Do you want the thrill that comes with breaking the law, but none of the risk?
We’d never recommend illegal activities, but we’d absolutely recommend checking out the r/AskReddit thread, ” What’s a piece of information you learned that now feels almost illegal to know? “
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Reading this thread is perfectly legal, but it comes with a delightful vicarious thrill.
That’s actually very gross.
“Food waste that is made into animal feed sometimes includes trash, such as plastic. It’s intentional and surprisingly legal in the US. Researchers are also finding micro-plastics – or tiny plastic particles – in humans, which is a risk to your health.”
This is basically wizardry.
“If you mix potash with water and add a charge, you can ignite the reacting gas essentially turning water into fire.”
– u/muck-u
The master key.
“When I was young, my sister’s boyfriend’s father worked for a big tech agency. He was given an alpha copy of Warcraft 3 on burned CD. More than that, there was a Blizzard Keygen on the disc too. You could use it to create a product key to any offline Blizzard game.”
Take that, taxman.
“If you rent out your home for 14 or fewer days a year, you do not have to pay taxes on this income….Section 280A(g) of the Internal Revenue Code.”
Just look confident.
“Sometimes building inspectors just walk in and say, ‘looks like you know what you’re doing’ and then just pass you without looking at anything.”
Kind of weird, but okay.
“When you’re on a jury you can vote for someone as innocent even if you think they did it. Most common reasoning for this would be if you just think that they shouldn’t be punished for whatever they did. I can’t remember the term for it something like Third Option.”
A hack for home ownership.
“One thing I learned is in the state of California if you are squatting a property for five years and have been upkeeping it with proof, you can file a claim of ownership with the courts and take over any property as long as it was deemed that the original owner never tried to remove you within the same timeframe.”
Guess that’s what makes it a SuperPAC.
“In U.S. Politics, a PAC must disclose where the donation came from. However if it’s a SuperPAC, they do not have disclose where the money came from.”
Leverage your name.
“I worked for a giant tech company and apparently share the same name as a very high up hardware engineer, got put on email threads I definitely didn’t belong on.”
Tattoo your children!
“In Ireland there is no legal age to get tattoo. Legally you can tattoo a newborn as long as the parents consent. We can get done for bodily harm to a minor if their is no consent. We have an industry standard of 16 with parent or 18 with ID. I’m a tattooist in Ireland.”
Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
“It takes three full rotations to remove a human head due to the skin’s elasticity.”
We’re, uh, not going to ask how anybody came by that knowledge, nor are we going to do our own research to confirm it.
LeVar Burton wouldn’t approve.
“My dad was an ordinance (munitions, explosives) captain in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. He brought back tons of manuals on how to set up explosives and make traps. Looking back it might’ve been something you wouldn’t want you child to read, but take a look, it’s in a book, it’s a reading rainbow.”
– u/naftid
I heard those bills can get expensive.
“Hospitals have but don’t tell you about a program to reduce your bills depending on how much you make. You can go to their website and find a usually hidden link for financial assistance policies and really cut your bill down.”
Free research!
“You can ask scientists for their research paper that you usually have to pay money to view in a journal. They are allowed to just email it to you no questions asked and they like to do it!”
Always be vague.
“When companies ask for your name/age/sex/race/occupation/salary/etc. you can just lie.
You’ll never be able to remove the information about yourself off the internet, but you can muddy the water quite a bit.”
Can confirm, it works.
“Read a personal finance book that recommended calling your providers once a year (credit card companies, TV/internet providers, cell phone company, etc) and demand a lower rate or price. I’ve been following that advice for two years and have not been denied once.”
Sounds dangerously fun.
“Creating Nitrogen triiodide. When in liquid form it is stable but once it dries so much as a fly landing on it creates a purple smoke explosion. It’s so unstable that alpha radiation can be used to detonate the stuff.”
Priorities, priorities.
“(This is England knowledge, other countries may vary) If you are struggling to pay bills, make water the first one you skip. Access to water is protected by law so the utility supplier cannot cut you off.”
Take that, recording industry.
“I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but if you listen to Pandora radio the songs download into your temp folder under your browser. Just add the. Mp4 after it and you can play it.
I spent lots of college listening to Pandora, and if I liked a song I’d save it. If you paused the song in time then the most recent song was the top one in the temp folder.”
– u/LeGama
What you don’t know can’t hurt you, legally speaking.
“It is illegal to grow opium poppies in the United States, but only if you don’t know they can be used to make drugs.”
