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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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#1

Birds of a Feather Think Alike

Crow perched outdoors holding food in beak, illustrating not-so-fun facts about people in this online group. 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.

glassssshark , Adeel Anwer Report

R Carson
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crows are very smart-if you are mean to them-they will remember you.

Eagle Girl
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like pigeons they also remember if you feed them & come back

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Alloydog
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cats domesticated humans millennia ago! ;)

Lola
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You mean enslaved humans?

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Little king trash mouth
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The live crows on set welcomed me as their own. One even tried to mate." — Moira Rose

Jccaidc
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked with one to pry open a car door.

Michael Se
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They'd probably do better by the world than we have.

Daria B
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Someday we'll be the dinosaurs, and crows will be the humans.

Thundernight
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except it won't be an asteroid that wiped us out, but rather our own selves.

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GoddessOdd
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love crows, and I am always happy when one lands in my yard or at my feeder. They are so clever and underrated.

Otter
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they inherit the Earth, I hope they treat it better than we have.

Freya the Wanderer
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Let's build Knowledge Arks so maybe they can learn all that we have learned. We'll save our heirs a lot of trouble.

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Kate
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4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just crows, or ravens, too?

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    #2

    Heroes Off Duty

    Firefighters in gear managing hoses and water spray at an urban fire scene with emergency vehicles in background 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.

    DmitriPetrovBitch , Paul Sableman Report

    Anne Reid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?

    Katrina
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, many of the 9/11 rescue does had physical problems afterwards

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    Nikole
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is so very sad but also dear.

    Trish Smith
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

    Katrina
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Louloubelle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    KatWoman
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is one of the saddest facts about the aftermath, that even the search dogs couldn't go on in that level of tragedy.

    Lori Ballard
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everytime i hear c this i get the sad fir those poor puppies

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    #3

    Legacy Written in Cells

    Mural highlighting Henrietta Lacks and important not-so-fun facts shared in an online group discussion. 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.

    amairoc , yooperann Report

    Scagsy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Nikole
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the fact that they weren't compensated

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    Black Karen
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    There's a snake in my boot
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    BookCrazyTeen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live by the high school named after her! My friend’s older sister goes.

    Alina Baba
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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....

    Smutná_elfka
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    MizAdeleM
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never thought that a book about cells and science would be one that I could not put down. An amazing story!

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    #4

    Unexpected Belly Check

    Man in olive green jacket assisting woman lying down, illustrating not-so-fun facts people in this online group can’t forget. The number one cause of death for pregnant women worldwide is Murder. Horrific to think about.

    Generic_Username7921 , Israel Defense Forces Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would like to know in what percentage they are murdered by the husbands

    Alloydog
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably perfectly acceptable in Texas. Can't have an abortion, but you can open-carry a firearm.

    Kelli Lindsay
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a Texan I can assure you, Texas is the new Florida Man.

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    Potato
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is another reason why anti-abortion isn't pro-life. In this situation, both the child and mother die.

    KT
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    christ, i googled this its true, next is suicide then drug overdose

    Zophra
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not doubting this - but is there a source for this?

    Miriam L
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    Radek Suski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Rose the Cook
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Terrible but not really surprising.

    Katchen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Amie Redman
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Devil's Advocate
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #5

    Mythical Guard on Duty

    Statue of a muscular man with a trident and three-headed dog, outdoors with trees and sky in the background, notable facts. Pluto didn't even make a full orbit of the sun from its discovery to its demotion.

    MapleHertzoggie , Jay Report

    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    sad, i remember when there used to be 9 planets, R.I.P pluto.

    Crowley The Snake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always feel personally offended by the fact that pluto was demoted

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    Gabby M
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my heart, I like to think that Pluto is still a planet.

    r_javier_stl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pluto will always be a planet to me.

    Beast
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NNOOOO not Pluto! (totally a planet)

    Electric Mayhem
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was not demoted, it was reclassified. I think it makes Pluto kind of cool and different.

    Id row
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why it got fired.

    Marcellus II
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Sarah C
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thinking about Pluto makes me sad. Then I think about how some of Tombaugh's ashes were sent there on a space probe and it makes me even more sad.

    Rikke Visby Wickberg
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But with Pluto's sad demotion, does it make sense to talk about the mysterious planet in our system as Planet X?

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    #6

    Power in Every Word

    Black and white photo of a man speaking at a microphone, representing key not-so-fun facts about an online group. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.

    BackwardsLongJump- , bswise Report

    K. Lange
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this is mindblowing to me

    Wise beauty
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Both were killed due to hate.

    Adam Hendron
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not how you spell his name

    Buck Up
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was more of a pacifist than a hammer wielding God of war

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    Poultry Geist
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So was the was The Queen and Marylyn Monroe . They were born the same year :) but we all knew that 😂

    Cindy M
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or you know..Martin LUTHER King Jr. At least spell his name correctly!!

