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Fun Fact: giraffes have black tongues.

Not so fun fact: there will be no fun facts featured in this article.

Why? Cause folks on Reddit have actually been sharing "fun facts" that are anything but "fun". But don't you worry, it's not the fun that makes a fact interesting, but the educational factors or just the straight up "I never thought about it that way" element.

So, strap yourself for it's gonna be a peculiar ride as you scroll down the top submissions found on the now-viral Reddit post. Be sure to upvote, comment, and tell us your not-so-fun facts about everything that truly matters in this life.

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#1

Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Crows are currently in their own Stone Age. They’ve been seen making very articulate tools.

coolboiiiiiii2809 , Nikita Report

E B
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, this is an actually fun fact! Go dinosaurs, you can do it!!

Cody
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine how advanced they'd be by now without the asteroid.

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LongCoolWomanInABlackDress
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

why is this a fun fact that is "anything but fun"? I think it's super cool!

Id row
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're also empathetic af.

Alma Muminovic
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crows are smart, they have the intelligence of a 4 yr old child apparently.

Pizzagirl 91
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And when I act like a 4-year-old, I'm "immature" and "stupid" - crowful double standards!

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random
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not robots but crows will rule the world!!!

Silre
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think we should help them advance

Andrei Stanescu
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

your money and complacence are enough, in fact they would refuse anything else no matter how much you try. but maybe not before letting you fall for it few times.

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Paul Davis
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They make stone tools that talk?

DennyS (denzoren)
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine how they'll evolve. That would be so awesome to see. If only we could have lived to see it.

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    #2

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver ‘Money can’t buy happiness.’ A phrase taught that you don’t need money to be happy, conveniently though those on $50k + salaries tend to live longer than those on the bread line.

    WorldFinnaMad , Keith Cooper Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money might not buy happiness but it solves a lot of problems.

    Nikki Sevven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money absolutely buys happiness. Struggling financially causes overwhelming stress, since the struggle is tied to survival. You can't be happy when your survival is threatened 24/7. Having excess income eliminates that stress.

    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money buys me the comfort to do what makes me happy.

    madbakes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The phrase really should be, "money alone does not buy happiness"

    James016
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Give me a chance to prove money does not buy happiness

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money can definitely pay down misery

    UpQuarkDownQuark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Samuel L. Jackson said, “Whoever said money doesn’t buy happiness obviously never had a lot of money”

    onivdsrapowijap
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Either they've never had a lot of money or have always had a lot of money and doesn't realize how much happier money makes them

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    Hill Branda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Money may not buy happiness but it's one hell of a down payment.

    Alewa
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Studies have shown that money does buy happiness up to the point where you can comfortably feed yourself (and your family), have a reasonably sized place to live, can afford healthcare and a few 'luxuries' (spending money on non-necessary things and activities), plus knowing that the risk to lose these things is very low and/or the social net will help you out. Beyond that point, money becomes addictive - you get a bit more, are happy for a short amount of time, and once this effect wears off, you want more. So - shaping society in a way that everyone can afford to live well without burning themselves out and preventing people from becoming filthy rich money addicts would be in the best interest of everyone, according to research (and intuition).

    Chris Cucinella
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe money can't buy happiness but it PREVENTS a lot of unhappiness.

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    #3

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Speaking from personal experience here, but your body can randomly decide to become allergic to damn near everything edible at any time. Not very fun.

    smallemochick , osseous Report

    Bored Dev
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It happened to me. I became allergic to Prawns at 22. Not fun at all.

    KombatBunni
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same! It sucks because I used to love eating prawn cutlets as a kid. Now it’s a trip to hospital if I eat one :(

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    Tam StaR
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Had a ferret, a year later, became allergic to ferrets. Had a cat, 1 1/2 year later became allergic to cats. Had a dog, 4 years later, I'm allergic to dogs. I've learned the Zyrtec is my BFF so I can keep loving on my pets!

    RandomFrog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My uncle can eat little more than rice and beans. He works for the gov. And builds jets and goes to Europe a lot but Two stories abt him going to Europe: one time he ate at a farmers market and he was like oh this is really good what’s in it and it contained some kinda nut flour and he was all out of Eppi pins so he had to go the hospital story two: one time he went to Europe and one of the people on his team got covid so the entire team was on lockdown in another country and my uncle didint eat anything but rice for a few weeks cuz they didn’t have food for him

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can reduce this by trying not to let food proteins get into your bloodstream. Once it gets there your body can learn to mount an immune response against it. If you have ulcers, that can introduce food proteins into your bloodstream. If you have an allergy like to gluten, while inflamed from eating that other proteins can leak into your bloodstream and add new allergies to you. If you take a lot of NSAIDs (aspirin, etc) that ruin your mucous lining this can lead to food proteins getting into your bloodstream.

    Beans
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is interesting if true. (Not doubting you, it's just always good to check a source). If this is the case then another thing that can damage stomach mucosa is excess soft drinks/soda... they can irritate your stomach. My ex used to drink a ton of soda (2 cans a day) and rapidly got stomach issues-- he'd often get nausea, and acid reflux etc, he couldn't digest certain things.... if he'd kept it up I'm sure he would have gotten an ulcer.

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    Izzy Curer
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've learned that whenever you're immune system is on the fritz, allergies get worse. It might be something you're usually not really allergic to, or are only slightly allergic to. Ironically, allergies also tend to make other allergies worse, since that's a hit to your immune system, too. Inflammation can also do it. Even something as simple as a sunburn, or eating too much junkfood for days on end. Or having a cold can suddenly cause your shampoo to give you a rash. It's almost as if the immune system has invisible hit points, and there's only so much it can take before it just starts wigging out. Once it's restored, those random allergies go away again

    Jai Stewart
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almost everything period. I got pollen allergies in my teens. Doesn't have to be edible.

    MikeWheelerFan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to eat strawberries all the time when I was young. One day I randomly became allergic to strawberries. I just recently got over my allergy.

    MikeWheelerFan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The worst part was I couldn’t have anything if ti could have been cross-contaminated with strawberries. For example: If a fast food place had a strawberry milkshake, I couldn’t have any other of their milkshakes.

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    Jordan Westall
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I became allergic to aspirin at 35. VA told me to take ibuprofen for the swelling in my face and throat. Took a year and a half to figure it out

    Huddo's sister
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I became allergic (or at least sensitive) to paracetamol in my 20s- I used to take it regularly for migraines as ibuprofen and asprin would make my chronic gastritis worse but now it stuffs up my sinuses. Thankfully my gastritis has cleared up, and I don't get many migraines either.

