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35 Facts That Are Common Knowledge In These People’s Fields But Are Not Known To The Wider Audience
Did you know that crows hold what essentially are funerals? Yeah, hundreds of them flock to the location, but avoid the body and don’t scavenge it. It’s thought that this may be a kind of survival strategy, to make sure that they avoid potential threats even if food is plentiful where the crow’s body was found.
That’s probably something ornithologists (bird scientists) know. Turns out there are a lot of facts only specialists know! Let’s take a look at some of them as shared by Redditors.
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Trucker here and we don't want to be anywhere near you either.
Go around or stay back don't just ride right beside us. We can't see you very well when you are beside us and if s**t happens you're gonna go splat.
It is very very very rare that any driver wants to slow you down it's not like we get our rocks off on making you late. We work extremely long hours on very little sleep and we just wanna get where we are going without getting in an accident and killing someone.
Trust me if we could go faster we damn sure would.
Also if you give us the fist pump to honk our horn you just made our whole week. That's one of the greatest joys in a truckers life.
Be safe out there!!
Edit: A reoccurring comment is that most of you get it and are very cool but you hate when a truck driver hops in the hammer lane when you're trying to pass them at a reasonable speed. I'm with you on that and Im here to tell you most truck drivers are not a******s like that and the real truckers hate the ones that are. Every profession has a group of a******s that ruin it for the good ones.
Edit Edit: This has gotten an unexpectedly high response and I really appreciate all of you joining in the conversation. If we would all just communicate like this more often we could solve a lot of problems in this world.
my father always told me : "if you can't see his side-view mirrors, he doesn’t see you either"
In movies they unnecessarily yank on horses’ reins, practically ripping their mouths out. Anytime you see their mouths open with the bit pulled way back in there, they’re not having fun and it’s for no reason other than maybe drama and the trainers are s****y for letting that happen.
People almost always try to exit through the same door they entered. In a crowded venue ALWAYS take a second to find your exit and then find a second exit. Mark them in your brain just in case. In an emergency most of the crowd is going to go for the main door they came in through. Knowing where another exit is can save your life.
It's not the CIA or the government that's tracking your every move. It's marketing agencies.
Being nice and patient will give you a bigger chance of getting a refund or a new of whatever is broken, than being angry and blaming the random worker.
People make most decisions based on emotion, then rummage around for logic to back up what they’ve already decided
You need to finish the entire course of the antibiotics you were prescribed. You don’t suddenly stop taking them after you start feeling better.
It's distressing how many people Act like they don't know this when I Know their doctors emphasized it to them. (not a medical practitioner, just a lover of science).
The ER is there to keep you from having a catastrophic outcome in the next few hours/days (or next few minutes, in some cases.) If nothing irreversible is going to happen for several days, they don’t really care what the problem is.
Not sure why this is being down voted lol. I hope all the parents with a 2 year old running a fever read this and understand why they're going to wait in a busy ER for hours.
Part of the problem though, is that if you are the parent of a sick 2 year old and you call up their pediatricians office what often happens is that after spending an ugodly amount of time on hold you will be told , " Well, the only appointment we have available 6 weeks from next Tuesday at 7:04 AM. If you think your child needs to be seen sooner you need to take them to the ER." At least that has been my experience navigating the hellscape that is American healthcare with small children. I recently switched my whole family to a new small doctors office that recently opened and has better availability, but until then I had my choice of two large "healthcare organizations" that were both equally bad.
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Part of the problem in the US arises from our insane healthcare system. People who can't afford health insurance, or who have lost their insurance, often use the ER as their primary doctor.
Thus leading to long wait times for people who actually need immediate help.
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I worked in an ER they care about your problems,but, it's true EMERGENCIES come first
I worked ER for several years. There are people who come to the ER for everything. They don't have a regular doctor.
Yeah, but posts like this always make me so nervous about ever going to the ER. You can't always know what's an emergency and what isn't. Last year, on a weekend day, my mom had numbness in one hand, which passed after 15 minutes or so. She didn't go to the ER, but contacted her doctor on the next weekday. Doctor sent her for tests, and it turned out she'd had a stroke. So she should have gone to the ER, but she has terrible social anxiety and was afraid of annoying the ER personnel.
That’s when public education comes in. This is a two-fold problem. Think F.A.S.T. Facial droop, Arm numbness, Slurred speech, timeliness (any of those symptoms get help ASAP)
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And the ER isn't for everyday problems. Call your doctor first (if you aren't in extreme pain or have a visibly broken bone/laceration) and if the doctor says you need to go to the ER, then go. Otherwise, go to Urgent Care, which is less expensive (in the long run).