    Jjkb Hgg
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Betty White older than both of them.

    J.L. Martin
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to Google it. Anne Frank: June 12, 1929 Martin Luther King Jr.: January 15, 1929 (TIL...)

    Louloubelle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Mazer
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Barbra Walters was also born that year

    Andy Acceber
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was going to say that! It really gives you a perspective that this "history" really wasn't that long ago.

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    IlovemydogShilo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So were Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Munro 1926.

    Don't Look
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why does this keep getting to people? I'm genuinely curious at this point.

    S.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #7

    Timeless Charm in Blue

    Smiling elderly woman in a blue sequined dress and diamond jewelry at a formal event, capturing not-so-fun facts online group. Betty White is older than WW2 and sliced bread.

    dooby34 , Alan Light Report

    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's a national treasure.

    Ria C.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who ever disagrees is a disgrace. I shall say no more!

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    y a n a
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White.

    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So instead of saying "the greatest thing since sliced bread", we should say " the greatest thing since Betty White". Eventually anyway.

    John C
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On January 17, 2022 she'll turn 100 years old! GO BETTY!

    Lara Verne
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's older than Queen Elizabeth II

    K R
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Long live Betty White

    Hey Ho neighbours
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So are a lot of people's grandparents....

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    #8

    Shot of Confidence

    Healthcare worker administering vaccine to elderly man wearing mask indoors, highlighting facts people in this online group can’t forget. You're more likely to survive being shot in the head than rabies.

    DragonsAreReal210 , Maryland GovPics Report

    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Olesia Kovalenko
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very cruel. I've seen two people die from rabies. It's horrific.

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    Alex the Country Dog
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Pixie
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow, what a gruesome experience! Are you completely healed now? Or are there long-lasting effects? (from rabies, not the vaccine, just saying)

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    snipergun
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    a_smol_berry
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A rabies epidemic would be equivalent to a zombie apocalypse.

    Leo Domitrix
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Id row
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once symptoms of rabies appear, it's too late. All they can do is make you comfortable while you slowly die a terrible death.

    Elisabeth Clark
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?!

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    Aradia Sayner
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank goodness there is no rabies in Australia. We may have every dangerous animal on the planet but none of them have rabies.

    Mazer
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There have been a couple of cases of organ donors who died of rabies passing the disease onto organ recipients who then also died from rabies.

    MorgothBauglir
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rabies has a 100% mortality rate.

    Hannah H
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless it is treated before symptoms appear. Then the mortality rate goes way down.

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    #9

    Chasing Light and Shadows

    Bright sun shining over a tranquil pond and trees, symbolizing reflection on not-so-fun facts in an online group. 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.

    BizarroCullen , aneye4wonder Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Ray_gunn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Lindsay Crawford
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "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

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    Rose the Cook
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The idea that a tan was healthy condemned generations of Australians.

    Amy Pattie
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Id row
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jeez, even the sun wants to kill you in Australia.

    Jo Choto
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Ozzie Ogawa
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Ziiiiiing
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    However, Oz doctors and citizens are sh1t hot on detection and treatment of it.

    Amy Pattie
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Correct, I got a mole checked and removed on the same day painlessly.

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    Marina Bailey
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #10

    Empty Room, Heavy Thoughts

    Hospital room with an empty bed and medical equipment, illustrating not-so-fun facts that people in this online group remember. 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.

    strawberryklutz , Rick Kimpel Report

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your immune system can also decide that your own cells are enemies, and attack them. (Speaking as someone with multiple autoimmune disorders.)

    Terilee Bruyere
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Jennifer Smith
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    doctors think thats whats happening to me right now. I've been very very sick.

    Mari
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope they will find a solution for everyone with auto immune disorders.

    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Rens
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is what happened to my daughter, autoimmune response destroyed her pancreas, making her a type 1 diabetic.

    Soggy Crumpet
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is called an autoimmune disease.

    Max
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that's probably what happened with my islets of langerhans cells, and lemme tell you, type 1 diabetes sucks.

    Zophra
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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 ?

    Katchen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of autoimmune diseases are idiopathic, which is doctor-ese for “I don’t know WTF happened.”

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    Kerri Peek
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what autoimmune disease is. I have a couple of them. They're awful.

    Freddy Jordaan
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I survived Guillain-Barré Syndrome

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    #11

    Master of the Couch Command

    Gray and white cat lying on a red mat with remote nearby, illustrating 40 not-so-fun facts people in this online group note. 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.

    Rabeque , Hein van den Eijnden Report

    Scagsy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Melissa Boatman Linebaugh
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Kristin Ingersoll
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Scott Rackley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    GoddessOdd
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Raven DeathShade
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    MCathenaE
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Stoopham McFernybabes
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That doesn’t mean that the owner is administering in the right site and right dosage.

