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It’s impossible to predict the future. But we do know that history repeats itself, so we can still make educated guesses. And over time, we sometimes find out that those projections proved to be 100% true.

We took a trip to the Aged Like Wine subreddit, which features posts and statements that have only become more and more accurate as time has passed. Below, you’ll find some of the community’s best posts, so enjoy scrolling through these statements that turned out to be unsettlingly spot on. And be sure to upvote the ones that you believe aged like fine wine!

#1 Going Through My Old Meme Folder When…

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#2 Time Magazine Cover, May 2017

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#3 (2020) If Anything He’s Stupider Now

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We often hear about things that aged like milk, such as celebrities being celebrated for their activism then later being charged for horrific crimes. Or couples posting about how much they love one another online before it’s revealed that one of them was cheating throughout their entire relationship. But not everything in life is unpredictable. Sometimes, exactly what we speak into the universe ends up becoming true, even if we didn’t think that it would!

That’s where the Aged Like Wine subreddit comes in. This community keeps a record of anything and everything that’s been shared online or in the news that ended up becoming true. From statements made by or about President Trump to predictions about how much a burger and fries will cost in 2025, this community is an eerie time capsule. And clearly, it resonates with many internet users, as it has amassed an impressive 246K members.

#4 Robert Barron Says An American Pope Won’t Be Elected Until It’s In Political Decline

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#5 What A Telephone Company Executive Said In 1953 About Phones

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#6 Just The Profits Gets Foretold

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When it comes to predicting the future, there’s not much that most of us can do. We might make hopeful bets on our favorite sports team winning the game tonight or pray that it doesn’t rain when we plan to go for a picnic over the weekend. But according to the BBC, there is a simple rule that can help us make better predictions.

Apparently, author Nassim Nicholas Taleb came up with a rule of thumb for how to predict how long something will last. “The first question you should ask is how long it has already existed. The older it is, the more likely it is to go on surviving,” Tom Chatfield explains.

#7 How Did Conan Know?!?!?

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#8 Satire In 2018. Just Another Day In 2025

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#9 Almost A Decade

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Chatfield goes on to explain that time is the best indicator of what’s going to happen in the future. So instead of looking forward, we actually need to look back. “Our only genuinely reliable technique for looking ahead is to ask what has already proved enduring: what has shown fitness and resilience in the face of time itself, surviving its shocks and as**ults across decades, centuries or millennia,” he notes.

#10 From Over 15 Years Ago

It’s Kendrick Lamar.

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#11 48 Years Ago, This Was Considered An Outrageous Statement. Now, It Is Just An Accurate Description Of Presidential Power

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#12 A Prediction Of 2023 From 1923

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According to McCrindle, there are a few important factors to keep in mind when trying to predict the future. First, they note that we mustn’t ignore asymmetrical trends. Nowadays, even a trend that emerges through social media can be extremely important and impactful. Just look at the #MeToo movement. At the same time, generational transitions can help us anticipate future trends. If we keep an eye on the younger generations, we might be able to see what’s coming.

#13 Yep

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#14 They Called It

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#15 Well Said Stephen King

Tweet dated Jan 10, 2017, following Obama’s farewell address.

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McCrindle notes that catalytic changes can assist us when making predictions as well. They explain that this is when a catalyst and a trend work together to cause societal changes. An example of this is how popular working from home has become in recent years. The catalyst for this change was the pandemic, as many people were forced out of the office. But society has since transitioned instead of going back to exactly where we were before.

#16 He Knew Then What We’re Realizing Now

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#17 Well Well Well

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#18 I Wish It Was Always This Easy

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Another important factor we can’t ignore when looking towards the future is human centricity. McCrindle points out that the human psyche will always play a crucial role in shaping what’s to come. And finally, counter trends are something we should all be keeping an eye on if we want to predict what’s going to happen next. There will always be a subset of people who want to go against the grain and revive past trends that are no longer mainstream.

#19 Elizabeth Holmes

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#20 The Onion Strikes Again!

