mystery

As a woman, there are a lot of things I don't understand about straight men. But I suppose that is to be expected considering I have never existed on this earth as a man. What is funny, however, is that gay men apparently are also confused by the things that straight men say and do. This is probably because society has placed a lot more weight on one's sexual preference than is really necessary. Gay men, in terms of self-expression, have a lot more freedom. While straight men have very rigid expectations. A straight man is expected to be attracted to women, but that's not enough. He needs to be super manly, and love trucks and war, but also hate his wife? There seems to be a lot to unpack here.

Let's start with this Reddit thread.

Many languages are gendered, so it's very difficult to be neutral when it comes to translating from English. The default is often male and this can lead to a lot of confusion, and assumptions when learning a new language. However, what people are discovering is that even with languages that are 'un-gendered,' like Finnish, Philipino, and Hungarian, Google Translate will still make certain assumptions about the pronouns.

Many people are very frustrated with how their language is appearing, and how sexist it appears on Google Translate and they're showing off the inconsistencies on Twitter.

Growing up is a whirlwind of frustration and lies. Becoming an adult requires you to unlearn a whole bunch of half truths you were told growing up. Sometimes those mysteries were put there to make things more convenient, and other times they were literally people just messing with you. For some more uncovered mysteries, here are stories of things people later discovered were illegal.

We've all seen some strange and totally unprovable things in our lives. There have been times we've sworn we've seen disappearing items, strange premonitions, lights in the sky and weird stuff staring back at us from the darkness. None of them have straightforward explanations, but they're at least interesting. For more unprovable strangeness, here are people's creepiest theories on the nature of reality.

In Louisville, Kentucky there is a seemingly innocuous house on 8800 Blue Lick Road that went unnoticed for years until the seller of the property posted a listing for it a couple months back. The listing included a virtual 3D tour that revealed the property's strange and somewhat disturbing contents. Many dependable internet detectives investigated the tour and found two 'his and hers' toilets right next to each other, a creepy red exit sign in the kitchen, oddly placed portraits of twin brothers, hundreds of 'Girls Gone Wild' DVDs, and of course the infamous bathtub room, just to name a few. People who have completed the tour (or tried to) are losing their shit about it online. We've watched the speedruns (yes, speedruns) and we are shook.

This fun Twitter thread imagines a world where viewers get to enjoy Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in a murder mystery show. It's a brilliant concept that would be so much fun if it were actually created. Maybe one day. 

Antarctica is one of the world's most mysterious continents. Covered in 98% ice, and the last in the world to be discovered and explored, this place is the most uninhabitable on earth, and is covered in ice that in places is almost 2km thick. First discovered in 1820 by Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev, it would take until 1895 that the ice continent would be explored properly. The continent is also wrought with controversy, with multiple countries staking claims to different parts of it, with some of them overlapping. 

But as the world has started to shift and the environment with it, scientists have started to witness hitherto unseen changes that had only been recorded historically in our findings in the ice. But a hole that was discovered in the center of the continent has got scientists abuzz over the developments. So what happened here? Is this natural or another example of man's effect on the global environment. 

We all watched Scooby Doo as kids. Hell, even our parents watched it when they were kids, which is pretty crazy to think about! As is such, these memes should send you on a lil nostalgia trip from your childhood. So without further ado, we give you permission to grab a Scooby snack and get browsin'!

What starts as a confusing mystery ends as a relationship-changing bombshell. What a rabbit hole. To be honest, we wouldn't know what to do in this situation either. If you wanted to see some relationship red flags people have overlooked, check out this list here.

Residents and visitors of Île Sainte-Hélène say they've spotted a white mini-horse with a pink mane roaming the small Montreal island without any handler. Little is known about the mysterious creature, but local animal control is on the case.

Are these unexplained mysteries only unexplained because we haven't tried hard enough to understand them, or is something bigger afoot? You be the judge! Maybe most of these will end up getting debunked in the comments section...