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    Bobby
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Becky Samuel
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many vaccines have very careful storage requirements. Unless these are followed carefully the vaccine may not work effectively.

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    snipergun
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Panda Kicki
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ....... 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

    Melissa Boatman Linebaugh
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Most tractor supplies have a large supply of vaccines. The only one that owners can't do is the rabies.

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    Kai Scadden
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    mamafrog
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have two dogs on life time medications, I get them at Costco as they are cheaper than the vets. Only way I can afford them and it's still about 90 dollars a month.

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    #12

    Security Shuffle

    Security officers patrolling an airport terminal with baggage claim and transport signs under large arched ceilings. The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.

    Hollywood899 , Steve Jurvetson Report

    J Rob
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Security theater.

    Hiker Chick
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And yet they threw away my toothpaste and yogurt.

    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    BluEyedSeoulite
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It seems like there are 2 main types of TSA agents. Apathetic or power tripping.

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    Logic and Reason
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Jace
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it’s patently insane that that’s considered contraband.

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    A C
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did they know the % of missed items if they were missed?

    Green Snake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Jccaidc
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could you imagine the flight delays if every passenger was vigorously screened? Plus at $9hr you get what you pay for.

    Jace
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it just shows how flawed the system is.

    Requiem
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They go back to extra training for missing something

    Ell Bee
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Dave P
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Jace
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #13

    Filing System on Pause

    File organizer with alphabetical tabs all labeled Is there something missing, illustrating not-so-fun facts about an online group. Roughly 40% of murders go unsolved.

    Shagrrotten , Bill Smith Report

    Tee Witt
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably depends on how wealthy your family is

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    Foxxy (Not Original)
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I have at least a 40% chance of getting away with it? Asking for a friend...

    Miss Cris
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depending on who your friend is and who is their victim.

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    GoddessOdd
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Llama_flower93
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    More Thinking Needed
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The perfect crime is committed every day.

    Rench
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If one gang member kills a rival gang member, the police are unlikely to do much about it

    GoddessOdd
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or if it's a sex worker, a drug user, or a homeless person.

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    James Doe
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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/

    F. H.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    K R
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Botched investigations, killer and victim unknown to each other or cannot be connected...so many reasons

    Monday
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Sylvanticx
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i just did a project on cold cases for my forensics class. it's insane what people can get away with.

    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would say most of these are in places where the cartels, mob/Mafia etc have a huge influence on the police/investigators etc.

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    #14

    Garden Squad Assemble

    Colorful cartoon plant and zombie characters displayed on cards under a vibrant potted plant capturing not-so-fun facts online group theme. The creator of Plants vs. Zombies was fired from EA because he hated the idea of microtransactions.

    minemaster1337 , Janet Report

    Muff_Fluff
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why couldn’t he have taken over EA? I want my free Sims DLC.

    LuckyL
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Micro transaction and dlc are different things, aren't they?

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    Tom Jacobs
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    SumoNinja
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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 :).

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    L.A. Trefry
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What fools. PVZ is an amazing game. I hope he went to another company and creates one that makes EA green with envy.

    Virgil Blue
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    James016
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He can keep his head held high.

    Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    micropay is HORRIBLE. buy the damn game ONCE AND PLAY FOREVER thank you

    Logan Lessard
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why though? free pvz stuff would be awsome

    KT
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    microtransactions are the worst!

    April
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any green thumbs out there who can tell me what that plant in the picture is? It's beautiful and I'd like to get one just like it.

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    #15

    Nature’s Sneaky Surprise

    Close-up of wild mushrooms growing among leaves and grass, illustrating not-so-fun facts people in this online group recall. Mushrooms are more like humans than plants.

    MeatWad111 , Luke Jones Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some mushrooms are more intelligent than some humans. /s

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have dust bunnies that are smarter than some humans

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    R Carson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah I know some mushrooms. Kept in the dark and fed bullshit.

    Hey Ho neighbours
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!!

    Ozacoter
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    Brendan
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I heard about this. Studies have found that mushrooms hunt for food, keep track of their finances, and even consider new decorative cushions.

    Ceredwyn Ealanta
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Joy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been sautéeing my family this whole time??! 🤫

    Susan Brown
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once heard a fun fact from Paul Stamets that we share apx 40% of our DNA with mushrooms.

    Amy Pattie
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t know why this is on the not-so-fun-facts list, this fact seem pretty fun, guys

    RandomBeing
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And thats not even the weirdest part about fungi

    Muff_Fluff
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is why Toads are the other playable characters in Super Mario Bros

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    #16

    Busy Without the Buzz

    Close-up of a bee on a flower showing details of nature, relevant to not-so-fun facts people in this online group notice. 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.

    pinkpanzer101 , Jean and Fred Report

    lenka
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Foxxy (The Original)
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The one pictured isn't the actual wasp that does it though. I absolutely hate wasps.

