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30 Really Creepy Facts About The World That Are A Reminder About How Weird Our Timeline Really Is
The world is far more complicated than some of us like to think. Morality isn’t black-or-white, historical facts are often hazier than we’d like them to be, and the interconnectivity of everything means that the deeper down the knowledge rabbit hole we go, the more lost we can sometimes feel.
There are some truly weird things about life on Planet Earth you can accidentally stumble upon while you’re down there. You might learn something about human biology or nature that really unnerves you. Or you might uncover something about your country’s past that puts into question pretty much everything else that you might know.
Today, we’re featuring some of the creepiest, most bizarre facts from these two viral r/AskReddit threads here and here. These internet users thought that others should know what they know, too. While you’re upvoting the most interesting facts of the bunch, have a think about the most peculiar things you have locked away in your database as well, Pandas. You can tell us all about them in the comment section.
Steven Wooding, a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK, part of the Omni Calculator Project, and the creator of the Weird Units Converter, shared his thoughts with Bored Panda about learning new facts and staying curious as well as less cynical as we age. You'll find our full interview with him below.
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#1
The Roman Empire lasted over 1000 years, American society is only 243 years old, we could quite possibly collapse just like the Roman Empire did.
Thomas Gray 3 years ago
It's even longer than that, depending upon your definition of the "Roman Empire." Ancient Rome (from its founding, through the Roman Republic, to the establishment of the Roman Empire by Augustus, to its partition and collapse) existed for over 1,200 years. The Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, which considered itself Roman even though it was culturally Greek, lasted for another 985 years.
Cindy M 3 years ago
No. I'm ready for a change. Toss up between cutting bangs and descending into anarchy.
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AndersM 3 years ago
With Fox network/GOP it's just a matter of time. Stupidity will make it collapse.
Caroline Nagel 3 years ago
The US is slowly turning into a fascist religion based country. Democracy seems on its way out.
François Carré 3 years ago
Tell me, do you really think you go to hell for having loved? / Tell me, enough of thinking everything that you've done is good / I really need to know, after soaking the body of Jesus Christ in blood / I'm so tired of America...
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Bored Panda was interested to get Steven's take on how we can come to terms with the fact that when we gain new information, it might make us realize that we've been spouting nonsense in the past.
"Nobody likes to learn they were giving out incorrect information in the past. It hurts, but we have to push through it, accept new facts and work with them. After all, they could lead to the next big breakthrough," he explained that we all have to remain steadfast and learn to embrace the fact that we are wrong at times.
"This is constantly happening in science; as new discoveries are made, old discoveries have to be reevaluated," he said.
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#2
Drowning is quiet, and most kids drown right in front of the person that’s supposed to be watching them.
Sergy Yeltsen 3 years ago
Yep, it's why a lot of children just "slip away". People think they will scream, thrash and make a huge noise, and it often isn't like that at all.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago (edited)
When I was a kid I was in a pool with a bunch of other kids, and one little girl went straight to the bottom. None of the other kids noticed, myself included. No-one outside the pool noticed either... that is other than my mother, who dived in fully clothed and rescued her. The kid was my little sister, who thanks to Mum's quick action is still alive and well today! But that incident chills the hell out of me when I think about it now.
Jennifer Biness 3 years ago
That's why there are those who've lost children to drowning at family parties who are trying hard to spread the word. There's one example where they encourage a rotating lifeguard duty at gatherings, where the person with the whistle spends 15 min doing absolutely nothing else but watching the kids- nobody is to talk to them, they don't eat or drink, no phones, no interacting with the kids-everyone takes their turns in rotation
LH25 3 years ago
My mom has a pool, and when there were kids around, one person was in charge of watching them. Otherwise, people just kind of assume someone else is doing it.
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Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
Small warning. If you go in to get someone out of the water, they will almost certainly grab at you and drag you under. Be prepared for this. Go under, regroup, come back up and start talking to the person.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
they will climb you like a tree - you cannot talk to them - my lifeguard training teaches you how to lock on to the victim and get them to land - - it's called cross chest and they cannot get you and they cannot get away.
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Alan Gale 3 years ago
When I was very, very young, I was playing with a bunch of kids that belonged to my mothers friend, who I had to call "Auntie." We were at the lido, at the river. My "Aunt" got bored with filling up my little bucket with water from the river, so I started doing it myself. Naturally, I eventually fell in the river. I remember to this day looking up at all the bubbles going up, as I was going to the bottom of the river, and the feeling of being not the least little bit bothered. A strange man dove in, and rescued me. I was more annoyed that he swung me around by my anckles to get the water out of my lungs, than I was about actually drowning. Thet put me in a deck chair, and called my mother, who had been on the other side of the river**, teaching my older brother to swim. After the shouting match, we all walkked home, about 2 miles, instead of getting the bus. **60~70 yards.
ChickyChicky 3 years ago
I've heard that from several almost-drowned kids, that it was very peaceful.
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Terran 3 years ago (edited)
I knew a guy who almost drowned in a lake when he was six years old. His father jumped after him, but got entangled in some plants. After almost half an hour they both were rescued. The child survived heavily brain damaged, the father did not make it. I really love to swim, but water can be very scary.
Mark Melton 3 years ago
I've saved two people from drowning, as stated... It's quiet. I heard just one of them cry for help, but he immediately went under.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
i saved a few as a lifeguard. you gotta' watch 'cause it is not like most people think - it is very quiet most all of the time.
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GoGoPDX 3 years ago
This is so true. I was at a very busy resort pool a couple years back. I was cruising around the edge with my 3 year old, when I justvhappened to look down. There was a little boy, about 5, on the bottom of the pool trying to get to the surface, but couldn't. I reached down and pulled him up. Poor kid was coughing and crying, threw up. The horrible part is there were people all around this kid when he was drowning, and NOBODY noticed him. Parents were nowhere around. I finally found them and they they were so nonchalant about it and told me " he said he could swim" I was pissed.
WoodenLion 3 years ago
there's videos on cct cameras showing drownings with people all over the place. the victim silently slips down. as a former lifeguard i had one kid always trying to fool me. once i saw him lying on the bottom, which was not unusual, but after a certain amount of time i pulled him out. he was not funning on me that day. damn kid. cry wolf and then i almost let you drown. pissed me off.
