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?

Space and The Universe.... how, just how? I get this weird feeling inside me when I think about it too hard.

London Underground and how it’s all, well, underground, with people going about their daily lives above it all.

Death and that just being the end, forever. How long is forever?

This one will probably get a flaming, but how people can be so illiterate I don’t understand how people don’t understand the difference between his and he’s, the there/their/they’re, your/you’re, of and off etc. I never ever say anything in real life to anyone, but it does wind me up And as a disclaimer I know people can be dyslexic or have learning difficulties so I don’t mean those people (my own DD falls under both those categories), I just mean the ones who haven’t made the effort to learn the most basic English language.

I’m also fascinated by all the different species of animals, and how they all have their own little lives and just get on with it in their own bubble, unaware of what’s going on around them.

One more, I sometimes look at google Earth and zoom in on places who are suffering unrest, famine, war, hardship and end up crying to myself thinking that in that square inch (or whatever) there are hundreds/thousands of people suffering right where I’m looking but I can’t see them. Sounds a bit odd but it makes me sad

Villages under reservoirs. Right up until the mid 20th century whole communities, usually in a valley somehwere, were drowned or flooded to create reservoirs to provide drinking clean water for the big cities. There are loads all over the UK, Capel Celyn, Llanwyddyn, Derwent and Ashopton just off the top of my head.

They look terrifying to me too. One question with them, what happens if you don't get off? I guess you just go around and around.

Yes, you do. Thankfully they have a light or it'd be pitch black. The urban myths about the walls squashing in from the sides are not true.

So much of the world is completely fascinating, isn't it? Everything from the Big Bang to how bees make honey.
I spend way way too much time thinking about and researching odd things. This probably explains why the house is quite dusty.
I'm not fascinated by housework 😄

Japan
Space
Serial killers
Supermarkets

@ManonBlackbeak, I briefly shared a flat with a girl whose family were relocated from Kielder for the reservoir in the 1960s. Her parents loved the new/dry/warm house they got.

When you're on a busy A road. And all those other cars and where are they going and why? And like who designed the road in attempt so it flowed. And road cones so they guide the cars at the best angle

Tumble dryer fluff just got a new one and the amount of fluff produced compared to the old one is amazing

Ah, the London Underground. For me, it's hard to believe that it's deep underground, as the trains and the stations are so brightly lit. It reminds me of a photo of the Queen in the Bank of England vault, so brightly lit it doesn't look underground, and in high security. On the underground, I once had the privilege of being in the cab, and seeing it from the front: now that feels underground. Between the stations, the tunnels are very narrow and dark.

I'm fascinated by how we stop "noticing" certain sensations after a while, such as smells, or the feel of the clothes we are wearing. As a child, I spent a lot of time pondering one obscure thing: wearing shoes without socks. When I was four years old I had a pair of red Mary Janes, with double buckles; when they were buckled on to my bare feet, I'd stare at them, wondering if my toes were still there, as I couldn't see them. I couldn't undo them myself, so my feet were trapped! I remember noticing how at first I could feel the insides of the shoes with my feet, but then I'd stop feeling it after a while. When I graduated to Velcro trainers, I always wanted to wear them on my bare feet, even though my mum made me wear socks. At primary school, I was delighted when we were made to put shoes on bare feet to walk from the classroom to the assembly hall for PE.

One of the best anagrams ever, albeit now very dated was:

Virginia Bottomley = I'm an evil Tory bigot

The human brain, especially when it goes 'wrong' and causes mental illness.
I wonder if we'll ever know definitively what causes someone to become mentally unwell

This - and the fact that, going back from the present day, it's stood like this for far longer than Stonehenge - for which the fallen stones were stood back up and reinforced with concrete from the 1920s onwards.

It's called photic sneezing

Lol, wrong thread.

People I used to pass when I took the train to work. I never spoke to any of them, but we'd all rush off to our jobs everyday, get the same trains every day and they all had lives I knew nothing about.

Ted Bundy

Lol, wrong thread.

Still fascinating, though

I will just leave that there and let you all guess what on earth that was a response to.

Bees