It is said that knowledge is power and with every day people learn more and more by experiencing things or hearing it from others. Some of the information that we hear not only is useful but also draws our interest in a specific topic or field. There is also another type of information that can be not so intriguing and even seem scary. But facts are facts no matter what.
Having this in mind, a Reddit user asked other people online “What are some not so fun facts?” and soon members started sharing things that might be interesting as well as disturbing.
Here are 44 best facts out of 10k replies shared by members of Reddit. Which one of these do you find the most interesting? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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Birds of a Feather Think Alike
Crows are currently experiencing their stone age, but we will never see cool modern crows because we will be long gone before they reach the next stage.
Basically they have been creating tools which researchers are saying are actually more advanced than ones that early humans made. They also have been studied domesticating wolves! They hunt with them, sleep with them, and individual crows have been seen specifically bonding with individual dogs, like humans do with pets.
Like pigeons they also remember if you feed them & come back
Load More Replies..."The live crows on set welcomed me as their own. One even tried to mate." — Moira Rose
Except it won't be an asteroid that wiped us out, but rather our own selves.
Load More Replies...I love crows, and I am always happy when one lands in my yard or at my feeder. They are so clever and underrated.
Let's build Knowledge Arks so maybe they can learn all that we have learned. We'll save our heirs a lot of trouble.
Load More Replies...Heroes Off Duty
On 9/11, firefighters had to hide in the rubble for the rescue dogs to find because they kept getting depressed that they couldn't find anyone alive.
Hiding for them helped us first responders, too! Being “found” was a bit of light during the darkest days. The dogs were overjoyed & lavished us with badly needed love & kisses.
Load More Replies...Those poor dogs. We know all about the suffering that first responders have gone through in the years since, physical and mental. What about the dogs?
Yes, many of the 9/11 rescue does had physical problems afterwards
Load More Replies...Awww......dogs love, compassion, and emotions know no bounds! We are so undeserving of these beautiful gifts from Heaven! So glad the firefighters took time during this horrific event to give these dogs reason to hope! God bless the four-legged, and the two-legged heroes of that terrible time!
This is true of most search and rescue does that don't find the person that's being searched for (they work in a team of 4-5 teams of human/dog). One of my first mentors in the dog world was a woman who had two search and rescue (with one of those being cadaver trained. Not ever search and rescue dog is trained for dead bodies) and she would tell stories of having to "hide" for one of her dog she was working because they didn't find the person
That probably goes hand in hand with accounts of bloodhounds running themselves to death because they're so relentless on the trail of a scent. My info is merely what I've heard or seen on tv. No actual proof. But it makes sense.
Load More Replies...Legacy Written in Cells
A woman’s cancer cells were preserved and found to be practically immortal. This led to a ton of discoveries and breakthroughs in the medical field. Her family still cannot afford their own medical bills and this was all done without their knowledge or consent.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks. She passed away in 1951 from cancer. She was black and very poor and didn’t get great care in the hospital. A doctor had been looking for cells that lasted longer and harvested her cells, separating the cancerous and healthy cells. The healthy cells died while the cancer cells seemingly never stopped replicating.
Her cells are named HeLa cells and have replicated so many times apparently they’d weigh a total more than 50 million metric tons. A pseudonym for her has been Helen Lane. She didn’t know her cells were taken and neither did her family until way later. The family has been through a lot.
If you want to know more, I highly suggest reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I couldn’t put the book down. There apparently is also a movie about her life.
I'm partly outraged by her mistreatment but I'm finding it difficult resenting medical progress. It's a tough one but I guess her cells, her body, her choice. To take that choice away is wrong.
Absolutely sick and disgusting that a piece of her was stolen and is being used for profit without her consent or benefit. America has a very long history of doing very sick, torturous, and inhumane medical experimentation on black people. And before you downvote me, research the Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiment, the massive radiation doses administered to blacks with cancer with the lie that they were treating their cancer (and then dying of radiation poinsoning) , Gynecological surgeries done to black women WITHOUT anesthesia, and the sterilization of black women without their consent. That's not to forget what the US has done to people in PR, indigenous people, and those at the border (sterilization without consent of refugees). The US has a long history of using the most vulnerable and those whom they deem inferior and dispensible for medical experimentation and selfish profit.
And none of this is taught in school. I was amazed when I stumbled across the Buck vs Bell case in high school. IMO, the way Germany handles the holocaust and nazis should be the standard across the world. Are the current local people to blame? No, but we need to learn from the past to have a better future. Far too easy to bury your head in the sand.
Load More Replies...I have a book about her, it's very depressing to have to read about her treatment, yet still amazing that her cells will never die.
I live by the high school named after her! My friend’s older sister goes.
Yeah, I knew the story. I am actually casually working with these cells. There are a lot of other immortal cell lines that derived from different species, a lot from humans. I often think about her and feel sad. I mean, the cervix carcinom that killed her is still alive while she is dead sinc like almost 100 years....
Adding more info: - The decision was not based on race. Her doctor took samples of cells to test their longevity from all his patients. Noone of them gave consent, because it wasn't required at the time. - Mrs Lacks didn't die due to medical malpractice. Cancer treatment wasn't very far developed in 1950's and her condition was very severe. She had a very slim chance and it wasn't harmed by taking a sample of tumor. - Doctor Gey, who discovered that HeLa cells are immortal, did not patent them or gained any form of revenue from them. He realized that they are going to be a big breakthrough in medical research and considered it unethical to capitalize on it.
Unexpected Belly Check
The number one cause of death for pregnant women worldwide is Murder. Horrific to think about.
Probably perfectly acceptable in Texas. Can't have an abortion, but you can open-carry a firearm.
As a Texan I can assure you, Texas is the new Florida Man.
Load More Replies...A few comments up, someone posted a study link. If you have Reddit, you can also click on the source under the post and it'll take you to the original post, which might have more details too
Load More Replies...It depends how would you look at it. For me it means our medicine is so advanced that the number one isn't labour complications
It’s more a reflection of improved healthcare, than anything else. It says that most pregnant women who die do not die of natural causes, like disease or complications from pregnancy. Not that I’m saying murdering pregnant women is okay; I’m just pointing out that causes of death in pregnant women from all other causes is so low that murder emerges as the top cause.
