“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing
Not all facts are fun. But that shouldn’t keep us from learning, because they can still be fascinating! Below, we’ve gathered a list of disturbing and unsettling information that you might not want to know from Unpopular Notes.
From creepy facts about animals to obvious things you may be glad you’ve never previously considered, you’ll find a variety of information on this list. So be sure to upvote the facts you wish you hadn’t read, and try not to become too freaked out by any of these spooky truths!
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There is a company that makes urns in profile to cast the shadow of the deceased
That's cool, and I'm sure there's people who would like this, but I don't think I'd want to see that everyday.
yeah but there are also people who taxidermy their dead pets so...
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Load More Replies...Oh my goodness imagine if they achieve this by making a model of your face and then spinning it really really fast. "WHEEEE!"
more like they take a profil picture (from the side),make a negative, take the part with the face and make a mold and hold it at the spinning clay- or just use a 3D printer
Load More Replies...I am sure this could make some people feel happy but it certainly wouldn't be for me. I honestly think it would cause me to cry more
The green falling code in the matrix is just lots of sushi recipes
His wife was Japanese, she had cookbooks, so the production designer scanned the recipes, then reversed and mixed up the characters. that's why none of that is actually readable.
Love this! Matrix is one of the best movies ever. After I first watched it,I watched it again as it blew my mind!
I suspect the mere idea of code falling like that with people being able to read it directly comes from Isaac Asimov's series of novels : Foundation.
The man who created the title sequence used his wife's japanese cookbook(s). (according to a quick google search)
I still can't eat sushi, bad reaction! Sick for a week!! Never , ever , again.
Professional musician Dagmar Turner played her violin while a tumor was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music
wasn't it to see if her motor function or something or other stopped working? not sure so correct me if I'm wrong
Yes, to monitor if they were going somewhere dangerous. Sometimes they give you flash cards to read for similar purpose
Load More Replies...Pretty common for brain surgery to ensure you are not damaging the brain. Not disturbing.
u cant feel what happens in ur brain (no nerves) so except for the skin, which would probably be fine with local anesthesia, it wouldnt hurt i think
Yeah. No pain nerves in the brain is kinda ironic lmao
Load More Replies...Same song Nero played while Rome was burning? If not, should have been "I've Got You Under My Skin".
my doctor told me abt this! I’m a cellist and she offhandedly said one visit “if you ever get brain surgery done, you’ll have to play while you get operated on” and i just think that’s so cool!
Greenland sharks live at least 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they are 150 years old
What late bloomers! Reaching sexual maturity at 150 if your lifespan is 400 is like a human dying when they’re 80, after not reaching their sexual maturity until they were 30.
There are more statues of lions across the world than actual wild lions
Um, the statues were created over the course of thousands of years. So maybe we need to compare the number of statues to the number of lions that have existed over the course of thousands of years?
Good point, but the underlying principle is sound. Some humans kill for fun,
Load More Replies...How funny my son just told me that fact yesterday. Is this going around on tictok or something?
Load More Replies...I don't know, but I would guess that there are more drawings of humans than humans.
There are more Tigers AND lions in NORTH AMERICA than in the wild . Facts. Scary isn't it? Yes , there are loose tigers in the USA . YAY ! THANKS TEXAS
It's terrifying how little it actually costs to buy a tiger and keep it in your backyard.
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A body farm is a place where various corpses are laid on the ground for forensics to study the decomposition process
I would love to donate my body to a body farm after my death. They do so much good work on helping out forensic science. I'd like to contribute to it, even if I can't do the science myself.
Actually me too. I like the idea of my body breaking down naturally and returning to the Earth and all the creatures who would benefit much more than being embalmed, in a box, in some makeup and dress, in a plot of land that could be used for the living for centuries to come. The more you think of it, the more disturbing the whole idea of burrying people in cemeteries where they don't decompose really is 😩
Load More Replies...The first body farm is in Tennessee. It’s called The Bass Anthropological Research Facility, better known as BARF. No kidding.
Someone definitely had a good laugh coming up with that
Load More Replies...The book Stiff by Mary Roach is fascinating if you're interested in this subject. Her wry humor when discussing death makes it less clinical and more relatable.
A wonderful book! Actually, all of her books are wonderful.
