33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online

Do you sometimes get so bored that you decide to read something online that leads you to more information that again leads you to yet another sequence of information? And then you remember something that may be interesting to check out and after quite a while, you find yourself somewhere deep inside a rabbit hole. But there is still a lot of research left to do that leads to you just falling deeper and deeper into that hole…

If you ever have found yourself in such a situation, just a little warning - you may end up in the same situation again. One Reddit user recently started a thread asking folks online to share questions or topics that pulled them into the deepest rabbit hole.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Arthur C. Clarke.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online For a little while, I couldn't stop reading about Action Park, a water/amusement park that was open in New Jersey from the late 70s until the 1996. Basically, the whole place skirted a TON of rules and regulations, and six people died on rides.

There were also literally THOUSANDS of injuries.

The owner would pay employees $100 to test out crazy new rides. They had a slide that went completely upside down. It was um, not safe.

There was a giant human sized hamster wheel they tested by rolling down a hill. It rolled down the hill, broke the fence, and crossed the highway, with someone inside.

I recommend the documentary "Class Action Park" on HBO, or you can just see some crazy rides and old footage on youtube.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Nothing had me in a chokehold like the Bermuda Triangle at 10 years old.

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Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this thread and he kindly agreed to share more information about the inspiration and topics that pull him down the rabbit hole.

To begin with, the OP shared that he has been reading about so-called ‘perfect numbers’. To summarize a little bit what it is - an integer that is positive and equal to the sum of its appropriate divisors is called a perfect number. The sum of 1, 2, and 3 equals 6, which is the smallest perfect number. The remaining perfect numbers are 8,128, 28, and 496. The precise date when these numbers were first described is currently considered lost.

33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Missing persons. People have no idea how hard it is to find someone in the wilderness, especially if they aren't trying to be found. The bodies are there, just never found. Sometimes people stumble upon the remains, but it's usually coincidence.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The life of Harry Houdini. I was working on a historical novel idea a couple years ago that wove fictional events into historical 1926 New York City. My main character encountered several notable locations and places, and Houdini, his home, magic, and family played a major role.

There is so much of Houdini’s life that is fascinatingly well-documented. There are also tantalizing unknowns that keep both historians and magic buffs intrigued until today.

Weird facts:

He was the first to pilot an airplane in Australia.

When WW1 broke out, he trained US troops how to escape prisoner shackles if they were captured by the enemy and how not to panic if trapped underwater, such as in a torpedoed ship.

He knew and collaborated with HP Lovecraft who ghost-wrote an adventure story set Egypt in Houdini’s voice. They were collaborating on a book debunking superstitions at the time of Houdini’s death.

His house in Harlem was wired with a secret microphone system permitting him to eavesdrop on visitors and then appear to have mind-reading powers.

He purchased an actual Egyptian mummy what rattled around in his basement, much to his wife’s chagrin.

I could do this all day. Check it out.

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He then added that he was curious why scientists have been so obsessed with finding them and whether or not there’s a real benefit or use for perfect numbers.

“It is the deepest rabbit hole I've ever seen,” OP emphasized. “So much time and resources are spent finding them, but now with AI things are changing.”

33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online If cigarettes are such a significant public health concern, are a multi-billion dollar industry, and are over a century old, why can’t we make them less harmful?

Went DEEP into the research. The answer was surprising: we can.

The rabbit hole involves GMOs, a secret research project dubbed “Project X”, catalytic filtering, Central American politics, and the Amish. I now have a file on my computer dedicated to the research papers I dug up on the topic.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Christian fundamentalists in the US. Randomly stumbled across the Duggars when I was a teenager, which set off an entire chain reaction that culminated in dozens of hours of watched LDS documentaries, YouTube essays, Reddit deep dives, etc. There is so. much. mess in those communities.

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However, after this followed OP’s curiosity about whether there are other people who are also in the same rabbit hole as him and decided to ask the question on Reddit.

However he noted that “It seems not everyone is into math, hehe. No one mentioned ‘perfect numbers.’”

33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Narcissistic personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. Mental health fascinates me because it provides answers to the abuse I experienced as a child and in relationships as an adult.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The disappearance of MH370 in 2014, as I've flown on Malaysian Airlines several times and a big part of my job is doing root-cause analysis of complex incidents. I work in medicine, not aviation, but the reasons why planes go down has always fascinated me.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The fact Marilyn Monroe’s body disappeared for several hours after her death. Her entire life story was tragic.

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Probably most of us have that topic that we can discuss with somebody without stopping or even read article after article.

So what about you guys? What is the topic or question that pulled you into a deep rabbit hole? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Cults, criminal psychology.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online In Virginia radar detectors are illegal, so they have radar detector detectors. So I’m wondering if anyone built a radar detector detector detector?