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    NicNor5560
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Flora. Fauna. Vegetables. Fruits. I take an antihistamine every day and sometimes it's not enough so I carry activated charcoal with me all the time. Good thing too, I've needed them a time or two, like when my 3rd brother offered me orange juice. My husband's looking at my lips and they are getting swollen like I've been kissed (and he knows he didn't kiss me in the near past). He gets me some AC with water and then ask my brother for the juice so he can take a look at it - it was mixed with mango. That could have escalated fast.

    stacyh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I became allergic to almonds at age 36, it sucks. No other food allergies.

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    #4

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Deaf schizophrenics don't hear voices, they see hands or lips as mental images that tell them what to do.

    woodyslw , Jeff Hitchcock Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That just freaked me out. Other voices silently signing you.

    pink_panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this is super interesting. Mental illness isn't cool to have to deal with but the way the brain adapts to different methods of operation is fascinating.

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    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm Schizophrenic myself and get visual, auditory, tactile and even taste/smell (one for me is to taste mint when there's no mint welp) so would Deaf Schizophrenics have the other types of hallucinations minus auditory? Much like a Blind person may still hear things? or feel things? Would a deaf/blind person feel tactile hallucinations? o.o

    My O My
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would think so. But I'd love to hear from a professional

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    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems lot of the response to schizophrenia is cultural. In some cultures where schizophrenia is taken as a blessing from angels or some such, schizophrenics hear voices telling them positive things. In cultures such as Western ones where it's treated as a curse, they tend to hear voices telling them horrible things.

    Poultry Geist
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read that as “dear schizophrenics” twice

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Dear Schizophrenics, don't hear voices"... is that the new version of telling a depressed person to just "cheer up"? lmao xP

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    Indy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My cousin is schizophrenic, who isn't deaf, didn't get "voices " but he said their lips were moving rapidly. On bad days he would see people's head shake back and forth like they do in horror movies. He started to take his meds regularly and fought hard to tell him its not real. He is not suffering any more and is in a good place. :)

    Trish Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How horrifying that must have been for him!! :(

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    SPARKIZE
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    another thing i can't unread

    Laura Ketteridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is dependent on the person, and the extent of their deafness.

    Monska
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know one deaf guy, who actually hears voices in his head. And I think, that must be really terrifying.

    CrazyDogLady
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe it depends om whether they were born deaf of lost their hearing later in life? Just a thought...

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    Shoe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it said "dead" schizophrenics and I was a little shaken.

    Jo Davies
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, I had never thought about this!

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    #5

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver The oldest person alive was born with an entirely different set of humans on the planet.

    randomname1561 , Nenad Stojkovic Report

    Raven Sheridan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All my friends are dead. Literally!

    Mr Red
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would imply that you only make friends when you are young. Maybe the oldest person alive has tons of friends.

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    Who Panda 420
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would love to talk to the oldest person alive just to hear their stories.

    Matthew Lauricella
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    rephrased: no one who was alive when the oldest person alive was born is still alive today

    mehoi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you become the relic.

    StrangeWalrus
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weird that looks just like my mom lol

    RJ
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They won! And at the end of their life, a big sign will light up the sky saying LEVEL 2.

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    #6

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Your brain blocks you from feeling your organs moving around inside you.

    Aydengeist06 , William Creswell Report

    Jill Bussey
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not always. After major surgery I am very aware of my organs jostling to regain their rightful positions.

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mom would mention she could feel her organs moving after roller coasters. She made that mistake a few times and gave up. The woman had a LOT of surgeries and internal staples

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    Robert T
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why the hell is "r e c t u m" censored? BP is getting up its own bum!

    pink_panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks goodness we have someone keeping us safe from being exposed to the medical terms for our universal anatomy!

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    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really BP Censors? R****m? Really?! -- The only thing stupider was one of the MMOs I was on starred out the name of a day as profanity... >sigh<

    Mihai Mara
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, they unalived the sinusoidum. :))))

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    ZeldaP
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I definitely felt all my organs shift down when I stood up for the first time after delivering a baby. It's very unpleasant.

    Jp@nda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That first move from labor bed to regulate hospital bed is very unpleasant

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    Bad Asterisk
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After my second pregnancy I have occasional feelings that are comparable to the feeling of a baby moving/kicking. My youngest is seven, so I would assume this is my organs moving around.

    Pizzagirl 91
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel much more aware of my belly organs since the emergency C-section with my twins. It started when I had to have a weighted pillow on my lower belly right after. Maybe it's to do with the fact that my abs are still that weird pregnancy shape like they haven't slipped back to the middle yet, and my twins are 18 months old now... Anyway, I recently had a stomach bug and I kind of felt the p*king develope from deep down, that was absolutely new for me... Urgh.

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    Lula Lulu
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have fibromyalgia and one of the symptoms is an inability to filter out background info from nerves, so every movement is like nails on a chalkboard. Sometimes i can't sleep because just blinking sounds and feels like sandpaper rubbing together.

    Izzy Curer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was told there simply aren't nerves connected to our internal organs. I don't know if this is true, but why would the body bother the make nerves if it never uses them?

    Thomas Ewing
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gas and active bowels will let you know they are there. Gurgle, gurgle.

    Id row
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is 22 censored? Edit: I think I figured it out. BP is censoring the word r****m? tf?

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    #7

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Thanks to pregnant women, the average skeleton count per person is higher than one.

    Jacoobic , Fábio Goveia Report

    Celestino Madeiros
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A pregnant woman swimming under water is a human submarine

    Lemonade Midnight
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the average number of legs is less than two

    João Acioli
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Similarly, the average person has 1.999 legs!

    D M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only biological women can get pregnant

    Thomas Ewing
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We all have a skeleton inside us! Spooky!

    Erin E
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks to… biology….

    Josurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pregnant women and also people born with their twin inside them (real thing).

    Joely King
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks to the f*****g supreme court, there's gonna be a whole lot more!!

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    #8

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver 50% of Americans diagnosed with cancer will lose their life savings.

    memesmanthecanadian , Cristian Ramírez Report

    LongCoolWomanInABlackDress
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if you ever had the chance to accumulate savings, that is. Not an easy tasks with student loans, mortgages, low minimum salary, costs for medical treatment of any sort..

    Doggo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve said this before and I’ll say this again: USA healthcare is corrupted

    Bedlamite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The insurance industry is corrupted.

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    Angie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    80% of Americans who file for bankruptcy, do so because of medical debt.

    Zaza Zooey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is probably the single most depressing thing on this list.

    Ben Moss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’m a millennial American and im pretty sure I’ll never even have a savings account to begin with

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    Katie Lutesinger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    America: Land of the Free To Die Needlessly.

    Zachary Gillette
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jokes on them; I don't have a life savings.

    Wang Zhuang
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surely it's higher than 50 percent, with medical bills costing what they do

    Mokayokok
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This Country f*****g sucks on so many levels, and now they're trying to make us into Iran but with using Christianity rather then the Muslim faith .... anything to control f*****g freedom of women to their core - give it 50 years, we're f*****g heading to absolute disaster - well, I mean, for women. We would be better off just going ahead and obliterating every f*****g Conservative Republican in this goddamn wasteland to avoid the impending disaster

    John Murray
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're a third world country. We just don't know it.

