35 Mildly Interesting Pictures That Made People Look Twice This Week (February 5, 2026)

Mildly interesting is the image equivalent of finding a $5 bill in your pocket. It’s not enough to change your life, but it’s enough to make your day slightly better.

These pictures from this week are exactly that level of mildly interesting.

1. “I put a pinecone in my shower. It closes when I shower and opens again when it dries.”

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2. “Snow naturally formed this garland situation on my parents deck. It’s holding that shape on its own.”

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3. “My wife slices bagels in 5 for the maximum topping enjoyment.”

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4. “I found a nugget in my bag of Cheetos”

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5. “One of my twix was naked”

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6. “Noticed a square grease blob in my spaghetti bolognese”

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7. “Snow partially slid off pool house roof then froze again”

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8. “Had my water on a super slow drip in my garage and over a day or two this icicle formed.”

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9. “The way this candle melted as it burned”

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10. “Sometimes, when my allergies are bugging me, just the scales on my koi tattoo puff up”

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11. “One of my M&Ms is shaped like a cylinder.”

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12. “I found this lost onion growing under my car seat”

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13. “I pressed my face into the snow while making different expressions”

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14. “People pushing the flooring away from these leaning seats in the Parisian metro”

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15. “The Grubhub bots on my campus take the same routes so often that their tire marks are visible”

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16. “This stone formed in my humidifier”

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17. “My beard oil ate through the rubber stopper”

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18. “A cool blue orchid I found in a supermarket”

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19. “Both of my hair brushes snapped in half on the same day”

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20. “A change machine for pressed pennies gave me these blanks instead of real pennies”

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21. “This Italian restaurant I had lunch at uses straws made of pasta”

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22. “A unicorn-shaped faucet…”

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23. “Airport security left a billy club in my golf bag”

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24. “Our neighbors built an igloo (Virginia)”

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25. “Withdrew $220 from the ATM and got all sequential bills”

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26. “Hair with 13 ends”

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27. “This entirely white peacock in my mom’s neighborhood”

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28. “This Trash Truck that says to leave an American Football Field distance between cars”

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29. “The oxycodone bottle the hospital gave me after a surgery has tamper tape on it”

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30. “Moved our bed to find a piece of grass growing out of a hidden outlet.”

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31. “Guinness WR books have gotten thinner over the years”

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32. “Stain looks like a Fantasy map”

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33. “I won this Night At The Museum 2 Watch as a kid from a Cartoon Network contest”

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34. “This shadow on my wall looks exactly like the Grandpa from ‘Hey Arnold!'”

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35. “My wife’s anti-anxiety prescription has two different pills in it.”

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