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Some people seem so sure about certain things, they must know them for a fact. Right? Well, not necessarily. They might be convinced themselves, yet have no proof to convince you with. Whether it’s a conspiracy theory they’ve made up or a strong belief based on personal experience (for instance, “that sandwiches taste 100 x's better when cut diagonally”), their minds seem to be set in stone.

Redditors discussed the topic after one of them asked what they believe is 100% true but can't prove. Quite a few people were willing to share, so scroll down to find their answers and see if there's anything you believe to be true as well.

#1

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of I believe that if you separated the population of any country or city based on either religion, skin color, gender, age group, economical class, political affiliation or eye color, you would find the same percentage of a******s in each of those subgroups.

da_governator , Scott Evans Report

#2

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That kids would be generally happier if all schools started later in the day, allowed/encouraged mid-day naps, and had cellphone jammers that were turned on at the start of the day and turned off at the end or in case of emergency. 

heeerrresjonny , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

#3

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Whoever started the flat earth conspiracy theory doesn't actually believe it-- they did it as a massive troll for their own amusement of watching dumb people dedicate themselves to something so stupid.

CMDR_Verax , Porapak Apichodilok Report

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

I believe the same thing about QAnon - whoever started it, probably didn't even expect it would blow up like it did.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Most (all?) animals are much more intelligent than researchers give them credit for.

I can see a thinking creature if I watch any of them long enough. Praying Mantises especially!

HarmoniousJ , Charles J. Sharp Report

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

It’s because we think our type of intelligence is superior to others. And such thinking will eventually be our downfall

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That my generation (im 25 yo) will bear witness to a cataclysmic event that dramatically restructures the geopolitical system and society as we know it. I am talking an event on par with the great depression or WWII. Perhaps even the fall of Rome or the plague. I feel it is just about time for the wave to crash.

zonedout430 , Ivan Aleksic Report

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of A lot of people don't actually believe in whatever religious organization they belong to and use it to manipulate those that do and amass power for themselves. Church of scientology isn't the only example, but it's a good one. See also the fact that if everyone genuinely believed killing yourself for your religion would lead to eternal paradise, suicide bombings would be reserved for the highest ranking officials.

Iron_Man_977 , Ric Rodrigues Report

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Small/lack of pockets in women's clothing is a thing so that fashion companies can sell more purses. 

TheSaltiestSaltine , Manuel Iallonardi Report

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

My thoughts exactly, this is what i've been saying to all my male friends, with a demonstration as well; the difference in size is astonishing.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That anything and everything we do on our mobile phones, even when you think you are being secretive by using invented usernames and arbitrary passwords, is being logged and electronically documented somewhere. Privacy is a thing of the past.

ommyoho , Priscilla Du Preez Report

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Jo Slatermill
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's true but not in some dark conspiracy way, but just the way this technology works. it's dots connected from your phone to another site out there. it's like you order coffee somewhere, they write it, fill the order, gives it back to you. the order still logged, the money is logged as received. it's the exact same thing, you just don't think of it this way cuz you just click some buttons on your device.

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#9

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Giant creatures exist in the deepest parts of the sea.

DOC360noscope , Alex Rose Report

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

But even with all the technology that we have today -- satellites, buoys, underwater vehicles and ship tracks -- we have better maps of the surface of Mars and the moon than we do the bottom of the ocean. We know very, very little about most of the ocean. This is especially true for the middle and deeper parts far away from the coasts. ~Gene Feldman (NASA)

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David A Paterson
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah. I believed that until humans visited the deepest parts of the DNA in the Trieste. An extra nail in the coffin of that idea is the use of "environmental DNA" to find new species that have never been seen.

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

Didn't a DNA study of samples found in the New York subway find several of unknown origin?

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Jo Slatermill
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn't make much sense. maybe some giant Jellyfish. but very low brain functioning if any. maybe. but the bigger sea animals usually lives closer to the surface. whales, sharks for example.

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

It depends on what you call "giant". But actually, gigantism is pretty common in the depths. From squids to arthropods and fishes, you can find a lot of very big animals down there. Not kaiju big, but still bigger than their counterparts on lesser depths.

