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50 Unsettling Facts To Think About When You Won’t Be Able To Fall Asleep At 3 A.M.
Sometimes, the world isn't cute, clever, or quirky—it's genuinely terrifying. That's the feeling Threads user Shady_ET tapped into when they asked for facts that weren't just interesting but also downright scary.
What followed was a flood of 1,800+ replies, with people sharing everything from scientific discoveries to corporate secrets and bizarre everyday phenomena.
So in order to save you some time, we went through the discussion and put together a list of the most memorable entries that hit harder than cheap jump scares.
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#1
You can be convicted of 34 felonies and still become president.
Renay T 3 months ago
Kim Jong makes his people starve so badly they turn to cannibalism. African warlords slaughter people daily. Israel's president is just Trump with genocide.
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Nice to know that being a sexual assaulter of women will not hold back your political career.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
And after inciting a mob and trying to overturn a legal election.
Megalodon Meg 3 months ago
The words you're looking for are inciting domestic t e r r o r i s m
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Just me, Happy Flower 3 months ago
But it will be nearly impossible for a regular person get job w only 1felony
Upstaged75 3 months ago
I guess I was naive but I truly thought it wasn't going to happen. I really hoped we were better than that. Sadly I was wrong.
kissmychakram 3 months ago
Lot of people in the comments ignoring the "convicted" part. I'm sure many may have committed them, but taken to trial and found guilty is another thing.
Earonn - 3 months ago
he was found guilty. And I bet people would have been way less forgiving if it had been Obama. Rich white guy bonus still works.
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Abby Louise Rexroth 3 months ago
Yeah well, they had a brain-dead puppet pretending to be president from 2020-24...
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#2
Approximately 75% of women ki**led by their ab**ers are m**dered when they try to leave or after they have left the relationship. This makes leaving an abusive relationship a particularly dangerous time for women. The most dangerous time for a woman in an a**sive relationship is when she attempts to leave or has just left. And people are still going on with the "if it was so bad why didn't she just leave??" Bulls**t!
Louisa Mary Leonard 3 months ago
I called a woman's refuge. The first question is can you go to family or friend as we don't want to take you if you can. I only took this option as my family was over 2 hours drive away from my a****r, otherwise I would have said no, the police decided that the travel time would be enough for him to calm down and not want to hurt me.
amy lee 3 months ago
Big hugs. You've done so well to get away. So brave, totally full of admiration for you. I hope you're healing.
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Shark Lady 3 months ago
Also when they are pregnant, one of the biggest causes of maternal death is a*****t by their partner.
Mabelbabel 3 months ago
And midwives get specific training in recognising it because of that fact. In the UK, most pregnancies are midwife-led, and at the antenatal clinics, the staff will actively enquire about safety. There's a system of different coloured specimen containers, so that when a woman goes to the bathroom to give a urine sample, there's a notice saying that if she wants to speak to a midwife in confidence, to use a specific coloured cup and the midwife will then ask the woman's partner to leave the room. Something like 40% of cases of domestic vìolence start during pregnancy.
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Emily Phillips 3 months ago
Separation abuse is real!!! Almost 2 years later and im still struggling with it. Police wont do anything
Pengie 3 months ago
A buser is censored now as well? This is getting as out of hand as the pop ups
JoMeBee 3 months ago
I don't understand why BP keeps picking these topics if they're going to censor half the responses! Of course there's gonna be some unpleasant content!! SMH...
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Emilu 3 months ago
I don't specifically work in the family violence sector, but I work with a lot of FV victim-survivors and these stats are sadly true, as is the common question of "why don't you just leave?" If it was truly that easy to just leave, do you think anyone in their right mind would be staying? It's not like people stay in @busive relationships for fun.
Panda Kicki 3 months ago
You keep hoping he will find someone else and leave you. Which is actually pretty horrible as thst only means one victim is replaced with another.But you can get so tired spending every day walking on eggshells and wondering if today is the day he will snap and k**l you.
Jenny 3 months ago
Non-fatal strangulation in a DV situation is an indicator that your ab user may well go on and do far worse to you.
Emilu 3 months ago (edited)
Yep. There's been studies on this. Also a reason why most offenders for non-fatal strangulation here get slapped with 3+ years IVO as a minimum, five on average. (Seen life in extenuating circumstances).
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Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
It's been over 7 years and my ex is still threatening me. The cops say he isn't a threat. He had multiple DV arrests which his ex wife decided not to tell me about. She's not a good person. I am not a cop caller generally because Aurora PD (Elijah McClain) doesnt gaf.
Over the past decade, three researchers from Chapman University have explored the psyche of America, uncovering the top fears that haunt the nation. In 2024, the biggest ones were:
- Corrupt Government Officials (65.2% very afraid or afraid)
- People I Love Becoming Seriously Ill (58.4%)
- Cyberterrorism (58.3%)
- People I Love Dying (57.8%)
- Russia Using Nuclear Weapons (55.8%)
- Not Having Enough Money for the Future (55.7%)
- U.S. Becoming Involved in Another World War (55.0%, tied)
- North Korea Using Nuclear Weapons (55.0%, tied)
- Terrorist Attack (52.7%)
- Biological Warfare (52.5%)
#3
Idk, the older I get the more I’m horrified by this simple truth: It doesn’t have to be this way.
Humans (if only a few whom have hoarded wealth and power amongst themselves) have chosen to make the world the way it is.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
Anne Roberts 3 months ago (edited)
I have always voted but I really got into politics since Trump became president. He is so arrogant and vengeful that I can't understand many/most of his actions. It worries me that my grandchildren have to grow up. under his regime
KatWitch57 3 months ago
Wealthy and power-full people have a vested interest in keeping a percentage of the population poor and needy, in order to create a class of people who will have to work for little, in order to maintain the profits which enable the wealthy lifestyle. Criminals will exploit this in an attempt to move from the former group to the latter. We live in a society which values greed and opportunism above the concept of humanity. We are going the same way as ancient Rome.
Susan Raskin 3 months ago
Amen. Greed and egos are ruling us. we have to stand up against them
#4
40 million people worldwide are trapped in modern slavery right now including forced labor, human trafficking, and sexual exploitation. Many are children. And the clothes, electronics, and food we use daily are often linked to that suffering.
iseefractals 3 months ago
Outdated, it's actually 50 million people, and where are these majority of these incidents taking place? North Korea, India, China, the middle east and throughout most of Africa. Electronics, clothing, agriculture, mineral fertilizers, mining, chocolate, coffee....pretty much everything. Ever bought peeled, or pre-minced garlic? Most of it comes from china. There was an expose a few years ago covering garlic, where prisoners and outright slaves are forced to peel it by hand in such large quantities that their fingernails fall off. And no, the fact that they have bloody nubs doesn't prevent them from being forced to continue handling food.
Nils Skirnir 3 months ago
US has forced prison labor too and the highest incarceration rates in the world. Plus is a prime destination for trafficked people. Doesn’t excuse the others, but should be included in any discussion
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According to the researchers on the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, the nation's number one fear in 2024 was corrupt government officials, but this isn't anything new: it's topped the study every year since 2015.
"Fear of corrupt government officials, that's always up there," says Christopher Bader, professor of sociology and the lead investigator on the project. "We think that is reflecting an overall sense amongst people, regardless of political affiliation, that the government is just not working, it is corrupt."
#5
More pregnant women die of homicide than any thing else.
Miss Ann Thrope 3 months ago
True. The number one cause of death of pregnant women is being killed by their partner.
Ace 3 months ago
In the USA. Not true for the rest of the world. Read into that whatever you like.
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FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago (edited)
The leading cause of death of a pregnant person is hemorrhage (25%), in developed counties with access to healthcare most countries the leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease, in the UK it's thrombosis. Only the US, and only very few areas the rate of homicide, s*****e and d**g o******e as a group are the leading cause. The study that had the leading leading cause as homicide was from NY from '87-91, the closest area to repeat that was Philadelphia in 2014 a Philadelphia study of 42 pregnancy-associated deaths from 2010 to 2014, 13 (30.1%) were from unintentional injuries, 18 (42%) from d**g o******e, 8 (19%) from homicide, and 3 (7%) from s*****e. So this "fact" was never true broadly and isn't true now. WHO and NIH
Onan Hag All 3 months ago (edited)
PLEASE! In the civilised world this does not happen. This statistic only applies to third world countries like the USA. Thrombosis and thromboembolism was the leading cause of maternal death in the UK in 2021-23 during or up to six weeks after the end of pregnancy. Cardiac disease was the second most common cause of maternal death followed by COVID-19.
iseefractals 3 months ago
Findings show that over the 18-year period, 20,421 pregnant people died. Of that number, 11 percent (2,293) of deaths were due to homicide and s*****e. More specifically, 61 percent (1,407) of those deaths were the result of homicides and 39 percent (886) were the result of death by s*****e. Fifty-five percent of violent deaths (1,261) involved firearms. https://www.smfm.org/news/new-national-study-finds-homicide-and-s*****e-is-the-1-cause-of-maternal-death-in-the-us So that works out to 6.8% of deaths being attributed to homicides (4.2% from s*****e ) Which actually includes pregnancy AND the first 44 days AFTER giving birth.The way the claim is being presented makes it seem like half of all pregnant women are being m******d.
