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Fun facts are usually meant to entertain or surprise us, but sometimes the truth can be a little unsettling. Whether it’s something bizarre about nature, the human body, or history, certain facts have a way of sticking in your mind and not always in a comfortable way.
So what happens when someone online asks, “What is a mildly disturbing fact?” From creepy discoveries to bizarre tidbits of knowledge, this thread shows that some facts can make you squirm, shiver, or think twice. These unsettling truths reveal how strange and sometimes alarming the world can be. Keep reading to see the most surprising and slightly disturbing facts people have shared!
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#1
30 years ago the average home took up to 30 minutes to become fully involved in fire, now it can be as little as 3 or 4 minutes due to the changes in construction materials and the massive amount of synthetic materials used in furniture etc.
Install smoke alarms and get out early folks.
Spark 2 weeks ago
Smoke alarm, fire extinguisher, fire blanket. Get them, they don't cost much.
Sofia 2 weeks ago
in italy wooden house are a rarity and I think is for the whole europe
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TCW Sam Vimes 2 weeks ago
In the US, maybe. We build our homes with stone walls. They don't burn easily. That being said, it's not the fire that kills you, it's the smoke. Smoke detectors are legally required here.
Chich the witch 2 weeks ago
I thought it was the falling stones during the earthquake that gets you? :p
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Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
They used to use asbestos because it's a fire retardant. So now your house may burn but at least you won't get cancer? 🤷♀️
Gareth 2 weeks ago
Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes all the same There's a green one and a pink one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And the people in the houses All went to the university Where they were put in boxes And they came out all the same And there's doctors and lawyers And business executives And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same And they all play on the golf course And drink their martinis dry And they all have pretty children And the children go to school And the children go to summer camp And then to the university Where they are put in boxes And they come out all the same And the boys go into business And marry and raise a family In boxes made of ticky-tacky And they all look just the same There's a pink one and a green one And a blue one and a yellow one And they're all made out of ticky-tacky And they all look just
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#2
Drinking and driving drastically reduces the chance to get cancer.
Laura Gillette 2 weeks ago
This reminds me of the joke, "All mushrooms are edible, but some of them are only edible once."
#3
The doctors when performing surgery that requires one to remove intestines momentarily put them on a rack because they wriggle around, and after they’re done they just put the intestines vaguely back and then the organ wriggles back the way it’s supposed to.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
Intestines move around all the time. Every time I turn over at night, I'm more likely to fart.
Greymom 2 weeks ago
Participated in hundreds of open abdominal surgeries as a nurse, and no we do not “ put your intestines on a rack” so they don’t wriggle around. some portions of your intestines may be pulled outside of the abdominal cavity and held out of the way by means of various retractors, but this makes it sound like they’ve just pull them out and pile them on a rack off to the side!😅. Not EXACTLY how it works.
CPooh 2 weeks ago
Thank you for clarifying. I hate when people oversimplify for shock value and upvotes.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 2 weeks ago
Yes, but it takes days for them to 'wriggle back'and hurts a lot until the intestines are properly back in place (mainly because of trapped gas bubbles. Expect a demonic fart when they are all back). Source: me, after having had part of my large intestine removed.
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
I'd be inclined, if it was my intestines wiggling, to lean over and bunch the bloody things. They never work right... Here I am at work eating the exact same thing every day in order to have something that doesn't cause them to go into panic-crisis mode for no good reason. And no, I'm not stressed.
There are a few things that almost everyone finds creepy, and spiders definitely top the list. Their multiple legs, fangs, and sudden movements make most people uneasy, but the reality of spiders is even more unsettling than their appearance. From their unusual behaviors to bizarre survival strategies, spiders are creatures that can genuinely make you squirm once you know the truth.
#4
Schizophrenia can hit randomly from the ages of 15 to 26 if it is in your genetics. Some people are totally fine, then bam, auditory hallucinations and delusions start happening.
Lavender Myst 2 weeks ago (edited)
There is no safe age, schizoprenia and other related psychosis can also be the result of a cognitive break. My mother was diegnosed in her 50's after my father died from a battle with cancer. Many diffrent doctors in the following years made it clear to me that it can happen to anyone.
Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
It happened around 17 to the son of some friends of my parents. It was awful. He managed to hide it for a couple of years through substance use. His parents originally had to break off their financial support of him due to the d.rug use. Then, after he sobered up, he was diagnosed but the disease was so far progressed that he had to be committed to a long-term care facility. Now he's in his late 40s and is basically catatonic. The whole thing is so heartbreaking.
Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
I don't know how old my uncle was when he was diagnosed, but he was one of the 'lucky' people who had it triggered by m*******a use. Then he tried to self medicate for a while with more m*******a. His worst episode, that I know of, was when he poured petrol on himself and lit it, in front of his family. Lost multiple fingers, and his wife and kids :(
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago (edited)
To be fair, reality has been like that since around 2019 or so.
#5
You're a brain inside of a skull. You don't have a skeleton inside of you; you are inside of a skeleton.
The Queen of France 2 weeks ago
And we really should be more appreciative of the whole machine!
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Jeremy James 2 weeks ago
Am I, though? Am I just a little man inside my skull with a body dangling from it or am I the whole thing?
Katarzyna Drozd 2 weeks ago
Well, this is very simplified assumption. I encourage to read about Theseus ship thought experiment. We still do not know what part in our bodies is responsible for self-awarness. One of the theories says it could be located in pineal gland. But we still don't know for sure
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
No. Your brain isn't an isolated system. It works through your entire body, including outside the skeleton through your nervous system
Peter Bear 2 weeks ago
Or to put it another way, you are a magic skeleton powered by meat and electricity. You can do anything, magic skeleton!
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
I am a little ghost temporarily stuck inside this vaguely functional meatsack that I am able to animate.
Floeckchen 2 weeks ago
slightly off topic: there are these monsters in DnD called undead vine. They are climbing plants that creep around skeletons to hold them together and move as one...
#6
In France, a pig was dressed in human clothes, tried in court and was sentence to death
... For eating a childs face
liam newton-harding 2 weeks ago
There is a fine, and interesting history of trying animals for "crimes".
One particularly disturbing fact is about spider egg sacs. A single sac can contain over 500 babies, all waiting to emerge into the world. Just imagining hundreds or thousands of tiny spiders hatching at once is enough to make even the bravest shiver. This reproductive strategy ensures survival for the species but is definitely not for the faint of heart.
#7
If you live to become the oldest person alive, the entire human population has been replaced in your lifetime. Except you.
Papa 2 weeks ago
Yes, everyone understands that. This is just a different way of looking at it.
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Worrying about bad things you have no control over drains you of energy, making you less able to change negative things you do have control over.
Sue User 2 weeks ago (edited)
I cant find the balance. The news, especially in USA, is horrify and depressing. But I cant just stick my head in sand and ignore. And when I do read/watch the news is it "I cant change what is happenning but I can bear witness" or is it drama a*******n , schadenfreude?
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azubi 2 weeks ago
In fact, having imagined the worst scenario helped me act when it happened more than once.
Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
Acknowledging and preparing for the worst case scenario is wildly different than the anxiety of the possibility controlling your life.
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Whenever there’s an earthquake bodies in graves shake around like maracas.
Karma Black 2 weeks ago
Shake, shake, shake, Senora, shake your body line; Shake, shake, shake, Senora, shake it all the time
Blackmoon The Dragon 2 weeks ago
Work, work, work, Senora, work it all the time, work work work Senora, work it all the time!
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Some male spiders have shocking behaviors as well. In certain species, males willingly let themselves be eaten by females after mating. This might seem horrifying to us, but in the spider world, it’s an evolutionary tactic to ensure the female has enough energy to lay healthy eggs. Nature, in this case, is as brutal as it is fascinating.
#10
Thanks to pregnancy, the average number of skeletons in a human body is greater than one.
#11
There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers.
Chich the witch 2 weeks ago
Who, as someone pointed out, were once highly motivated individuals.
Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
If you can't walk back down by yourself you're more than likely going to stay there permanently. Not long ago an Indian man had to leave his wife on the mountain to save himself. She knew she was going to die and insisted that he go back down without her. ☹️Personally I prefer safer hobbies.