Load More Replies...Big one at UT Knoxville Tn-- funny, been there for 40 years, now development is encroaching-- newbies call to complain about the smell-- why would you move close to a Body Farm then complain?
Not just on the ground. Suspended, rolled in carpets, stuffed in trash bags, left in the trunk of a car, etcetera. After organ donation, I want the rest of my corpse donated to a body farm.
Yes, so they can study decomposition in various climates and situations, and they can be used to recreate crime scenes.
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured
That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard
Load More Replies...And they do the classic dog thing of grabbing the toy in the mouth and manically shaking their head from side to side- a primal throwback to snap- breaking the neck of a small catch
My dog used to love play fighting me for her toy - again, probably her hunting instinct kicking in, as she's definitely got predator instincts! Now she's too old and doesn't really do it. But on the bright side, dogs also bring us their toys as gifts, reserved for the people they love! She only brings these gifts to the closest family members, no matter how often she sees other visitors.😍
Load More Replies...If my cat's toys don't make noise, she will gladly supply their death screams for them. It's always a bit terrifying to wake up in the middle of the night to screaming wails and yowls from the other room because your 6lb house panther requires the sounds of death to fully enjoy herself. (For anyone concerned: I have learned that these are not sounds of her being in pain. She's 6 years old and a trouble maker. I know what her "help me" noises are and I know what her "I'm pretending this thing is meeting its end by the power of my murder mittens" noises are lol.)
So exactly what cat prey sounds like bells ringing? Because all my toys have tiny little bells inside them.
I hate squeakies... I tend to destroy them on purpose before giving them to the dogs
That’s speculation. Dog toys have got squeakers in them cos that’s the easiest and cheapest thing to put into dog toys. There was no research to find out what noises should go into dog toys
If you ever have the misfortune of hearing a rabbit being killed by a fox, you will notice it sounds just like the squeaker in dogs’ toys.
Load More Replies...My dog used to treat her favourite fluffy squeaky toy like it was her puppy
Thought my dog had snuck a toy outside. No. Found a nest of baby bunnies.
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can
Dolphins need to come up for air about every 10 minutes, while sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes. They achieve this by slowing their heart rate.
Why would a sloth need to hold its breath for 40 min?
Load More Replies...The greatest experience of my life was in Honduras where I was able to hold a Sloth at an animal sanctuary. It was a life changing moment in my life.
To avoid being eaten or harmed by predators-and also humans.
Load More Replies...Also, unlike dolphins, there has not been one recorded instance of a sloth sexually assaulting a human.
Water bottles’ expiration dates are for the bottles, not the water
The plastic is kept pliable and prevented from cracking by the addition of some quite nasty chemicals known as plasticisers. As time passes, especially if the bottle is exposed to sunlight, the plasticisers leach out of the plastic into the water and make it morre and more toxic and the bottle more and more brittle.
Load More Replies...Not really. The date is because the FDA (in America at least) classifies bottled water as a “packaged good”. All packaged goods are given an expiration date regardless of need.
Do you know every single fact in the world? No? Well guess what, neither does anyone else. Every day people are learning new things, including things that others may consider to be an "everyone knows that" bit of info. There's no need to be rude about it.
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This is a bigfin squid, a type of rarely seen cephalopod with arms and tentacles that can reach up to 26 feet long
Eh it's alien to me. We live is vastly different habitas and technically it's not " terrestrial"
Load More Replies...She had to take a break for school she said. Busy needed to focus.
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You may be living in the last year of your life without being aware of it
Very well could be my last month, week, day, hour, even minute. There doesn't even need to be a reason, people die suddenly all the time.
I hate this fact. In 2001 after 9/11, I swore I would do more with my life. In early 2002 I had to move to Chicago for work. Later that year, one of my all time favorite artists, Warren Zevon, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and went on Letterman (watch this interview on YouTube), and said that it's important to enjoy every sandwich. Fast forward 20 plus years later, and I am now the same age Warren was when he got his diagnosis and I still haven't done anything. Anyone in their 20s or 30s reading this, I will tell you; it goes by fast, so don't wait.
I understand. Life is busy. I'm 60, and I thought I would have eaten my way through Italy by now. Nope, looking for a new job.
Load More Replies...My BFF got up on the morning of Jan 18/22, had her shower, got dressed and had breakfast entirely unaware that this would be her last day.