    AnnaBanana
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What kind of wasp is it in the picture, Foxxy? I have loads of them in my garden.

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    MorgothBauglir
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who knew Calvin and Hobbes was so knowledgeable?

    Kelli Lindsay
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have tarantula hawks in Texas that do the same thing. Frightful looking blue monsters.

    Nicole Mann
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They're called tarantula hawk wasps and their sting is one of the most painful in the world

    Ziiiiiing
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are very pretty wasps though, Chester Zoo had one called Ripley and they called her daughter Sigourney.

    Dorothy Parker
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can't I just eat a fig with a wasp inside instead?

    Eagle Girl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wish I could un-know (and see) this

    Logan Lessard
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait their is a wasp that kills spiders? where can i buy one

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    #17

    Shelling Out The Truth

    Close-up of clams with textured shells, illustrating surprising not-so-fun facts that people in this online group can't forget. 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.

    hostilecarrot , Jeremy Keith Report

    Dorothy Parker
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no, I get it. Clam Ming... Clamming.

    Devil's Advocate
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, after the Ming dynasty which ruled at the time of it's birth.

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    Hey Ho neighbours
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?

    grotesqueer
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn't say how and why they froze them. It could have been an accident, just titled in a wrong way.

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    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Johnny Rodriguez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..

    Brendan
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As far as I understand it, the clam was wearing a "507 Today" badge.

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    F. H.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The oldest _known_ clam. And they only know it because they analyzed it. There are probably older ones left.

    saynogo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why it says..."oldest known clam".

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    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was named Ming because it was determined to have been born in the Ming Dynasty. The age was determined by counting its growth rings on the shell, and is backed by carbon dating.

    Mazer
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ​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.

    Keerthi Vardhan
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must have fkd their entire day cussing around at the unfortunate incident

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    #18

    Sky’s Nighttime Spectacle

    Fireworks lighting up the night sky over a cityscape, illustrating not-so-fun facts about this online group. We're closer to the year 2051 than we are 1991.

    sroche24 , Kevin Muncie Report

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No no no i refuse! Not true! Because 1991 was 10 years ago!!! Change my mind

    Caro Caro
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would I want to change your mind???

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    Kiran
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But, but 1991 is just yesterday?

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Calypso poet
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Wise beauty
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We also are closer to cleopatra than she was to the pyramids being built

    Ty Stratton-Quirk
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, yeah. It's gonna be 2051 in less than 30 years. It's never going to be 1991 again.

    Lenka Smetanová
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also.. there is a lot of ADULTS! who do not lived during 11.9.2001

    Ray Heap
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Get lost, 1970 was only 30 years ago!

    Gaya Knust
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As someone born in 1991, I find that profoundly depressing. Cheers

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    #19

    Mini Throne Upgrade

    Bathroom with a child’s potty seat and blue step stool, illustrating facts people in this online group can’t forget about. Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.

    Reverse_Waterfall , John Hickey-Fry Report

    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

    Katherine Boag
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of which would be survivable with access to medical care and clean water to rehydrate with

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    Don't Look
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Dorothy Parker
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dehydration may be a part of that.

    Concept-Peter Roosdorp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not may be part of it. That is the reason. You loose so much water that you barely have time to rehydrate.

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    K R
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dehydration and the electrolyte imbalances

    Sylvanticx
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Scott Rackley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    diarrhea is a symptom, not a disease

    iblowsheep
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    4 years ago

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    Terilee Bruyere
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Tara fenimore
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... .... ............. thats crappy

    ViFi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...you can die from diarrhea...

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    #20

    Awkwardly Caught Off Guard

    Man in green checkered shirt holding a cup, representing people in this online group with not-so-fun facts. Persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage (aka finger up the a**)

    recklessspirit , Nate Grigg Report

    Happi doggi
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Terilee Bruyere
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And someone figured this out how...?

    Chewie Baron
    Community Member
    Premium
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you ever heard a gay man with hiccups?

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    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are other ways to scare someone in order to stop the hiccups! No need for such extreme measures🙄

    S.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Demongrrrrl
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Swallowing a teaspoon of sugar (not waiting for it to dissolve) works too. The granularity stimulates the throat somehow.

    GoddessOdd
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's how I've always done it...works every time.

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    Eagle Girl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one wants to know HOW they know that??

    Johnny Rodriguez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does it work in the opposite way when you are farting permanently?

    Robert T
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you stick your finger up your jacksie when farting, it'll likely give you hiccups! ;-)

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    Ray_gunn
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also by holding your breath for a minute while bearing down (as if on the toilet), its called a Valsalva manoeuvre. Both possibly work by vagus nerve stimulation, I know which one I'd rather try.