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#21 Took A Little Longer Than Expected, But Here We Are

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While it can be entertaining when we realize that we happened to predict the future, we all know that life is unpredictable. So it’s probably best to just accept that we won’t always know what’s going to happen. Yes, we should learn lessons from history and work hard to ensure that we don’t repeat mistakes of the past. But we don’t need to fixate on trying to anticipate what tomorrow will bring. Life is full of surprises, good and bad. So we might as well just be along for the ride!

#22 Aged Like An Over 30-Year-Old Expensive Wine

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#23 Eisenhower Predicted The Future

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#24 From A 1990 Vanity Fair Article On Donald Trump

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Are you impressed by how accurate some of the predictions on this list have been, pandas? Keep upvoting the ones that have aged better than you would have ever imagined, and let us know in the comments below what you hope ages like fine wine as time passes. Then, if you’re looking for even more posts from this subreddit, we’ve got another Bored Panda list featuring the same group right here!

#25 Dude Called It

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#26 This Was Supposed To Aged Like Milk, Sadly It Didn’t

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#27 Planned Parenthood Appeal, 1982

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#28 Some People Don’t Change, This Is From 1930

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#29 Rush Paved The Way For Trump!

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#30 Elon’s Behavior Could Certainly Be Explained By His Weird D**k. #elongate

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#31 Bernie Sanders Interview From 2013

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#32 3 Years Ago

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#33 1982 Cartoon By Bill Mauldin That Is Relevant Today

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#34 15 Years Ago

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#35 This Joke From The Simpsons Is More Appropriate Than Ever

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#36 This Old Quote From Henry George In 1885 Is As Relevant Now Than Ever

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#37 Old Meme

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#38 How About That

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#39 Does This Count? Since It Was His Final Easter?

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#40 Wow This Was Impressive

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#41 This Low Effort Meme I Made In The Fall Of 2020

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#42 Can We Appreciate The Fact That This Screenshot From Superman vs. The Elite Is Still Relevant Even Now?

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#43 Foreshadowing

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#44 This T-Shirt I Bought About 12 Years Ago

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#45 This Is How The Media Always Viewed A Peaceful Protest!

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#46 Chinese Professor Accurately Predicted Trump Election, Netanyahu’s Attack And Us Involvement In Iran In One Video Posted A Year Ago

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#47 Well, For All His Flaws, Obama And Others Before Him Were Right The Whole Time

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#48 1975: Anti-American Poster, “They’re Having Problems With Their Economy Again” Ron Cobb, United States

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#49 Oh Trump…

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#50 Aged Like Wine (WB Is Copyright Claiming McCSongs Now)

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#51 It Only Took 18 Hours Before Charlie Cancelled Season 2

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#52 It Wuz About Ethics!

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#53 70 Years Later…

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#54 This Unpopular Opinion At The Time

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#55 Found On A Youtube Video From 2006

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#56 Whilst The OJ Simpson Parts Aged Like Milk. This Didn’t

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#57 Gamergate Did A Whole Lot Of Damage To The Youth!

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#58 Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Is The Most Dangerous Organisation “- I Hesitate To Call It A Party -” In Human History

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#59 This Toonhole Comic From 2014

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#60 Tesla Stock Went Down, Relevance Went Up

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#61 Not Only Is It All True, He Staged A Coup In The Gop

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#62 Clearing Out My Phone And This One Hit Pretty Hard

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#63 “Nothing Can Keep It Out. The Tariff Issue Enters Every American Home.” May 22, 1912, US

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#64 Probably Not For The Reason They Thought

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#65 After Hearing Trump Wanting More Prisons For “Home-Grown” Criminals

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#66 Ratm Cover 29 Years Ago

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#67 Gumbyverse

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#68 Bruce Indeed Defeated The Leader Of The Conservative Party Of Canada, Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre Had Held That Seat For Two Decades

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#69 Still Playing Golf

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#70 Tech Bros Have A Really Short Memory Span

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#71 Oh God

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#72 Do I Even Have To Say Anything?

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#73 This Mad Magazine Skit About Trump From 1992

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#74 That Aged Quickly

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#75 His Son Should’ve Listened

This is a quote from George H W Bush after the 1990 Gulf War, his son later did exactly what he warned against and what he said would happen happened.