Cousin of mine, 23 years old, fit and healthy, went to bed one night and didn't wake up the next day. No drugs or alcohol. Just sudden adult death syndrome. 30 years ago
Load More Replies...My parent, and that parent's parent, both died of the same disease at the same age. I have chronic symptoms of that disease, worse than either of them, despite being medicated (when they were not, being largely unaware). I'm less than two years from that age. It's okay though. I really don't mind.
I sure hope so because I lost my one and only a couple of months ago. Someone gave her something that killed her. I want to get justice for her but I don't want to live anymore. I'm looking forward to dying.
When whales become so old and weak that they can no longer reach the surface, they go deeper and deeper until they touch the seabed and then slowly die
Oh no. I think I am in a depressive state right now. I just sighed like wouldn't that be nice 😅😩
It does sound rather restful. But your cat would be hungry
Load More Replies...It's called 'whale fall' and the whale is dead long before it reaches the seabed. It's body becomes an ecosystem in its own right after settling on the seabed. Some species float initially after death, others start to sink immediately.
Or they just sink because they can't make it to the surface is more probable.
If it makes anyone feel any better, although some believe whales don't "know" things the same way we do, it's long been believed that they know when they hit bottom they will eventually simply become part of the ocean. It's a long held belief by many that there is on some level, a conscious understanding that their environment and other animals will benefit from their eventual demise. So, it's also a long held belief that this level of "sadness" is at some point overwritten by the knowledge that they're doing "good"-or whatever their interpretation of such might be. Not all hold these same beliefs of animals-but enough of us do and we believe that evidence of how they behave when doing this (and how their bodies respond) is enough to satisfy the belief :)
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This close-up shows the inside of a penguin's mouth
That's no more disturbing than a goose, which is to say not disturbing at all.
This is the effect that sunscreen has when viewed through an ultraviolet camera
this actually makes me feel safer, shows that sunscreen can really help you :)
You can also look at UV photographies that show sun damages to have an Idea how much sunscreen is a good Idea.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately no, UV is only one of many spectrums they perceive, so this isn’t what their vision looks like! But cute idea :)
Load More Replies...Oh hey! I bought one of these cheap UV cameras that plug into the USB port on your phone and your can check your family's coverage and know when they need to reapply when at the pool or beach.
Ella Harper was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward and was known as the camel girl
I think the corset might actually help her here, as it provides back support. Corsets, when well fitted and not tight laced, are not that uncomfortable.
Load More Replies...i'm glad there are surgeries to correct this stuff now, less people have to live with stuff like this
and if she was called that, she probably worked in a side show......I hope she had a good life. I hope so.
Load More Replies...she could also walk upright but could move faster this way. she did marry and have a family
Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane
"Of the 56% who admitted sleeping, 29% told Balpa that they had woken up to find the other pilot asleep as well.". Well, that makes my fear of flying so much worse.
To be perfectly honest, on a modern commercial jet the computer is doing almost all the flying. The pilot is there to take off and land, occasionally adjust settings, and take over in the very rare event that things go wrong.
Load More Replies...Pilots are only needed for take off and landing, unless there is an issue in the air
They might not need to physically fly the aircraft but they're meant to be monitoring systems, fuel, etc. and avoid turbulence and bad weather. Given that pilots failure to do those things has resulted in accidents in the past, I don't think it's right to suggest that they're only needed for take off and landing.
Load More Replies...My husband Is a pilot and I can assure you that they NEVER leave the airplane unattended.
Due to a disability I can never fly again. And after reading this I am OK with that
Maybe we need a third guy in the cockpit to keep the other two awake.
But what if that guy falls asleep? It's turtles all the way down!
Load More Replies...Also know that NO pilot is flying who has not had retraining more than 6 mos ago. That's why there are so many flight simulator companies around the US just to retrain and check on pilots.
Though often pleasant to humans, the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant's way of letting out a cry for help
i hate the smell mostly just cuz im allergic to grass adn it makes me sneeze
how in the heck did someone figure this out? did they learn to speak "grass " ...?
They were smoking some when they sensed the message.
Load More Replies...The smell is called GLV (green leaves volatile). The smell of rain is called Petrichor. You're welcome.
If plants can alert and respond to danger, does this mean they can experience fear and/or pain? If so, how does this differ from animals, and how can vegans justify their choice as being better than someone who eats meat?