Why does everyone say this? The doctor is only available during the day, and it seems most issues happen in the off hours. It's not like you can call the clinic and immediately talk to the doctor, even during business hours. They may call you back with 24 hours.
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It's called triage. We practice it for a good reason. Your toddler with the flu will be fine in a week. (Your nerves may be shot, but the kid'll be fine.) The lady who can't feel her left leg? Needs us first.
Yes! All the people in here talking about having a child with a fever. Children with fevers are common and very rarely serious. Tylenol and fluids and a couple hours and everything will be fine.
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A dentist I had used to work as an ER dentist in Seattle. Obviously he was there for trauma victims with mouth injuries. But a few times he told me stories about the entitle nut jobs that would come in. Like the man coming in at 2 AM DEMANDING that he clean his teeth and then getting angry / cops escorted out when he was told teeth cleaning is not an emergency and go make an appointment.
Hmmmm, and when your Dr. or Urgent Care says you have to go to the ER??? Happens all the time, "We can't help you here, you'll have to go to ER" I know healthcare in the US is messed up and clearly self defeating, but what course do we have?
The problem with this is in the US is the ER treats you like you should know the difference. I'm not talking about going in with a hang nail I'm talking about truly painful or distressing symptoms. Add to that the thousands of horror stories of serious issues being ignored and leading to permanent issues or death, this kind of attitude sucks. Even if you have good healthcare in the US it may be weeks before you can be seen elsewhere. Also many urgent care clinics are not equipped to deal with that non catastrophic several days before it does become irreversible gap. They might not have any access to imaging and can't refer you to specialists. They will just direct you right back to the ER. I know people who've lost their ovary to torsion from a burst cyst because they were either dismissed or the ER didn't consider it "catastrophic outcome" didn't bother to even let them know that's what had happened and simply discharged them and told them to take Tylenol.
A lot of the time your Drs office can talk with you and determine if something is an emergency or not. And yes, there are times the ER misses stuff, just like every other practice, it happens. The biggest thing is is the fact that general people do not know how to properly navigate the medical system to access advice nurses and in call physicians to help them figure out what is going on. I wish that there was much more education about all of this. I would love to educate people how to make their health care system work for them, but don't know where I would even start
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The hospital in the small town dismissed my sons fever of 104 for a week straight . He is now 11 with the mentality of a 3 year old and has seizures daily. If you 100% know something is wrong, push back. They may be exhausted, overworked and miss something.
In the US, a lot of folks in the ER are there because they can't afford health insurance. Doctors are not required to provide care regardless of the patient's ability to pay, but civilized states require hospitals to provide emergency care even if the patient cannot pay for it.
This is true too. Real emergencies are classified as Near Death or Critical.
Example. I went to ER bleeding with a bad nosebleed and was treated like royalty, held there for four hours after the nosebleed stopped and got a follow up appointment the next day. Chap behind me went to ER an hour after his bad nosebleed stopped and they unceremoniously kicked him out.
you wouldn't believe the amount of people who go to the er for a pregnancy test or a cold.
A lot of people don't have insurance and the one place they can go to be treated is the ER. So before you mock them, keep in mind they may not be able to afford to see a regular doctor or go to an urgent care clinic.
I think there's a cultural difference between the UK and US here. In the UK you can attend accident and emergency with non life-threatening injuries or illnesses and many health practitioners such as GPs (and our 111 helpline) will refer people as a precautionary measure. They are then triaged and either admitted to A&E, in the worst cases straight to Intensive Care (more like a US style ER) or kept for a period of observation and not admitted.
Melbourne, AU, here. Our GP constantly sends us to the ER for x-rays. (rolled ankle, sprained finger daughter plays sports) We could get the X-ray done the following day at a regular centre, but they insisted we go to the ER. The first time, I waited 5 hours, gave up and left. The second time, I waited 4 hours and gave up and left again. Now I insist on a referral to a radio imaging centre
The only time I've ever been to the ER is when I f****d up my arm and would have bled out otherwise
Depends on the country. In my homecountry the ER goes for all kinds of after-hours care, and we do not have walk-in clinics, so it is either ER or waiting weeks for an appointment
ER received your request by phone, the person on the phone deciding is it emergency case or not. Usually the temperature over 39 celsius is enough. ER coming to your house, or where ever you are, and deciding if they are taking you to the hospital. It is how it works where I live. Thankfully I don't know if they started taking money for that, but most of my life healthcare was free. I heard it is not now. Corruptions a f*****g plague.
The person behind the phone is a triage nurse, specially trained to be there. No, you do not know better than them
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Those "high end" or "expensive" neighborhoods they slap up really fast... Usually, gated communities and other semi-exclusive suburbs full of McMansions are built with the absolute cheapest materials and poorest quality/ untrained labor.