Robin Roper 2 weeks ago
Climbers, led by Ian Woodall and Cathy O'Dowd, moved the body of Francys Arsentiev to a more secluded spot on the mountain, wrapped in an American flag.
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T Barth 2 weeks ago
Low oxygen and treacherous environment makes it difficult and dangerous to move a very heavy frozen solid body.
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#12
The farthest point on the planet you can be from civilization in any direction is a blip in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. If you were stranded there, you'd be thousands of miles away from help and it would be very unlikely you'd be seen or rescued as cargo ship routes don't go near it. To put the distance into perspective, the closest people to you would be the crew on the ISS.
Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago
The hand in that photo is deliberately placed to obscure the fact that the map doesn't have New Zealand on it
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
There are many places on Earth where the closest people would be on the ISS. Central Australia or Northern Canada for example.
Spiders also experience the world very differently than humans. Certain species of jumping spiders, known as salticids, can see ultraviolet light that humans cannot perceive. This gives them a unique view of their surroundings and allows them to detect prey and navigate in ways that are almost alien to us. Their vision is as strange as it is impressive.
#13
That many people in this thread mistakenly think probabilities are facts.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
...probabilities are facts though. The probability of you winning the lottery is low, that's a fact
Sue User 2 weeks ago
Probabilities are facts. Possibilities are not. You can calculate the probability of winning the lottery. You will not win the lottery.
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
You may win the lottery (somebody often does), but it may also happen after you've been hit on the head by space debris...multiple times...
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JK 2 weeks ago
If you want to respond, use the Reply option, otherwise people think you are talking to the person above you, This was meant for Mr. Peterson,
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You know what you call the stupidest graduate from the worst medical school in the country?
Doctor.
Multa Nocte 2 weeks ago
While this is true, it is only the top of the top of the top that are even admitted into medical school, much less graduate, so you're not exactly talking about the general population here.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
Yes, but this is just like Brian Scalabrine, who was considered the worst player in the NBA. Regular dudes thought they could take him in, but he absolutely wiped the floor with them, including in 3 on 1
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago (edited)
Because someone had to get the lowest graduate score, and one school has to be ar the bottom
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Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for a millisecond, but it was enough for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong.
Since then I get super paranoid whenever a fly goes anywhere near my face because of the fact that something like this can possibly happen to me.
In some parts of the world, spiders can literally “rain” from the sky. This phenomenon, called ballooning, occurs when spiders use silk threads to catch the wind and travel across distances. Hundreds or even thousands of spiders have been reported falling in areas like Australia, Texas, and Brazil. It sounds like a horror movie, but it’s a real and documented occurrence.
#16
Every minute, about 105 football fields worth of trees are lost :(.
Tucker Cahooter 2 weeks ago
That is the American unit of measurement for area. In the UK, I think Wembley Stadium is the preferred unit
Man in the mirror 2 weeks ago
That's not quite right. The global tree cover has been increasing since 1982. However, trees are gaining ground mostly in temperate regions, and decreasing in tropical regions. Europe's getting greener while the Amazon is burning.
Bartlet for world domination 2 weeks ago
It isn't; the real number is closer to 15. Still a lot.
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Cannibalism is pretty common in hamsters.
Karma Black 2 weeks ago
Bunnies, too. My mother found this out the hard way when a bunny in the hutch gave birth.
Phantom Phoenix 2 weeks ago
... observed in captivity. I wonder if this would also be true in the wild in their native habitat 🤷🏻♂️
Day Andie 2 weeks ago
Yes, it's rare, but it does happen. Usually under stress conditions.
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Some people don't wash their hands after pooping.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
AND WE STILL HAVE PUBLIC WASH ROOM DOORS THAT OPEN INWARDS FORCING US TO USE THE HANDLE TO EXIT! Sorry, I get a bit wound up by that....
Billo66 2 weeks ago
I'm immunocompromised and that freaks me TF out. I won't even touch magazines at the Dr. Office. Yuck. Cancer blows, do not recommend 0/10
Rick Murray 2 weeks ago
Sorry my friend, but *fúckloads* of people don't wash their hands after pooping. People are gross... Best thing about Covid is people aren't so weird any more if the idea of shaking hands revulses you...
