Thought Provokers: 8/7/2024

There is probably a tiny percentage of identical twins who received their names a short time after birth, were mistakenly switched when they got home, and no one realized.

When you’re poor, no one wants to give you a credit card or loan, but when you’re rich, you are pre-approved for credit cards you don’t want.

The magic school bus could be in your bloodstream right now, and you wouldn’t even know it.

It is impossible to see the exact current version of yourself.

It seems that cereal companies no longer think their products should be eaten alongside two slices of buttered toast.

Autocorrect is less helpful for people who type in multiple languages.

Some people will live a pretty unremarkable life but will be known for their death.

If you keep wearing the same style of clothes all the time, you become quite a trendy person every twenty-ish years.

You’ve taken many more breaths in your life than the amount of times you’ve blinked.

Since there are so many different kinds of swimming strokes in the Olympics, we should have different types of running on the track, like skipping, running backward, and three-legged races.

The relief you feel when you realize that your car isn’t stolen or towed—it’s just in the spot where you forgot you parked it—far outweighs the feeling of stupidity that you forgot.

When you get divorced, souvenirs from your vacations become souvenirs from your marriage.

Hand dryers in bathrooms are faucets for air.

In this job market, the chance of getting a white-collar job position is probably lower than getting accepted into an Ivy League school.

People tend to notice and appreciate the little things in video games more than in real life.

If Edward Scissorhands were set in today’s time, he would have fit in much better with all these stiletto nails.

Many animals will steal food from other animals, but stealing from the grocery store is frowned upon.

Synchronization in the Olympics should not be limited to swimming and diving. Synchronized javelin throwing would be ideal.

People don’t realize how impressive cameras are. It’s insane how humans were able to use minerals from the earth to capture a moment in time.

Magic is circular. Science is rectangular.

Not many women have seen urinal cakes.