Never buy a "spec" home without some serious research into what you're actually buying. All that "luxury" is barely surface deep.
Quickest way to check - are the baseboards (skirting boards) MDF? If so, run.
In Archaeology, it’s super awesome and great that you brought stuff to an archaeologist at a local dig site near you of things you found in your backyard or nearby asking us appraise it - but the thing is, we’re actually more interested in the context the item(s) are found. We need/want to see the bigger picture. Arrowheads, flintknaps, trade beads, etc are super cool but they are worth so much more when we can tell if they are part of a hoard, burials site, ceremonial site, etc.
Trees do not heal through regeneration like people think they do.
They quite literally just grow over it. The tree can close the wound off in a way not really visible to us but it will never grow back that same tissue in the same way like we would when we cut ourselves.
It would be like growing a second layer of skin over a cut and never really healing the cut. Your body would make it stop bleeding but you’d alway be able to see your cut if you peel the layers of skin that grew over top.
Trees are like onions, just like Ogres! They have layers.
I always think of a jaw breaker when I work with trees.
Did anyone get my Shrek reference? I should go to bed now.
Police can lie to you, including about whether or not they’re police.
ETA - In the US. (I’ve offended the Europeans by forgetting they exist. 🇺🇸😎)
We have cameras that can see what is in your trash as we dump it. Some companies even take snap shots of every can's contents to catch hazmat items. They bill the city, with the address it came from, and the city could follow up with the homeowner for reimbursement if they choose.
How crappy, in general, people are at making sure they are recycling the right items and properly cleaning some of their items before putting them in the recycling bin.
We remember the houses with issues, people that try to double dump, overfill, and dump hazmat. We watch for those offenders specifically.
We will pull out cans for handicapped people, dump them, and put them back. You have to call and have that setup though.
The garbage man knows whats going on in your neighborhood, almost as well as the mailman.
Oh sorry thank you for doing what seems to be a thankless job meant to type it go distracted.
If a website is slow there’s a big change it’s not because the developers did a bad job but because marketing insisted on putting dozens of trackers and ads on it.
UTIs will often cause confusion in people over 70.
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UTI is Urinary Tract Infection and some people can get confused to the point of hallucinations and delirium. It can cause increased weakness which also leads to falls.
Constipation can also cause confusion in older people. There were times older people were admitted to hospital for routine procedures, became constipated (perhaps due to a difference in diet, and the use of pain medication), and seemed to have developed dementia. When the constipation was treated, the dementia disappeared.
Most public defenders are competent actually.
I really admire lawyers who choose to become public defenders. They are overworked, underpaid, and absolutely necessary.
When a person “flat lines” you cannot shock them out of it.
In any given nature documentary, the protagonist animal you’re rooting for is ‘played’ by several different ‘actors’ - i.e. that one brown bear’s story is patched together from footage of a bunch of different bears. And in about 90% of the ‘animal reacting’ shots they’re reacting to the camera crew. Nature documentaries are heavily constructed.
An elevator will go up to the top of the hoist instead of crash to the floor in most catastrophic failures due to the counter weights.
So instead of being squished, you W***y Wonka thru the roof of the building. Cool 😅
If you have sad vegetables(carrots celery)or lettuce that look wilted not bad you can make them crunchy by shocking in ice water.
I have done this multiple times to get an extra day or two out of them
People (users) are the weakest link in most technology systems. 99% of the time.
Way, way back in 1992, at a security convention, there was a prize/reward for anyone who could beat the security on a new machine. A friend listened to the person on the stall, asked for their business card, and phoned the office. The friend impersonated the salesperson and said they had forgotten the password. One of the people gave them the password. This was then used to access the computer. :) Humans are the weakest link.
When you go out to clubs or any place with some sort of "strip" (aka Broadway in nashville) the volume is 11 times out of ten too loud. I work at barstool occasionally as AV and at night it's gotten up to 110-115 DB. For reference, the threshold of pain is 120 db. Wear hearing protection people. You can't get that s**t back.
I work in acrylic sheet.
The number of people who do not understand what translucent means is astounding.
Translucent =/= Transparent. Translucent is SOLID color that allows light transmission- it glows. Transparent is just that..transparent.
We have customers call us All. The. Time. Telling us we filled an order wrong, that they received “a solid color and ordered translucent red”.
**EDIT: thanks for all the upvotes and thoughts!
For clarification, majority of these customers order online either through our website or Etsy. Both sites have dozens of pictures and videos explaining and showing the differences!
Week one of science lessons. See also, the difference between a clear and colourless liquid.
Cement and concrete are not the same thing. Cement is the main ingredient in concrete, but concrete is the whole mixture of cement, sand, aggregate, water, etc.