Wysteria_Rose 3 months ago
I've read so many true crime stories where a woman's pregnancy ATTRACTS her would-be k*ller. When I'm pregnant, I am not meeting ANYONE ANYWHERE.
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
...from their partners. The second most dangerous time in a woman's life is when she's pregnant.
#6
There are more wars going on in the world than you think. Most people are occupied with Ukraine or Syria; but there are at least 20 to 30 armed conflicts going on at any particular time. The only continent that does have an active war going on is Australia.
Rori McKenzie 3 months ago
I think the last sentence is incorrect...isn't it missing the word "not"
TMac 3 months ago
You really have to stretch to say North America has an active war. Mexico and Haiti have d**g wars and instability, but not "war" in the traditional sense. You could say that the U.S. has a trade-war with Canada, but that's also not the normal definition. And Antartica isn't at war.
Son of Philosoraptor 3 months ago
And I hate to tell the fashionable protestors,but Gaza is a drop in the bucket of human suffering compared to say, Sudan. Or the former Assad regime's horrors. But no Jews no news right?
#7
That little twitch, the feeling that you fall, when you’re just about to fall asleep? Sleep myoclonus. The natural way of your body to find out if you’re falling asleep or dying.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Myoclonic jerk. So annoying when you're actually just trying to sleep and are not actively dying.
Ace 3 months ago
Not really. Myoclonus is a broad term describing lots of involuntary muscle spasms. This particular one is known as Hypnic Jerk. There are a few theories, one of which is that it's s reaction to a sensation of falling so the body wakes up to prevent this. I suspect this post has taken that idea and twisted it to reach this erroneous conclusion.
UKGrandad 3 months ago (edited)
The most convincing theory I've heard is that it's a hold over from our primate past similar to a new-born's grip reflex. In common with modern primates, the young of our tree-dwelling ancestors would keep a hold on its mother's fur when sleeping, and if it felt itself slipping it would instinctively grip harder to prevent falling from the tree. The ones who didn't develop the instinct would likely not survive childhood so through time the instinct became hard-wired.
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azubi 3 months ago
Does anyone else have their body calling out "but now I gotta peeeee!" the moment you fall asleep?
Shark Lady 3 months ago
I have exploding head syndrome. Just as I'm falling asleep I hear a really loud bang in my hesd and my whole body has a massive spasm.
Emilu 3 months ago
I had one in the car when Mum and I were doing a road trip where I almost punched the windscreen. Mum freaked out. (Sorry Mum 😆)
Emilu 3 months ago
Umm, no, @Verena, I don't keep my feet on the dashboard because that would be stupid. I leant as forward as my seatbelt would allow -- as I was falling asleep at the time -- and suddenly twitched and lashed out with my hand. Never have and never will put my feet on the dash, but thanks for the concern.
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chunky hoey 3 months ago
F**k sake if we're end up dying then we wouldn't able tell will we doh
Israel Martinez 3 months ago
Ironically, the best and only way I know I'm about to fall asleep and let it happen ...
While people are perennially concerned about not having enough money, the fear of economic collapse—last year's number two fear—has dropped out of the top 10 list. However, fear of cyberterrorism has grown by 9%, moving it into third position in the rankings.
While the study demonstrates how American fears rise and fall due to current events, it sometimes shows the opposite—that what people fear doesn't always reflect reality.
This disparity is glaringly obvious when it comes to crime.
"The vast majority of our respondents said that crime rates are rising dramatically, and they're just wrong,” says Bader.
#8
There’s a house in my neighbourhood just on the other side of the road and downhill from a cemetery, and the occupants noticed that this weird greasy stuff was on the walls in the basement.
Y’know what it was?
Fat from 170 years of burials, seeping into the ground and running downhill.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
Make the best of it and use it to make natural soap. Label it as organic and charge more.
azubi 3 months ago
Or even small labels wirh the history of the deceased.
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Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
A corpse's fat by any other name... would still make me vom.
Load More Replies... Justbecause 3 months ago
Yep never live down hill or down stream from a cemetery, even modern cemeteries will leach embalming chemicals into the soil.
Anne Roberts 3 months ago (edited)
So, the way to a green lawn is to bury some dead bodies in it,? Just do it at night so the neighbors won't know and get jealous of your lawn. 😁
Cara Vinson 3 months ago
On a much huger scale, an entire valley was this way from all of the people killed and thrown into the mountiains by Gengis Kahn
#9
Pepsi won a lawsuit against a person claiming to have found a rat or mouse in their can of Mtn Dew because they proved that it would have dissolved by the time it reached the consumer.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
Zero. Mtn Dew comes in multiple colors and flavors now!
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Urbangirlatl 3 months ago
One common usage for Coke is to clean corroded battery terminals.
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 3 months ago
Root canal #2 for a tooth resulted in my owning a spare gold crown and the dentist let me take it home. I wanted to try dissolving the toothy bits with soda. I put it in a 2-liter bottle of Sprite, set it in a corner and forgot about it. 2-3 months later, I saw my new GF about to pour herself a glass of Sprite. "Honey? Maybe a different bottle would be good." But sure enough, the Sprite had not only dissolved the remaining bits of tooth but the adhesive let go, leaving me with a fortune of about $10 worth of gold.
Amanda the Panda 3 months ago
Google has been invented. OP should do his homework. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mountain-ewww/
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago (edited)
I read your link and the great big "Rating: True" jumped out at me. You should read it.
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Jayeff Vee 3 months ago
If the creature would have dissolved by the time the bottle reached the consumer, I wonder how many mice/bottles have gone unnoticed?
chunky hoey 3 months ago
Dissolved by the time it gets to the person. Who drinks it?! TF! That's poisoning!! The person will be dead already then Pepsi will be F****D!!
Sally Moen 3 months ago
Welp, good to know I don't have to worry about a mouse in my soda. What I can't see doesn't worry me, right?
Tina Girard 3 months ago
my understanding is that soda companies have to replace their factory floors quite frequently due to corrosion
#10
PMP cancer,the type I have and Audrey Hepburn died of, produces a jelly like mucus that fills your internal spaces and squeezes your organs, like your stomach, till you can't eat enough and die from starvation.
Cara Vinson 3 months ago
That’s right up there with cutaneous lymphoma where you itch uncontrollably all the time everywhere, and your skin is awful and your hair comes out. Very little relief for these unfortunate people.
chunky hoey 3 months ago
That sound horrifying and disturbing!! A squeeze stomach sound rather painful just like your head squeeze like jelly....BOOM!!
This phenomenon is well documented. For example, FBI data has shown the nation's crime rate declined over the past three decades, but over half of Americans have said they believe there is more crime than the year before in nearly every Gallup survey conducted since 1993.
One of the reasons for this misperception is an increased dependence on social media and news sites that rely on page views and engagement for revenue. Articles with attention-grabbing headlines are more likely to be shared, and a flood of dire warnings keeps readers glued to their phones doomscrolling.
#11
There’s a rare medical condition called “locked-in syndrome” where a person is fully conscious and aware of everything happening around them, but completely unable to move or speak. They can hear conversations, feel pain, and even understand when doctors pronounce them “vegetative,” but they can only communicate through tiny eye movements, if anyone even notices.
Powerful Katrinka 3 months ago
I spent 5 days in the ICU because my sodium levels were too low. I asked why they couldn’t just raise them up quickly. The doctor looked at me and said, “There’s a high probability of brain damage if we do that, possibly leading to locked in syndrome.” I told him the slower the better, as far as I was concerned.
Nils Skirnir 3 months ago
Research indicates that after one dies, one can still hear and still has some cognition for a bit
chunky hoey 3 months ago (edited)
This is just sound like the horror movie "Jane Doe".....Where the corpse looked like a corpse but she's ALIVE inside. But she used her psyche to killed the examiners!!
Shingo Murata 3 months ago
My brother got a rare muscle disorder. at times, he can just freeze. unable to move for a few minutes up to an hour, first time it happened I was there, it was scary as hell, he could only move a finger to communicate with us, took 5-10 minutes but felt forever. since then he learned what may cause this and how to prevent or know it's coming.
Patti Bulldog 3 months ago
I'm in the middle of listening to the Blink podcast about this...awesome
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
I worked with this type of patient and it is sort of horrifying. But that's because of an assumption we all make - that the patient isn't happy in that state. We don't really know that. On the inside they may be running across an eternal field of posies and dark chocolate.
#12
If a pregnant woman dies, the corpse can still give birth. the build-up of gas during decomposition can force the fetus out of the body postmortem, a phenomenon known as "coffin birth."
JB 3 months ago
I'm going to take your gross fact and give a sweet and sad one in it's place: a friend I used to play with in band class died in a car accident when she was nine months pregnant. They wrapped the baby in her arms when they buried them together.
Adrian 3 months ago
If the woman has started to decay, the fetus will be long dead and there would be no point.