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B-b-bird 3 years ago
Its true. And it’s so quiet and serene. I was drowning as a kid, and thought to myself… that’s it… relaxed all my muscles, seen bubbles coming up. Just in a moment as I closed my eyes, water pushed me up and I opened my eyes to see everyone around horrified and pulling me from water. Do not throw kids from inflatable mattresses in a hope that “it will teach them to swim”. I did not even have a time to fuss and yell and wave for help, that’s how quickly I slipped down into abyss. No sound, nothing, thought no one even noticed.
Jessica Cifelli 3 years ago
I definitely believe this. My nephew almost drowned when he was 8. We were at a Disney resort and we were all playing in the pool. It was only my family and a few other families. My nephew is a chatterbox. All of a sudden it occurred to me that I didn't hear him for a few minutes. I looked around and he was struggling to keep himself afloat in a too deep part of the pool. My 11 year old self swam to him as quickly as possible and pulled him up. He was ok, but it was scary at the time. There were no lifeguards on duty. So if you are swimming in an area that has no lifeguards on duty, be extra vigilant; it could save someone's life
#3
The last use of a guillotine in France was the same year the first Star Wars movie premiered. 1977
Wang Zhuang 3 years ago
I guess France figured it was already ahead of ... nevermind, I'll show myself out before completing the joke...
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
No, go on, I wanna hear you execute this joke
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MAL 3 years ago
Time to bring it back. But this time in America for all the billionaires and most of the government officials!
Dav Carro-Ripalda 3 years ago
Well in some states in the UNited States they still have the death penalty. Is guillotine bad because is gross? So is it less human? It is a bit hypocrite posture.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 3 years ago
While the US and several other countries still kill people in the name of justice...
Elizabeth Butler 3 years ago
In the USA there are lethal injections and the electric chair, both inhumane--guillotine much more kind
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Pascale Ehrmann 3 years ago
And then we French people realized (a bit late, I must admit) that it was barbaric, and stopped lawfully killing people... That is not the case in other "civilized" countries! Those countries that (amongst many other things) deny women the right to freely dispose of their bodies...
marlon patino 3 years ago (edited)
What do you mean dispose of our own bodies? Are you talking about murder or cremation?
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Random Anon 3 years ago
So anecdotally, a french person could be witnessing someone getting their noggin sliced off after watching spaceship battles in the cinema.
Shelp 3 years ago
Well, it wasn't public anymore since the beginning of the 20th century
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Amelia Earhart 3 years ago
I think the guillotine does produce the fastest, most painless death, but still...
According to Steven, from the Omni Calculator Project team, it's hard to stay on top of new knowledge, especially as you get older. We tend to think that we know everything and there's nothing new to learn.
"Try to view the world as a child does. Basically, keep asking 'why?' questions. As you learn the answer to one question, another will arise, and so on. It is a common situation in science that the more we know, the more questions there are. Keep questioning the world around you," he told us how we can start the chain towards living a more curious, and less cynical life.
Steven wanted to share an interesting fact with all of you dear Readers, too. "Crows are the Einsteins of the bird world. Expert at solving puzzles, and they can even recognize your face. They will actively avoid individuals who have been aggressive toward them in the past," he said. Hopefully, you'll see crows in a different light from now on, Pandas.
#4
you aren’t scared of being alone. You’re scared of not being alone when you’re supposed to be.
Monday 3 years ago
It's the whole fear of the dark thing. It isn't being alone in the dark that scares us...it's thinking there's something in the dark with us.
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Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
You, are now my favorite person on Bored Panda
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Slinkman 3 years ago
For the people who don't get this , here's a situation ; You're living with your parents on a farm far away from civilization, they decide to go on a holiday for the weekend and you are looking after the house all alone. When in bed that night you close your eyes and fall asleep. Suddenly the sounds of footsteps on the hallway awake you. You are afraid.
🥔SaltyPotato🥔 3 years ago
It's like the song that's very similar. "I'm not afraid of the dark, I'm afraid of what's in the dark that I cannot see because it's so dang dark..."
#5
Anglerfish, when Anglerfish mates the male Literally deforms its body and fuses with the female then they live together for the rest of their lives
Kryogen 3 years ago
FYI, to sum up, the male becomes a sperm sack fused to the female. Everything dies in the male except the gonads. And she draw sperm when needed. Plus, the female can have several males fused to her (some anglerfish had up to 8).
Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago
The male Anglerfish is also tiny and look more like deformed tadpole.
#6
If a fetus doesn't get enough calcium from their mother's diet they will take the calcium from their mother's bones.
Greta Denmark 3 years ago
I remember old women saying that you lose a tooth for every child you bear.
Amy S 3 years ago
In the UK pregnant women get free dental care on the NHS because of the impact on your teeth/oral health.
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Issey 3 years ago (edited)
People keep romanticising being pregnant. I keep hearing "the mother/fetus relationship is symbiotic" - No it's not, the fetus is parasitic, it gives nothing back
AlanandLeila Hoyt 3 years ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/26/449966350/fetal-cells-may-protect-mom-from-disease-long-after-the-babys-born
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Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
And teeth. Motherhood was a difficult thing for me. I have osteogenesis imperfecta and I've had three beautiful, intelligent, very healthy children. I however at the end of the pregnancies,looked like a long term meth addict.
Zedrapazia 3 years ago
I already don't want kids but the more i learn the less i want them. These are MY bones, i don't want to share them with anyone for as long as I'm alive!
Marianne 3 years ago
You don't have to. That's why there are supplements for pregnant women nowadays.
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Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
The fetus will also use the iron from the mother's blood supply. I became so anemic, I could barely stand, and I was already taking prenatal vitamins. Had to have an additional iron supplement, as well as eat a lot of red meat.
zububonsai 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, me too, tired etc. Buuuut my ob-gyn explained to me in the last week's of pregnancy "Pleeeeease don't try to substitute your "missing/lower than normal" iron via supplements. Nature is doing fine. With this it "iron deficiency" you will stop bleeding after giving birth much faster than women with "high/correct" iron levels. It kind of prevents large bleedings that cannot be stopped." Are there any BP GYN/haemo etc. specialised docs there who can confirm that , yes, very simple explanation for me non medical person? 🙏
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Curiosity is a great quality to have. It shows that we’re full of energy, a desire to learn something new, and we’re constantly on an adventure to get closer to the truth. Sure, some knowledge might be dangerous or we’re just not ready to hear some creepy facts yet, but curiosity in and of itself is something that we believe drives humanity forward, as a whole. Without curiosity, there would be no progress. Only stagnation and dogma.
