Having a niche interest can make life much more interesting. And there are so many things in life to be interested in. The Internet, of course, makes it that much easier: tutorials, step-by-step guides, and entire encyclopedias on things that are not common knowledge are just a few clicks away.
According to the Pew Research Center, 83% of Americans have used information online for their hobbies. But the Internet can also lead you down some wild rabbit holes when you're looking into something you're interested in.
Recently, one netizen asked about others' niche interests in a thread online. "What is the most interesting rabbit hole you've ever been down?" they wrote. Read on and find out how people discovered why flamingos are pink, who Colonel Sanders really is, and why The Sopranos finale is perfect, actually.
#21
How the end of the universe will happen. I love astronomy, but this rabbit hole, in perspective of the life of the universe, humans will only exist for like 0.0000000000001% (it's like 30 more zeroes btw) of the life of the universe. We're literally a blink and miss it moment in the grand scheme of things.
Then how every star will eventually die, black holes merging, dark energy theory that we can't even fathom yet is over 75% of the universe's energy.
Like it's actually crazy. We mean nothing and there's nothing scarier than knowing your own mortality will never have a significant impact in the big picture. I guess we just make the best of life that we can.
But man space is so fascinating and scary. I'm just sad I was born now and not in the future where we'll have more info about the universe.
Then how every star will eventually die, black holes merging, dark energy theory that we can't even fathom yet is over 75% of the universe's energy.
Like it's actually crazy. We mean nothing and there's nothing scarier than knowing your own mortality will never have a significant impact in the big picture. I guess we just make the best of life that we can.
But man space is so fascinating and scary. I'm just sad I was born now and not in the future where we'll have more info about the universe.
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20points
#22
Google Street view.
You can view different street view dates. I believe they started around 2008 with low quality images but they refresh the images every couple of years so you can see how things have changed over the years.
Doesn't always work, some areas don't have many dates and there are issues that occur, but pretty fun and interesting to see how many places have changed over the years. See building and roads get built, torn down and expanded. Places grow into big cities.
Hope to continues in the future. Interesting to see some cities I have lived in go into urban planning and create protected bike lanes, new housing and things like that.
You can view different street view dates. I believe they started around 2008 with low quality images but they refresh the images every couple of years so you can see how things have changed over the years.
Doesn't always work, some areas don't have many dates and there are issues that occur, but pretty fun and interesting to see how many places have changed over the years. See building and roads get built, torn down and expanded. Places grow into big cities.
Hope to continues in the future. Interesting to see some cities I have lived in go into urban planning and create protected bike lanes, new housing and things like that.
18points
#23
Consciousness
Being aware of things that I have been unconscious or unaware of is amazing!
Shadow work, questioning history(personal, familial, societal), concept of self actualization, subconscious patterns. How I project unconscious lessons onto others. How interfacing with others, reality, and concepts are affected by whether I’m observing from a state of judgement, thinking/reason, feeling and sensing, knowing, experience/wisdom, simply observing, etc
Invigorating!
Like who am I? I am not my name, as I can go to the courts tomorrow and get a new one. I travel to a new city where no one knows me I can be someone else.
I am then not how others know me. I’m not my clothes. I am not my job. These questions by far have been the wildest rabbit hole to explore!
Sit and be bored. You’ll learn a lot about life.
Being aware of things that I have been unconscious or unaware of is amazing!
Shadow work, questioning history(personal, familial, societal), concept of self actualization, subconscious patterns. How I project unconscious lessons onto others. How interfacing with others, reality, and concepts are affected by whether I’m observing from a state of judgement, thinking/reason, feeling and sensing, knowing, experience/wisdom, simply observing, etc
Invigorating!
Like who am I? I am not my name, as I can go to the courts tomorrow and get a new one. I travel to a new city where no one knows me I can be someone else.
I am then not how others know me. I’m not my clothes. I am not my job. These questions by far have been the wildest rabbit hole to explore!
Sit and be bored. You’ll learn a lot about life.