    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guess what almost everyone who lives long enough to end up in a nursing home in the U.S. will also lose everything they own paying the bill for the home. Many people end up having to divest themselves of all of it to their loved ones before going in so that at least it doesn't all get wasted on strangers.

    Mistiekim
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am the youngest in my family and am single with no kids. I have no savings, but multiple health conditions. So I’ll either be homeless or in the potter’s field with no headstone.

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    #9

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.

    TheActorAl , Ewen Roberts Report

    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why I think Elvis may have died in infancy, and all of us have actually been listening to the rock-and-roll stylings of his twin, Jessie.

    howdylee
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    pretty sure i just read that his twin brother was stillborn, so no chance of swapping babies...

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    Beans
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was younger, I stayed with a friend who had two tortoiseshell cats. It took me like 3 days to be able to tell them apart. Since then,I always think about this with humans, haha!! Like when I see twins or twin babies, it's like, 'those first few days after birth are iffy, right? If someone put you in the wrong crib/clothes would you ever even know?' I always thought there has to be some criss-crossed twins out there somewhere.

    Trish Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just recently brought that same scenario up to my roommate! Lol

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    Kellie Clarke
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My husband is one of identical twins and i asked him 'what if your mum put you down and your dad picked up the wrong one?' He kind of shrugged, which is exactly what his twin would respond with....

    Amy Taylor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a few friends that are identical twins and they really hated being dressed alike as kids. They all went out of their way to looks as different as their sibling as possible when they got older. A really interesting but sad documentary "Three Identical Strangers" tells the story of an adoption agency in NY that was splitting up multiples and adopting them to different families without telling the parents they were a twin or a triplet. All to do a "study". SO horrible!!

    NicNor5560
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen that one and multiple ones attached to it too. Horrible. Great that they all came back together but one mother just couldn't take it - it was too much.

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    Norah Reilly
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it really matter if no one involved is aware of it?

    Chase Urso
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am one and that's rly weird...

    NicNor5560
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Back in the day, babies were switched by accident by nurses. I imagine with the lack of sleep and everything else that goes on with multiple births it could be easily done.

    Erik Ivan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be true. I have never had the faintest idea if I am my twin brother or not. I mean, I know I'm me. But who of us got our respective name and social security number? Nobody knows.

    penguin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honest question: Does that bother you, or do you just shrug it off/don't care?

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    DrGirlfriend
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most twin babies born in the past maybe 15+ years, I'm a mom of twins, we are td by Gyno to bring nail polish bracelet or whatever identity labeling to the hospital so that don't happen... My boys are 11.5 right now and I was told that over and over by a nearly retired old Dr couple I was their last twin birth. I don't know but don't think this happens much anymore

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    #10

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver The united states has misplaced or lost 6 nuclear weapons over the years. There have been 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents, which are unexpected incidents involving a nuclear weapon. Of those 32, 6 were lost and never found.

    404-soul-not-found , aaron_anderer Report

    Deborah Harris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How the hell can you misplace a nuclear weapon???

    les
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    its down the back of the couch with womens rights

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    Kusotare
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look in the couch cushions, with all the loose change and bobby pins.

    amanda mcintosh
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in a town in NC where 2 were accidently dropped jan 1961. By some lucky mishap they didn't go off. Look up Goldsboro B-52 mishap.

    Hiram's Friend
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As long as its not armed, it won't explode, but it might scatter nuclear material over a wide area.

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    StormyWaffle
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whoops haha, misplaced my nuke . Guess i’ll find it later, it always turns up eventually ( ◠‿◠ )

    Zaza Zooey
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We'll just add that factoid to the old nightmare rolodex...what the ___?!!

    Nicola Roberts
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boy! Can you imagine how that conversation went?

    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Uh sergeant we lost one of the… ummm how do I say this….. weapons……” “What weapons” “ummmm… the nuclear ones” “YOU DID WHAT?”

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    MsGendered
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a documented incident with John Travolta in '96 that account for 2 of them.

    DCB
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    J.T. and Christian Slater, together

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    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fun fact there's a team of highly trained special forces nuclear technicians for retrieving nuclear weapons. For many years they didn't realize that in most plane crashes the heat from the fires would melt the plastic explosives from the nukes all over the floor of the aircraft remains. These expensively-trained guys after hiking miles to get to the site would take one step onto the goo and the static charge they'd built up would detonate the explosives - vaporizing the technicians and the bomb. So problem solved, I guess, no one had a nuclear weapon to retrieve any more.

    NicNor5560
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And no one was there to retrieve them anyways since they all went "poof".

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    RandomFrog
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dangit josh did you lose the nuclear bomb again?

    M O'Connell
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There were 6 incidents resulting in unrecovered nuclear weapons, with a total of 8 weapons lost. We know precisely where 3 of those weapons are, and the rest are otherwise at the bottom of the ocean.

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    #11

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Butterflies, if necessary, will happily drink blood.

    _weirdness , Rennett Stowe Report

    John L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do we know they do it "happily"?

    Jai Stewart
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also feed on the tears of crocodiles

    Catherine Binder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok the butterfly's are metal thing is definitely picking up speed.

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    Emperor Kitten
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When forest service is looking dead bodies one of the things they look for is swarms of butterflies. Anything wet and salty, like blood, will draw them from miles around

    Earl Grey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s a reason why Calyptra thalictri is called the Vampire Moth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyptra_thalictri

    Rage Of Aquarius II
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anybody else see that episode of Bones?

    Catherine Binder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer the Black List episode myself. Super creepy.

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    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do they know how happy they are though?

    Neesa Melendez
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How can we know they are drinking it *happily*?

    Hugh Walter
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those with mouthparts . . . not all butterflies' have mouthparts.

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    #12

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver That Washington Sqaure Park in New York is essentially a graveyard, with an estimated 20,000 bodies buried below the surface; many were yellow fever victims, wrapped in yellow sheets and buried by the poorest residents. When the foundation for the famous arch was dug, a number of these were exposed.

    MissNightTerrors , ajay_suresh Report

    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cross-rail (the new Elizabeth line) in London has unearthed several graveyards. A significant proportion of the budget for the project went on archaeology. It is almost inevitable that such things will be found when digging in highly populated areas.

    Deux
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same in Edinburgh. Archaeologists have found many skeletons whilst the latest tram lines have been constructed. We do have mass plague pits here.

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    all caps
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Curiously enough, Washington Square Park in PHILADELPHIA also is the final resting place of yellow fever victims, along woth many revolutionary war soldiers. Of course, the Philly victims were buried in the 18th century, while the NYC ones were decades later making this another example of NYC following Philadelphia's lead.