And by partners/spouses most of them. It is a sad statistic. Be safe, ladies! I am not a man hating feminist, I am a feminist who loves men, but also knows statistical facts.
I feel like this makes total sense, pregnant women tend to be healthy, younger women who aren't exactly going to be living the wild life while pregnant. It's not to suggest that them being murdered isn't horrific, it just doesn't surprise me much that not many die in other ways.
Mythical Guard on Duty
Pluto didn't even make a full orbit of the sun from its discovery to its demotion.
I always feel personally offended by the fact that pluto was demoted
Load More Replies...It was not demoted, it was reclassified. I think it makes Pluto kind of cool and different.
So, all in all Pluto is having a bad year? Sort of its corona-year... Hang in there, next year will be better and another civilisation will respect you again as a full planet.
But with Pluto's sad demotion, does it make sense to talk about the mysterious planet in our system as Planet X?
Power in Every Word
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.
He was more of a pacifist than a hammer wielding God of war
Load More Replies...So was the was The Queen and Marylyn Monroe . They were born the same year :) but we all knew that 😂
I had to Google it. Anne Frank: June 12, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr.: January 15, 1929 (TIL...)
Wow. My mom was born in 1929. She died in 1989, and I thought that was young. Just shows you how young Anne Frank, and Dr. King were when they died. Very sad.
Load More Replies...I was going to say that! It really gives you a perspective that this "history" really wasn't that long ago.
Load More Replies...Why does this keep getting to people? I'm genuinely curious at this point.
Probably because we associate these two figures with vastly different events + the fact we remember Anne Frank as a young girl and Martin Luther King Jr. as a grown up man.
Load More Replies...Timeless Charm in Blue
Betty White is older than WW2 and sliced bread.
Who ever disagrees is a disgrace. I shall say no more!
Load More Replies...So instead of saying "the greatest thing since sliced bread", we should say " the greatest thing since Betty White". Eventually anyway.
Shot of Confidence
You're more likely to survive being shot in the head than rabies.
From what I have seen and heard, it's A cruel and painful death. My heart goes out to anyone who has lost someone to rabies.
Very cruel. I've seen two people die from rabies. It's horrific.
Load More Replies...As someone who was bitten by a feral animal in a country with regular rabies outbreaks, it was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life. The shots are no longer administered in the stomach (hallelujah!) but ABSOLUTELY have to be given as a series, specifically within the right windows of time (first shot MUST be given within 24 hours, 2nd in 3 days, 3rd in 7 days, 4th in 14-21 days) AND you need to find human immunoglobulin which is the most painful part because it is injected into the bite site, and also needs to be done within the first week. I had to FIGHT with doctors at the first hospital about the timing of the shots (I had luckily been warned about rabies and told exactly what was needed by my travel clinic before going), and I had to FLY to different parts of the country to get to locations that had the rabies shots. There is a lot we take for granted living in a country where rabies outbreaks are few and far between.
Wow, what a gruesome experience! Are you completely healed now? Or are there long-lasting effects? (from rabies, not the vaccine, just saying)
Load More Replies...That is pretty easy math. There is single person in whole world in history recorded which survived rabies. There's a lot more who survived shot in head. I still think antivaxxers should try rabies.
Very true. Rabies is 99.9% mortality rate (just say 100%) and a gunshot to the head, eh, a mere NINETY PERCENT MORTALITY. In short: They both are reallllllly deadly.
Once symptoms of rabies appear, it's too late. All they can do is make you comfortable while you slowly die a terrible death.
Hey Id row! If my recall is right; Comfortable is difficult because your nervous system is hijacked by the virus....so medications don't have the regular effect. Thank God for Vaccines, right?!
Load More Replies...Thank goodness there is no rabies in Australia. We may have every dangerous animal on the planet but none of them have rabies.
Unless it is treated before symptoms appear. Then the mortality rate goes way down.
Load More Replies...Chasing Light and Shadows
People joke about Australia having dangerous animals of all kinds. However, no. 1 enemy to Australians is the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world. An average Australian is four times likely to get skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australians will probably get it by the age of seventy.
Also everyone thinks that in Australia you are in danger because of huge dangerous animals or lizards or insects or snakes but the animals that are responsible for the most deaths in Australia are the horses
The European (British) colonists have the cancer problem and not the original native inhabitants of Australia who have lived for thousands of years in this part of the world without incident.
"Every day around 5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are diagnosed with cancer. Indigenous Australians have a slightly higher rate of cancer diagnosis and are approximately 40 per cent more likely to die from cancer than non-Indigenous Australians." https://www.canceraustralia.gov.au/key-initiatives/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-health
Load More Replies...The idea that a tan was healthy condemned generations of Australians.
Back in the day maybe but dermatology checkups are free and common. Most people notice a mole and get it removed on the same day.
Load More Replies...And the Australians are very, very good at wearing sunblock and protecting their skin, generally speaking. However, as temperatures have risen around the rest of the world, I am constantly seeing westerners expose themselves to dangerous levels of sun without protection, and more worryingly, exposing babies and children.
Has there been any research to determine why? Lack of pertinent education, physical circumstances such as hole in the ozone, etc? Knowing why could help combat it.
The way the earth orbits around the sun and our location in the southern hemisphere, means we actually are closer to the sun during summer months compared to other countries. Australia gets approx an extra 7% of solar UV intensity compared to Europe and factor in our clearer atmospheric conditions means we are exposed to up to 15% more UV rays than Europe. Also most of us don't have the protection from the harsh sun due to having light skin. You will find that majority (if not all) places where the UV rays are harsh, the indigenous people have darker skin to protect them.
Load More Replies...It's not a big deal for natives who were born with melanin in their skin, it's different story for caucasian settlers who were born with little to no melanin in their skin.
However, Oz doctors and citizens are sh1t hot on detection and treatment of it.
Correct, I got a mole checked and removed on the same day painlessly.
Load More Replies...I wonder what the rate is for white peeps from Mzansi. South Africa is at the same latitude as Australia. My dad died from melanoma.
Empty Room, Heavy Thoughts
At any time, your body could make a mistake while fighting an infection/virus and register a vital type of cell as unwanted for the rest of your life.
