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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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.
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.
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.
The number one cause of death for pregnant women worldwide is Murder. Horrific to think about.
Pluto didn't even make a full orbit of the sun from its discovery to its demotion.
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.
You're more likely to survive being shot in the head than rabies.
From what I have seen and heard, it's A cruel and painful death. My heart goes out to anyone who has lost someone to rabies.
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.
At any time, your body could make a mistake while fighting an infection/virus and register a vital type of cell as unwanted for the rest of your life.
Your immune system can also decide that your own cells are enemies, and attack them. (Speaking as someone with multiple autoimmune disorders.)
I hope you are getting some sort of treatment to help you out. My immune system gets confused if I'm sick and attacks my nerves, but luckily it ONLY happens if I get really sick.
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doctors think thats whats happening to me right now. I've been very very sick.
I learned about this when my untreated strep throat turned into rheumatic fever when I was 20. I ended up with polyarthritis and joint problems, because the shape of the disease cells were very similar to the shape of my joint cells and my immune system couldn't tell the difference and just kept attacking.
Yeah, that's probably what happened with my islets of langerhans cells, and lemme tell you, type 1 diabetes sucks.
Pretty sure this doesn't necessarily happen when the body is fighting something - autoimmunity (seeing a type of body cells as foreign) happens due to "screening" problems in the bone marrow or thymus when an immune cell reacts to self very strongly and yet doesn't commit suicide (apoptosis). Anyone with more immunology know ?
A lot of autoimmune diseases are idiopathic, which is doctor-ese for “I don’t know WTF happened.”
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That's what autoimmune disease is. I have a couple of them. They're awful.
Okay so this may get me blocked but maybe it'll help someone first. I was in a power chair for 9 months due to Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis and could barely transfer, then my state made the use of cannabis legal. First time I smoked I stood up for the first time, much less go back to using my lofstrand crutches (forearm). I didn't need much but I was able to return to a point two years previously. When I could walk. Each type works differently for everyone, some might not work at all. I will say that high CBD content helps, and if you can't have the cannabis flower, search for a reputable CBD seller on Amazon or just online. Some supposed CBD products have THC, barely any CBD, or has nothing in it. It helps me, it may help you.
Immune systems can become bored if someone lives in too sterile of an environment, leading to an increased numbers of allergens. Many people wrongly think avoiding allergens is the best way to deal with them, but the opposite can lead to a better life. In a landmark new study, researchers found that babies who consumed the equivalent of about 4 heaping teaspoons of peanut butter each week, starting when they were between 4 and 11 months old, were about 80 percent less likely to develop a peanut allergy by age 5. Some food products made for toddlers are specifically designed to combat peanut allergies.
Agreed. Lara was downvoted for saying that the environment is too clean, but she’s right that first world nations have higher rates of allergies and autoimmune diseases. Kids who grow up with pets and attend daycare have fewer allergies than kids who don’t go to daycare and don’t grow up around animals. Or so I learned in my university level immunology class.
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This has also happened in rare instances after vaccines due to the same process, and is one of the things people point to as a reason they distrust vaccines, not realizing the same thing can happen through a "natural" infection.
Welcome to the reality of evolution: Nope, it didn't work towards perfection. Just not-extinction.
I live this first hand due to my immune system attacking my body. I now live with 2 auto immune diseases. This can happen at any time and out of no where especially if you don't know you have a virus.
No, cancer is mutated cells whereas an autoimmune disease is a disorder in which your immune system attacks the wrong things.
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I have lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, & a blood clotting disorder called, Factor 5 Leiden (but the 5 is a Roman numeral "V")... Which means I get blood clots all the time for no reason. I had a stroke after having my daughter at 26 when she was 4 days old. 4 doctors told me not to have any more children but I wanted a son so I got pregnant on purpose & had a normal pregnancy, but had to take blood thinner shots 2x a day. I was 30 when I had him & it was a smooth pregnancy. The lupus "woke up" when he was 3 & it was HORRIBLE!!! I was in so much pain & it was attacking my liver. My Dr gave me 9 yrs to live if the lupus didn't go in to remission but it did after about a year. It stayed in remission until just last month. Stress has caused my lupus to set back off. I can't get in to see my Rheumatologist until Oct. They had me on methadone & Roxy 30's last time & the pain has started back up again so I'm sure I'll be in pain management again. The 1st time it set off, I prayed to die every ni
Welcome to lupus! I literally have to deal with this every day! I can go to bed feeling ok & wake up in the morning feeling awful, tonsillitis, ulcers & ear infection. Because lupus said so. 🤦🏼♀️
For all the things we know about the human body we actually know exponentially less. I may be mistaken but I don't think autoimmune disorders are anywhere near fully understood and the human brain is proving itself to be a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Most maddening to me is the aspect that we, humans today, know full well that we don't have a driving survival need to abide by ancient tribal mentality/inclusion in order to survive yet here we are...each of us belonging to our own little menagerie of tribes with each tribe pitted against a multitude of others for "survival". Is it our brain that drives this mentality forward or is it truly our genes that are captain at the helm, driving the ship toward a sure wreck in the off chance that they can spread their influence to the next captain at the helm?
