Things that are actually pretty weird when you think about them?

History. The idea that so many billions upon billions of people have lived whole, full lives and then died and been completely forgotten. They’ve had real feelings and they wasted time picking their noses and having 5 more minutes in bed. They farted, they got headaches, they stubbed their toes and did that thing where your drink goes down the wrong way and you choke and it spurts out of your nose. They’ve loved so hard it hurt, cried until they couldn’t cry any more, been furious, been on top of the world, been terrified, and brave, and selfless and ashamed. And now they’re dead, and all the people who knew them are dead, and, aside from a few individuals, their names are forgotten and everything they felt so strongly is gone, and the things that made them angry and happy and sad and scared are gone and forgotten and of no consequence any more. I find it paralysingly terrifying.
I’m a historian.

Also, the idea that one day someone decided to give someone else an item of value in return for them performing a useful task, and now I have to get up and go to work every day, and waste this momentary flash in the pan we call a life in answering pointless emails for money.

Also - the fact we have a smell memory!

We can smell something years after first smelling it, and it reminds us straightaway of a place, person or time. BONKERS.

Photographs from old style cameras, or any camera really. Click, and a moment in time is somehow stuck to that bit of paper!How? On a similar vein, printers and fax machines, absolutely mental.

Religion, all kinds - utterly bonkers.
People who voted Tory - who the AF does that? The list of completely criminal things that party is doing to the country just gets longer and yet.... and yet...
I remember when my friends daughter was young she could not get her head round the fact that her gran was her mums mum.

How everyone has different taste.

I will hear a song and think god I hate that but then loads of people love it.

How I can’t bear baked beans but it’s apparently the only thing my son will eat.

And the fact that we go to sleep by basically pretending we are already asleep.

Another vote for dancing from me. I just don't get it. Looks ridiculous yet other people seem to enjoy it. Not me

Also time, just the massive age of the earth and the fact that actually a T-rex is closer in time to me right now than it was to a stegosaurus

Space again. When you go outside on a clear night and look up at the sky and think we are so tiny and insignificant. And there's billions of us buzzing round this planet with our own worries which seems like the most important thing in the world. Because we have our own little worlds, billions of individual worlds on one big world which is actually tiny in the context of the universe 🤯

How does something as massive and heavy as an aeroplane stay up in the air?

Because very clever people use very powerful computers to design wings which generate lift which exceeds the mass of the aircraft and its cargo.

That we think sports & film stars deserve more money than keyworkers, doctors, teachers... I know they're in demand internationally, and earn lots of money for their clubs/ studios, but there's no way they're really worth £60k per week!

Was talking about the madness of organ transplants earlier

(Just from TV portrayal not seen IRL)

Rip an organ from a dead body
Stick it in a freezer box
Travel to another hospital

Stick it in a completely alien dying body

It works

Baffling

Electricity! I just can’t get my head around it. It’s magic! I’m watching tv and playing on my phone because of electric and it’s forming pictures and sounds, that comes from something like a windfarm that’s just moving from a breeze!

The universe and evolution. Like the fact we're here now on this planet, typing on keyboards and doing mundane things like drinking tea, all randomly formed and sitting in this massive universe!

Milk! 🥛 I'm a city girl so never gave it much thought until I married DH who's the son of dairy farmers. We live there now and I fine the whole thing fascinating and horrendous. Even more so when I had DD1 and was breastfeeding.

We DRINK the milk of a random animal, there's a whole industry constructed around it, we make sure these animals get pregnant every year and if the bull can't do it someone's actual job is to inseminate cows (not literally but you know!) that's a job?! And then worst of all, we take the babies away from their mum's more or less straight away so we can benefit from the milk. What the actual fuck is all that about?

The cows cry for the calves for days - it's unspeakably cruel and so very random. Yet we're still so squeamish about breastfeeding?!! If you suggested harvesting breast milk for human consumption (why haven't we done that?!) people would be so disgusted - cognitive dissonance or what?

I should probably be a vegan really. It's just all so bloody weird when you think about it/see it in action every year.

How do regional accents evolve? In the UK why don't we all speak the same way, why does someone in North pronounce words differently to a person in the South just because of where they live?

What if we all forgot how to read? I mean literally forgot the alphabet and it's all just a jumble of symbols that's all totally made up anyway?

@autumnleaves1220 he shouldn't laugh. That's why I became a vegetarian (trying to go vegan)

Sex. Someone puts a bit of their body inside somone else's body. For enjoyment.

I often wonder if I've ever drank the same water molecule twice

Yes, and the fact that we've all probably drunk the same water as a dinosaur and also possibly Mozart, Genghis Khan, or Angelina Jolie.

@Mizydoscape Yes! I read something similar before and it blew my mind 🤯