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

It seems probable. I just hope for those creatures' sake that they remain hidden and manage to avoid contact with humans, who destroy everything or want to turn our fellow creatures into food or curiosities to gawp at.

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Vasana Phong
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The earth and the universe still unknown, anything can happen, imagine due to climate changes, mass quantities of deep sea creatures or land will just pop up, dead or alive

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

don't forget the Meg, they made two movies about it...

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

Haven't we only explored 5-10% of our oceans? Given that, it seems reasonable to assume there are creatures we haven't documented, but I don't know how large they can get at the deeper levels, given the amount of intense pressure. I would think that would limit growth size.

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Marco Richter
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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

while factually correct that's a common misconception. The low percentage comes from a grid based mapping of the oceanfloor which nevertheless provides a pretty good overall knowledge. Like if you look at any scetch only a very low percentage of the paper has been drawn out but you can still tell what the picture should be.

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

have any of you talked to scientists or read actual science on this or is this like a religious belief to you? lol

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

Can you imagine what those creatures must look like? The angler fish (I'm obsessed with them), Massive squid...I can only imagine it looks like Tim Burton's wet dream down there lol

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

No. There's not enough to feed them down there. And we don't find fishing boats and blue whales with giant holes bitten in them.

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

I love it that the picture shows a (land dwelling) person diving surrounded by a bird-shaped group of fish!

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

Someone has watched too many shorts on the Lights Are Out channel...

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#10

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That there's fragments of history behind the legend of Arthur.

A long time ago the only iron they had access to in Britain was bog iron - literally clumps of mud pulled from bogs. They would use them to make iron weapons but the quality of the metal was poor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron

"pull the sword from the stone and you will become king of Britain" - this means if you learn to get iron from iron ore (stone) you will get weapons good enough to make your people conquerors.

"a magic sword from a lake"

Heard of quenching? at some stage someone was forging swords with their new iron and accidentally dropped it in some water (or stuck it in because he was tired of waiting for it to cool down) and to his surprise found the new sword seemed "magically" stronger than non-quenched swords.

Remember; millennia ago history was largely (completely, sometimes) passed down orally from generation to generation and changed in the process.

The legend of Arthur that we have now is in fact the relicts of actual historical events so old there's nothing left of them except the legend...

Not all legends are true; but some may be fragments of oral history.

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

All legends have some tiny grain of truth in them. The Flood, for example - some scholars think it may relate to a major ancient geological upheaval in the Black Sea region... which wasn't a global flood at all, but evolved into such a myth over time.

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#11

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That sandwiches taste 100x's better when cut diagonally.

anabanana96 , Daria Nepriakhina Report

#12

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Subway was much higher quality 20 years ago.

RogueModron , Chris Kennedy Report

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

So were a lot of things. Standards are now expendable, profit is all.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Aliens exist.

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

From a purely statistical standpoint - they have to. The universe is too damn big for us to be alone.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of King St. Old Town, Alexandria VA - there are two, count em TWO, wig shops one building apart. They are outdated shabby looking places whose windows are filled with the fakest looking wigs, mustaches, and toupes on mannequin heads. It's on the main street, in a very wealthy town. Other businesses come and go under the competitive pressure of the area and high leasing prices but these shops stay open without a single customer. My mom lived there in the 80s and they were there; I live there now and still they stand unchanged. 100% a front for two competing mobsters.
edit: y’all are bolstering my conspiracy theories, now I’m going to investigate the stores myself. If I die you know what happened.

Shroffinator , Shroffinator Report

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#15

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Companies like 23 and me will eventually sell customers dna to health insurance companies, and some folks will be charged higher rates if not kicked off their insurance. 

phat79pat1985 , Hannob Report

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

They are already selling it to pharmaceutical companies, supposedly in anonymised and aggregated form. 23andme (re)sold their dataset to GlaxoSmithKline for 50 million in 2022, after sharing them in 2018-2022 for a 300 million equity investment.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Facebook suggested friend algorithm is partly based on people that have stalked you.

liontrips , Austin Distel Report

#17

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of There is an infinite number of universes.