    Chris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The catacombs of Paris kind of out does this. estimated over 6 million peoples remains line the walls there.

    SupernaturalPanda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I bet the Hudson River would beg to differ...

    Clare E
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also true of Primrose Hill in London.

    Trisec Tebeakesse
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Boston Common is the largest unmarked graveyard in Massachusetts. You could look it up.

    agirlandherrobot
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Washington Square in Philly is a graveyard from the Revolutionary War!

    dev mehta
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is there a plaque in the park that commemorates this?

    sapphoscousin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mausoleum under the fountain in savannah georgia

    Leigh Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Around all the ancient churches in England, like circa 1000 to I don't know when, the grass and ground is higher than the church itself. Mostly the churches are tiny and the parishes are large. The grounds are full of bodies six feet deep going back years and years. No wonder the burial rights have to go elsewhere these days.

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    #13

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Guests love to dump the ashes of their loved ones on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. In theory, this seems fine and like an okay place to do that, but when the ashes get dumped custodial cast members come in and vacuum up the ashes. If you are ever tasked with spreading ashes somewhere, do it anywhere but Disneyland. Because their ashes will not be in the park for long.

    Destronoma , fortherock Report

    zak
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does it seem "ok in theory" to just dump human ashes in a theme park?

    Deborah Harris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Great ..so what you think is just random chalk dust blowing in your face in the Haunted House is actually someones' grandads ashes ..:O

    Monochromatic Static
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is also this thing going around where people believe that giving birth in Disneyland will give the baby a free lifelong pass to the park. (it does not.)

    MikeWheelerFan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one is actually dangerous. There are often complications during pregnancy that can be extremely harmful without the help of a trained medical professional.

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    James G. Currie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    **"What do you mean Uncle Fred is in the Orange County landfill?!"**

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if it's my wish to end up in a Disneyland vacuum cleaner?

    Maryanna Baldridge
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The pic is the Haunted Mansion at Disney World, which is a whole different design than the one at Disneyland. I am sure both see way too many ashes. Fun fact, if you are caught doing this you will be immediately escorted off the property and not allowed to return. Not a fun way to remember your loved one.

    Emperor Kitten
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They actually train the cast members to look for people dumping ashes, and regularly catch people trying. Not only will they get vacuumed up immediately, you'll get kicked out of the park and maybe arrested.

    Mistiekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes - I don’t think it can ever really happen anymore. Not with the security at the entrance gates, etc. They might question a bag full of ashes.

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    CrazyDogLady
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, i have to ask. So is it legal in the US to just spread somebody's ashes anywhere you want? Cause it's illegal where I live.

    Terry Tobias
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know about other places but my mom's family smuggled my grandfather's ashes over the border from upstate NY to Quebec because he loved Lac Sainte-Marie so much. We would go there in the summer and stay in rented cabins on the lake. My grandfather died when I was little, and once I was older my mother told me that they scattered his ashes over the water that he loved to fish from. Thank you Canada for all the great memories!

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    Tony Zecco
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank god when I get my remains scattered over Disneyworld, I won't have been cremated first.

    Jp@nda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bill! grab the shop vac we got another one!

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    #14

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Antarctica smells like penguin poop. Antarctica is a desert, it is too cold for bacteria to live. Nothing there to clean up penguin droppings. If you are close enough to see penguins, you will also smell them.

    gummby8 , Eli Duke Report

    Monique Reed
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um. It may smell like penguin poo, and maybe not the right sort to break down said poo, but there are plenty of bacteria in Antarctica. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_microorganism

    John L
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I don't get why they say this. Where there is life, bacteria is there, first.

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    Yaz Cam
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are bacteria that thrive in extremely cold temperatures too. Where do they get these facts??

    Roxy Eastland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. Bacteria can live in clouds and down oil wells. I'm sure Antarctica isn't that much of a challenge

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    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But the air's very dry there so you don't really smell things that strongly.

    Krásnoočko
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not disputing the penguin smell but the musing about Antarctica being too cold for bacteria is such an utter b******t I can't even. The lab I work in literally samples and studies ALGAE that live and thrive in the Antarctic. (They have cool ice-binding proteins that prevent them from being torn by ice crystals from the inside, among other things!) Every cubic micrometre on Earth is full of life and especially bacteria and fungi are EVERYWHERE and can live on almost any energy source you can think of including goddamn rocks. I really hate the confidence with which these "facts" are stated, ugh.

    K R
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    psychrophilic bacteria

    Amy S
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Penguins poop every 15 minutes

    Linda van A.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the zoo you can always smell the penguins and there are a lot of bacteria there.

    Roxy Eastland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The smell off poo comes from the bacteria in it anyway

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    Ueda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends where. I went pretty inland and there was no smell at all (except mine of course).

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    #15

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver In the books, Stuart Little was never explicitly called a mouse. He's pretty much described as a deformed mouse-esque person born form human parents.

    Red_Beard47 , Movieclips Classic Trailers Report

    Phred
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IIRC, he wasn't explicitly born from human parents. He "arrived," though it's not said how.

    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Coincidentally that's what my parents said about me

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    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the books he's described as "looked very much like a rat / mouse in every way" so it's easier for us to just imagine a mouse/rat than a deformed mouse-esque person. xP especially since it IS a childrens book. But yes, he is in fact still a human.

    Siriusly Sirius
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The OG book cover shows him as a mouse rowing a wee boat... stuart-lit...0a2272.jpg stuart-little-book-62bc68e0a2272.jpg

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And in one of the sequels he hooks up with a tiny woman who doesn't resemble a mouse.

    Kathleen Pearlman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know - that scared the s**t out of me when I read it at first. I was like 13 years old. When people took the book out of the library, thinking it was like the cute movie, I warned them that Stuart was not what they thought.

    Boredpandahatesme
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Small mouse-like boy. Not an actual mouse.

    oddly_informed_raven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the doctor they take him to is "delighted to see someone have a mouse as a pet(paraphrased)"

    Telmo Belo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like Humpty Dumpty was never an egg

    Kristie Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cannot stand that story. Crreeepy.

    Nikki Kriaraki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always felt that the mom in that film was well and truly schizophrenic….she actually believes that this mouse is her son?

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    #16

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Only one in a thousand sea turtles born actually make it to adulthood.

    Sebs_123 , Daniel Chodusov Report

    RandomFrog
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My brother (he’s seven) learned that most turtles don’t make it to adult hood and he got so mad at birds for eating them (he loves Moana) and he had a full on life crisis about if he should hate birds or not and if we killed the birds (had to explain how the ecosystem/food chain works so he knew the implications of taking a species out) how that would effect the environment

    anarkzie
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's actually due to the activation of a gene that that takes effect just before they move into adulthood. This gene causes sea turtles to mutate becoming bipedal and to migrate inland, most will take up some form of martial arts you can find these Teenage Mutation Turtles living in the American sewer system.

