Meanwhile I’m just trying to remember why I’m even on the site. These tweets get it.

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These are animals going full goblin mode, and they seem to have zero regrets.

Follow Animals Going Goblin Mode: Instagram

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That’s why these broke memes always hit for me. They come from that very real place of doing mental math at the grocery store, stretching a dollar as far as it can go, and still finding a way to laugh about it.

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Chicago-based artist Chuck Eiler does exactly that, staging action figures in these perfect little pop culture mashups that feel both nostalgic and genuinely hilarious. It’s like the kind of playtime I used to have, just way more creative and way better executed.

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Half the time, I’m less interested in the warning and more interested in what happened right before it existed.

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Some tweets are bad. Some are ridiculous. And then there are the ones that feel like they were crafted specifically to make you question everything.

These are those tweets. The kind that leave you shaking your head, laughing a little, and wondering how someone hit “post” and felt good about it.

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This HOA story starts with a 2am notice about “excessive dandelion growth,” plus a neighbor allegedly driving around snapping photos like a lawn detective. All over some weeds that showed up after a couple days of rain.

1. “Woke up at 2am to find out I’m about to be fined $200 for having dandelions on my lawn.”

2. Here’s How It All Went Down

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9. The $200 Offense: A Few Too Many Dandelions

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When I was in school I always thought that after I graduate, I must have learned everything there is to learn but we all know that’s ridiculous. We should learn something new every day, or at least try to.

So why not start with Reddit’s “Today I Learned” and then you’ll have something new to bring up the next time you’re at a wedding that you don’t know anyone at.

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“TIL that slaveholders in the US knew that enslaved people were escaping to Mexico, the U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty, but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that all enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.”

– _The_Architect

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“TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator yanked a cable causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. Worried they had killed him, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling at his own joke. The alarm was from an office computer losing power.”

– Helpful__Alfalfa

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“TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons-in-law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations”

– _pancake_lover_

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“TIL a fan drove three hours to deliver rapper, Boozie Badazz, a much-needed dosage of insulin. She refused to accept payment and instead asked for just a photo. On her way home, she stopped at a store, bought a scratch-off ticket, and won $10,000.”

– RarelyAquatic

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“TIL The cast of FRIENDS each made $1M per episode in the final two seasons and now make $20M per year per cast member for reruns. The show still generates $1B/year for Warner Bros. All thanks to David Schwimmer encouraging the cast to negotiate as a team.”

– imsiq

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“TIL Costco’s hot dog has remained $1.50 since it was first introduced in 1984. After the company president complained they were losing money on it, CEO Jim Sinegal put his foot down. “If you raise [the price of] the effing hot dog, I will kill you,” Sinegal said.”

– holyfruits

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“TIL Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan as part of a “Work-Life Choice Challenge” by shutting down offices every Friday. Productivity, measured by sales per employee, increased by almost 40% compared to the same period the previous year.”

– SeizeOpportunity

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“TIL that William Whipple, one of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, freed his slave after signing it because he believed one cannot simultaneously fight for freedom and hold another person in bondage.”

– NikMarus

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“TIL many doctors have stopped calling cancer treatment a “fight” or “battle”. They argue these terms misrepresent how treatment works and if treatments fail, the patient is left with guilt and a false belief they didn’t “fight” hard enough.”

– [deleted]

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“TIL that everyone in Singapore above the age of 21 is automatically registered as an organ donor. Opting out from this Act will result in you being put at the very bottom of the organ priority list, should you need organ transplantation.”

– _crash182

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“TIL “Military Grade” is just a marketing ploy. In the actual military, “military-grade” means “meeting the bare-minimum requirements of durability, while also costing the least.”

– Con_Johnson

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“TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ was public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.”

– CocaTrooper42

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“TIL Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has disdain for money and large wealth accumulation. In 2017 he said he didn’t want to be near money, because it could corrupt your values. When Apple went public, Wozniak offered $10 million of his stock to early Apple employees, something Jobs refused to do.”

– [deleted]

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“TIL that a school principal once made a student who’d gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.”

– brucejoel99

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“TIL in 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe and were convicted”

– MildlySuspicious

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“TIL that when filming the TV series “The Mandalorian” in 2019, the crew ran out of Stormtrooper costumes, so they reached out to the local branch of a Star Wars fan organization, whose members came to join the filming in their own home-made Stormtrooper costumes”

– malalatargaryen

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“TIL a very frugal librarian, the late Robert Morin, left millions of his life savings to the University of New Hampshire where he worked as a librarian, then the University spent $1 million dollars of that money on a scoreboard for a new football stadium.”

– StcStasi

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“TIL Frank Sinatra died the night of Seinfeld’s finale and his ambulance made it to the hospital in record time because traffic was so light due to everyone watching the show.”

– sunghooter

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“TIL That while filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn’t get a permit to film a scene. They filmed it anyway, and the studio hired a fall guy to claim to be the director and spend a night in jail.”

– JDDJS

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“TIL United Airlines had assured a blind woman that they would help her off the plane but only after the other passengers had gotten off, before forgetting about her and locking the plane up with her in it after everybody else had left.”

– Tuufan

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“Today I Learned Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor. She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black”

– holyfruits

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“TIL Shia LaBeouf came under heavy fire for plagiarizing his directorial debut in 2012. When he publicly apologized to the original artist, Dan Clowes, people discovered that Shia’s apology was itself plagiarized verbatim off a Yahoo Answers post from 2010.”