Nerdiant , NASA Report

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

Excellent comment. I believe that there are at least eight different types of multiverse (multiple universes). There are new universes that you get to be going through black holes. There is the quantum multiverse where the decisions we make now cause the universe to split. There is the braneworld multiverse of 11 dimensional space in which 4-D universes float. There is the multiverse of "eternal inflation". There may be a topological multiverse where the universe folds back on itself, and there is the far universe beyond the visible boundary in which the laws of physics are different.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of I believe “Bad Luck” exists to steer us in the right direction. For example, turning around because I’ve forgot my wallet to find I’ve left the door front door open. That’s why I’m not so upset about having to cancel a recent vacation. I had vehicle breakdowns, one after another, on a road trip. Had to cancel after only 200 miles and go home. Maybe something horrible would have happened out in the desert if I’d continued.

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

I think in your case, your ancestors may be looking out for you! In my case, I probably did something terrible in a past life and I am only here to suffer this time around.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Talents shows on TV plant the people who they audition and the judges are cued to ask questions based on their stories.

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

I think people are often chosen not based on talent, but rather on appearance or having a "dramatic" backstory.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of The US government artificially deflates the price of cheap high calorie low nutrition foods because poor fat people don’t overthrow governments, poor hungry ones do.

RhodiumPl8ed , Nothing Ahead Report

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

Very naive thinking. the government is lots of departments, with changing agendas according to who is in power (politically). think about the arguing about everything you see every day in the news. now think that all of them just do and agree on one thing for decades... it's just common sense that cheap products are made of lower ingredients, so they just cost less to make.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Late to the party, but I believe that infants, toddlers, and young children have emotions, thoughts and feelings just as rich and complex as adults, if not more-so due to the magnitude of each new discovery.

ShookSloth , Jeremiah Lawrence Report

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

But... of course they do. They are people. It's extremely odd to think that they wouldn't?

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That ancient civilisations were WAY more advanced than we give them credit for, this line of thinking can go a few different ways, some more ridiculous than others but I think as a baseline it is true. edit: If you are feeling adventurous check out subreddits like /r/alternativehistory or /r/CulturalLayer . There are a lot of questionable posts but it's interesting stuff and some higher quality posts. It's mostly in good fun of course it's hard to prove any of this type of stuff.

beartankguy , Pat Whelen Report

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

Advanced in thinking, but lacking the physical capabilities in the doing. Look at Da Vinci and Charles Babbage. Both designed things that would work, but lacked the physical means of creating them.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of The management at my work have installed some sort of signal-jamming Faraday cage around the toilets so the staff can't spend time in the toilet using the internet on their phones.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That the vacuum shop down the street is a money laundering operation. Never a customer in the store, no new inventory since what looks like the late nineties to early aughts, and yet, they've been open for business since the 1950s. A specialized vacuum shop could never survive in this walmart era, there's just no way.

Also Mattress Firm. Same deal, I just know it.

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#25

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Most of the long winded top posts/comments on reddit are written by professional or aspiring writers who actually do not have the first hand experience they claim to have.

flatulential , Melanie Deziel Report

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

are you telling me that some people put false stories online for attention i have never heard so much dribble since the time i was astronaut war hero that invented the question mark

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of When you look at a person completely unaware of you, they have the impulse to turn and look at you too.

ElYatch , Nathan Dumlao Report

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

It's weird but I have had this happen a number of times both as the watcher and the watched. People say it's coincidence but what reason would I have to randomly turn round?

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of In the 90’s business leaders all bought stock in student loan companies and began demanding BAs for entry/middle level jobs.

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

I thought it was more about being legally able to hire less women and people of color. We were less likely to hold college degrees than white guys up until the 80's. American companies are still fast tracking white guys over everyone else!

