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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.
I'm trying to work out how the laws of physics, time and space, could be warped as we move through time and space, and that the experience changes as our cells are older. I wish I was better at science.
It's not a matter of spacetime warping but rather of perception. When you are young, your experiences are much more limited than when you are old. 1 day of your life is a significantly longer amount of time relative to how long you've been alive at age 6 than it is at age 16, and far longer than at age 36. Thus it feels far longer to you. The actual amount of time that passes is the same as ever, but your brain does not process it like that.
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So Dr Who and Highlander must just skip through years at their age ;o)
Especially if the timeless child tale is true! Waaay more than 12 regenerations
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Best way I’ve heard it is that when we are a year old, one year is 100% of our lives. At two, it’s already down to 50% of our lives. So the older we get the shorter a year is in comparison to those we’ve already lived. It is depressing.
My very elderly cousin said life is like a roll of toilet paper...it goes faster the closer you get to the end..
When I'm five a year is twenty percent of my life. Now at sixty (or so) it is much less. No wonder life speeds up as we age.
Yes, but does life speed as fast for you, as it seems to with me? Like it honestly only feels like YESTERDAY that I was diagnosed with kidney cancer at age 9, only to have it reccur in my liver at age 11, yet that was 27 & 25 YEARS AGO NOW!!! seriously what the F**K is happening to my life??? My life is sped up so fast, that at some point, I am going to blink, and it will be my very LAST DAY OF LIFE!!!!!
Load More Replies... Check out a day of viewing endless sit com re-runs from the 60s and 70s and time will expand to the infinite . . . If you are on the phone, watching TV, doing something mindless then your life will follow. DO SOMETHING!
I was once told “Life is like a roll of toilet paper. The more of it is gone, the faster the rest of it goes!”.
receive from others, and you will have to live with this CONSTANT torture on your soul, and your very BEINGl open up to you, the realm of the dead, evil and paranormal to the FULLEST EXTENT? After you die, do you fear that you will spend the rest of time, watching EVERYONE and EVERYTHING, eventually die, sometimes in the most HORRIFIC and PAINFUL ways that you, or anyone, could EVER possibly IMAGINE? Do you fear that after you die, you will end up seeing SO MUCH fear, heartbreak, suffering, evil, and just downright HORRIFIC and PAINFUL things that people INFLICT on, and RECEIVE from others, and you will have to live with that, until the END OF EXISTENCE!!!!!
Do you fear death? Do you fear death itself? Or do you fear your METHOD of death? Do you fear that there is an afterlife? Do you fear that there is NO afterlife? Do you fear that after you die, there is just complete, all consuming NOTHINGNESS, until the literal end of time? Do you fear that what comes after you die, is something that is based on your most deepest, darkest, and most DEPRAVED FEARS and NIGHTMARES that no one could ever, ever, EVER possibly imagine?
Do you fear that after you die, you are not there AT ALL and NEVER will be again? Do you fear the very real possibility that after you die, you will NEVER feel love, happiness, joy, excitement, or ANY good emotion, EVER AGAIN! Do you fear that your God will reject you after you die and will send you to HELL? Do you fear that you have NOT been a good enough person in your life, so God will REFUSE to send you to heaven? Do you fear that you will be rejected by God, because you used to be an EVIL person, until you completely changed for the BETTER?
Load More Replies... Thanks for the incoming existential crisis, and the horrifying, all consuming fear of death, and knowledge, that one day I will just cease to exist!!!
not exactly as stated :D "The logarithm is the mathematical inverse of the exponential, so while exponential growth starts slowly and then speeds up faster and faster, logarithm growth starts fast and then gets slower and slower."
It's because of life, really. When you're 5, a year is 20% of all the time you've known! At 20, it's now 5% of all the time you know. You get to 50, and even though a day may drag by, a year is over in a blink - if you can even remember what you did a year ago...
This is simple to explain. When you are younger a minute or an hour of your life is a much larger fraction of your life than it is when you get older. Another way to put it, by the time you are 60 a year is 1/60th of your life as opposed to when you are 12 it is only 1/12th of your life. So a year is a much smaller segment of your life as you get older thus it seems to move faster.
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
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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