– [deleted]

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“TIL that Persian King Agha Mohammad Khan ordered the execution of two servants for being too loud. Since it was a holy day, he postponed their execution by a day and made the servants return to their duties. They murdered the king in his sleep that night.”

– OneLastAuk

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“TIL Rome has major struggles with expanding the subway system in the city because diggers keep running into major archaeological finds. The Metro C expansion has been in the works for the past 40 years and has unearthed Hadrian’s Athenaeum, a military complex, and an amphitheater.”

– Geaux

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“Today I Learned The ashes of Stephen Hawking were buried between the graves of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, in a section of Westminster Abbey known as the “Scientists Corner.” As a final tribute, during the burial, the European Space Agency beamed recordings of Hawking’s voice to the nearest black hole.”

– PepeTheFRQG

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“TIL that the F.B.I. and C.I.A. recruit heavily from the Mormon population because they are usually cheaper to do a security clearance on, they often speak another language from their mission trips and they usually have a low-risk lifestyle.”

– Intagvalley

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“TIL That in 2007, Rockstar Games allowed fans to call a number and rant about what they thought was wrong with America. The best calls were featured on a radio station in “Grand Theft Auto IV”

– Psycho_Chicken_99

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“TIL a 75-year Harvard study found close relationships are the key to a person’s success. Having someone to lean on keeps brain function high and reduces emotional, and physical, pain. People who feel lonely are more likely to experience health declines earlier in life.”

– operator139

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“TIL in Lord of War starring Nicholas Cage, they bought 3000 real guns for the filming because it was cheaper to buy real guns and resell later than buying props. They also rented 50 tanks which were only available for a short period because the source had to sell them to Libya later”

– Bathingwhale

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“Today I Learned the founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.”

– soyfox

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“TIL why Five Guys gives extra fries at the bottom of the bag. They do it so the guests think they are getting a good deal. However, the extra fries are already factored into the menu price. Founder Jerry Murrell also says it is better for customers to feel that their serving of fries was too large.”

– [deleted]

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“TIL Gordon Ramsay set up a business inside a London prison that taught inmates how to bake and sold the goods on the outside. Providing the prison with financial support while giving the inmates work experience they could use to find honest work after their sentence.”

– SpiritualHawk420

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“Today I Learned that in “Forrest Gump,” when his microphone is cut off at the rally, what you don’t hear him say is “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”

– vonneguts_anus

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“TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.”

– redmambo_no6

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“Today I Learned that the firm Cantor Fitzgerald lost 658 employees on 9/11. The CEO, who was taking his child to school that day, later distributed $180 million to the families and offered jobs to all children of the victims. 57 of those children were employed by Cantor Fitzgerald as of 2016.”

– theremarkableamoeba

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Whether they dug up a septic tank in their backyard or if they found a microchip in their food. Here are some of the most interesting items people needed help identifying in 2022:

1. Ornate brass vase with a weird mechanism in the base.

More information from OP:

Hello all, I got this brass (?) vase from a friend the other day, who got it from a yard sale. The longer I’ve looked at it, the weirder it seems to me. Another friend suggested I make a Reddit account and post it here, so here I am.

I’m an amateur vase collector, so I have a few other metal vases to compare this one to. Looking at other ones, I’m fairly sure the designs were done by hand, but I’m getting thrown off by the fact that the base is perfectly flat. It looks like the surface was machined. The designs themselves remind me of Buddhist art I looked at in community college art class, but I’m hardly an expert in that area. Maybe they’re a hint as to where this came from?

The weirdest features are in the base; inside the vase, there’s a big nub with a divot in it. It looks like something meant to hold a candlestick, but it’s very narrow. On the flat bottom, there [are] inscriptions every 90 degrees, but none of them make any sense to me:

North: 143

East: 131

South: 76MM b-1

West: 16/52r

They look like they weren’t stamped by hand, but by machine; the typesetting is perfectly uniform. There’s also this odd mechanism in the dead center of the base that looks like it’s supposed to lock into something, but I’m stumped as to what it could be.

Answered by u/IndependentPlum8794:

That is a vase made out of an artillery shell.

Answered by u/nolodie:

Likely from a Yugoslav Mountain Gun 76mm M48, which is post-WW2 artillery.

The letters on the bottom are Cyrillic, possibly Serbian or Russian. The characters after “76mm” translates to “B-1,” which is the primary variant of the M48.

The charge at the bottom is manufactured by Unis Group in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the TK M71. The shell therefore could have been manufactured for the M48 B1A5, by the same manufacturer.

How the shell got transformed into a vase with a motif of Shiva is a mystery. However, there are a number of M48 in service in India.

2. What is this thing? Found these small circular things sewn into the ruffles of a vintage 1970s dress while I was cleaning it. They are a little smaller than a clove and are different colors. They are hard.

Answered by u/johnnydecameron:

Corn. Traditionally sewn into the wedding dress for good luck and fertility!

3. This wooden chair has a spike in the middle. It’s normal sized and I’m afraid to touch it. It’s tucked in the closet of a condo in the western US. Any ideas?

Answered by u/The_Nightman_82:

It’s like a Judas chair but really scaled down.