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of I’m into conspiracy theories, but at the end of the day I don’t have a strong belief in any of them. I have an open mind towards them, but I also acknowledge that they are just theories. I’m sure some of them are probably true, but there’s no way to tell which ones are and which aren’t. But I do firmly believe this: There is enough evidence to prove that the CIA and the rest of the government won’t give a flying f**k about the well-being of American citizens if it means their goals will be met. The horrors of MK-ULTRA, bacteria being sprayed across San Francisco to test the effects of biowarfare on their own citizens, all of these events actually happened. If the government would do that s**t to their own people, some of the conspiracy theories don’t sound so crazy now. When it comes down to it, you really are the CIA’s lab rat whether you like it or not.

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

The larger the number of people who would have to keep it secret, the less likely it is.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Gatorade switched to curvy bottles to hide that they are 4 ounces smaller Edit:I am not saying it can't be proven that the bottles are 4 ounces smaller, I am saying I can't prove that the bottle shape was changed specifically so consumers wouldn't notice.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of The timers at McDonalds to determine when the fries are done frying move at a rate of 2 units per second in order to make employees feel like they're moving too slow and to work faster.

iSerpens , Louis Hansel Report

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

Or, just maybe, they are calculated to off off when the fries are ready . . .

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That there is no afterlife.

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of The "arms" on Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons are backwards. They ought to be rotated 180 degrees. What good are these stubby little arms for? We have found out relatively recently that T-Rex have feathers. It is now an established fact, T-Rex where not covered in scales but in feathers, like a bird. Take the "arms" on a T-Rex and flip them around 180 degrees. Now you have wings like a ostrich. Now look at a Tyrannosaurus. We used to think of almost all "dinasaurs" as "lizard-like," in fact the name means "terrible lizard." Now we know that many different animals that we think of as "dinosaurs" are more bird-like than lizard-like. Rex had wings. Not big wings to fly with, but wings that were perhaps somthing like that of an ostrich, cassowary, or emu, although likely much smaller in proportion to their body. Ostriches use their wings in mating rituals, to make themselves appear larger, and to signal and communicate, perhaps T-Rex used theirs for some similar purpose. They did not have useless stubby little arms.

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

If you could come up with it by yourself don't you thing at least a some of the hundreds of studied paleontologists would come up with the same idea to double check it?

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of I’ve waited a long time to be asked this exact question.

1. Skittles are all the same flavor

2. Quail can only fly like 20 feet at a time. They can’t hold sustained flight.

3. When Mormons get married, they are issued a secret sex how-to pamphlet because they’ve had such sheltered lives up until then.

Nobody can convince me otherwise.

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

Can't agree with 1 - I have a pretty good sense of smell/taste, and they all have different flavors to me.

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30 years ago or so it was the oil companies behind "Save the Trees" to get everybody to use more plastic. Plastic bags, plastic straws, all sorts of stuff. Nobody was cutting down the rain forest to make paper grocery bags. Trees, paper trees especially, are a crop like any other. "Save the wheats! Dont eat bread!" Signed: Corn farmers. That'd be weird, right?

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

Paper or plastic. Kill a tree or strangle a fish. I'm beginning to believe that that "strangle a turtle" meme was invented by an ad company and involved them catching turtles, forcing their necks through beer holders and filming the result. Can't prove it though.

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That in elementary school on day when there was a substitute teacher, Jabrahn stole all my shiny football stickers from my drawer. The sub teacher didn't know any of the kids and when the real teacher came back a few days later they said there was nothing they could do as they weren't there. Jabrahn mysteriously had a lot more football stickers to trade at lunchtime. F**k you Jabrahn.

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#36

Fudgesicles and oatmeal cream pies are smaller than they were when I was growing up in the 1980s.

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#37

I've noticed a few way overpriced gas stations in LA, and at first I thought it was because they were off the highway or something and catching people who weren't locals and didn't know any better. But then I noticed they're next to police stations, and have completely convinced myself that they jack up the price because (I assume) the gas money to fill up the police fleet comes from the government and not individual officers, so nobody cares.

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#38

That humans have to be, by some degree, psychic or able to tell the future somehow.

Think about it, how many times have you thought of a song in your head right before it comes on the radio? Or had a topic in mind and came across other people discussing it? Or thought of something at the same time as someone else?

That stuff happens too often for it to just be chance.