Another unsettling fact is that some spiders have evolved to mimic ants. Over 100 species have developed physical similarities and even pheromones to resemble ants, tricking predators and prey alike. This deceptive survival tactic shows just how cunning and eerie nature can be, making them both fascinating and creepy at the same time.
#19
Prions. When proteins in your body misfold, they create prions, which then infect neighbouring proteins causing them to misfold, creating a chain reaction and eventually eating *holes in your brain*.
All known prion diseases are fatal. They can k**l you in a bunch of fun ways, including taking away your ability to sleep or your ability to chew and swallow. They're also extremely contagious, and since they're not a virus, non-killable.
And to top it all off, symptoms can take years to appear. So you can be infected with prions in your system right now and not know it.
Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
Kuru is a terrible prion disease which some people of Papua New Guinea develop from eating the brains of the dead. So yeah, don't eat any brains.
Bored Trash Panda 2 weeks ago (edited)
I did a report on that tribe for my Anatomy and Pathophysiology class in college. Very interesting to research.
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Robin Roper 2 weeks ago
I know someone who developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It was awful. From diagnosis to death was about 9 months.
Shark Lady 2 weeks ago
That's about how long my gran survived after the first symptoms emerged. To begin with it was thought she had dementia but the decline was too fast.
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Maybe I'm a d**k, but hearing things like this makes my go to comeback to someone who is younger and being a PITA is "Yeah, well at least I *Know* I'll live to 65"
OneHappyPuppy 2 weeks ago
Yes, mad cow disease is a type of prion disease
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That's why I am barred from giving blood in France. Too much risk because of them there mad cows. I'm cool with it, because having things stuck into me is my personal nightmare fuel.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 days ago
Same with me in the UK, but I'm mad about it. Especially since the thing that stops me being able to give blood is that I had a transfusion 16 days after the arbitrary cut-off date, and the blood came not from a potentially-infected blood bank, but from my dad, who demonstrably has not developed CJD in the 45 years since.
Load More Replies... Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
Which is why any who lived in the UK during (I think) the 1980s can't donate blood or anything. Mad cow disease.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 days ago
Not who lived in the UK. Who had a blood transfusion since 1st January 1980 in the UK.
Load More Replies... The Queen of France 2 weeks ago
Not a virus therefore non-killable? Umm…might want to re-evaluate that statement.
Fellfromthemoon 2 weeks ago
Actually, a virus cannot be k****d, either, as viruses are not living creatures. Prions are really hard to inactivate: it must be heated to 250 Celsius degrees (482 Farenheit) or over to "k**l", but from surfaces, it can be removed with strong lye. Not just basic soap (pun intended) but something more alkalic.
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Quite likely, not everyone who commented here will make it till Christmas.
glowworm2 2 weeks ago
Seriously, that's the most overplayed Christmas song, second to "Last Christmas" by Wham!
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#21
If in the right conditions, when some bodies decompose, their fat turns into soap and turns the person into a soap mummy.
#22
There is a theory in neuroscience that two consciousness entities exist inside your mind but only one has access to speech. I think that is a mildly disturbing idea.
Katarzyna Drozd 2 weeks ago
The idea comes from studies on split-brain patients (those whose corpus callosum was surgically severed). Michael Gazzaniga and colleagues observed that once the connection between the hemispheres is cut, the brain often behaves as if two semi-independent processing systems exist — especially in tasks where information is presented to only one hemisphere. Only the left hemisphere, which contains the language system, can verbally report mental events.
Chich the witch 2 weeks ago
Next time you are in a elevator wait until the doors close then shuffle to the back corner and mutter "But we agreed! its MY turn today!"
Peter Bear 2 weeks ago
Considering that most humans understand the concept of 'talking to yourself' I'd say this is pretty likely.
Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
That's a bit like what postpartum depression felt like for me. It was like a separate conscious being was the one in control of my emotions and behavior and I was just watching. Total dissociation.
Deborah B 2 weeks ago
Look into the split brain experiments and alien hand syndrome. When the corpus callosum is severed, the hemispheres of the brain can't coordinate, and researchers found that the left and right hemispheres can have separate information and act separately, with one side acting without the person's concious knowledge and control.