A while back, parenting blogger Samantha Scroggin, the founder of ‘Walking Outside in Slippers,’ told us what parents can do to nurture their kids’ interest in learning new things. She also revealed to us the best approach on how to deal with endless ‘whys.’
"Kids asking 'why?' is an important part of their natural curiosity. That said, the constant chatter and questions can grow tedious. I am very open with my kids, and answer just about any question they bring to me. But sometimes I tell them, not right now. I need quiet. And they rarely grant me that quiet. But still, I ask," she told Bored Panda that patience and good communication are essential in helping children’s curiosity thrive.
#7
About 3 000 people disappear every year in the US and are never found again
Deborah B 3 years ago
Because, human trafficing, unsolved murders, accidental deaths where the body is not found, or is unidentified.
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Lola 3 years ago
Coincidentally enough, I recently watched a terrifying documentary about serial killer truck drivers. They tend to go for prostitutes because chances are no one looks for them. Many of them disappear without a trace. This makes a big part of that 3,000.
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
Look up a map of cave systems in the US compared with disappearances and most of the disappearances occur around those cave systems!
G R 3 years ago
The map is fake. It's been debunked. Many people who go missing simply choose to leave and start a new life, for example people who abandon their families to run away with a new boyfriend or girlfriend, or women or more rarely men fleeing abusive relationships.
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G R 3 years ago
The vast, vast majority of people who are reported missing are found within a few hours and most are misunderstandings (grandma got confused and thought it was her day to collect, mom calls the police, then grandma checks her phone and finds panicked messages) or just kids being kids (kid wanders off and hides in a store, or decides he wants to play at Billy's house so tells Billy's mom he has permission when he doesn't). Most missing people who aren't "found" are adults who left voluntarily. And many of them are just tragic accidents, such as the very famous cases like Maura Murray and Elisa Lam. Trafficking exists but is almost always through grooming and of vulnerable people who won't be missed. The majority of actual abductions are committed by family members as part of custody disputes (often women moving their children to a new state to escape an abusive ex without his permission, which unless she has sole custody is abduction). Actual stranger abduction is extremely rare.
Kaos 3 years ago
Might not be rare at all. 3000 people disappear and are never found, so we have no way of knowing.
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2x4b523p 3 years ago
A friend of mine disappeared in 2007 when he was 20. He was successfull IT student, left home to attend college exam, never arrived there and nobody saw him since. Nobody figured out if he had some mental glitch and decided to disappear or if he was victim of a crime. I wonder if we ever find out.
#8
In 1844, there was a case of hysteria in a French convent of nuns. One started meowing and after a week all the nuns were meowing harmoniously in the afternoons. It didn’t stop until neighbors called soldiers.
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
They have to be, otherwise it'd be a CATastrophy
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Random Anon 3 years ago
What are soldiers going to do? Herd them? Good luck herding cats, I guess.
Caffeinated Hedgehog 3 years ago
Meowed out of sync to break their harmony
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Nemo 3 years ago
If it was hysteria, it didn't stop untill the soldiers came. Crucial bit of info: hysteria was a womans "disease". The "frustration" could be lifted with "massaging" a certain part (can I say this without being censured?)
Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
This is funny. I imagine it started like Sr. Bridgette " watch this..meow meeeeoewwe” in come Sr Alfrida " I keep hearing the cat, but I can't find it?"" Down the hall Sr Francesca " mew, mew, mew,,!""
#9
Only 9% of the ocean has been explored, and that there are creatures that we would think of as aliens living deep, deep down...
David A Paterson 3 years ago
I'd be interested in knowing how that 9% is calculated. Not long ago, another 20 or so new species of deep-water sharks were found in Australian waters.
Liam B 3 years ago
Nasa started out searching the ocean and since then they've been trying to get us of this PLANET🤯
Issey 3 years ago
"Sooo what's down there?" - "... we need to leave this planet ASAP."
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Lara Verne 3 years ago
Perhaps we already killed more species than we found, given the ocean pollution.
According to the parenting expert, the best thing that families can do is create a safe space for children to develop their own skills, talents, and interests. The vital thing is to never judge your kids. Parents should also “avoid the temptation to push them down a certain path just because it's familiar and more comfortable for us.”
Kids often mimic their parents’ interests, but that’s not always the case. Samantha opened up about what things are like in her own family.
"The genes are strong in my family. My husband and I are both writers, and my kids are both artsy types. My son, 10, is a little actor and singer who even appeared on Kids Say the Darndest Things this year. My 6-year-old daughter amazes me with her drawing ability," the mom told Bored Panda.
"Although my kids' talents are not identical to my husband and me, they are likewise little creative powerhouses. We as parents have made them feel safe and comfortable being themselves and expressing their skills. Then there are some abilities that clearly pass on directly from the parents. For example, my son and daughter are both math whizzes like my husband, while math has always been my nemesis."
#10
It's estimated that there is around 25-50 active serial killers in the US
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
This comment currently has more upvotes than the post itself-
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Adrian 3 years ago
I suppose the odds are that some serial killers are killed by other serial killers.
My O My 3 years ago
How frustrating this must be. You know, being full on busy with planing and killing and then surprise surprise it's your time to go
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Carol Emory 3 years ago
About 100 world wide. And a few decades ago, there was one in Mexico that had killed roughly 600 people.
Patrick McKemie 3 years ago
Checks his notes, Sorry Killer Cereals, I recommend Captain Crunch!
#11
Somewhat recently (2012), scientists discovered over 1,400 new species of bacteria living in the belly button. Everyone’s belly button ecology is unique (add it to the fingerprints & snowflakes list). In that same study, 1 volunteers belly button harbored bacteria strands that had only ever been found in soil from Japan- where this man has never been.
Kate 3 years ago
"Okay, boys let's get some fingerprints. No, wait, I have a better idea -- let's look for belly button lint."
Aidan Pite 3 years ago
For whatever reason I just read that in Chief Wiggums' voice.
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The guy with the Japan bateria definitely had an asian encounter he didn't want to disclose probably, or maybe someone was playing with his belly button in his sleep.
