Numbers and facts can be difficult to comprehend when they're merely symbols on the screen. However, data becomes much more evident once it is visualized.
The subreddit r/CooolGuides is an excellent example of this axiom. Its 5.9 million members share charts, diagrams, maps, and other thought-provoking pictures on sports, travel, history, and virtually every subject you can imagine.
We at Bored Panda love them and have already covered the online community numerous times, but they've made so many interesting posts since the last one that we just had to put together a new collection of our recent favorites.
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Unlikely Neighborhood Hero
Psychology Unpacked
Secret Clubbing Signals
The last sign is the universal sign for « everything is ok » in any loud environment (flying, skydiving, ground operations) or when speaking is hard or impossible (diving, climbing). It’s completely dumb to use it for signaling a danger.
Upgrade Your Adjectives
Visual Playbook Basics
Shedding Light on Pollution
I wish they'd do something about the light pollution around me. It bleeds from the nearby town/cities, so right off the lake and I still can't get a nice starry sky.
What Really Keeps Them?
Hidden Mind Tricks
The Do’s and Don\'ts Shuffle
Tax Tricks Uncovered
I don't like it. It's like rich people evade responsibility to give back, and help carry the weight of running a nice and stable country. All this weight lands on the back of 'normal' people, while the country deteriorates. There is no lack of money, money gets hoarded up in the wrong places.
Breezy Design 101
Burnout Beyond The Clock
Tech Through The Ages
Street Smarts 101
Layers of Eternal Drama
Lucifer is supposed to be frozen waists deep in ice. Nobody reads the classics any more.
Nap Like a Pro
Snow Shoveling Made Simple
Spaceship Secrets Uncovered
Medal Money Matters
Wow, a three room apartment is no joke! I'd rather have that than money, thanks!
Geography Gets Weird
Iconic Internet Milestones
Walmart’s Coast-to-Coast Grip
Top Booze Hotspots Revealed
Decoding Price Codes
This chart is incorrect in the manager mark down aspect (.97). That is a corporate buyer markdown; $.88 is a GM markdown because their store needs to move that item immediately. Also, there's a # symbol that denotes an item's price had been changed by the buyer due to a code date about expired. Once those have been sold the price will go back to normal. An EPC on a sign denotes the warehouse GM or AGM marked the item down for a reason and corporate buying wasn't involved.
Living Arrangements Evolved
Single no kids 😎 (except I have a bf, we just aren’t moving in together)
Finger Tricks 101
Grocery Wars Uncovered
Kinda sad that Meijer, in Michigan, which is Michigan based, is not listed. Go to for produce for sure.
Who’s Winning the Money Game?
In general the get more out of the federal government are the ones moaning about people on welfare.
Frames That Fit Faces
History’s Heaviest Wallets
In 1324 Mansa Musa went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. On the way he gave so much gold to the poor and bought so many souvenirs with gold that he caused a recession in Egypt that lasted 10 years. When he heard what he had caused he borrowed all of the gold back at high interest rates
Underneath the Grit
Step 1 - Determine if you are under the car on purpose. Step 2 - Scream or take time to look around?
Cash Talks Louder
Ranking The Ride Quality
Work Smarter, Not Harder
Reliability Red Flags
And not a single Toyota on the list while it's one best selling brands in the US
Pricey Pursuits Across America
Hidden Hotspots Revealed
Northernn Ohio. Flat and nothing but cornfields here.
Load More Replies...I remember, it was a longtime ago, that the speed limit in Montana was 70 at night ... and "reasonable and proper" in daylight
Man, does everyone speed that excessively in Ohio or are the cops just ticket-happy?
It's probably because everyone is trying to drive out of Ohio as fast as possible.
Load More Replies...Places where people are unwilling to pay taxes—so localities slap a “fee” on every event they can, and the cops write LOTS of speeding tickets.
Yep, can confirm it's Ohio! Between State Patrol and local it can be ridiculous. If you drive an area enough, you'll learn where the hang-outs are.
Only One’s Got Issues
At least a dozen of these charts were US-centric, meaningless to the rest of the world.
It seems like the US isn't meaningless to the rest of the world. Slowly Trump is making us that way, though.
Load More Replies...Me too Isabela, I found them thought provoking and interesting. Even if they weren't about my town in South East England.
Load More Replies...Surprised Tesla and Jeep made it that high on the reliability scale.
Well Jeep was at one time known as one of the most reliable, but then during the Daimler years, the Germans neglected the brand and quality plummeted. Under Stelantis, they have been improving again.
Load More Replies...BoredPanda may well have just posted this as an infographic about the US.
Because politics affects everything. Right now Trump is trying to erase information that ends up on lists like this. I wonder what is up with all the people not complaining.
Load More Replies...At least a dozen of these charts were US-centric, meaningless to the rest of the world.
It seems like the US isn't meaningless to the rest of the world. Slowly Trump is making us that way, though.
Load More Replies...Me too Isabela, I found them thought provoking and interesting. Even if they weren't about my town in South East England.
Load More Replies...Surprised Tesla and Jeep made it that high on the reliability scale.
Well Jeep was at one time known as one of the most reliable, but then during the Daimler years, the Germans neglected the brand and quality plummeted. Under Stelantis, they have been improving again.
Load More Replies...BoredPanda may well have just posted this as an infographic about the US.
Because politics affects everything. Right now Trump is trying to erase information that ends up on lists like this. I wonder what is up with all the people not complaining.
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