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11 People Share Examples of the Mandela Effect

Do you know what the Mandela Effect is? Basically, it’s when a group of people remembers something completely different than the way it actually happened. And it happens more than you’d think, believe it or not. It’s actually a really interesting phenomenon that seems to have become popular in the last few years on social...

What’s Your Best Example of the Mandela Effect? Here’s What People Said.

Do you remember the Bernstein Bears? I do…and guess what? I was wrong. Dead wrong! It’s actually spelled Berenstain, and I guess my entire childhood was a lie… This is an example of the Mandela Effect, when people remember something differently than it actually happened. AskReddit users shared interesting examples of the Mandela Effect. Let’s...

Should This Person Have Accepted Apology From Mother of Childhood Bully?

For a long time, the subject of bullying was treated like a joke. Something to be survived, something to prove you’d earned your stripes as a kid, or something. These days students, parents, and educators take it all more seriously, realizing that the scars obtained in childhood, at the hands of mean kids (and sometimes...

People Discuss the Best Examples They’ve Seen of “The Mandela Effect”

Certain things take hold on social media and just seem to capture the imagination of the public. And even though the Mandela Effect has been around for a long time, it seems like it’s only in the past few years that it’s taken hold and reminded people of what this phenomenon is all about. What’s...

People Discuss the Random Acts of Kindness That They’ll Never Forget

I remember one time I was out in the Westport district of Kansas City late on a Friday night with a bunch of friends bar hopping. I broke away from the group for a few minutes because I was hungry and walked over to a hot dog stand on the street and waited in line...

Woman Asks if It’s Rude to Not Wear a Gifted Bikini Because She Doesn’t Shave Down There

If you’re an adult, or anyone autonomous enough to decide on and execute your own personal grooming habits, I think those habits should be your business and no one else’s – not even a romantic partner’s, if we’re being completely honest. When it comes to health and comfort, I am a crusader, y’all. This woman...

Woman Asks if She’s a Jerk For Not Wearing a Bra. The Internet Responds With a Resounding…

Times, they are a changin’, my friends. Back in the 60’s, women burned their bras to protest the Vietnam War (among other things), but in “polite” society, the proper undergarments have always been required. Even the sitcom Seinfeld tackled the issue in an episode in the late 90s, in which a woman wearing no bra...

New Mom Wonders Whether or Not She Was Wrong to Give Her Baby Her Ex-Husband’s Name

For many women, taking their new spouse’s name after marriage is understood, accepted, and even anticipated. More and more women are reconsidering what they see as an antiquated notion and deciding to keep their own names, even after marriage. Whichever way you go, there are complications and little annoyances to deal with, all of which...

10 People Confess to How They Got Their Dumbest Injuries

I don’t care who you are, if you are a human being who does not live in a bubble, you have hurt yourself doing something stupid. You’ve grabbed something that was hot, you’ve dared use a mandolin, you’ve tripped, you’ve fallen, and on and on and on. Me? I ran straight into a centerfield fence...

12 People Share The Dumbest Way They’ve Hurt Themselves

It goes without saying that some humans are clumsier than others, whether it’s due to a natural lack of coordination or a tendency to not pay attention. That said, everyone hurts themselves in stupid ways from time to time, because we’re, well, human. What's the stupidest injury you've ever occurred? I'll go first: I popped...

15 Photoshopped Images of Television Actors Hanging Out With Their Younger Selves

A lot of the time it can seem like our favorite television actors, some or all of whom play iconic roles, are larger than life. The truth is, of course, that they’re human just like the rest of us – which means also that they’ve most likely aged since the last time your favorite character...

12 Pictures That Use a “Human For Scale” to Show Us the Size an Object Really Is

Some objects aren’t things that most of us see on a regular basis – or ever at all – and so it can be hard to imagine how large or small it is, even if we know intellectually that it’s an extreme size on one end of the scale or the other. One easy way...

14 “Humans For Scale” Images That Really Put Things Into Perspective

When things are extremely big or extremely small, it can be hard to visualize just how big or small they are until you put something next to it that you can visualize without being there yourself. One thing we can all reasonably estimate is the size of a human being, since we’re all, you know, human beings....

14 Landscapes Painted on Garbage Found Discarded in the Wilderness

One of the things that’s hardest for me to understand about human behavior is people throwing their trash onto the ground and leaving it there. Paper, glass, pieces of clothing – there are trash cans literally everywhere, and most of us have pockets or backpacks or our cars where we could store things until we...