This Online Group Is Dedicated To ‘Mildly Interesting’ Stuff, And Here Are Their 50 Best Posts (New Pics)
Running all day long worrying about errands, work-life balance and keeping up with the never-ending pile of laundry often leaves not enough time to notice and appreciate the simple joys around you. And don’t worry if you recognize yourself. This happens to the best of us. Just sit back, take a deep breath, and come along on this journey to improving your day.
r/MildlyInteresting is exactly the place to see something unexpected and add it to your everyday life. Since its creation in 2012, this subreddit has grown into a community with 19.3M members who share the most original photos. From hypnotizing UV lights that disinfect hospital rooms to x-ray pictures of childhood teddy bears, there’s something for everyone.
After you’re done checking out some of the newest photos Bored Panda has compiled, just remember there are even more amazingly good pics here, here and here.
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This Message Stamped On The Squeaker Inside The Stuffed Animal My Dog Just Destroyed
For 10 years, the r/mildlyinteresting subreddit has just kept growing and growing into one of the biggest communities on Reddit. The moderators describe the page as being for “Mildly interesting stuff. Stuff that interests you. Mildly. It's in the name.” So in other words, it's not the most jaw-dropping or extraordinary stuff, but it's definitely not boring.
In a previous article one of the moderators, Cowbeller1, told Bored Panda that the most popular posts in the sub have something to do with luck: "Maybe you come across something interesting in your day-to-day life and remember to take a picture, maybe you're just lucky enough that something is interesting to the community. No real rhyme or reason aside from that," the mod explained.
Another moderator called RedSquaree said that original photos and titles are a key part of this online group. Their content is generated by the community and given that titles cannot be clickbait, there is a unique feeling of people seeing something mildly interesting and posting it.
Local Kmart Has A Doll With Down’s Syndrome
But what if you are so distracted that you don’t see the odd-looking things around you? Constant interruptions from our devices that keep buzzing every few minutes is just one thing that makes it hard to focus. And even when we’re able to concentrate on one particular thing, we might still miss other important details.
An experiment at Harvard University called "The Invisible Gorilla” showed a video where six people pass basketballs around. While you watch, you have to count how many passes people in white shirts make. At one point, a gorilla comes into the picture and leaves, spending nine seconds on screen.
It's hard to believe, but half of the viewers did not see the gorilla at all. They were so focused on one single act, the passes, that they didn't notice what’s entering their visual field. "This experiment reveals two things: that we are missing a lot of what goes on around us, and that we have no idea that we are missing so much,“ the creators of this study explained.
Our Teacher Had Us Do Word Searches In Asl To Practice Finger Spelling
Cafe I Went To In Indianapolis Is A No-Tipping Establishment
Also, it turns out that if you don't catch new information coming into your eye range within 1.5 seconds, you are unlikely to see it at all. Experimental psychologists Katherine Wood and Daniel Simons performed similar tests to the Gorilla experiment, they asked people to follow black and white shapes moving across the computer. “The most natural thing to assume is that the longer it’s there, the more opportunity you have to notice it, so we were quite surprised when it turned out that it seems not to help you very much,” says Wood.
I Snapped A Photo Of My Dog Through A Window Screen That Looks Like An Old Painting
My Daughter’s Bicycle Clarifying The Difference Between Austria And Australia
However, sometimes we're not doing anything at all and still feel distracted. It’s not uncommon that your thoughts start to cruise when you should be focused. And in this case, we can’t blame our electronic devices—according to the research of two Harvard psychologists, the main issue is our minds.
My Thai Food Came With A Chork
Today In Copenhagen There Was Car Free Sunday
I Bought A Tie Today And It Came With A Matching Face Mask
For the study, they created an app that contacts participants during their waking hours and asks them different questions. Researchers analyzed samples from 2250 adults and concluded that we spend almost 47 percent of our day "mind wandering," regardless of what we are doing. Also, psychologists found out that in their research, a drifting mind was generally the cause and not merely the consequence of unhappiness. As they put in their conclusion, “a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind”.
The Wear And Scuff-Marks On This Boat Look Like An Island In The Sea
The Way My Mom Mows Crop Circles Into The Lawn
A Frame In The Middle Of A Lake
In the end, the most important thing is to notice when your thoughts begin to drift and try to stay present. Then you will start to notice the details even in the most mundane things. And if you do, make sure to capture it and share it with the world of mildly interesting things.