Caffeinated Hedgehog 3 years ago
The Japanese bacteria were planted by the belly button touching ninjas
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Ranger Kanootsen 3 years ago
who tf woke up one day and was like "yeah lemme look in here for some cool Japanese soil"
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
Probably got bored and did some navel gazing.
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Indeed, they are living creatures. And we murder them in their trillions every day. If only they were something we could anthropomorphize like cattle, sheep, pigs etc their lives might be saved.
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Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
It's not uncommon to discover new species of bacteria. And there's lots waiting to be found. Chances of finding one that has only been found in a country it's not been found in before ar pretty high. According to Biologists at Indiana University, there are about one trillion species of microbes on Earth, and 99.999 percent of them have yet to be discovered. The ones discovered, although a tiny proportion, are also numerous, for example there are estimates of a million species of bacteria in 30 grams of rich forest topsoil. New types of microbes have been found in many things including electronic waste and the international space station. Danish schoolchildren have discovered 10 new species of Lactobacillus bacteria in a mass experiment. Just changing technique can reveal thousands - 12,556 new species of bacteria and archaea that have never been grown in a lab, were found using a technique called metagenomics .
Izzy Curer 3 years ago
There's this idea that a person's unique micro flora is going to be the next 'dna' for solving crimes, since it's more accurate
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
Is a persons microflora a never-changing entity?
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And why to some people (my husband) get tummy button fluff/lint and others not?
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
He's a bloke, he's hanging on to it in case it comes in useful.
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#12
Tarantulas can swim.
Jan Eivroc 3 years ago
They can swin, ok, I'll take that...but they're not fire resistant...right? ...Right?
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Ranger Kanootsen 3 years ago
So can I; I challenge thee to a swimming race, you hairy legged bitches
Sergy Yeltsen 3 years ago
Ha! Love the attitude! I'd just hike up my skirts and run away screaming like a little girl...
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oktopus 3 years ago
Tarantulas are cute and furry. Now cockroaches on the other hand, the evil creatures should be nuked and nuked again to make sure.
B Hobbs 3 years ago
Some tarantulas can jump. Imagine two city kids trying to capture a tarantula crossing the driveway to take to school, one with the jar, the other with the lid. The tarantula jumps. The jar and lid are spinning on the ground, dust trails to the house, doors slamming, distant screams ...
Alex Ernst 3 years ago
I now demand a sea shanty remix of Itsy Bitsy Spider. I don't care what I have to do to make it happen.
Shawna Parrish 3 years ago
The fuzzy-wuzzy spider swam on the water top; Down in my pants, a pile of poop did plop! I ran away, Screaming man-i-acally; 'Cuz the fuzzy-wuzzy spider was coming straight for me!!
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Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
Tarantulas are mostly docile. Humans are more dangerous to them than the other way around, since some tribes eat them.
Meanwhile, child independence expert Lenore Skenazy explained to Bored Panda that it’s not learning that people fall in love with. Rather, we fall in love with the activities we love doing, whatever that might be. Passion for a subject leads to a natural curiosity about the thing, as we develop our skills and knowledge. In short, “the learning comes automatically” when you’re doing something you’re either interested in or an activity that’s essential.
“You fall in love with something that you love to do—drawing, kicking a ball, playing make-believe, walking in the woods, reading. All of those things involve learning. If they didn’t, you’d be bored and you’d stop doing them. Instead, as a kid AND as an adult, you get into something and do it because each time you get a little better, or try a slightly different technique,” she said.
“In a game, you’re ALWAYS thinking and learning because the ball never comes to you in exactly the same way twice. In the woods, there’s always something new to look at, climb or poke. In play, you have to react to the other person. And you pick up a book to fall into another world and learn all about it,” Lenore said.
#13
You could drop dead instantly by a brain hemorrhage/aneurism and have no warning signs prior. One second you're perfectly fine, and the next you're dead
Lisa Shaw 3 years ago
Having survived a brain aneurism the pain is excruciating and would be anything but a wonderful way to go!
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Jane Considine 3 years ago
This happened to my boss at my first job. She was out on her boat with her husband and just collapsed and died instantly. We were all so shocked and saddened by it, she was a really cool lady.
Stardust 3 years ago
I don’t know why but I am not bothered by the fact that I can die suddenly
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
Possibly because there is little you can do to prevent it happening.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
Actually, you do have some symptoms. Often you have a persistent mild head ache and feel a bit nauseous (but it will feel like a common cold), and at least in my father his personality changed slightly in the 6 months prior as the aneurysm that was about to burst pressed on brain tissue. But it is very unexpected indeed.
Trash_Panda 3 years ago
This happened to a friend's mom in high school. She went to the ER. They told her to go home and say good bye and come right back. It was a horrific and terrifyingly sad situation.
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#14
If you stare at the mirror in the dark long enough, your brain starts to make your eyes see things. Usually transforming you, or the room into something horrifying- more usually monsters. This is called ''peripheral fading" or the Troxler Effect.
Xottel 3 years ago
0/10 - do not recommend. However, you'll need to focus on a small area of your face and be quite patient. Eventually my face shifted and it seemed as if there was another person in the mirror. I will not do it a second time.
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
To be fair, I already see something horrific when I look in the mirror each time, how much worse could it be?
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
Can confim, I've done this. I once thought there was some kind of creature with a dagger behind me, I still remember exactly what that thing looked like
Gentle-Cat 3 years ago
Wow, considering that's all your creative mind getting bored and deciding to build new things, your brain is wild. I think if I did it I would see myself get deformed, because that's the thing I'm mostly scared of.
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Beth S 3 years ago
I actually have an irrational fear of mirrors at night - I never look into them as I pass by. Daytime I am fine with them.
Ranger Kanootsen 3 years ago
I just did this and my face shifted into the face of a completely random person I'd never seen before, and it looked like there was a hand on my shoulder 0_0
Gentle-Cat 3 years ago
Do you recommend? If this actually works I'm gonna try it. Probably get traumatized and never sleep again but I'll handle myself!
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Lucy Skinner 3 years ago
Once, as young teens, my friend and I decided to pull an all-nighter telling scary stories at sleep away camp. We started seeing each other as bug-like monsters after a while, and had to illuminate each other’s faces with a small watch to stop it.