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online “What was Prussia?” was the question that indirectly made history go from a subject I had a bit of interest in to the subject that I plan to teach for a living, so I guess you could say I’m still going down that rabbit hole years after I asked that question.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Michael Jackson and whatever he did or didn't do. Extremely interesting topic due to the unprecedented amount of smoke and mirrors surrounding a celeb, and probably impossible to determine one way or another. Was never a big fan but went down that rabbit hole one time because of some random reddit comment and it turned into a guilty pleasure hobby for a solid year. I probably could get a PhD in Michael Jackson lore now.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The Stanford Prison Experiment Also, the difference between crows and ravens and whether I can tell them apart after studying them (I still cannot) Edit: I'm getting some great material to fall into rabbit holes for from this thread, thank you.

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I read about the Japanese concentration camps being especially horrible on Reddit and that was extremely depressing and f****d up but I couldn't bring myself to stop reading.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Random people from ~100 years ago who pique my interest, and then I'm on Ancestry for the next little while, trying to piece together their life stories.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The f*****g titanic....which leads to other shipwrecks.
It's mostly the images of something so alien as the bottom of the ocean.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The amount of people who have 'gone overboard' on a cruise ship...

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Double slit experiment.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Central banking. It's just financial aid for the 1%.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Gastrointestinal Distress. The stomach, intestines, and digestive process is actually very intricate and interesting to learn about. Also taught proper ways to relieve bloating and stomach issues.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Have I ever played any of the Five Nights at Freddy's games? No. Do I have any desire to play any of the Five Nights at Freddy's games? No. Did I watch hours and hours of Five Nights at Freddy's lore and lore prediction videos on YouTube? Yes. Yes, I did.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The Bootes Void. Space is fascinating and terrifying.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online UFO's and aliens. I'm still in the rabbit hole.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Current rabbit hole? Ryan Gosling...

Saw a post on here with his performance at the Oscars, went to Google, then discovered he was part of the original Mickey Mouse Club kids. Then took to YouTube to find video clips of MMC and then rediscovered the fact that he was initially invited to try out for The Backstreet Boys.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Pit bull attacks after one happened to me and my boy.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online The McDonalds McFlurry conspiracy.

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Elan school. Thanks, Reddit, for the nightmares.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online A few years ago I was curious to know what "sonichu" was all about. That's about as deep as a rabbit hole can get and it still gets deeper.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Are we inside a simulation?

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I discovered "Andara crystals" by accident once and that led to going down a strange reality of Lemuria and Starseeds and Orgonite pyramids that can block 5g radiation. I highly recommend you search Etsy for some of this weird metaphysical stuff if you're ever bored lol.

I genuinely find it fascinating stuff even if I personally think it's a load of b******t.

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33 Of The Deepest Rabbit Holes People Ever Found Themselves Delving Into, As Shared Online Where is Kate Middleton? Why is the royal family fumbling the PR bag so bad?!

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What do you think ?

PrettyJoyBird 7 months ago

My rabbit hole is what happ to amelia earhart? Was she a spy? Did her plane really crash, was she take prisoner, did she die of old age somewhere having lived out her life as someone else....

9points

Ken Beattie 7 months ago

They believe her plane has been found. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-31/deep-sea-vision-team-claims-amelia-earhart-plane-found/103407718 We'll have to wait and see if it's true, but sounds plausible.

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Birsel Wizard 3 weeks ago

Burun Estetiği fiyatları Burun Estetiği Fiyatları https://www.hayatikale.com/burun-estetigi-fiyatlari/ Rinoplasti hem estetik hem fonksiyonel nedenlerden dolayı tercih edilen bir cerrahi işlemdir. Son yıllarda bu alana talep artarken fiyatlar da çeşitli faktörlere bağlı olarak değişiklik gösteriyor.

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Sand Ers 7 months ago

Lost at sea, no, yes, no, no.

Ms Dodo 7 months ago

The multiple times people tried to find the Northwest Passage. It's amazingly interesting - heroism, cannibalism and how/why did they all die??

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bElLa sTairZz 7 months ago

found what im doing this history...

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David Paterson 7 months ago

My most recent rabbit hole was "what is the actual risk of passive smoking?" I found much to my shock that medicine doesn't even accurately know the risk of actively smoking. Normal lab animals can't get lung cancer from smoking. Nobody knows how effective tar filters on cigarettes are in stopping lung cancer. The correlation between smoking and lung cancer is different in every country. The difference in smoking between men and women in the same country is uncorrelated with the difference in lung cancer in that country. When plotted country by country, life expectancy for women actually increases with increasing smoking. Total rabbit hole.

Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 7 months ago

non-smoking women also have a high risk of lung cancer. my best friend said he would smoke until the day he died and it wouldn't be from cancer.. turned out to be true. A doctor too afraid to prescribe pain meds gave him muscle relaxants while being treated for a poor left ventricle..

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