/r/Showerthoughts

The line that divides the globe into the northern and southern hemispheres is called "the equator" because it equates the Earth. https://redd.it/1u3aoks @r_Showerthoughts

“The sky is blue” is often taken as an example of a universal truth. If humanity expands into the stars, it will no longer be so https://redd.it/1u30cjx @r_Showerthoughts

Everyone wants to go to the 25 year old violin virtuoso world tour spectacular once in lifetime event of the year concert. Nobody wants to be their first door neighbor while they're 7-12. https://redd.it/1u2voj1 @r_Showerthoughts

The people who act the least bothered are often the ones trying hardest not to show it. https://redd.it/1u2aq02 @r_Showerthoughts

If you were given your whole life, from birth, to memorize a random string of numbers, how long could the number string be? What is our hypothetical limit? https://redd.it/1u2459l @r_Showerthoughts

Prior to recorded sound, no one ever realized how weird their voice probably sounded to their own ears... https://redd.it/1u22i96 @r_Showerthoughts

The modern Cartesian cogito: I am, therefore I overthink. https://redd.it/1u1ws9t @r_Showerthoughts

With all the actors undergoing anti-aging procedures, in time, there will be no experienced actors to play a character written to look old. https://redd.it/1u1vn76 @r_Showerthoughts

Most maps are smaller than life, but there is a very, very small portion of a Mercator projection map near the poles that is actually larger than the area it represents. https://redd.it/1u1s3an @r_Showerthoughts

How come mirrors flip things left/right but not up/down? https://redd.it/1u1l2ll @r_Showerthoughts

We need biopics of the CEOs of multinational companies and nepobabies (so people know how they got where they are). https://redd.it/1u1csab @r_Showerthoughts

Most people use half their smartphone’s features and never even discover the other half exists. https://redd.it/1u1b6r3 @r_Showerthoughts

We’re not alone in the universe — it’s just that most of it hasn’t started yet. https://redd.it/1u146e5 @r_Showerthoughts

The happiest moments of your life likely occurred when you were too young to remember them. https://redd.it/1u0phu3 @r_Showerthoughts

What miniscule meaning that could be assigned to a poultry chicken's brief and often miserable life and brutal slaughter evaporates the moment some lazy human decides to abandon the package with its carcass out on a shelf in a store rather than putting it back in the refrigerated case. https://redd.it/1u0mnjv @r_Showerthoughts

They call it identity because it's the entity of the id. https://redd.it/1u0k0a1 @r_Showerthoughts

Watching a jumping spider makes it easier to imagine intelligence evolving in a body completely unlike ours. https://redd.it/1u0esqo @r_Showerthoughts

EDWARD is a full name that has all its letters very close together on a qwerty keyboard. Ironically the proximity does not make it easier to type. https://redd.it/1u00jcq @r_Showerthoughts

When you start dreaming about someone or something, it's often because your heart knows it's unattainable, and your brain tries to compensate for that pain by letting you experience it in your subconscious. https://redd.it/1tzzcue @r_Showerthoughts

The person you always see at the gym, no matter when you go, making you think that they must live at the gym, is probably thinking exactly the same thing about you. https://redd.it/1tzwizw @r_Showerthoughts