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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

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

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

We name them Flexitarier. What they meant was most likely, they buy vegan food aswell...also means they have no idea what vegan means.

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

Ryan Deschanel, did I miss something? I can't for the life of me see what what you said wrong. AITA?

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

Im with you Eithne. I have seen stuff he said in the past - so maybe thats why some people got angry. But this time, i couldnt see it.

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

vegans do not eat meat. nor do they wear leather, drink milk, eat any dairy in fact, no honey... no animal products whatsoever, in or on their person - no mo jello...

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

No. You don't exist. Not in that category, anyway. So go out to pasture with a knife and a blowtorch and eat your heart out.

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

Another one who thinks they know what the word they are using really means...

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

Yes I've never flown before. Yes I am a virgin. Yes I'm a member of the mile high club. We exist

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

I mean, technically you could, like, eat someone out on top of a mountain. That would probably count as not losing your virginity in the technical sense while still technically having sex?

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

it's a bit like some women saying that they're lesbian and they still have sex with men.

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

No, actually you don't exist. Sorry to break it to you but you don't exist, you're just a figment of someones imagination 👽

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

no you are not vegan. no you do not exist. sorry to break it to you

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

New breed of meat eating vegans on loose...beware... they might eat you next for dinner..

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

Think shes confused vegan with vagina in describing her sex life

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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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