Some of the most fascinating things in life hide behind mundanity. You’ll have to look a little closer to notice what makes them stand out, just like in the photos you’re about to see.
These snapshots come from the Mildly Interesting subreddit. All 24 million members share the same captivation over eye-catching things embedded within the humdrum of daily life. Here, people share pictures of random laser lights appearing in the night sky, square-shaped watermelons, and chia seeds sprouting from toothbrushes.
If reading that confused you, check out this list we’ve compiled to see for yourself. Scroll through and see if you find at least one that grabs your attention.
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These Wild Burros Hang Out In My Neighborhood Often
Local Funeral House Offers A $85 Cardboard Casket
Today’s 1 Euro Coin From Greece Depicting 2400 Year Old Greek Coin
Owl was the sacred animal of the city of Athens, because it was associated with Athena, its patron goddess.
We all have tedious tasks that immediately bore us when they appear on our daily to-do list. However, as author and speaker Steve Pavlina points out, finding something interesting amidst mundanity is all about perspective.
Take your least favorite household chore. The mere thought of it likely drains your energy. But as Pavlina wrote in an article for his website, you can pair these activities with enjoyable activities, like listening to music or your favorite audiobook.
The Napkin On My Flight Has A Buttonhole
My Child That Was Born Last Week Has Natural Blonde Highlights
I Made A Blanket That Rolls Up To Look Like Sushi
Pavlina noted that the slightest shift in approach toward a task or life itself can drastically change your perceptions. He pointed out that “it’s mainly a matter of being creative and thinking divergently.”
“If the standard approach is boring, reject the standard approach; otherwise, you’re being boring!” he wrote.
My Mom Sent This Picture Of The Soda Aisle At Her Grocery Store
My Kitten’s Nose Turns A Darker Shade Of Pink When She’s Sleepy
And when a pet rat is happy, their ears also become more pink! It's so cute.
Dad’s Relay Torch From The ‘84 Olympics
Life comes with dull moments, and there’s no escaping them. And if you accept such a reality, you may find something interesting in it, too. This is a perspective that writer and TV presenter Adrian Chiles follows.
In an article for The Guardian, Chiles noted how “embracing the boring” became his secret to happiness. He applies it to all facets of life, including personal and professional relationships and “affairs of the heart and wallet.”
Our Daughter Was Born With A Lot Of Hair
Mounted Police Taking Pictures At The Beach
Car Parking Without Saftey Barriers
Now, we’d like to hear from you, readers. Have you had moments when you’ve seen something eye-catching stand out amidst a seemingly mundane environment? Share them in the comments!
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There's A Free-Roaming Turtle With A Diaper At My Local Gym
The Monthly Dosage Of Medication Necessary For My Survival
My Copper Wire Off Ebay Arrived With Six Different Collectable Princess Diana Memorial Stamps From 1998
My Mother Bought Me Another Copy Of The Toy I've Had Since I Was A Child
My Adopted Street Cat Before And After Being Neutered At Age 13
My Workplace's Air Conditioner Condenses So Much Water That It's Growing Cattails At The End Of The Parking Lot
This Mesh Bag Makes Oranges Look Way More “Orange”
Someone Donated Hundreds Of Space Jam Fleece Throws To Our Flood Relief Fund
I Was Born With Only 2 Fingers And A Thumb On My Right Hand
Pointing and giving the finger will be confusing... I'll see myself out now. :D
Friend’s Umbrella Grew A Large Mushroom In The Month She Didn’t Use It
This Bunny In My Yard Doesn't Have Bunny Ears
Scent Free Zone For Workers
I used to work with a woman I swear bathed in 'Poison'. You could see the vapour trail as she wafted up the room.
Could have been worse... she could have rubbed Poisson all over herself
Load More Replies...I'm just afraid the average "way too much perfume" user doesn't have necessary self-awareness to not enter
God, I once dated a guy that was like Pig Pen ( cartoon character ) and his little cloud of dust except it was Pierre Cardin.
Load More Replies...Fall is just around the corner, it's time for stores here to have those awful Cinnamon Broom things out. I about die of an asthma attack when I walk near one.
Cinnamon scented pine cones make me SO sick, and they always keep them near the register. I have to pick up my groceries from the parking lot from about now until after the new year. My family calls them "pine cones of doom".
Load More Replies...When you are forced to walk through the perfume section of duty free before you can get into the departure lounge 🤮
Ugh, it should be a crime to force travellers to be subjected to such allergens at the International gates. My kid cannot travel by plane just because of these perfume stores. Pretty sad and unfair, imo.