If you think plants can feel pain and want to choose the option with less pain it would still be kinder to not eat animals. For the simple reasons that you need way more plants to feed animals that will feed humans, than you would need plants that will feed humans directly. But to answer your question: no a plant does not feel pain cause it has no nervous system.
Load More Replies...Not surprising considering humans also tend to enjoy the smell of barbecued meat, fried chicken, etc. The food chain is pretty morbid when you really think about it. Almost everything is food for something else.
Which is why it's called a food 'chain'. Moreover, I'm glad about that. Without meat in our ancestor's diets, we would never have been able to evolve (or power) the large brains that led to all of human creativity, art, music, literature, technology, and so on. Meat FTW.
Load More Replies...the smell of freshly cut grass is also am indicator of the chemical weapon phosgene
Aww this is my absolutely most favorite smell! I do hate that plants hurts though, although as someone who grows flower gardens, we treat our plants as if they have feelings soft of.
Without a central nervous system, it is impossible for plants to 'hurt' or feel pain. Whilst they can respond to external stimuli such as turning towards the light and so on, they are not sentient beings and can not have 'feelings'. Hope that helps.
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Pacu is a South American freshwater fish known for its square, straight teeth that eerily resemble those of humans
One theory is that people are afraid of something that looks *similar*, but not *quite* like them. That's why (at least in this theory) zombies are scary and racism works. I guess it's kinda the same with these teeth.
Load More Replies...Once in a pet shop, I saw a pacu bite a carrot in half when it hit the water. The rest of the carrot went quickly. You could hear the crunch.
There are some stories rumoring the Pacu is accused of biting off the testicles of men who took a bath naked...
Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism
I love them. We played with them when we were kids, this was late 60s early 70s. Then the Fire Ants took over Central Texas.
Load More Replies...We frequently played with these as kids. I guess they weren’t too stressed because we never saw them squirt blood.
Me too. We were gentle with them, Simple catch-n-release. Then the fire ants took over Texas and now Horny Toads are endangered.
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Real bees were used during the making of the ‘90s horror trilogy Candyman, and actor Tony Todd was paid an extra $1,000 for every sting
He was stung 27 times. Would you get stung that much for $27,000???
i would love 1000 per sting cuz i got stung 14 times at once by yellowjackets. however, i would not get stung just for the money
Load More Replies...Well smear me in pollen and stick me in a field, I've got bills to pay.
I still don't like to watch that movie..Not that Candyman himself is that scary but something about the way they filmed it made it very unsettling to me. And of course the dog dies, d***s.
When a honey bee stings, it dies. Not true of most stinging insects.
I would deny that offer, I hate the pain of bee stingers and the dead bodies of the unfortunate bees.
The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime
Some sources state this number is as low as 4, some go as high as 41. It all depends how many people you interact with per day, in a big city it's likely. If you interact with about 25 people per day for 70 years, you've likely encountered 10 murderers, based on statistics.
What won’t cross most people’s minds is that not all murderers are serial killers or violent thugs. Sometimes totally normal, well-adjusted, average people unfortunately find themselves in circumstances where it’s kill or be killed. Whether during wartime or in self-defense, however, it’s still technically murder, and the person taking the life of the other person is still technically a murderer. It’s just the level of justification that’s different. So, this group may represent a good chunk of those 4, 10, 16, or 41 people.
Load More Replies...I worked in a maximum security prison so i definitely walked past more than that!
I know I’ve been within about 4 feet of one of Canada’s most notorious murderers/rapists. Paul Bernardo. At one point he was living in a tiny place called Brown Hill. It had a gas station with a small restaurant. He was a friend of the owner’s sons. They gave him a job there. It’s where my mom used to get her car filled up. I remember on a visit home from Dallas, we went there and there was this young man who filled up the car and washed the windshield. White baseball cap, white t-shirt and blond curly hair sticking out from under the cap. It was Paul Bernardo.
I’m from the US and EVEN I KNOW who Paul Bernardo is. DO NOT look him up or the murders / rapes that he committed with his wife. He should still be in jail, no actually 6 feet under!!
Load More Replies...I dated one without knowing. For context, he killed his father and wasn't caught until years later. Everyone thought his dad just left, because he had a history of doing that. I dated him in the period after the murder but before being caught, so I had no clue. He wasn't violent, and didn't exhibit any strange behavior. He did not have a previous criminal record. It was incredibly shocking to everyone.
