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<p>Google is a blessing and a curse.</p><p>While it provides us with all the information we could possible want, it also inadvertently exposes our dumbest moments &mdash; and keeps a record of them. Yikes.</p><p>A <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l1cmom/whats_something_sfw_that_youre_embarrassed_to/">recent Reddit thread</a> asked people, &quot;What&#39;s something SFW that you&rsquo;re embarrassed to have in your Google search history?&quot; The answers prove we&#39;re all in this together. And by &quot;this&quot; I mean &quot;being really stupid sometimes.&quot;</p><h2>1. This still doesn&#39;t explain why they needed to know this.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Were beaver fish in the middle ages?&quot;</p> <p>Sounds profoundly stupid, but there&#39;s a reason. The monks started classifying all kinds of animals as &quot;fish&quot; so they could bend lent rules and eat meat. - Beer_Doctor</p> </blockquote><h2>2. Happens to the best of us.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to repeatedly search &quot;sharks with braces&quot; to the point where it automatically recommended it when I started typing &quot;s&quot; in the search bar. - _world-domination_</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. Suuuuure you were.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was wondering who played the Russian guy in the movie Snatch so googled &ldquo;Russian Snatch&rdquo;. - regulardave9999</p> </blockquote><h2>4. Hey, &quot;penguin&quot; isn&#39;t <em>that</em> simple.</h2><blockquote> <p>How to spell simple words like &quot;penguin&quot; so that I don&#39;t look like an idiot to my 6yo who I&#39;m home schooling in lockdown. - Analyst_Rude</p> </blockquote><h2>5. Relatable.</h2><blockquote> <p>People I know. I don&#39;t do it often but it always feels like snooping. - moudre_plus_rouge</p> </blockquote><h2>6. Ah yes. We all love a visit to Dr. Google.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;Inserts symptoms exacerbated by anxiety and boredom... am I going blind? Am I losing my mind? Am I going to die soon and or irreversibly destroy my health?&quot;</p> <p>Nope, just getting old. - k4Anarky</p> </blockquote><h2>7. This is how you learn!</h2><blockquote> <p>words that my friends use, it makes me feel stupid if i don&#39;t know what a word means when they use it - SuperDonutPro</p> </blockquote><h2>8. That&#39;s okay, it&#39;s not exactly common knowledge.</h2><blockquote> <p>The amount of times I&#39;ve had to look up the boiling time for hardboiled eggs is pretty embarrassing. - RustyCopal</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9. Ohhhhhkay!</h2><blockquote> <p>My friend and I are both a wealth of random, useless facts a few weeks ago he told me that if you rub pork fat on a cats lips the cat would whistle, and there was lots of videos of it on YouTube, like an idiot I fell for it and googled &quot;cat whistling with pork fat on lips&quot; - yuckyfingers</p> </blockquote><h2>10. It&#39;s Odie, right?</h2><blockquote> <p>&ldquo;What is the name of the cat in Garfield&rdquo; - Mickzzzboi</p> </blockquote><h2>11. This should be common knowledge, to be fair.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;how many kgs of blueberry cheese danish can I eat without getting diabetes&quot;</p> <p>I had to go look at my search history to for this question and I have no recollection of ever searching this up but it was there. - draconicblur</p> </blockquote><h2>12. Thankfully, no.</h2><blockquote> <p>&#39;ive drank 12 cups of coffee in 3 hours, will I die&#39; - alongusername121</p> </blockquote><h2>13. Ruh roh.</h2><blockquote> <p>True crime junkie here, and I shudder to think what people would think if they saw my browser history composed of blood splatter information, how deep a certain knife can cut, etc etc - hehadsomehorses</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14. Yikes!</h2><blockquote> <p>How to kill orphans when their parents die.</p> <p>I write software - AccomplishedMeow</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

14 people share the most embarrassing thing in their search history.

Google is a blessing and a curse.While it provides us with all the information we could possible want, it also inadvertently exposes our dumbest moments &mdash; and keeps a record of them. Yikes.A recent Reddit thread asked people, &quot;What&#39;s something SFW that you&rsquo;re embarrassed to have in your Google search history?&quot; The answers prove we&#39;re all in this together. And by &quot;this&quot; I mean &quot;being really stupid sometimes.&quot;1. This still doesn&#39;t explain why they needed to know this. &quot;Were beaver fish in the middle ages?&quot; Sounds profoundly stupid, but there&#39;s a reason. The monks started classifying all kinds of animals as &quot;fish&quot; so they could bend lent rules and eat meat. - Beer_Doctor 2. Happens to the best of us. I used to repeatedly search &quot;sharks with braces&quot; to the point where it automatically recommended it when I started typing &quot;s&quot; in the search bar. - _world-domination_ 3. Suuuuure you were. I was wondering who played the Russian guy in the movie Snatch so googled &ldquo;Russian Snatch&rdquo;. - regulardave9999 4. Hey, &quot;penguin&quot; isn&#39;t that simple. How to spell simple words like &quot;penguin&quot; so that I don&#39;t look like an idiot to my 6yo who I&#39;m home schooling in lockdown. - Analyst_Rude 5. Relatable. People I know. I don&#39;t do it often but it always feels like snooping. - moudre_plus_rouge 6. Ah yes. We all love a visit to Dr. Google. &quot;Inserts symptoms exacerbated by anxiety and boredom... am I going blind? Am I losing my mind? Am I going to die soon and or irreversibly destroy my health?&quot; Nope, just getting old. - k4Anarky 7. This is how you learn! words that my friends use, it makes me feel stupid if i don&#39;t know what a word means when they use it - SuperDonutPro 8. That&#39;s okay, it&#39;s not exactly common knowledge. The amount of times I&#39;ve had to look up the boiling time for hardboiled eggs is pretty embarrassing. - RustyCopal 9. Ohhhhhkay! My friend and I are both a wealth of random, useless facts a few weeks ago he told me that if you rub pork fat on a cats lips the cat would whistle, and there was lots of videos of it on YouTube, like an idiot I fell for it and googled &quot;cat whistling with pork fat on lips&quot; - yuckyfingers 10. It&#39;s Odie, right? &ldquo;What is the name of the cat in Garfield&rdquo; - Mickzzzboi 11. This should be common knowledge, to be fair. &quot;how many kgs of blueberry cheese danish can I eat without getting diabetes&quot; I had to go look at my search history to for this question and I have no recollection of ever searching this up but it was there. - draconicblur 12. Thankfully, no. &#39;ive drank 12 cups of coffee in 3 hours, will I die&#39; - alongusername121 13. Ruh roh. True crime junkie here, and I shudder to think what people would think if they saw my browser history composed of blood splatter information, how deep a certain knife can cut, etc etc - hehadsomehorses 14. Yikes! How to kill orphans when their parents die. I write software - AccomplishedMeow 

Google is a blessing and a curse.  While it provides us with all the information we could possible want, it also inadvertently exposes our dumbest moments &mdash; and keeps a record of them. Yikes.  A recent Reddit thread asked people,...