Loyal Bored Panda readers probably know we have a soft spot for weird photos. But if you're new here, check out these unexplainable stock images or these memorable "pics or didn't happen" moments.
However, there's one place on the Internet that undoubtedly has the most ridiculous shots ever taken — an appropriately called subreddit, WTF. The community is on a mission to collect things that make people say "what the fu*k" and they're really devoted to it, too. With over 6.4 million members and thousands online at any given time, nothing is off-limits here. From a lizard living inside of a microwave clock to a 300ft-deep sinkhole in someone's backyard, continue scrolling and check out some of the most popular posts on the subreddit.
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Cabin In Alaska For Rent, Lovely View
This list really draws you in, doesn't it? The difficulty to click away, I think, comes from our curiosity. Why wouldn't you like to see the test track Fiat had on its rooftop? Or an oil tanker raising its anchor, discovering it has hooked an unexploded torpedo? The craving to know and understand is the driving force behind our development as individuals and even our success as a species.
In fact, if infants weren't curious, they'd never learn anything. Hundreds of studies show they prefer novelty. A classic 1964 study, for example, showed that infants between 2 months and 6 months old grew less and less interested in a complex visual pattern the more they looked at it. Another study, published in 1983, revealed that once babies got used to familiar toys, they preferred new ones, a scenario that caregivers are probably very familiar with.
My Venus Flytrap Uses All Its Energy To Make 200 Mouths Instead Of Growing Big
There's also something psychologists call epistemic curiosity. It's about seeking knowledge and eliminating uncertainty. Epistemic curiosity emerges later in life and might require complex language.
Agustín Fuentes, a professor of anthropology at Princeton University, believes this form of curiosity has set humans — and probably all members of the genus Homo — apart from other animals and paved the way for us to populate nearly every corner of the world, inventing technologies from hand axes to smart phones.
"Humans, in our distinctive lineage, went beyond simply tweaking nature to imagining and inventing whole new possibilities that emerge from that kind of curiosity," Fuentes told Live Science.
Guy Found A Glass Eye Embedded In The Rock At A Beach
But curiosity comes with a cost. Just think about babies who are perfectly proficient crawlers. Even though they get around, they still decide to try walking. Of course, there's more to see and do when they stand upright. But this milestone comes at a cost: a study of 12- to 19-month-olds learning how to walk documented that these children fell down seventeen times per hour. However, this didn't stop them.
I guess, this list has a price as well. You can miss your stop if you stare at the screen for too long and forget you're on a bus. Or your boss can walk in on you and see that you choose to browse the Internet instead of finishing those reports. If you're not working remotely, of course. Anyway, beware, you've been warned!
This Cemetery Fire From Yesterday Looks Like A Horror Movie's Climax
Sinkhole Opened In Cornish Backyard, Leading 300ft Down Into A Medieval Mineshaft
Fiat Had A Test Track On Their Factory Rooftop In 1929
Found This Clown Mannequin Half A Mile Deep Into A Drainage Pipe Tied Like This To A Grate
Aligadoor
Ct Scan Of 1,000-Year-Old Buddha Sculpture Reveals Mummified Monk Hidden Inside
A Rather “Rural” Patient Came In With New-Onset Seizures. Ct Reveals Small Metal Pellets In Head. Patient States His Wife Accidentally Shot Him Several Years Ago While Trying To Get A Raccoon Off Their Property
Train After Failing To Brake Finds Itself On Top Of A Giant Whale Statue!
the beauty of this is that the artpiece is called "saved by the whale"
Rome Yesterday
Raising Anchor Of Your Oil Tanker Only To Realize You've Hooked An Unexploded Torpedo
I’m A Contractor. Bought An Abandoned/Foreclosed Home To Renovate. This Was In The Basement Bathroom. What. The. F.
I Was Driving Through The Back Roads Of Pennsylvania On The Way To A Camping Spot And Found A Mountain Of Ceramic Dishes And Tea Cups In The Middle Of The Woods!?
No Filters. Australia Is Red From Wildfires
My Girlfriend Sent Me This From Her Doctors Appointment
You're Not Taking This Grandma's Purse
In Algeria We Have These Weird Things In Public Parks And Children’s Playgrounds
My 6 Yr Old: “How Will He Go Poop If His Tail Is Inside His Butthole?!”
Oh, Let Me Just Park My Squid
27 Contact Lenses Were Found By Doctors In Woman's Eye
How? You can't not feel even one, let alone more, even if you somehow push it under an eyelid.
I've heard about a story like this, patient thought you don't have to remove them, just put in a new one every day... I'm not sure if she went blind.
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As someone who has really crappy eyesight I'd know if I still had contacts in cuz my vision would be perfect 🤣
I wonder if she just kept putting more on, instead of taking them off...