Your immune system can also decide that your own cells are enemies, and attack them. (Speaking as someone with multiple autoimmune disorders.)
I hope you are getting some sort of treatment to help you out. My immune system gets confused if I'm sick and attacks my nerves, but luckily it ONLY happens if I get really sick.
Load More Replies...doctors think thats whats happening to me right now. I've been very very sick.
I learned about this when my untreated strep throat turned into rheumatic fever when I was 20. I ended up with polyarthritis and joint problems, because the shape of the disease cells were very similar to the shape of my joint cells and my immune system couldn't tell the difference and just kept attacking.
Yeah, that's probably what happened with my islets of langerhans cells, and lemme tell you, type 1 diabetes sucks.
Pretty sure this doesn't necessarily happen when the body is fighting something - autoimmunity (seeing a type of body cells as foreign) happens due to "screening" problems in the bone marrow or thymus when an immune cell reacts to self very strongly and yet doesn't commit suicide (apoptosis). Anyone with more immunology know ?
A lot of autoimmune diseases are idiopathic, which is doctor-ese for “I don’t know WTF happened.”
Load More Replies...That's what autoimmune disease is. I have a couple of them. They're awful.
Master of the Couch Command
Vet tech here … most of our older pets don’t die of old age, they die of cancer. It sucks.
There’s no way to prevent cancer. It’s a mutation of cells. However, to keep your good boi or gurl with you longer some things that really make a difference: a quality diet (please don’t feed them the cheapest stuff, it’s like humans eating the cheapest foods; not terribly healthy though it may fill all the nutritional requirements), all the regular vaccines (for the love of Dog, make sure you get your puppies the Parvo vaccine!), and a good flea/tick and heart worm preventative. Exercise and not letting them become overweight, and regular dentals are even better!
Also, screw you if you buy your vaccines for your domestic pets at the feed store or the tractor supply (talking dogs and cats here, not large farm animals). Just because it’s cheaper and has the same chemical name doesn’t mean you’re giving the right dose, amount, at the proper location, or getting the assurance that those vaccines have been treated and stored in the correct manner. You get what you pay for.
Our vet (who is also a top surgeon) actually recommended that we buy our pet drugs online as they work out way cheaper. This was partly due to the fact that our pup was born with a bad liver and because of that we couldn't get insurance. So she was helping us out. If you buy your drugs from a reputable pharmacy then there is no reason to suspect that they are any less effective than vet-supplied medicines.
I think the OP means buying the meds and giving the shots themselves. You can buy most pet vaccines at the feed store--all except heart worm meds and rabies. People DIY pet vaccines because they don't want to pay a professional.
Load More Replies...Seems a buit nasty at the end there. There are loads of reasons people choose a cheaper version of things. Is an animal better off with a horrible family who is poor but loves them and (GASP) gets vaccines from the feed store, or on the streets with no vaccines at all? Saying "Screw you" to people who are trying their best is pretty crappy. I get wanting the best. Not everyone can afford it. And assuming they're being purposefully cheap because they are trying to take care of basic needs in a way that they can afford... that's not fair. You do get what you pay for. And so many can't afford the best. How completely privileged you are to think everyone has access to all you do.
They could get the cheap ones at the co op if the vet says it's ok, bring to vet to make sure, and have the vet give the correct dose to the animal. I've met very few vets that are out to fleece the customer.
Load More Replies...I blame the veterinary pharmaceutical companies for some of this. After Hurricane Katrina, my rescue group took in a truckload of "Katrina dogs". 100% of them had heart worms. The medicine that prevents heartworms is not expensive in itself, but I pay $106 for three months of treatment for small dogs. And that's with a discount. The drugs could be a lot less expensive, people without many resources should be able to afford to buy the stuff since it's so cheap to make. Lest I get lectured about how poor people shouldn't have pets; not all of these people were poor when they got their companions, and a great many of these animals were rescued off the street, because no one was caring for them.
My sweet old kitty girl Vera died at 19; the vet said he couldn’t even tell what kind of cancer it was, that it seemed to be a mishmash of at least three very basic cancers. I fed her RadCat, which is basically ground raw meat with blood, innards and bone marrow and no crap.
My beautiful cat Mr. Egypt died at 16, earlier this month. We were going to take him to the vet to see what was wrong with him. We were feeding him the best-quality food we could find, but he wouldn't gain weight. Our kittens occasionally stole that food from him and got fat quickly. He was a skeleton, the poor kitty, and one day I woke up to discover that he had gotten trapped between his cage and his litter box and died.
Load More Replies...You can get vaccines MADE for cats & dogs at feed/tractor stores that are formulated specifically for their species. Don't use vaccines designed for a cow or horse on your dog. As long as it's for the correct species, you are fine.
That doesn’t mean that the owner is administering in the right site and right dosage.
Load More Replies...So veterinary medicine is regulated by the FDA. if it has the same chemical name it is by law required to be the same drug and the same efficacy. As for dosage and injection location I couldn't comment to that, but the end of that post seems more like angry at a different business taking custom than anything else
Many vaccines have very careful storage requirements. Unless these are followed carefully the vaccine may not work effectively.
Load More Replies...It really does make difference. I know that from experience. And having animal costs money. If you can't afford it, don't have one. You can check up front how much what costs and during life things can add up.
If you get a puppy/kitten, you can now get pet insurance for them, which can save you a boatload if your pet has health issues, like becoming diabetic, as my Petrushka did. It took so long to find the right type of insulin—I had no idea there were so many choices; I’m very lucky to be from a family with only one known diabetic.
Load More Replies.......... you can buy ramdom vaccines at the tractor supply?? Is that a US thing? I have vaccinated horses myself, but that was with shots the vet had prescribed and I got them from the pharmacy
Yes. Most tractor supplies have a large supply of vaccines. The only one that owners can't do is the rabies.
Load More Replies...My dog has a tumor in the corner of his eye the vet said he will be fine as long as it's not growing
Security Shuffle
The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.