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

Someone has a done a good de-bunking of this line of thinking. Was it Derren Brown? Something about the sheer number of people in the world, if you think about the number of things that happen to those people or the number of things they think about, there are bound to be a heck of a lot of coincidences. Humans are bad at thinking rationally about large numbers. Radio stations play the same songs on rotation and you probably listen to a particular radio station because you like the music it plays. Sometimes they tell you what's coming up in the next half hour. Life is magical even when it's not mystical.

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#39

That Jeff Bezos is laughing at all of us not realizing that the Amazon arrow is really a penis.

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Financial systems are involved in a conspiracy to remove financial education from public schools. This is in order to keep young people financially illiterate and more susceptible to incurring debt. They influence governments to remove or fail to include mandatory financial learning from standard cirricula. Seriously, I never learned anything about the financial reality that I would face as a citizen of my country. I did a brief three month elective rotation at age 14 learning how to write a budget sheet and how businesses worked, but nothing about my personal financial rights and responsibilties.

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

This is a bit of a stretch. But I'm guessing they're referring to the USA education system. Canada, or at least in Manitoba, finances are a part of Applied and Essential Mathematics courses in High School. Some banks, such as RBC have books for youth explaining finances. My mom gave me one a long time ago. If there's such a thing as banking institutes bribing or lobbying for depriving youth from education it would have been blown way out of the water by now, and I'm sure some laws would have been broken.

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#41

That the US military possesses many technological advancements but it is all kept secret so that other countries can't use them.

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#42

We're living in an alternate evil reality, because somebody timetraveled and messed everything up.

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#43

That if someone else lived the exact life and circumstances that I did, they would have done a better job than me.

*edit*: Appreciate the words of encouragement. This is not a self defeating thought. I generally think of this from time to time as a reminder to not take myself too lightly or seriously. As mentioned by many, the converse is probably true as well. It’s probably a good thing that this cannot be proven so there’s really no point comparing with others. What’s more important is to stay humble and do the best that I can given the cards that I’m dealt with.

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

take into account that there are no perfect people because we are not robots. There are emotions, feelings and psychological state in play. Who knows, maybe that other person would have done worse, and you were stronger than anyone else would be in your situation. Don'd be harsh to yourself, love yourself. You deserve to love you, for imperfect but good human as you are :)

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#44

I think Maddie McCann's parents killed her.

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

I have always thought this and I'm not the only one, not by a long way.

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#45

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Elf on the Shelf, the elf doll that supposedly watches children and reports back to Santa that parents love so much, is actually a subversive program by government or maybe corporate interests to desensitize children to being under constant surveillance so they won’t question it as adults. No, I don’t believe there are any cameras or mics in the actual doll. The point of it is to implant the idea into children’s head when they are young that someone is always watching them.
 
For those of you saying this is no different than Santa who “sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake” or a god who watches you from on night, I agree with you, but the Elf on the Shelf takes it to the next level. The Elf is a visible, tangible representation of surveillance where as an old bearded guy magically watching you from the North Pole or up in the clouds is more of an abstract concept.

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#46

More like 65% but......The Hawaiian missile false alarm was intended to see how a large group would respond knowing they are about to die.

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

I'm more concerned over the reported human error in this type of situation. One dummy with access he should never have had. Pretty sure he got the job from a relative!

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#47

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Some employers make having a driver's license a requirement for jobs that clearly wouldn't need to involve driving because it's a legal way to discriminate against disabled applicants.

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

Doesn't sound right. Most disabled people are eligible for a driving license. One out of seven Americans have some type of disability, while only 1 out of 200 have a disability that would prevent having a driver license (possibly with specific mandatory conditions attached).

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#48

Random shuffle on Windows Media Player isn't actually random. Out of all the songs I have, I feel like I get a few specific ones at the beginning pretty much every time I load the playlist, while there are other songs that I even forgot I already have because they never play.

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

Of course it’s not random. If it was, it would occasionally play the same song two or three times in a row.

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#49

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That the Nutella recipe has changed markedly over the last 10-15 years (and not just the most recent highly publicised change). I now find the texture in particular to be almost gross whereas I used to enjoy guzzling it in large quantities.