Why did he kill his father, do you know the back story?
Load More Replies...Ted Bundy grabbed a girl from the parking lot of the tavern at the bottom of my street (hill).
This was the day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right
They actually held a referendum on this, and, as always, when this is done, people voted against it. They did it anyway eight years later. Referendums don´t have to be binding. Sometimes the government has to govern. I´m looking at you UK.
Don't you start with us s/. And it's only a bits of the UK Scotland goven themselves.
Load More Replies...Well of course it was going to be chaotic the first day! As long as they weren't like this month later, they were ok!
I was on Okinawa when they changed road directions in the 70s. They had a policeman on every corner an they shut the roads at midnight and everybody moved their vehicles to the other side. At 6am they fired off fireworks and sirens and started driving on the opposite side. They spent months changing road signs and stop lights. Even so there were multiple accidents.
They called it H-Day. (The Swedish word for right begins with an "h".)
The movie Cannibal Holocaust was so realistic and so gory that the director Mr. Ruggero Deodato was charged with the murder of the actors
Great publicity - maybe the arrest was staged and choreographed to make headlines
Not necessarily. People thought Mars had invaded Earth when H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds played on TV (or the radio, I can't remember which).
Load More Replies...I love horror and splatter movies. This is one of few I wont watch (the rest is mostly either bad or centers around rape)
They actually killed the animals in this.... It's a f****d up movie. I like the villain approach they took. Super realistic and probably happens quite often.
Wasn't it a commentary on imperialism? From what I understand the characters making the documentary are the the twist villian and start murder the locals there. (I might have that mixed up with another movie tho)
Load More Replies...I've seen bits and pieces of it, I can understand why they thought he murdered them, that s**t was frighteningly realistic. Should've just checked the actors tho
God no, you can buy it or download it online though
Load More Replies...Did they actually kill people in the movie? I mean like I know In the film they did but were people killed in the production/making of it?
No that was just rumors but they did put tribe members in a hut and set it on fire..an there is a rape scene with a young girl who didn't understand English an didn't know what they were going to film so her horror and fighting is real. All animal deaths are real.
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This is how a toothbrush looks like under a microscope after the first use
Is this before, or after you've finished cleaning the toothbrush after use?
That's a single bristle under an electron microscope..I doubt there's any cleaning that satisfactorily enough hahaha
Load More Replies...This drives me mad. "HOW A TOOTHBRUSH LOOKS UNDER A MICROSCOPE" or "WHAT A TOOTHBRUSH LOOKS LIKE UNDER...". How/looks vs What/looks-like. Sheesh. "How" is a method. "What" is a thing. Hence "how it looks" is a method of looking. "what it looks like" means "what (object) it looks like".
After 30+ years of hearing kids (and adults!) massacre the English language with things like, "how are you called?" "How is a... (insert word) in English?", I'd like to thank you for pointing this out!!
Load More Replies...Sorry, the sentence is awkward. Maybe, "this is what a toothbrush looks like under a microscope..." or "this is how a toothbrush looks under a microscope..." Is it just me? It's just me. I knew it.
The title wording is driving me crazy lol.. This is WHAT a toothbrush looks like under a microscope... sounds much better imo..lol
I prefer Hydrogen tetroxide for twice the cleaning power.
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In ancient Rome, the crushed brains of mice were used as toothpaste
I don’t know which is more disturbing, but it’s curing my time travel urge
Load More Replies...Wait, people don't do this currently? I've been using the wrong toothpaste...
Harvesting them must have been immensely labour intensive! Btw, that's a rat in the photo, not a mouse 🙂
looked to see if this "fact" appeared on any reputable sites...it did not...but, the romans did grind up shells, horns, egg shells, and sometimes bones to add to their toothpastes...kind of like the gritty substances added to modern toothpastes
Initially thought what the heck, but afterwards remembered that coackroaches produce some very strong antibiotics to keep "undigested" their brain by the microbia they live in. So there might be a case, that empirically... some ancients have come to this conclusion for rodents as well
No wonder that toothbrush looked dirty under the microscope in the other entry.
The average person will spend five months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green
I swear there are some intersections in town where it becomes five years.