Tarantulas have their own frightening defense mechanisms as well. Some species can fling irritating hairs at predators, causing discomfort or even allergic reactions. This behavior, while effective for the spider, is a reminder of how these creatures have evolved in strange and sometimes disturbing ways to survive in the wild.
#23
The Dark Forest ~~theory~~ hypothesis for the Fermi paradox. Any civilization that makes itself known is instantly destroyed by a neighbouring civilization due to fear of themselves being destroyed.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
Yeah. But a limited understanding of physics will tell you that we have no real idea what we're 'listening' for, what medium it might be in, and we're extremely unlikely to 'hear' it in the infinitesimally small time period when it might possibly pass us by.
S Bow 2 weeks ago
Canceled your downvote because you were merely stating facts.
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We finally get a reply to all the messages we've beamed into space - "Shut up! They'll hear you!"
#24
Commercial flights often carry dead bodies.
Auntriarch 2 weeks ago
A passenger dïed during a flight, and when the aircraft was on approach to the destination, apparently the way they used to ask the number of people on the plane was "souls on board"...
#25
Have you ever thought about how whales and dolphins die?
When they get too old and weak to swim to the surface to breathe, they start sinking into the cold, dark depths of the ocean, and suffocate.
Geoffrey Scott 2 weeks ago
Or as Dave Barry recently reminded me, blown up by the Oregon Highway Dept after beaching.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
And most land animals just get eaten alive by ants. I know which I'd choose.
#26
The youngest person to be diagnosed with early onset dementia was just 6 years old.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
It's not really what we consider 'dementia'. It's typically a degenerative condition of the brain, although has similar symptoms to 'normal' old age dementia. Unfortunately, my wife started this at about 30 years old, and now has little cognitive ability left at 60.
Phantom Phoenix 2 weeks ago
I hope she and you are receiving all the support you need
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zenharmony 2 weeks ago
"Childhood Alzheimer's" is not an official medical condition but a term used to describe two rare genetic disorders: Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) and Sanfilippo syndrome (MPS III)"
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
"Childhood degenerative disorder" is similar and hits even earlier.
Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
San Filippo Syndrome is usually called childhood dementia. It's horribly sad and there's no cure - you just have to watch your kid disappear.
Xenia Harley 2 weeks ago
The doctor, Alzheimer, first diagnosed the disease named after him in people in their 30's and 40's. It was only later that doctors realized it's the same disease that afflicts older people. You can get Alzheimers in your thirties and forties.
Elaine Frank 1 week ago
I just read about a little boy of four years old who now has this diagnosis! How can they diagnose a child of four years old with this horrid condition?
AnnaB 2 weeks ago
No, different from progeria. Children with progeria don't normally lose their cognitive function.
Load More Replies...Just like these creepy spiders, these posts are full of mildly disturbing facts that make you squirm, shiver, or rethink what you know. Which of these gave you the chills the most? Have you ever come across other creepy facts that left you unsettled? Keep reading to discover more of the most bizarre and disturbing truths people have shared.
#27
Rabbits will eat their own young if they’re stressed enough.
James D 2 weeks ago
As a parents with young children who can be really annoying, Im not condoning this, just saying I understand where the rabbit is coming from
Child of the Stars 2 weeks ago
I remember more than once wishing I could hand my toddler to their grandparents for about 2 years 😂
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Most laugh tracks played in sitcoms we recorded around the early 50's. A good amount of the people you hear are dead.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
You should watch the edits of friends or big bang theory with the laugh tracks removed
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 2 weeks ago
So? If you watch reruns of older TV shows or older movies, most of those people are dead too. I just watched Maltese Falcon for the Nth time, everybody in that movie is dead.
Nik Odongray 2 weeks ago
My parents once went to a taping of Dharma and Greg and if I watch the episode I can make out my dad’s laugh and my mom’s cough. (Thankfully both of them are still alive.)
#29
The fact that we developed nuclear weapons before color television.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
To be fair, a nuclear b**b is a lot simpler to make than a colour TV.
Auntriarch 2 weeks ago
Can we have an alternative-future sci fi story about dropping colour televisions on Japan instead.
