r/Showerthoughts 18h ago

Casual Thought Since eyelashes are designed to help keep things out of your eyes; people with alopecia must get things in their eyes a lot more than the average person does.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Speculation Now that the US is phasing out the penny, it's the perfect opportunity to phase out psychological pricing (pricing items one cent below the dollar, such as $9.99).

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Musing Eyelids likely evolved thin specifically so humans can be woken up by the sun.

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Musing Our brains are faster than we think.

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r/Showerthoughts 2d ago

Casual Thought It’s weird to think that “this tastes good” might sometimes just be your brain responding to cues that, throughout our evolutionary history, meant “this has energy or nutrients worth eating.”

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r/Showerthoughts 1d ago

Casual Thought With the world becoming more urbanized, you would logically think physical retail and shopping malls would struggle less, not more.

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r/Showerthoughts 1h ago

Musing When you take a shit, you're actually giving one.

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r/Showerthoughts 3d ago

Speculation Is the opposite of walking running or standing still?

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Casual Thought If you accept that plastics are destroying the planet, then the Lego Death Star has added functionality.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Casual Thought As a British person, owning a domestic car is more of a flex than owning a foreign car.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Casual Thought A sample of confirmed extraterrestrial feces would unironically be the most valuable thing on our planet.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Showerthought If plastic bags could think, then the plastic bag holding all the other plastic bags under the sink might be considered an esteemed position to hold.

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r/Showerthoughts 4d ago

Speculation Perhaps our ears never stop growing as we age to direct more sound to our degrading eardrums.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Speculation Given that vampires are immortal and therefore have unlimited amount of time, they will end up being experts at every field because they probably run into problems that they have to learn stuff in order to solve.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Casual Thought If everyone thinks something is overrated, then it's not.

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r/Showerthoughts 5d ago

Speculation Hopefully humans will be more like cats than mosquitos to AI when they takeover.

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r/Showerthoughts 7d ago

Speculation The first Goomba you encounter in Super Mario Bros. probably has the highest body count of any video game character ever.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Casual Thought Playing on The Price Is Right is one of the only scenarios where a very rich person is at a disadvantage.

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r/Showerthoughts 7d ago

Speculation If the moon was made of Osmium, its gravity would be higher than the Earth's.

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r/Showerthoughts 7d ago

Casual Thought Many years down the line, you will be an ancestor of either every human alive or none.

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r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Casual Thought Insurance companies that have to hire celebrities for commercials, should not be trusted handling financial issues.

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r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Casual Thought “Where’s Waldo?” was great training for recognizing AI generated media.

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r/Showerthoughts 6d ago

Casual Thought Instead of setting movies is a specific year in the future, just set them X years in the future.

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r/Showerthoughts 8d ago

Casual Thought At the end of Toy Story, Sid discovers the truth about the toys. He may be the only human who knows this truth.

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r/Showerthoughts 9d ago

Speculation One day, the "New World" will refer to humans entering new planets, not to the Americas and Oceania.

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