And some people who are high as hell will spend a half hour waitng for a stop sign to turn green...
The Diomede islands have a distance of only three miles but due to locally defined time zones, they have a time difference of 21 hours from each other
Lynn C*x swam from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in 1987. ___ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_C*x
Oh great, they've censored her last name. It's spelled C O X
Load More Replies...This is what Sarah Palin ACTUALLY was referring to. Making the point that as Alaska governor she did, in fact, have dealings with Russia, she pointed out that "You can see Russia from my home state." Tina Fey mocked her saying, "I can see Russian from my house!" Polls revealed that most Democrats believed that Palin had actually said that.
I wouldn't have voted for her with a gun to my head, but I always thought this was unfair
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Google hires camels for the desert Street View
since cars can't travel very well in the desert, they ride on camels and load the cameras on there instead!
Load More Replies...Right, I will be expecting to see Google Street View camels in Palm Springs from now on.
Why wouldn't you hire the regular means of transportation in any environment? Why is this surprising?
Google: Wait! Jerry! Jerry the camel: *turns around* What do you need? Google: you forgot your paycheck! Jerry: Oh! Thanks man! Now I'm off to Camel-vers. Want anything? I'll just get you some soup. Google: okay, thanks Jerry!
If you have died around your cat, it is likely to start eating you in less than 24 hours, starting from the cheeks and eyes
I've told my pets that I don't mind if they eat me if I die.
Load More Replies...My cat's too picky. He'd likely starve while yelling at me to feed him.
Mine too. They'll eat exactly 1 kind of kibble...I know I know wet food is good for them. They are offended by it and try to cover it like a litter box.
Load More Replies...This theory is likely based on that experiment where they left a dead body near a bunch of FERAL cats.
I worked at an animal shelter and we had a few cats come in after their owners were found deceased. They were found to eat at their owners, but it seemed to happen when they had no other food available. Definitely not feral, but desperate and/or opportunistic.
Load More Replies...Good, if he about to starve i would rather prefer for him to feed on my body
Fun fact: you're dog is likely to start eating you before your cat. Dogs will lick and bite to try to wake you, eventually the drive to eat takes over. Cats generally wait until they're out of other options. Not because they care more about you, but because they're obligate carnivores that prefer live prey that they've caught, they're less likely to eat something that is already dead and just laying around.
And if you have pet rats, the other pets are really gonna have to hurry to get a bite, they’re probably already chewing on your toes while you’re keeling over. ;)
Load More Replies...If I die and my cats don't have food, I'd rather them eat me then go hungry and die themselves.
I don’t know about my cats either, given they wouldn’t dream of touching food that’s been in their bowls more than an hour or two, and knowing how much dead bodies smell and how quickly, I can’t imagine they would find me appetising! And I don’t really want to find out either!
It's amazing how quickly animals stop being picky when they're hungry. That said, I would expect it to take longer than 24 hours.
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People who fall in love lose an average of two friends each
I don't have 2 to lose so I'm an outlier bringing the average down. sorry guys it's probably a higher number for y'all 😅
Load More Replies...Not surprising. There's only so much time to go around and once you're married free time tends to drop, especially once kids arrive on the scene. For the most part though, it'll be the friends who are already low contact or fringe... the people you'd hang out with often enough to say they're a friend, but you probably wouldn't go on holiday with them or even invite them to your wedding.
This is an early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club around 1930
Off topic but my friends and I have started calling the mental hospital the mickey mouse club house or the funny farm or the grippy sock vacay
Future biotechnology can be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1000-year sentence in a matter of eight hours
So what, it's not enough to lock them up, but now we can engage I'm torture? If you want to swat a fly, swat it. Don't pull off its wings. Who the hell wasted their intelligence coming up with something so Draconian? Cure cancer.
High tech version of medieval torture devices :( Prisons have not been a place for rehabilitation at all. It's always been to hurt people.
Load More Replies...I would literally rather die. From the prisoners perspective, that would be literal hell. Depends how bad the crime is, I suppose.
Yes ones who commit thing like rape and torturing deserve a million years or more
Load More Replies...I so wish people would stop using prison as punishment and instead use it as a time of education, therapy and attending to underlying medical needs. Rehabilitation and treatment reduces the rates of further crimes considerably.
Yes, it's been proven in countries with a more forward-thinking approach.