    Deborah Harris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't believe I actually read your comment thinking oooh really .. til I got to the end lol

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    Deux
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you ever see hatchlings on the beach, DO NOT shine your phone light on them. They rely on the moonlight to make it into the water and your phone light will permanently destroy their eyes.

    Who Panda 420
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Florida the local power plant had a program for free at night they'd teach you about conservation then they'd take you on the beach to see a sea turtle lay it's eggs. They keep you at a respectable distance. That was years ago. Don't know if it's still done.

    Hugendubel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We said FUN Facts - not mere Facts-duh

    kelliewhyte_85
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It actually said "a fun fact that isn't so fun at all" I'd say this qualifies.

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    Betty Swallocks
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They really shouldn't have made them so delicious ! 😋

    Marek Čtrnáct
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen a conservation station in Sri Lanka. They take the eggs from the beach and keep the turtles for a few days after hatching before they are released to increase their chances. They let us hold a few 1-2 day old ones 🙂

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    #17

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver A Teratoma is a kind of tumor that can grow hair, teeth, or even eyes.

    TheBassMeister , Internet Archive Book Images Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some even run for... you know where I'm going with this!!!

    Kel_how
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Now, you are family. Okay. All my life, I had a lump at the back of my neck, right here. Always, a lump. Then I started menopause and the lump got bigger from the 'hormonees.' It started to grow. So I go to the doctor, and he did the bio... the b... the... the bios... the... b... the 'bobopsy.' Inside the lump he found teeth and a spinal cord. Yes. Inside the lump was my twin."

    Mere Cat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard of a case where a teratoma had - among other things - cancer cells. So basically a tumor that had a tumor. Cancer within cancer.

    JensenDK
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A teratoma isn't cancer it self. It is a benign tumor. And it is not your twin.

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    Doggo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just don’t go to Google images and look it up.

    Jerry Ryan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel bad for them but NOPE I'm not look nothing like that up

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    John L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank God, you didn't use a photograph. Nightmare, material. I am actually grateful (for once), for a "panda'ed" post.

    Solidhog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The common name is "politician"

    Paul Z.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some managers are living proof of that☝🏻🧐

    HarriMissesScotland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister just had a very large one removed. It was 8 inches long and weighed 12 pounds. I did not get to see it after it was removed, but the surgeon said it had hair and teeth. Because of the size, it could have been a twin. My grandmother had 2 sets of twins, back to back. I find them fascinating, but they are gross.

    Bradley Curthoys
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Classifying him as a tumour is an insult to tumours everywhere

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    #18

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Fun fact: the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction, but also the dodo. Giant tortoise meat was supposedly better tasting than chicken. Its fat tasted better spread on bread than butter. Also, it was the perfect food for sailors at the time, as their bladders stored 1 litre of purified water, and they could survive without food in hibernation for almost a whole year in the hull of a ship. Not to mention, because they evolved without humans, they were easy to hunt. You could tie one to your back, and roll another to the ship and they would just let you. It was so delicious, they went unrecorded for a long time because expeditions to bring living samples of wildlife to Europe kept eating them on the way. Conversely, the dodo, while as easily captured by sailors, tasted awful. It was completely unpalatable. HOWEVER, one day, someone discovered if you cooked dodo meat in the more delicious tortoise fat, it tasted just like chicken. So now, sailors were hunting a few tortoises at a time for their fat and water, storing them, and then hunting dodos on the daily. Overhunting, plus the introduction of rats to the environment (because sailors) which would eat eggs, led go the population to decline at a rate they could not breed to keep up, leading to both animals going extinct.

    Kyhan Report

    Corey Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "leading to both animals going extinct" You sure? What's in the picture then?

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, the dodo is extinct. I think the giant tortoise is extinct in the wild, one step away from joining the dodo

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    Laura Ketteridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction" No, no, no! This was most definitely not something giant tortoise were responsible for. They didn't ask to be eaten, and certainly not to extinction. It was humans all the way. Humans did this. Language is important. It was not the tortoise's fault.

    LeeBreezy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if the turtle wasnt meant to be eaten, why was it made out of food then? /j

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    Eat Dirt Crow
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They just re-released a Radiolab episode about the Galapagos tortoise and the impact of goats. Fascinating stuff.

    Cat Goodwin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's one of my fav episodes of radiolab - did you see the YouTube video of the helicopter going around shooting the goats?!

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    Anikulapo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did not know that about the dodo. How very interesting.

    Paul Davis
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Europeans kept sending ships to pick up these tortoises but they were so delicious most of the tortoises got eaten before the ship could return home.

    K Sarfo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even Charles Darwin had to have a few go's at bringing them all the way home without eating every one of them.

    LeeBreezy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i like all the comments saying "people suck" when the people eating the turtles were just hungry, like any normal human gets, and at the time the turtles were food. are we just hating humans for anything now? i get that the overhunting thing was extreme and its sad that the turtle is endangered now, but some people are acting as if people dont get hungry

    Josurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In case of tortoises the practice was even more gruesome: they kept them alive while cutting out parts to cook. So the meat would stay fresh for a longer time...

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    #19

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver There's a bird that feeds its younger offspring to the eldest. [FYI, roadrunner].

    Teacup_Cult , Kevin Gill Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cannibalism is more common than you may think in nature.

    Cody
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had a couple of non-fixed female cats when I was a kid, one of which wasn't in the best health and gave birth to a sickly litter. I remember being horrified when she ate some of her own kittens after they died.

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    Maryanna Baldridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I didn't know roadrunners ate meat until I saw one chasing a rabbit in my backyard. It was my rabbit. I chased the roadrunner and thus became a coyote.

    Janine B.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And did someone set a trap for you? 😎😂

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    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    According to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (one of the greatest organizations on earth!), this happens only during times of food stress. It makes sense, since otherwise none of them would survive.

    DuchessDegu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Staggered hatching. Owls and many other birds do it. The eggs hatch on different days so if there's a shortage of food, the younger, usually the weaker, gets eaten by its siblings

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know about "feeds", but there are quite a number of species where siblings will eat one another.

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Aww, who's my youngest chick?" "I am!....wait..."

    Alan Green
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of Tiger Sharks. The mother will have many fertilized eggs inside her but will only give birth to 1 or 2 young as the rest are eaten by the fittest before they're even born.

    Peej Maybe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chickens will also eat eggs and their own young. Most egg / chicken farmers have to enforce behaviour to stop them doing this. If you've ever thrown eggshells into a free-range chicken run and watched them greedily gobble up those shells, you'll definitely know about this

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    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Sloths sometimes mistake their arms for tree branches and fall to their [doom].

