Sometimes the world manages to catch us off guard. You might see something beautiful, strange, oddly satisfying, or so unexpected that you need a second look. It’s a good reminder that there’s plenty out there to surprise us, even when we think we’ve seen it all.
That sense of discovery is what makes this online community, ‘Mindblowing,’ a rare gem. It’s a place for interesting finds that make you pause for a minute and marvel at the wonders around us. The posts cover everything from nature and science to art, everyday life, and some wonderfully strange things in our wild world. Here are some of the most fascinating ones.
#1 Percentages Are Reversible
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#2 How Did I Never Realize
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#3 I Met This Guy At A Party City Cir. 2018, We Were Both Visiting Our Gfs Who Worked There. We’re Both Named Ian. Never Met Him Before Or Saw Him Again
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There’s actually a good reason we’re so easily drawn to things that surprise us. Our attention tends to perk up when something is unfamiliar or doesn’t quite behave the way we expected. Researchers call this an “uncertainty” principle. This is when we can’t immediately predict what we’re seeing, and our brains have a reason to pay closer attention.
So when something catches us by surprise, that little urge to stop and look closer is actually pretty natural.
#4 Dammmmn
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#5 Oh God
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#6 This Is A Cake!
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Surprise can also be an effective teacher. Studies on babies have found that they pay more attention to objects and events that violate their expectations, and they’re more likely to investigate them afterward. In other words, curiosity starts early, and humans have been getting distracted by weird stuff since before we could even talk.
#7 Hold Up
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#8 This Is How Bridge Foundations Are Made
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#9 Brooklyn Bridge Painters At Work In 1915
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Our curiosity doesn’t disappear when we grow up. We still want to understand the things that catch us off guard, especially when there’s an explanation somewhere that might make sense of what we’re seeing.
A strange image can pull us in for a closer look, an unusual fact can leave us wondering how it could be true, a clever piece of art can make us see something familiar in a completely different way, and an unexpected discovery can show us a different side to something seemingly ordinary.
#10 Giant African Land Snail! 🐌
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#11 The First Star Wars Trilogy Used So Detailed Paintings As Backgrounds In The Movies That They Tricked Everybody
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#12 Japan Was Building A Tesla Inspired “Death Ray” During Ww2, Which Could Wipe Out The Entire Armies. Japan Invested 1 Million Yen To Build It And Nobel Prize Winner Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Was Involved In That Project. But Japan Never Got The Chance To Whip Out Their Prototype During Battle
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Some discoveries remind us how much we can miss because we’re looking the wrong way. Human attention is surprisingly selective. We can be staring directly at something and still fail to notice it when our attention is focused elsewhere, a phenomenon psychologists call inattentional blindness.
It’s the reason an ordinary scene can look completely different once someone points out the detail you overlooked.
#13 Time Passes So Fast
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#14 What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg?
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#15 I’m Shook
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The appeal of a collection like this is that you don’t need to travel somewhere exotic or uncover a scientific breakthrough to find something fascinating.
Sometimes you just need to look a little longer at a peculiar shape, an unusual natural phenomenon, an unexpected piece of craftsmanship, or a detail hiding inside an everyday scene, and that can become the most interesting thing you’d ever see.
#16 In July, A Mountaineer Skied Down K2. At 28,251 Feet, It’s Only 700 Shorter Than Everest. The Descent Took 7 Hours
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#17 We Were Always Anti-Social
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#18 Let That Sink In
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A good artwork can take something familiar and make you see it differently, while scientific images can make things that are normally impossible to see feel almost tangible. The Smithsonian Magazine wrote about the relationship between science and art, noting how visual creativity can help people understand scientific subjects that are otherwise difficult to imagine.
We think there’s something satisfying about seeing an idea explained through a picture. A good visual can sometimes make a complicated concept click in a way that words alone can’t, helping us understand it better and remember it long after we’ve seen it.
#19 Nature
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#20 Meanwhile In Mongolia, 8 Years Old Archer Girl Angarag
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#21 The Pacific Ocean Is Huge
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We think there’s something satisfying about seeing an idea explained through a picture. A good visual can sometimes make a complicated concept click in a way that words alone can’t, helping us understand it better and remember it long after we’ve seen it.
#22 Not Mine, But I Am Still Mindblowing
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#23 What A Handshake!
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#24 Now You Know
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The real charm of Mindblowing is that the community doesn’t try to fit every post into one category. The fun comes from the possibility that the next thing you see could be completely different from the last one.
One post might teach you something, another might make you laugh, and another might leave you staring at the screen trying to figure out what on earth you’re looking at.