    Kona Pake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could you give the guy a hand?

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    #21

    A Waiting Game

    Empty room with yellow tiled walls and a metal hospital gurney in dim natural light, related to not-so-fun facts Every Cruise ship has a morgue.

    Official_Zach55 , Carlos Ebert Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Martha Higgins
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Josy Bannon
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    F. H.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are also very popular for suicides.

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    yeciye
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But not every morgue has a cruise ship.

    Kenny Kulbiski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What? Did we expect them just to throw them over the side? Might be more ecologically sound though.

    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow, that is seriously depressing.

    Concept-Peter Roosdorp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On submarines they have to put dead bodies in the food freezer

    Teresa Taylor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought they put them body bags and stored them in the torpedo tubes. The ocean water is super cold at diving depths.

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    Troux
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope they get a refund.

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    #22

    Badge Graveyard

    A pile of event badges and lanyards representing various online group memberships and networking access. That in all likelihood your name will be forgotten after 2 generations.

    devildance3 , Mack Male Report

    Jo Johannsen
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I suspect my name has already been forgotten by most of the people I have ever known. Oh, well, there's always BP. 😁

    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But men walking on the moon, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will be known for generations to come. The big news persists.

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    Melissa Boatman Linebaugh
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's OK. As long as I am loved and giving love while I'm alive!

    Sarah Grape
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    except I can name 8/8 of my great grandparents, and 5/16 of my great-great grandparents.

    Frankenfrog
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but you're still irrelevant in world history

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    L.A. Trefry
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless you have a descendant like me! I know more about my ancestors than I do about my current relatives.

    F. H.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, nobody knows the names of their grandparents... I think it's meant to say three generations.

    Concept-Peter Roosdorp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    Rench
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My name is forgotten after 2 minutes

    Lunar Bicycle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

    Sue Grigg
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I won't care, I'll be dead.

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    #23

    Unexpected Mountain Snacks

    Two people outside a traditional yurt in a rural area, representing community life in an online group context. During the bubonic plague the Mongolians launched infected dead bodies over the walls of different civilizations.

    ShareAcademic9945 , martin_vmorris Report

    lenka
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just the mongolians. This has been a method of bio warfare in europe throughout the ages.

    California Jones
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But the Mongols catapulting plague victims over French walls in 1412 was the first historical documentation of biological warfare.

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    Tom Spade
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Little king trash mouth
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..."

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    Theoretical Empiricist
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is a terrible picture to illustrate the point.

    Snekky/Snek (She/they is fine)
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Europeans did this too it makes me sick to think about it

    Louloubelle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, isn't this a winner-winner. Infect your enemies, and get rid of rotting corpses at the same time.

    Lorraine R
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the people in the photo are modern Mongolians.

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    #24

    Space Training, Ground Edition

    Three people in safety gear operating a large metal training device near an indoor pool for online group safety facts. 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.

    bluewardog , Matt Harasymczuk Report

    Adam Hendron
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's how they make way for the super highway through our galaxy

    A_Literal_Lesbian
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could be worse. They could read us their poetry instead.

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    Luna Lovebug
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Lunar Bicycle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Johnny Rodriguez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Must..not..get..mad..about..it..HNNNGH

    mcborge1
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Either we die or we all Hulk out.

    Cori
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I kinda feel like that wouldn't be a terrible way to go.

    Barbara Skolly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Possibly not the worst way to go, no-one left to mourn anyone. No notice equals no stress.

    Aliquid
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Mazer
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #25

    Sneaky Little Explorer

    Close-up of a black rat climbing in a confined space, highlighting not-so-fun facts about this online group’s common subject. 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.

    tuckerdoodle2 , madaise Report

    Wise beauty
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also put small bombs on bats that would fall of within a day or two & explode.

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Bat bombs never saw combant because the development of the Nuke came to an end before they could be deployed.

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    Hagen Radcliffe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What did you do in the war Daddy? You put it where?!

    Caro Caro
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    4 years ago

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    OMG the poor things.

    Capelli rosa e patate
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The key word is DEAD. They weren’t stuffing live animals.

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    #26

    Ocean’s surprise guest

    Humpback whale breaching near forested shoreline, illustrating nature's not-so-fun facts for this online group. 95% of whale semen is dumped into the ocean during mating.

    CrippledHuman , Navin75 Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The other 5% is when they're having a wank. I'll get my coat.

    Peculiar hedgehog
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How in the world was this statistic quantified!?

    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing compared to the amount of plastic we are putting in the oceans.

    Terilee Bruyere
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yet another reason to NOT open your eyes while swimming in the sea.