A House In My Neighborhood Has These Plaques Outside Commemorating Former Residents Who Became Victims Of The Holocaust
Siegfried: Escape attempt 1935, shot during the escape 1935. Paula: Deported 1942, murdered in Auschwitz. Ilse: Unknown fate. Rolf: Deported 1942, murdered in Auschwitz.
My Local Library Has “Binge Boxes” In The Film Section
Local Plant Nursery Has A Notice Translation For Teens
Oh that's giving me cringy flashbacks of the 90s when adults thought teens only understood rap and hip hop slang. It was painful then and painful now.
Solar Park Bench With USB Charging Ports
Someone Put Oogly Eyes All Over The Menu At My Local Starbucks
This Is A Mood Blanket. Each Line Is A Day Of The Year With My Average Mood
Never Thought It Would Happen To Me, We Were The Only People On Our Flight
Once I have been the only visitor in the cinema. Happened couple of years ago in Pristina, Kosovo. I can't remember the movie now
How The Fence Of The Garage Shows Which Floor It Is
A Tiny Brick Flat In London
This Clean Color Spectrum On My Floor Right Now
Every Vauxhall Car Built Since 2004 Have A Hidden Shark Somewhere In The Car. Found Mine In The Glove Box
The Clear Ice In My Absinthe Looks Like A Chunk Was Cut Out Of It
Our Refrigerator Is Supposed To Make Sphere Ice Cubes, But Instead Makes Death Star Ice Cubes
Chess Pieces Made Out Of Hardware
I Saw 4 Generations Of Honda Civics, In Order Of Age, All In White
Boxcar That My Great Grandparents Used As A Home
My Mom Has An Unopened Alice Cooper Record From 1972, Complete With Panties
Jenny’s Number On My Dash On My Old Truck
A Beer Can Fell Out Of Our Fridge And Landed Like This
This Book Has An Intermission
My Girlfriend Made A Stew Inside A Pumpkin
Dropped My Phone And The Crack It Made Kind Of Looks Like A Hummingbird
A Tree Guy Came Out Today…his Business Cards Are Made Out Of Wood
We Found A Missile While Out Blueberry Picking
UV Lights Burning The Room I Just Cleaned In The Hospital I Janitor At
Is it just me or does it look like something straight out of Dr Who?
Last Year We Had A Bag Break And It Dropped A 1.75l Bottle Of Vodka And The Pavements Been Clean There Ever Since
The Fate Of An Unfortunate Fly At The Mask Factory
In Italy They Got Free Water In Little Towns. You Can Choose Between Water With Gas, Cooled Or Regular
A Couple Pounds Of Razor Blades In My Wall. Apparently Old Medicine Cabinets Have A Disposal Slot
This Holder For My Oreos
X-Ray Of My Childhood Bear, Taken In The 90s
My Work Id Has Been In Its Plastic Holder For So Long That It’s Imprinted This Ghostly Image Of My Face
While At Aldi Today, I Saw These Hamburger Buns That Were Missing Their Bag...but The Expiration Date Was Stamped Right On The Buns
There Is A 23 Storey Building In Duisburg, Germany With Absolutely No Windows (German National Archives)
A 100 Sided Dice
The Cost Of Giving Birth In My Country
seems expensive to me. all we have to pay is the gas you need to reach the hospital ;)
Load More Replies...Exactly!!!! I paid $100,000 for my first childbirth and a 3 day stay in the hospital.
Load More Replies...North American cries, Central American cries or South American cries?
Load More Replies...Honestly how does anyone decide to have children in US? I'm asking because honestly i cannot imagine how this cost is paid especially when you already have a student loan for example! I'm wondering how big the demographic problem is in the US
People in the US are basically bullied into it by society. I can't tell you how many times I've been called "selfish" or "trash" because I don't want kids. There is still a very large population that believes it's a woman's duty to breed, and they brainwash their children to believe that. Schools don't teach proper sex ed, especially in certain districts where there isn't a lot of money to put in the schools, and it's harder for some people to access birth control. Birth control is also expensive, even with health insurance. I think when I was on the pill it was $30 a month. That's a lot when minimum wage is only $8 an hour and rent is $1200 for a one bedroom apartment (your mileage may vary). And all the people who say "just don't have sex" are probably very lonely, isolated people. You're punished if you have sex, and you're miserable if you don't have sex. It's the American Way (tm).
