50 Times People Came Across Something ‘Mildly Interesting’ And Just Had To Share It With Everyone (New Pics)
Not always do we want to squeeze the max out of the internet. Sometimes all we need is a calming scroll and some entertaining (but not triggering!) content. And sometimes it’s the mild kind of information that we seek.
In these cases, this corner of Reddit offers a perfect shelter. Known as “Mildly Interesting,” it’s a Reddit powerhouse boasting a mind-boggling 21.2M dedicated members. And it proves how something moderately interesting is all it takes to catch people’s tremendous interest.
Below we wrapped up a new batch of posts shared on the community, so scroll down. Also, make sure to check out our previous articles for more Mildly Interesting content here and here.
Bored Panda also reached out to Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, the best-selling author and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts who shared some interesting insights about staying curious and open to learning, as well as the benefits of it.
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Orangutan Enrichment Center With Water Guns
“Have you ever tried to learn something that you were bored by, and then found that nothing sticks?” Dr. Tsipursky wondered. “No wonder,” he added, “researchers find that curiosity helps improve our memory. That means if you want to have a good memory, it’s valuable to stay curious and open-minded.”
This Ambulance Has Stork Decals, One For Each Of The Babies Born In The Back
This Gravestone Is Shared By Twin Sisters: One Lived For Just Two Days, The Other For 101 Years
My Friend’s Dog Gently Puts Your Knee Into His Mouth When He Is Happy To See You
Moreover, Dr. Tsipursky, who’s the author of multiple best-selling books, including Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams (Intentional Insights, 2021), The Blindspots Between Us: How to Overcome Unconscious Cognitive Bias and Build Better Relationships (New Harbinger, 2020), argues that if you find yourself bored by a subject you are trying to learn something about, don’t force yourself to learn it.
On the other hand, it’s wise to first find something that makes you curious about it, and then learn it. “Curiosity is especially important as we age to keep a healthy mind. Curiosity can also help us make good decisions,” Dr. Tsipursky explained.
The Truck In Front Of Us Lined Up Perfectly With The Mountains!
A Clock That Shows Time By Using The Shadow Of The Person Who Stands On The Current Month
The Core Of This Dog Poo Bag Roll Says “Use Bare Hands Now”
One cannot ignore the fact that we live in times when there is so much information that people often lose focus. Many people, especially young, experience a lack of attention and distractibility, as well as the inability to concentrate. When asked what are his thoughts about it, Dr. Tsipursky said that challenges with attention and focus come from a lack of mental fitness.
“People go to the gym to train their physical bodies, but our minds are just as important – if not more important – for our success in the modern world, due to the overabundance of information and the fact that most of us do knowledge work rather than physical labor,” Dr. Tsipursky explained.
The Embers Of My Bonfire Look Like The Eye Of Sauron
Interesting Reflection Caught On The Colorado River In Austin, Texas. Almost Looks Like An Underwater City
This Bar Has A Chilled Strip To Keep Your Drinks Cold
So in order to improve your focus, Dr. Tsipursky argues, “it’s critical to pursue mental fitness by learning about how our minds can lead us in the wrong direction and practicing mental exercises to address these problems.”
We also asked whether some people are more naturally gifted with curiosity, to which Dr. Tsipursky explained that since one of the Big Five personality traits is openness to experience, the answer is yes. However, “all of us can learn to be more curious: genes are not destiny, they may explain only up to half of our mental abilities,” he concluded.
Taking My Turkey To The Vet
This guy's eyes are like, "Mess with my motherfudgin' turkey, I DARE YOU"
A Stack Of Cups That You Can Turn To Indicate When Coffee Was Brewed
Discovered A Piano... In The Middle Of A Hiking Trail
A Long Exposure Shot On My Phone Made This Ghost Train
A Lonely Remora Attached To My Leg While I Was Snorkeling
My Eggplant Has A Laser Marking Instead Of A Physical Sticker To Show It's Organic
My Dirty Coffee Cup Looks Like A Pine Forest
Opened A Roll Of Pennies And Found A 1908 Indian Head Penny
Hard to find in rolls, pretty nice. G4-G6 condition, worth a dollar or two.
