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A brain fart is a brain fart is a brain fart. Nobody is immune to them. But having said that, these temporary blips can be really funny. When they're someone else's suffering, of course.

If you don't believe me, just take a look at the Twitter account -1000 IQ. It's sharing follower-submitted moments when people's brains stopped computing and pushed the poor folks into making a fool of themselves.

From sanding your car's tires for a smooth ride to claiming New York isn't part of the US, here are some of the funniest ones.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When you are so stupid and confident (almost synonyms) you can't even see that you are being made fun of. Surprisingly, that's pathetic and hilarious at the same time.

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There are plenty of concepts our brains struggle with, like four-dimensional hypercubes, quantum mechanics or an infinite universe. And understandably so. But as you can see from this list, every once in a while even the most mundane everyday tasks can leave us baffled. However, there are some things that (unexpectedly) mess up our cognitive abilities but manage to do so while slipping under the radar.

Doors. Remember the feeling you get when you walk into a room with some purpose in mind only to completely forget what that was? Well, psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as an "event boundary" in the mind, separating one set of thoughts and memories from the next, similarly to how exiting through a doorway signals the end of a scene in a movie. Your brain files away the thoughts you had in the previous room, and prepares a blank page for the new location. Mental event boundaries usually help us organize our thoughts and memories as we move through the world, but sometimes they can throw us off, too.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here's a question for the universe at large: Why are most raincoats made of porous material, and lacking a hood?

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Beeps. From digital alarm clocks to smoke detectors, these sounds have practically become the soundtrack of the modern world. But we didn't evolve hearing beeps, so we struggle to make peace with them. Natural sounds are created from a transfer of energy, often from one object striking another. Think of a stick hitting a drum. In that case, energy is transferred into the drum and then gradually dissipates, causing the sound to decay over time. Our perceptual system has evolved to use that decay to grasp the event. To figure out what made the sound, and where it came from.

Beep sounds, however, are like cars driving at 60 mph which suddenly hit a wall, as opposed to gradually slowing to a stop. The sound doesn't change over time, and it doesn't fade away, so our brains are baffled about what they are and where they're coming from and can go into overdrive.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The tension is raisin', let's hope he doesn't start to wine

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Wide open spaces. When people are traversing the desert or a thick forest — terrains without landmarks — people usually end up walking in circles. Experiments on blindfolded individuals revealed that when we lack external reference points, we curve around in loops as tight as 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter, all the while believing we are traveling in a straight line. Turns out, it isn't because one leg is longer or stronger than the other — wide open spaces simply throw the brain for a loop.

According to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybergenetics in Germany, loopy paths follow from a walker's changing sense of "straight ahead." With every step, a small deviation arises in the brain's vestibular (balance-maintaining) system or the proprioceptive (body awareness) system, and is added to the person's cognitive sense of what's straight. These deviations accumulate over time and send that individual veering around in ever tighter circles as time goes on. Interestingly, these little brain farts don't add up when we can regularly recalibrate our sense of direction using a nearby building or mountain.

To see some of these examples in action, check out these 31 times people had brain farts that resulted in funny communication fails.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, $150 for an HIV test... in a normal country you can get it free at hospital... just sayin'.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

red shirt represents management, yellow shirt represents workers; and the guy sitting up front is the CEO.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Must be all those Hard Rock cafes that make the geology different. ;-)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess she might actually be good at geology, since she's literally got a brain made of rocks.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not Big Apple anymore, it's the big rock just outside America. Basic geology.

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lara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And people asked why I thought geography should be taught in schools. I rest my case.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Regarding "America", so is Canada, Mexico, etc... the Americas have both a Northern & Southern continent. The US is only part of them, regardless of our habit of referring to ourselves as Americans.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

While that is true, it still doesn't change the fact that New York is still in America.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... so many Americans not educated in even their own country's geography...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Altogether now: "Don't know much about... history/ Don't know much about... geology/ ..." ---Sam Cooke, "Wonderful world" (no not the Louis Armstrong song of same title).

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Living in NYC 3/4's of my life, I am not sure it is part of this world. Sorry New Yorkers

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh it somehow became worse 😖 how are ignorant people so confident

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah man, haven’t you taken geology? You should know 🤦‍♀️

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I bet that’s her best outfit and she thinks she’s killing it. Not at all.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was three or four, I remember asking my mother if we could visit Florida. She said "we're IN Florida" so I asked "then what is Orlando?" because I didn't have the concept of states and cities and towns quite yet... but again, I was three or four, and my family kids me about it still.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

that's why The French planted trees along the Champs Elysees....so the German's could march in the shade....

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a person who was born and raised in CA, they were in their mid forties and seriously thought that San Francisco was as far north as you could get and that Sacramento was in another state. I also met someone that thought you could take a bridge from San Jose to Hawaii.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If New York isn't in America, then where the f*ck is it? And can we give Idaho and Texas this same status?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We need 🥔 so Idaho can stay but I vote yes to Texas, it's basically Mexico geologically speaking

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How does someone that ignorant afford an international vacation?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Soooo it's not geology, it's GEOGRAPHY! And yes, New York is in the U.S.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mmmh yes,... this is a sedentary rock formed by sediments, so this must be New York. Glad I don't live an idle sedimentary life.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Geology.. umm geography class might be too much for her, Siri is quick solution.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Geology is the study of rocks not geography. New York is in America. What a dumbo!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Manhattan Island for sale to any country that wants it. Just the welfare costs near bankrupt NYS (and the Island is actually bigger than when first "purchased" from native population

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But if you say good by Murica, hello New York, then there might be bit of truth included ?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm guessing her stupidity is why she blacked out her face!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nEW YORK IS IN aMERICA And Geology is rocks study, Geography is map study

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she's not wrong, it's like a third world country

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Zoomer here. That's a Playmobil coin. Dear lord kill me now.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well... Funnily enough... There was a famous case of a woman being a chimera - she literally had non-matching DNA. They ended up proving the case by having the official in the delivery room, at the business end, took the DNA sample which didn't match (and that wouldn't even be the case for a surrogate pregnancy) and finally did additional testing to prove she was a chimera. Weird case. So, yeah, that one in some ludicrous number likely to be in the billions, DNA came back negative for mum.

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