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"Modern art exists solely for money laundering.

I believe that modern/minimalistic art exists solely for money laundering. It’s just a way for rich people to move money around. There’s a reason why paintings of plain geometric shapes sell for millions of dollars, and it’s not because the buyers are really into shapes."

WildlifeAnalysis

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"Women’s fake pockets are a marketing ploy. Women’s pants have fake pockets to make us buy purses."

KnightSkye02

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"The US will never publicly fund college because no one would enlist in the military.

The US will never add colleges to public funding like they did high schools because then the enlistment rate for the military would plummet."

Green_Ari

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"All my devices listen in on me. The other day I was arguing with my Dad about some chicken I thought had gone off (it was frozen for about a month so we weren’t too sure but my Dad was insistent that it was still edible). Dad decided to ask Google, and low and behold the related searches even from the first letter were: “Is chicken edible after being frozen for a month” and “How long can you freeze chicken before it goes off”.

Also, my Mum and I use this tactic where if we need to ring up a company about something and it puts us in a queue, we swear at it. It then puts you on a priority list and you don’t have to wait as long. Kinda sketchy on the company’s behalf."

Anime_lover_420

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"The 10-year challenge was used to collect facial recognition data. The 10-year challenge all over social media is actually a way to record and gather more facial recognition data."

Emdizzle22

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"I believe that the government probably makes some conspiracy theories to try to make questioning the government seem somewhat crazy."

Luke_dies_at_the_end

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"Area 51 is not a place for secret government/military testing with aliens and stuff, instead Area 51 is a scapegoat while shady behind the scenes stuff is going on at another military base that the general public doesnt know about.

I mean if you were really going to do something in secrecy, would you do it in the place where everyone thinks it is? Hell no! I dont have any specific evidence to back this up but it makes sense right?"

_coyotes_

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"I used to tell people that I believed the government listened to or phone calls. Years later some guy named Snowden proved me right."

Jim3001

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"Priceless artwork and historical documents are replicas. I’ve always speculated that a lot of priceless artwork and historical documents are actually replicas or copies.

Obviously a painting by a world-famous artist using a very specific technique would be very hard to fake, and I don’t think that every art scholar in the world is paid off in some grand conspiracy. Rather, I just think that either the national treasures never left their vaults or that some national treasures actually were lost to history but they were copied."

LeatherAir

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"The lines on the detergent caps are higher than they should be so you use more detergent for each load of laundry. It’s so easy for them to get away with it"

Shoemagoo52

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"The countdown timers on ads for games or streaming services are actually longer than seconds. Seems too long sometimes."

Danielle8088

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"Disney only named a movie Frozen to distract from ‘frozen head’ Google searches.

That Disney made a movie named Frozen so that when people google things like ‘frozen’ and ‘Disney’ together, info about the movie comes up instead of stories about Walt Disney’s frozen head."

G_stokes12

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"23 and Me is run by the government to collect your DNA and database it for later."

RogerPackinrod

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"When Ted Kaczynski (the unabomber) was at Harvard, he participated in a brutal psychological experiment led by professor Henry Murray. The experiment lasted for three years and by many accounts they seemed to have an extreme impact on Kaczynski’s psyche. I think this experiment was part of the CIA’s MKUltra project and destabilized Kaczynski enough to where he eventually went on his reign of terror of sending bombed packages around the country.

During the MKUltra project, the CIA collaborated with university professors on these mind-control experiments but a lot of the documentation was destroyed when people started to look into it.

The unabomber participated in an experiment that was a part of the MKULtra project that eventually led to him becoming a mass-murderer."

Rolo1323

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"I believe that chapstick causes lips to become more dry a couple hours after usage. I base this on the fact that my lips are more dry 5 hours after using chapstick than 2 days after using it"

Sharvey4994

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"Apple started the AirPod memes. I believe that Apple started the ‘wearing AirPods = cool/rich’ meme intentionally to boost sales. They became the best-selling wireless earbuds worldwide after the meme."

Superflyjasper

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"I believe in the mattress store conspiracy, so the conspiracy is that mattress stores are for money laundering. I went onto google maps and typed in ‘mattress stores near me’. There were 4 MATTRESS STORES IN THE SAME SHOPPING CENTER. There was a road that had 5 mattress stores less than a mile apart. So I definitely believe in it."

Idk1010101

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"Tinder gives fake ‘You got a new match!’ notifications to get you to swipe more. I have a theory that Tinder gives fake ‘You got a new match!’ notifications so people get excited and open Tinder, which leads them to swipe more."

BatSwinger

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"Michael Jordan’s father was murdered in retribution for Jordan not paying off massive gambling debt. Jordan didn’t retire and then come back, he was suspended for gambling. In the mid 90’s, Michael Jordan was an industry. The truth about his gambling habits may have cost a lot of people a lot of money, so the cover story was presented."

Duh_metrious

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"Restaurant owners sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to embarrass you. Restaurant owners know how awkward it is to be sung to in front of the whole establishment, and they do it to discourage people from taking advantage of their free birthday food."

ThatQueerWerewolf

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"Gas station owners are the ones putting the card scammers on the pumps. They don’t want your info, they want you to distrust pay at the pump so you’ll come inside and make an impulse buy. Most stations barely make any money of gas, the money is in the stuff they sell inside."

Biggins9227

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"The bacon industry is ever so slightly making normal sliced bacon thinner every few years,so that eventually,what was once considered normal sliced bacon becomes thick cut,thus saving the big bacon industry money.

My only evidence is the fact that my bacon, which I have always and will only buy from a specific brand, seems to be getting thinner and thinner, more flimsy, more likely to fall apart as I get it out of the package."

NBr33zii