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We probably all have that one hill that we're ready to die on. That one truth that we have no proof for but still believe no matter what. Some can be quite entertaining, like the now-memed-to-death claim that Keanu Reeves is immortal. Others, like thinking that your phone is always listening to you, are easily proven or disproven.

So when one netizen asked, "What are you 100% certain is true despite having no evidence to confirm or disprove your belief?" naturally, a whole bunch of commenters delivered. From theories that cats and dogs purposely break things just to wind us up, to some conspiracy-like opinions, the Redditors were ready to share. Read the most captivating entries below and don't forget to upvote the ones you like the best!

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence The number of stupid people is outpacing those with average intelligence resulting in the overall dumbing down of society.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Our dog knew my wife was pregnant before she did. Normally she was a sweet and lazy lovable dumb*ss who would hang out with whoever wasn't moving. (The dog, not the wife) Then one day, she decided she wasn't going to leave my wife's side. She wasn't aggressive, but she wasn't going anywhere either. Followed her everywhere for a few weeks, then spousal unit started getting sick, and went to the doctor, and the doctor said "Lets check the obvious"... And now I have an eight year old daughter, and that dog is her constant companion.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Conspiracy theories are purposefully circulated in order to create dissonance and divide people so that we forget about legitimate issues.

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

Russia actively used conspiracy theories and such to create division. And now the Ukraine support is stuck because of right wing maga loonies and russia is advancing because of shortage of supplies...

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Some of the 'truths' people list here actually have evidence behind them. Like the fact that drinks taste better in glass bottles than in plastic bottles. Even if Coca-Cola's spokespeople claim that their Coke tastes the same regardless of the packaging. Food chemist Sara Risch told Popular Science that there can be a subtle variation in taste when your drink is in an aluminum can, or a plastic or glass bottle.

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"While packaging and food companies work to prevent any interactions, they can occur," she explained. Aluminum cans, for example, have a polymer lining, and it might absorb some soluble flavor from the soda. When it comes to plastic bottles, a chemical named acetaldehyde can find its way into your drink as well.

And while it might sound alarming, there's no need to think that it's harmful. Public health departments track this kind of potential chemical contact. So the only thing we should worry about is the slightly different taste.

#4

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Allowed to operate freely, corporations would gladly abandon any semblance of ethics to turn a profit, including ushering in the slavery and or deaths of their customers.

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

Aren't they already doing this? Especially with illegal immigrants, stealing their passports and forcing them to work is disturbingly not as rare as one would think. Then there's the whole "moving production to overseas" with child labor and massive exploitation.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Electronic appliances, phones, washing machines ... are intentionally made to break down after few years just so you have to buy new ones, cause repair is usually not worth it. My parents have 35 years old washing machine, mine broke twice in 2 years.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence There is at least ONE giant creature deep down in the ocean that we don’t know about because we have never seen before. Like maybe one of those megalodons/plesiosaurs. We thought giant squids weren’t real until we found one. 

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Next up, the Big Mac debate. People have been saying for a while that the meat patty has been getting smaller and smaller throughout the years. It's a popular theory on social media, with posts on Quora and Reddit, and even TikToks where people call out the fast-food chain for the now-tiny patties.

What officially is the Big Mac? According to the McDonald's site, it's two "100% beef" patties, a special sauce, and a sesame seed bun. It also has "pickles, crisp shredded lettuce, finely chopped onion, and a slice of American cheese." And while the official photos look quite nice, the burger often looks different in reality.

A McDonald's spokesperson denies these rumors and told Yahoo News Australia that the size of the burgers has not changed. Interestingly, a former McDonald's corporate chef went on to TikTok to explain why the Quarter Pounder might have shrunken down. He says it comes down to the fast-food chain giant wanting to cut costs and make the burgers more affordable.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence My bond with my bearded dragon goes beyond “he’s warm”. I understand the limitations of his tiny nervous system and that he isn’t capable of affection. I just firmly believe that he not only wants heat and food, but that he finds my presence to be pleasant. That boy will come off his basking log as hot as hell ever need to be, with a belly full of bugs, and still come hauling over just to fall asleep on me. I don’t know what it is, but it’s more than just him seeking the necessities.