Load More Replies...thank god. perfume and body spray are horrible, imo. if you want to use scents like that in your own home*, that's fine, but some of the rest of us are sensitive and avoid you like the plague. * i'm constantly getting laundry product smell sucked into my room by a window fan from my neighbors. you don't need that s**t! if you like those smells so much, just buy a box of dryer sheets and take a big sniff once in a while and leave the rest of us alone.
I really like perfumes, but in a decent way. There are people i asume they drink it, bath in it and roll in it. For passers by it is like a fist in the face.
Most have no idea how their body reacts to some. It is best to have someone else be with you when you buy or are given any scents. Their nose will be honest and you can feel safer..hopefully!!I would never buy anyone perfume unless I knew what they wore and wore it well. No cheapies ever smell good just strong like room deodorisers ..yuk
Load More Replies...Many are those popular young singing stars, all cheapies catching their fans with marketing products. ..now if Dior No.5 is touched to the skin gently is still a hit.
Load More Replies...To clarify - are they saying not to come in if you're wearing anything perfumed? Confused as it looks like a store and they're turning business away (you don't see a store putting employees first very often).
I think it's a considerate and grand idea. People have a choice to lace themselves in scents, and a choice to either think considerably about what they could be subjecting people they may be around to, or be ignorant. I don't think it will turn business away. Not everyone wears heavy scents. I think that's what they are implying. Lightly scented products, like Vaseline Vanilla scent would hardly affect someone with perfume allergies unless they stuck their nose right up against your skin. But if someone is so strongly marinated in Chanel #5 that it lingers after they've left, then that's just ridiculous and they should be barred from entering any establishment.
Load More Replies...Strong scents give me an instant headache, burns as I smell it and I will cough until I throw up and hours after.
I had a colleague who reeked of Aromatics Elixir, it was so strong it made my eyes burn
so many people, myself included are sensitive to different scents. I carry a cotton ball with pineapple scent in my backpack just in case it gets to be too overwhelming. It is something I discovered in the short time that Vicks made cough drops in fruit flavours. If I had a pineapple cough drop in my mouth I couldn't smell what my customers were wearing. It was lovely. Then they quit making them. Fortunately I found a pineapple scented body spray that works just as well. I think that company has also gone out of business so I have to preserve what I have left.
I am not allergic but I have a really good nose and hate those smells.
Light fragrance is fine. It's the "drenchers" I can't stand, both men and women.
OMG! This would be my area....cannot take fragrances.....migraine inducing !
I worked in a bldg where you could smell a professor’s cologne whenever the elevator passed the floor his office was on. Disgusting.
Had a sub nurse come to work doused in Pachuli..I went home with splitting headache
This should be everywhere. International airports are the worst, you are forced through duty free after security to get to your gate and the first section is always perfume. I have to hold my breath and run.
My daughter's best friend visits a lot, and although I live in the flat two closed doors away, I know when she arrives. Whatever she likes herself, she is unaware it is so unflattering overpowering and just plain foul. I even asked my daughter if she could somehow tactfully get her to use something else more alluring, not so heavy and 'blurk' it clung in the air for hours too. I am sure it was an expensive one too, but not on her skin and not Poison. I have some of that still left from the 1980's. I prefer to wear Pure Essential Oils than scented strong parfum
Bliss! Most place's toiletries departments leave me in literal tears because of the stench of chemical 'perfume' Yuk!
I used to work with a woman who wore enough perfume you'd see the cloud exit her car. Gag me
I wish they would do that everywhere. I am sensitive to smells yet everywhere I go, even in a club, they put air freshener throughout the foyer and beyond. I hate it. I have some great friends. They are always very aware and never wear perfume or deodorant when they meet me.
There is a perfume-free deodorant that is a must.
Load More Replies...Just to be clear for those who don't know, there is a difference between just not liking scents vs. actually being physically affected by the particles in the air from those chemicals that cause allergic reactions. Both are often touted as "sensitivities" by the general public. Except one is commonly acknowledged and the other is commonly deemed "overreacting" or "protesting" or "faking". You can't fake tightened airways, swelling tongues, hives, watery and irritated red eyes, etc.
I have a customer that comes in every Wednesday drenched in purfume...this week I had a migraine brewing in my skull, and her purfume made me almost vomit. Fun fact, if you use the same scent everyday, your senses get used to it, and block the smell, so you no longer smell it, which is why many people end up wearing alot of purfume
How does that work for customers that double dose, and get used to their own smell and wander over there being numbed by all smell in particular?
That's the customer's problem. Not anyone elses. Perhaps if they feel they need to cover up their stench so much they should try showering. If you can smell yourself, you stink or wearing way too much perfume. You're not supposed to be able to smell it on yourself.