Answered by u/EightEight16:

I second this.

One of the most brutal torture methods ever created. Normally you would be suspended above a much larger one and lowered until you were on top of it and kept there until you died, but this looks a lot easier to store and use.

I wonder why [it’s] there. And if it was used, on whom, and why?

Answered by u/2Pro2Know:

Definitely this.

I’m having a hard time finding a version that uses a chair like this, but the principle would be the same.

Here’s the Wiki article on them [if] anyone is interested.

These things date back a long time – no doubt it would be of some worth to someone interested in medieval technology. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could find a local museum or university that would take it off your hands for a display. Even if this one is more recently homemade.

Question by u/rosconotorigina:

Is there some kind of mechanism below to make the spike come up and down? How is it activated?

Information from OP u/Smoking_Gnarl:

I’m not sure how it’s activated, but there appears to be some sort of contraption…

Answered by u/captain_crowfood:

A lot of people collect stuff like this. Anything odd or macabre brings a pretty penny in certain circles.

Comment from OP u/Smoking_Gnarl:

Where would I find these people? I want it out!

4. Relative found these eggs in her yard in Georgia, hanging from a tree.

Solved by u/CWreck:

I’m betting a bird of prey caught itself a pregnant snake and had started tearing into it but flew off with the rest of the snake, and this uterine tube fell out due to the weight of the eggs.

Posted by u/LillyPip:

How on earth did you figure that out in four minutes? This sub is astounding.

Answered by u/CWreck:

Sorry for the long delay in replying, I was getting my talons done.

All jokes aside, I grew up in the country, still live in the country. You see, hear, and experience all kinds of things that many people would never have the chance to experience. Sometimes, it comes in handy. Ha!

Posted by a Redditor:

Could the eggs still hatch?

Answered by u/CWreck:

I highly doubt it considering they were still inside the animal, and [it] looks like they were laying out in the elements, too.

5. Came home to find this device attached to my front door covering the key lock. What is it and what should I do? Is it safe to open? Who would have installed it?

Answered by u/abrams666:

It could be an electric lock picker; burglar may be disturbed and needed to flee.

Answered by u/The-Felonious_Monk:

Call the police, NOW.

Answered by u/thsvnlwn:

Yes, you should call the police, because someone is locking you out of your own house.

Note from OP u/soupywarrior:

We’ve removed the device. It’s an anti-lock device to pull out or detach locks so it was an attempted burglary. Thankfully they weren’t able to enter. The police will attend in the morning…

6. Covert sticker on my mailbox keyhole every month?

Answered by u/Astrobelter:

100% thieves monitoring who is home and not home.

Answered by u/divertss:

Every time you see them, remove them all. Warn the neighbors.

Answered by u/mseuro:

Leave a note above the mailboxes for the neighbors and whoever’s casing. They’ll move on.

Answered by u/IAmMarwood:

Came here to say this.

Warn all the neighbors, then leave a big clear sign saying, “We have spotted tampering with the mailboxes and are monitoring the area”… Hopefully they’ll move on.

7. Went fishing and snagged this monster instead. What is this?

From Redditor u/PaterPoempel:

Some kind of bristle worm. As there are more than 10,000 species in this class, we would need the location of your find for further identification.

Posted by a Redditor:

Bristle worm; don’t let the bristles touch your skin!

8. Small metal object found in a parking lot, weighs less than a pound and rattles just a little

Answered by u/MrDorkESQ:

It kinda reminds me of one of these:

INERT COLD WAR NERVE GAS CLUSTER BOMB

Put it down, call the authorities…

Answered by u/MeatPopsicle1969:

Yes, it is some sort of cluster submunition. Unless you know where it came from, treat it like it is explosive.

Update from the OP:

I reported it to the appropriate authority and they took it. I don’t have any more updates right now [other] than that I didn’t die!

Additional info: It was found in California, USA.

9. Found in a hotel room.

Additional information from OP:

Anyone can help us decode this? Looks like Morse code? Found inside our hotel inside a weird book in a drawer.

Answered by u/spacecadet43:

Morse code.

“PLEASED TO MEET YOU HOPE YOU GUESS MY NAME” [repeated four times]

Answered by u/moe-hong:

SOLVED! It’s the lyrics to the Rolling Stone’s “Sympathy for the Devil,” written in Morse code.

Answered by u/DonGold60:

Mick rolled.

10. What’s growing in my apartment?

Answered by u/Brave-Flight-7178:

You need to call your landlord. That will make you sick.

Answered by u/lahlahs-lands:

Do not touch that.

Years ago when my daughter was a newborn, [an] upstairs apartment also had a newborn and they were constantly sick. Long story short, the upstairs baby boy passed away from a toxic mold [just like that which grew in the vents.] The coroner said if a healthy bodybuilder huge man touched a piece of that mold it’s 9/10 fatal.

Please don’t touch that. Get out ASAP and all pets as well. Get next to an air purifier and seriously go breathe in some steam with lemon and ginger and aloe. Whatever citrus, any healthy herbs please. Clean your lungs somehow.

Make an appointment with your doctor please.

This is not good at all. Not even a little bit.

11. What is this animal? I found it on a wall and it looks like it’s 2-3” long and is upside down. It thought it may be a bat but I’m not sure.

