55 Facts That You Probably Never Thought About, And Now You Won't Be Able To Stop Thinking About Them

    "An adult human can grow an entire human twice as fast as they can grow a toenail."

    Do you ever have moments where a superrrr random thought crosses your mind while you're taking a long shower, and then you spend almost all day thinking about it?

    SpongeBob looking shocked in the shower in "SpongeBob SqaurePants"

    Well surprisingly, there's an entire community on Reddit called r/ShowerThoughts that is filled with tons and tons of these random thoughts that make us speechless!

    So, here are 55 random realizations that people have come to that'll leave you absolutely shook:

    1. "The song 'In Da Club' is almost old enough to get in da club."

    50 Cent in the "In Da Club" music video

    2. "Future actors will have enough childhood footage on the internet that they'll be able to deepfake their childhood faces on child actors for flashback scenes."

    u/Neethis

    3. "We do not check the refrigerator multiple times to find new food; we check to see if our standards have dropped enough to eat what was available."

    Devi from "Never Have I Ever" looking in the fridge for food

    4. "It must suck to be an air conditioner repairman. You spend your day working in buildings that have no air conditioning. When it's fixed and finally cool, you leave."

    SbDakMax

    5. "Security at every level of an airport is absolutely ridiculous. Until you get to the baggage claim. Then it’s just, like, take whatever bag you want."

    PainMatrix

    6. "There is no physical evidence to say that today is Wednesday; we all just have to trust that someone has kept count since the first one ever."

    Wastedtalent442

    7. "The first person who inhaled helium must have been so relieved when the effects wore off."

    marchillo

    8. "Gummy worms have more bones in them than actual worms."

    9. "The movie industry considers you to be an adult when you're 17 to see an R-rated movie, but they conveniently lower that age to 13 when they are deciding who pays adult ticket prices."

    AbbatoirOfDuty

    10. "Imagine how rich you would've had to be 200 years ago to have music playing in the background while you cook dinner."

    DadThrowsBolts

    11. "College students are simultaneously stereotyped for not getting enough sleep and for sleeping all the time."

    BruceDwayne1

    12. "It’s weird to think that nighttime is the natural state of the universe, and that daytime is only caused by a nearby, radiating ball of flame."

    Man looking up at Pleiades star cluster and Orion constellation

    13. "A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you."

    Mauveinex

    14. "Making a typo in an online argument is the equivalent of [your] voice cracking in a verbal argument."

    Metamight123

    15. "I hate to spend $6.50 on six pieces of raw chicken but don't hesitate to spend $5 on one chicken sandwich."

    A red X over a picture of raw chicken and a green arrow over a fried chicken sandwich

    16. "When you're sick, the advice you get is to literally do drugs and stay out of school."

    usna21

    17. "Given how bad body fluids and human waste smell, our skin has to be really good at blocking smells."

    u/Zaniak88

    18. "Your skin looks like a raisin if you're in the water for too long, but raisins are dried."

    u/njmcdermott04

    19. "There is probably a tree somewhere out there now that is growing the wood for your coffin."

    20. "No matter how many times we've woken up in our lifetime, we never seem to get used to it."

    u/Echo_The_God

    21. "An adult human can grow an entire human twice as fast as they can grow a toenail."

    u/KodiakSA

    22. "It's physically impossible to be the world's most average person because that would make you a record holder, and the average person is not a record holder."

    u/Auxilor

    23. "Kids in the future will probably be impressed that some watches don't need to be charged."

    businesswoman checking the time on watch

    24. "When you watch a movie, you're actually just watching an edited recording of a bunch of people doing their jobs at work."

    u/slacy

    25. "A dog will never share his food with you, but if you don't share your food with him, he'll start questioning your entire relationship."

    u/VerbotenPublish

    26. "The Trix rabbit can afford all of those disguises, but he can't go to the store and buy a box of Trix."

    The Trix rabbit disguised as a magician

    27. "Think of any point in history. You had an ancestor living at that point, no matter what."

    u/lucius_vorenus8

    28. "Two kinds of people watch you when you're sleeping: people who really love you and people who want to kill you."

    u/grekkin

    29. "We once unknowingly ordered our last Happy Meal."

    A Happy Meal

    30. "There was probably at least one person who was presumed dead that woke up in a coffin, and no one knew about it but them."

    u/inferno2085

    31. "A pickle is a salt and vinegar flavored cucumber."

    u/Dylan_Bhurji

    32. "Finding money in your pocket is receiving a gift from the past self."

    u/peacein-chaos

    33. "No one knows what percentage of $1 bills have been on or in a stripper."

    A side by side photo of a stripper's shoes standing by a pole and a pile of $1 bills

    34. "Reality shows have nothing to do with reality."

    u/GrabApprehensive 

    35. "The word 'either' has two different pronunciations, and either way is fine."

    u/LamZeppelin

    36. "Everybody has holes in their socks. That's how you get them over your feet."

    Man putting on a sock

    37. "When banks charge overdrafts, they take money from people who don't have money."

    u/ViciousPhilosopher 

    38. "Once you get your first job after graduation, no future employer cares or checks what your university grades were."

    u/njozz

    39. "You'll do more handwritten essays in high school than in any professional career."

    40. "If ghosts have no mass, they would have to fly at 700 km per hour to stay where they are on the Earth."

    u/EdgedSurf

    41. "We often associate the idea of shadows with dark, but actually, shadows exist only if there's light and they disappear in the darkness."

    u/Lorenzo_1723

    42. "It's weird that technically we have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs but 10 toes."

    u/nkunzi

    43. "The quality of your life depends on the quality of your sleep, and the quality of your sleep depends on the quality of your life."

    u/RUNELORD_

    44. "2005, 2050, and 2500 can all technically count as the mid-2000s."

    u/-JAYD3N-

    45. "People born on January 1 are the only people that maintain one age for the whole year."

    A calendar with January 1st circled

    46. "Broke boomers regret not going to college; broke millennials regret going to college."

    u/it_was_not_a_fart

    47. "You need credit to get a credit card, but you need a credit card to get credit."

    "Yes, I know there are a few 'starter credit cards' that one can get without credit, but the vast majority of loans/credit cards require an established credit that many people don't have when starting out." 

    u/whydoineedausernamere

    48. "Anything that goes wrong at a yogurt company is a culture problem."

    u/lxpif

    49. "Santa Claus knows exactly where all the evil people are in the world but doesn't do anything about it."

    Pictures of Real Santa Claus with fingers on lips

    50. "There could be a viral video of you doing something random with millions of views, and you have no idea because you haven't seen it."

    u/P0RKYM0LE

    51. "There are probably people thinking they adopted a stray cat, while the actual owners are anxiously waiting for their pet's return."

    u/solidpsolider

    52. "Death is a paradox. It makes everything meaningless while it also gives meaning to everything."

    u/target999

    53. "Your eyes are never actually off. All you do is use eyelids as curtains, but your eyes are always seeing."

    Young woman with eyes closed

    54. "You are half your mother's age when you reach the age she was at your birth."

    u/hulapuma

    55. "If you're still pretty young, chances are you still haven't met the majority of people who will attend your funeral."

    People laying flowers on a tombstone

    Yeah, it's safe to say that my brain is utterly fried after reading all these. So, I need to close the Reddit app for a bit.