30 Facts That Might Make You Think “Well, That’s Enough Internet For One Day”, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group
Have you ever read something online and promptly closed your laptop immediately after? In the information age, it’s difficult to avoid things like that, with news, random comments, and other harbingers of unsavory facts.
But sometimes, you get that itch to read something strange, weird, or simply downright disturbing. Well, we're here for that. We dove in and found a bunch of weird facts from people who wish they had never found out about them.
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That animals get abused by sadistic a******s every day and there’s nothing I can do about it.
And I don’t just mean food industry horror, I also mean casual abuse of pets, abuse by sadistic people of strays for pleasure, out of boredom, neglect of pets, horses being starved to death. Old animals being abandoned, etc.
The animal rights laws are way too weak even in the strictest of countries in my opinion. I can’t unknow it and I can’t do anything about it and if I think about too much I can’t handle it
They are vile people ; two of whom will think twice about being cruel to animals ever again ; let's say I have no regrets and would happily find them again and they would be sorry - again. For a while at least.
After any significant natural disaster or conflict starts up, human traffickers swarm to the country looking for unattended children. Law enforcement will start watching ports of entry for the usual suspects..... the usual suspects.
The fact that human trafficking is such a huge issue makes me wonder who the hell all these damn "customers" are walking around acting all normal
When cats sense they’re not long for this world they’ll leave to go die somewhere outside…..alone. I wish mine would’ve just stayed at home.
How profoundly stupid the vast majority of people truly are.
The reason why morgues prefer to hire women, not men.
Me, sipping my 2nd coffee of the morning: But why would it matt...OHDEARGOD.
In Dubai, I've witnessed the acts of human trafficking and illegal prostitution, I've tried my best to get it onto the light at the time I was there, but everyone there kind of aware of it already and said that no one can or will do s**t here.
Even the the daughter of the crowned king, A literal Princess had tried to escape the country but was caught and brought back. I left the country the next week, Couldn't stand the thought of it
And our country still trades with them as if everything was all right. Same with Qatar
It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls
That babies didn’t receive any anesthesia, even for open heart surgeries, etc. until the late 1980’s.
I still can't get my head around how anyone would think babies didn't feel pain. Just pinch one and you know exactly how they feel
You can do everything right in life, making no mistakes along the way, and still fail to accomplish your lifelong dream.
Or, alternatively, f**k everything up, make mistakes at every turn, cover them up through conning business partners, bribery, corruption and generally ignoring every decent norm in society, then run for the Presidency of the USA - welcome to the story of #45. You couldn't make it up could you .......
That one can be aware they are in coma and not able to get out of it. I get anxious just thinking about it
Absolute *perfect* health is merely the **slowest** rate at which you are dying.
My mom lives far from me and we only get to see each other once a year. She’s 65. Even if I’m lucky and she lives until 80 or so, I’m going to physically see her around 15 more times. The idea of it being so limited makes my stomach hurt.
They could try to see her more than once a year. I know, if it's a budgetary problem there isn't much they can do
Every single female at birth on my father’s side got first pregnant at 14, had a miscarriage, then had their first child at 16, at least up until my older sister, she is 16 and so far has never gotten pregnant. Lets hope it stays that way until she is ready because most of my dads family dropped put of high school to take care of the child.
also, the day of my older sister’s 16th birthday, our father called her, BEGGING her to give him grand babies asap… i hate my fathers side of the family. this is why i don’t consider him as my father.
What a sickening 'tradition'. I'm glad the sister stopped that bullshît
Rabies. Just everything about rabies.
Australia is rabies free, and we want to keep it that way. Which is why there was a huge outcry about Amber Heard and her dogs being brought in illegally a few years ago. At least she and Johnny Depp made a wonderful video as an act of contrition (viewers likened it to a video made by hostages at gunpoint)
Just how painful and torturous extreme radiation sickness is.
Imagine feeling your muscles and organs dissolve inside your own body while skin just sloughs off, while being fully conscious and feeling everything.
The child voice actress from All Dogs Go To Heaven died as a direct result of horrific child abuse.
There's something like 2% of American prairie left and it's still shrinking. A couple weeks ago Rockford airport was just given permission to expand over Illinois' best and nearly last prairie.
Native prairie species sequester carbon FAR MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN TREES and support more biodiversity. Not to mention their ability to stop erosion.
Not only are we destroying prairie for human expansion, but we also went too far with planting trees and fire suppression, so areas that should be prairie and savanah are just planted with trees because we just assume that the more trees the better.
Don't even get me started about people's "wildflower gardens" that help very few insects and animals as compared to actual native plants.
Check out [The Native Habitat Project](https://www.nativehabitatproject.com/) for more information.
Edit: Rockford Airport, not O'Hare
My lungs are f****d after having covid two years ago. Scarred a lot. I’m now living with the knowledge they will likely fail me at an age younger than I’d like them to.
