I'm fine. What are you talking about, you do not look fat in those jeans. I'll give you a call.
We lie all the time. And we get away with it quite often, too. But some folks push their made-up narrative so far, it's hard to imagine anyone actually believing them.
So they end up on the subreddit r/thatHappened. Its members share evidence of "people telling outrageous tall tales that would make Walter Mitty proud" and they have compiled quite the archive since the creation of this online community in 2012.
Here are some of its best gems.
#1 Jesus Christ. What An Idiot
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#2 From Cursed Comments
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#3 Imagine Getting Called Out Like That, By Harry Styles Himself
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#4 Not Really Sure What Is There To Brag About Anyways
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#5 How Does She Expect Anyone To Believe Her? My Mother Sent Me This From Our Neighborhood Facebook Group
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#6 Running A 5k In 10 Minutes
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#7 Oh Yeah. For Sure
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#8 This Has To Be A Joke, Right?
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#9 The Entire Sub Is Like This
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#10 And All Vampires Clapped
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#11 Everyone’s Worst Nightmare
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#12 Brags To All Their Friends For Saving Their Life With Essential Oils
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#13 And Then The Coronavirus Clapped
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#14 Lady Who Lives In Massive Fantasy Land Goes To Disneyland
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#15 This 2-Year-Old Must Have A Degree Already
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#16 Mhmm, Yeah Sure It Was
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#17 Woman Finds Microchip In Her Son’s Mask!?
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#18 And Then Ben Franklin’s Image Clapped
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#19 While These Children Weren’t Oxygen Starved, The Poster Was At Birth
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#20 Hate When People Underestimate The Condoms I Use In A Night Smh
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#21 Sure He Did Aubrey
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#22 Discord Users Are A Different Breed
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#23 Anti Vaxxers Are A Gold Mine
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#24 Of Course They Said That
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#25 That Totally Happened
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#26 Then The Toys Clapped
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#27 I’m Sure They Jumped Another $15 An Hour For No Reason
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#28 Of All The Things That Didn't Happen, This Didn't Happen The Most
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#29 “Lone Wolf” Beats Up 6 People
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#30 Found This On A “People Who Think Liking Harry Potter Is A Personality Trait” Fb Page
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#31 Her Jaw Dropped
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#32 I Won't Remember Posting This
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#33 Sorry, What The Hell Did I Just Read?
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#34 Cos A Dentist Has Enough Time To Watch An Entire Film Instead Of Working
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#35 The Waiter Literally Cried
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#36 Ye Right And Cats All Clapped
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#37 Must Be Pretty Rich Huh?
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#38 No One Liked That
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#39 She Also Happens To Be A Wannabe Travel/Wellness Influencer
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#40 "Accidentally Gave Myself The Vaccine" Via Twitter! Riiiiight
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#41 Highly Doubt It
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#42 Did The Whole Cafeteria Clap As Well?
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#43 Real Gamer Girl
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#44 The Professor Is 16?
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#45 Kids Think He’s Walt Disney And He Can’t Bear To Tell Them Otherwise
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#46 Became A Bird Person
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#47 Well, That Saved Me A Goog!
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#48 Hear Me Roar
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#49 Antivax Jesus Made Me Want To Die
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#50 Le Epic Protest
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#51 Of Course It Did Deer
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#52 A Bunch Of People On The Comments Said That They Had Done Something Similar. Is This A Common Thing?
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#53 Mlm Huns Need To Come Up With Better Lies
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#54 Woman Convinces Everyone At CVS To Take Off Their Masks - No Really This Happened I Was The One Clapping
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#55 Another Clueless Nitwit Who Thinks They're Smarter Than The Teacher
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#56 I’m Literally Non-Binary And Have Never Felt Like I Was Misgendering A Fckn Chess Piece
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#57 No Such Thing As Conflict Of Interest!
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#58 Maybe Believe If He Wasn't Complete Vermin
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#59 Yes I’m Sure That’s Why You Uploaded It
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#60 Sure Thing Bruh Bruh
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#61 And Then People Around The Neighborhood Clapped
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#62 Stunning And Brave
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#63 Woah Great Job, Kid
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#64 Then The Whole House Clapped
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#65 It's True Guys, I Was The Sign!
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#66 A Kindergartner Can Definitely Say That
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#67 Youtube Comments Are A Goldmine
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#68 Gay Shakespeare
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#69 Even Some Of The Commenters Are Feeling Sus
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#70 Wise Worlds From A Wise 7 Year Old
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#71 Very Likely Story
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#72 I'm Sure Ya Did Buddy
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#73 Docs Know You Are Educated
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#74 And Everyoone Started Cheering
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#75 A Mom Walking Up To A Stranger Toddler At A Playground To Call The Toddler Out As A Poser About Their Favorite Band
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#76 Found This On Some Investment Entrepreneur Instagram Account
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#77 Does This Belong Here?
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#78 Posted By A “Influencer” Do People Honestly Believe This S**t?
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#79 A Girl Posted In My Pe Class That Her Mile Run Was 4 Minutes And 39 Seconds... What?
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#80 You Can't Take Crack Orally And It Doesn't Prevent You From Blinking
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#81 I Don’t Think So
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#82 S**t Break Snacks In Fantasyland
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#83 Teacher Quits Because Of Camo Jokes
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#84 Freestyle Rapping During An Interview... Hmm!
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#85 Target Will Miss Them
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#86 We Divorced Because My Kid Lied
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#87 Give Me A Break
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#88 Man Ran Because Of A Belt
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#89 Found This On Instagram Today And Thought Of You Guys
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#90 I Believe You
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#91 “Accidentally” Accessed The Dark Web
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#92 I Vibe With Wanting Live Childfree But This Is Just Sad
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#93 Proud Mama Bird
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#94 Because That's Totally Something They Can Do
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#95 Yeaaa Okay. I’m Not Too Sure About This
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#96 And She Was Never Bullied Again
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