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

Reptiles release a different hormone than mammals in response to safety and happiness. This hormone is released in the presence of humans in captive bred reptiles. They do recognise their people, pick favourites, seek play, and seek attention from their person. I've worked with reptiles and have cared for sneks.

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#8

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Coke/soft drinks taste better in glass bottles than plastic.

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

They definitely taste better with cane sugar instead of the other stuff.

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McDonald's can make their burgers cheaper in some ways. One of them is to mix some frozen beef into fresh patties. However, at least in the U.S., McDonald's prides itself on never using frozen meat. That said, there might be loopholes where a certain percentage of frozen beef might be acceptable.

Another way to make the patties cheaper (and possibly smaller) is to reduce the lean-to-fat ratio. "If the fatty beef portions are cheaper than the lean portions, then they can actually make a fattier beef patty still hitting the appropriate weights. But when you cook it, more of that fat is released and you might have a smaller-looking patty," the former chef Mike Haracz explained.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Facebook and other apps listen and advertise accordingly.

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Jeff White
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I treat this "belief" and ROCK SOLID TRUTH. I hope the Tech executives take note, because if this is ever proven true, I believe the backlash would be unhinged.

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

For about two weeks, realistically. Then the next big thing hits the media and all is forgotten.

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

Definitely. The other day I was talking about a harness for our dog. Guess what is the first ad I see on google when I do my next search?!? Yep. A f*****g harness.

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Robert T
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't "listen" to sound. That is too messy and takes too much processing power. They do however collect information from a number of sources, such as what you search for, the website you visit, if your location is turned on, where you are, which other devices are in the same location, and they pull it all together to try to predict what interests you. This means that even though you didn't personally search for something, but mentioned it to someone else you were with, who later searched for it, you can start seeing ads for it.

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

With the amount of information we willingly leak out, they got plenty to work with without dedicating resources to this kind of thing. It's scary how much Google, for example, knows of us.

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

with regard to android, not true. And often disproven. Read up on personalized ads and how it works. It is true that everything is connected so sometimes it appears this way. You can also easily test this yourself by talking about something way out of your interest zone. We used red fire truck. Talked about it for two weeks. About how we want to buy one for 'sinterklaas'. Never showed up in an ad nor did any other (traditionally) male toy. We don't have kids.

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

Actually I can prove to you (well I can't because I don't have screenshots) that Android phones do that too. Case 1. I bought myself an Acer Swift computer. I haven't done any searching and comparing, just went to the shop my friends owns and bought computer off the shelf. The same day I talked on the phone with my friend about this new computer and I used these words "Acer" and "Swift" for the first time ever on the phone, because these words do not exist in my language. Lo and behold, since next morning I am getting ads everywhere I go about Acer Swift laptops. Coincidence? Doubtful. Case 2. I was talking with my friend about his whereabouts and he told me he is on construction site of new apartment building owned by company "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie" (name is false of course), company that I never heard about earlier. We talk a little more, name of the company gets mentione maybe 3 times. Next morning - ads of "itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Construction Ltd" are all around my phone.

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

3rd party cookies. The 1st party (you) communicates online with a 2nd party (a search website) who pass on the information to a 3rd party for a fee. The 3rd party then targets you with advertising based on that information. I find it quite amusing. I buy a chair and am then bombarded with adverts for chairs! I don't need another chair! I think Apple Safari has blocked it somewhat and more recently Google Chrome (or the other way around!).

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

All the free apps are a trade for information. If only used to target adds, it's fine. But when used to influence voting, like in 2016, it's anything but fine.

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

Every time you have a microphone open, assume someone/something is actually listening. After all we use Google to search for something and the search results are clearly used for advertising purposes. It's the dame when you make a voice search. Turn off the microphone consent on the apps on your phone, don't have Alexa turned on all the time and look at your phone screen. A small green dot shows whenever your microphone and camera are on and working. As far as I know this feature is now mandatory.

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Laura Williams
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know I yell at Google about stupid ads I've seen enough to sell the product. Stop showing the same ad.

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gilded panda
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not true sometimes. Playing a game in my phone, got an ad for that same game

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Nicole Weymann
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They don't have to listen, when users munch up on each and every cookie they're asked to accept, and actively react to articles they read by liking or commenting on them. You may top that off by using voice directed apps/devices ("Google, where is XYZ restaurant?" or "Alexa, play XYZ music"), but really the cookies already have you neatly covered. Fun fact: despite claims to the contrary most websites work just fine after declining cookies, and if they don't just go. There's thousands more out there.

