35 Mildly Interesting Pictures That Earned A Second Glance This Week (February 19, 2026)
One of my favorite corners of the internet is r/mildlyinteresting because just when I thought I saw it all, boom, something I’ve never seen or knew existed appears in my feed. I’m just glad someone stopped to take a picture while they were silently impressed instead of just thinking “huh, neat” and moving on.
These mildly interesting pictures earned a second glance this week, and they’re worth yours, too.
1. “I cut a potato exactly in half.”
2. “Goldfish processing error made it into the box”
3. “Dehumidifier broke while I was out of town and one of my books absorbed a bunch of water”
4. “I can purchase a 55 gallon drum of maple syrup at my local Costco.”
5. “My apple has the outline of an apple on it”
6. “The metal frames of these trees are tailor-made to the shape of the root”
7. “My Airbnb had a sink in the toilet”
8. “These bar stools have soundproofing underneath”
9. “I dyed the cake batter almost the same colour as the spatula”
10. “Someone wrote ‘MUTE’ next to the button that silences the audio for the advertisements that play while pumping gas”
11. “University locks projectors to ceiling with comically large chains”
12. “Whenever we clean the ball pit at work, the most broken balls we find are always orange”
13. “A staircase that leads to no where.”
14. “There is a dent on my monitor from where Ive put my headset for the last 3 years”
15. “Had no idea Grey Ladybugs were a thing”
16. “The mayonnaise has perfectly detached from the bottom of the bottle”
17. “Lake beginning to freeze in Saskatchewan, Canada, mid-October.”
18. “I came across this grave being thawed out”
19. “The dips for the chips came in chip bowls.”
20. “Roots vs ends of my uncolored hair”
21. “These guys wanted a fence, but also wanted their tree.”
22. “My earrings always seem to tarnish/react on ONE side only”
23. “Extremely thick beard hair”
24. “Bought beef and pork sticks with, somehow, 0 protein”
25. “The inside of my ADHD medication”
26. “This piece of ham is the same shade as my skin”
27. “This tree was pretty indecisive about which way to grow”
28. “Aldi products have much larger UPC codes to make scanning faster/easier”
29. “I found a white squirrel”
30. “My wife got a scratcher and every single space (front and back) was a winner”
31. “Niagara water has switched to label free water bottles!”
32. “Found a 2 digit combination lock at work, only ever seen 3+”
33. “World’ biggest grasshopper dropping in on office hours.”
34. “Unattended stacks of bacon on a Blue Line train seat in Chicago”
35. “This Wendy’s has a handwashing sink outside of the restrooms so people only washing their hands don’t have to take a restroom (the restrooms also have sinks)”