Load More Replies...That means their victims will see the one who raped, assaulted or stole from them back on the streets the day after conviction. Won't that be a heartwarming experience?
“ That means their victims will see the one who raped, assaulted or stole from them back on the streets the day after conviction. Won't that be a heartwarming experience?” Going through 100 years of monotony has causing mental issues on a persons brain. now imagine a person has to suffer something like this for 1k years - the next place the person would end up like would be a mental asylum where it would be the persons final destination
Load More Replies...Can someone please explain to me how this works? This is cruel and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone but I’m a fan of learning interesting facts
It's not real, it's just an idea that is incredibly improbable for lots of reasons.
Load More Replies...And having this technology is more important than curing cancer? Or Parkinson's disease, or MS, ALS, or anyelse?
I feel the same way, actually put this high-tec stuff to good use man, like wtf 🙄 It’s sad how people can have their priorities so mixed up and even sadder who those people are.
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There are only two days that do not last 24 hours: the one of your birth and the one of your death
I agree that it's incorrect, but you don't have to be rude about it. People have feelings you know.
Load More Replies...Um, those days are the same length as all the other days. You just don't experience the full length.
I call BS on this statement.... If Someone was born at EXACTLY midnight and that same individual happen to die at 11:59 pm then.......
A day is actually 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds, so no day lasts 24 hours.
Calendar days last 24 hours, astrological days might be shorter but I sure don't adjust my clocks by 3 minutes and 56 seconds every morning 😉
Load More Replies...Accompanying photo is of OP, who hasn’t yet learned that things still exist even if you can’t see/experience them. :p
Unless you are born at exactly 00:00 and die as the clock strikes midnight
CPR only works 7% of the time outside of a hospital environment
According to whom? There are many instances of unreported cpr... j/s. It sounds very discouraging that way
Anyone who has had CPR performed on them would be unable to get up and walk away. They all require further treatment and are hospitalized. I would extrapolate that statistics are compiled from their records. Even in hospital many do not survive, just speaking from experience.
Load More Replies...If someone needs CPR, they are pretty much dead. Giving CPR is giving them a chance to live, even if it's a small chance. CPR isn't going to make things worse for them, so please don't let this statistic discourage you from giving CPR if you ever find yourself in such a situation. And I say this as someone who's life was saved in part because I was given CPR. My father's life was saved with CPR too. Both from nearby people who jumped in and started chest compressions immediately
The survival rate also depends on how quickly the person gets to hospital. Please support your local ambulance services and let ambulances through when their lights are flashing.
Load More Replies...This is BS. Always help. Compressions are fine and you don’t have to do mouth to mouth. My degree says so. BP doesn’t fact check?
Don't be silly Of course BP does not fact check. It's a vehicle for advertisements filled with content from secondary and tertiary sources whose provenance is unknown or suspect. Their "editors" just copy paste some internet bits without any oversight, I assumed this was clear to everyone. This is an entertainment site, not an informstive one...
Load More Replies...Yes, this should be taught at all CPR-courses. Without a defibrillator odds of sucess are slim. There is a reason the hearts stops and CPR is mainly to preserve cirkulation until deff arrives. Many who has failed to save someone with CPR is sad and thinks something is wrong. But in reality, you where just not one of the few lucky % to have a victim with the right issue for undeffed CPR to work on.
We get taught this in refresher courses as electricians in NZ. You are giving a chance to someone who without you has no chance at all.
Load More Replies...I don’t care if I fall into that unfortunate 93%, I STILL want someone to at least TRY, ffs!
I retook my Saint John's First Aid and relearned CPR which is now just chest compressions. I suggest watching on YouTube "The Bee-Gees' song 'Stayin' Alive" to listen the beat which is what you need to do to do CPR.
Load More Replies...Define “works”. The intention is to keep oxygenated blood circulating until the paramedics arrive. In that, it’s highly effective
In the event of a plane crash at sea, the cabin crew must prohibit passengers from carrying the bodies of relatives or friends who died during the impact on the lifeboats
Right because of all those plane crash survivors. After a 600 mph uncontrolled impact with the ocean I can see how the lifeboat capacity would be a real issue.
Remember those sociology lessons in school... there's a boat that will only hold 7 people, but there are 13 of you. Who gets tossed to the sharks?
