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.
Yet you still have to take off your shoes in the US to go through security. Fat lot of good it's doing 🙄
Hey in almost every book and action movie the hero keeps their weapons/stolen goods/lock picking tools, etc in their shoes.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I've accidentally taken stuff through that I shouldn't. It should be known that TSA agents have some of the highest turnover of any government department. They are poorly paid, poorly trained, get nothing but abuse from people, and are probably not motivated to know or care what they are doing most of the time. Fact is, for all that standing in line and waiting at airports, it would be pretty easy for anyone to commit another act of plane terrorism.
It seems like there are 2 main types of TSA agents. Apathetic or power tripping.
Load More Replies...Ok I feel like someone needs to point out that contraband is not the same as a weapon. Contraband can be as simple as too much shampoo being taken through security.
And it’s patently insane that that’s considered contraband.
Load More Replies...The TSA gets randomly "stress tested" by an outside contractor that sends hundreds of ""undercover travelers" through major hubs throughout the US. They are all carrying various types of contraband and if found, they immediately produce credentials but otherwise, they are supposed to board the flight and repeat at the next airport until it is found.
Load More Replies...Could you imagine the flight delays if every passenger was vigorously screened? Plus at $9hr you get what you pay for.
Not being a rabid nationalist in fear of every plane being hijacked, I never asked for this, so I’m only paying for it because I have no choice what they spend my taxes on.
Load More Replies...And yet they also can go way overboard in what they'll confiscate. They made my 8 year old son take off and throw away the necklace he had saved up and bought, because it had a small shark tooth pendant. After we got past the check point, we went into an airport gift shop and they were selling brass statues of deer antlers, which anyone could then take onto the planes.
and San Fran that uses a private company had a miss rate of only 12%. And had a 5x better rate at finding weapons. The other 15 airports that also still have permission to use private over TSA have similar results. Yet Congress refuses to allow more airports to go private and eliminate the TSA, rather we throw more money at the TSA while trying to eliminate the private ones.
Privatization of everything is usually something I’m against. The real problem here is the obsession with ludicrous security parameters and violation of civil liberties.
Load More Replies...In '06 a female TSA was giving me a hard time over how I packed my hair products. It was really slow and this was part business trip. She then had a fit over my lip gloss in my purse. So we had to back out of line and check one bag so I could keep our stuff. When we went back through the second time I had a different guy check my purse again. I forgot I had the second same (expensive) lip gloss in a different color I didn't check. The guy laughed under his breath and let me go through. On the way home from Orlando and Atlanta we had no problems with our luggage. Complete power trip for some TSAs.
I took a light last week from Arizona to Washington and I had a 6oz bottle of hand sanitizer in my carry on that I didn't even know was there. They didn't even say anything.
They miss my pepper spray every time but gotta give it up for a ticket checker who caught it
They slid me and my group through we had personal amounts of several illegal drugs on us and they searched a sweet old lady that we let in front of us!
TSA never really does their job properly. I always get subjected to inspection and more sus people get through.
They didn't catch the thimble bomber, they didn't catch the sandal bomber, and they definitely won't catch the crop top bomber.
The TSA is a waste of money and a violation of our civil rights. It’s useless security theater, brought to life by rabid nationalism, and, because this is Capitalist America, also a playground for corporate opportunism.
I gave you an upvote to pull you up to 0. This is all true, anyway. And, yo, people, if you truly disagree with someone else's opinion, fire off a reply to get a dialogue going. That way we can maybe all learn something.
Load More Replies...The Patriot Act - just another liberal way to control the masses...take away their security...all for the children...governments are SO corrupt!!
Yes! And if you think about it, it's really no longer possible to hijack an airliner. The reinforced cockpit doors were really the only change they needed to make. In theory, you can still blow one up, if you're willing to become a martyr, but, seriously, how many actual incidents have there been since 9/11? The only thing that comes to mind, just off the top of my head, was when a mentally unbalanced airline pilot tricked the other pilot into leaving the cockpit, so he could lock everyone else out and crash the plane into the side of a mountain. I think this took place in Europe. If it was an urban legend, tell me, OK? Thanks.
Load More Replies...No s**t. They're justvrgular minimum wage workers trying to get to the end of the day.
And do what? The 4% they caught were people sent by the company to test security.
Load More Replies...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.
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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