#15
When a person is electrocuted in the electric chair, they feel everything. They are fully aware of their bodies being fried as it happens in real time.
One inmate who survived the first round of electrocution said it tasted like cold peanut butter.
Slinkman 3 years ago
I don't get this thing at all. Why not just an injection or shooting a criminal? Why put them in a chair like this?
Romenriel 3 years ago
As far as I remember when electric chair was invented, people were so amazed that it's "high-tech" that they thought it must definitely be much better than the "old-fashioned" ways of killing someone. Idiots.
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Mark Melton 3 years ago
Our government is full of idiots and thieves, why would we give them the power of life and death over anyone? In America you can buy all of the justice you can afford...... If you can't afford an excellent lawyer, you're going to die, painfully. To many innocent people have been murdered by local dumb butt DA's trying to get elected so that they can steal more. ALWAYS QUESTION AUTHORITY.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Don't question authority - they don't know either.
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Black Pearl 3 years ago
Oh my gosh can you imagine how painful it has to be to survive the first round somehow and then have to do it again? Poor guy.
Zophra 3 years ago
Crunchy or smooth? Somone has to ask the important questions.
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There was a train engineer who crashed his train and a bunch of people died. They found him at fault and sent him to the electric chair, but he survived. Turns out he wasn't a good conductor.
DrGirlfriend 3 years ago
How many were found innocent afterwards.. the number is outrageous actually, a justice system based on feeling instead of facts
According to the expert, parents should embrace their kids learning about the world in a variety of formats. “Having books at home can help a child find new things to fall into—but so does YouTube. Remember: every new technology is distrusted at first,” she said, adding that Socrates himself hated the idea that people had started writing down ideas instead of memorizing them.
“So yes, books are great. But don’t ignore all the skills, hobbies, facts, and new things kids can learn online as well. If you’re worried about the bad stuff, install some filters. But learning from a podcast or DIY video is still LEARNING. Think of all the things you have learned since your formal schooling ended. Learning doesn’t only take place in a classroom or book!”
#16
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like a small animal being crushed.
Bonesko 3 years ago
Yeah...that gives me a whole new perspective on dog toys
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Greta Denmark 3 years ago
Strangely enough cats don't like them. All the cats I have known were scared of squeaky toys.
Mary Jeffries 3 years ago
And the way they tug and twist hard is snapping the neck of a smaller creature.
lapis lazuli 3 years ago
my dogs afraid of squeaky toys. she was a rescue and we got her when she was only 1.5 months old, but probably something from those 1.5 months lol.
#17
There is a rare genetic disease called Fatal familial insomnia where over the course of months you literary can not go or be put to sleep no matter what you take or what you do. The symptoms get progressively worse until finally you stay awake watching yourself go insane until you [pass away] from exhaustion.
Monday 3 years ago
If it makes you feel any better only around 70 families world-wide are known to carry the gene for this.
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Mud spider 3 years ago
Inspiration to the story ‘the Russian sleep experiment’ I think, I great story btw
Carol Emory 3 years ago
But there are other conditions that can cause it. My BIL experienced something like this. Turned out he developed Serotonin Syndrome from a medication he was taking. It's now under control.
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 3 years ago
If you don’t mind my asking, what is Serotonin Syndrome?
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Alan Gale 3 years ago
*Looks at clock* Hmm, I have been awake for 26 hours. Just one more BP thread!
Got Myself 4 Pandas 3 years ago
Know the feeling, I've maybe had a total of 10hrs sleep in a week, I just can't get to sleep,or stay asleep - and that's with sleeping pills prescribed by my doctor - it's getting so bad!
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Paul Davis 3 years ago
There's a very tiny part of your brain that has to work perfectly in order to allow you to sleep. So any injury to that part could result in this syndrome.
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
Read a theory that sleep is more about digestion. Why do living organisms with no brains sleep? It's to reset their digestive tract. All the neurological stuff is just piggybacking on the digestive reset because it's convenient. Makes me wonder if some cases of insomnia are linked to bowel problems?
PC 3 years ago
Yeah I wonder how starfish survive if they don't have a brain. I'm being serious.
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Postpartum psychosis can show up in a new mother virtually overnight. It can make them hallucinate, making them think their baby is a demon or the antichrist for example. New mothers murder their own children because of postpartum psychosis more often than you might like to think. The more the mother knows it's a possibility the better she'll be able to combat it if it arrives.
Rachel Korsten 3 years ago
Please be careful about this description - a mother suffering with PNP is much more likely to injure herself than her child. For more information and support please visit https://www.app-network.org
Little king trash mouth 3 years ago
Yes!! Thank you. This was very misleading. Plus, this is VERY different than postpartum depression, although they tend to get lumped together by ignorant people.
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Brandy Dor 3 years ago
I thought the maintenance men had poisoned the a/c.....it was over 100° outside I turned the a/c off and hid behind the couch up against a wall with a blanket over my son and I, luckily my brother showed up later and got us both to the ER, 3 days in a psych hold, new meds, and new understanding of what was going on, moved in with my parents for a month until my mom knew I could be trusted, and now my son is 16y.o......thankfully I had good doctors that understood what was going on and helped me.
Meg G 3 years ago
I suffered from PNP after my first child was born. I was overly protective of my son and would watch him as he slept (which meant I never slept). I felt that I if I did sleep, something terrible would happen to him. Also couldn't successfully breastfeed which made me feel like a failure. Only took a few weeks of this before I turned suicidal. Worst time in my life. Thank God for medication, formula, and understanding doctors.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I watched a short documentary just yesterday about a woman who was suffering from that very condition, and because her vile husband (one of those creeps who thinks the best way to spread Christianity is by out-breeding everyone else) wouldn't let her get proper treatment she drowned every single one of her children in the bath.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
Andrea Yates. I remember when that happened. It was so sad.
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Sabrina Bowen 3 years ago
I had this, it is as horrific as it sounds! Why we do not educate expectant mothers & fathers about this better has me seriously flummoxed!
Dead Died Death 3 years ago
My mum used to work in a mental health unit, occasionally they'd have a mother in with postnatal depression who'd either harmed or killed their child, most of them had built their own reality where they blocked what they'd done as defence mechanism. I can't even imagine what it was like when that delusion was broken and the grief came through.