#25 Op🔥
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#26 Window Washer On 124th Floor On Dubai Building
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#27 This Chain Is So Old And Rusted It Looks Like Wood
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So take your time with these, Pandas. Some of these discoveries may teach you something you didn’t know, while others might give you that lovely little jolt of surprise that makes the internet worth wandering around in. And if one of them sends you into a late-night search spiral, well, we accept no responsibility.
Which one of these discoveries surprised you the most? And what’s the most mind-blowing thing you’ve ever stumbled across? We’d love to read all about it in the comments!
#28 The Shell Of A Tortoise Is Actually Part Of The Skeleton
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#29 Defaced Coins
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#30 Underwater Hotel Room In The Maldives
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#31 Facebook Antics. They Get Away With This On The Daily
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#32 It Was A Face Swap All Along
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#33 Just To Put The Pillars Of Creation Into Perspective
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#34 Insert Title Here
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#35 This Pencil Art
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#36 The Closest Picture We’ve Ever Taken Of The Sun, That Bright Dot You See Is Actually Mercury
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Soared Within 15 Million Miles Of The Star And Has Come Closer To The Sun Than Any Human Spacecraft Before It
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#37 🤯🤯🤯
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#38 Bird Survives While Pierced With Arrow
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#39 And We Even Had A TV Channel That Only Played Music Videos
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#40 Look At That Cute Little Deadly Guy
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#41 See Subreddit Name
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#42 Never Thought Of It The Other Way Around 🤔
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#43 Survivorship Bias
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#44 Avengers Got It All Wrong
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#45 Guy Making A Wave Of Rice
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#46 Black Sand Dunes On Mars, Most Sand On Earth Is Made From The Mineral Quartz, Which Is White And Bright. On Mars, Most Sand Is Composed Of Dark Basalt, A Volcanic Rock
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#47 Elmore Jr. High Is A Real Place (Different Name Obv)
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#48 Oh My God
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#49 1000 Year Old Tree. Man For Scale
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#50 John Sedgwick Was A Military Officer In The Civil War. These Were His Last Words Before Being Shot
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#51 Mind.exe Not Responding
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#52 Moscow
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#53 An FBI Agent Delivering A $1 Million Ransom To A Plane Hijacker, In His Underwear. 1972
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#54 It Makes Sense
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#55 These Are Lenticular Clouds, And Are Perpendicular To The Direction Of The Wind. They Are Sometimes Thought To Be An Explanation Of UFO Sightings
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#56 A Picture Of The Egyptian Pyramids Taken From The International Space Station
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#57 Last Time All Of Humanity Was On Earth Together
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#58 This Is One Of The Most Fascinating Facts!
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#59 Respect You Sir
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#60 Anamorphic Graffiti
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#61 Beautiful, Had To Stare For A While
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#62 Googling The Word Askew Makes The Webpage Askew
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#63 Wait A Damn Minute
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#64 Never Thought Of That Before
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#65 Years Of Playing And Just Today Realised What The Slots Are For
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#66 Ann Hodges, The Only Human Being In Recorded History To Be Hit By A Meteorite. 1954
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#67 Basketball Player Manute Bol In High School
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#68 An Actual Solar Flare On Sun With Earth For Reference
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#69 This Is The Best-Preserved Dinosaur Specimen Ever Unearthed. This Mummified Nodosaur’s Bones Remain Covered By Intact Skin And Armor — 110 Million Years After The Creature’s Death
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#70 Cashews Grow From Cashew Apples
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#71 Idk About You Guys, But This Blew My Mind!
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#72 I Think Starry Night Has A Secret Self Portrait In It
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#73 😱
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#74 Woah
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#75 3D Halloween Makeup
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#76 Don’t Believe Me Just Watch
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#77 That’s Physics For You
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#78 This Drawing Looks Out Of Focus The Further Away You Hold It
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#79 Really Reflective Car
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#80 True Love
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#81 World’s Most Patient Pet Owner !
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#82 Phoenix Guitar Made Out Of Colored Pencils
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#83 My Life Is A Lie
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#84 My Entire Life Is A Lie
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#85 I Thought It Was A Photo At First
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#86 I Was Today Years Old
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#87 From R/Memes
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#88 Never Realized This
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#89 May I Introduce: The Quasar Apm 08279+5255. It Is Surrounded By So Much Water Vapor That It Could Fill All The Oceans Of The Earth 140 Trillion Times
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#90 Earth Seen From Saturn , Courtesy Of Cassini Probe
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#91 I Was Today Years Old When I Learnt That A Pin Is Just A Nail That Has A Big Head With Colour. Don’t Know How To React To This
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#92 Just Wow
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#93 A Photo From Space X And NASA
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#94 Tipfinger Through The Tulips
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#95 This Took Me 5 Mins To Figure Out What I Was Seeing
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