Yeah, I've accidentally taken stuff through that I shouldn't. It should be known that TSA agents have some of the highest turnover of any government department. They are poorly paid, poorly trained, get nothing but abuse from people, and are probably not motivated to know or care what they are doing most of the time. Fact is, for all that standing in line and waiting at airports, it would be pretty easy for anyone to commit another act of plane terrorism.
It seems like there are 2 main types of TSA agents. Apathetic or power tripping.
Load More Replies...Ok I feel like someone needs to point out that contraband is not the same as a weapon. Contraband can be as simple as too much shampoo being taken through security.
And it’s patently insane that that’s considered contraband.
Load More Replies...The TSA gets randomly "stress tested" by an outside contractor that sends hundreds of ""undercover travelers" through major hubs throughout the US. They are all carrying various types of contraband and if found, they immediately produce credentials but otherwise, they are supposed to board the flight and repeat at the next airport until it is found.
Load More Replies...Could you imagine the flight delays if every passenger was vigorously screened? Plus at $9hr you get what you pay for.
Not being a rabid nationalist in fear of every plane being hijacked, I never asked for this, so I’m only paying for it because I have no choice what they spend my taxes on.
Load More Replies...And yet they also can go way overboard in what they'll confiscate. They made my 8 year old son take off and throw away the necklace he had saved up and bought, because it had a small shark tooth pendant. After we got past the check point, we went into an airport gift shop and they were selling brass statues of deer antlers, which anyone could then take onto the planes.
and San Fran that uses a private company had a miss rate of only 12%. And had a 5x better rate at finding weapons. The other 15 airports that also still have permission to use private over TSA have similar results. Yet Congress refuses to allow more airports to go private and eliminate the TSA, rather we throw more money at the TSA while trying to eliminate the private ones.
Privatization of everything is usually something I’m against. The real problem here is the obsession with ludicrous security parameters and violation of civil liberties.
Load More Replies...Filing System on Pause
Roughly 40% of murders go unsolved.
So I have at least a 40% chance of getting away with it? Asking for a friend...
Depending on who your friend is and who is their victim.
Load More Replies...I was very close to two murder victims. One was killed on the street, he was shot in the head by a guy using a gun stolen from a corrections officer. They even knew the street name of the shooter, and it was never solved. The second was a guy I worked with. He was killed in the office (we worked night shift, he was overnight). The police finally brought dogs out, and followed the trail of the murderer across the street to a hospital parking lot, where they lost the trail. They had a very clear bloody hand print, the sheath from the knife used to kill him, and some money with bloody finger prints on it. They never caught the guy. I am pretty convinced that unless someone walks up and confesses, or is turned in by someone else, murders are just as likely to go unsolved as not. The stuff on TV, where murderers are caught by dogged police work, has not been my experience. I live in a large metro area, so it's not like they were Barney Fife.
A lot of shows only show the part where they arrest the guy, but there's a whole lot of legal court crap that has to be gone through to actually convict people.
Load More Replies...If one gang member kills a rival gang member, the police are unlikely to do much about it
Or if it's a sex worker, a drug user, or a homeless person.
Load More Replies...If you don't live in the gun murder mayhem nation it might look very different. Clearance rate for murder is usually well above 90% in Germany. 2020: 93,5%) https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/152525/umfrage/entwicklung-der-polizeilichen-aufklaerungsquote-bei-mord-seit-1995/
That's probably not true. Experts in Germany suspect that the murder rate is probably much higher as many murders go undiscovered. Police coverage in rural areas is low and the forensic sciences are lacking. Bodies often have to be transported over long distances for autopsies. There are many forensic fields lacking experts in Germany, for example forensic odontology. You can't even get training for that here.
Load More Replies...Botched investigations, killer and victim unknown to each other or cannot be connected...so many reasons
Yeah...your best chance at getting away with murder is 1. Be extremely rich or 2. Kill someone at random, someone you have no connection to.
Load More Replies...i just did a project on cold cases for my forensics class. it's insane what people can get away with.
I would say most of these are in places where the cartels, mob/Mafia etc have a huge influence on the police/investigators etc.
Garden Squad Assemble
The creator of Plants vs. Zombies was fired from EA because he hated the idea of microtransactions.
Micro transaction and dlc are different things, aren't they?
Load More Replies...Although, I am a programmer within the games industry I practically never play any modern 'video games' these days. No real difficulty/challenge... that doesn't keep people addicted and obliged to spend money.
Most players these days don't want to be challenged, but there still people making games that offer real challenges without just resorting to repetition/grinding. Saying that as someone also in the games industry and an avid gamer since they came on cassette tapes :).
Load More Replies...What fools. PVZ is an amazing game. I hope he went to another company and creates one that makes EA green with envy.
PvZ2 wasn't bad (travelling trough time) and had a small fee with jus a few microtransactions when it was released. Within a few months that version was practically gutted and turned in a full microtransaction fest and gameplay was radically changed to be unbearable without paying.
Load More Replies...micropay is HORRIBLE. buy the damn game ONCE AND PLAY FOREVER thank you
Nature’s Sneaky Surprise
Mushrooms are more like humans than plants.
I have dust bunnies that are smarter than some humans
Load More Replies...This intrigues me because the most "meat-like" vegetarian food out there is Quorn, which is labelled as Vegan, but is made from types of fungi / mushroom. It is very meat like. The consistency mainly. Now this mushroom fact is making it make more sense but also making it way more concerning..... what sort of tests have we done on them to know what they "really" are? Aaaaaaand that's the name of the internet rabbit whole I'll be going down tonight!!
We are both sister groups in the bigger category called opistokonta together with some other less known groups. So while we are been split of millions of years we share a closer ancestor than with algae or plants
Load More Replies...Yeah, I heard about this. Studies have found that mushrooms hunt for food, keep track of their finances, and even consider new decorative cushions.
Mushrooms...do actually hunt. They do it on a scale humans hadn't realised until relatively recently. Their hyphae extend towards minute soil creatures and bacteria and 'follow' them through the wet parts of the soil. If their prey goes one way, they follow. Generally they're pervasive, so hard to avoid. Once they touch their prey, they invade their bodies and consume the resources.
Load More Replies...I once heard a fun fact from Paul Stamets that we share apx 40% of our DNA with mushrooms.