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

Or, you have have grown older and sweet unhealthy foods are getting gross to your tastebuds

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#50

Mattress Firm is a money laundering front. There are at least 4 within my small city’s limits. No one buys that many mattress.

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

I think the Mafia does indeed buy the most mattresses. Ever see the Godfather?

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#51

Health insurance companies regularly give confidential employee health information to the companies that partner with them.

Employees “consent” to this by regularly taking “voluntary” health screenings, biometric surveys, and and exercise data to maintain their premium discount.

I’ve tried to tell my coworkers this but they insist HIPAA covers this and that insurers “would never do that.”

They are wrong and I’ve regularly seen sick or post [expensive] surgery coworkers get terminated for “performance reasons.”

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

They regularly give confidential health info to everyone in listening shot in the waiting room. "I'm sorry. I can't hear you. What are wanting to see the Doctor for?.... Oh A YEAST INFECTION? WAIT RIGHT OVER THERE BY THAT YOUNG MAN."

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#52

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Most internet providers are throttling your service, so you never reach the advertised speeds. Except for speed-checking websites, which, whilst not normally reaching your advertised speeds, are quick enough that you think it's just having a bad day.

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

I never use speed tests, they are too variable. If I need to know what speed I'm getting I log into the router and look there.

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#53

The funeral home by my house is run by some sort of criminal organization. I always see the same gangster looking guys hanging out in front of it smoking cigars and drinking beers.

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

No, a friend of mine actually works for a funeral home. Trust me - most of the old guys schlepping bodies around look like that.

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#54

Time travel is real but it isn’t what we think, that’s just our name for a concept our limited human brains can’t understand.

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

We're continually moving forward in time. It's the reverse part that we have a problem with.

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#55

Governments collude all the time and pretend to be shocked if found out. There is a somewhat universal (not every country participates) ruling class that has chopped up the world like Europe did Africa, and they work together to keep the structure intact.

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#56

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of That Brooks Brothers in the airport is a money laundering operation.

I fly two or three times a month, and I almost never see any customers in those places at all. But somehow they manage to maintain prime airport storefronts. I am 99% convinced that they only exist to launder money.

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

Airport stores are among the fastest and highest in investment return, balanced by the fact that they are by far the most difficult to set up and run. You need authorizations taking long time, liaise with the airport for anything from store design to installation procedures, you need airport-certified personnel; once you are open, you have no closing days, strict operational standards (for cleanliness, security, fire safety etc) all your goods have to pass through safety checks and customs. The advantages, though, are amazing: airports provide the highest traffic, practically a bored and "captive" audience made only of people with average or above average means. Markups are higher than in street stores and often there is little to no competition and minimal possibility to compare prices.

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#57

Lindbergh killed his own child and then set up the whole kidnapping thing to cover his a*s.

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

The evidence and case built against Richard Hauptmann was overwhelming. The broken ladder found at the Lindbergh estate was constructed of material from his home. Thousands of dollars worth of the ransom money, mostly gold certificates, were found stashed in his home. He also matched the description given by cab drivers and the man who delivered the ransom money. A very solid and well-documented case.

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#58

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of The US govt runs VPN services to collect info on people who attempt to evade the NSA collection programs.

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#59

That imaginary friends are real and there is some kind of secret society somewhere.

I still vividly remember my imaginary friend and it kind of creeps me out that I can recall moments of him being very... tangible and not very... imaginary.

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

I had imaginary friends as a child. They were real people - I just imagined they were my friends.

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#60

I’m Romanian and I’m not sure if it’s the culture or the place I grew up in, but whenever you lose something and are panicking to find it, there’s a simple way to always find it. Just go get a mug, and visualize a smaller version of the object you’re looking for (I do it so it’s kind of spinning like a video game). After seeing it in the can, flip over the can on the table and leave the object covered by the flipped mug on the Table. Stop looking for the object, you will find it in your hands in less than 2 days, no matter what. If it’s something like your keys or wallet or socks or headphones, you will 100% come across them maybe even minutes after doing it, so long as you just avoid thinking of it.
I’m not superstitious at all and I understand that this can be explained just by the way we interact with the tings around us i our day to day lives, but after growing up with this and it never faltering even on big things, I simply feel better off pleading ignorance and understanding that some things are just going to be how they are and putting time into thinking bout them is a waste of my time. Also my mom is a luck magnet and a telepath and a wizard but that’s a story for another day.

