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People In This Online Group Know Some Pretty Disturbing Facts About The World And Shared Them For Others To Learn
We don’t know so much about the world. We often hear that humans have explored only a tiny fraction of what hides in the ocean and if you think about it, we know even less about what lies in space. So when we do know something, we want to share, especially when there is a perfect opportunity.
Like when someone like Reddit user CallofDutysVeryOwn asks a question “What Is The Most Disturbing Fact You Know?” It seems that other Reddit users like reading and finding out new things and they might sometimes stumble upon something that disturbs them as they created a huge thread that has over 17k answers. Bored Panda collected the most interesting ones for you to enjoy and not to be disturbed too much.
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In 2016, about 11.5 million documents leaked from a tax office in Panama (tax haven). It revealed that nearly all rich people on Earth are part of an enormous criminal conspiracy to evade taxes and hoard stolen wealth. Absolutely nothing was done about it legally. If you want to know more, look up Panama Papers.
Bacteria antibiotic resistance is on a whole other level. Even In the 13 years I’ve been in a medical microbiology lab; antibiotic resistant has really become rampant. It’s not going to stop either. The bacteria multiply and evolve so quickly that even the most effective “bombacillins” will become obsolete. we are going to reach a breaking point where even things like a simple cut or a sinus infection could become life threatening. Don’t take antibiotics like a Z-pak for a cold. It’s most likely viral and the antibiotics are just superfluous. If you are prescribed antibiotics finish them.
Everybody on the planet needs to understand this. Misuse of antibiotics has created a resistance that we now have several strains of bacteria that will KILL us, and we have no antidote. Never, ever take antibiotics unless they are prescribed. Do not request or demand them if you have a virus, because they only work with bacterial infection, not viral. Listen to your doctors. Always finish the course. Taking them when you don't need them, or stopping too early is what causes resistance in humans, to the point where most antibiotics don't work anymore. It's also allowing bacteria to develop that are resistant to all our antibiotics. This situation has the potential to make Covid look like playtime.
I am disturbed by the fact that the internet has given an outlet to all the idiots and attention craving people. for example, I just watched a 747 pilot debunking titk tok videos that promote dangerous behavior on planes. That's a lot of energy exertion to set things right. And this is the tip of the iceberg.
And the psychologists who debunk the supposed psych tips from tik tok etc
The effects that trauma have on development are chilling. Trauma completely rewires the brain and makes everything from forming attachment to problem solving more difficult. Intervention and treatment can bring about great healing, although it is often a difficult and long road.
Half of the homeless people in America were in the foster care system at some point in their lives
60% of all wild life has vanished since 1970 and still going down.
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at a frequency of 52 Hertz, meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the "loneliest whale on the planet.
The Velociraptor noises in the Jurrasic Park/World franchise are actually the sounds of tortoises mating.
For someone who had to observe and record tortoises for hours in the past...this makes a lot of sense.
If u get the wrong blood type for a transfusion, one of the symptoms is "a sense of impending doom"
I'd never be able to tell, since I have a sense of impending doom on the daily.
The way we experience life is not linear, but logarithmic. We’ve all noticed that a year keeps feeling shorter, but it’s because there’s a mathematical formula for it. It’s called Weber’s Law. Life is truly too short. Before we ever notice, it’s over.
Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.
There was a time when babies were operated on without anesthetics. It was believed that their nervous system wasn't developed enough to feel pain.
You could be one brain injury away into being a completely different person. Possibly miserable.
Stroke patients can unfortunately sustain brain trauma that can change temperaments, personality, language, mobility, etc. Important to know the signs of a stroke and seek medical attention immediately.
You could have an aneurysm in your brain right now waiting to explode and you'd never know
Thanks for the added anxiety but somehow I rather know than not know...strange.
Well recently I found out cobras can growl
Even if you dont have a facebook account, Facebook have a "shadow profile" on you, that collects data from all over the internet (Piecing together age, name, location, interests and the like), to get to know who you are, so if/when you create a new account, they already know everything about you.
Also…squirrels are not herbivores! They have, in fact, been known to attack and devour those adorable little chipmunks when particularly hungry.
One out of every 200 people on Earth are related to Genghis Khan.
Only 20% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived World War 2
Unless you have a child you are the last of a lineage that goes back to a single celled organism floating in a soup.
This is the age of stars. There will come a time when no new stars form and all stars will die. There will be no light. None. Just darkness and cold. Comforting somehow.
Might not be that disturbing but blind people don’t see black, they just don’t SEE. If they were born blind, they don’t know what black is. So, they just do not see anything at all
Kinda on the same wavelength, I've always wondered if deaf people have a voice in their head because they obviously can think but won't know how to sound out any words. So is it just constant silence?
I'm deaf. Spoken English is my first language but primarily use ASL. I certainly do hear voices in my head. Sometimes I see it as words. Sometimes as signs. Other times as images.
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I've never considered this...I always thought it would like like closing your eyes.
Some dr guy told me a cool experiment to simulate the experience - cover one eye for a minute but notice the covered eye is now not seeing black, but nothing etc. it’s a cool little experiment.
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I don't know that that is true for all blind people. I have worked with a variety of disabled people. One was a young man who was born blind and he said there was definitely a difference for him when he was completely in the dark, versus turning his face towards the sun. Also, blind is still the legal term used even for people who still have some vision. Depending on your type of blindness, you may still have light receptors within your eye sockets, or rudimentary eye formation that can distinguish certain shadows.
