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.
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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Seems a buit nasty at the end there. There are loads of reasons people choose a cheaper version of things. Is an animal better off with a horrible family who is poor but loves them and (GASP) gets vaccines from the feed store, or on the streets with no vaccines at all? Saying "Screw you" to people who are trying their best is pretty crappy. I get wanting the best. Not everyone can afford it. And assuming they're being purposefully cheap because they are trying to take care of basic needs in a way that they can afford... that's not fair. You do get what you pay for. And so many can't afford the best. How completely privileged you are to think everyone has access to all you do.
They could get the cheap ones at the co op if the vet says it's ok, bring to vet to make sure, and have the vet give the correct dose to the animal. I've met very few vets that are out to fleece the customer.
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I blame the veterinary pharmaceutical companies for some of this. After Hurricane Katrina, my rescue group took in a truckload of "Katrina dogs". 100% of them had heart worms. The medicine that prevents heartworms is not expensive in itself, but I pay $106 for three months of treatment for small dogs. And that's with a discount. The drugs could be a lot less expensive, people without many resources should be able to afford to buy the stuff since it's so cheap to make. Lest I get lectured about how poor people shouldn't have pets; not all of these people were poor when they got their companions, and a great many of these animals were rescued off the street, because no one was caring for them.
My sweet old kitty girl Vera died at 19; the vet said he couldn’t even tell what kind of cancer it was, that it seemed to be a mishmash of at least three very basic cancers. I fed her RadCat, which is basically ground raw meat with blood, innards and bone marrow and no crap.
My beautiful cat Mr. Egypt died at 16, earlier this month. We were going to take him to the vet to see what was wrong with him. We were feeding him the best-quality food we could find, but he wouldn't gain weight. Our kittens occasionally stole that food from him and got fat quickly. He was a skeleton, the poor kitty, and one day I woke up to discover that he had gotten trapped between his cage and his litter box and died.
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You can get vaccines MADE for cats & dogs at feed/tractor stores that are formulated specifically for their species. Don't use vaccines designed for a cow or horse on your dog. As long as it's for the correct species, you are fine.
That doesn’t mean that the owner is administering in the right site and right dosage.
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So veterinary medicine is regulated by the FDA. if it has the same chemical name it is by law required to be the same drug and the same efficacy. As for dosage and injection location I couldn't comment to that, but the end of that post seems more like angry at a different business taking custom than anything else
Many vaccines have very careful storage requirements. Unless these are followed carefully the vaccine may not work effectively.
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It really does make difference. I know that from experience. And having animal costs money. If you can't afford it, don't have one. You can check up front how much what costs and during life things can add up.
If you get a puppy/kitten, you can now get pet insurance for them, which can save you a boatload if your pet has health issues, like becoming diabetic, as my Petrushka did. It took so long to find the right type of insulin—I had no idea there were so many choices; I’m very lucky to be from a family with only one known diabetic.
Load More Replies... ....... you can buy ramdom vaccines at the tractor supply?? Is that a US thing? I have vaccinated horses myself, but that was with shots the vet had prescribed and I got them from the pharmacy
Yes. Most tractor supplies have a large supply of vaccines. The only one that owners can't do is the rabies.
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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
"Screw" me? You really wanted to go there? You're wrong, not all vets are conscientious and some feed stores are very careful.
EXACTLY. We never treated our pet dogs/cats with FARM animal drugs. Why would we? DIFFERENT SPECIES. Good grief.
But what's considered cheap to you people? I tried the boutique dog foods, mostly pate, and beloved dog doesn't like pate. He likes the chunky gravy brothy foods. I'm thinking 3$ per container ain't cheap. Anyway 14+ Husky with issues yeah but he is still kicking ass and taking names. 😎❤
It took three weeks to take our lovely hematite pup away. It's scalded into my memory how scared she looked when she went into infinity sleep. And I have seen a lot of pain and death as a former vet assistant...
We had to say goodbye to our beloved dog after the cancer we thought they'd caught during an emergency hysterectomy came back in full. It was so bad she had full-blown dementia and didn't know where she was or who anyone was anymore. When it came time to say goodbye we opted for euthanizing her so she would no longer be in pain, and she was gone before the shot was even halfway done because the cancer completely rotted her away from the inside. I still miss you, Brownie. 💔
My daughter's vet wanted her to buy her cats med from the vet practice and would not write a script. Cost $97 for 1 month's supply. Change of vets. New vet happy to write script for medication which was also a human med but smaller dose. Cost $18.00.
I buy pet meds (other than those for acute care) online; the Rx comes from the vet and she has to approve the sale. I'm okay with it. Shots get taken care of in the office. I've had two German shepherd dogs die from a very rapid developing cancer and it does indeed suck.
so, livestock vaccines are ok from the farm supply, but pet vaccines arent? hmmmm
I had a playful orange tabby taken too soon from me via blood vessel cancer. He had emergency surgery to get the masses out, and we opted to start him on a couple of treatments once he recovered. Well, six weeks later when he was ready to start...the tumors were back. He never stood a chance.
You could have educated people of how bad it is to buy feed store vaccines without the 'screw you.' Some people just need the proper education, not scorn which tends to be my problem with animal rights nuts. I have no respect for you if you can't treat your fellow humans properly as well as animals. It's not hard not to be an asshole.
Just want to say because you want a pet, doesn't mean you can afford one. My cat eats the best food I can afford (Orijen), has multiple shelf runways and trees (exercise), and got a new buddy once I could afford to have one. He visits the vet every single year even though he has 3 year vaccines, just for a check up. My vet has a deal where if you get the 3 year vaccines, the 2nd year is just for her to look at Pixel, the 3rd year is free. Mind you this is the vet that saved his life after I got him from a shelter that didn't give two shts about the kittens health. Dr. Primm and Dr. Pepper are the best.
Both of my cats died because of complications of hyperthyroidism. I’m still upset about it. I euthanized one in March of 2020 and the other 364 days later in 2021. No one knows why this epidemic is going on, but it’s likely something humans are doing. Our environment is toxic to our pets and it’s toxic to us. Yet, it’s all “crazy libtards” and “regulation is bad” when we try to stop the use and production of suspect materials. Our species is committing slow suicide, and we’re taking many other species with us.
This needs to be higher. I don't mind paying my vet the extra mark-up for maintenance meds like heartworm, and glucosamine. The vet tech who posted this is absolutely right - exercise is the key.
And the reason that flea/tick and heartworm medication is important is because many fleas can carry diseases that can make a dog deathly ill and many ticks/mosquitos can infect the dog with heartworms. Heart worms can get so prevalent, they can starve a dog for blood, enlarge his heart to cause heart failure and give them permanent respiratory issues.
My cat had cancer and it was to aggressive I had to let her go 😔 still sad about it
I agree 100% about feeding pets quality food. Many name brand grocery store bought pet food is high in fillers and sugars. Avoid pet food which contains grains in the first three ingredients. If you buy better food, your pet will 💩 less and eat less and you will spend a lot less on vet bills. Remember, corn is no good for your pet. If your pet is licking their paws, chances are it’s a food allergy. Chicken is one of the culprits of food allergens. Adding canned pumpkin or sweet potatoes can be a good cancer fighter.
We are preparing Freya's food once a month ourselves. Vets are not particularly happy about that because they tend to be selling pet's food as well. Thus I am still not sure if barfing is the best way
My cat died in January of 2020 (great start for an awful year) and he had inoperable liver cancer. We fed him the same food as the other cats, except his had salmon oil in it. He was a skeleton when he died. I miss him so much
It doesn't. Neither does the article say it does.
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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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