Yeah your amazed about 27 in 1 eye but am guessing there were even more on the other eye ... doctors just aren't done counting them yet !!!
My old eye doctor when I was a kid told us a story about how one of her customers put her contacts in her kids eyes. They became infected and got stuck and the dr had a hard time removing them. She finally did and when she went to throw them away the mom demanded them back bc contacts are expensive. She threatened to call CPS on her. I had a college roommate that irreparably damaged her eyes bc she abused her contacts and did not wear them responsibly. My mother had to buy my brother the special contacts you were for 30 days straight bc he refused to remove them when he went to sleep. People do really stupid things when it comes to contacts
She thought they are like laundry detergent pods - just dissolve in your eyes and you have to put a new one...
I once put two in accidentally. Really bothered me until I figured it out. 27???
I felt like, it was purposely stack outside of the eye of course and they've titled it wrong.
I've heard of this happening... More than once. File it alongside the denture wearers who treat their "new teeth" like implants and NEVER take them out for cleaning or otherwise. The smell of their rotting gums inevitably lead them to the dentist where they discover that they'll be gumming (with the miniscule surface area left) their food for the rest of their lives.
I just showed my boyfriend this he said he had one that folded in his eye and eventually after trying to get it out it disappeared back into the eye socket and he didn’t feel it anymore. His eye doctor told him sometimes it can come back out on it’s own while asleep. As far as he knows it hasn’t.
I've worn glasses for the past 30 years... never felt the need to get contacts. More likely to get laser eye surgery...
Just be aware laser eye surgery can cause dry eyes in later life and if you also develop cataracts you won't be able to have multifocal intraocular lenses (similar to varifocals but inside your eye) as they're thicker (currently - these things are always improving). You'd have to pick long or short sight lenses. Wear your sunglasses everyone, helps prevent cataracts!
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As someone who stopped wearing contacts because they make my eyes itch...ewwwww.
It would have been more remarkable if the doctor found it during a viginal exam.
What, Exactly, Was The Sequence Of Events That LED To This?
So This Lizard Moved Into My Microwave Clock. I Guess It's His Now?
Camping In Florida Looks Fun
Got A Complaint At Work About "Very Loud Crickets" In The Bathroom
Sometimes People Stop In The Middle Of A Conversation To Stare At My Eye. Wonder Why
Oregon Fires Next To A Golf Course
I Really Have No Idea What Happened
Vandals Painted A Complete Train Silver In A Small Town In The Netherlands 2 Nights Ago
Your Typical First Day Of Your Job As The It Guy
A "Zombie Spider" - Spider Covered In Fungus, Half-Dead, Half-Alive Which Can Crawl Around. Found In My Basemen
A Humpback Whale Was Found Dead In Amazon Rainforest
When Your Goat Needs A Lift
This Power Line Happened To Be Laid Straight Through The Skull Of An Anglo Saxon Woman Buried In A Previously Undiscovered 6th Century Graveyard
Hail From The Weekend Here In Queensland, Australia
I'm So Glad I Don't Live In The Same Time As Quetzalcoutlus Northropi
Stopped Cause I Thought My Tire Popped, But I'm Pretty Sure Someone Tried To Murder Me
I Split Up With My Boyfriend Yesterday. I Fell Asleep While He Was Packing And He Stole My Toilet
These Times Are Weird
Woke Up For Some Water. Thank God I Turned On The Light Before Taking A Sip
Knee Pad Catches Small Splinter
Calcium Buildup In This Water Pipe We Had To Replace
Secret Recording Device Under Break Room Table At Work
This Is A Clown Shower For Children
Last Week A Bald Eagle Flew Threw My Bedroom Window, While I Was Laying In Bed . It Was Insane, To Say The Least
I Have Tentacles Under My Tongue- Apparently Not Everyone Does?
Crochet For Trees In Morgantown, West Virginia. USA
New Prototype "Economy" Airline Seats
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Most of these are good, but the clown in the pipe scares me. And I mean SCARES me. I am not easily scared.
I can't stop thinking about it and I've only seen it for like 0.01 second and it's 2 am rn here. Who put it there? A mile inside? Why? Just a maniquine or ........? 😭 I wanna sleep
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So happy to see this stuff on BP instead of politics (which I come here to get away from!)
wh put a gorilla on a doters bed imagen wakeing up to see this infront of ur face
Most of these are good, but the clown in the pipe scares me. And I mean SCARES me. I am not easily scared.
I can't stop thinking about it and I've only seen it for like 0.01 second and it's 2 am rn here. Who put it there? A mile inside? Why? Just a maniquine or ........? 😭 I wanna sleep
Load More Replies... So happy to see this stuff on BP instead of politics (which I come here to get away from!)
wh put a gorilla on a doters bed imagen wakeing up to see this infront of ur face
