50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn’t Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread

Wait - if we don't like it can we "believe" our way out of it?

What even worse scientists want to play with all this c**p too. Like yeah I know, but someday it could be our down fall. And but if another country got a hold of it. It wouldn't be good either. But why do experiments on it. Like that just asking for something bad to happen, but at the same time I reckon we need to know about it. But it worries me so much.

the likelihood of bacteria be compatible to modern bodies (aka able to live inside) and be ignored by immune system is extremely low, but don't worry, with all ice melts, we will die anyway

I'm more concerned about all the methane rising from the sea beds as ocean temperatures continue to rise.

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We reap what we sow until we die.

That makes all of his actions WORSE.

The purpose of Hitler's campaign against the Jews was to stir people up against a false scapegoat. He was evil and immoral enough to do that even if his personal opinion about them had been different.

I wonder what mental disorder Hitler would be diagnosed with. He is such a paradoxical character. He wasn't a psychopath; he had empathy toward animals and certain people. And yet he did such horrible things...

what i never understood about hitler is how he could hate the jews so much when his own mother was jewish...

Well he also got people to want pure German as in blonde hair, blue eyes neither of which he had. He wasn't even German. It just shows the danger of propaganda and people believing what they are told without question anything.

While Herodot did indeed write about such practices after visiting Egypt, most of today's egyptologists think that this might have been a myth. Herodot not only visited long after the "golden times" of Egypt, but also made up a lot of incoherent stuff (like "gold-mining ants in the indian desert") and did not speak the language of the land. So most of his knowledge was either second hand or literature.

HA! Jokes on them /Ancient Egyptian Embalmers

Why oh why am I going to remember this???

as long as it still works

Plot twist: they just wanted longer with the.dead before sending on to the embalmers

This is phrased a bit oddly. It's not that the woodpecker wraps its tongue around its brain, it's that the structure of the tongue is such that it's wrapped around the back of its head. https://abcbirds.org/blog21/woodpecker-tongues/

It doesn't need to retract it to wrap it around its skull - that how its tongue is placed, and yep, it does protect the brain from injury that could be causes by the bird banging its bill against a tree. It also bangs its beak against the tree to communicate, and also drills nest and roosting holes. However, the cushioning is just an additional benefit. The primary reason that the tongue wrapped around its skull is that the tongue is so long that it needs a place to coil when its retracted. The tongue can be 1/3 of its body length.

🐥 There it is

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do they taste the brain?

I watched a documentary about blizzards, and a child had disappeared. They had teams of people looking for them, but they were just gone. They found them in the Spring thaw right by their own front door. Devastating.

Carbon is the building block of life as we define it. The entire Earth can be made into a diamond.

I thought humans were mostly water🤪

Humans are mostly Oxygen, approximately 18% Carbon.

just put my ashes in an hourglass so I can still be included in gamenight

Dometsic violence also increased during that time

Why I’m against homeschooling.

I know that teachers are legally obligated to report child abuse, and I'm still wondering why none of my teachers did that for me

"Fewer", not "less"

A sobering impact of the pandemic - the need for vigilance in safeguarding children's welfare when traditional means of detection are disrupted. 📚💔

Calling yourselves "sea horses" is adorable. Be careful if you're a cis guy though, sea horse males give birth ;)

Does the poo look different? Anything you can't eat? Do you get hunger pains? What's your weight like? I know this was posted to Reddit but maybe someone on here will know. \_(ツ)_/¯