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

Trust that these new cars today listen to you... your conversations, the music you play in them, where you travel to... is all in a database somewhere. Not a conspiracy... known fact! Say something in your car... pops up on social media in an ad. Play a song, talk about a movie... up it pops! Coinsidence?? Hell no!

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David Scotman
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

True in some ways. For example, if you use the Messenger app (Facebook owned) then you have automatically agreed they can use it to learn what advertisements to send your way. It is in the fine print. So many people think it is private.

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

I'm pretty sure it's in the terms and conditions.

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

Other way around. The reason Facebook et all advertise the thing you were just thinking about/talking about is because social media subtly planted the idea in your head to start with.

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Steve Hall
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It isn't hard to figure out. If you look in the settings it will ask you if you want personalized ads.

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

They also listen in on supposed secure patient software. Why am I getting a patient e-mail option to log on to facebook?!

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

I don’t think that these apps are using your phones’ microphones to listen. Not because they’re morally opposed to it, since they’re clearly morally bankrupt, but because their monitoring of you and your entire social circle’s browsing is sufficient to give them what they need. I think Brian Dunning has a compelling case for that here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/skeptoid/id203844864?i=1000580772802

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Regina Holt
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well, how else would I get ads that are on the subjects that I have looked at previously

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

My apps ignore me. Nothing I've ever said in my normal tone of speech has ever seen a relevant ad. 8(

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

One day my mobile was on the table while I was chatting with my wife about how great would it be to go to the Maldives again after 15 years. The next day my Facebook thread was full of ads of the Maldives and other travel destinations. I did not make any searches so they were listening.

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

Absolutely. It has happened twice to me that I type something in whatsapp and the next day I'm being offered a related product on aliexpress. I typed about spiders, for example, and the next day aliexpress was offering me plush spiders out of the blue. Same thing happened when I mentioned flies. They offered me fly traps. So it might be whatsapp or google keyboard sharing information. Or all of them.

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

It's already proven true, repeatedly and people don't do anything but complain and keep buying.

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

Anything that's "free" but wants you to "sign in" is tracking you and likely selling this info.

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Geoffrey Scott
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Chilling..my daughter kept getting popups on her phone for red eyes. went to use the bathroom..looked in the mirror. Yup! eyes were bloodshot.

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

Read the terms. People don't read that they are signing away their rights to privacy.

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Flora Porter
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just listening: looking and reading what you're reading. If I read a news item on someone and then start a new tab to search on something in that article, Google will anticipate the search term.

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

Install a firewall on your phone or on your network if you are capable. You'd be shocked how much data is transferred from your mobile devices.

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Kira Okah
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They do, and you likely agreed to allow them to when you installed the app on your phone.

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

There is proof of this though. Turn off the microphone for those apps in the settings then they won't be able to eavesdrop. No more ads for things that I talk about. Unless I personally google a product.

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

Tested this, have you? I'd love to see your study design. "Proof" is a strong word, such that we don't even use it in real statistical-based studies. Confirmation bias is a huge factor in this sort of thing, you see what you want to see based on a very small and unrepresentative sample.

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

Definitely. I also think spammers know when the phone is in use. I'm not a big phone user, but I can't tell you the number of times that I'll end a legitimate call just to have it ring before I have a chance to set it down...

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

We've received advertisements two different times for things we were talking about - tax software, and mattresses (these topics were years apart.) Creepy.

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

And that's why I have a "life list". Advertise this way to me and you go on the list. Never to be used, bought from, or listened to. For life.

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Mary Gillis
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

talk about something and sure enough it suddenly turns up on your phone/FB you name it.

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

This is just a fact I think it's been proven? Not sure though

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shawna Reich
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2 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it has to be true...even google knows what you're searching for based on your current conversation

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

Few years back i have made a small experiment with my girlfriend. For a few days we was talking about a specific thing to buy but never actually typed it in any device. No sms, no messenger etc. After few days we started having ads for it.