Answered by u/ms_boogie:

Definitely a bat!! Their little wings aren’t like dragon wings, they’re not so thick that they can’t be tucked in underneath them like this, AND bats do have the ability to hang off of brick walls like this, I see it all the time.

As I stated in another comment, bats have special toe tendons that kind of lock in place while they’re roosting, and it takes no energy to hang in place, unlike monkeys where a grip needs to be held. It only takes energy to disengage!

12. What is this thing I found in my shower that literally appeared within 24 hours?

Answered by u/Roscoe_cracks_corn:

Sh*t, dude, it’s a fungus room. You’ve got a serious problem going on on the other side of that ceiling. Once it’s produced a nice big fruit like that, it’s been going on for a while. Yeesh! Sorry to see it!

Do you rent or own? Rent: Get out and call your landlord. Own: Get someone out there to assess the situation ASAP and don’t use that shower. Don’t use that bathroom. You could have some serious mold/fungal spores in the air that could be a danger to your health. Better safe than sorry.

13. A strange door in a cave on a beach in Okinawa. Any ideas?

Answered by u/therightreverendpiff:

It is a war grave.

On Okinawa, thousands of Japanese soldiers and civilians [took their own lives] by jumping from cliffs onto the rocky beach below. Beginning in the mid 1960s, authorities began interring the bones in natural and man-made caves at the base of the cliffs, where the piles of bones had lain since spring 1945.

Entrances were sealed up with rocks as above, with an access plate able to be opened as more bones turned up.

Source: I’ve been there prior to the majority of the bones being sealed.

This site tells some of the stories with some somber pictures.

14. My neighbors shared an unsettling video of a woman holding this device up to their ring doorbell. She walked up, held it directly in front of the camera while it made a clicking/buzzing noise, and then left quickly. Any ideas of what it might be or if we should be worried?

Answered by u/Sleep_on_Fire:

It’s a frequency scanner. Often used by car thieves.

People have a bad habit of keeping their vehicle keys close to their front doors.

These can read the codes from that distance and enable thieves to get into your vehicle, disable the security features in the process, and drive away with your car. Especially if the vehicle doesn’t require a physical key to be in the ignition.

Note the cars parked on the curb. Prime target for a fob clone theft.

Answered by u/the_ultimate_pun:

They’re hoping you keep your keys right by the door on hooks.

15. My girlfriend found these in her dinner. Are they seeds?

Additional info from OP:

We had mushrooms, broccoli, asparagus, and kale with dinner, so is it possible that they’re part of those?

Answered by u/Deerwhacker:

With a side order of Harlequin bug eggs.

16. I found this on the beach today during a low tide. I live in Seattle and we were on the shores of Elliot Bay which connects to the Pacific. It’s very thick and hollow. Possibly a tooth?

Answered by u/drowninginidiots:

Broken whale tooth.

Note from the OP u/Afoxnamedrhi:

I was thinking maybe an orca whale? I’m not sure of what other sea life we have that would produce such a large tooth! Thank you!

Words of wisdom from u/raineykatz:

Just a friendly FYI: Be careful who you show that to and never try to sell it. Orcas and other whales are endangered and protected in the US and possession of their parts without proper permitting is illegal.

17. Found in a jar filled with vinegar buried in a parking lot. What does this say?

Additional information from the OP u/gaffnaked:

I was geocaching with my girlfriend when we came upon a jar buried perfectly upright (this is almost certainly not the geocache). The top was level with the ground. The jar was filled with white vinegar, and this piece of paper was inside.

I think it might be Russian, but I have no idea what it says. Also, is there any reason someone would submerge in vinegar?

Answered by u/Communist-Lemon777:

Says a bunch of random things you would call someone in Russian. My guess is that someone broke up with another person and that person was so sad, they wrote all the bad things about that other person and put it in a vinegar-filled jar out of rage.

Answered by u/catarakta:

Translation from the start: “An enemy, lying friend, ill-wisher, consumer (LOL), toxic person, something hard to read, enemy (in different variation), sworn enemy, jealous, offender, enemy (again, Russian is [a] very rich language for synonyms), persecutor, mudslinger (actually Google translation, [that] just means somebody with unreasonable anger towards someone), gossiper, villain.”

A lot of the words [are] on [a] high-literary, old-fashioned level. I guess the [person] who wrote this has a very broad vocabulary.

Update from the OP u/gaffnaked:

Lot’s of you asked that we put it back… We replaced the note and the jar as we found them immediately after taking this picture. Thanks for all the insight and translations. Super weird discovery.

18. Any idea what someone left at my house party? Small green ridged brick, with a hole in the middle, crumbles when I scratch it.

Note from the OP:

My title describes the thing. I’ve googled many variations of “small green brick.” I thought it might be a dog treat, but it has no discernible smell.

Answered by u/Woohoo451:

That looks like rat/rodent poison. Definitely not a dog treat.

Answered by u/Mackin-N-Cheese:

It’s a brick of rat/rodent poison.

19. Oxycodone bottle found in the woods with electronics inside.

Answered by u/brazzybraz2102:

Appears to be a “bait bottle” used to track down pharmacy thieves.

Update from OP u/Buck_Thorn:

I just got back from taking it down to the cop shop. Seems I found evidence for a pending case against a local teacher who is implicated in three pharmacy robberies around here. Seems she lives right in the area where I found it. They seemed quite happy that I brought it in. Today, I’m a hero.