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David 2 weeks ago
False. First Color TV prototype was demonstrated in 1928 (very primitive), and in February 1940 RCA demonstrated to the FCC a working practical model they wanted approval for, for market sales. In september of that year CBS announced in wanted to create a color TV standard for all broadcasters, but the FCC in 1941 rejected it, saying until it was more viable, they wouldnt touch it. 1944 the first electric color TV (predecessor to color CRT) was demonstrated to the press, however 1950 CBS put on the market the first viable mass market color TV, though in 1953 the FCC changed the standards for Color TV, and in 1954 the Color TV that would come to dominate the CRT era came around. First Nuclear Weapons test was July 16, 1945. That is long after 1928, and after 1940 and 1944. So it was before mass market sold color TV, but not before the color TV
Billo66 2 weeks ago
"My favorite show is "When Buildings Explode." My favorite part is when buildings explode. /s
Load More Replies... Giraffe Sitter 2 weeks ago
This isn’t really true. According to Wikipedia, CBS did a public test of color TV in 1940.
#30
It’s physically possible to die of a broken heart. It was seen in either mice or frogs, after them having a large emotional response to something, their heart valves collapsed.
Billo66 2 weeks ago
I fear I've died inside long ago. Too many missing pieces gone from my heart. My body just keeps going through the motions. My mindset is sort of a Fade To Black by Metallica vibe.
Sue User 2 weeks ago
Mine seems to be fading to white. White seems emptier than black.
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Butterfly's have been known to drink blood!
Jeremy James 2 weeks ago
And mosquitoes drink mostly nectar, except when it's time to grow some eggs.
Evolbeky 2 weeks ago
Really?! Interesting. They can still go f themselves though
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#32
Dogs like squeaky toys because it reminds them of a small animals screaming.
Lost Panda 2 weeks ago
My Akita would be so happy when she got a new squeaky toy. Problem was she would break it within a few minutes of play and would always look at me with the saddest eyes. Never could find a strong enough squaky toy for her.
Gingersnap In Iowa 2 weeks ago
I always had to desqueak Melvin's toys bc he didn't like that noise.
Lady Eowyn 2 weeks ago
My dog doesn't like toys at all, and will physically recoil from a squeaky toy.
#33
Baby boomers had severe retirement issues.
When millennials and younger retire, it's going to be a full blown human crisis.
Invest in that 401k hommies!!
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
Baby boomers are still entering retirement. What do you mean, 'had'?
Nils Skirnir 2 weeks ago
Like so many others, they conflate boomers with the silent generation and even ww2 generation.
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DeoManus Argentem 2 weeks ago
Baby boomers, at least in the US, are the wealthiest generation in history! Invest in those retirement accounts, for sure, though - pensions are much more rare for millenials+ unless you worked for the government.
Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
My parents don't seem to be having any issues - they have a better social life than I do. Based on the state of my 403B (retirement for non-profit employees) I'll probably be working up until the moment I die. 🤷♀️
Nils Skirnir 2 weeks ago
Two points. Every generation has had problems with retirements. Secondly your IRA could be completely wiped out in a big market crash. As it were, they were severely damaged in the two Bush2 recessions. Trump’s is going to be much worse
#34
Some people survived the sinking of The Arizona during Pearl Harbor but where's trapped inside. The guards would hear banging form inside for the next week or so but could do nothing to help.
John Dilligaf 2 weeks ago
It wasn't the Arizona. It was the battleship USS West Virginia. Three men, Ronald Endicott, 18; Clifford Olds, 20; and Louis “Buddy” Costin, 21. They lasted 16 days trapped in there. The Seattle Times published an article about it on Dec 7 1995.
Upstaged75 2 weeks ago
No one could get to them because of how the ship was damaged - they were underwater and trapped.
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#35
You're the oldest you've ever been, and you'll never be this young again.
#36
It takes longer to say WWW then it does to say World Wide Web.
Jan Rosier 2 weeks ago (edited)
like in copshows... saying GSW takes longer than saying gunshot wound
camomooey 2 weeks ago
I think they say GSW probably because it's what they use in their written reports. Just guessing though.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
No sane person says 'double-yew, double-yew, double-yew'. We say 'wuh, wuh, whu'.
#37
The picture for your funeral program may have already been taken.