Load More Replies...Cost in Australia - $0. Back in 2006 & 2008 when my kids were born the Government gave you $10k just for having them.
Unless you need an ambulance and then you get stung with a decent bill (ours was $1000)
Load More Replies...To be honest- parking at hospital is sometimes ridiculously expensive.
Load More Replies...People complain about the cost for child birth. But imagine living in Sweden, then you would have to deliver your baby by yourself at home or in your car
I had a preemie baby in 2002 six weeks after my husband got his first real job with health insurance. The hospital bill for the birth, my two day stay and my baby's 21 day NICU stay was over $100K. With the insurance we only had to pay the copay for the baby and I, $250. We were so lucky to have that job and benefits
I had both my kids in Finland too. That price includes everything, hospital stay etc..
Mines costed €0 each. European country. Of course you can always come up with extra stuff to pay for, but you can actually have a descent child birth with zero expense.
Wait, what happens when you can’t pay the tab here in America? They keep the baby ? Funny but seriously
Wow we were paying off a 5 figure bill until she went to kindergarten
A visit to hospital for anything in the U.S and you would be paying hundreds of thousands of dollars 😑 I went in not too long ago, spent two hours hooked up to an IV for fluids, and they sent me on my way. Three weeks later I received the bill. My insurance covered 30% and I stil ended up with a $3,000 bill. I'm a single mom and will be paying then $25 a month for a very long time. The healthcare system is wrecked, it's all about putting money in the pockets of big pharma.
When I had my Son, in Newfoundland, Canada, it was $10.00, $5.00 per day. Three years later my Daughter was born, in the same hospital, Cesarean with massive life saving issues for me, none for her and the cost was $0.00. Not even parking!
In the US, if you or your spouse work for a big company, insurance probably pays most of it. If you are really really poor, Medicaid usually pays for it. Everyone else, it depends on whether you can even get insurance and whether that insurance covers maternity, which is a big if.
I remember seeing my grandmother's hospital bill when she spent a week there after having my mother. The total, including the doctor's fee, was $4.00.
Looks like a little trick.If you have health insurance, does the price tend to be about 10x lower? It also becomes more expensive if the expectant mother has been able to carefully avoid seeing a doctor and midwife during her pregnancy.
In the US, mortality is the going rate. We have an abhorrent birthing system here. Don't understand why US doctors haven't figured this out by now.
I just paid for my meals. Total was 450 SEK for a 9 day stay. But it was 21 years ago.
This bill is from Finland, not Sweden. Sweden still has kronor.
Load More Replies...My mom paid 50 cents for me in 1947....and I paid $40 for my son in 1983...the cost of everything keeps going up up up
It's zero here in Canada unless you need an ambulance, then you pay $100
A bandaid costs that in a US hospital. Last year, I had a major surgery and am considered to have "good" insurance. My out of pocket expenses were a bit over $8,000 US that's over 7,000 Eruo
The space for the payment record isn't long enough for an American hospital.
Jaguarundi - would that be North, Central or South American?
Load More Replies...My friend got sick in Africa, spent over s month in the hospital, same 8 hour nursing staff the entire time, cost her $3k in the US, it was have been over $300k
I'd be interested to know exactly where. TBH that sounds rather cheap if it was here.
Load More Replies...Finland has always been the black sheep of the nordics. The rest of us get it for free.
Sam - would that be North America, Central America or South America?
Load More Replies...Bruh...Giving birth in America isn't even something most people can afford. Like not just the whole raising a kid part...the actual birth costs insane amounts of money...huh
come to SA. Even in a private hospital you're looking at max 2000 usd.
Load More Replies...My Wife’s Engagement Ring Cut The Top Damn Near Perfectly Off A Glass When She Was Washing It
From the original Reddit post, top comment by u/t_bythesea: "Sorry, she may have thought that's what happened, but it's not. In machine cut glassware (especially if the glass is really thin) this is something that happens occasionally. There is a flaw in the glass that runs around the circumference and often not visible to the eye. Under pressure or extreme hot or cold water it can shear all the way around. while I'm sure her engagement ring is lovely. It would never cut glass like this. In 26 years of selling glassware of all styles, price ranges and quality, I've seen thousands of breaks like this."
My Hands After Washing The Dishes For 20 Minutes
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Where did the one with the veins on the baby monitor go? It gave me a heart attack the first time I saw it at our own :D.
Where did the one with the veins on the baby monitor go? It gave me a heart attack the first time I saw it at our own :D.