Odd things you’re fascinated by?

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Mine is the human brain. How a few chemicals can dictate so much about who we are and how we act/feel etc.

What other things do people get fascinated by?

@LittleSweet same! Netflix documentaries and wikipedia have a lot to answer for!

Cars.
I often sit and think when I am stuck in traffic, that it is so crazy that we use a big metal box with wheels to get from A to B 🚘

@ChikiTIKI me too. I have several books written by people who were in cults and just can't comprehend the psychology of why anyone joins one.

I'm obsessed with the stories of people who have died climbing Mount Everest. Can't get enough!

Bulgarian umbrellas used to assassinate and Georgi Markov.

Also the brain; psychology vs psychiatry and how genetics plays out in the middle. How the slightest change can alter everything.

Cars I think they’re so fucking clever!

Pylons, maps, trains.

If you want to wow your friends, pop “diesel multiple unit” or “tension tower” into the conversation.

Also nutrition. I’m obsessed with food and supplements.

@AnneLovesGilbert what's the vanity reason for having b12 injections?

Dogs. My dog understands countless human words but I don’t speak dog. 🤔

MLMS/pyramid schemes... love podcasts/documentaries. The missing crypto queen the latest I listened to.

I find it fascinating how they do manage to con so many people. Sad also.

Phones. Especially mobile phones. How can my voice travel through a device in my hand??

The internet- mind was blown when I learned it travels through cables on the sea bed.

Trains
Planes
Paternoster lifts

Gritters

AIDS. Where did it come from? In 1985/6 I knew 17 people who died from it, but no-one previous to that. But then they discovered that a boy had died from it in the early 1970s. Where had it been all that time? Why did it suddenly blow up in the mid 1980s?

The Royal Family

Teaching children. I volunteer in a primary school, and it’s fascinating watching them learn, and seeing their little faces light up when they understand something.

I always want to know what "hard working people/families/ work our bloody arse" people off do. Some people do, of course, but the 'hard working people' in any former workplace of mine 😬

Making your nails stronger FancyPants20?

Radio and television. All those words and images flying through the air; it makes me wonder if there's anything else out there yet to be discovered.

Illnesses and how they come up with cures. I even worked in a pharma company once and it hasn't quelled the thirst for knowledge, just widened it!

I have b12 injections (Health not vanity reason) and a pleasant side effect is incredibly hardy talons. I have a nightmare trying to keep them down.
Unfortunately b12 jabs haven't helped my nails at all. I did have an adverse effect to some medicine before which meant I lost two nails after damaging them. Those are my only two good nails. Even my tie nails are awful

*toe not tie
And the two lost nails grew back into the decent ones I meant to say 🤦‍♀️

@Stompythedinosaur I lost a whole day last year learning about the history of people climbing Mount Everest. I was fascinated with the bodies that are left up there because it's too dangerous to bring them down. I then subjected my poor DH to a informative lecture about my days learnings.

I'm fascinated by the history of sweets and confectionery.

I love how things were invented to make life the way is today - I haven't worded that well, but; the invention of sewers, rail lines, housing estates.

The bigger the deadline I have the more I procrastinate by falling down internet rabbit holes.

dahlias. How does nature make those petals so neat and tight and perfect. They look like they were designed by a mathematician.

Working class Conservative voters. Cognitive dissonance is intriguing.

Oh and priest holes, they are fab!