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?

Evolution. Especially when you see some of the amazing, bizarre and incredibly unique creatures on natural history shows. Like birds with fantastic and beautiful plumage, fish that light up, strange parasites that take over the hosts in sinister ways.

And I just think HOW has natural selection produced this?! It doesn’t seem possible! It’s enough to make me believe in a creator.

That there are only 30 paid players in women's rugby. In the whole world. It fascinates me that it is so far behind men's football for instance.

How people can not believe in a God or creator

Most of the other things that fascinate me (nature, space and the universe, human body, how a baby develops, science) I can get my head around because I believe in God.

The idea that in a factory a huge machine is making something on a massive scale, say a car part for example, but that machine itself had to be made.

So a machine made the machine that is making the car part... and that a machine made a small part that makes the machine that made the machine that makes the car part... right down to a screw or a washer. And so on. Boggles my mind!

Religion.
How masses, millions of people believe in a wee book and what is written within.

Murders I watch a lot of true crime documentaries on the crime and investigation channel and I'm grimly fascinated by them.

Electricity and great white sharks

I also concentrated how the universe started yes I know about the big bang theory but how did it happen out of nothing ?

Wonder how*

Space and the universe. The magnitude of it. Thinking about it long enough can give me the fear because my brain can't cope with how endless it is.
History and historical fashion.

As a child, I was endlessly fascinated by things I could do without seeing, such as hearing where sounds were coming from, and playing the piano. I was always doing experiments where I had to be blindfolded, and I kept wanting to play the "meet a tree" game again and again. I was in denial about the things that were beyond me, though: I thought I should win pin the tail on the donkey every time, which I would have done if only I wasn't spun round!

There's a game I still like to play from time to time. DH drives me to an unknown part of town; I'm blindfolded, have headphones on and I'm only allowed to see when we're somewhere which looks as nondescript as possible. He then leaves me there, and I have to walk around and work out where I am. The thrill of reorienting myself is amazing!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had to google Paternoster lifts!
I'm fascinated by how blood goes round the body, that I can look at a vein in my arm and the blood is going round and round just under my skin, can't get my head round it really!
This whole thread is fascinating, thanks for asking OP

The flow of traffic. How 2 cars can be travelling at 60mph in opposite directions and we only don't kill each other because we're following the same rules. Roundabouts etc. Love the efficiency of it all.

Photography. I understand how cameras work but the whole idea of being able to capture a split second moment with perfect precision and clarity makes my brain hurt if I think about it too much!

@OptimisticButNeverQuiteElegant I'm not the only one!

Post boxes and old street furniture in general. Especially old Victorian gratings. Some of them are so ornate. I especially like the ones with glass when they’re lit from basement lighting.

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It will sound weird, but how bodies work. Take a human body. It’s not attached to any machine, yet it works independently, just by itself. It’s moving around, the heart is beating, all the organs doing their job. What invisible force powers it? It’s baffling.

I'm fascinated by the Holocaust, I just can't get my head round how it happened, I mean I know it did but all those people killed, people doing that to others and thinking it's OK, I read any stories I can about it and I feel disturbed that it wasn't that long ago in history!

Prime numbers. I'm no good at maths at all, but Primes are lovely and mysterious.
I take photos of them and have an online album.
Even numbers are all ugly and somehow smug.

@MrsGolightyly wow mind blown.. why have I never thought if this before. I love my dogs so much, animals are amazing.

@millifor you’ve just given me a new flower to plant, it so perfect & beautiful.

I am fascinated by the though if an other world/alien life... has to be out there somewhere

@Lorddenning1 I'm fascinated by the Holocaust,

Did you watch the Chris Tarrant programme about it recently? Railways of Europe or something like that. My teenager wanted to watch it, horrific viewing but it really opened my eyes about it. I knew what happened but the way the programme was delivered made it essential viewing.

I'm another one interested in remote islands, I travel to them whenever i can.

Graveyards. Only the old ones. Looking at the inscriptions and the dates. One that sticks in my mind was a whole family in the 1800s. Parents, grandparents and children. All dying relatively close to one another. I feel transported back in time trying to picture the circumstances,

People who are obsessed by stuff! I love documentaries about people who have spent their whole life collecting things or perfecting things. There was one about Christmas lights and the rivalry over who had the house with most lights on the UK. I find it fascinating how they got so caught up in something that most people don't even think about

Serious crimes, murders and world war 2 (which had millions of murders)