Jeremy James 2 weeks ago
You may already own the outfit you will be wearing on the day you pass. Those very final clothes could be hanging in your closet right now, waiting.
We ride at dawn biatches 2 weeks ago (edited)
Yeah my dad took a picture of his mother and said, smile this one is for your funeral! His siblings - and my gran - thought it was hilarious. The other family at the party was shocked lol
UnclePanda 2 weeks ago
Indirect corollary of 'every picture was taken of you when you were younger.'
Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
I'm hoping it's one of the ones my friend, who is now a professional photographer, took when she was in year 12.
Jane Doe-Doe 2 weeks ago
I actively avoid having my photo taken so, yeah, chances are high that my funeral picture is already on a family member’s phone
#38
Your skeleton is wet.
#39
There are dozens of insects living in every room of your house.
Shark Lady 2 weeks ago
Bug or ghost is a regular game I play with my cats.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 2 weeks ago
Especially in the northern hemisphere, as we proceed into autumn. Spiders like to get inside where it's warm and they set up in far corners that humans don't notice, and would prefer not to be seen.
#40
There’s no limit to how many times a person is allowed to take their driver’s license test after failing it, meaning even the dumbest person you know is legally allowed to operate a speeding death machine.
JK 2 weeks ago
Or driving on a suspension. Or with five DUIs and on the fifth allowed to plea to a 1st. Welcome to New Mexico. Highest DUI rate in the US and the most dangerous roads in general.
Load More Replies... Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
No, they still passed the test under the same scrutiny as anyone else. It juat took them longer.
Russell Bowman 1 week ago
Or, in recent U.S. news, to get a Commercial drivers license (CDL) without taking a test or ability to read/speak English. A 40 ton death machine
#41
Humans have managed to only explore approximately 5 percent of the ocean floor. The other 95 percent remains undiscovered.
General Anaesthesia 2 weeks ago (edited)
If it's undiscovered, how do we know it's there? Unexplored?
T'Mar of Vulcan 2 weeks ago
And when we get down there, we'll see a sign saying, "James Cameron was here".
Annika Kremer 2 weeks ago
I don't find this disturbing, more like extremely awesome that we have places left to explore.
#42
The brain named itself.
Spidercat 2 weeks ago
Not true. The ancient Egyptian word for Cat is Mau...some ancient Egyptian dude or dudess saw a cat and heard it Miaow and went "Well I guess you're a Mau then" Cats named themselves 👍🏻
Load More Replies... #43
In toddlers, their adult teeth are right underneath their eyes.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
Yes. Those ones. They come downwards as the milk teeth fall out. Look up infant or toddler skull X-rays. It's unsettling.... Edit: ah, the lower jaw you mean. No, obviously.
Load More Replies... John Dilligaf 2 weeks ago
you want creepy look at an x-ray of an infant or young child's head. All those teeth.
#44
The fact that cheese is basically expired milk with salt.
Plentyofoomph 2 weeks ago
No it isn't. It isn't expired, its undergone a chemical reaction and stopped being milk
#45
In the English north east town of Hartlepool an abandonded French warship washed up ashore. The only thing onboard was a monkey dressed in a navy uniform. Having never seen French people before the people of hartlepool assumed the monkey was a French person and was put on trial in court and was eventually hanged for not answering any of their questions.
People from Hartlepool to this day are called "monkey hangers" as an insult and the town has statues of monkeys all over.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago (edited)
Not an unreasonable assumption. Perhaps it was eating cheese, and surrendered?
Spencer's slave no longer 2 weeks ago
The ship wasn't abandoned, it was wrecked and the monkey, not the ship, washed ashore. It was during the Napoleonic Wars. The monkey was hanged though.
Jane Doe-Doe 2 weeks ago
If it had a beret on and was carrying a baguette I could see how they might have been mistaken 🤣
#46
A pregnant woman has 506 bones in her body.
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
Up until week 6 only 206 bones. Just before childbirth anywhere between 481 and 506.
Skogsrået 2 weeks ago
So how many bones did octomom have in her while pregnant? Anyone wanna do the math?
