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.
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
Rich vandals in this country. How much paint do you need for a whole train 😳😳😳😳😳🤔
In Hannover, vandals has painted a fake door onto a train. Looked quite realistic.
I think it's quite excusable. Living in Hannover musn't be fun every day.
Load More Replies...It actually isn't completely silver. the black parts seen here are the outlines of the letters, when you see the train passing by from a few hundred meters distance you're actually able to read the tag of the crew who did this. Pretty cool in my opinion.
Not sure what is "cool" here The people that can't see anything when inside the train? The price to paint it back with your taxes?
Load More Replies...That must have taken some time. How did they not get caught red...er, silver handed?
One way to get rid of the extra 100 gallons of silver paint you have just sitting around.
They were just priming it. Next go around they'll paint something really cool on it.
Apparently this happened in January: https://nltimes.nl/2020/01/12/train-entirely-spray-painted-silver-ns-seeing-red They broke in, painted the platform side (so not the whole train) and left a pile of discarded spray cans... The train had to be replaced while fixed back up.
really? vandal take time to buy god know how many paint can ? what kind of rich country is that if your vandals has that kind of money to spend
Apparently, the Netherlands. Which would make sense - good social security and minimum wage ;-)
Load More Replies...Need to find those kids something useful to do. Way too much free time!
Well I do not know what colour it was beforehand but it certainly looks good now....the Silver Flash!!!
that happen if you are lockdown and get pay by the government to stay home for their plan demic
It's text, but the letters are too massive to be read from such short distance
I think this was done before, I remember a similar incident about ten years ago? (Dutch ex-trainspotter here)
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
This Lady I Drove Past Earlier Today: Cranford, New Jersey
Found Out Why The Roomba Quit Working
Took A Shower Before Work Today, Looked Down To Grab A Bottle Of Shampoo And See This!
A Tornado Overnight In Thomaston, Georgia, Ripped A Home Off Its Foundation And Put It In The Road
This Bathroom Has A Dungeon!
My Sisters Train Derailed, She Just Sent Me This
This Suv Broke The Sound Barrier
Studio Apartment... No Thanks
The Exhaust On This Car
This Structural Pole My Boss Refuses To Fix
Migingo Island, Population Of 131, Only 0.0008sq Mi Of Dirt
This Chick Hatched With 4 Feet And Two Butts
Moved Into A New Flat Today And This F***er Was In The Attic
Friend Found A Bug In Their Advil Capsule
Lizard Found In A Raspberry Container
A Falcon Mating Hat Allows Falcon Keepers To Collect Sperm From Their Birds For Later Artificial Insemination. Essentially The Bird Is Mating With The Keepers Head
This Slide I Found On A Stopover
This Two Headed Dolphin
Flat Earth Car In Denton, Tx
Clearly this person is organized, efficient and scholarly in their approach to scientific research.
Y'alls Opinion On My Mycology Class Project?
Oyster mushrooms. Edible, though probably not a wise idea to eat ones found in the toilet!
This Seems... Safe?
It's a Sonata. It could really still be safe. Or at least drivable, as it seems only the hood is damaged.
A Personal Aircraft Crashed On Top Of A Car In A Target Nearby A Private Airfield
Found Someone’s Tooth In My Apartment Complex Laundry
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
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