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

I think they are somehow already at the mind-reading stage...! I am someone who absolutely HATES shopping with a passion but I recognised that I need to buy a new top for summer. Quite a lot of the shops I used to go to when not buying things online have closed recently (pandemic, customers buying online) so I had to have a good think about brands that might have things I could like. Bearing in mind the last time I went in a physical clothes shop was probably 3-4 years ago, it was pretty unbelievable that I got a FB ad for exactly the brand I had thought of, which is far from a leading name around here. I have never bought anything from that brand online before. I never mentioned it to anyone, literally just thought it - and then it pops up in my feed.

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#12

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Some modern art is priced so high because rich people utilise it for money laundering. Saw it on a Reddit conspiracy comment and I haven’t been able to shake it since.

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

Money laundering through art is not something without evidence, it very much known about.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence That corporations prevent nationalized healthcare in the US so they can exert control over their employees. If employees didn't need a job for health coverage, they could quit any time a better offer came along.

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

Whether true or not, it is time to decouple health care insurance from your job.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Sandwiches made for you are absolutely better than sandwiches you make yourself.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence People with lower IQ's are happier because they aren't constantly overthinking, looking for self-transcendence, analyzing everything around them, and expecting too much of themselves.

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

I can appreciate the rational here, but there are some pretty angry, dumb people too.MAGA anyone?

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence This isn't the first universe. This isn't the first time any of this has happened.

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

Excellent example of something we really can't prove, yet still feels true

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Hummingbirds are fairies.

It‘s the last bit of whimsy I have left. Don‘t ruin this for me please.

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

Whimsy is an underrated characteristic. It should never be quashed or ruined.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Humans can communicate telepathically. We just don't know how to use it on purpose.

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When one of my friends was in his last stages of cancer, I woke up at 5 in the morning just completely heartbroken and sobbing. I don't think I have ever felt the same kind of sadness I did in that moment.

I woke my boyfriend up and told him I needed to call my friend's wife because something was wrong. He said I couldn't call her at 5 in the morning because if she wasn't at the hospital with him she would freak out. He was of course right. She called me 30 minutes later and told me he had passed away at 5.15. I was supposed to visit him in the morning but I was to 4 hours to late.

I don't normally believe in anything supernatural or the afterlife, but I just know deep down in my heart, that it was him saying his goodbye.

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

The night my grat grandmother died, a country away, I dremed of her. We had a chat on a bench at a lake. The next morning my mother called and I just said great granny died...

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#19

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence At least half the US government can't beat a 5th grader in 5th grade trivia.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Politicians at the highest level of the government are all crooked as hell.

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

And FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Defence financing, and all of the political lobbyists.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence That the leader of Scientology k*lled his wife and burned the body. And bribed the police to get away with it.

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

For anyone curious - this is about the disappearance of Shelley Miscavige. She disappeared in June 2006 and hasn't been seen in public since a funeral in August 2007.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence I'm 100% positive my sister died of covid before covid was supposed to be in my state.

We had something really bad going around in the fall of 2019 and the Winter of 2020. It sent many people to the hospital with pneumonia or breathing difficulties. Several customers at my place of work were diagnosed with COPD even though they never smoked. Others coughed up blood. My coworker came to work sick as a dog in January 2020 and I sat across from him at lunch along with another coworker. The next week I got sicker than I have ever been. My sister and her husband also got very ill even though we hadn't been in contact. I could barely breathe and had to sleep for 3 days leaning upright on the back of the couch. I was so ill I almost broke down and went to the ER even though at the time I was uninsured and never went to the doctor. My coworker that I got it from went to the doctor and they did a test for the flu but it came back negative. The other coworker that sat beside me at lunch also got sick and she too came back negative for influenza. A week later my sister and her husband fell ill and ended up at the doctors office. They both tested negative for influenza.

Two days after my sister went to the doctor, she got out of bed and fell dead to the floor. That was February 18th, 2020. We assumed she had a heart attack, the cause of death was a heart attack only because of the sudden death and her history of having a heart attack a few decades before. No autopsy was done and she was cremated. This was about the same time Covid showed up on the West coast. We live in North Carolina and no covid was supposed to be in the state at that time. My coworker that got it the same time I did had a brother who also had it and ended up in the hospital with a very virulent pneumonia (tested negative for influenza) and died the same day my sister did.

I swear to this day my sister and my coworker's brother both died of covid but no proof and no way to prove it.

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

This also happened to my husband. December 2019 he is sicker than he has ever been. Couldn't breathe, cough and basically an invalid for a week. He is never sick. He swears it was COVID.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Aliens exist all over the universe.