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Jon Lee 3 months ago
A programme in the UK called History Cold Case featured this. A woman from Roman times was found in a burial with 3 foetus skeletons, one in her arms, one between her legs and one in her abdomen. They worked out that she was pregnant with triplets. They surmised that the first was born but died and she died trying to deliver the second one, which was later a coffin birth. The third remaining undelivered.
#13
Alzheimer's starts working in your body decades before you start to show symptoms. By the time you know you have it, it's already been too late.
Sunshine 3 months ago
So, let's pretend that it is caught near the beginning for some weird reason--is there something that can be done at that stage to prevent it from becoming worse? A medication or something?
Auntriarch 3 months ago
So far medication only delays it, and not by a huge amount
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웅장한 거북이 🇰🇷🇰🇭 3 months ago
Even if you would notice at a very young age it is still not much that can be done
#14
Parrots express their love for you by regurgitating food for you like they would for a mate that was stuck nesting or for a young baby. Every pet owner that has ever been truly loved by a parrot has been intentionally barfed on...we just don't talk about it...
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Nah, cats do that out of spite. That's why they always find the perfect place on the carpet. 😂
Load More Replies... Emilu 3 months ago
This is more likely to happen if you pet your bird on the back/tail which they will see as sexual. Regurgitation (looks different to vomiting because they're ill etc) means that they're attracted to you, which, especially for female birds isn't a good thing as it makes them more likely to lay eggs (and experience the risks associated with doing that such as egg-binding).
Saltypepper 3 months ago
When i was a kid my god father had a pperritkeet that did this quite often...
#15
Okay, but you'll regret it.
Most morgue workers are women, the reason...is exactly what you think it is.
Falafal salad 3 months ago
Ah, my poor innocent mind immediately thought because women are tougher and men are more scared of dead bodies…then I read the comments 😧
Shadow Phillips 3 months ago
part of the reason so many female mummies in Egypt are in such c**p condition, is because while men were sent immediately to mummification females were kept until they were visibly decaying to keep this from happening.
BrunoVI 3 months ago
Absolutely false. In fact, the opposite is true. Until recently, it was very rare to find women at all in the field. Forensic pathologists are 79% male. Women who work in funeral homes, mortuaries, etc., usually are customer-facing.
Jean Novotny 3 months ago
But the fact still remains that way more men than women in that field do ..... gross things.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 3 months ago
This is a commonly spread internet myth. There are no firm statistics to back it up. The only figures that I can find suggest that women are poorly represented in this industry.
Boris Long-Johnson 3 months ago
Don’t be unreasonable! This is BP gòd forbid the authors are asked to cite their sources of misandry!
Load More Replies... Mabelbabel 3 months ago
The titles are different in different countries, but in the UK, a mortician is a funeral director, and a morgue worker is someone who assists pathologists during autopsies, and receives the deceased patients in the mortuary (we don't really use the word morgue) and hands them over to funeral directors. These days, mortuary staff are called anatomical pathology technicians (APTs) or MTOs (mortuary technical officers). I'm a pathologist, we have 9 APTs in the mortuary and 7 of them, including the manager, are female. The two oldest are men, and in the last 10 years, we've only had female applicants for training posts. So its not that we don't appoint men, its that they are less interested in applying for the job. Anecdotal, obviously, but there's definitely a sea change in staffing.
Kira Okah 3 months ago
Yeah, this is not true. Most morticians are men. https://www.zippia.com/mortician-jobs/demographics/ Women also defile dead bodies in this manner, the most well known woman necrophile was a morgue worker.
FreeTheUnicorn 3 months ago
Morticians don't work at the morgue. Latin roots make it confusing. Morticians work at a funeral home, morgue workers work for the municipality.
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Tonja Jackson 3 months ago (edited)
OK. Even though the above statement probably isn't true, death work is still heavily dominated by men BUT more women ARE getting into the field. When I majored in Criminal Justice and had to do a paper in my psychology class, I wanted it to cover both psychology and criminal justice plus I didn't want to do a paper like everyone else (dv, childhood development, etc.), so I wrote my paper on necrophilia. I live in the land of Bundy and Ridgeway...serial killers galore up here in the PNW, and both of those men were necrophiliacs. I had to do so much research on this and what I discovered was that necrophilia is one of the most underreported crimes out there (who is going to report it? Unless they are caught in the act, the victim isn't saying anything) and it's one of the reasons that there now so many cameras in funeral homes and morgues. I was failing that psychology class, but the teacher gave me an A+ for that paper, bringing my average up to a C, thus passing the class.
BrunoVI 3 months ago
OK... you may be right about that one. I'll admit in bio class, it was nearly an overwhelming urge to make the frog sing, "Hello, my ragtime gaaal..." Then again, it was a girl who dressed them up in make-up and little hand-made wigs.
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We are most likely past the point of no return with climate change and every year will get hotter and hotter as more permafrost melts releasing millenia old greenhouse gasses and more and more forests burn releasing the carbon they had captured in their lifetime.
We are in "silver bullet" territory.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Hey everyone: /s means the poster is being sarcastic. Don't be stupid and downvote them. 🙄
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Boris Long-Johnson 3 months ago (edited)
Anything any individual does is p1ssing in the wind especially when the US military on its own has a bigger footprint than many countries. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/12/12/elephant-in-the-room-the-us-militarys-devastating-carbon-footprint Enjoy your gas guzzler and tell eco wänks to bolt! We’re all beefed - may as well enjoy the ride.
Son of Philosoraptor 3 months ago
One rich person taking their jet across the Atlantic is like you driving three times around the world. Make sure you get a hybrid! Rich people gotta rich!
Load More Replies... Tina Girard 3 months ago
People may not believe in climate change, but yeah, that doesn't stop climate change. Denial never works when you have a problem. They could be sitting amidst the ruin their home and still blame chem trails.
Pieter LeGrande 1 month ago
People don't believe in climate change? why not - the climate has been changing for billions of years. You might argue about causes, but the change is demonstrably real and needs to be catered to.
Load More Replies... Cuppa tea? 3 months ago
I'm on the same page here. Even if from tomorrow the whole world will switch to non policing energy source, cars, etc, the climate change will continue for years if not decades to notice any deviation from current trend. We had it good, but we wasted it.
XenoMurph 3 months ago
We know this. But all the species that will go extinct, and all the people who will die, MATTER. Smugly proclaiming that the rocks will still exist won't stop millions of people from Bangladesh having to move, becoming homeless and destitute. Won't stop hundreds of thousands of people dying from heat stroke. Won't stop food shortages and unaffordable staple crops because of desertification. WE KNOW the world has been hotter and colder before. But it's rarely happened this fast, and when it does thousands of species go extinct. That's horrifying, and pretending you are above it all just makes you an a*****e.
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#17
Prions cannot be k**led by sterilization. If we had a suspected case of CJD or another prion disease, we always had to use disposable tools. -former death industry worker.
Inori 3 months ago
Operating theatre nurse here in Australia. If we do brain surgery on someone with or suspected with CJD, we take those (very expensive) instruments out of circulation and put a label on it so that only this patient can use this set of instruments from now on. If they died, the instruments get disposed of.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
Technically, prions can't be kiIIed at all. They're not alive, they are a 'misfolded protein.'
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 3 months ago
Someone here is downvoting statements challenging the factuality of the post without providing superior argument. Ye clandestine down-voter, I command you, show yourself! P.S. I have neutralised all the downvotes. 😀
🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 3 months ago
Proteins are denatured by heat, I’m sure there’s a firm if thermal sterilization out there that would work.
Patsy Robins 3 months ago
Not so far. But the majority of surgical instruments in developed countries are disposable these days anyway.
Load More Replies... tom (bat/man) 3 months ago
Class b autoclaves at 134 degrees and durations longer than 18 minutes should do the trick
#18
There's a disease called CTE, but it can only be diagnosed after you're already dead via autopsy. CTE or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, is a degenerative brain disease that can be triggered by mass amounts of head trauma, like reoccurring concussions, brain damage, or traumatic brain injuries. Your brains ventricles slowly grows as both the white and grey matter of your brain degenerates, causing severe personality changes, among other severe symptoms.
JkNuss 3 months ago
And this is why I would never let someone I love play football or hit the ball in soccer with their head nope - also helmet helmet helmet and properly secured for other sports including just riding your bike on the sidewalk
Martin Lawson 3 months ago
Once they turn 18, it’s not your decision anymore..
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Loudawg76 3 months ago
Rugby players are highly susceptible. There are links to early onset of dementia as well if I remember correctly
웅장한 거북이 🇰🇷🇰🇭 3 months ago
Getting constantly hit on the head is bad for your brain, who would have thought....
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
There was an Australian drama on tv a little while ago where the main character has it. There are so many ex-football (of many versions of football) that have it. Most are involved in research studies to try and find ways to prevent it. Many codes of football are bringing in different rules to try to prevent it too.