20. Found this in my coat pocket today. I’d really like to find out what it is.

Answered by Redditor u/SpiritualPrize:

TileRec voice-activated digital voice recorder. Not 100% sure but it sure is a close match.

Answered by Redditor u/Ya-Dikobraz:

So someone slipped a voice recorder into your coat. Does that mean someone’s spying on you?

Answered by Redditor u/kkeennmm:

Don’t say anything about it and monitor who later goes to your coat.

21. What in the absolute f*** is ON MY CAR.

Answered by u/sal9002:

A spiny oak-slug caterpillar covered in eggs from a parasitic Braconid wasp.

Answered by u/seaurchineyebutthole:

They’re actually cocoons. The wasp lays her eggs just under the skin of the caterpillar. When they hatch, the larvae eat their way through the body and eventually through the skin, where they spin these cocoons and pupate.

22. Ukraine National Police posted an image of this strangely textured object, they call it “dangerous to health and even life”… but what is it?

Answered by u/Acidhousewife:

Butterfly mines.

From Redditor u/ecodrew:

That’s horrific. If I saw one, I might pick it up thinking it’s a piece of trash or plumbing pipe (to say nothing of kids thinking it’s a toy). All mines are horrible, but these are especially insidious and evil.

23. What is this hand-painted wooden object with lots of clips and a mirror? Seems like a Rube Goldberg Machine-esque situation

Answered by u/alek_sandr:

This is a snuff canon… If you Google it, you’ll find it is a novelty object for rocketing snuff up your nose. My friend is German and had one at her house, originally bought in Berlin. The mirror is so you can line up the tray to your nose.

24. What is this red leather devil figure, found in a wooden box in an attic?

Solved by u/doctoroffisticuffs:

It’s called a Jenny Haniver. They’re dried skates or rays modified to look like monsters.

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“Turns out one of the weirder ways skates and rays have been used by people is as curiosities. These cartilaginous fish, related to sharks, were flipped over and “shaped” into gruesome likenesses of imagined sea devils or maybe evil-looking mermaids. After being dried out and shellacked they were sold in port cities and seaside towns as far back as the 16th century. The origins of the name are obscure, but some articles reference jeune fille d’Anvers which translates as girl from Antwerp.

Intentionally fishing and drying out sea creatures as tourist trinkets, whether sea stars, sea horses or Jenny Hanivers, has fortunately fallen out of fashion. But beach combing is still a great way to come upon all sorts of interesting bits and pieces brought in on the tide and tossed ashore by a wave to dry in the sun.”

25. What are these metal things on the corner of these stairs and what is their purpose?

Solved by u/jackrats:

Corner dust guards. They make it easier to sweep dust out of the corners.

26. Second time I found this small crumbly disk in my garden (UK). Potentially thrown over from the neighbors?

Answered by u/Kazgul:

Your neighbor is trying to kill your dog. Take photos, write down dates and times, and call the police.

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I would agree with this- looks like water-bloated rat bait. If they have a dog that barks and has found multiple times, his neighbors are arseholes.

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27. What is this green thing that came out from a packet of Haribo gummy bears?

Answered by u/sarakir:

It’s a different kind of gummy, in France we call that “sucette”

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28. Burying our dog in the backyard who passed today at 16 and came across this underground wall

Answered by u/SameSoupReheated:

My guess is an old septic tank

Solved by u/oddmanout:

Nah. It’s got holes in it that’s a drywell. That thing fills up when it rains so the yard doesn’t flood.

29. Hotel room bed leg has red flashing light coming from the rubber piece…

Answered by u/Asklisk:

There’s a YouTube video that says it’s a mesh bed bug detector. Video calls it Wirepas.

30. Small elephant filled with water left at flat after party. Debating with flatmates over what its purpose could be.

Answered by u/xptx:

It’s a melted reusable ice cube

u/belltrina added:

Reusable ice cube for drinks you want cold but not watered down. Eg. Scotch on the rocks. But scotch on the elephants

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Women have shared some of the most mind-blowing, ridiculous, and downright confusing experiences they’ve had with men, and we’ve rounded up the best (or worst) examples.

1. “My Husband Got A Little Carried Away With The New Vacuum Sealer. This Is A Dozen Croissants”

2. “My Husband Overfilled The Dishwasher So Nothing Got Clean Then Got Mad When I Asked How He Expected The Water To Reach Everything”

3. “How My Partner Hangs Clothes On The Clothesline”

“They say there’s more than one right way to do something, but this is just plain wrong.”

4. “The Container My Boyfriend Picked To Put Away Leftover Pancakes. There Was Plenty Of Normal Tupperware Clean…”

5. “Not Staying The Night At My New BF’s House With His Pillow Situation”

“Ok, I (28f) went over to my boyfriend’s (25m) house for the first time (been dating about a month), and I had somehow never noticed his pillow situation before. When I noticed, I made a comment about how long he’s had the pillows and apparently he’s been using them since he was a kid.

So, I asked him if he had any other pillows and he said he just had the pillow on the left of the first picture, but that his cat usually sleeps on it. I said I don’t really want to sleep on those pillows, and id prefer to sleep at my own place (with clean pillows).

His response? He waited for a minute and then said he would be sad to see that I would choose something as small as pillows come between us spending the night together, but that if I needed to go, that he understood.

