Thought Provokers: 12/7/2022

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory came out in 1971 and encouraged kids to lick walls. Lead paint was outlawed 7 years later.

Walking around with your belt unbuckled feels inappropriate, but removing it completely makes it okay again.

As humans get married later and have children later in life, fewer children will ever meet their grandparents.

There is a word for every known object.

A cup of whipped cream weighs a lot less than a cup of carrots, but you will gain more weight from eating the whipped cream.

Maybe half the time people take a rain check because they claim to have a headache, they really have a different ailment that’s too embarrassing to mention.

Somebody somewhere probably attempted to train a guide cat for the blind.

Most pets share but a fraction of your life, but to them, you were their entire world.

Any secret society you have heard rumors of isn’t really a secret society.

There are people who have to professionally guess the angle of urine landing. These are the people who design urinals.

Falling is actually harder than rising because to fall you need to rise first.

Ten seconds feel like a lot more than ten seconds when someone else is counting.

Everyone wants somebody else’s problems.

A high-resolution image/video will get more interaction over a low resolution, although both convey the same message.

Sometimes you sit in a chair, and sometimes you sit on a chair.

We need more major holidays in January and February to speed up Winter.

Go-Pro style cameras seem to have been the push people needed to regularly wear helmets.

Because men tend to be noticeably taller than women, we perceive faces slightly differently: women see men’s nostrils more often than the other way around.

The only way you know a memory is real is if you share it with someone else and their recollection matches yours or if video evidence exists.

It feels more comfortable to share our Instagram account with a stranger than to share our phone number.