    Mazer
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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 💩

    D K
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would do anything to be in Hawaii right now with a drink in my hand and toes in the parrot fish poop.

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    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    another reason not to go into the ocean, other then jaws.

    Kona Pake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don’t you ever wonder what all those specs in the water are when snorkeling?

    René Studer
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well yeah, and I bet 95% of sperm from human males isn’t „dumped“ into woman either. More like socks, Playboy magazines and towels.

    Miss Cris
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, women, don't snorkel if you don't want to have siren babies.

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    #27

    Contemplating Life\'s Mysteries

    Gorilla sitting calmly in natural habitat surrounded by grass and rocks, illustrating not-so-fun facts about online group. 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.

    TheCerealKilled , Allison Harger Report

    DidiRomski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Known a few gorillas in my time!

    Viviane
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Male gorillas compensate by being very good fathers.

    James Doe
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hence the correlation between humans acting like gorillas (aggressive, physical instead of verbal communication, loud noises (cars, bikes..)) and their genitals

    Kenny Kulbiski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That clears up a lot of questions about King Kong and Fay Raye.

    Giles McArdell
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're being banged by a gorilla, the size of it's schlongg is the least of your worries.

    Concept-Peter Roosdorp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Sylvanticx
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    iblowsheep
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i think I read a statistic that on average humans have the largest penises of all primates. or maybe not

    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Due to our anatomy that resulted from being bipedal

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    #28

    Forgotten and Found

    A weathered bone lying on soil surrounded by green grass and small plants, symbolizing not-so-fun facts. Your bones are wet.

    FoxTailedGamer , ella Report

    Terilee Bruyere
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope so, I'd hate to think that I have random air pockets in any place other than my lungs.

    F. H.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I sure hope they are. It would be quite troubling otherwise.

    Deja Katz
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well duh…living bones are encased in flesh and blood, which is wet. Bones also contain marrow which produces blood cells.

    Lucky
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ......and your mother is a hamster!

    Marianne
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are they though? Aren't fluids supposed to be inside tissue?

    s. vitkovitsky
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Cori
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All of your insides are wet.

    KMill
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    … and your stomach is filled with warm vomit

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    #29

    Bald Spot in Disguise

    Close-up of a hair loss patch showing balding with red hair, illustrating not-so-fun facts about hair health. Some tumors grow teeth and hair.

    padraigharrington2 , Amherst College Report

    Robert T
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some even run for office. /s

    Vicky Z
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And are colourful! Orange for example

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    Heather Bushnell
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Derek Clark
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Dorothy Parker
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Aunt Rule had a bibopsy (biopsy) on a lump. "It vas my tvin."

    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ewwwww... unsee juice plz.

    Lenka Smetanová
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    #30

    Gathered for Sweet Moments

    Group of people celebrating with a colorful birthday cake under a pavilion, capturing moments for online group not-so-fun facts discussion 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.

    SoccerGamerGuy7 , halahmoon Report

    iblowsheep
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YOU may not know your deathday, but are you sure there isn't someone close to you who does?

    Scagsy
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, that's taken the shine off a perfectly nice afternoon. Thanks.

    F. H.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Days never become special events until that event passed a first time. So that's nonsense.

    Llama_flower93
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Valley Girl
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Instead of getting a spanking on your death day, you should get to punch someone in the face

    More Thinking Needed
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know when I am going to die because my birth certificate has an expiration date - Steven Wright

    snipergun
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is actually really interesting thought.

    s. vitkovitsky
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Deathday can have only surprise parties to mark it.

    Mina
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean when you put it that way

    Cassandra McTaggart
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #31

    Cosmic Mystery Unveiled

    Image of a glowing ring resembling a black hole symbolizing not-so-fun facts people in this online group can't forget. False Vacuum Decay - the entire universe could blink out of existence in (from our perspective) an instant.

    BeigePhilip , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Report

    Kona Pake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whaaat… is your balloon payment coming due?

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    JoanieBalonie
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Might actually be the best thing that could happen.

    Bitemabum
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As long as I get my Pan galactic gargleblaster first.make it a double!

    LAWLAWLAW
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just hit me over the head with a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick

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    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With the way things are, I wouldn't complain. There wouldn't be time to!

    Felype Rennan
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That would be cool, painless massive inexisting, all nothing goes back to nothing as all things should have stayed.

    Deja Katz
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some would call that a blessing.

    Thomas Turnbull
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No!! because there is nowhere for it to go too.

    Scott Rackley
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Instant? No. The bubble would proceed at c.

    Lorraine R
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So this could already be happening, but we won't know until the bubble gets to us, and then we won't care.

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    Jace
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes, a quantum field theory hypothesis that is based on maths. Don’t worry about it.