I don’t know why this is on the not-so-fun-facts list, this fact seem pretty fun, guys
And this is why Toads are the other playable characters in Super Mario Bros
Busy Without the Buzz
There's a wasp in Australia that hunts spiders.
It doesn't eat them, though. It paralyses them, makes a little mud cocoon for each one, and before sealing it off, lays a single egg on the now trapped spider.
The egg hatches, the larva eats the still alive (and still paralysed) spider, and then breaks out of the cocoon as a wasp.
Turns out they're all over the world, not just Australia. If you see a wasp dragging a spider, that's what's going on.
Wasps also hunt baby catapillars. They puncture the little catapillars and lay thier eggs inside the caterpillar's body. The wasp larvae hatch and begin to eat the caterpillar alive from the inside until they break through the caterpillars skin and start weaving thier cocoons. That's not even the worst part... the poor caterpillar will remain alive just long enough to protect the wasp cocoons until they emerge.
The one pictured isn't the actual wasp that does it though. I absolutely hate wasps.
What kind of wasp is it in the picture, Foxxy? I have loads of them in my garden.
Load More Replies...We have tarantula hawks in Texas that do the same thing. Frightful looking blue monsters.
They're called tarantula hawk wasps and their sting is one of the most painful in the world
They are very pretty wasps though, Chester Zoo had one called Ripley and they called her daughter Sigourney.
Shelling Out The Truth
In 2006, a team of scientific researchers in Iceland were gathering clams in order to study the effects of climate change. They froze the clams, which ended up killing them. They ended up killing the oldest known clam still left alive, nicknamed, “Ming”, which was 507 years old.
No, after the Ming dynasty which ruled at the time of it's birth.
Load More Replies...I'm slightly unnerved that they undertook such an experiment not having checked first to make sure that something like "freezing solid a living creature" wouldn't kill it. I mean jeez, if that worked out that well then wouldn't we have cryogenics by now?
It doesn't say how and why they froze them. It could have been an accident, just titled in a wrong way.
Load More Replies...I read a different story, which is they were trying to assess the age of the oldest clam and killed it accidentally during that process.
How do they knnow they exact age? Not 506, not 508, it's 507. Do they grow rings or so? If yes, they get bigger every year and after 507 years, this clam had to be remarkable bigger than others, or not? Yes, I COULD have used the time it took to write THIS, to google 'clam iceland 507 dead', but I also won't be mad if cook me when I'm 507..
As far as I understand it, the clam was wearing a "507 Today" badge.
Load More Replies...The oldest _known_ clam. And they only know it because they analyzed it. There are probably older ones left.
In 1964, a man identified as Donal Rusk Currey killed a Great Basin bristlecone pine tree, which was the oldest tree discovered so far. Currey later said that he killed the tree accidentally and he understood the ramifications of his action only after he started counting rings of the fallen tree.
Must have fkd their entire day cussing around at the unfortunate incident
Sky’s Nighttime Spectacle
We're closer to the year 2051 than we are 1991.
No no no i refuse! Not true! Because 1991 was 10 years ago!!! Change my mind
That’s the year I turn 95...and given there’s longevity on both sides of my family, there’s a good chance that I’ll make it.
Lol! I'll be 79, mom will be 100! Husband ain't gonna make it that long! Road rage victim or french fry induced heart attack.
Load More Replies...We also are closer to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built
Well, yeah. It's gonna be 2051 in less than 30 years. It's never going to be 1991 again.
also.. there is a lot of ADULTS! who do not lived during 11.9.2001
Mini Throne Upgrade
Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
To be clear, this is because most children in the world do not have access to clean drinking water, and die of the parasites and other diseases in the water they do drink, most of which cause vomiting and diarrhoea. The image of a nice western toilet is a bit misleading!
Most of which would be survivable with access to medical care and clean water to rehydrate with
Load More Replies...When the cause of death is dehydration due to the illness and the cure is what's is causing the illness in the first place, then yup. Drinking water. It's not safe in TOO many places.
It's not may be part of it. That is the reason. You loose so much water that you barely have time to rehydrate.
Load More Replies...there's actually a whole hospital dedicated to diarrheal diseases in Bangladesh, the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh or ICDDR, B, colloquially known as the Cholera Hospital. That's how bad diarrhea is, especially in wet countries with unclean water.
Viral diarrhea, like that from noroviruses and rotaviruses can kill a healthy child in a matter of hours. My vaccinated daughter was infected with rotavirus and it took only 4 hours from the start of diarrhea to land her in the ICU.
Load More Replies...Awkwardly Caught Off Guard
Persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage (aka finger up the a**)
I would pass if my hiccups didn’t hurt me. I’ve been through lots of things that people find painful, but damn those hiccups hurt like hell. So I’ll try this.
Load More Replies...There are other ways to scare someone in order to stop the hiccups! No need for such extreme measures🙄
Exactly! One SIMPLER technique is: inhale through your nose, swallow your spit a couple times, and exhale. I don't know the science - perhaps you're distracting yourself - but it’s helped me tons without ever needing to sacrifice my dignity.
Load More Replies...Swallowing a teaspoon of sugar (not waiting for it to dissolve) works too. The granularity stimulates the throat somehow.
That's how I've always done it...works every time.
Load More Replies...Does it work in the opposite way when you are farting permanently?
If you stick your finger up your jacksie when farting, it'll likely give you hiccups! ;-)
Load More Replies...A Waiting Game
Every Cruise ship has a morgue.
Above a certain size, maybe, but on smaller ships they will likely have to designate a room to be used as such in the event that it is needed. It might sound strange, but cruisers tend to be the older generation, so it is not exactly surprising.
Living in an area that has at least one cruise ship daily, the local ambulance makes, on average, one call to a cruise ship a day.
Load More Replies...Another unsettling fact is that a lot of people go missing on cruise ships. About 300 people since 2000, there are weird stories indicating assault/homicide but crimes are harder to be prosecuted on a cruiseship.
What? Did we expect them just to throw them over the side? Might be more ecologically sound though.
Why? With so many people, often older, taking cruises. Somebody is going to die onboard at some time. And then it is better to have a cool (chilled) room/space for the body so that the decomposing body doesn't start to smell.