Hetal Vyas 3 months ago
Watch the film Concussion with Will Smith. He plays the doctor who discovered the connection of traumatic brain injury and American football
Faye Bosworth 3 months ago
Dont they think that the american footballer that killed someone.. it was a netflix documentary.. latino name i think.. had this condition? In sure i read they thought he might.
#19
Your perception of yourself and who you are is never fact. You will always be perceived differently even by loved ones. Nobody actually knows who you are exactly.
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
I would argue your perception of yourself is the closest to reality, in some ways - only you know your intentions. BUT I hope I'm wrong because I'm meaner to myself than anyone else on Earth (so far)
David Clark 3 months ago
Flip side of the coin is that you are in fact the only person who knows who they are and everyone else's perception of you is their perception. The only person who actually knows a person is the person. After all, it is a person's own consciousness that creates that person and all the people a person meets will have an their view on a person, an opinion if you will. So this post is bollocks
#20
Turkey vultures bury themselves in carrion. Their heads are bald so they can slide in there more effectively. They projectile vomit gastric juices as strong as battery acid up to 10 feet to deter predators.
MsPlants 3 months ago
they dont bury themselves in it... there heads are bald because they have to reach inside with there head to reach what they want to eat with there beak as they dont have hands to grab with and having a bald head is more sanitary. They vomit if a preditor comes after them right after they have eaten as they are usually very heavy so its for 2 purposes, 1. for making them lighter for taking of from the ground which is harder to do and 2. the stuff they just ate will hopefully distract whatever was after them long enough for them to get away. Source is I taught at zoos.
Shark Lady 3 months ago (edited)
The vulture eats between his meals, and that's the reason why He very very rarely feels as well as you or I. His eye is dull his head is bald, his neck is growing thinner, oh what a lesson for us all to only eat at dinner. Thought I would lighten the mood a bit!
#21
Tarantula hawk wasps have a unique breeding method that caused Darwin to have a crisis of faith and question the existence of a benevolent god! They inject a tarantula with a paralytic and drag it off to their burrow where they proceed to lay their eggs inside of the still alive tarantula. When the little parasites are born they proceed to eat the still living tarantula from the inside out, making sure to avoid any vitals until finally the tarantula mercifully dies and they burst out of the husk.
Pyla 3 months ago
Trying to reconcile a deliberate act of god and evolutionary dead-ends and wins is a fools game. No wonder he had migraines
Gail fox 3 months ago
Right on……..just look at what humans do to each other
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Rebecca O’Donnell 3 months ago
Upvote for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reference!
Load More Replies... CooperDooper81 3 months ago (edited)
There's a wasp in Australia that does this. I watched one take on a huntsman. They inject a paralytic agent that works very, very quickly then drag it off to their burrow. Sometimes, if it's too big to pull into the burrow, they Rio it's legs off first. It's alive and paralysed being an incubator for about a week. It's beyond horrific.
Lee Jacobson 3 months ago (edited)
This was not a breeding method. It how they feed their young. Why would Darwin question his faith? He must have seen how humans treat each other and how the predators k**l prey to eat and survive.
#22
If you want something truly horrifying look up Japans Unit 731 and the experiments conducted there it ran from 1940 to 1945. Once you read/see images you won’t be able to unsee it.
JkNuss 3 months ago
Mengele and the Yahtzees did same horrifying “experiments” too many people were not punished for doing these tortured
Gigi 3 months ago
Does anybody wonder if 30 years from now we will be looking at the American concentration camps and say the same things?
Emilu 3 months ago (edited)
I looked it up because of morbid curiosity. Just when you think humans couldn't get more foul...
Load More Replies... Wysteria_Rose 3 months ago
And then the USA let their head guy live here in peace after an exchange of "information." Horribly sickening. None of the prisoners made it out. And even the guards there weren't immune. If they wound up getting sick from exposure (which happened) they became part of it, too.
TheGreaterDebater 3 months ago (edited)
These scumbags r***d my people and took all our land. 2 nukes was not enough.
#23
People with epilepsy were still being institutionalised into mental health hospitals still into the 90s.
And in the UK the first AIDS patients were in isolated wards with staff wearing full haematology equipment and just observed while they slowly died.
Nils Skirnir 3 months ago
The latter because there wasn’t much that could be done aside from palliative care. And yes they did get pain meds and IV
Mabelbabel 3 months ago
Absolutely. They treated what they could-patients had lots of opportunistic bacterial and fungal infections, so they were on all sorts of medication for those. But we didn't have anti-viral medication back in the 80s, and immunotherapy was in its infancy. There was little that could be done. The fact that in 30 years or so, AIDS has gone from a virtual death sentence to a chronic condition that people can live with for many years, and have virtually undetectable viral loads is amazing. We just have to make sure everyone has equal access to treatment.
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The Mediterranean Fruit 3 months ago
As a person with epilepsy this makes me very sad. Unfortunately there are still a lot of people who misunderstand epilepsy. And in some rural areas of India, Africa and Australia Epilepsy is still considered to be vodo or demon possession.
Emilu 3 months ago
I'm an Aussie and (whilst I'm happy to be proven incorrect) I have never heard of anybody deeming epilepsy as demon possession. Sources?
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Over fifty percent of the internet’s usage is by automated bot accounts. Dead internet theory is no longer a theory.
Kimberley McMillan 3 months ago
the other 50% is me looking up horrifying facts on bored panda
Gerry Higgins 3 months ago
Misinformation campaigns to influence elections. Also to increase social disorder. Russian bots keep stirring people up so the country is in chaos. China also does this to it's rival states.
Load More Replies... J. Maxx 3 months ago
Tell us you're a bot without telling us you're a bot.
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The guy that invented chiropractic was told by a ghost that cracking spines cures diseases. Now we have colleges for it. 😱
RiceRiceBaby 929 3 months ago
I would never go to a chiropractor. I don't trust this practice. One wrong move....
karen snyder 3 months ago (edited)
To the couple of commenters saying that people who are skeptical of chiropractics need "education," or need to "read books," ok, I did! I am an educated and state certified Clinical Massage Therapist, who reads up on body work research everyday. Here's what I found... "There is no scientific evidence that supports the effectiveness of chiropractics." -Journal of American Medicine, 2024. There is however a bunch of evidence that points to chiropractics causing long term damage. Oh, and the man who invented it was jailed for medical fraud.
Susannah Dean 3 months ago
Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport, IA. Takes three or four years for a degree.
Load More Replies... Son of Philosoraptor 3 months ago
In California worker's comp they somehow got treating doctor status. Literally rather have an African Zangoma than these chiro fools.
Emilu 3 months ago
Truly?? I would never call a chiro a doctor. Having had (medical) doctors in the family, that's just insulting.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 months ago
One of the dumbest, laziest, and most unethical students I ever had is now a chiropractor. Fortunately he failed to pass the US professional exam and has set up his practice in Norway.
Jane Hower 2 months ago
They are a godsend. Without my 'adjustments' every few weeks I wouldn't be able to walk!!!!
#26
There is a condition called Cotards Syndrome, where you just think you’re dead or don’t exist. People who have it sometimes stop eating because they believe they’re dead.
KazzaHazza 3 months ago
I wonder if I can call in work with this and get away with it lit? Sorry, boss, can’t work this week, I’m dead.
XenoMurph 3 months ago
If that was the case, they might not see fit to pay wages to a dead person.
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brittany 3 months ago
so what is it called when a living person believes that them being alive/born was a mistake and that they were never supposed to be here? cause i have that one.
Valegro 3 months ago (edited)
Attention seeking via posting stupid questions on the internet, hoping someone feels sorry for you?
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The smell of fresh cut grass is actually a distress signal to alert others plants of potential danger. So everytime you enjoy the smell of cut grass, you’re enjoying the sweet smell of suffering. Also, the thought of a living creature with no ability to run away having a panic pheromone is kinda fed up. Just “suffer in silence bitxh”
G A 3 months ago
My counter argument when my vegan friend starts preaching. Plants have feelings too.
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
Everything we eat was once alive. The only exception is salt.
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Captive 3 months ago
Ok but what are the other plans gonna do if they receive the distress signal?
Earonn - 3 months ago
I've only heard of this in trees, but there the other trees increase the amount of poisonous or ill-tasting substances in their leaves. So the grazing animals will eat less from them.
Load More Replies... CooperDooper81 3 months ago (edited)
I call bollocks on this theory. What are the other plants supposed to do? Run? If it is a 'distress signal', it's a useless one. Sure, it happens with ants. You squish one, it stinks, it warms the other ahts. They can seek shelter. But in the plant world, there's no purpose.
Urbangirlatl 3 months ago
Thinking the same thing. Makes no sense. Pretty sure it's just the smell of grass juice.
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Uncle Schmickle 3 months ago
Note the fool in the photo using a motor mower whilst in bare feet.
Lady Vader 3 months ago
There was an episode of "Tales of the Unexpected" where this guy could hear the roses screaming in pain when they were cut! Just thought I'd share that with y'all!
Michal Dolyniuk 3 months ago
This scent is meant to attract predators. It doesn't work in most of the cities though.
Pieter LeGrande 1 month ago
Tricky question: is a quick death by lawn mower better or worse than a slow death by cow chewing you up and then doing it again when it chews its cud?
