspired "Death Ray" During Ww2, Which Could Wipe Out The Entire Armies. Japan Invested 1 Million Yen To Build It And Nobel Prize Winner Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Was Involved In That Project. But Japan Never Got The Chance To Whip Out Their Prototype During Battle
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A Picture Of The Egyptian Pyramids Taken From The International Space Station
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Googling The Word Askew Makes The Webpage Askew
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May I Introduce: The Quasar Apm 08279+5255. It Is Surrounded By So Much Water Vapor That It Could Fill All The Oceans Of The Earth 140 Trillion Times
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True Love
Lukas (alt) 3 days ago
"On December, 2018, A Women Battling Breast Cancer Married the Love of Her Life just 18 hours before passing away. The couple had a Ceremony at At Francis Hospital, US."
#80
My Life Is A Lie
#81
Elmore Jr. High Is A Real Place (Different Name Obv)
Lukas (alt) 3 days ago
As someone who grew up watching The Amazing World of Gumball, this feels uncanny
#83
Years Of Playing And Just Today Realised What The Slots Are For
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I Was Today Years Old When I Learnt That A Pin Is Just A Nail That Has A Big Head With Colour. Don't Know How To React To This
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This Drawing Looks Out Of Focus The Further Away You Hold It
highwaycrossingfrog 3 days ago
Being short-sighted, everything looks out of focus the further away I hold it
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My Entire Life Is A Lie
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From R/Memes
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It Makes Sense
Octavarium 3 days ago
If "heads" weighs slightly MORE, shouldn't that weigh down that side, meaning it would be on bottom, thus a 56% chance (using their percentage) of a coin landing TAIL-SIDE up??
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A Photo From Space X And NASA
#90
Bird Survives While Pierced With Arrow
#92
Idk About You Guys, But This Blew My Mind!
Lady Gypsy Rain 3 days ago (edited)
It’s incredibly annoying when you have hand tremors and actually want to scroll and not skip. But, then a tremor and you’ve been sent flying forward. Grrrrr
#93
Oh My God
Phantom Phoenix 3 days ago
This isn't correct. From 20 August, 2019 - 20 April, 2069 is only 18,141 days.
#94
I Think Starry Night Has A Secret Self Portrait In It
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Guy Making A Wave Of Rice
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