Load More Replies...I thought they put them body bags and stored them in the torpedo tubes. The ocean water is super cold at diving depths.
Load More Replies...Badge Graveyard
That in all likelihood your name will be forgotten after 2 generations.
I suspect my name has already been forgotten by most of the people I have ever known. Oh, well, there's always BP. 😁
We always think the events of our own time are so important and life-changing, but ultimately, everyone and everything will disappear into the void, with a few people or events being remembered, kind of randomly. Five hundred years from now, there may be a passing mention of a few virus pandemics in the 20th/21st/22nd centuries, as a footnote in a medical text somewhere.
But men walking on the moon, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be known for generations to come. The big news persists.
Load More Replies...That's OK. As long as I am loved and giving love while I'm alive!
except I can name 8/8 of my great grandparents, and 5/16 of my great-great grandparents.
Yeah, but you're still irrelevant in world history
Load More Replies...Unless you have a descendant like me! I know more about my ancestors than I do about my current relatives.
Yes, nobody knows the names of their grandparents... I think it's meant to say three generations.
This says AFTER two generations - so the third.
Load More Replies...I would say three generations, but my math might be off. I know my grandmothers name. But my sisters kids will probably not know it since she died long before they where born. I have met my great grandmother, and if I hear the name I will remember it, but right now I can't.
I don’t know my maternal great grandmother’s maiden name, but I know that she married a Mr. Robinson, so I knew her as Carrie Robinson (we called her granny and my stepfather’s grandmother was nana), and she eventually divorced him (I don’t know how she got dispensation from the Catholic Church at that time when divorce was still forbidden) and then married a Mr. Ness. Things didn’t work out so well with Mr. Ness, so she left him and returned to Mr. Robinson, but because she hadn’t divorced Mr. Ness, she and Mr. Robinson were just shacked up and they scandalized a small town in Oregon. I’m so proud to be descended from such an irascible old broad!
Load More Replies...I’m younger than most of my friends and childless. I expect I’ll be completely forgotten in less than 20 years after I die, assuming I make it to a decent age. But that’ll just make me like 99% of the human race. Better to fade into obscurity than infamy!
Unexpected Mountain Snacks
During the bubonic plague the Mongolians launched infected dead bodies over the walls of different civilizations.
Not just the mongolians. This has been a method of bio warfare in europe throughout the ages.
But the Mongols catapulting plague victims over French walls in 1412 was the first historical documentation of biological warfare.
Load More Replies...The founders of the US were pretty fond of smallpox infected blankets for getting rid of inconvenient native populations. And they tried to teach us to hold these founders in high esteem. Even as a child, I knew the difference between a decent person, and a wealthy slave owner.
Yes! I just taught this to my students yesterday! They were studying bioterrorism in preparation for a novel they were reading. The one student asked "could diseases like smallpox be considered bioterrorism?" To which I replied, "well now that you mention it..."
Load More Replies...The Europeans did this too it makes me sick to think about it
Well, isn't this a winner-winner. Infect your enemies, and get rid of rotting corpses at the same time.
Because the people in the photo are modern Mongolians.
Load More Replies...Space Training, Ground Edition
A gamma Ray burst from space could hit us at anytime and we have no way of detecting them before it happens, we'll all just pass away instantly.
Could be worse. They could read us their poetry instead.
Load More Replies...Right? I mean not just this but any disaster. If something were to happen that you couldn't survive even in the long run I'd rather be in the middle of it and die instantly. I never understood those disaster movies. The urge to survive even though knowing you probably die a slow and painful death in the end.
Load More Replies...Not necessarily at any time. There are currently no stars large and close enough to hit the Earth with a gamma ray burst in the next few millions years, according to astronomer Phil Plait. But don’t worry, I’m sure the human race will find a way to keel over soon enough.
Possibly not the worst way to go, no-one left to mourn anyone. No notice equals no stress.
Well... a gamma ray burst could hit the earth without us even noticing, depending on the size. A small one would be absorbed by the atmosphere. A larger one would take out satellites. One big enough to wipe out life on earth would have to be huge. One that big hasn't hit us in for at least 450 million years.
Toyota's sticky gas pedals caused sudden and unintended acceleration in several of the automaker's top-selling Toyota and Lexus-brand cars, which led to a massive recall of more than 9 million vehicles worldwide, beginning in November. While ongoing inquiries attempt to locate the source of the problem and figure out a fix, investigators might find it useful to examine a far-out culprit: cosmic ray radiation from deep in the cosmos, which has been known to plague vulnerable data and memory chips in electronics has not been ruled out.
Sneaky Little Explorer
In WW2 allied scientists stuffed dead rats with explosives to aid French resistance fighter who would leave them in factories to be thrown in furnaces and detonated.
They also put small bombs on bats that would fall of within a day or two & explode.
The Bat bombs never saw combant because the development of the Nuke came to an end before they could be deployed.
Load More Replies...The key word is DEAD. They weren’t stuffing live animals.
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Ocean’s surprise guest
95% of whale semen is dumped into the ocean during mating.
Yet another reason to NOT open your eyes while swimming in the sea.
Ur description just happened to me. Smart.
Load More Replies...Consider the poop of parrotfish. The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand, White sandy beaches of Hawaii are made from fish 💩
I would do anything to be in Hawaii right now with a drink in my hand and toes in the parrot fish poop.
Load More Replies...Well yeah, and I bet 95% of sperm from human males isn’t „dumped“ into woman either. More like socks, Playboy magazines and towels.
Contemplating Life\'s Mysteries
A gorillas schlong is on average 2 inches or less. Guess what, human males on average pack 4-5 inches, which is more firepower than a gorilla; congrats.
Hence the correlation between humans acting like gorillas (aggressive, physical instead of verbal communication, loud noises (cars, bikes..)) and their genitals
If you're being banged by a gorilla, the size of it's schlongg is the least of your worries.
So I could try to "impress" my next date by telling her that I have a bigger penis than a gorilla. I'll try to remember that till that day comes.
bonobos have the largest testes of all apes. also, they have weird pointy penises. and the females get genital swellings, like chimps, except almost always they have them. and they have boobs. bonobos are like us, but with weird genitals.
i think I read a statistic that on average humans have the largest penises of all primates. or maybe not
Forgotten and Found
Your bones are wet.
