Lighter Conspiracy Theories That People Like to Believe

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Eric Lund
Sep 18, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

Not every conspiracy theory is earth-shattering. Sometimes it's just some strange thought about Kleenex or Stevie Wonder. For a really specific one, here's a guy who found the dumb answer to an even dumber conspiracy theory. Sometimes people just strongly believe in something dumb, like these things people are certain of but have zero proof.

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    Text - FoxtrotTangoSera 34.9k points · 5 days ago & 24 More The Department of Transportation bought WAY too many orange barrels, so most of them have to be stored on highways.
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    Text - Crissxfire 32.8k points · 5 days ago 12 & 4 More Maybe not Tupac. But at least one celebrity has faked their death and is still out there. -Novowels- 9.6k points · 5 days ago • If it's anyone it's Andy Kaufman
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    Text - Unique_Unorque 32.3k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago 2 82 12 12 & 48 More Disney absolutely believed that Hillary Clinton was going to win the 2016 election, so they started building her animatronic for the Hall of Presidents well in advance, and after trump pulled off a victory, instead of starting from scratch they just kinda made a couple half-assed adjustments to the Hillary model and put it up on stage.
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    Text - BugsArePeopleToo 367 points · 5 days ago PETA is funded by the meat industry to make vegans appear completely insane and over-the-top
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    Text - ClayTankard 27.3k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago 3 5 3 Not a specific theory - but I have no doubt that the majority of "leaks" for the entertainment industry (videog games, movies, TV, etc.) are completely purposeful and meant to gauge general opinions before official announcements. & 6 More Edit: spelling. Thanks for my first ever awards! oky130 6.9k points · 5 days ago. + They're called "trial balloons" and they absolutely exist. They exist in politics. They exist in products.
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    Text - FunnyUncle69 24.6k points · 5 days ago The Big Mac has gotten smaller so McDonald's saves some money. I dunno, but I swear the Big Mac used to be bigger. Or maybe I am just fatter. 13 & 5 More
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    Text - griceylipper 20.3k points · 5 days ago This is the smallest conspiracy ever, but - you know how when you pull a tissue out of a box, there's this dust e2 & 12 More that comes out from the tissue when it scrapes the perforated edge? I swear it's designed like that so that the dust makes you sneeze. And then suddenly you need more tissues...
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    Text - OldFoodReleaser 19.1k points · 5 days ago & 2 More It sounds crazy, but I'm getting a sneaking suspicion that the earth just might be spherical after all 3
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    Text - hammockcomplexon3rd 18.8k points · 5 days ago i AncestryDNA and the rest of those ancestry websites are run by the government to have access to people's DNA to cross reference crimes etc. Makabajones 12.4k points · 5 days ago That's not a conspiracy theory it's in the fine print when you use their services.
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    Text - YouroldManJoe 18.5k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago 2 3 3 I got a pretty harmless one. Stevie wonder can see. The world's elites are in on it, which almost got blown open when george w bush waved at him.
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    Text - TheDUDE1411 15.0k points 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago 5 3 & 5 More I'm in the navy and we change uniforms a lot compared to other branches. There's a conspiracy theory that there's a rear admiral who's wife has stocks in the company that makes our uniform. I just randomly heard someone talking about it. I have zero evidence that it's true, but I 100% believe it
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    Text - -EDGAR- 13.3k points · 5 days ago The government was behind #ThrowbackThursday in order to get us to digitize and upload pictures that they would not have had access to in order to help improve age progression/facial recognition algorithms. Steel_N_Stone 5.5k points · 5 days ago Like Facebook's 10 year challenge.
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    Text - AdventureGirl1234567 13.3k points · 5 days ago · 3 6 & 9 More that there's no brilliant people working "behind the scenes". Our government and world leaders are full of bored people of moderate intelligence, coasting and growing off of yrs of structure already in place edited 5 days ago
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    Text - Thisstuffisbetter 11.1k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago O 2 & 2 & 12 More I still to this day believe that for every sock that goes missing in your dryer it turns into a tupperware lid in you cabinent that fits nothing. I have seen no evidence to disprove this.
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    Text - sinbysilence 8.7k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago j2 All that stupid stuff shared on Facebook is just a way for people to mine your information for forgotten passwords resets and stuff. Things like "Bet no one remembers the street they grew up on. I'll wait." Or "What would your name be if you took your mom's name instead of your dad's O
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    Text - FraeRitter 7.2k points · 5 days ago The Lost Cosmonauts. I think it's absolutely possible that there were attempts by the CCCP to launch manned aircraft into space before Gagarin and that some of the cosmonauts died...
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    Text - damboy99 6.1k points · 5 days ago Tommy Wiseau is D.B. Cooper. 2 3 For those of you who don't know D.B. Cooper is a famous American Thief. Aboard a plane flying from Seattle Washington to Mexico City (before the plane was over Reno Nevada) D.B. Cooper robbed every one on the plane, took all of the parachutes and jumped put of the plane. And was never seen again. Nobody knew his name, and he spoke with a strange accent Tommy Wiseau showed up seemingly randomly, with a ton of money, has bee
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    Text - -EDBAR- 5.5k points · 5 days ago The reason Disney came out with a movie called "Frozen" was so that when you Googled "Disney frozen" you would get search results about the movie and not about Walt Disney's body supposedly being cryogenically frozen
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    Text - Alejocarlos 2.4k points · 5 days ago Not completely, but that whole "humanity resets every 7000 years due to some big chance" do be looking believable as of now
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    Text - TheOriginalJunglist 1.5k points · 5 days ago 2 Carol Baskin didn't kill her husband I believe he was heavily involved with drugs and thats the reason why everything he touched turned to 'gold'. I think he he flew drugs over to Mexico and it all went wrong and never made it back
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    Text - 4QM8 890 points · 5 days ago The Rebecca Black song "Friday" is about the JFK assassination. The driver of the car he was assassinated in's name was Samuel Kickin (Kickin in the front seat, sittin in the back seat...). The assassination occurred on a Friday and when he was shot the Secret Service yelled at Jackie Kennedy to "get down" (got to get down on Friday). Parts about the cold war and the spread of Communism are referenced (everybody's Russian) and to top it all off, in the hotel t
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    Text - anodrog 1.3k points · 5 days ago That J.R.R Tolkien actually wrote Beowulf in Old English and then translated it into modern English just for shits and giggles; can't remember where I heard this, but I've 100% believed it since I did Before you say that it's impossible, and too crazy, let me remind you: Tolkien wrote a language, created a fictional universe for this language with dozens of wars and kingdoms, 8 more languages, several unique species and gods, and hundreds of developed char
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    Text - plutoniumwhisky 313 points · 5 days ago The anti plastic straw movement is an attempt by corporations to shirk a reduction in plastic consumption on consumers, thus creating an artificial demand for straw alternatives.
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