#28
During the rescue of survivors of the USS Indianapolis, one of the rescuers said that when he went to pick up a survivor his skin separated from the bone, and from then on he said he lifted them up by the life jacket. Because after 3-4 days soaking in salt water, skin starts to dissolve.
Shark Lady 3 months ago
A lot of the survivors were eaten by Oceanic White Tip sharks. The sharks will swim around underneath you and as you get tired and sink a little bit they attack you.
#29
19th century Europeans ate Egyptian mummies.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
And defenders of the British museum tell us that ancient artifacts were taken from their native lands to "protect them".
chunky hoey 3 months ago
WTAF?!! Dried up thousands years old crunch....EW. Sick mothetfuckers !!!
Marlene Ricker 3 months ago
So the 19th century Europeans were cannibals! It's so disgusting - I hope I forget this fact very soon.
#30
Prion diseases exist.
mro_running:
Should’ve kept at as “read in comments.” I decided to google it and wish I hadn’t.
canceriandog:
Prion diseases occur when proteins normally in the body misfold and trigger a cascade of misfolding proteins which result in illness. We don’t know why this happens and there is no way to predict it. There is no cure and all prion diseases are universally fatal.
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Mad cows disease is an example. Apparently cannibalism can make prion diseases more likely to occur.
tom (bat/man) 3 months ago
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS) Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) Kuru Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in deer and elk Scrapie in sheep and goats
iseefractals 3 months ago
The consumption of brain and spinal tissue of similar species. In the cannibalistic tribes of Papua New Guinea it was dubbed Kuru, in Cattle it's called Mad Cow. Rather than Prions attempting to re-write DNA or RNA in the infected host, they're simply evidence of genetic mutation that occurs without any external triggers, and once that misfold happens that prions behave like an infection, causing a cascade effect across all other prions. Yes, we don't understand the mechanism that prompts the misfolding, but we know that consuming consuming the brain and spinal tissue of infected or even similar species, especially cannibalistic consumption will greatly increase the likelihood of developing Prion disease.
Cara Vinson 3 months ago
People who sterilize surgical equipment understand this truth. Prions are forever.
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
Ground beef does not typically contain brain or spinal tissue.
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#31
After I heard that digestion is actually super painful, but your brain tells itself to not feel it, I've never thought of stomach gurgles the same way.
Kombatbunni 3 months ago
I have a stomach hernia, so eating is very painful and I wish there was a way to fix it other than surgery :(
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Sunshine 3 months ago
I wonder how they figured this out, though. What determines that there is pain happening and what determines that the brain is responsible for blocking it? This kind of thing just fascinates me.
Alewa 3 months ago (edited)
The pain is happening in your brain. You have different receptors in your tissues - for example, for vibration, stretch, temperature, potentially harmful stimuli, and so forth. Your brain decides whether it should alert you top a certain situation in your body by telling you "pain". You can learn to modulate the feeling of pain (to a certain extent).
Load More Replies... Squirrel Chaser 3 months ago
Not entirely true. The GI tract contains very few pain receptors.
J. Maxx 3 months ago
Tell that to my GI tract. Oh, and I bet you believe kidney stones and cysts don't cause pain either. I have a 7 cm, yes, 7 CENTIMETER kidney cyst, and I can tell you it causes me all kinds of pain.
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#32
The US military is so effective, it can have a fully operational Burger King anywhere on the planet within 48 hours. Imagine how fast they can do something that really matters.
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
In fairness, they're a bureaucracy at heart. They'll lay down policy driven shock and awe, but it's never their way
Load More Replies... Alewa 3 months ago
To measure the efficiency of the military by how fast they can set up a fast food joint has got to be the most American thing ever.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
One way to measure a military unit is how quickly it can deploy deadly force.
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TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago (edited)
The Division Ready Force of the 82nd Airborne Division can be deployed within 4 to 7 hours within every part of North America and 24 hours worldwide, making it the fastest deployable combat ready force on Earth. Aside from that, the USA Navy is the fastest large logistic response force for natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes, providing fresh water filter systems, generators and a fully operational hospital in the form of aircraft carriers
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
So you're saying technically it's a Burger King. Whoda thunk?
Load More Replies... Christina A Davis 3 months ago
I'm NOT so sure anymore. THEY ARE NOT TRAINING properly. They are acting as police,
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago (edited)
This was not written by someone who served in the military. Hurry up and wait is the slogan here. Just one example, we will be told to report to the cage (where our weapons are kept) at 0400 where we will wait until 0700 or 0800. I don't think the US Military can build a BK in 48 hours.
#33
Without any warning at any moment anyone of us could have a brain aneurysm and possibly die within the hour if untreated.
Samantha H 3 months ago
I had a Brain Aneurysm (I had a severe Migraine and went to my Dr about it) It was terrifying, however I had life saving Surgery for which I will always be extremely grateful to the Surgeon and his amazing team for this.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
My father has a brain aneurysm. His doctor told him it was stress. He spent days in dying.
Samantha H 3 months ago
Michael Largey, sorry to hear about this, amazing this was not diagnosed.
Load More Replies... Jenny 3 months ago
It's the rupturing of said aneurysm that kills you. I have one in my renal artery, and I live in fear of it rupturing. I would be dead within minutes from my entire blood volume pooling in my abdomen.
Samantha H 3 months ago
Jenny, can you not get Surgery for that? sorry to read about it, wishing you all the best.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 3 months ago
A colleague's sister died that way, she was in a supermarket car park putting her shopping in the boot, whilst on the phone to my colleague. Just dropped like a stone.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 months ago
I've known at least 3 people that just dropped dead from a brain aneurysm - one was on the dance floor at another friend's bachelorette party, she was only 23.
Karen Bryan 2 months ago
It happened to one of the real golden boys at my high school. 3-sport athlete, academic achiever, great friend to many. Breakfast at home, blinding headache--and he was gone. 18 years old.
#34
Pineapple can dissolve human flesh.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
The bit of tingling you feel eating fresh pineapple is it eating you back
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
Papaya has a similar enzyme if not the same. Fresh juices from both fruits are used for tendering meats
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Matthew Savestheworld 3 months ago
the operative substance here is called papain - named after the papaya which has it, but pinapples have it even more. IT is the substance used in meat tenderizer and it is why eating too much pineapple can make your tongue bleed
chunky hoey 3 months ago
The middle bit is dangerous and we not suppose to eat it too....If I eat too much pineapples at once I get sore throat!
Uncle Schmickle 3 months ago
Pineapple and paw paw extract was used years ago to treat spinal disc herniations, as per above.
Dread Pirate Roberts 3 months ago
Yep. Fresh pineapple always makes the roof of my mouth bleed, so this checks.
#35
I saw recently that there's no control group for measuring the amount of microplastics in humans so that's kinda horrifying.
XenoMurph 3 months ago
You go back to before plastics were invented and count the nonexistence in the corpses? I'm guessing it'll be zero.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 3 months ago
Yep, we all carry microplastics and they cross the placenta into embryos.
XenoMurph 3 months ago
I don't like the idea of microplastics. But we live longer healthier lives than at any time in history, so, is there any real evidence of harm from them?
Dani 3 months ago
Unfortunately yes, there are known endocrine disruptor in plastics (BPA). phthalates are terrifying to read about obesogens is a new term to describe how some plastics can contribute to obesity. Not to mention in an effort to eliminate BPA there have been many new chemicals used which haven't had time to be tested. That being said what choice do we have?
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There's a species of fungus that literally turns ants into zombies.
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis infects ants, takes over their nervous systems, and controls their bodies to climb vegetation before the fungus erupts from their heads to spread spores.
Shark Lady 3 months ago
Healthy ants will transport infected ones far away from their colony to control any outbreaks
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I think we should learn from the ants and do this to MAGATs. Ya know to avoid them infecting others with their idiocy.
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SheamusFanFrom1987 3 months ago (edited)
Ants aren't their only prey, even the mighty spiders fall prey to cordyceps. Yet in some places, cordyceps are a delicacy... Deliberate zombification...? -_-"
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago (edited)
Toxoplasma Gondii infects mice, make them activley seek out cats and get eaten. The parasite can only reproduce in cat intestines. Humans can be infected as well and develop a tendency for risky behaviour and a faible for cats
#37
1st Dynasty Pharaohs had their retainers ritually k**led and buried with them when they died. We know this because many of their burial sites have mass graves filled with people in their 20s and 30s.
Ace 3 months ago
I like Pratchett's take on this. Being kílled and interred with the déad king was entirely voluntary, but Ptraci refused to "voluntarily" take the poison that would allow her to become his handmaiden after death too, so Dios ordered her put to death."
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
The custom of k**l ing and burying slaves/servants/family (especially spouse)/household animals with leaders happened in more than one culture around the world.
chunky hoey 3 months ago
That's what happened to Chinese emperors once they are going get buried....they ordered everyone buried with him ALIVE.
#38
Horrifying Fact: 4 million soldiers died non-combat deaths during WW2, worldwide.