I hope so, I'd hate to think that I have random air pockets in any place other than my lungs.
Well duh…living bones are encased in flesh and blood, which is wet. Bones also contain marrow which produces blood cells.
Marrow is wet, your bones have holes in them for nerves and arteries, and how the heck do you think bone cells are created, broken down, repaired, strengthened with proteins and minerals? Bones are minerals and collagen protein, btw, not dry, white crumbly stuff. Until you're dead,that is. In the desert.
Load More Replies...Bald Spot in Disguise
Some tumors grow teeth and hair.
I had a dermoid cyst with teeth removed from around my left ovary (along with the ovary) last year. It was big enough to need two hands to hold it.
My cousin died of one of those in his leg when he was not even ten years old. Turned out the tumor was actually his absorbed twin. As a kid to hear that story, it scared the s**t out of me. Poor Eddie.
From My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Aunt Rule had a bibopsy (biopsy) on a lump. "It vas my tvin."
I read an article about a horse, who start to have drowing tumor on his mouth, when they open it, somthing bout 30 teeth were found inside.... brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Gathered for Sweet Moments
Everyone celebrates their birthday each year. But we also have a "deathday" we unknowingly pass each year but because it hasnt happened we dont know which day.
YOU may not know your deathday, but are you sure there isn't someone close to you who does?
To me its like 5 am in the morning tho lol
Load More Replies...Days never become special events until that event passed a first time. So that's nonsense.
I was thinking that too, but it's an interesting thing to think about, that that date will exist someday and certain loved ones will remember it as it comes and goes each year.
Load More Replies...Instead of getting a spanking on your death day, you should get to punch someone in the face
I know when I am going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date - Steven Wright
Not everyone celebrates birthdays. Not everyone even knows it. It's not uncommon for rural people to k ow nothing more specific than the season. A friend's now deceased grandmother had hottendous medical records, because every person in the family who took her to the doctor made their best guess, including the year.
Cosmic Mystery Unveiled
False Vacuum Decay - the entire universe could blink out of existence in (from our perspective) an instant.
Just hit me over the head with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick
Load More Replies...With the way things are, I wouldn't complain. There wouldn't be time to!
That would be cool, painless massive inexisting, all nothing goes back to nothing as all things should have stayed.
So this could already be happening, but we won't know until the bubble gets to us, and then we won't care.
Load More Replies...Small Stage, Big Attitude
About 50 kids in the US are backed over by cars every week.
Kids are short. Cars are big. Kids need supervision.
Load More Replies...Mom used to make the 3 of us stand together front right of the car, so she could see us while she backed out of the driveway. If you car about your kids, there's no reason you should be backing over them.
To be fair, the op doesn't say they are backed over by their parents
Load More Replies...A boy in my son's year has a huge, oddly shaped scar on his hairline from being backed over when he was a toddler. His mother won't talk about who was driving but the little she said had me thinking that it was one of her older children who had just gotten their license. It's a painful topic for them. He is the youngest and they consider him their miracle child for many, many reasons. He ended up being the valedictorian so it appears that there are no lasting neurological issues for him but a lot of emotional scars for the family. We all make mistakes and I feel supremely fortunate that none of my mistakes has caused any kind of damage like this. Things could have gone another way - no judgment here...
I sorta see how this can happen. When you park the exact same place every day when you get home from work, and you're reversing towards, say, your garage so you know there's no passersby. After several years you barely need to look in the mirrors at all. And then one day one of your little ones is old enough to let themselves out of the house and wants to come and greet you. They're lower than the height of the boot (trunk) . . .
Lights on, motion off
The funny T Pose that an anteater does? Yeah that's Mr. Anteater telling you hes seconds away from literally disemboweling you with one swipe. Next time you see an anteater doing the funny pose just remember they are trying to give you a free C-section with one singular claw slash.
i'm sorry? are you guys meeting anteaters every day? maybe i'm more sheltered than i thought.
I googled it but apparently there has only ever been something like three recorded fatalities caused by an anteater. Not saying they can't disembowel you, but it probably isn't a major issue to worry about unless you are a anteater hunter or zoo keeper.
If you see that you are to close.. Actually had to google the pose as my daily life is sadly absent from ant eaters.
I'm not sad for you. Anteaters toilet-papered my house. After using the TP. It's a total bitch trying to remove toilet paper and ant exoskeletons from aluminum siding.
Load More Replies...They can't bite to defend themselves, so they'll kill you instead
Load More Replies...No worries since they can't escape or don't have gadget/stretchy arms.
Load More Replies...For /free/? If I ever find someone who needs a c-section, I'm finding a threatening ant-eater.
I have seen two possums in the wild my whole life. I doubt I am going to come in contact with a anteater anytime soon.
The average number of arms/legs a human has is less than 2.
That makes sense, considering there are more amputees than there are conjoined twins or those with birth defects resulting in extra limbs.
The average number of skeletons inside a person is greater than 1...
My question is, are there more pregnant people then amputees at any given time that would make this statement incorrect?
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average number of legs.
I wonder about fingers and toes as there are some people with 11 or even 12 fingers but there's also some with 4 or no fingers. Curious how it evens out either below or above 5.
Ah I think I get it, it's in the way it's written. The average number of arms for a human to have is just less than 2. The average number of legs for a human to have is just less than 2. I read this as arms & legs all in one go, as in, the average number of limbs a human has is 2. Which is obviously not correct. Going by the same logic, the average number of limbs a person has is just less than 4? 3.5?
Most people have two arms. Some people are born with extra limbs, which would make the average go up, but many many more people are either born with fewer limbs or lose their limbs in accidents/to illness. The existence of amputees means the average number of arms per human is less than 2.
Load More Replies...Not that surprising. There would only need to be one amputee on the entire face of the Earth to make this true.
Ocean Acrobatics Unleashed
Orcas can skin penguins.
I think it's more interisting that the orca is a natural enemy of the moose..
Moose can dive 6 metres (20 foot) under water
Load More Replies...The Orca is the true apex predator besides humans on the Earth. They hunt anything in the ocean and anything within 30 yards of the waterline. The can hunt blue and humpback whales in cooperative packs or go after individual seals and penguins on the beach. Even the biggest great white or bull shark is no match.