I ended up going home and spending the night at my own house instead. I asked if I could bring my own pillows and gently suggested he get rid of his. He said it was totally fine for me to bring a pillow, but that he wouldn’t get rid of his, as they are ‘sentimental’.

Thoughts? I feel like I can’t even kiss him or anything while we’re sleeping because I don’t want him to get his gross pillowness all over me and my clean pillows.”

6. “Instead Of Wrapping The Fork In A Napkin And Putting It In His Backpack, By Boyfriend Bends It So That It Fits Into The Tupperware His Lunch Was In. I Was Speechless Upon Discovery”

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8. “My Boyfriend, Who Doesn’t Buy Any Of The Groceries, Decided To Use Multiple Pounds Of Chicken In A Cooler Instead Of The Bag Of Ice We Have”

9. “My Husband Throws Away Trash Directly Into The Pantry”

10. “I Spent 4 Hours Deep Cleaning The Kitchen And This Is What It Looks Like Not Even 2 Days Later Without Me Constantly Cleaning Up After My Husband”

11. “My Boyfriend Left A Crunchwrap In The Air Fryer For A Month”

12. “How My Boyfriend Leaves His Coffee Cup Every Morning”

13. “Came To The Kitchen To Find Out That My Boyfriend Hung The Towel Like This”

14. “This Piece Of Tiramisu My Husband Left Me”

“My husband said we would eat the tiramisu together after our 17 months goes to bed. Our LO was crying so I went to calm her down. Came back to him playing video game and ate almost all of the tiramisu slice. Smh.”

15. “My Husband Will Never Close A Draw Or Shut A Cupboard”

16. “You Spend The Afternoon Working On A Christmas Eve Dinner And Hubby Brings This Home For My Son An Hour Before Dinnertime”

17. “My Boyfriend Can’t Make Anything For Himself”

18. “BF Got Me Chocolate For Valentine’s Day….i Got One Piece”

“I asked my bf if he had made any plans for Valentine’s day and he told me he would take me out for dinner….well now we’re not even doing that, so he got me chocolate to make up for it. Then proceeded to eat it all. No card, no flowers….literally no effort at all.”

19. “The Night My Husband Made Burgers For The First Time. He Set Off The Fire Alarm 4 Times”

20. “My BF’s Attempt At Cleaning The Window”

21. “Tell Me You Live With A Man Without Telling Me You Live With A Man”

22. “My Husband Has His Pick Of Toothbrushes From An Unopened Pack And Chose The Same Color As Mine”

“Title says it all really. I grabbed a new toothbrush last week. My husband got a new one this morning after opening a new pack and grabbed the same color.”

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24. “My Sweet Husband”

“Whom I love so much drives me insane with the trash bin. I appreciate him taking the garbage, but he never puts the bag in when he does. It isn’t garbage day, so I wasn’t anticipating the empty bin and tossed coffee grounds in before noticing. Yes, I’ve talked to him about it. Yes, we both deal with the garbage. He does so much for the home, he just tends to not finish this particular job. I have resigned myself to living with this one character flaw until I die.”

25. “Asked My Husband To Pick Up A Christmas Tree”

“I’ve learned I have to be super specific when I ask him to do things. I always forget! Love him and all of his imperfections.”

26. “My Boyfriend Throws His Empty Water Bottles Behind The Bed”

27. “Boyfriend Keeps A Graveyard Of Shower Gel With One Half-Squirt Left”

28. “Husband Replaced Last 2 Advil With Kibble. Not Sure What I’m More Upset At, The Fact That I Almost Washed Back Dog Kibble Or That I Actually Find This Hilarious”

29. “My Husband Used Powdered Sugar Instead Of Sugar To Make My Bday Cake, Bless Him”

30. “My Husband Mowed Over My Pumpkins”

“In late June I sprouted my own pumpkin seeds with my 3yr old son. We’ve been so excited to see the pumpkin plant grow and thrive. My husband decided to mow the lawn yesterday, along with the only fruitful part of our plant. He thought the trellising vines with buds were ‘overgrowth’.”

31. “My Husband Rigged Our Trash Cans Like This And Wonders Why They Didn’t Take Them”

“We’ve been having issues with our neighbors keeping their trash properly contained and we’re the ones that have to clean up after them. This was my husband’s solution to that problem. However, they were too contained for the trash men to take. We live in a major city and they have thousands of houses to get to. I’m on their side. Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

32. “My Husband, Who Insists On Doing His Own Laundry, Left A Pen That Then Exploded And I’ve Got 6 More Loads To Do Today”

“As I said, my husband insists on doing his own laundry even though laundry day is Friday, he wants it done Thursday and I work Thursday, so I start my normal Friday 7 loads and open the dryer to this.

I’ve used rubbing alcohol which is turning the paper towel blue at least but the stains remain on the dryer plus I have doubts of running this thing with all that alcohol on there it’ll explode. I need help!

I attempted a small bit of oven cleaner that did nothing, also goo gone did nothing. I guess I’ll be going to a laundromat until then.”

33. “How My Husband Eats Donuts”

34. “My Boyfriend Uses An Absurd Amount Of Hand Lotion Before Bed Every Night”

“This is the lotion rubbed in… He uses this amount of hand lotion very frequently. When he rubs his hands together it sounds like a bad p***o while I’m trying to fall asleep.”

