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.
Probably perfectly acceptable in Texas. Can't have an abortion, but you can open-carry a firearm.
As a Texan I can assure you, Texas is the new Florida Man.
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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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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
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.
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.
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.
Last I checked in the Journal of Women's Health, pregancy related homicide is only the highest because the numbers are so heavily skewed by US statistics - that medical care has dropped other factors so much that the originally much rarer instance of murder ends up standing out and dominating the numbers, all due to the prevention of preventable deaths. A third of the cases is believed to be IPV. In most of the world, death during childbirth is way higher. The numbers include up to one year postpartum.
well.. not so suprising... Woman is pregnant for 9 month, which is quite short time for something to happened (sure, she can be pregnant severla times but it still gives only a limited time. So it is not so suprising that main cause of death for such person in unnatural. And because pregnant woman less often going on more dangeroust places andmore likely staying at home and its nearby... yes, very sad, but still quite pesumable.
I think the surprising thing is that the pregnancy itself is not the leading cause of death. Labour complications have been the no.1 killer of women for millennia. I don't know if this means good medical care is now widely available in the world or that pregnant women are massively victimized, or both.
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I have to question this claim. There are many women around the world in developing countries who die in childbirth. I honestly can't believe that more are murdered than die of natural causes.
*Pregnant* women, not women giving birth. Those are separate medical things.
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My daughter and granddaughter were lucky - they survived the attack when she was kicked in the stomach down a flight of stone stairs not surprising tom me
Here’s a new ahead of print article (Firearm Relinquishment Laws Associated With Substantial Reduction In Homicide Of Pregnant And Postpartum Women): https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01129
You say horrific. I say Why? Why is this the case? Why does it happen this way?
Is it? WHO said otherwise https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(14)70227-X/fulltext
I checked the link: "Between 2003 and 2009, haemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, and sepsis were responsible for more than half of maternal deaths worldwide. More than a quarter of deaths were attributable to indirect causes." It doesn't mention homicide, so that may fall under "indirect causes".
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There was a bizarre murder I think in Kansas - the woman killed the pregnant woman, took the fetus from the womb and tried to play it off as her own. She was given a lethal injection. And apparently this happens. Not just a random act.
That's very sweet of you to find a silver lining to femicide.
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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**)
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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