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    #32

    Small Stage, Big Attitude

    Four young girls in colorful dresses and festive hats performing on stage with decorations in an online group setting. About 50 kids in the US are backed over by cars every week.

    overengineered , Leonid Mamchenkov Report

    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that's just sad... people need to watch where their going.

    Muff_Fluff
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kids are short. Cars are big. Kids need supervision.

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    Barbara L Bristow
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Ksenia M
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, the op doesn't say they are backed over by their parents

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    JK
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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...

    Roxy Eastland
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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) . . .

    Dave P
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is why backup camera's are now standard

    Zophra
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought this was a reason there are back-up cameras on vechicles now?

    leah
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I taught my daughters to treat a driveway like a street. Stop and look both ways before crossing.

    BobSponge444
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Die from being backed over or just backed over?

    Poultry Geist
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is such a big fear of mine !!

    Angie Taylor
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This looks like "Mean Girls"......how it all started.

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    #33

    Lights on, motion off

    Person in motion capture suit with reflective markers standing with arms outstretched in a studio setting for online group. 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.

    Franks_Spice_Sauce , Josephine Dorado Report

    Pezor Zass
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i'm sorry? are you guys meeting anteaters every day? maybe i'm more sheltered than i thought.

    Mary Rose Kent
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes...you clearly need to get out more! 🙂🙃🙂

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    Jon S.
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Marco Conti
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or if you are an ant. I bet they are worried.

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    Panda Kicki
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you see that you are to close.. Actually had to google the pose as my daily life is sadly absent from ant eaters.

    Viviane
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Nikole
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anteaters hurt people??

    DuchessDegu
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They can't bite to defend themselves, so they'll kill you instead

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    daking
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, ima stay far away from the zoo now...

    Debrina Blackmoon
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No worries since they can't escape or don't have gadget/stretchy arms.

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    Sinnsyk Jakte
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For /free/? If I ever find someone who needs a c-section, I'm finding a threatening ant-eater.

    Marco Conti
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #34

    The average number of arms/legs a human has is less than 2.

    Maximum-Garden-2665 Report

    Terilee Bruyere
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That makes sense, considering there are more amputees than there are conjoined twins or those with birth defects resulting in extra limbs.

    YoyoSthlm
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Conjoined twins have fewer arms though?

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    Tim Pillinger
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The average human has slightly less than 1 testicle.

    Chris Hutchinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The average number of skeletons inside a person is greater than 1...

    Fluffy Griffin
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My question is, are there more pregnant people then amputees at any given time that would make this statement incorrect?

    Dylan Clements
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average number of legs.

    Bob Belcher
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Hey Ho neighbours
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?

    Hey Ho neighbours
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Could someone please explain this in more detail?

    Monday
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Twodogsandapicnictable
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not that surprising. There would only need to be one amputee on the entire face of the Earth to make this true.

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    #35

    Ocean Acrobatics Unleashed

    Orca whale leaping out of water in a marine park, capturing attention of people in an online group. Orcas can skin penguins.

    Yu_jinie , Chad Sparkes Report

    Johnny Rodriguez
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's more interisting that the orca is a natural enemy of the moose..

    Autumn
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Moose can dive 6 metres (20 foot) under water

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    Jo Choto
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They could probably skin humans too if they felt like it.

    Kevin Camp
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    K R
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gorgeous but murderous dolphins

    Nimisa
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I accidentally read that as 'Oreo's can skin penguins.' and nearly choked on the oreo I was eating........

    Bobby
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That doesn't mean they should

    Kona Pake
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow… they’re pretty dexterous!

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    #36

    Brace Yourself Moments

    Dentist and assistant treating a patient in a clinic, illustrating not-so-fun facts people in this online group can’t forget. Dentists have the highest suicide rate of all doctors.

    TheRoxzo , Herry Lawford Report

    Toni Alabakovski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was veterinarians? Or do they not count? Or I could be wrong?

    Ellie Rosser
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Sylvanticx
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?

    Dave P
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Johnny U
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All healthcare workers have a high suicide rate.

    Thorfin Wolfsbane
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it's probably the day in/day out constant musak.

    Peter Trudell Jr
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    of course, they're always looking down in the mouth...

    MalP
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a job where this was a statistic we had to know. sad, as I've know some awesome dentists.

    Caroline Overill
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're talking dentists here...are they SURE it's suicide?

    Wednesday
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To all the dentists out there, thank you. I have amazing teeth and good health because of your efforts and education. You have never frightened me and I appreciate all you do... :)

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    #37

    Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani.

    PMME_ur_lovely_b***s Report

    Zophra
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Looks like such a creeper too. Like the uncle you warn your kids about.

    Nikole
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But he's not human, so...

    Christy Smith
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sooner he's off this planet, the better. F**k that POS & all his cronies

    Watching
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh my god why would you say that? Gwen Stefani is a national treasure and Ted Cruz is a national disgrace!

