Architecture made by animals in fiction often incorporates either their body parts or stereotypical food (like bone or paw motifs in dog architecture), but that never happens in real life.

In CA, the dollar value at which theft becomes a felony is $950. This means that due to inflation, the bar for becoming a felon gets lower every year.

You only realize how loud modern life is when the power goes out.

East and west aren’t opposite destinations, they’re the same place, just reached by different distances.

The more the world moves towards a cashless economy, the harder it becomes for an average person to participate in money laundering.

The song "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" portrays Santa as a strict authoritarian against outward displays of negative emotion, teaching children that they should bottle those away.

Not having a back-up plan for foggy Christmas eves aside from Rudolph’s red nose is pretty stupid.

If you think money buys happiness, that means you still have hope.

Old movies that tried to depict the future look older - for today's standards - than the regular ones.

Seeing color is one of the most subjective experiences in zoology.

Very few people can actually keep their watch 5 minutes fast any more.

Is the dead internet theory just ennoscriptment? Are we blaming bots for the lack of high quality, authentic and well-researched content, when none of us want to take the time to produce it?

On most family trees, you can tell where kids hung ornaments by the clusters and the height of the branches.

Frosty probably had to hurry on his way because the traffic cop was chasing after him.

You never see good news written in the fine print.

Somewhere in the world out there two people matched on a dating app and both are using ChatGPT to write every response to each other.

Everyone believes they are thinking independently, yet most of their strongest opinions were introduced to them by someone else first.

Since human memory fades over time, Google Photos could be retroactively using AI to alter details in pictures we took years ago, and we would likely rewrite our own memories to match the file rather than notice the change.

The presence of '®' and '™' on various designs means that designers are less powerful than lawyers.

You know a home is yours when you can cross it in the dark without reaching for the walls.

The more beer you drink, the less your pee looks like beer.