35. “I Smelled Plastic”

“…then walked into the kitchen just as my husband was bounding in whispering ‘oh s**t oh s**t!’ He had preheated the oven for a nice meal of leftover baked spaghetti and forgot the high chair tray was in there.
Currently waving dish towels in the air to keep the smoke alarm from waking the toddler. Oh, and ordering in. Probably should be saving money though, since we have to get a new oven now? No idea how to even begin cleaning this…”

36. “My Boyfriend Put My Nintendo Switch Through The Washing Machine”

“i was going to cry but he said he’s going to buy me a new one this week and treat me to dinner so i managed to suck my tears back lol. luckily the joycons weren’t attached so that’s a bonus.”

37. “Husband Decided Ro Pressure Washer The Screens On Our Screened In Patio”

“Just like the title says he decided to pressure washer the algea off the screens….he was not accurate….they all look like that….yes it’s that noticeable…no he sees nothing wrong.”

38. “Boyfriend Attempts Bathroom Organization. This Is A Neat Way To Store Toilet Paper Eh? Yes That Is The Plunger”

39. “Spouse Always Puts Trash From The Bathroom Bin Next To The Main Bin, Not Inside It”

40. “The Way My Boyfriend Stacks These Nesting Measuring Cups”

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That’s basically what this is. A solid batch of funny tweets that managed to make me laugh today.

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Because as serious as the story gets, there’s also plenty of room to step back and ask… what if things had gone a little differently?

That’s exactly what NoSkillComic does with these. They take the idea of defeating Voldemort and run it in a hundred ridiculous directions, and honestly, some of these might’ve saved everyone a lot of trouble.

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These are the strange finds that made me stop and wonder what timeline they originally belonged to.

1. “Catch and release”

2. “Found this unhinged sweatshirt at goodwill today”

3. “I believe the thing with the hoof is a shaving brush. The top looks exactly like my grandfather’s brush.”

4. “Cursed corn kitchenware at an antique mall in Cincinnati, Ohio.”

5. “Why did they make the chicken s*xy????”

6. “Didn’t pick them up. Too big unfortunately.”

7. “Anyone in the market…”

“For a TIFFANY & CO. NEW YORK SINCE 1837 deflated basketball for….checks tag $34.99?!?!

Get absolutely F’d, Savers….I feel like they should ABSOLUTELY know better than to sell what is blatantly fake and counterfeit. If I tried to sell this on Ebay, I’d be blocked SO fast.”

8. “Sketchy alleyway thrift store find”

“My daughter and her friend went to a sketchy alleyway thrift store to check it out, and she found this in the bottom of a dusty bookshelf filled with various CDs, VHS tapes, and questionably stained stuffed animals.

How many times do you come across a dirty zip lock baggie filled with barbie heads and torsos labeled ‘Property of Jeffrey Dahmer’?”

9. “I give you guys cursed SpongeBob costume (was not for sale) but found at camp flea in ozark up in the vintage clothing loft”

10. “Unforgettable catch and release today”

11. “Weird Thrift Store Finds”

12. “My wife’s favorite find to date.”

13. “Oh my.”

14. “You gotta be kidding me”

15. This Cat Grooming Tool

16. “Found these fake jordans at the thrift store.”

17. “Mickey Mouse I found in a thrift store”

18. “Look at this sassy dish”

19. “You may enjoy garbage trucks, but do you love them this much?”

“Found at the thrift store. Who would need this? Was it for an event?

Or did someone just wanted to wear their love of garbage trucks all over their body?”

20. “Weird grass flip-flops found at thrift store”

21. “Acme Antiques in Tappahannock VA. ..a plethora of weird and wonderful(ish)”

22. “These bunnies from a thrift store”

23. “Someone Crocheted And Then Donated This Frog Purse”

24. “This… Umm…. Haunted doll. For real.”

25. “I bet his wife donated this one.”

26. “Don’t be creepy…and creepy it is.”

27. “Goodwill wildin’”

28. “Never seen a shoe with a cutout for your foot to be a beachbody lol…. Found at a goodwill in Florida, of course”

29. “Catch and release.”

30. “Got this cursed mug today for $3 idk how I feel about it”

31. “Cursed winnie the pooh blanket”

32. “heck nah they put santa in the renal failure urine snow globe”

33. “Imagine wearing this at work”

34. “Catch and Release at $249.99”

35. “This has been at my location for weeks. You’re telling me no one wants to store anything in here? I should.”

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One minute they’re acting like royalty, the next they’re sprinting full speed into a wall for no reason.

These pictures capture that exact energy. Just cats being cats, which is to say, completely ridiculous.

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I respect it, even if the food ends up… well done in more ways than one.

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These pictures will do that thing where you’re like, “Oh wow, I haven’t thought about this in 20 years,” and then suddenly you’re emotionally invested in a fruit snacks commercial again.

1. “Were you a 1-800-COLLECT or a 1-800-CALL-ATT person?”

2. “Who remembers the Book It program?”

“I don’t know about anyone but back in the day the pizza from Pizza Hut just hit differently and was so delicious!

I remember my siblings and I use to trick our mother by convincing her that we read this book or that book just so she’d sign the paper so we could a little free pizza. We were poor growing up and didn’t eat out so it was a luxury!

Also my elementary school each class had a Corduroy Teddy Bear if you read the book you got to take it home with you for the week.