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
Two-thirds of soldier deaths in the American Civil War were from disease.
Ace 3 months ago
Been the case for pretty much all major wars throughout history.
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#39
At one point in your childhood your parents picked you up, put you down then never picked you up again. That always makes me sad, cause I really love being carried by mom.
Saltypepper 3 months ago
Well of course that became the point you became to big to be pick up anymore
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
And maybe you decided you didn’t want to be picked up anymore. It isn’t always the parents’ not picking their kids up, it’s the kids wanting to be treated like they’re too old to be carried around.
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Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 months ago
Also. There was a last time you rode your childhood bike. The last time you ran around playing with neighborhood friends. The last time you went camping with the scouts
Bananaramamama 3 months ago (edited)
This is one of those facts that is logical and practical, it makes my brain say "well, yeah". But as a parent my emotions get sad. So everytime I do have to pick up my kids who are almost preteens I never let myself think about how heavy they are and how hard it is physically. Just so I enjoy the moment
Graham Berry 2 months ago
Your mother would disagree. If you ever have kids of your own you may eventually learn why.
#40
Did you know... Most of our parks around in England , are built on top of plague pits.
Ace 3 months ago
"What Ankh-Morpork was mostly built on was Ankh-Morpork"
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Moving Enigma 3 months ago
You're correct that it's not true, however a lot of London's parks are built on/near plague pits (which I suspect is where the stupid myth started).
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Urbangirlatl 3 months ago
Makes sense. It is unlikely anyone will need to excavate under a park, so no need to disturb the bodies.
#41
If you remove a leech from your skin before they finish feeding, they will regurgitate blood back into you with a potential of transmitting parasites! 🪱 Keep them on until they’ve had their fill.
Upil 3 months ago
Or use coffee grounds or ice blocks, or tobaccoo leave. They hate those, and will let go of themselves.
Ace 3 months ago
No. These have all been shown to have little or no effect. The fact is that they'll let go after a few minutes anyway, having only drunk a tiny amount of your blood and done you no real harm apart from a minor skin wound. If you remove them early the anti-coagulant that they have secreted will remain in place and may stop the wound from healing.
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Tammy Tolan 2 months ago
Douse them in salt. It kills the leech and helps the wound. Salt is one of the oldest wound treatments. Easy to do and there is no way in hell that thing is staying on me.
chunky hoey 3 months ago
I heard they're good for those who have leukemia.....then they will drop dead nicely.
#42
There are about 100,000 human bodies buried under Washington Square Park in New York City.
When the park was being escalated, they found out the land leased to the city to build it on had once been a potter's field. Since the city had no away to identify the bodies buried there, and due to the logistics and expenses of moving a hundred thousand bodies, they opted to simply leave the bodies interred and build the park over them.
Lori Stroud 3 weeks ago
Like it’s not sad enough these people died unidentified, let’s desecrate their graves to add insult to injury.
chunky hoey 3 months ago
That's what I've said. We are building anything on anything. Even on any burial grounds!!
Marlene Ricker 3 months ago
I don't object to having a park built over the bodies. In fact, I think it would be nice for life to be happening as a park above my final resting place. I do hope that there is some sort of memorial plaque or something acknowledging the people buried beneath the park!
Pieter LeGrande 1 month ago
Agree, but I don't want a carousel built on top of me - I get dizzy.
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#43
Most m**derers are never caught.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
Not always because the m******r was too clever, but because someone with money/power/influence has decided it should remain unsolved, even though they know who did it—-maybe everyone knows but they don’t want that person arrested and prosecuted for it, or have no power to override the more powerful person shielding the m******r.
Load More Replies... XenoMurph 3 months ago
That's just not true in many nations. I read recently that every murder in the last 20 years has been solved in Scotland.
Robert Trebor 3 months ago
That they know about. The perfect murder is never suspected.
Load More Replies... Karen Bryan 2 months ago
I watched a documentary which included a look at the cold case file room at LA Sheriff's Homicide. Thousands of boxes.
#44
We're closer to 2050 than to 2000.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
Next year is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I hope it marks a year when we in the US manage to win our own revolution against the tyrant felon, Fat Donald (if you know, you know) in the WH and his enablers.
Load More Replies... Moving Enigma 3 months ago
This must be the most irrelevant, useless, uninteresting "fact" I've read in a long time.
#45
In the 1600s, people were buried alive so often that safety coffins were invented — complete with bells, air tubes, and flags.
And this is where the phrase “save/d by the bell” came from.
M in Bali 3 months ago
Nah…. The phrase "saved by the bell" originated in the sport of boxing. It refers to the bell that signals the end of a round, which can save a boxer from losing if he is knocked down and the referee is counting him out.
Clown fish 3 months ago
It's where the saying bell ringer for the index fingers comes from because they would tie the bell to that finger. It's also where grave yard shift comes from because someone sat there all night listening for bells and digging them back up
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CPooh 3 months ago
Not true. It was an unfounded fear that salesmen took advantage of to “upgrade” burial packages.
Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
The fear was not unfounded. Until developments in medical science, people in comas were often mistaken for being dead.
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Philly Bob 3 months ago
Confusing "saved by the bell" and a "dead ringer!" The cemetary had bells so if you were buried alive you could ring the bell thus being a dead ringer. Saved by the bell is a boxing term.
Uncle Panda 3 months ago
I did the opposite. I have Amazon orders on file to be delivered to my gravesite. About 5 years worth.
K_Tx 3 months ago (edited)
I was going to say, "we all know it was started by that blonde kid who went to school in the Midwest but moved to California because his Dad got a new job (in cell phones or something) and it was such a good paying job that they moved his dorky friend's family AND the school principal to Cali with them. The principal just had to agree to never really punish the blond kid. And the dorky friend? He had to agree to be manipulated by blond kid to help him however asked without complaint. (Run on sentence much?)
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#46
We probably don’t have the materials to get to where we are today again.
The easy to obtain coal, oil and metals that got us to today have been largely depleted to get us to today.
To extract what’s left, it’d take considerable resources even for our modern society.
If we mess this up, there’s no getting back to this point.
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 3 months ago
I would say that's hyperbole at it's finest, lol! If we have already "messed it up" we wouldn't be laying in our beds commenting on stupid bored Panda articles. We'd be sleeping outside with some one on the lookout for the zombies!
Load More Replies... Barbara Turner 3 months ago
Junkyards and trash pits will be mined for rare metals. Progress is on the side of renewable energy until someone figures out viable fusion.
iseefractals 3 months ago
Coal and oil are the source of the problems we face, metals are recyclable...and even with the rise of AI data centers increasing power demands, we would only need to cover 1.7% of the entire planets landmass in solar arrays to maintain our current level of usage.
Becky Samuel 3 months ago
And how would we build those solar arrays if we mess up badly enough for the world to go dark, even for a brief time? How would we transport them?
Load More Replies... Uncle Panda 3 months ago (edited)
We're already beginning to mine our own landfills for the stuff people used to toss. Metals, especially.
Graham Berry 2 months ago
It's still there. Reclaim recycle. Very little has left the reach of human condition.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
Let's hope we figure out how to mine asteroids before it comes to that point
WakandaPanda 3 months ago
Nearly all types of Petrol, Diesel and Plastics are made from dead animals, but don't tell the Vegans !
#47
Nobody will remember you or your life or your memories in 200 years. Its All Inside your Head. And it will die with you.
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
OR....make a mark that will last (super hard, most of us won't) Maybe write. Primary source historical data is invaluable. Heck, in USA they're recruiting people that can still read cursive to translate it...might be my retirement gig
#48
Whales never really die of natural causes. One day they just don’t have the strength to surface and drown.
Miss Ann Thrope 3 months ago
Kind of like lobsters. They run out of the strength to molt. If they can't shed their exoskeleton, they die.
#49
Basically, our bodies constantly vibrate when we move, causing pain in about every joint there is. Our nervous system is designed to totally ignore those micropains. Unfortunately, elderly people experience increasingly more of such pains due to deterioration of the body. Imagine if all of us could feel all of this pain 24/7.
Ace 3 months ago (edited)
Shows a deep lack of understanding of pain. It's not actually 'pain' unless or until the brain perceives it as such. In some people, and potentially more as they age, signals from joints and tissues may be incorrectly interpreted in the brain, leading to an increased sensation of pain, sometimes with no detectable cause, as with conditions like fibromyalgia.
Gaius214 3 months ago
While not directly tangential to your comment. I feel compelled to share what renouned sage Dalton said "pain don't hurt".
Load More Replies... Lady Eowyn 3 months ago
I have felt pain in many of my joints for decades. I have chronic pain, I feel pain 24/7. Sometimes worse than others. Sometimes injections help a little. After one shot I was totally pain free for almost 45 minutes. I'd forgotten what that feels like.
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I've had chronic pain my entire life. When it flares I think to myself that I would have euthanized my pets in the condition I am in.
Mark Hastings 3 months ago
I figured that I spend more than 50% of my day with some sort of pain. During the day it's arthritis in my hands and knees, at night I have sharp pains in my ankle that wake me up. I consider myself fortunate though, I rarely need any pain relievers to control the pain.