Load More Replies...After holidays is when you get most blasted with cologne and perfume, as people use the gifted scents for the first time. In the book Gulliver's Travels, the guy stuffs his nose with tobacco to escape obnoxious smells (of course he was offended by the smell of people, after only living with horses for a long time.) I want some filter to stuff up my nostrils to keep the perfumes at bay
Ohh. I like this. I am allergic to 99% of perfumes artificial scents. 🫤
Must be a hospital gift shop. Remember talking about scents during orientation.
I'm guessing because of allergic reactions. Anaphylaxis doesn't go over well with most people.
Load More Replies...One Of My Coke Bottle Candies Was Empty
My Niece Has 6 Fingers On Both Hands [oc]
I Found A 12 Year Old Pouch Of Capri Sun In The Middle Of A Desert In New Mexico
Someone Plastered His Car With Solar Panels And Keeps His Car Loading Everywhere He Parks
Many camper vans have them here in Europe as windscreen shields. Shades the vehicle and provides enough leccy to charge your phone, radio, torch and a few other things. Every little helps!
The Scar On My Arm Doesn’t Get Dirty
I Put Some Bacon Grease On My Electric Skillet And It Formed A Perfect Diamond
My Girlfriend Met A Person At The Bar With The Inverse Of Her Tattoo
My Wife And Cat Have Been Prescribed The Same Meds
My Xl Wrist Vein
Contact Area Between Train Wheel And Rail
Got My Wisdom Teeth Taken Out Today
Now I'm even gladder that mine came through fine and did not need removing. D:
My Right Pupil Isn’t Centered Nor Is It A Circle
The Shower Head In Our Airbnb In Vietnam Has A Clear Water Water Filter Build Into It
So My Cousin Brought My Parents Some 50 Year Old Honey Her Dad Had
I Purchased A Modular Sofa, And Every Single Box Contained An Ergonomic Screwdriver
The Soft Ground At The Park Is Made Up Of What Looks Like Recycled Soles Of Shoes
Recycled tires. Except now we're learning they give off all sorts of nasty chemicals and in no way should kids be playing on them, nor should they be leaching those chemicals into the groundwater. They're also used in artificial turf surfaces and rubber running tracks. We're basically poisoning our future generations with good intentions.
Found A Small Deer Skull In The Woods
The Colour Gradient Of The Eggs In My Fridge
There’s A Hammock In My Hotel Room Instead Of A Couch
My Neighbors Regularly Throw Away Brand New Suitcases
Quaalude Pill Sample Pack Found At Grandmas House
From swedish wiki "Methaqualone was a popular party and sex d**g in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and had several street names (Disco Bisquits, Down And Dirtys, Gorilla Biscuits, Whore Pills[1])." Also a "means" (not the right word, but hope you know what I mean) for SA, Bill Cosby to a women, and Roman Polanski to a child... 🤢🤢
What 25 Years Of Sideways Storage Does To Pewter Candlesticks
A Chia Seed Sprouted From My Toothbrush
More of an issue - how come you didn't notice it was mucky, and change the head?????
This Oddly Shaped Toilet Bowl In A Doctor's Office
Woke Up To Find This Boulder Of A Tonsil Stone Just Lolling Around On My Tongue
“Crinkle Walls” That Use Less Bricks Then Regular Walls
There’s A Time Capsule Inside A Wall At My Gym
My Lawn Grows Rectangular Patch Of Longer And Thicker Grass Where There Was Once A Pond
My 1yr Old Son Has A Single Grey Hair
Candles Left Outside During A Heat Wave
My Antibiotic Capsules Just Have A Whole Pill Inside
I Have A Tube With My Brain Fluid In It
I wonder what it tastes like? (Admit it; you were thinking the same thing)
When I Drink Alcohol My Scar On My Thumb Lights Up Like A Neon Light Or Lightsaber
My Watermelon Just Exploded, Now My Kitchen Has Juice Everywhere
On The Last Page Of An Old Romance Novel
Hair That Grew While I Was Sick Grew In Blonde, Then Went Back To Black Once I Recovered
The Warning On This Door At Taco Bell
The Amount Of Water My Air Conditioner Produced In 6 Hours. (Almost 60 Qt.) New England, USA
Identical Product With A Different Nutri-Score
They likely just have different scoring systems in different countries.
My Battery Pack Charged Past 100%
Every Night This Light/Laser Comes From Out Of Nowhere And Appears To Be Thousands Of Miles Long
Telescopes use laser lights to guide their pointing, but I have no idea if that's what is happening here. In other laser space-related experiments, lasers are bounced off satellites, and off the Moon, to get extremely accurate measures of distance. And SETI sometimes has used signals to distant worlds encoded onto laser beams.