Shine Chisholm 3 years ago
I had a short episode, while going for a walk with my kid. She was just a few weeks old, and I was pushing her in a stroller. I couldn't see her. My brain decided that she was a puppy and that my actual baby died. All of my friends and family knew that my real baby died, but they were just humoring me because they didn't want me to be sad. I was terrified to actually look at her again because I thought I would see a puppy.
ZentheOgre 3 years ago
My mom was like this. Seriously she tried to off me through neglect. She said that I was repeating secrets she hadn't told anyone (was 2 months doubt was doing much beyond crying a drooling). She said that I told her to attack my dad with a knife. Yeah it was a very hostile divorce
Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago
Yet the USA still puts single, young mothers in prison for life if they do.
#19
The children's story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin was based on a real event. "Hamelin town records start with this event. The earliest written record is from the town chronicles in an entry from 1384 which states: "It is 100 years since our children left." no one know what or who took the children, but there's records of the entire towns children being taken.
Stardust 3 years ago
I’d better make up an animated trailer for that. Stay tuned and it will be ready in a few days
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The Scout 3 years ago
Some historicians suggest a connection with the earlier children's crusades in 1212 AD, while others claim the myth was inspired by a settler's exodus. But the riddle still is not finally solved. It has brought Hamelin some popularity, though - which might have been aided by the fact that it is a very picturesque town with a city center of medieval and renaissance houses.
Issey 3 years ago (edited)
That story is very well known here in Germany, especially since it seems to add up with historical records. As a child I was always confused by this story, because to me, the Piper was clearly a fraud. He "lead the rats to the water to drown"... but rats can swim. So they would have just swam to shore and returned to the town. In retrospect, this explains why the townspeople refused to pay the Piper - he was a fraud.
Joran Quinten 3 years ago
Would make sense if it references the black plague or some other disease. Writing this and seeing the children's crusades mentioned: that makes a lot of sense as well
Shadow Sojourn 3 years ago
This is a rad rabbit hole! I read some articles about this and the most logical theory is that the younger generation (kids being a word used for young adults also) was offered work and land in more distant locales. The names of the settlements that pop up in that general direction make a very compelling argument!
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
There was a Sailor Moon S episode that depicted The Pied Piper. I believe it was 'Black Dream Hole'. They did a decent job retelling the story in their own way.
Sam J 3 years ago
I think there was also a Once Upon a Time episode depicting it. In the episode, the children all get lured to an area by the Piper, who turns out to be Peter Pan, and basically he was trying to get lost boys to come to Neverland, including a main character's son. It's a good show, I really like how they reimagine the fairy tales in it.
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Living in Germany I found out the following: most likely the entire generation of kids moved to the east in a huge resettling movement or it might have been the pest. They say it could not have been the crusades (there was one consisting mostly of children) but that one took place 1212 and the exiting of the children is to have taken place in 1284.
The Scout 3 years ago
A bit early for the black plague, which peaked about a century later. But the theory of resettling is supported by many historicians. It is often claimed that the most probable destinations were Bohemia and Moravia, and there are indeed some towns the records of which suggest that they could have had a connection to Hamelin. But that does not explain why it is said that only the children disappeared. As there also was no immediate famine or economic difficulty at the time, many suppose that recruiters, probably at the behest of eastern terretorial lords, were actively searching for young people for land colonization, promising better conditions and pay.
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Sue Denham 3 years ago
Just a sceptical thought here: If "it's 100 years since our children left" who wrote that?
#20
The bodies of the sailors who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald are still down there, almost perfectly preserved, due to the water at that depth being just barely above freezing. Divers who have explored the wreckage have seen their bodies frozen in place to parts of the ship, and have come back reporting that they feel as if they were being followed during their time underwater.
Photos were taken, but per the request of the crew's family, they have never been released to the public.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Lg9HygEJc)
Wang Zhuang 3 years ago
This makes me think of all the dead bodies on Everest, which are also very well preserved for the same reason :-(
Alan Gale 3 years ago
IIRC, on organised expeditions to Everest, you have to sign a waiver, that if you die there, you stay there, it's nobody's job to bring you back.
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Tony Elmquist 3 years ago
This is a horrifying truth about Lake Superior - there's not enough life in that cold deep fresh water to rot your body and release the gases that will make it float - on top of it being so cold you can only survive about 15 minutes before hypothermia sets in. I grew up sailing there, and the joke was "Wear a life jacket - they'll find your body."
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
As if deep water, and dead bodies in deep water weren't creepy enough. I just got the heebie-jeebies.
Cliff Anderson 3 years ago
She’d have made Whitefish Bay if she’d put 15 more miles behind her. - G Lightfoot
BarBeeGirl 3 years ago
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy
Ervin Conn 3 years ago
That lake is COLD. I tried swimming there in July and could not. I was told by a tour boat captain that the bodies do not float because of the cold. Hence the line: "The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead" - G Lightfoot
#21
Cotard’s Delusion is a rare psychiatric condition, severe cases of which cause the sufferer to wholeheartedly believe they are dead, putrefying, or simply do not exist. Some Cotard’s patients refuse to eat, as they do not believe they need to, with one notable patient dying of starvation. Another woman once asked to be taken to a morgue, to be with the other dead people.
Cara G 3 years ago
Hannah, I laughed so hard at your comment because (like many of us) this is so me. I see something I've never heard of before and off to Wiki I go. And then down the rabbit hole. And two hours from now I will somehow be watching YouTube videos of goats yelling like humans because that's always where we end up, right?
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Desdemona Adelaide 3 years ago
Good thing I'm dead so I don't have to worry about psychiatric conditions!
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
Interestingly, this can be equivalently simulated in ants. Ants have a special substance they emit when they are dead, that tells other ants to drag them to their graveyard to prevent disease around their territory. When scientists painted living ants with this substance, they would walk themselves to the graveyard and just stay there barely moving until the substance wore off. They acted like they thought they were dead.
Question everything 3 years ago
He was an extraordinary contortionist, he was xixi
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Yeah these days we have a variant of these running rampant. It's a lot less drastic and have almost no outward symptoms. People exhibit dead-looking jaded eyes indicating they're dead inside.