Gorilla Glue Completely Dried Before We Used Any Of It. Cut It Out Of The Bottle
All The Trash I Found In 25 Square Feet Of My Forest
Tributes Left At The Grave Of John Bonham (LED Zeppelin Drummer)
Found This Cat Wandering Around Lowes (Big Box Home Improvement Store)
Clearing Out My Recently Deceased Grandfather's Attic And Found Just Over 200 Grams Of Gold Powder
200 grams of gold powder = $11,143 USD value, according to google, today Dec 2, 2022
I’m Staying In A Scottish Village Called Dull. It’s Paired With Boring, Oregon
This Target Cafe Hasn't Changed Since The 90s
A Person In Medieval Armor Just Standing In The Middle Of Detroit
Took This Picture Of An Infinity Mirror In The South Australia Museum Today
The Shadow From This Plant Makes It Look Like There's A Decal On My Friend's Car
This Person Riding A Cow Though The McDonald's Drive Thru
Logo On A Chair Has A Small Chair Hidden In It
I Got A Waterproof Cast On My Ankle Today
It has a zipper! If it’s waterproof, when do you need to use the zipper? Edit: Thank you for those not judging me. I’ve never seen one of these before and I just didn’t know. I appreciate you guys! Side note: anyone interested in seeing tan lines after they heal? 😄
My Dog Left A Perfect Snoot Print On My Dress
This Guy At Work's Huge "Dad Wallet"
This Seafood Place Called Nordsee Puts Their Ketchup In A Waffle Cone
Report Card From My Great-Grandfather In 1926
I Added A Different Kind Of Soap To This Near-Empty Bottle, And The Original Soap Rose To Form These Little Mushroom Things
My Local Cinema Has The Carpet From The Shining
Opened Up A Lighter And There Was Just Another Lighter Inside
Official 10 Code Cup I've Had Since I Was A Kid
Hotel In Jordan, No Bible In The Nightstand, But A Sticker Telling You Which Direction To Pray
It Got So Hot In My Grandma's House That The Candles Melted
A Line Of Campus Bots Following Me At My College
This Traffic Light In Germany Has A Little Girl And A Camel As Signal Lights
2,600 Year Old Fur-Lined Leather Coat
A compelling piece of evidence in favor of using leather for clothing rather than plastics. One well-made leather jacket will last for a lifetime, whereas plastic starts to break down into microplastic flakes after relatively few wears.
This Football I Found In An Old Archive States It Was Made Without The Use Of Child Labor
Starting To Lose The First Joint Crease On My Ring Finger After Being Splinted For 7 Weeks
Anti-Circumcision "Intactivists" Demonstrating In My Town Today
This Squirrel I Saw Had A Little Canister Strapped Around Its Neck
My New House Has A Little Moving Staircase That Leads To The Washer/Dryer
These Cups Have Chips Under Them To Prevent Refills
The chip flies off and slices your jugular when you try to get a 2nd drink, you thirsty bastard, how dare you get 1 cent more of cola concentrate with fizzy water
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At least in USA, the refills cost the store pennies. Seems like an easy way to lose customers.
And probably costs more than the soda by far. It IS mostly water, after all.
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The highest profit margin in the fast food industry is soft drinks. AND they have to cheap out on that!
With the CO2 shortage in the US most places put less carbonization in their drinks and for DP that is nasty. And it is fraud. I'll just get the ones canned.
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A buzzer goes off inside the headset of a waiter/waitress who rugby tackles the unsuspecting customer.
If you have a wallet with an RFID blocking layer to prevent your credit card from being scanned, just hold it under your cup when you refill it.
Goes to get refill- place turns into the Vegas strip with lights and sirens going off. 😂😂
The darn chipped cups will most likely cost more than what they MIGHT save on refills... Stupid greed at its best
Are we sure these ae RFID chips? I am no expert but to me cost of RFID vs couple for free refill of soda just don't seems to make sense. may be cup bottom mark appears/changes color once cup is filled and that's what scanner is looking for?
I'm confused? Is this U S? Cause we have free refills. Like every single establishment is free refills.
A country with free refills really ought to have free healthcare.
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refill... .003 cents.... stupid sensor chips... .05 cents per...Americans are so greedy they will actually spend money to not be charitable
Ok , but say if I were paying formy second cup of soft drinks, wouldn't I be legally allowed to reuse the same cup. Assuming that this cup is made of recyclable materials, why would I go the extra mile to get another cup ? Doesn't it also bear down on the environment? Just because something is biodegradable doesn't mean we should treat them as use-and-throw items, especially if they can be used for longer than the duration of the iinitial purpose. Edit: i am not from the US, so I don't know how this works.
Seems like that would cost more money to make this cup than to provide a free refill.
The environmental costs aside, there is no way that chip costs less per cup than a refill.
Many theme parks have these cups for one time use because they also offer cups for all day bottomless refills.
How many RFID chips are going into the landfills if this catches on?
Cheap bastards -in most places, you can’t buy a drink for less than $2 and that’s with the expectation of getting refills
Last time I went to Disney (7 years ago?) They had this on their reusable plastic cups, basically when your stay was over it would lock them from the fountain.
This is a measure taken by fast restaurants to ensure that homeless people won't come back in and refill the cup.
That's absolutely horrible. Free refills are a god given right. Yes, I live in America...
These cups have chips under them to allow refills for a set period of time
When I read the headline, I wasn't thinking silicon chips...whole different image in my mind...
We have those at Five Guys in France - you have to scan in the soda machine to fill in it (once)
Its a shame ffs ooh I want one more drink. The whole damn thing is overpriced sugar water. And then when you want seconds they block you by adding a freaking chip. R******d bastard who made this stuf up. Haha i can say bastard bit not R******d. Now that's r3t4rd3d , ,
Because that's not a term you should be using. It's offensive.
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Some of these don't have enough context, some of these make my tummy feel weird, some of these are kinda sad, and some of these are nightmare juice. .
Some of these don't have enough context, some of these make my tummy feel weird, some of these are kinda sad, and some of these are nightmare juice. .