Old Ids Ive Kept From 2014-2024
The Amount Of ‘Fog’ Inside My Flight Meant No One More Than A Couple Of Rows From The Air Hostess Could Actually See The Safety Briefing Properly
There is a phenomenon known as "rain in plane" where on exiting a hot high humidity airport, the air cools enough for it to rain inside the plane. This can cause all sorts of corrosion problems.
This Restaurant Will Give You A 95% Discount If You Pay With Pre-1964 Silver
The Area Around My Tick Bite Has Lost All Its Hair
The ATM Gave Me $100 In Brand New $5 Bills
This Walgreens Doesn’t Keep Their Store Cool Enough To Maintain The Integrity Of Its Chocolate Bars
A Rite Aid by my house is the same. They should bill it as a store and sauna.
TSA Precheck Line Longer Than Standard TSA Line
I Am Officially A Card Carrying Boob Owner
Bed Eaters At Petsmart Hotel
The Color Difference When I Refilled This Grocery-Store Basil With Basil From My Garden
This Message Etched Into The Chair In My Therapist’s Waiting Room
This Old Photograph Seems To Have Peeled Entirely Away Only Where The Fish Are
Security Line At A Club In New York Split Into 21-25 And 26+
The Fridge At The Welding Shop I Work At
$300 Samsung Ssd Has Spelt “Portable” Wrong On The User Manual
My Bottle Of Cranberry Juice Had Absolutely Zero Air In It
There Are Tiny Bugs In This Wooden Candle Holder That Create Little Piles Of Sawdust After A Couple Of Days
This Dollar Bill I Got Has A Star At The End Of The Serial Number
Saw Rafts Made Out Of Inflated Sheep Skins
My Lime Lite Night Light I've Had Plugged In Since The 90s Compared To A Brand New One I Plugged In Today
I have one in a hallway- exact same model, about half the display is gone-- still bright- been plugged in non stop for 15 years.
After Enough Use My Pocket Knife Has Become Magnetic Somehow
*These items are made of steels that can become magnets. There are two main causes of magnetizing: exposure to magnetic fields, usually by being near a magnet. The other one is under the stress of cutting some materials become magnetized as molecules realign.29 Aug 2020*
Broke My Arm - 1 Week Later Fingernails No Longer Grow At Same Rate
obv. the nails are needed to repair the broken bone. As[k] any carpenter? 🙃
Square Shaped Watermelon Being Sold At Local Asian Grocery Store In Canada For $56
I Won Every Prize On This Lottery Ticket
Weird Mosquito Bite
Allergic to mosquitoes. It swells up along the lines of nearby small veins as the allergen passes along them.
Took My Ring Off After 15 Years
My GF Has A White Freckle
This Change Machine That Provides 4 Quarters And 2 Pennies For Every Dollar Inserted
This Huge Bottle Filled With Old Pills At My Local Pharmacy
My Bruise Turned Into Squiggles
This Pub In London Only Welcomes Regulars
My Hotel Room Has A Conference Space In Half Of It Instead Of A Sofa Bed And Furniture
"The committee will now vote on what kind of pizza we will be ordering this evening, as per Section 6.71 Page 92 of the Food Order Determination And Evaluation Policy, Ed. 84, 2008." "Brad, we've talked about you bringing your work home, and this is our goddamn anniversary vacation." "Excuse me but I currently have the floor."
Hot Pockets No Longer Come With A Microwave Sleeve
I'm Suddenly Forming Itchy Bumps Along Some Of The Lines Of My 7 Year Old Tattoo
Someone Brought A Rabbit To My Local Gym
Okay, but placing a prey animal smack in the middle of a room is rather insensitive, innit?
I Nicked My Upper Ear Cartilage Over 1 Month Ago With Electric Clippers While Trimming My Hair
BORED PANDA - YOU HAVE BLOCKED WYNDMERE FOR MORE THAN 2 YEARS FOR "TOO MANY INVALID ATTEMPTS TO LOG IN". UNLESS YOU ARE RELIGIOUS BIGOTS, POLITICAL BULLIES, OR ATTEMPTING TO SHUT DOWN FREE SPEECH FOR PEOPLE WITH VIEWS DIFFERENT THAN YOUR LIBERAL LEFT WING VIEWS - UNLOCK MY ACCOUNT - NOW. IF YOU DO NOT; YOU WILL PROVE YOURSELVES TO BE ALL I MENTIONED ABOVE.
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