Great question! Yes, those who pass must be thrown overboard
Load More Replies...Very few people, if any will survive a jumbo jet sea landing. An ocean is not calm. The waves and swells will cause the plane to cartwheel and break up. Look up a video of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961. It didn’t end well. Small planes may fair better
This bizarre helmet from 1925 was designed to improve work productivity and studying sessions
Because when you take it off you're so thankful to breathe again you'll do anything?? I'm pretty sure that's called torture.
Designed by Hugo Gernsback, magazine publisher and editor, did magazines like 'Electrical Experimenter' and the first science fiction pulp magazines (for which he coined the term 'scientifiction'). He designed this and wore it himself to block out distractions while he was working.
Theoretically, if you fold paper 51 times, you will find its end on the sun, and if you fold it 103 times, you would go beyond the observable universe
I remember they proved one time on a BBC children's programme that you can't fold a piece of paper 8 times, no matter how big, because the thickness of the fold makes it impossible to continue. Ok, it wasn't very scientific, but they started with a massive sheet of paper, and by the time it got to 7 folds it took 3 of them to partially fold it over and hold it down. It was really interesting, obviously, as I've never forgotten it!
Elon Musk wasting millions on rockets. All he needs to do is start folding paper.
...and we've probably read this fact more than 103 times on here already
Here's why this statistic is intent and why it drives me nuts that it keeps being cited: the statistic is based on the thought that a perfect fold in a piece of paper still maintains a modest angle. This, do enough additions of the angle's resulting height and you can calculate into infinitum until you get to the moon. But the ignorant part of that is it would require a piece of paper insanely, nearly infinitely, long. HOWEVER, the point that is missed is that a paper in length equal to the distance of the moon would be exponentially shorter than the piece of paper required for the stupid experiment to be done.
You can only find a piece of paper 7 times due to the fact that you are reducing it's surface area.
Yeah but if you were the hulk then I’m sure you could do it
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The beauty micrometer was a device designed in the early 1930s to help the identification of the areas of a person's face which need to have their appearance reduced or enhanced by makeup
We dont need that anymore because we can't even see ourselves under all the filters. 👍
Googled it, and the guy's name is "Max Factor Sr". Seriously. Max Factor sound like the name of a Batman villain.
Load More Replies...Basically, the homogenization of beauty. Counterintuitive, because beauty that’s all the same becomes boring and forgettable. It’s the little flaws that make beauty interesting, striking, and captivating, and folks, having a lovely soft, warm glowing inner light does show through, and enhance beauty even more. There are people who have perfect faces and bodies but they’re all surface—-no inner light. Having intelligence and humor also enhances beauty. Of course, the fact that it’s all in the eye of the beholder is the most important part of all.
Because we really need some anonymous rando to be the sole authority on what is beautiful.
The only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue
My reflection licked my nose but my mouth was closed and now I'm scared 😳
I played rock paper scissor with my reflection because I’m bored, and I won!
Didn't "Nietzsche" claimed, "And if you lick your reflection long enough, your reflection will lick you"?
Jelly Beans are so shiny because they're coated with shellac, which is made from insect poop
After checking, shellac is a secretion used to make protective tunnels, not an excretion (poo)..
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Load More Replies...It's no different than eating veggies you grew in your garden that was fertilized with cow manure.
You can get vegan ones that aren't made of shellac if beeswax! They're more and more common in the UK
But beeswax is a byproduct of the insects... Wouldn't that make it no longer "vegan"?
Load More Replies...Lol guess you ain’t the only one either apparently, at least it tastes like jelly beans right? xD
Load More Replies...Shellac is a resin deposited on tree trunks by the lac bug (Kerria lacca). It is not their excrement. It's no weirder than eating honey, which is flower nectar that has been processed by multiple bees to remove water and convert the sucrose to fructose and glucose.
After death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body
So... Bored Panda shortened the article by ONE entry, making us click the link for the rest (one) twice. 🙄
Yup. It's like listening to a bunch of 'edgy' eight-year-olds. Quite a few of them are false or faulty correlations too.
Load More Replies...So... Bored Panda shortened the article by ONE entry, making us click the link for the rest (one) twice. 🙄
Yup. It's like listening to a bunch of 'edgy' eight-year-olds. Quite a few of them are false or faulty correlations too.
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