Ann Worth 3 years ago (edited)
I don't know if this is a true story or not, but this is what I read. Once a psychiatrist was speaking to a woman with Cotard's Delusion. He asked her "Do dead people bleed?" She replied, "No, of course dead people don't bleed." The doctor immediately seized her hand and pricked her finger with one of those little lancets that are used to draw a blood sample. A large drop of blood formed on her finger. "Oh!" she gasped. "I'm bleeding!" The psychiatrist asked, "And what does that mean?" She answered. "It means that dead people DO bleed!"
Madb vonMesser 3 years ago
I had this! I spent about 3 months in the delusion, and only survived because of my best friend/roommate who bullied me into taking care of myself for her sake.
#22
By the time you start realizing the symptoms of rabies, it’s already too late.
Caro Caro 3 years ago
The first symptoms of rabies may be similar to the flu, including weakness or discomfort, fever, or headache. There also may be discomfort, prickling, or an itching sensation at the site of the bite. These symptoms may last for days. Symptoms then progress to cerebral dysfunction, anxiety, confusion, and agitation. As the disease progresses, the person may experience delirium, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, hydrophobia (fear of water), and insomnia. The acute period of disease typically ends after 2 to 10 days. Once clinical signs of rabies appear, the disease is nearly always fatal, and treatment is typically supportive. Less than 20 cases of human survival from clinical rabies have been documented. Only a few survivors had no history of pre- or postexposure prophylaxis. https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/symptoms/index.html#:~:text=The%20first%20symptoms%20of%20rabies,anxiety%2C%20confusion%2C%20and%20agitation.
Beth S 3 years ago
I would also like to add if you see a bat out during the daytime please, PLEASE leave it be. Do not try to help it. The likelihood is high that it has rabies. I know this from personal experience. We had a brown bat flying during the day time that landed on our back deck and it took a while longer for it to pass. It was positive for rabies. There have been a few times during the years where I have seen random Facebook posts of animal lovers that want to help a bat that is out during they day. Please don't and stand clear.
M K Shaw 3 years ago
This is why you should have your animals vaccinated for Rabies. They can transmit it to you and it is always fatal to the animal. Indoors only cats too- they could escape or a bat could get in your house, and if whatever they are exposed to had rabies, it's all over.
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
You can also vaccinate humans against rabies if they are travelling to an area of the world where rabies is common and stay there or if there's:poor healthcare there, or doing things that increase the risk of exposure to animals with rabies you plan to stay for a month or more, or there's unlikely to be quick access to appropriate medical care you plan to do activities that could put you at increased risk of exposure to animals with rabies, such as running or cycling
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Ray of sunshine 3 years ago
There was a tv mini-series in uk in the 80s that I accidentally walked in on during the roaming at the mouth, screaming water phobia part of the woman in hospital. I was about 7 and had nightmares for weeks!! Still gives me the fear thinking about it. What a way to go. It was called "the mad death" Google it, or don't which is probably more sensible option !
#23
You can fit 63 earth size objects in Uranus.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Oh...the jokes that will be made...getting the popcorn ready to read them later. Don't disappoint.
#24
You have a bunch of microscopic parasites called Demodex on your eyelashes and in the pores on your face. They come out at night to lay eggs on and eat the oils on your face.
Piper L 3 years ago
And having a small amount of them is actually good for us. They eat dead skin cells.
I I 3 years ago
i thought that was dust mite ? i the doc told me thats what causes my asthma , well the poo from them , and they ate dead skin cells , thats why my asthma was bad at night , duct mite love the bed , lots of skin cells to munch on
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Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
You forgot the best part about Demodexes. They cannot poop! They fill up with their own feces and when they die, on your eyelashes, they explode with all the poop they've gathered in their lifetime.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
Why did you tell me that.... why didn't I stop reading this....
Load More Replies... RadiatorAnkleSpider 3 years ago
Humans think so linearly. We’re all just a bunch of well formed cells, aka meat sacks.
Myrtille rat 3 years ago
if they could eat melasma as well I would embrace and name everyone of them : DemiMoore , Demogorgon,Demi portion,Demijohn,Demoiselle,Demetrius ...
Barbara 3 years ago
I have to use a daily cream to keep them at a low number, because when there is excess my rosacea flares up into painful acne.
crazy_cat_notAlady 3 years ago
so...they r like microscopic pets that ACTUALLY do some work instead of scratching couches and making pillows explode?
#25
Chainsaws were originally invented for childbirth.
Piper L 3 years ago
Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth. It was powered by a hand crank and looked like a modern-day kitchen knife with little teeth on a chain that wound in an oval. It was a hell of a lot smaller.
Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
I've read something about this. Just in case it's not cringe worthy enough it was invented before most general anesthetics were.
Jon S. 3 years ago
In what circumstances do you need to take out the pelvic bone during child birth? I assumed a caesarean just involved soft tissue.
Joe Reaves 3 years ago
Depends whether you need to intervene before or after the baby enters the birth canal. Bear in mind this was a time when we didn't have all the equipment we do now to tell us the baby is in trouble.
Load More Replies... Amy S 3 years ago
Many did and it was considered the safest option in some circumstances, however it iftern caused orhan damamge and life long pain. Symphysiotomy was used in Ireland up to the 1980's.
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Mohammad Omar 3 years ago
Two doctors invented the chainsaw in 1780 to make the removal of pelvic bone easier and less time-consuming during childbirth. It was powered by a hand crank and looked like a modern-day kitchen knife with little teeth on a chain that wound in an oval.
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
.....I'm just glad I was born after this was no longer a thing-
#26
If given access to it, butterflies will happily drink blood
PC 3 years ago
I'm sorry but I first read this as 'they give it to the minerals'.
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Casey Payne 3 years ago
If given access to it, most animals would happily drink blood. Probably more than would happily drink Coca Cola.
Issey 3 years ago (edited)
Yup. Just like cows and horses will also eat small animals if the opportunity arises. I've seen a horse eat a small chick in under 2 seconds.
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
Ewes will often eat their own placenta, partly to remove the evidence that might attract a predator, but also for nutrients.
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How do you know they're drinking it happily? Maybe they're very depressed and complaining about their spouses the whole time.
#27
Adult teeth in toddlers are right under their eyes.
Dana Ondráčková 3 years ago
I have seen an X Ray of my then baby nieces head. It was horryfying
Patrick McKemie 3 years ago
My regular phots weren't all that pleasant either.
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 3 years ago
They could have added a x-ray of a child face if they really wanted to make it creepy. All the teeth up and down.