Brace Yourself Moments
Dentists have the highest suicide rate of all doctors.
I thought it was veterinarians? Or do they not count? Or I could be wrong?
The fact that nobody considers vets “real” doctors is ironically quite high on the list of things that contribute to their astonishingly high suicide rate.
Load More Replies...i'd lik to know why. most of their patients don't die, so wouldn't that make them less lkely as compared to, say, oncologiests?
This is not true anymore That was true years ago because the chemical they used to knock out people for oral surgery is dangerous with prolonged exposure and depression and suicide is a side effect. Today they no longer use it, and thus are no longer exposed. The rate is way down since.
Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani.
The sooner he's off this planet, the better. F**k that POS & all his cronies
Oh my god why would you say that? Gwen Stefani is a national treasure and Ted Cruz is a national disgrace!
Canada knew what he would he become so they deported that pos before it was too late
Load More Replies...What? No. That means he's younger than me, and I just can't have that.
Yeah it would make sense if Ted would be a human. Otherwise it's comparing apples to oranges. Or rather dog poop with delicious ice cream
Unexpected Star Power
There is only one Pokémon that cannot learn any normal type attacks, and that Pokémon is Weedle.
I was surprised too...I figured they could learn tackle at least
Load More Replies...I to this day play Pokemon, they're less inclined to work on my nerves like people do.
I wanna be the very best Like no one ever was To catch them is my real test To train them is my cause I will travel across the land Searching far and wide Each Pokemon to understand The power that's inside (Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all) Its you and me I know it's my destiny (Pokemon) Oh, you're my best friend In a world we must defend (Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all) A heart so true Our courage will pull us through You teach me and I'll teach you Pokemon (gotta catch 'em all) Gotta catch 'em all Yeah Every challenge along the way With courage I will face I will battle every day To claim my rightful place Come with me, the time is right There's no better team Arm in arm we'll win the fight It's always been our dream (Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all) Its you and me I know it's my destiny (Pokemon) Oh, you're my best friend In a world we must defend (Pokemon, gotta catch 'em all) A heart so true Our courage will pull us through You teach me and I'll teach you Pokemon (gotta catch 'em a
Chaos Crew Assembled
Suicide Squad has won more Academy Awards than The Shawshank Redemption.
Yes, Shawshank was nominated for seven Oscars but Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump swept the board that year. Suicide Squad won once for Make-Up and Hairstyling. This fact does not sit well with me.
They had better makeup and hairstyling than Shawshank, it’s fair. We should stop just counting numbers and look at actual awards, but “more is better” is too engrained in our culture.
Load More Replies...Shawshank Redemption was mostly appreciated a lot later and holds the first place in imdb and is considered one of the best movies of all time! It really was underrated when it first came out
It had to compete with Tom Hanks. Tough row to hoe.
Load More Replies...Shawshank Redemption, I saw that movie like 15 times, one of my favorites...God Bless Andy Dupree... will continue to be in Zihuatanejo?
I'm like an hour away from Zihuatanejo, I can go check if you want
Load More Replies...The Shawshank Redemption should have won, if only it wasn't going up against some other masterpieces.
Harriet Tubman was a spy for the Union army and gave them lots of good information but she never received a pension or got military burial due to her race and gender.
Not true. Quit lying and quit trying to make everything about race. She did get a pension, $20 a month, and rec'd military honors at her funeral.
Harriet Tubman pension of $20 was granted in 1899, at the age of 77, thirty-five years after the Civil War ended. She died penniless in 1913.
Load More Replies...She did get one.... EVENTUALLY. Not much, and a joke, but just to be fair.... Many veterans never got a pension; in the US Civil War era, i was for disabled soldiers, or widows & children of those KIA (or at least "killed on duty", which could include disease). It wasn't automatic to just get one, either. You had to apply.
This is not correct. It was small, late in coming, and she and others fought for it, but it did come. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
White people "made everything about race" for hundreds of years. I think you'll be OK if you read a story about racism.
Speeding Past Expectations
Jacques Villeneuve (F1 World Champion 1997), is the only drivers champion in history not to have another driver passing away during their F1 career.
I think it means that, of all the F1 Champions, he is the only one who has not had a colleague die (presumably race related) over the duration of their F1 career (according to Wikipedia, 1996-2006).
Load More Replies...Not a fact I care about. I mean I guess it’s a “Not So Fun Fact” but that’s because it’s not entertaining at all
I guess the idea is that you can't get the money to invest in future efficient technology without making a big show out of it. Most technological advances in motors (and now batteries etc) are also linked to Motorsport. If that weights against all the training and all the non public races etc.. But humans are stupid and apparently can't invest directly..
Load More Replies...You live for about 27 thousand days.
Depends. Maybe whoever wrote this will only live around 73 years, but someone reading this could live much longer... or even less longer.
Approximately 72.6 years +/- 15 years is the average human lifespan at present. It's not assured that you won't be an outlier in either direction, of course...
If you punch someone in the heart right in the middle of a heartbeat, you can stop the heart.
What does right in the middle of a heartbeat mean? Is it between diastole and systole? Between systole and diastole? Or in the middle of diastole or systole?
There's a specific piont in the sequence of the segments and intervals in a heartbeat where, if the heartbeat is interrupted by significant trauma to the chest, the heart stops. We're talking down to the fine hairs here, and also it has to be near the left ventricle. you're welcome.
Load More Replies...That is why there are a number of deaths during baseball every year, even in Little League. One ball right to the chest and it's all over.
A woman hit herself in the chest with a can of whipped cream and died.
Load More Replies...The Looney Tunes Cartoon Buddy's Day Out was so bad that one of the dudes working on it got fired.
Guys get fired from stuff everyday, doesn't mean what they were working on was bad. What is this? I see why it's last on the list.
Looked into this out of curiosity...Apparently the director's style was that he hashed out the basic story, then just inserted notes of 'add some gag here' with no explanation. It's generally a good idea for a director to have a full storyboard together, but improv especially doesn't work too well with animation.
Something was crap and someone got fired for it, great unknown fact there Sherlock
I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
Load More Replies...I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
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