    Sarpe783 , Michael Culbertson Report

    LMW
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh maaannn!! I wish I never read this! 🤧

    Mihai Mara
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They fall to their doom with a boom. And then they are aliven't.

    LongCoolWomanInABlackDress
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    original word was deat*hs, if anyone was wondering.

    Joran Quinten
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sloths of Doom seems fitting this time though

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    gerry.garh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sloths are incredibly light, and unless they hit a rock with its head, they will survive. It happens all the time, I put back some in a tree trunk so can slowly climb back. Not to confuse with a sloth coming down to use the bathroom, they can do it only on the ground.

    Allen Lavine
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't write this so do kill me "We don’t know exactly where Douglas Adams got this information from when writing “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” but it is unfortunate and completely wrong. Sloths are actually very careful when they move about in the trees. Before they move, they need to be sure that the branch they are holding onto is strong enough to carry their weight. Also, their grip is incredibly strong (stronger than any human), and so they would probably notice if they grabbed onto their own arm! Sloths may not have big brains, but they are certainly not that slow-witted!"

    Hailey Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sloths falling from a tree isn't unusual, their bodies are designed to survive a fall and can even fall 100 ft and still survive. Infact when two male sloths are fighting over a female the aim is to knock the other one out if the tree.. must be a very slow fight haha. They're faster in water though! Sloths a really good swimmers and can swim 3 times faster than they can move on land :)

    tara
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Excuse me, I need to go wait under some trees.

    Susan Teter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well they are definitely not quick enough to try grabbing another branch.

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    #21

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver When North Koreans defect to the South, one of the biggest struggles reported by them is often how many English words there are in South Korea (like coffee being 커피/ko-pi) that they just do not recognise. That’s because South Korea takes a lot of linguistic influence from English speaking countries (namely the US), while North Korea creates new words based off Russian/pre-existing Korean words Not overly depressing in general, but you can never really count a fact about North Korea as ‘fun’.

    cosimascherry , Roman Harak Report

    BluEyedSeoulite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They basically have to relearn Korean. And since their accents will give them away, some find it hard living in SK and decide to locate to other countries. The linguistic aspect is super interesting to me, I wrote a paper about the differences between Pyongyang and Seoul accents in college. Extremely limited sources, understandably

    Megan O'Neill
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Interesting. I love linguistic differences like that. Is your paper available to read?

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    Marie Dahme
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And once they are repatriated to the South, defectors have said they felt that had crossed into the future. They have zero concept of the rest of the world. Many are driven to cross the Yemen river due to hunger. And once they are in China, they have to be careful of not getting caught or else china will send them back to North Korea to be sent to concentration camps or execution. If they are caught and sent to concentration camps, they take three generations of family along with the defector to the concentration camp. These people are terrorfied if they aren’t seen as being overly overly patriotic…they may be sent to jail. D factors once in China have to travel hundreds of miles with a broker all the way around to safety in Thailand. If they are caught in Laos they will also be sent back to North Korea. Once in Thailand they are sent to the South Korean embassy awaiting patriation. Even then because they can not function in modern society, they are housed in an education

    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ….center that teaches them how to use the bus, how to shop, how to get a job (because in North Korea the government tells you what job you are going to have) and they struggle learning that their governments Juche policy is all a lie. They are then taught the truth about the Korean War in that the North was really the aggressor and not the Imperalist American bastards (they are taught that at age five to say American bastards). Some North Korean defectors find this is overwhelming that feel their entire existence was a lie. Please read the book by Yeomi Park: In Order to live. And check out YouTube videos on the organization Liberty in North Korea. Thank you for reading my verbose montage.

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    Yurie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm a professional Korean linguist from South Korea and it is immensely easy how easy it is to tell a North Korean and other Koreans apart. Usually the Korean government supports them with classes but I can easily tell the difference between Chinese from Yanbian that speak Korean, North Korean, Korean Russians and South Korean

    Mary Leverett
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of my last gigs doing medical transcription, my all-time, hands-down FAVORITE doctor's notes to transcribe were by a doctor originally from Korea (he was a U. S. Naval officer at the time, so I presume he was originally from South Korea) - the man had THE most PERFECT diction, pace, enunciation, etc. Conversely, a civilian female doctor I transcribed for, another person from somewhere in Asia, drove me up the bloody wall, because SHE didn't use "period" as punctuation - no, for HER, it was "point". So I'm transcribing along, thinking she's giving a lab value - NOOOO-OOOOO, SHE'S ending a freakin' PARAGRAPH!!

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    #22

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.

    omegasix321 , Trump White House Archived Report

    Rage Of Aquarius II
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I accidently took 3 knives through TSA, but couldn't get a packet of clover seeds through customs 🙄

    Florencia Renedo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least nobody is smuggling bottled water...

    ArodTheHorrible
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They sure got my fingernail clippers and deodorant, though. Hooray for the false sense of security!

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every inspection I ever heard of had ludicrous failure rates like this.

    Mistiekim
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a smoker, I always got my lighter through in my carry on. The last trip I had they were mad about an almost empty can of hair mousse.

    j miller
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow...almost sounds like a legit reason to get rid of this department whose main job seems to be pissing people off and destroying personnel property!

    John L
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When your employment campaign starts with flyers on pizza boxes....., yes, I am serious.

    RJ
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But we all get to step into the nude-o-tron just the same.

    Cranky Pants
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do they come up with this statistic?

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    #23

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Otters look cute but are pretty vicious animals that often threaten their own family if food is scarce.

    Mephist0n , Dulup Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The one on the right is called Rayleigh.

    Jihana
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they rape baby seals to death. I wished I could unlearn that fact.

    Zophra
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy c**p. It's true! I was so hoping it was a myth. Ugh. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/otter-rape/

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    SerumSeven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes, there's no otter choice.

    Zophra
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I only threaten my own family if chocolate is scarce.

    David Beaulieu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They threaten them? Like "I'll turn this floating mass of otters around if you kids don't start hunting for food!"

    Iapetos
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they are rapists. (the males)

    Bret Sander
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From the family mustelidae, so related to stoats, badgers, and wolverines. All vicious predators. Otters are just cute predators.

    Samantha
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you ever seen a strategy? Also super cute. Like a squirrel and a ferret had a baby. I also thing badgers and wolverines are cute, but in a decidedly more threatening way.

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    Eriu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Much like hamsters - cute, fluffy but often cruel if their territory is endangered by other hamster. They kill and eat each other <3

    Peej Maybe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The late Terry Nutkins (nature TV presenter and author) lost several fingers to otters yet still loved them up until his death.

    zak
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The one on the left is Phoebe.