My brain is fried by that damn virus. My risk of multiple sclerosis is way above average now, thank to that f****r
We are possibly on the brink of medical technology and treatments losing a hundred years of progress because new strains of bacteria are becoming anti biotic resistant and finding new antibiotics is a slow process far out passed by the amount of resistant bacteria. Imagine getting a minor cut on your hand and dying from it.
Added benefit, our own immune systems have also taken a hit as well because our over use of antibiotics has killed alot of the good bacteria in our bodies that works with our immune system.
MRSA and Co. are already a huge problem in hospitals. We can all just pray and hope for new antibiotics and vaccines
A toddler's adult teeth are right below their eyes.
Just Google baby or toddler skull if you would like some nightmares tonight
A guy I used to work with had either a condition or got a virus (I don't remember which, this was about 20 years ago) that attacked his spine; he went to bed fine and woke up the next day totally paralyzed from the waist down. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There was no slow progression, just walking fine one day and completely unable to walk the next.
Edit: I just looked up his obituary (he passed in 2011) he apparently had Transverse Myelitis that led him to become paralyzed
The type of skin on your lips is called the mucosa and is the same skin found on your a**s because they are two ends of what’s essential a pipe called the alimentary canal
There’s a spooky skeleton inside you right now! And it’s wet!
Zombie fires. They are basically peat fields near the Arctic where the permafrost has melted and have warmed up so quickly they started fires that refuse to die.
Rapid decomposition of the organic material generates heat that can lead to spontaneous combustion. This phenomenon also happens to hay which was put up without drying sufficiently.
My parents have sex toys. I am ok with it. It was just disturbing to discover.
The thought of my parents having sex is... disturbing. I really, really don't want to think about it
Hospital-acquired delirium is insanely common in hospitalized elderly patients.
Ever been woken up in the middle of the night by a hospitalized loved one thinking they're at home, in a hotel, in a different hospital, rambling about s**t that makes zero sense, and perhaps thinking it's a different year? I am every night. And I'm starting to lose my f*****g mind.
But you know what's f*****g hilarious? My grandma at 96 handled 2 weeks in the hospital with no issue, whereas my 68 year old father literally acts like a patient with dementia... Maybe he's developing dementia, I don't know. Again, I'm losing my f*****g mind too.
Do not even have to be elderly at all. Delirium is a very real.thing
Wow. My fact was going to be that bagged salads and other packaged food stuffs are allowed to have a certain level of insect pieces in them.
Reddit got me beat today.
And chopped spinach is allowed to contain rodents. It's because the big harvest machines might chop up plant and mice/rabbits alike when harvesting.
How big angler fish can get. They're not massive but can definitely get larger than I'm comfortable with given the size of the teeth.
I remember watching an episode of the show *Monsters Inside Me* where this 16-year-old kid was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor finally figured out what was wrong.
Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.
Husband stitch is often done without a consent or sometimes even without woman knowing she got it
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Prion diseases:Incurable fatal diseases that slowly rob an individual of their mental and/or physical abilities. These diseases can also happen spontaneously. Look up Kuru, CJD(Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease) , Fatal Familial Insomnia, Chronic Wasting Disease, Mad Cow Disease or any of the other types of prion diseases. They are some of the few illnesses that truly terrify me.
The husband stitch thing is more likely caused by incompetent medical staff doing a crappy job. OB/GYN is a field which requires office doctors to do surgical procedures--yet they do not receive the level of additional training surgeons get, and they are not weeded out based on technical surgical abilities. There is an entire subset to the the medical device industry especially dedicated to making surgery easier for these non-surgeons, often with terrible results for the patient. For example, laparoscopic surgical instruments are tricky to learn. So to help ob/gyns who can't quite master that perform tubal ligations, they made a product that's essentially a sharp little wire spring the physician can easily insert in the fallopian tubes instead. Easy peasy. The wire causes damage, with the idea of the scar tissue closing up the tube. But they didn't count on the wire bits splitting off and traveling around, doing damage. And don't get me started on the "morcellator"
Prion diseases:Incurable fatal diseases that slowly rob an individual of their mental and/or physical abilities. These diseases can also happen spontaneously. Look up Kuru, CJD(Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease) , Fatal Familial Insomnia, Chronic Wasting Disease, Mad Cow Disease or any of the other types of prion diseases. They are some of the few illnesses that truly terrify me.
The husband stitch thing is more likely caused by incompetent medical staff doing a crappy job. OB/GYN is a field which requires office doctors to do surgical procedures--yet they do not receive the level of additional training surgeons get, and they are not weeded out based on technical surgical abilities. There is an entire subset to the the medical device industry especially dedicated to making surgery easier for these non-surgeons, often with terrible results for the patient. For example, laparoscopic surgical instruments are tricky to learn. So to help ob/gyns who can't quite master that perform tubal ligations, they made a product that's essentially a sharp little wire spring the physician can easily insert in the fallopian tubes instead. Easy peasy. The wire causes damage, with the idea of the scar tissue closing up the tube. But they didn't count on the wire bits splitting off and traveling around, doing damage. And don't get me started on the "morcellator"