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17points
#24
Colonel Sanders - the guy who created KFC. How he didn’t have a biopic or series yet I’ll never know. Maybe it’s too bananas.
SeenTooMuchToo:
Memory unlocked: I met the real guy in ~1974 at a university hospital research facility fund raiser in Seattle. He was just sittin’ outside, shaking hands with a handful of us 20-somethings. In full costume. Friendly guy.
SeenTooMuchToo:
Memory unlocked: I met the real guy in ~1974 at a university hospital research facility fund raiser in Seattle. He was just sittin’ outside, shaking hands with a handful of us 20-somethings. In full costume. Friendly guy.
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16points
#25
The Great Pyramid.
History for Granite, baby.
Why does it have several different chambers, and what was each one for? What’s the off center nook in the Queens Chamber? Why is the Subterranean Chamber so obviously unfinished? Why did they make the Well shaft? Was the Great Step really damaged or was it supposed to be v shaped (implying modern Egypt irreparably damaged it by “repairing” it)? How exactly did they build it? What’s in the Great Void?!?!
History for Granite, baby.
Why does it have several different chambers, and what was each one for? What’s the off center nook in the Queens Chamber? Why is the Subterranean Chamber so obviously unfinished? Why did they make the Well shaft? Was the Great Step really damaged or was it supposed to be v shaped (implying modern Egypt irreparably damaged it by “repairing” it)? How exactly did they build it? What’s in the Great Void?!?!
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15points
#27
Sometimes I go to prison pen pal websites and look up what they did to get locked up
One girl hit a lady in the face with an axe for her boyfriend.
One girl hit a lady in the face with an axe for her boyfriend.
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14points
#28
Mine is the FLDS cult as well as Mt. Everest.. 2 random but extremely interesting ones.
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14points
#29
How power plants, specially nuclear reactors work. Fascinating stuff.
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14points
#30
Elizabeth Holmes.....just heard about her recently and i'm surprised by how she got that many people to invest in a non-existent product.....how did she even pull it off, she fooled rich people into investing....millionaires....i'm amazed honestly.
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14points
#31
Its equal parts interesting and depressing. Howard Lutnick has some how managed to profit off of ever American economic downturn in recent years. 9/11, 2008, and now trump’s tariffs.
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14points
#32
I fell into the people who vanish and restart new lives rabbit hole equal parts fascinating and unsettling. Makes you realize how thin identity really is.
Anon:
This sounds interesting to me but almost sounds impossible today.
In the past you just moved to a new town. Today we have social insurance numbers and all sorts of stuff. You can't just make up a new SIN number.
Anon:
This sounds interesting to me but almost sounds impossible today.
In the past you just moved to a new town. Today we have social insurance numbers and all sorts of stuff. You can't just make up a new SIN number.
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13points
#33
The birds aren't real rabbit hole. Weird. Odd. But strangely engaging.
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11points
#34
Also, there’s another interesting one I want to mention in here. There’s a website forum for people who are into airplanes and everything airlines related, there’s an entire thread from 9/11 of people explaining what was happening in real time as the towers were hit. EXTREMELY interesting. I have the link.
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10points
#35
Learning how to play music. It's a neverending rabbit hole. As far as I'm concerned you never quit learning.
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10points
#36
The 911 conspiracy theories. Some of it was genuinely inexplicable.
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7points
#38
The guy who wrote the 50,000 word treatise on the Sopranos finale, and how the answer is clear. Really, one of the best analyses I’ve ever read, on anything.
PrestigiousGoat78:
Ah man I remember the night I first watched the finale and rewinding it like ten times to look at every possible angle to figure out what happened (I was lucky I didn't know beforehand). And then I read this analysis. Soooo good.
PrestigiousGoat78:
Ah man I remember the night I first watched the finale and rewinding it like ten times to look at every possible angle to figure out what happened (I was lucky I didn't know beforehand). And then I read this analysis. Soooo good.
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6points
#39
There is a cult based on Gadget from rescue rangers in Russia. Not some weird furry worship thing, but a cult that legit worships a cartoon mouse as god.
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6points