Storm Rise 3 months ago
Sadly- I don't have to imagine it. I live with chronic pain- like so many others. Contributing causes can be (as mine was) Complex PTSD from extended trauma over a long period of time, having ADHD seems to increase your chances of developing this too- as does falling levels of eostrogen in women as they move into perimenopause and menopause, since eostrogen has a hand in controlling inflammation systmically. We are barely scraping the surface of non-physical-symptom pain. Keep pushing through if your Doc doesn't believe you. Find another who will take you seriously. Reach out to pain foundations and clinics to find support groups who understand and can support you from a place of knowledge rather than judgement. I'm not going to lie and tell you that the journey will be easy- but don't let the bastards get you down, and don't give up on yourself, no matter how tempting! If you are in Australia- especially Victoria, then reach out and I'll share the resources I've found.
#50
Cults continue to exist and nations all over the globe don't seem to care until there's a reason they should.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
There is one Cult that's good. They preach Love, worship at the Sonic Temple and Sell Sanctuary.
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
Tom Wolfe said that a cult is a religion without political power. When they get political power, nations take notice.
iseefractals 3 months ago
Plenty of us have spent many years trying to dismantle the mindless cults that exist on both ends of the political spectrum. Unfortunately the average person is too scared of being called something mean and would rather placate and validate than confront and disarm.
Rafael 3 months ago
Right now the cultists causing trouble are coming form just one end of the spectrum, and I isn't the left.
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The last e**cution by guillotine was in 1977.
Luke Branwen 3 months ago
I've also heard that Christopher Lee, who later played Count Dooku / Darth Tyrannus in Star Wars, was there to see it
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TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago (edited)
Another fact: The country with the most executions by guillotine was the 3rd Reich
#52
The stomach contains a layer of mucus around it, protecting itself from self digestion.
Faelwolf 3 months ago
But not your teeth. No one should drink Mt. Dew. Look up "Mountain Dew Mouth" if you have a strong enough stomach.
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#53
As babies we are typically born with all the teeth we’re gonna have.
Batwench 3 months ago
If you are pregnant with a girl, you are also carrying your potential grandchildren. Nature and stuff blows my mind most of the time.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
It means that the teeth are already formed inside the womb and stored in the skull and don't develop in a later stage of life
Load More Replies... #54
You walk past 34 m**derers in your lifetime without even knowing.
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
Well the 2 boys at my school that wanted to tase someone (they specified that they were looking for any girl) and succeeded, unknowingly tasing a girl that had a metal spine and paralyzed her for life are definitely on my lists of suspects as potential Mrderers.
Moving Enigma 3 months ago (edited)
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Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I am a killer but not a m******r. I am a combat vet. So what's the distinction? I have no confirmed kills, but I fired back.
#55
Once known as a creepy pasta internet story about a video called “Daisy’s Destruction”, is unfortunately real, it does exist and the creator is in a prison in the Philippines. Google for Peter Scully. Hope he suffers until he dies.
Emilu 3 months ago
... Oh my god. Narre Warren is a casual drive for me. Wish I could have knifed him when he was living there before he could go on to do what he did.
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Naturgy Iberia Spain 3 months ago
The video is real, they even burned her with cigarettes while she was hanging from the ceiling
Chuck 3 months ago (edited)
@iseefractals, Citing The New York Post as a source is about as weak as it gets.
iseefractals 3 months ago
Top result, go take a look around. Facts are facts, unfortunately outlets that this group would deem "trustworthy" for some reason don't seem to want to cover stories like this....gets in the way of their narrative.
Load More Replies... Rafael 3 months ago
False, he won't be set free, but institutionalised. Law enforcement won't be responsible for the length of intsrnemt, doctors will. The law has nothing to do with race or being trans. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/case-dropped-man-alleged-colorado-school-kidnapping-attempt/
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#56
Scaphism. Look it up. Or don't, if you prefer to sleep easy.
Also, people were slowly roasted alive inside a brass bull in the ancient Middle East. I won't go into detail but it was bad.
Steve 3 months ago
Because he figures, and so do I, that you know how to GTS (Google that sh!t)
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 3 months ago
If you've read The Library at Mount Char you know all about the brass bull BBQ. 😫
Gadaffi Duck 3 months ago
Scaphism or The Boats was a supposed method of e*******n where the condemned was sandwiched between two canoes or halves of a log, force fed milk and honey and be left in the middle of a stagnant body of water. The victim was also covered in the milk and honey and generally stripped naked. The smell of this cocktail and the inevitable excrement attracted insects and other vermin to devour the body. It is unclear whether scaphism was ever actually used, because there are not many reliable sources.
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
Given a choice between scaphism and sapphism, always chose the latter - even if you're a guy.
persephone134 3 months ago (edited)
The brass bull was a fabled t*****e device custom-made for an ancient Sicilian sovereign. This post makes it sound like it was not a widely used t*****e method all over the Middle East, which it wasn't. Look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull (oh, wow, what was I thinking, of course they censor the word tórture)
#57
You thought having 4 wisdom teeth was bad? You can have up to 16 although it's super rare.
8 is more common.
#58
More money is spent on Halloween costumes by Americans than would be required for resource production and logistics to end world hunger.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
$12.2 billion in 2023 https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/halloween-sales-spending-statistics/ . " Ending hunger worldwide by 2030—defined in this study as reducing the undernourished population in each country to 5 percent or lower—will cost an extra US $11 billion per year" ( https://www.ifpri.org/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-end-hunger-worldwide-2030/ )
Load More Replies... iseefractals 3 months ago (edited)
This is just blatant stupidity and nonsense. Americans spend $4.1 billion on costumes and $12 billion on halloween in total. #1 globally we already produce more than enough calories to feed everyone, 1/3rd of global food production ends up in the trash each year for a variety of reasons, whether that's due to logistics issues, or blatant waste stemming from "oh it doesn't look perfect" to countries outright refusing GMO produce. The economic cost of that waste is OVER $1 trillion. #2 the projected cost to "end" world hunger range from tens to hundreds of BILLIONS. The lowest estimate pegs the cost at $37 billion per year until 2030, while other (more trusted studies) have pegged the cost at $330 billion. Over 2.8 billion people are classified as "food insecure" Which means you're arguing that the production and logistics cost, per year of $1.46 per person is a solve? GTFO with this ignorant nonsense.
#59
Human flesh tastes like pork, hence why it is subsequently known as long pork. Also long pork has crazy amount of calories.
iseefractals 3 months ago
"Crazy amount of calories"? No, human flesh is a horrible source of calories. 1lb of human flesh contains about 650 calories, while wild Boar or beaver contains about 1800 calories per pound, and beef is 1000-1200 calories per pound. Humans have lower concentrations of muscle and fat compared to other mammals.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
There is a very close similarity between pig and human anatomy, some parts are even bio-compatible (like heart valves)
Trish Wise 3 months ago
Do you really think a cannibal is concerned about how many calories are in long pig?
#60
If you died alone in your home, it could take as little as a few days for your body to begin decomposing enough that the smell seeps through walls and in some cases, it’s the neighbors noticing the smell before anyone realizes you’re gone.
Emilu 3 months ago
Or longer. How many news reports do you read about a poor soul not being found for a year plus after they've died?
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
That's what "...as little as..." implies.
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We all kicked a pregnant woman.
Mabelbabel 3 months ago
And if you're a twin, you've also kicked and thumped a tiny premature fetus.
Harry Gondalf 3 months ago
Reminds me of a sick joke from high school: Would you hit a woman with a child? No. I'd use a brick."
#62
We basically know nothing about the Ocean or Space. Humans have only explored aproximately 5-20% of the ocean, and we do not know how much of the universe is explored or how big the universe actually is outside the laws of physics we know from earth and what the human mind can comprehend...
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago (edited)
We also know more about space than the oceans, simply because it's way easier to operate in low pressure environments
Mark Hastings 3 months ago
5 to 10% of the people on earth think it is flat. That tells you how ignorant people are about the place we call home.
#63
Sloths are absolutely covered in insects in their fur.
#64
In ancient Rome, they used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste. 💀
There’s a parasite that can change your personality called Toxoplasma gondii- it’s from cat poop 😟
The smell of death is forever burned into you. 🥲
There’s an art piece made entirely from human blood. 😬
The worst of all… the Palestinian genocide starvation, the war in Sudan where thousands of children are dying of starvation, and the ongoing M23 conflict with attacks on Tutsis in the Congo.
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
"The smell of death is forever burned into you" Girl, so is the smell of chocolate chip cookies or your mom's perfume. Sense memory isn't inherently dark.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
Or the starting oppression of Christians and other minorities in Syria and Pakistan
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Spencers slave no more 3 months ago (edited)
Most cases of Toxoplasmosis are from under cooked food that contains cysts, rather than cat feces. It has, rarely, been transmitted through blood transfusion and organ transplant. It is present in raw milk, particularly goat milk, unwashed fruits and vegetables grown in soil contaminated by cat feces, and untreated water.
