Nate
There’s something weirdly satisfying about stumbling across one of those mildly interesting things online. Not mind-blowing. Not shocking. Just interesting enough to make you stop scrolling and say, “Huh… that’s kinda cool.”
This post is full of those little visual surprises — the oddly shaped fruit, the perfectly symmetrical snowdrift, the barcode printed completely sideways. Nothing life-changing, just a collection of mildly interesting pictures people snapped in the wild that made us stare longer than we probably should have.
If you’re in the mood for a harmless scroll that scratches that “mildly curious” itch, you’re in the right place.
1. “Here’s my friend feeding her wasp buddy a piece of raspberry. These wasps lived in her balcony and were very friendly.”
2. “Blue lights inside coffee shop bathroom to discourage drug use”
3. “Toothbrush off button swole up”
“Old toothbrush I replaced when I got home from work felt odd when I picked it up. Turned the light on and noticed a giant air bubble in/on the off button.”
4. “The women’s bottle have childproof caps, whereas the men’s bottles don’t.”
5. “This Apple I found behind my desk at work with the sticker still on it”
6. “My Egg is Swirly”
7. “This watermelon at work is swirly.”
8. “My heart medication is shaped like hearts!!”
9. “Smells and looks like a McRib. Showered with it once and wanted to rip my skin off.”
“McRib shower gel”
10. “My new clothes came with a rather peculiar washing label”
11. “Garlic in the hydraulic arm of my hotel room door”
“I travel for work and got into my hotel room last night. Didn’t notice until I was walking out the door this morning that something was stuck in the hydraulic arm of my hotel room door. I was worried at first that it was some kind of bug or small nest, but it’s just a piece of garlic.
Anyone have any idea why someone might put this up there? Were the previous occupants concerned there might be vampires in the area? Should I be concerned?”
12. “One of my Twix didn’t get the chocolate poured on it.”
13. “My toenail shows when I stopped smoking”
“About 3 months ago I quit smoking. Also stopped drinking and started exercising too around the same time so those probably helped as well.”
14. “My son has a permanent swirl in his hair after brain surgery 3 years ago”
15. “Inside a beef jerky chew container was not expecting”
“Tasted below mid- Very fuzzy, like sweetened meaty mold fluff. Like wall insulation dowsed in the congealed blood of long expired cows. Like the crust in between your grandpas toes after he mucks the fields.”
16. “You have to read the instructions through the bottle”
“It doesn’t seem to peel up either like some medicine bottles.”
17. “I got a tiny packet of mustard at work today.”
18. “My well-loved teddy bear next to the unloved version I found at a thrift store”
“(don’t worry they’re now both very loved)”
19. “Roommate just opened up this soup can to find it full of just water”
20. “Used my trackpad to cover my hot coffee this morning.”
21. “Found a rock that looks like an egg in a nest on a hike”
“Found on my hike yesterday on Vancouver Island. Had to send to my DnD group to ask if I should risk taking the clearly bait dragon/griffon egg lol”
22. “In Vienna airport (after security)”
23. “256mb vs 256gb”
“Mid 2000s kingston data traveler 256mb vs 256gb samsung flash drive”
24. “Hair I pulled out of my face”
“Ingrown multi-follicle hair I pulled from my sideburns”
25. “This sign in the restroom at a Chinese Restaurant”
26.
“I’m a writer and this is my office”
27. “Life sized Mikey spotted at a local furniture dumping spot”
“Yes he did come home with me”
28. “I left my magnetic putty on my magnet for 24 hours and it did this.”
29. “Me ending up discussing belt bags instead of string theory with the father of string theory”
30. “Requiem for an Amazon”
31. “The ‘enlarged to show detail’ image is smaller than the actual candy.”
32. “Asian markets are crazy”
33. “I have a Tomato Paste pen”
“TIL I have a pen that was recycled from a tomato paste tube. Has the nutritional label, certifications and everything.. can’t find anything on Google besides their actual tomato paste product..
Strange.”
34. “Will you buy a book without knowing the title or how it looks like?”
“They gave you vague descriptions of the book so you don’t judge it by its cover”
35.
“Found sealed bottle of whiskey while fishing”
36. “Mouse ate my husband’s vitamins”
“My husband‘s been scratching his head because certain vitamins of his seem to get depleted very fast. He kept asking me if I was taking them, but I was not. The tops of those vitamins would be open when he swears he had closed them. But today we found a vitamin With the top chewed off and discovered it was likely little mice eating his vitamins. So do we now have super mice? Mighty mouse? Is my husband going to turn into a mouse? Thoughts and mildly scientific opinions are welcome….”
37. “One of the most expensive coffee in world is basically poop”
“• Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive coffee, uses beans from the feces of palm civets.
• The civets selectively eat coffee cherries, which pass undigested through their system.
• This process gives the coffee a unique flavor, resulting in high prices (e.g., £70 per cup in London).”
38. “This ‘Exit’ sign incase of a fire.”
“In the event of a fire, smoke may fill hallways and people need to crawl to be able to breathe. This exit sign is placed low to pinpoint the exit for people crawling.”
39. “I dumped a cup of epsom salts, but didn’t rinse it. This was about 24 hours later.”
40. “My corolla took 22 years to travel the same number of kilometres light travels in one second”
41. “This mystery flavored dumdum”
42. “Caught this lizard in the middle of getting changed”
43. “A full-faced swimming mask that was to help protect women’s skin from the sun in the 1920s.”
44. “Sign I saw at a local burger restaurant”
“The burgers were delicious by the way. I will definitely be back.”
45. “Sister had surgery. Doctors have rather fitting names.”
“That’s their actual names, and I’m so here for it.”
46. “This balcony in my University”
“I have no idea why it’s there, it serves no purpose, below is a pretty long drop”
47. “Not sure how a fish got into my gutters.”
“I live nowhere near any lakes, rivers or oceans”
48. “Currently eating candy and this color showed up. Should I eat it or not?”
49. “Some weird spikes inside a hollow tree”
50. “My mayos expiration date says MAY0”
h/t: r/MildlyInteresting