A wise man once said that if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. And nowadays, there is so much misinformation out there that it's easy to go tumbling head-first into a dark hole of nonsense if you aren't careful.
We're taught to fact check, cross-reference and dig for evidence before blindly believing. But sometimes, we just know something to be true, even when there's nothing to back it up. Someone asked, "What’s something you have zero proof of but believe 100 percent?" and more than 5,000 people threw caution to the wind as they boldly shared the hills they're willing to perish on.
Bored Panda has put together the most interesting answers... From wild theories to highly believable ideas, some might have you questioning what you thought you knew to be true. Others could have you wanting to punch your screen.
#41
Modern driver aids like lane-keep, blind spot warnings, and adaptive cruise are making people worse drivers by letting people be less attentive at the wheel.
Automatic transmission make traffic worse because they reduce the effect of engine braking, forcing the use of brakes, turning on brake lights, causing overreactions by drivers behind in a cascade effect.
Automatic transmission make traffic worse because they reduce the effect of engine braking, forcing the use of brakes, turning on brake lights, causing overreactions by drivers behind in a cascade effect.
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12points
#42
Facebook listens to your conversations and sends you ads of things you were just talking about.
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12points
#43
That Michael Jackson used his money and power to dodge those allegations, which I believe were true.
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12points
#44
That the direction your life takes is influenced way more by small random events than by big “life decisions” people think matter most.
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11points
#47
The person I served on a jury for was set up by their former student turned small town cop.
It was plain as day and painfully obvious.
Me and another person are the reason they weren't found guilty on both counts.... only one.
Quite the eye opener and my faith in jury trials is gone.
Disgusting.
It was plain as day and painfully obvious.
Me and another person are the reason they weren't found guilty on both counts.... only one.
Quite the eye opener and my faith in jury trials is gone.
Disgusting.
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10points
#49
That major shopping centres deliberately block or slow your phones data inside stores for two reasons.
1) To prevent price matching and comparisons to other shops that may offer discounts.
2) to make shoppers utilise the free wifi that shops provide to collect data to better tailor your shopping experience and track where you spend the most time in the complex.
1) To prevent price matching and comparisons to other shops that may offer discounts.
2) to make shoppers utilise the free wifi that shops provide to collect data to better tailor your shopping experience and track where you spend the most time in the complex.
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9points
#50
That some people enter your life just to change you… and then leave.
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8points
#51
The universe is nigh unfathomably large.
If there is a curvature, we're literally incapable of detecting it due to how ridiculously small our "section" (i.e. the Observable Universe) is in comparison to the whole, to the point that it appears we live in a flat universe.
If there is a curvature, we're literally incapable of detecting it due to how ridiculously small our "section" (i.e. the Observable Universe) is in comparison to the whole, to the point that it appears we live in a flat universe.
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8points
#52
Throw back Thursday was invented by the NSA to train and test age progression/regression facial recognition algorythms.
7points
#53
Genealogy websites were set up by the FBI in America to track down [criminals] and solve old cases.
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6points
#54
Incest is more common, specifically cousins. A lot of people think it’s just hillbillies in some rural mountain but it could be your neighbors hell it could even be your own cousins and you wouldn’t know.
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6points
#55
Some of the things people see on psychedelics are actually real, but hidden from normal perception.
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5points
#57
Trees can talk but very very slowly, like weeks or months per “word”, so it doesn’t register to us.
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4points
#58
I think our ENTIRE universe is the powerhouse of a single cell in a much larger living being. I think the big bang was just the birth of that cell.
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3points
#59
That my ex-wife cheated on me. She went on a solo “vacation” visiting an old boyfriend who was also married with kids, so nothing to worry about. Then she came back floating on a happy cloud. One month later she wanted a divorce. Three months after that I discovered she had started to date him.
She says it began after we separated but I am 100% convinced she cheated on me before that. Funny thing is, it didn’t upset me. Our marriage was over and done, I just didn’t know it yet.
She says it began after we separated but I am 100% convinced she cheated on me before that. Funny thing is, it didn’t upset me. Our marriage was over and done, I just didn’t know it yet.
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3points
#60
I think that an internet friend of mine is the real life inspiration for a character on a TV show. There's too many coincidences. I don't even want to say the name of the character or the show because of how seriously I believe this to be true, and the woman is a nice person and I don't want her to be bothered.
The character's name and the character's boyfriend's names line up. The location lines up. The appearance of the characters also lines up. I'm not close enough with the woman to just come out and ask her. Also the show is not kind to the character so even if she is the inspiration, and knows it, she might not want to admit it.
The character's name and the character's boyfriend's names line up. The location lines up. The appearance of the characters also lines up. I'm not close enough with the woman to just come out and ask her. Also the show is not kind to the character so even if she is the inspiration, and knows it, she might not want to admit it.
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3points