That a new to me, i am not a Specialist on immunology, but in virology. My educated half-knowledge is that EVERY autoimmune Antibody is killed during the embryonic development within the thymus. But true, why would there be auto immune diseases if that was a bullet proof System....
lets hold a grudge against d kidney...we were so comfortable in d bed...v dint wanna go pee then///
Maybe the body starts to miss a registry entry and doesn't know that the zombie process it's just its own application. Wish it would correct itself..or someway to patch it.
DNA patches like computer code patches. It’ll probably happen, and I hope I’m still around to see it when it does.
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Vet tech here … most of our older pets don’t die of old age, they die of cancer. It sucks.
There’s no way to prevent cancer. It’s a mutation of cells. However, to keep your good boi or gurl with you longer some things that really make a difference: a quality diet (please don’t feed them the cheapest stuff, it’s like humans eating the cheapest foods; not terribly healthy though it may fill all the nutritional requirements), all the regular vaccines (for the love of Dog, make sure you get your puppies the Parvo vaccine!), and a good flea/tick and heart worm preventative. Exercise and not letting them become overweight, and regular dentals are even better!
Also, screw you if you buy your vaccines for your domestic pets at the feed store or the tractor supply (talking dogs and cats here, not large farm animals). Just because it’s cheaper and has the same chemical name doesn’t mean you’re giving the right dose, amount, at the proper location, or getting the assurance that those vaccines have been treated and stored in the correct manner. You get what you pay for.
Our vet (who is also a top surgeon) actually recommended that we buy our pet drugs online as they work out way cheaper. This was partly due to the fact that our pup was born with a bad liver and because of that we couldn't get insurance. So she was helping us out. If you buy your drugs from a reputable pharmacy then there is no reason to suspect that they are any less effective than vet-supplied medicines.
The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.
Roughly 40% of murders go unsolved.
The creator of Plants vs. Zombies was fired from EA because he hated the idea of microtransactions.
There's a wasp in Australia that hunts spiders.
It doesn't eat them, though. It paralyses them, makes a little mud cocoon for each one, and before sealing it off, lays a single egg on the now trapped spider.
The egg hatches, the larva eats the still alive (and still paralysed) spider, and then breaks out of the cocoon as a wasp.
Turns out they're all over the world, not just Australia. If you see a wasp dragging a spider, that's what's going on.
Wasps also hunt baby catapillars. They puncture the little catapillars and lay thier eggs inside the caterpillar's body. The wasp larvae hatch and begin to eat the caterpillar alive from the inside until they break through the caterpillars skin and start weaving thier cocoons. That's not even the worst part... the poor caterpillar will remain alive just long enough to protect the wasp cocoons until they emerge.
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.
We're closer to the year 2051 than we are 1991.
Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
Persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage (aka finger up the a**)
That in all likelihood your name will be forgotten after 2 generations.
I suspect my name has already been forgotten by most of the people I have ever known. Oh, well, there's always BP. 😁
During the bubonic plague the Mongolians launched infected dead bodies over the walls of different civilizations.
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.
In WW2 allied scientists stuffed dead rats with explosives to aid French resistance fighter who would leave them in factories to be thrown in furnaces and detonated.
They also put small bombs on bats that would fall of within a day or two & explode.
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.
Everyone celebrates their birthday each year. But we also have a "deathday" we unknowingly pass each year but because it hasnt happened we dont know which day.
YOU may not know your deathday, but are you sure there isn't someone close to you who does?
False Vacuum Decay - the entire universe could blink out of existence in (from our perspective) an instant.
About 50 kids in the US are backed over by cars every week.
The funny T Pose that an anteater does? Yeah that's Mr. Anteater telling you hes seconds away from literally disemboweling you with one swipe. Next time you see an anteater doing the funny pose just remember they are trying to give you a free C-section with one singular claw slash.
i'm sorry? are you guys meeting anteaters every day? maybe i'm more sheltered than i thought.
The average number of arms/legs a human has is less than 2.
That makes sense, considering there are more amputees than there are conjoined twins or those with birth defects resulting in extra limbs.
Orcas can skin penguins.
I think it's more interisting that the orca is a natural enemy of the moose..
Dentists have the highest suicide rate of all doctors.
I thought it was veterinarians? Or do they not count? Or I could be wrong?
There is only one Pokémon that cannot learn any normal type attacks, and that Pokémon is Weedle.
Suicide Squad has won more Academy Awards than The Shawshank Redemption.
Harriet Tubman was a spy for the Union army and gave them lots of good information but she never received a pension or got military burial due to her race and gender.
Not true. Quit lying and quit trying to make everything about race. She did get a pension, $20 a month, and rec'd military honors at her funeral.
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I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
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I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
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