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Ok so I was just wondering, at what point is something considered anomalous vs just being kinda weird/freaky?

The best thing I could come up with as an example was radiation or more specifically, radioactive elements.

Like "oh yeah if you go near this weird rock that glows something then it'll destroy your DNA, make you deathly sick and also might give you cancer. Oh yeah and if you shoot it too fast with another piece of itself then it'll create a miniature sun" I mean like that sounds more anomalous than half the things that the SCP foundation has locked up in its sights.

Or platypuses. Like "oh that freaky looking thing? Yeah it sweats milk, is the only venomous mammal, also the only mammal to lay eggs, has a sonar in its head better than most submarines, and has a beak like a Bird. But nah not anomalous at all"

Or the Internet, yeah like the whole Internet. Like "oh yeah there's this thing called the Internet that lets people communicate at the speed of light across the entire globe. It also happens to have all of the knowledge of the entirety of humanity stored in it that anyone can access if they try hard enough. So it basically has the tower of Babylon stored in it" and then they'll be like, nope totally nothing weird bout that.

So my question is, at what point does something become anomalous, because it seems pretty inconsistent.