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#24

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence PETA is a conspiracy by the meat industry to raise societies distrust in actual animal right activists.

Only evidence i have is that not a single human being could act as stupid and pretentious as PETA does very often.

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

I don't know whether to hope this is true ... or not. I'm thinking 50/50.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Big Mac keeps getting smaller.

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Pretty soon it'll just be 3 buns with a little grease stain between them.

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

I remember about 25 years ago, I was in a subway, and an employee came in with a mcDonalds bag (lol) and said "If McDonald's keeps making their burgers smaller, pretty soon they'll have to sell them as biscuits."

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence The loch ness monster is a lil dinosaur ghost. I would highly recommend believing this, since it doesn't hurt anyone to do so. Makes me smile thinking about him.

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#27

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Garbage trucks have loud brakes to give us one last chance to get the bins out.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence I’m convinced that theme parks/fairs/carnivals pay people to walk around with giant prizes to make the games look more winnable and convince more people to play. 

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

Don't know about carnivals, but I was part of the organization committee at a yearly charity fair, and we took care of giving away very early on a couple of the major prizes at the skill games, so people would be drawn in. The kids who scored anything above average early into the afternoon would win one of the RC cars, or Barbies, pro-league footballs and jerseys etc, while later on to win those would have required a nearly perfect score.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Software updates at the end of a product lifetime will brick the device.

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

I "think" this position has been proven and the EU has sued and won significant damages regarding this action

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence The ER gets crazier on nights that the moon is full. It's usually busy, theres lots of psych patients, traumas, and all around weird stuff goes down.

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

The advent of street lighting means that lunatics no longer have to wait for a full moon.

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That my sweet, innocent, shy dog is a diabolical mastermind who creates scenarios that get my hyperactive dog into trouble in order to maintain his "favorite" title among friends and family. I've seen some things. Poor Wendy.

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#32

I’m being pushed aside for leadership roles at my company because I’m a good reliable worker and they have a shortage of those.

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

Well known business concept, known as "Putt's Corollary", or "Law of Competence Inversion". Also stolen and made popular as "Dilbert's Law" by comic author and certified loony Scott Adams.

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#33

Over half the people who got PPP loans don’t even have a real business.

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

What they ALL have in common - friends in high places that helped secure the loans and then assisted in getting that loan wiped away

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence At least 1/3 of the "human" in the internet and social media are bots or IAs.

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

I feel guilty whenever I tick that "I am not a robot" checkbox as I know I am not being truthful

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#35

Companies are offering monthly payment plans in an effort to normalize having a low income and high debt.

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

Also, monthly payments are better for company books. They represent a constant and predictable income stream, that for management is better than highly volatile and unpredictable quarterly sales. The reliable income allows for expense optimization and better planning of investment, while presenting a more enticing financial scenario to investors.

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#36

That my dryer eats my socks. I can’t prove it but I know in my heart it is true, there is no other explanation.

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#37

Lunch meat cut as thin as possible just tastes better.

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

It's a known fact in cooking, that the higher the surface, the more taste you can generate: Think of vegetables cut in cubes of 10mm (60mm2) and then again in cubes of 2mm (24mm2 x 15 = 360mm2) -> so cut 5 times smaller, to get sixfold of surface.

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#38

That Goodwill is actually a very cleverly designed money laundering scheme.

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

It's a "not for profit" that pays executives high salaries while they pay their workers as little as they legally can, including paying disabled workers below minimum wage. That's not a secret, though.

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#39

“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence Phone and internet providers start out solid and overtime purposefully make the product worse to encourage you to upgrade.

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Lately, Disney has been trying to revive the old “steamboat Willy“ version of Mickey Mouse through merchandise and new cartoons drawn in the old fashion that nobody really asked for. I think they are doing all of that deliberately so that they can try to fight the scheduled copyright expirations on their old cartoons.

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

That's a very well known tactic, no conspiracy here. Disney included the character in movie logos and made merchandise because they are turning it into a trademark instead of a intellectual property. IPs expire and go into public domain, trademarks do not but are limited in scope and application; also, the protections granted are different. Disney is trying to convert the expired protection into a new, enforceable one, hoping to limit the availability of the character either through proper brand protection or through "scare tactics": this kind of conversion is a gray area, so if you want to use the character for anything you may be into uncharted waters. Are your pocket deep enough to go to war with Disney Legal, or is it better not to take the gamble?