I could be wrong, but it used to be only 7% of people were called (as it was known when I worked with blind people) 'black blind' aka couldn't see anything. Blind people can often see shades but not in sufficient amounts to be considered partially sighted.
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It makes sense. You cannot see out the back of your head. It's not that you see blackness from the back of your head, you just...don't see.
I don't think this is a concept we can understand! And also not true for all blind! Depends from the severity cause some can see shadows i guess this is for 100% blind from both eyes
A lot of blind people see way more than you think. There are many different grades of blind. Someone can be perfectly able to go around town on a bycicle and still be legally blind
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My blind dad once told me about his dreams, he said they were so weird. When he was young he had a bit of vision. He says, he dreams in what he suppose is colours.
My friends father was born blind and he always described it as trying to see through your ear.
I’ve also heard it said as trying to see through your hands
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I wonder how freaky it would be to be born blind and then have your sight restored years later. There'd be so much to take in that my head would probably explode.
Wrong! Color blind people do not see colors like regular sighted people, but they see something! My son was born blind in one eye. His very first drawings of himself are normal with the blind eye being a big black dot. If he could truly see nothing, what would he have drawn?
As someone who has a condition that will rob me of my eyesight, THATS TERRIFYING!!!
As someone who is partially blind since birth I can confirm this- there isn't a black area in my vision, it's just not there. Easiest way to think about it- do you see blackness because you cannot see behind you, or is it just not there?
Well that confused me until I thought about it. I asked a friend who lost his sight in a car accident... he can see staticy greys and egengrau and reddish pinkish swirls and occasionally some white. I think that’s REALLY COOL!!
so then.... what..... is it? like... what is "nothing"??? ahhh im scared
So then what do they "see"? Or what does a sighted person who becomes blind see?
My grandma who lost her sight in her 60s says it's like being in a pitch black room without windows. She can see a change in light patterns which allows her to sometimes recognize that there is a large object or person but it's just like a darker area.
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Close one eye and try to describe what you see out of that eye.
but then-how cna they not see anything??? i cant imajine how you woulnt see anything, not evena black screen
Well black is in effect not a colour, just the absence of visible light.
I’ve been deeply involved in AA for over 47 years. One of the many things I’ve learned is all professions include ppl who are drinking or drunk while working. This includes airline pilots. I’m betting as I write this there is a legally drunk pilot in the air right now.
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured.
For my fellow habitual neck crackers; studies show there is a 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 250,000 chance that popping your neck can cause a small tear (dissection) in the inner lining of an artery, which can lead to blood clots forming that can create a blockage in an artery downstream, causing an Ischaemic Stroke (a condition where the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.)
Cloudy oysters mean they’re full of “reproductive fluids”
I learned that the amount of soldiers stationed in Alaska that are depressed/suicidal is off the charts. Kids get stationed up there that aren’t outdoor people are absolutely miserable. They don’t have the tools to cope yet.
It's not only troops, there was documentary about lives of young people in Alaska, and it was miserable. Always same people, nowhere else to go or hide, drug and alcohol abuse sky-high... I am pretty outdoor person I think but unless you're willing to risk your life camping for weeks in wilderness there's really very little you could do.
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I love me some facts. The fate of the world seems grim, but only when you view it through a human-centric lens. Fact is, the world and the universe will go on long after us and hopefully something better will come along!
Yeah the world wont end, it might became too hostile for humans to survive (doubt it, we as a species seem to be very resilient parasite) but it will go on.
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That’s great , it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes , an airplane Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane , listen to yourself churn world serves its own needs , dummy serve your own needs. --Michael Stipe.
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength - the ladder starts to clatter with a fear of height, down, height, wire in a fire, represent the seven games and a government for hire and a combat site - left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck. Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped. Look at that low plane, fine, then - uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself!
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is it at all comforting that things like fossil fuels and precious metals and useful anti-biotics and pandemics and, you know, the entire world being on fire seems to be coming to a head at the same time? part of me is like "hurry up, at least it will all be over!"
I have bad news for you. This sort of "everything seems to be coming to a head" scenario... is not new. It happens all the freaking time throughout human history. And it always seems like this new one is "the big one". That said, very real problems had to be addressed with each previous doomsday event, and this time is no different!
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I love me some facts. The fate of the world seems grim, but only when you view it through a human-centric lens. Fact is, the world and the universe will go on long after us and hopefully something better will come along!
Yeah the world wont end, it might became too hostile for humans to survive (doubt it, we as a species seem to be very resilient parasite) but it will go on.
Load More Replies... That’s great , it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes , an airplane Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane , listen to yourself churn world serves its own needs , dummy serve your own needs. --Michael Stipe.
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength - the ladder starts to clatter with a fear of height, down, height, wire in a fire, represent the seven games and a government for hire and a combat site - left her, wasn't coming in a hurry with the Furies breathing down your neck. Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped. Look at that low plane, fine, then - uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself!
Load More Replies... is it at all comforting that things like fossil fuels and precious metals and useful anti-biotics and pandemics and, you know, the entire world being on fire seems to be coming to a head at the same time? part of me is like "hurry up, at least it will all be over!"
I have bad news for you. This sort of "everything seems to be coming to a head" scenario... is not new. It happens all the freaking time throughout human history. And it always seems like this new one is "the big one". That said, very real problems had to be addressed with each previous doomsday event, and this time is no different!
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