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    #24

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Alzheimer's disease can cause you to pass away since your brain will no longer be able to chew, swallow, breathe, etc.

    vickycthomas , Quinn Dombrowski Report

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many alzheimer and dementia patients end up dying from pneumonia and other infections. It becomes a quality of life issue and the medical care staff usually bring up DNRs and withholding medications (except pain killers) to let them pass peacefully. Alzheimers is rarely a COD on paperwork

    Deux
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to withhold food from a lady assigned to me. It was heartbreaking. Eventually couldn't swallow water and I could only gently wet her lips with it. I was the last person to wash her and brush her hair, she died an hour later. That messed me up for a bit, I lost 3 clients in 2 weeks. My line of work is heartbreaking in general.

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    David Rogers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My mother passed away in 1999 from Alzheimers. She was only 66. She started forgetting us around 1993. My father took care of her until he got cancer. I remember we were giving her some water to drink around 1995 or so and she would take a drink but would not swallow. She would open her mouth to say she didn't understand and all of the water would come back out. We had to put bread in a bowl of water and she would eat the bread but would not swallow. This went on for only a couple of days, then she started drinking again. My father sent her to live in a house with an RN and they took very good care of her until she died in 1999. My father never missed a day visiting her, even the days he had chemo he had to go sit with her for an hour each day until she died. My father beat his cancer and died in 2007. Sorry this got long. I wish I could find my mother's caretaker, she and her daughter were wonderful to my mother.

    KombatBunni
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My Nan passed from Alzheimer’s, and I remember my mother calling me to tell me that the nursing home had called her to let her know my Nan had reached the stage where she could no longer eat or swallow. It wasn’t long before I got a call the next morning at 1am from my mother telling me Nan had finally passed on. I felt so sad and yet so relieved that she had finally found peace. It’s an ugly disease and it robs so many people of a good life.

    Destiny Kruse
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandma was constantly afraid. She almost got my grandpa arrested after she started running and screaming down the street and told the police she didn't know who he was or why he was keeping her in his house.

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    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father had Alz.'s. I spent the last 30 days of his life with him, 24/7. It can also cause your personality to reverse itself. My dad was a kind soul who tried to kill me. I was his baby. Had my ex husband and a nurse not been with us, I would be dead. I was even on Oprah, discussing, with Gary Zukov, author of Seat of the Soul, my inability to deal with that situation. I had no problem with his attempt to kill me, but rather the aftermath. As soon as I got away from him, he realized what he had done. He started crying, asking my ex if I was OK, sobbing that he didn't mean it.He would never hurt his baby. George kept reassuring him that I was fine, and other than bruises around my neck, I was fine. It took me a few minutes to recover, and be able to talk. He died 23 years ago, and I still haven't mentally recovered knowing how badly he suffered when he realized he physically hurt me. Crying as I write this. I never went back home while he was in the hospital/nursing home as I lived 2

    HarriMissesScotland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hours away. I had to go back home to a doctor's appointment that I cancelled numerous times. He had a heart attack just after I left, but his stupid nurse called 911 even though he had a DNR. He did not want me there when he died. But in the end, I was, he just didn't know it. I then had a nervous breakdown, and moved to Scotland. A 3 year old named Leah, saved my life. She was a neighbor who I met the first day I was there,

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    Jill Bussey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No-one's brain can do that anyway. However, you may mean the signals from your brain telling you to chew, swallow, breathe will no longer be transmitted.

    Marie Dahme
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just a thought, please be kind to the elderly. One day, if you’re lucky enough you’ll get old too. I see horror stories of abused Alzheimer’s patients being abused in nursing homes. Many of it caught on video. It breaks my heart. The very young and the very old are vulnerable to abuse. If you are a nurse or a caregiver or a cna…. Please be compassionate with our loved ones.

    Jknbt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Alz kills when the part of the brain that controls breathing, respiration, and heart beat all disintegrate & die...

    Don't you wish you knew
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All I know is it's absolutely devasting to watch someone slowly succumb to this disease. I wish no one would ever have to experience this disease ever again.

    Ralph Watkins
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked with all kinds of dementia patients for years. Every single one is different. For many, they are still in there but lost underneath the disease. Many can still learn new things. They often come up with new meanings for common things. People in dementia units can come up with their own culture. And for the love of God, yes, they still feel pain. I've seen doctors try to do procedures on dementia patients while under the impression they won't feel it. Never tell an Alzheimer's patient that their spouse, parents, or other loved one has died. They could be dead 40 years but each time you tell them, it's like hearing it for the very first time.

    Jennifer Johnson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my grandma died from alzheimers. she spent over 12 years in a nursing home slowly getting worse. at the end she couldn't even swallow on her own or hold her head up. horrible way to go. and she was a teacher for 40ish years b4 that

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    #25

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver When you're four months pregnant, the baby starts to pee inside you.

    Beautiful-Card7976 , Jerry Lai Report

    Robert T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the hair on the baby's body can be digested by the baby and comes out as baby's first poo. See https://www.pampers.co.uk/newborn-baby/care/article/meconium

    HarriMissesScotland
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Baby elephants are covered in hair when they are born.

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    Party Poison (They/Them)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *Fetus, not baby. Especially now we should pay attention to terminology.

    Julie C Rose
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Supreme Court didn’t do what they did because a Lithuanian published the “wrong” word in their second language. Leave them alone.

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    Alma Muminovic
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s not pee as we know it, it’s amniotic fluid, basically the baby has it’s own eco system inside your belly and it practices breathing and peeing and using all the newly formed organs basically.

    digitalin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, you gather your own pee inside of you so it's not that different.

    James D
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they are born, are able to pee, poo and be sick on you if your unlucky enough as well

    Amy Taylor
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My youngest peed all over me after she was born, lol she was still attached to her umbilical cord!!

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    Judes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My eldest pooed before she was born when I was in labour. After she was born a pediatrician had to use a suction machine on her to make sure she didn't have poo inside her lungs. That's more disturbing that peeing!

    Janice Flynn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why is this of concern? Our own urine is always inside us.

    Sue
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, everything they've eaten was inside you to, so there's nothing new in you.

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    #26

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Malaria is the #1 cause for human [mortality] of all time.

    FlirtyFox69 , Katja Schulz Report

    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this post is referring to Sonia Shah's research, which found that malaria is most deadly infectious disease in history. That doesn't mean it's the leading cause of mortality. Heart disease is now responsible for almost 1/4 deaths in the US. Historically, heart disease was probably less likely to be the cause of death, but was definitely a leading cause of death even in the ancient world (we see signs of plaque build-up in Egyptian mummies).

    Wang Zhuang
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there could be an argument for malaria being the number 1 cause of global deaths historically, though not these days. It's certainly in the top 10 of all time, maybe even the top 5.

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    Walter Brameld
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Mortality" is a strong trigger word for me. I would prefer the word "death", please.

    Jknbt
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not so fun fact: the most deadly animal in the world that kills the most humans is the mosquito... not the hyena, water buffalo, hippo, elephant, etc, but the mosquito & the diseases it carries...