Bryn 2 weeks ago
2606, baring everybody had all their bones (300 bones per baby x 8 = 2400 + 206 for mom = 2606)
Load More Replies... #47
Tigers aren't just trafficked for their pelts; their organs, blood, and even claws are thought to have medicinal properties.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
If they leave people alone, sure. Unfortunately, some get a taste, like sharks. They don't survive long.
Load More Replies... #48
We have no idea what actually happens after we die.
David Paterson 2 weeks ago
More disturbing, we know exactly what happens after we die. You don't want to know.
Chich the witch 2 weeks ago
Whatever it is can't be that bad. Humans are an annoying but clever bunch. If it was bad someone would have figured out a way back and no one has returned.
#49
Figs and a certain species of bees are completely codependent on the other’s existence. The fig tree relies on the bees to pollinate for it, while the bee relies on the fig tree to lay her eggs in the figs, as the fig is an immediate food source for the larva.
Kristy Marion 2 weeks ago
It's quite interesting. The wasp flies in from a small opening in the bottom of the fig and doing so causes her wings to fall off. As she's moving around laying eggs, she's also pollinating the flowers inside. I can't tell you how many times I eat a fig and look to see if I can see a dead wasp, but I think it's a different fig species.
#50
Subway footlongs aren’t a foot long.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
Other 'footlongs' aren't actually a foot long either, I'm afraid, ladies.
Nik Odongray 2 weeks ago
Then they went and trademarked the word footlong, so it didn’t have to literally mean a foot long anymore. Kinda like changing the meaning of the word literally or irregardless because they’re so misused anyway.
#51
Your body will only hurt more and more as time goes on. Sometimes you'll get new (back, shoulder, finger) pain all at once, and it won't go away ever again, except for fleeting moments.
Peter Bear 2 weeks ago
It slows it down, at best. Entropy always wins eventually.
Load More Replies... #52
One day, when you were a child getting cuddles and being carried about, Your mum put you down and never picked you up again.
Auntriarch 2 weeks ago
Every time I leave my parents and hug them, I know it might be the last time. You do get maudlin when they're that age.
Bored Trash Panda 2 weeks ago
Wow, this one makes me sad, I can't remember the last time I picked up my son. Now he is 12 and taller than me, so no way I can pick him up.
#53
That you can always see your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it...
#54
You walk past by an average of 16 murderers in your lifetime.
General Anaesthesia 2 weeks ago (edited)
Are you calling people defending their country / lives against agressors, murderers? Mսrdеr: the _unlawful_ _premeditated_ kіllіng of one human being by another.
Load More Replies... Jeremy James 2 weeks ago
That would really depend on your lifestyle. I've lived in major cities for most of my life. I've probably made lattes for more than 16 murderers.
Facefullopubes 2 weeks ago
I and my colleagues must be bringing those numbers up. I could go to work and walk past 30 on one day, even more some days depending where I was working.
#55
That anyone’s whose death you don’t have to experience in your lifetime will have to experience yours.
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 weeks ago
I don't think that word 'experience' means what you think it means
JK 2 weeks ago
I experienced my mother's death. It took her a week. Never forget the sound of the death rattle as her organs slowly failed.
Load More Replies... #56
That 2016 some countries were fluted with these killer-clowns harrasing people and actually being a long time problem for police all around but nobody talks about it anymore. It's like it never even happened.
highwaycrossingfrog 3 days ago
There were also clown scares in 1981 and 2014, but nobody talks about them either. It's a clownspiracy!
Bored Trash Panda 2 weeks ago
Idiots dressed up as clowns going to parks harassing and threatening people. It stopped just as quickly as it started. We had a few reports about it where I lived, even happened to my brother-in-law. I think they were just being idiots, I never heard of them actually hurting anyone.
Load More Replies... #57
Water has a 100% consumer mortality rate.
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Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
Not only had I heard all of these before (many not true) but some people seem to have a strange idea of what is creepy. Like, of course my nose is always visible...
Maren Villadsen 2 weeks ago
Pretty dumb list. The facts are Either not true or basic knowledge
Huddo's sister 2 weeks ago
Not only had I heard all of these before (many not true) but some people seem to have a strange idea of what is creepy. Like, of course my nose is always visible...
Maren Villadsen 2 weeks ago
Pretty dumb list. The facts are Either not true or basic knowledge
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