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!
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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
have you ever heard of "the babysitter and the clown statue"
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OH HAIL NO! I DONT CARE WHAT THE MINISTRY DOES TO ME! CRUCIO!
Offfff. The death spells you aim with 😂 After all the Voldemort massacre and dementors chasing we'd hardly be scared of a muggle clown.
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OH *grabs gasolene* HELL *pours on clown and grabs match* NO*lights clown on fire* OOOOO
Maybe... maybe its not statue. Some people are really good at holding still...
They would have found two clowns after i saw this. One dead and one tied to a grate.
Same here and the same goes for morons who dress up as clowns to scare people!
Load More Replies... That's clever and insane. If it was me walking up on that I would leave to grab a flamethrower then come back and torch it up.
Someone has gone to a LOT of trouble carrying that half a mile in a confined space then tying it to a grate, all to scare someone at a later date when they weren't around to see it. Had to be a man..lol!
Why would anyone do that ? It looks in perfect condition !!! WHAT A WASTE !!!!
I bet whoever found this may have thought for a minute if pennywise was real and he just found him.
WHO found this horror in the drainage pipe? I pity the poor plumber, sewer worker or other water transfer expert who encountered it. Can you say "Off we go to the funny farm?"
Someone has a sense of humor—-and isn’t concerned about being there to see people’s reactions...unless there’s a hidden camera around there somewhere...
I don't care what the hell happens o me. Pass me a f*****g RPG right now and I am nuking this m**********r even if it kills me.
wow they went through a lot of trouble just to freak one person out.
And there are people who dress up like that to scare people who will get what is coming to them!
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope im OuTtTtTtTt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
WTF!! Hunt the culprit down and put it at their bedroom window lol
that would be the last thing i would wanna see as a drainidge pipe worker
Duh. Since it was in the middle of the pipe, it prob'ly didn't collect much debris. It also would've had the chance to drip-dry. Most likely, the person who found this, went and got their camera and cleaned up the scene a bit to get a good picture ... AFTER their heart started beating again.
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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.
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
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Sometimes People Stop In The Middle Of A Conversation To Stare At My Eye. Wonder Why
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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
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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
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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