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#41

Michael Jordan didn’t “retire” to play baseball.

He was serving a suspension related to gambling and he and the league agreed on a mutual cover up because he was too valuable a marketing asset for the league. They didn’t want to tarnish his image.

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

I virtually NEVER believe in cove-ups. But, I have to admit this is one of the most believable I have heard.

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Spirits of nature. Anyone who has lived close to a forest for some period of time has weird, unexplainable stories to tell. I've seen some real weird s**t (i live very close to the Atlantic forest in Brazil).

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

I saw some interesting things in Kakadu NT, I worked the balls up to ask a few locals from the Oenpeli tribe, and was told there’s a lot of spirits out there and it’s not unusual that I kept seeing what I saw - almost like a ghibli film 😂 just black shadows walking or in the act of sitting down on grass etc. tripped me out so bad. Other locals talked of unexplainable things they’ve heard or seen while hunting and camping etc. it’s such a fun place

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence That my dad might be alive. He supposedly died in 2009. He was a huge paranoid conspiracy theorist to the point where he would bury his money, planted bushes to hide behind incase the government had a shoot off with him, and at one point thought we all had been replaced by clones. The only people who saw his body are one of my aunts and my grandma who had Alzheimer’s. They told us he was cremated and at the funeral there was no coffin, no urn, all there was was a black and white photo from when he was 10 (he was born in the 50’s). I’ve yet to see his urn or death certificate and it’s been 12 years. He had connections to people who could have easily helped him fake his death, he also had the money to do this. People have also supposedly seen him in Indiana (they took a picture and tbh the guy looks just like him only a bit older, same hunchback, same tattoo on his leg, and he even walked with the same little limp).

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There is something beyond this material life. A week before my mom died she told me that "I have to go home soon, but you have to stay here". As she was actively dying she kept waving, as if to people, and once even told me to move out of my chair, as if I was blocking her view. I pondered this once in a while ever since; and then I came upon " Hospice nurse julie(I think that's her name; I know it started with a J) on tiktok. She simply describes, without religious or any other bias, the process of dying that she has witnessed. Apparently, a dying person often says that they are going home, and also says that they see lost loved ones and even pets who intimate or even say outright not to worry, and that they will help the dying person pass, as much as a month before they die.

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

yep I've heard this but it could be brain illusions like a dream state, it doesn't mean the "seen" persons still exist.

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#45

“People” who buy NFTs don’t actually exist, it’s just a money laundering scheme.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence That chapstick companies make their chapstick to actually chap your lips so you need more of their chapstick...bastards.

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

I think they put a magic spell on the tubes that makes them get lost before you can use them up.

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence My co-worker lies about her medical conditions.

She lies that she has seizures, and while I can’t prove it, I know it’s a lie because she’ll drive the same day that she claims to have a seizure.

Any time you mention any medical condition, she has it and it’s worse than your case.

She has mentioned having toxic shock syndrome, colitis, and a bunch of other things I can’t recall at the moment. One day we were talking about Autism, and she mentioned that her 22 y.o. daughter (who also happens to work with us) was diagnosed as a child. A few days later the daughter casually mentioned that she had found out just recently that she’s Autistic. I wanted to tell her that she only JUST found out because her mom just recently made that s**t up.

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

we call it "elevenerife", if you've been to Tenerife, they've been to elevenerife!!

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence I am convinced that the electronics items sold at steep discounts on Black Friday are the ones that don't test as well at the factory. Like, when they do quality control tests, the ones that rate 90% or whatever are the ones that are tagged and sent out for Black Friday sales.

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

Never thought of this, but it makes complete sense. Excellent observation / belief.

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The NFL politicized kneeling to distract from CTE research.

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

But why would anyone want to hide CTE research or distract away from it?

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“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence An eye-rolling one, but Jeffrey Epstein’s island, to me. confirmed the existence of depraved headhunting and Squid Game like sadism.[The sun dial with the pastel colored stools?](https://imgur.com/a/JIpFttO) Come on.

There are too many people who go missing without a trace and never found to consider that at least many of them don’t end up in a sick situation like that.

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