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

I usually find mine if I move the cat. He will sleep on anything 🙄

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#61

That a car's combination meter is also a secret timer that, when it's clock runs out, starts messing with the electrical systems, turning on warning lights, and sending you back to the dealer for expensive diagnostics and unnecessary replacement parts.

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

I'm pretty sure that all the timers in your car's system are programmable. The shop that changes my oil told me they set the timer to warn me to get the oil changed in 3 months.

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#62

30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of Facial features aren't unique. They can be repeated like lips is the same feature for 1 in every 200000.

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#63

For a brief window of time following the second world war, the United States could have taken over the world.

Every other industrialized economy in the world was in ruins or exhausted from fighting. We were the only nation in the world that knew how to construct the atomic bomb.

If that advantage had been pressed and the bomb used without restraint the US might have been able to overwhelm the Soviet Union before it developed nuclear capabilities of its own.

The result would have been a dystopian nightmare worse than anything the Nazis could have imagined. A single nuclear-weapon state enforcing a global hegemony through the threat of nuclear war.

(All of this is wild, brain-dead speculation of course.)

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

US didn't have enough A bomb for that. And how do you overwhelm Soviet Union when it's already in ruins? Bombing Moscow or Leningrad makes no difference. And US didn't have enough manpower for w military world domination

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30 People Describe Things They Strongly Suspect But Have No Proof Of I'm convinced Botox rots your brain.

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

Nah I think it’s the type of people that usually get it they already have the required type of brain ;) plus - it’s addictive like many plastic surgeries

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#65

OJ's son committed the murders and OJ went to the scene to help cover it up.

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

I read about this, and really believe it to be true. His son (just like him) had a history of anger and the glove didn’t fit. Can’t remember where I read about his boy, but it makes total sense.

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#66

Ghosts/spirits/entities/phantoms/presences... Whatever you want to call it/them. They say seeing is believing, and in this case, it's absolutely true. Very few things, if anything at all compares to the feeling of *knowing* something "else" exists and having not only no proof, but this whole new level of fear that comes with life itself, that very few people can relate to you about.
Seeing things that "shouldn't" be is frightening enough, but imagine being alone in that, no-one else but a dog as witness. You can talk to him, but he won't reply. You can't convince yourself you were just tired, sick, crazy. "It" was real, whatever "it" was, and there's no-one to explain how or why.

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

While I don’t discount the possibility of ghosts and aliens, given the plethora of modern and historic encounters, I still will not absolutely believe until there’s incontrovertible proof that’s shared with EVERYONE. Otherwise, I have my doubts because a lot of what is reported could believably be shown to be something more mundane.

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#67

If there are people who will pick their nose and eat their boogers, there are people who will wipe their butts and lick their poo. I guarantee it.

We just can't spot these sickos because doing the number two is always done in private. But they are out there. I'm damn certain of it.

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

Omg this made me gag! I sincerely hope this isn’t true 🤢🤮

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#68

The Denver airport has a doomsday bunker built beneath it for important people like the president (who was Obama at the time).

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

The Denver airport was built in 1995. You may have leaked into our reality from yours. Clinton was president then.

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#69

There's only one property brother, they edit the other one in and that's why you see them together so little. They do minor changes to make you think they don't look alike but I know there's only one! You can't fool me HGTV and TLC!

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#70

HQ is a scam... somehow. They’re somehow mining data from us and they’re cheating us somehow.

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#71

Tom Cruise is a great actor that seems like a decent person despite being a scientologist.
So the obvious conclusion is that he's using his acting skills to go undercover and attempting to dismantle scientology from the inside.

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

No, he is really that stupid, think about what Katie Holmes had to do to keep their daughter from those trolls.

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