Great times!”

3. “Hot cinnamon ruled the 90s, felt like everyone had these in their bag”

4. “Was at a local game-store with my son, and found a relic of the past.”

5. “Crystal pepsi needs to make a comeback”

6. “Did anyone else have these as a kid? I loved mine!”

7. “Found a McDonald’s that hit me right in the childhood feels”

8. “This was the best hang out spot on the weekends!”

“The 90s was great and so many good memories!

My sis, a female friend and I would go to The Ground Round every weekend and have their Non Alcoholic Strawberry Daiquiri and we thought we were the bomb and no one could tell us otherwise!”

9. “I probably got my love of coding from this site”

10. “Shari Lewis & Lamb Chop”

11. “This was absolutely the best one in the trilogy and I will d*e on this hill”

12. “Zubaz Streetwear”

“I had the Charlotte Hornets and Chicago Bulls pants back in 92-93 with the matching hats. I remember a lot of kids matching these with Starter jackets and pullovers.”

13. “The legendary D-145”

“There was something so satisfying about the way the lid clicked shut and that low hum of the motor starting up. I spent way too many hours staring at that little LCD screen waiting for my favorite track to start.”

14. “Snack Pringles Holder”

15. “I don’t remember if this gum was good or not”

16. “I left the grocery store with a fat stack of coupons every time I went with my mom.”

17. “Absolute cinema!!”

18. “This is the time when my sister and me always fight lol, who remembers this?”

19. “You want to come over and make Creepy Crawlers???”

20. “What was the obsession with making every plastic electronic transparent”

21. “This classic 90s Jeep Wrangler and it’s impressive decal.”

22. “I can still remember the smell of KOOSHLINGS!!!!”

23. “Oh the good old days.”

24. “Vtech World Wizard”

25. “If you know, you know: the pink potion of our childhood.”

26. “My mom said she found some of my old stuff”

27. “Did anyone actually collect all 6?”

28. “On April 12, 1998, the Nokia 5110 mobile phone was released.”

29. “The Body Shop”

30. “Me thinking my kids love for slime is stupid….. then I had a memory.”

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It’s not even subtle either. Nose pressed up, eyes locked in, like they just heard a treat bag open. These are the best nosy dogs.

1. “My Neighbor’s Dog Peeking Through The Fence To Say Hello”

2. “Four Borzoi Dogs Adorably Peek Their Big Noses Out Of Curtained Window One At A Time”

3. “When Gates Have Eyes. And Wet Noses”

4. “He Thinks I Can’t See Him”

5. “My Dog’s Best Friend Peeked Through The Bush”

6. “Neighbors Adopted A Dog, So My Dad Cut Holes In The Fence”

7. “Peeping Over The Fence”

8. “Oh Lawd He Peeping”

9. “Making Dinner And Notice Someone Spying”

10. “I Told Him To Stop Begging And Go Away While I’m Eating. 30 Seconds Later I Look Down To See This”

11. “Air Doggo”

12. “My Friend Made Holes In His Gate So Gus The Labrador Can See And Sniff”

13. “Every Morning She Watches Me Leave For Work And It Breaks My Heart”

14. “I Consider This A Peeping Pooch”

15. “Peeping Through The Cat Hole”

16. “Airplane Peeper”

17. “I Have Some Nosey Neighbors”

18. “Ever Get That Feeling That You’re Being Watched? Clever Boye Using The Mirror To Watch Me While I Work”

19. “Ted Wanted French Fries At The Bar”

20. “My Neighbor Cut Holes In His Gate So His Dog Could See Out”

21. “Took A Picture Of My New Deck, Then I Noticed A Spy”

22. “Our Neighbor’s Dogs Have Dug Themselves A Hole Under Our Fence So That They Can Watch Our Dogs”

23. “So My Neighbor Has Been Building A New Fence. I Suggested A Window For His Dog Jack Who Likes To Say Hi To Us Everyday Through A Current Missing Board. Woke Up To This Today”

24. “Peeping Tom”

25. “I Haven’t Gotten Out Of Bed Yet. I Just Hear The Tail”

26. “Old Man Bou Peeping At Me Coming Home At The End Of The Day”

27. “Peeping From Under The Couch”

28. “Sometimes You Just Know You’re Being Watched”

29. “When He Doesn’t Get The Pets He Deserves This Is The Face I Get”

30. “Noticed This Outside My House. Am I Under Surveillance?”

31. “Took A Pic Of The Neighbor’s Dog Peeking Through My Door And It Turned Out A Bit Spooky”

32. “A Dog Peeping Through A Hole”

33. “Went For A Walk And Saw This Little Fella Peeking At Me Through His Fence Window”

34. “Eggs, Bacon, French Fries And A Good Boy Peeping”

35. “Just Seeing What Mom Is Up To”

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As an elder millennial, I really think that’s why my imagination works the way it does now. We had to entertain ourselves, and we got pretty good at it.

These replies are a great reminder of all the weird, random, and surprisingly fun ways we used to pass the time.

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I even sent one to a friend once, an island called Disappointment Island, and told them I’d been there and everyone knew them. That’s the kind of energy this account inspires.

These are real locations, real names, and somehow all deeply, hilariously sad.

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Here are the most nostalgic Gen X pictures and memes from from the past 40 or so years.

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