JP Doyle 3 months ago
I now know what happened to a friend who had a severe personality change after he had a heart valve transplant. Thank you.
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shg stewart 3 months ago
The Palestinian "genocide" is the only one in human history where the population goes UP over time, not down. Stop repeating this lie. Don't stooge for Hamas. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/state-of-palestine-population/
Rafael 3 months ago
You don't have to support Hamas to acknowledge Israel fúcked up their response. Two things can be true at once.
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#65
Because of how physics works there's a chance that a bubble of absolute vacuum growing at the speed of light exists somewhere in the universe, there's no way to detect it before it swallows us and no way to stop it.
Ian Webling 3 months ago
I find this confusing. If an absolute vacuum "swallows" anything, surely it is no longer an absolute vacuum?
Caffeinated Ape 3 months ago
It's not described very well here (and I've never heard it called "absolute" vacuum, usually "false vacuum"). This video does a reasonable job: https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI?si=pmwjNgJNrz33-pG5
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🇳🇬 Asi Bassey 🇳🇬 3 months ago
The problems of the world today are enough to keep us occupied for a lifetime, maybe longer, so I would not bother about this.
#66
Cannibalism isn't illegal.
Corwin 02 3 months ago
Cannibalism isn't illegal however obtaining the ingredients is, e.g. murder, corpse desecration, trading in human body parts.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
Is it considered cannibalism if it's part of your own body? Like getting a lower leg amputated and cooking and eating the calf muscle, for instance. Morbid, but curious.
Rafael 3 months ago
You are too specific, and have strong "asking for a friend" vibe :-) not judging, you do you...
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Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago (edited)
I kinda would like to know how it taste, but only my taste, not other's. (those downvotes really are trolls lol)
Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 3 months ago
Supposedly we taste of pork. We are called long pig in some cannibalistic cultures. There is a theory that this is where the prohibition of eating pork in some religions stems from.
Load More Replies... Matthew Savestheworld 3 months ago
There are laws everywhere about disrespecting human remains.
#67
Your body relies heavily on vitamin C to maintain scar tissue. When you die of scurvy you literally pop apart at the seams.
Amanda the Panda 3 months ago (edited)
A simple Google search will explain what scurvy is, and the role of vitamin C in the human body. The above statement is ridiculous.
Ace 3 months ago
There are many old studies showing that existing scar tissue can be weakened in severe cases of scurvy, so while the language used is overblown this is actually a real thing.
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#68
Our bodies are a ship of Theseus. Over the course of seven years, every cell in our bodies dies and falls off or is excreted. At the same time, new cells replace the old ones as they die. Thus, every seven years we get an entirely new body, and the body you were born in is actually long gone.
JP Doyle 3 months ago
This is a semi-myth because not all cells have the same death/replacement cycle, and not all of the body is replaced in a 7 year cycle. Plus, the brain does not work this way. The majority of neurons are formed before birth, but a few, most notably in the hippocampus, take a few more years to mature. But once that happens the brain does not and can not regenerate new cells.
TotallyNOTAFox 3 months ago
Yeah, neurons and heart cells barely get replaced, if at all
Load More Replies... Cara Vinson 3 months ago
“And still this is the best we can do every seven years?” I say into the mirror.
Corrina Byers 2 months ago
and cancwe forms from when the dead cells are just pile up and not absorbed,,cancer i meant
#69
Hamsters flip their cheek pouches out of their mouth to empty the contents. That sounds weird but they're literally turning their cheeks inside out.
#70
There are an estimated 1.4 billion insects on Earth for every human.
Trish Wise 3 months ago
Insects will be the next rulers of the planet after humans are extinct.
Luke Branwen 3 months ago
Let's hope the insects won't decide to revolt because idk if we'd be able to handle 1,4 BN bugs each.
#71
Most laugh tracks were recorded in the 50s and 40s you're hearing dead people laughing.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
For some shows these days, no one of the living would find them laughable.
#72
That if you are too skinny sometimes you die by the force of being saved. Like being pulled from a burning car. Worst experience of an EMT I ever heard.
OneHappyPuppy 3 months ago
If you are too skinny, a forceful pull on you can k**l you. Take the example above, someone tries to pull a skinny person from a burning car - they are in a hurry to save you but end up hurting you in the process, can snap you neck/back etc
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#73
The average American is more likely to get cancer than get married.
iseefractals 3 months ago
B******t. About 40 out of every 100 men and 39 out of every 100 women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, while 90% of adults will enter into marriage. Whether or not that marriage ends in divorce or not is irrelevant to the claim.
Chris the Bobcat 3 months ago
I've been married twice, so I guess I'm ahead of the game and compensating for someone.
#74
Here’s a few
1.The air in your house is probably more polluted than outside. You very likely have mold spores around your house that do more harm than outside.
2.Blow dryers in bathroom blow faces particles onto your hands. This is because when you poop, or even fart, the same is just fecal partials floating into your nose, and since they float around, they end up on and in the dryer.
3.Sometimes when it’s silent, your brain makes noises, which is why sometimes you hear things or even your name.
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
The second one only applies when toilets and bathroom are in the same room.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
As opposed to all the toilets that are NOT in bathrooms???
Load More Replies... Mabelbabel 3 months ago
In the UK, there are generally no plug sockets in a bathroom, other than one specifically for electric razors. I've never been able to dry my hair in the actual bathroom (unless it was on holiday and the hotel had those useless wall mounted hairdryers)
#75
There is a very likely impact of an asteroid thats the size of a football stadium to impact the moon in 2032.
General Anaesthesia 3 months ago
"Very likely" is currently defined as 4.3%, but chances could go up.
#76
In the months following the release of the show 13 Reasons Why, there was a massive spike in teenage s**cide that was likely caused by the show.
The statement "Technology severely damaged kids" is likely true, and the companies that produced this technology knew they were likely going to cause harm.
Upstaged75 3 months ago (edited)
Not true. There was a spike in INTERNET SEARCHES for $uicide. Not the actual act of them.
Tabitha 3 months ago
And any child who could be so easily influenced by a fictional story has parents who didn’t step up and teach them how to differentiate between fact and fiction, real and fake, true and false. Unfortunately these days, many adults don’t know the difference either, so who knows what’s ahead for upcoming generations.
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Google where / what “vanilla” essence is extracted from…
ohnositsrose:
I shared this fact with my students one year and "beaver booty juice" was often giggled at the entire school year afterwards. 🤣🤣 No regrets!
Margaret Shannon 3 months ago
Untrue. Artificial vanilla flavoring is made from vanillin, and vanillin is extracted from wood pulp. Beavers produce castoreum, a compound that shares some characteristics with vanillin, none of which is flavor.
Spencers slave no more 3 months ago (edited)
Castoreum IS used as a food flavouring, particularly vanilla, raspberry and strawberry, and is listed as natural flavouring on the ingredients list. It is also used in perfumery, for both womens and mens fragrances and it is used to flavour tobacco products, including vapes and e-liquids. It is still used in traditional medicines in some parts of the world.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 3 months ago
They're thinking about the wrong thing. Vanilla comes from a plant. The beaver stuff is something else, which Margaret just described.
Ace 3 months ago (edited)
A key differentiator here, causing a little confusion in some comments, is that they're referring to vanilla "Essence", which is an artificial flavouring. To avoid this, and just to get a better flavour anyway, always read the bottle and make sure you're buying vanilla "Extract". (Or just use the pods if you have the time and inclination, but it's more efficient when you only want two or three drops to use the bottled stuff, which is just as good).
#78
Smelling someone's bad breath can actually give you bad breath too.
Ace 3 months ago
One of those "tiny proportion of a tiny proportion" possibilities. Bad breath can, rarely, be caused by some types of bacteria on the tongue. Such bacteria could in theory by transmitted in air-born particles from one person to another. This is entangled with another incorrect idea that when you smell something you're actually ingesting particles of that something - what you're smelling is not the bacteria themselves, but chemicals produced by them.
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If your brain realizes you have eye balls the brain will k**l them off.
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
What a dumb way to reference the immune system's ability to recognize self. So many posts in here paint biological facts as dark. THEY'RE NOT!!!
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
Also, obligatory NOT THE BRAIN, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM YOU UNEDUCATED EDGE LORD.
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Ineke Pronk 3 months ago
Your body KNOWS you have eyeballs, but has it listed as a restricted zone. So it won't go in to fight illness. There are several zones like that in your body because fighting an illness there will cause generally more harm than waiting it out.
#80
Pigs are caged and lowered into gas chambers to “stun” them. the high levels of carbon dioxide burns them from the inside out, and you can hear them screaming from outside the slaughterhouses.
Helen Rohrlach 3 months ago
I hate commenting on untruths like this because you get screamed at but I going to have to. Any slaughter method is not going to be pretty but "burning from the inside out" is complete b******t. No slaughter method is going to damage the product. It's also a better way then hitting them on the head with a hammer.
Rhinocersauce 3 months ago
Accurate and sane. Ya love to see it. Captive bolt system here in the US. Slaughter houses are disturbing enough, no need to dress it up
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