    Tarik Dursun Zorgulen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd argue this comes right after stupidity. I'd even go ahead and say most of them starts with the words, "nah, it'll be OK" or "check this out"

    Marie Dahme
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a philanthropy organization that gives people in malaria prone regions nets to cover their sleeping area at night. Saves hundreds of lives. Just wish I could remember what organization it was.

    Glasia van Duivels
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BP will see its death when I get forty years old for censoring simple common words like death

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    #27

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver In some regions of Australia, 90 percent of koalas have chlamydia, which poses a threat to the species' extinction unless a vaccine is created or widespread koala culling takes place.

    tiffanyjcruse , Klaus Report

    zak
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hopefully the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia Ward is helping 🤞

    stacyh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can’t tell you how happy I am you mentioned this.

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    Justme
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who gave them Chlamydia!?

    Wintermute
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was once and I was drunk! Don't judge!

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    Sue
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can they make Koala Kondoms?

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From what I understand, these cute fuzz buckets ar extremely dumb. Literally have smooth brains. Maybe mother nature is trying to do something...

    LongCoolWomanInABlackDress
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    Alice Teasdale
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except on Kangaroo Island, where they are an introduced pest with no chlamydia.

    Doge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks alot, Randy Marsh

    Audrey
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "a threat to the species' extinction" Please tell me the person who wrote that didn't get paid.

    Hugh Walter
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Threat OF the species extinction' a threat TO the species extinction would be a good thing!

    Sue Knerl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They can also pass this to humans.

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    #28

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Vending machines [are more lethal] than sharks [are].

    Ayothatsusboi , midorisyu Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've not yet seen a vending machine in the sea.

    J Baker
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This should read, "Humans are stupider than sharks are hungry."

    Darran
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good to know. Next time I’m scuba diving and see a vending machine, I’ll flag down the nearest shark and hitch a ride to relative safety.

    foofoofloofy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see nothing wrong with this plan. Everybody knows vending machines are creatures of the devil.

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    Lazy Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’ve encountered way more vending machines than sharks in my life, so the odds make sense.

    Niall Mac Iomera
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As ridiculous as the censorship is on this site, I understand where "are more lethal" comes from. But what got censored to "are"?

    donald ready
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Explaining why this is true is way more complicated than "we see more vending machines than sharks", and relies on fundamental processes, such as human stupidity and misplaced rage at inanimate objects failures. Sharks are usually only curious, and kill us through bloodloss thanks to a mouth full of razors that also doubles as its sense of touch. Think "playing with a cat with just your hand" but on a bigger, life threatening scale. Far more often than sharks get curious about what we are, we find people angry at a jammed vending machine that think rocking it will get back their dollar. Small footprint, tall build, high weight....easy to topple, hard to catch without being crushed. The vending machine kills more people because there's way more stupid and angry people on land than there are sharks stealing cash in the water from people with no plan wearing scuba gear.

    Bryn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's like saying "people are killed more by cars than they are by submarines" there are more cars around humans than submarines.

    penguin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this sentence would also make sense without "[" and "]", so why use it?

    Matthew Daniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because it said kill or dead or some other horrific word that can't be uttered. Feel free to post a picture of a gun though. Who could a gun hurt?

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    M. William Bell
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What the [hell] is going on with the [random] brackets. If this is your post, can't you just write clearly rather than editing to add context?

    Kristin Ingersoll
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You do realize that the writers aren't the ones doing the brackets and the censorship? Maybe not. The writers aren't the ones doing the brackets and the censorship.

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    #29

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver A gamma ray burst could [unalive] everyone on Earth within a few seconds and because it's just a beam of light coming from space, nobody would find out until we would be cooked.

    Majoishere , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Radiation, not light. And it will terminate you and every other living thing.

    BoredHistorian
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm reaaally starting to hate the word "unalive".

    Andrei Stanescu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the best way to hide generational genocides is by giving them a cute name.

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    Kind Pegasus 95
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Unalive”? This censoring is ridiculous beyond belief

    Glasia van Duivels
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The censorers have exposed themselves with too much blue, purple and UV light

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    Hill Branda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why not just say "wipe out" or "eliminate" rather "unalive?"

    go away censors
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    gasp! bored panda please censor this my tiny little heart almost had an attack looking at this scary trigger word.

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    Henrik Schmidt
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unalive? What? Is "kill" a bad word now?

    juice
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    advertisers don't like "controversial words". BP likes ad money.

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    Mihai Mara
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember when that movie came out years ago, Unalive Bill, with Uma Thurman.

    Kusotare
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably not the worst way to go.

    Kiwi Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At this point, in the US, I would welcome it.

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    E B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, and no warning because we can't perceive it until it's happening! Though it might just unalive everyone on one side of the planet, depending on the duration...

    donald ready
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope. Radiation on that scale wouldn't even know the planet was in the way. Everyone within its "beam" cooks, on any side of the planet.

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    Heather Pobicki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm being triggered by the censoring. Maybe that will counteract the people who were triggered by the language originally.

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    #30

    Person Asks “What’s A ‘Fun Fact’ That Isn’t Fun At All?” And 30 Folks Deliver Clowns make $30/h on average. Who is the real clown? In spite of the comments disbelieving that clowns can get work on weekdays I may just get one for my Monday D&D group now.

    Alexastria , timlewisnm Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any coulrophobics about?

    Deborah Harris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you think they'd stay around to answer you? :D

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    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being a clown requires a lot of self-promotion. Also, as the post alludes to, this is generally a job where it would be unusual to work more than 10 hours a week.

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know of a clown who earns around £164,080 annually. >.> His name is Mr Bojo

    Paul Davis
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is weird since the last study I saw showed that almost no children like clowns. It always seemed to be a thing propagated by adults who just assume children love clowns.

    HarriMissesScotland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most professional circus clowns work everyday of the week, except in Winter Quarters, which are, of course, in Florida. I was married to a Ringling clown for 13 years.

    Marie Dahme
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clowns are just really creepy looking. And after I saw a Netflix special about John Wayne Gacy who was also a clown on the side, the creep factor just amplified.

    Amy Taylor
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real clowns made note of how his trademark clown face had a lot of sharp edges in the design, something that alarmed them, because they always stay away from anything that looks like that. They all do rounded edges on the mouth. I thought that was interesting!

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    Gabrielle Russell
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I clearly need to reconsider my current direction in life

    Aubrie Allen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's probably hard to get a 40 hours per work clown gig.

    Steve Riddle
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember seeing creepy winos who were Clowns at the California State Fair in the 1950's. It's something sick you can't forget.

    HarriMissesScotland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were cani clowns, short for carnival. Circus people and Carnis hate each other. As with everything in life, there is an hierarchy. Carnival workers are the lowest of the low. NOT MY OPINION. Their fights go back for centuries!

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    Rob Engel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That clown rolled chaotic good ....

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