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.)
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**)
I would pass if my hiccups didn’t hurt me. I’ve been through lots of things that people find painful, but damn those hiccups hurt like hell. So I’ll try this.
Load More Replies...There are other ways to scare someone in order to stop the hiccups! No need for such extreme measures🙄
Exactly! One SIMPLER technique is: inhale through your nose, swallow your spit a couple times, and exhale. I don't know the science - perhaps you're distracting yourself - but it’s helped me tons without ever needing to sacrifice my dignity.
Load More Replies...Swallowing a teaspoon of sugar (not waiting for it to dissolve) works too. The granularity stimulates the throat somehow.
That's how I've always done it...works every time.
Load More Replies...Does it work in the opposite way when you are farting permanently?
If you stick your finger up your jacksie when farting, it'll likely give you hiccups! ;-)
Load More Replies...Umm... I've found that a finger down my throat making myself gag works just fine. I'd rather not stick the finger elsewhere.
Yes, retching also stimulates the vagus nerve, however, the other end might be more fun? Don't knock it till you try it...?
Load More Replies...i use the paper towel over a glass of water method. Put a piece of paper towel over the top of a glass of water and drink that water through the towel. you'll thank me later when your hiccups are gone
Yes! This works! I learned about this 35 years ago! It helps to fold the paper towel so there are 2 or 4 thicknesses to drink the water through.
Load More Replies...I take a sip of water, keep it in my mouth while I press my nostrils closed with my thumbs. At the same time my index fingers in my ears and then I swallow the water. It's the only thing that works for me and I'm so not trying this shitty method.
The best way to stop hiccups is exercise until you're breathing hard. Run up a flight of stairs, do some jumping jacks; just get your breathing up and they go away. Done it for years and it works every time.
I guess some folks don't have to worry about randomly getting the hiccups during sex then.
But, how do you get the peanut butter up there?
Load More Replies...I'd have to see the science on that one! As an R.N., I'd pass on that treatment and let my grandmother try to stop them, first! Lol
Hard to digest this one. Don't even want to know how this was discovered, AND reproduced.
There's also a part of the brain that specifically is meant to stop hiccups from happening and if it gets damaged you'll have hiccups for the rest of your life.
The suggestion alone might be sufficient to stop the hiccoughs! I had a bout of them suddenly cease when someone said something shocking and rude (deliberately).
Tense all the muscles in your abdomen. They said to hold your breath coz lots of people tense up when the do it. I always relaxed when holding my breath and worked out that the tense muscle thing helped stop the muscles that were spasming, causing the hiccups
Not all treatments work for everybody. Persistant hiccups are a nightmare. I've tried AlkaSeltzer, AntAcids, Pepto Bismo, Holding my breath in a bag...and so on and so on. NADA! For me, what worked as a couple of swallows of pickle juice. When I didn't have any, I swallowed Apple Cider Vineger. It works everytime for me.
Let someone else "feed" you a glass of water. It helps most of the time. If you kinda let yourself choke on it a little bit, the odds go up
Or, and here’s a dramatic suggestion, you could take a very very deep breath, hold it as long as possible, and then very slowly push it out like you’re blowing through a straw. This helps make the diaphragm stop freaking out. But hey, if you wanna finger your a n u s ...
And once again, the words that this stupid website censors are utterly and mind-bogglingly LUDICROUS.
Load More Replies...Hiccups are your bodies reaction to am item trying to work it's way back up the esophagus. Drinking small sips of water continuously while holding your breath can relax your diaphragm and allow the item to finish it's journey down to the stomach.
Now I just gotta debate if it's worth trying, cause dang, these things hurt and are embarrassing as all get out
I think it might work. If someone offers to stop my hiccups that way, I'll stop hiccuping right away.
Oh ffs. If you know what a hiccup is then you know that they can be extremely easy to "cure", with a few exceptions. (in other words, some people have a more difficult time relaxing their diaphragm.)
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.
Load More Replies...I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
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