35 Mildly Interesting Pictures People Couldn’t Stop Looking At This Week (December 18, 2025)
I’ve been down a rabbit hole on r/mildlyinteresting, and these pictures scratch a very specific itch. They’re that perfect mix of interesting and slightly off.
Nothing’s actually wrong with any of this, it all works fine, but there’s something oddly satisfying about looking at things that are just a little bit different than you’d expect.
1. “Cut into an onion and it was half red half white”
2. “My wife’s notes for school.”
3. “I was served iced coffee in a bag.”
4. “A banana the size of my forearm”
5. “My antidepressant had a smiley face on it.”
6. “My apple has an advertisement for a TV show on it…”
7. “I’m a 6’9″/205cm tall woman”
8. “A hippo swam directly to me and stared at me in the zoo”
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10. “New scissors came in package that opens without using scissors”
11. “Moss on this sign only grows on the black letters and lines”
12. “Coworker made an ornament from our huskies shed hair.”
13. “My new glass of crispy chilli oil has 30g less content”
14. “My coffee spill looks like the Americas”
15. “At pho restaurant they use a iPad kids case”
16. “Found this patch with atrocious typos, while Christmas shopping.”
17. “Saw someone’s funko pop collection at goodwill today”
18. “My thai takeout came in a can”
19. “Saw this spiders web during my walk”
20. “Even malls in Saudi Arabia have snow-related decorations during winter”
21. “Thumb cuffs from the military surplus store on Quantico marine base.”
22. “Broke my right hand now is super hairy”
23. “Found a log that resembles a boot”
24. “The cards on this monopoly game use binary code”
25. “I ran over – and shattered – this frozen banana peel.”
26. “Wingstop still uses the twitter bird instead of ‘X'”
27. “A restaurant in Dallas put a whole, unsliced tomato on my plate with breakfast”
28. “Found a star in my apartment wall”
29. “Peanut Butter on spatula looks like the president.”
30. “I found a pearl in my dinner last night (it was a chocolate clam)”
31. “This wine bottle from Australia has a massive spider In it.”
32. “Our cat has one extra large claw”
33. “This vending machine requires employee IDs instead of money”
34. “My neighbor leaves Christmas lights up all year. You can see how tall his tree was when he put them on over 10 years ago”
35. “My lemonade looks like dish soap”