    Frankenfrog
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Canada knew what he would he become so they deported that pos before it was too late

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    Louloubelle
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What? No. That means he's younger than me, and I just can't have that.

    Radek Suski
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Bill Dolman
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And everybody is younger than Mick Jagger.

    tuzdayschild
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's also a barnacle. Bet you didn't know that.

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    #38

    Unexpected Star Power

    Weedle character from a mobile game with CP137 and full HP shown on a green blurred background. There is only one Pokémon that cannot learn any normal type attacks, and that Pokémon is Weedle.

    BackwardsLongJump- , Alpha Report

    More Thinking Needed
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am so happy I have no idea what this means.

    Improperplays
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait. Weedie cant learn any normal attacks?

    Monday
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was surprised too...I figured they could learn tackle at least

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    Mattewis88
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I to this day play Pokemon, they're less inclined to work on my nerves like people do.

    Kira Okah
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True. Though this makes me curious about Hidden Power - it's classified as Normal Type, but it cannot ever be Normal Type, so is it Normal Type?

    Brittany Beverly
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well poo... ok yall. I get this one. Sadly. But I do.

    MiaOokami
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait, is there actually a joke behind this?

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    Stary_cat
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    4 years ago

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    Wasn't expecting one of these to be less useful than the anteater one.

    K R
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    4 years ago

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    Useless c..t

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    #39

    Chaos Crew Assembled

    Group of people dressed as comic book characters standing together, representing people in this online group. Suicide Squad has won more Academy Awards than The Shawshank Redemption.

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    Scagsy
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    4 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Ellie Rosser
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Vicky Z
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Helen Haley
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It had to compete with Tom Hanks. Tough row to hoe.

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    matilda
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who cares? We all know which movie was better anyway

    Luis
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Shawshank Redemption, I saw that movie like 15 times, one of my favorites...God Bless Andy Dupree... will continue to be in Zihuatanejo?

    Johnny Apples
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm like an hour away from Zihuatanejo, I can go check if you want

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    MorgothBauglir
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Shawshank Redemption should have won, if only it wasn't going up against some other masterpieces.

    J. F.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And? Pearl Habor was the only movie Michael Bay got ever an Oscar for...and it was for the sound design. The categories are important

    Kona Pake
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not enough money was passed around.

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    #40

    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.

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    Thomas Biorogue
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    More Thinking Needed
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Jace
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Kevin Hickey
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    White people "made everything about race" for hundreds of years. I think you'll be OK if you read a story about racism.

    Deja Katz
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    4 years ago

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    Why did she bother?

    K R
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bravery? Principles? Ahead of her time? I don't know.

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    #41

    Speeding Past Expectations

    Red Formula 1 race car speeding on a track with Petronas sponsorship banners in the background. Jacques Villeneuve (F1 World Champion 1997), is the only drivers champion in history not to have another driver passing away during their F1 career.

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    Ara Noguera
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have read this several times... Still don't get it.

    all caps
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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).

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    Bernadette Circle
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

    Johnny Rodriguez
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    4 years ago

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    Every kind motorsport is a slap in mother nature's face. Sorry for the drivers who died, but how many people died just for the fuel they burn only for training or to fly from continent to continent every two weeks?

    James Doe
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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..

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    KT
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    4 years ago

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    Dumbest "sport" ever. Absolute hell on the environment

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    #42

    You live for about 27 thousand days.

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    Nazda Pokmov
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's 73 years....I'm older than that!!!! Now what?

    Display Name
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Keep living. #BestAdviceEver (sarcasm)

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    RoseTheMad
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends. Maybe whoever wrote this will only live around 73 years, but someone reading this could live much longer... or even less longer.

    Isabel Care
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I sleep between half and three quarters of most

    Albino
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn, and Nick Cage already went past 20,000 days. (Film)

    Sky Render
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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...

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    #43

    If you punch someone in the heart right in the middle of a heartbeat, you can stop the heart.

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    Nevid
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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?

    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    More Thinking Needed
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.

    K R
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a very well timed technique

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    Valerie G.
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Kenny Kulbiski
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But you live long enough to ask how you look. (Kill Bill.)

    Devil's Advocate
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually this is false, it can stop the heart at any point

    Bacony Cakes
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A woman hit herself in the chest with a can of whipped cream and died.

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    BleeBloo
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    punching anyone hard enough will kill them

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    #44

    The Looney Tunes Cartoon Buddy's Day Out was so bad that one of the dudes working on it got fired.

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    Davis the Greatest
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well I’d assume that’s what would happen…

    Kelli Lindsay
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Troux
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    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

    Devil's Advocate
    Community Member
    4 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something was crap and someone got fired for it, great unknown fact there Sherlock

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