There are different recipes for concrete depending on how it is going to be used. But I'm not aware of any recipes where cement is the main ingredient. A fairly standard concrete mix would be 1 part cement to 2 parts sand to 4 parts aggregates. For foundations, a mix of 1 part cement to 3 parts sand to 6 parts aggregates can be used.
Bed bugs don’t make you a nasty person with a nasty home. An infestation isn’t due to a sanitation issue. They’re an imported pest, which means they hitched a ride on something you brought into the house. Usually luggage or furniture
No. But donating your bedbug infested items makes you are a very nasty person.
Generally speaking, if you add the percentage of the body covered in 3rd degree burns and the persons age together you get the likelihood of it being a fatal burn.
32 and 40% burn coverage? about 70% of people in that condition will die.
Source: Firey, working closely with several doctors from burns units.
Edit: I love the 100 year old people comments and the people with 0% burns but in thier 30s lamenting the 40% death chance.
So a an 80 year old with burn covering 30% of their body has a 110% chance of dying?
Mushrooms are genetically closer related to Humans than to Plants
Volumetricly, most rocks are made of mostly oxygen. Most of the entire Earth (crust and mantle) is also nearly half oxygen (by mass).
If you've ever read "OxYgeN DisCoVeReD on mOOn!" ... It's rocks. It means they've discovered rocks.
The world runs on MS Excel
Urban heat kills way more people in Australia than bushfires. In the 2009 Black Saturday bishfires in Victoria, 173 people died in the fires, but over 300 died of the heat prior to that.
Also, most of those deaths occur at night, not during th day.
Now this is something I didn't know! I wonder what the stats are on deaths from the smoke that was in the air all of the Black Summer too?
Powerful explosives are so insensitive to shock that it usually takes a smaller, more sensitive explosive to set them off.
There is no "fractured" vs "broken" there are only different types of fractures. It's really a semantic problem but patients get heated about it.
It was only on BP that I found out people didn't know this. Maybe because my mum was a nurse, but I have know this from quite young, and I haven't ever broken a bone.
Credit and debit are different. I could not believe how many people did not understand this.
Your mailman knows a lot about you. More than you think.
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There are a lot more services and information offered to people on your city and county websites than you realize. Also at your local public library. If you are having financial difficulties, there may be local government programs to help you, and if you can't figure out how to apply for them, ask at the library! They often have somebody who knows how to apply for all of it.
Retail work: If you ask a retail worker if something is in the back of the shop s/he will probably know that they are out, but will walk to storage anyways to indicate interest in the customer's request and wait there for like 10 seconds before returning. - just because it's in your mailbox doesn't mean that the discounted stuff advertised is an legal offer to you, as offers have to be adressed to a SPECIFIC person on the same document in context to the product. - If you find a product that's close to it's "Best before" date it's OK to ask for a discount, selling a product for a lower price is still better than having it being a total loss (just be nice to the employee)
I've had employees volunteer to look in the back for me without me even asking them to. I figure they just want a break, lol. Doesn't bother me!
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Brand vs Generic Meds. The active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) are chemically IDENTICAL. It is the excipients (other ingredients that make the medication up to a swallowable volume) that may vary. If you need to save money, but have issues with generics, look up the generic versions available (or ask your pharmacist to do so) and compare excipients because it will be that giving you issues.
Absorption can vary up to 15% between brand and generics. That's enough to kill in some meds. So, please, if th ebrand name is whatyou need, don't be shy about asking it.
Load More Replies... There are a lot more services and information offered to people on your city and county websites than you realize. Also at your local public library. If you are having financial difficulties, there may be local government programs to help you, and if you can't figure out how to apply for them, ask at the library! They often have somebody who knows how to apply for all of it.
Retail work: If you ask a retail worker if something is in the back of the shop s/he will probably know that they are out, but will walk to storage anyways to indicate interest in the customer's request and wait there for like 10 seconds before returning. - just because it's in your mailbox doesn't mean that the discounted stuff advertised is an legal offer to you, as offers have to be adressed to a SPECIFIC person on the same document in context to the product. - If you find a product that's close to it's "Best before" date it's OK to ask for a discount, selling a product for a lower price is still better than having it being a total loss (just be nice to the employee)
I've had employees volunteer to look in the back for me without me even asking them to. I figure they just want a break, lol. Doesn't bother me!
Load More Replies... Brand vs Generic Meds. The active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) are chemically IDENTICAL. It is the excipients (other ingredients that make the medication up to a swallowable volume) that may vary. If you need to save money, but have issues with generics, look up the generic versions available (or ask your pharmacist to do so) and compare excipients because it will be that giving you issues.
Absorption can vary up to 15% between brand and generics. That's enough to kill in some meds. So, please, if th ebrand name is whatyou need, don't be shy about asking it.
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