#28
A "Rat King" is a phenomenon created when a large group of rats become fused together by their tails via ice, dirt, hair, blood, or even feces.
Encounters with this horrible phenomenon inspired some of humanity's greatest myths.
APL 3 years ago
Pretty sure this has been debunked - Victorians fannying around with taxidermy.
Ólafur Unnar Jóhannsson 3 years ago
No. There was an Rat King discovered in Estonia just last winter.
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lapis lazuli 3 years ago
fun fact: looked up rat king when i was ten cause i was trying to find a picture of a character in a book. was traumatized for like a week.
Lisa Hewes 3 years ago (edited)
NO, the Rat King lives as a deranged, rat-loving human that lives in the sewers of NYC and is always trying to fight Turtles. GAWD, do your research, ppl!
#29
There is a island of the dolls in Mexico City that has thousands of creepy dolls to honor a little girl who drowned in the 1950s. The island is also one of the most haunted places.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Sooo...the last damn place I would ever go, for any reason, ever.
gayFrog 3 years ago
it is, but i doubt you'd want to. the spiders there are huge
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SlothyK8 3 years ago
It's near Xochimilco, which is a town with a lot of navigable canals. On Sundays you can rent a boat and have yourself poled through the canals...the island is within the canal system. I thought it was creepy AF and totally cool.
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Paul Davis 3 years ago (edited)
IMO Anyone who claims a place is more haunted than another place is delusional. Let's see some evidence there anywhere that is "haunted" before making such claims, and define your terms to not include somebody's uncle's barber's gardener said so.
#30
The island of Okunoshima in the Inland Sea of Japan is known for two reputable things:
1: It's named "Rabbit Island" because of the overabundance of wild rabbits and...
2: The island has WWII ruins of a chemical weapons factory, creating poison like mustard gas in its attacks on China. So vital was its secrecy to the Japanese government that they tried to wipe its location off maps.
Urara Bridge 3 years ago
some families started dumping their pet rabbits there due to lack of predators and feeling bad about it, then boom-shaka, babies everywhere.
Badgers Nadgers 3 years ago
Night of the Lepus, the American science fiction horror film directed by William F. Claxton and produced by A. C. Lyles.
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Adam Eve 3 years ago
Mustard... Rabbits.... Sounds like a pre seasoned food source right there (yes I know mustard gas is chlorine, stored in yellow cylinders, hence mustard gas, so if you prefer a more literal joke: a least the rabbits are clean)
Alexandru Bucur 3 years ago
No, they are entirely different things - chlorine has the chemical formula Cl and it was used in gaseous form as a suffocant (basically it's meant to asphyxiate you) and it's easily countered with something as basic as a handkerchief soaked in urine which causes the chlorine to crystalize, mustard gas is C4H8Cl2S, or Bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide and it's not only highly toxic, but also a vesiculant, that means it will make blisters on all exposed skin and mucous membranes such as the inside of the mouth, throat and lungs. It's a really nasty chemical and you need not only a gas mask, but also a gas cape or suit to keep your skin from getting in contact with it.
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Pamela Tapia 3 years ago
They are not "wild" rabbits. They are domest rabbits that have free run of the island. Google the island for more information on the bunnies.
#31
I saw a news story on a woman with a rare type of epilepsy that causes her to see everything like a slideshow or a video game that gets 10fps. She described watching cars drive by and saying they freeze in place for a moment and then snap into position further down the road over and over. Her entire life is played out in front of her eyes in still frames and because if that she wears blinders or earmuffs because her senses are constantly contradicting one another and it overwhelms her. I can’t imagine how horrifying it would be to experience life like she does.
Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
I have this. It happens before I have a grand mal seizure. It is very bizarre.
Marik 3 years ago
Same here - at least (if my brain realizes the situation fast enough) I'm able to sit down on the floor just before the actual seizure happens
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Joy Hunter 3 years ago
These are called "'absence seizures," because the epileptic retains no consciousness of anything that happened during the seizure. I was once standing at the top of a flight of stairs and the next thing I knew, I was standing at the bottom of it. It really does feel like I slammed into time.
jasperlikesbees 3 years ago
I have it too, nice to know someone out there experiences seizures like I do.
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Notyomama 3 years ago
I have dysosmia. This happens to me when I smell certain scents. It's freaky and terrifying.
Unwelcomed Guest 3 years ago
I have had this experience also before a grand mal seizure however just before this visual stuff happens I get an intense feeling of Daja vu
#32
A human corpse decomposes 4 times faster in water than in the ground, and 8 times faster in open air than in the ground
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
Bass Anthropology Research Facility ( BARF ! )
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Kryogen 3 years ago
or put it in a fluoroantimonic acid tank. Nothing left in some hours.
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#33
While most parents do what they can to prevent or stop their babies from crying, that's not always the case in Japan. That's because it's a 400-year-old Japanese tradition that if a sumo wrestler can make your baby cry, it means he or she will live a healthy life. During a special ceremony, parents hand over their infants to sumo wrestlers who bounce their precious tots up and down and sometimes even roar in their little faces to get the tears flowing. "He's not a baby that cries much, but today he cried a lot for us and we are very happy about it," mother Mae Shige said at a 2014 event.
#34
Your insides are constantly moving around and stuff. I hate this, but it's my favorite for that reason.
Judo Flipped By Nobody 3 years ago
And the reason you get sick on a rollercoaster is because you might be strapped in, but your insides are not
Legolas Greenleaf 3 years ago
The only medical term I know is "well shove it back in and keep going"
Load More Replies... Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
I never realized this until I had surgery on my large intestines. They pulled the bowel out, did surery, and just put it back for it to find its own place - it hurt so much whenever I changed from sitting to standing etc
Broad Panda 3 years ago
When you're pregnant stuff moves about heaps to make space. Most notably the diaphragm and lungs, coz you can feel those ones.
Eniko Bata 3 years ago
And after giving birth, on the 3rd or 4th day I could literally feel my stomach and bowel “dropping” and finding their original place when I was standing up.
Load More Replies... Susie Elle 3 years ago
'Moving around' is relative in this sense - it's not that your liver can sometimes be where your spleen was or vice versa. Your organs are slippery, so they can kind of slide over each other while maintaining roughly the same shape and position while you're moving around.
John L 3 years ago
I've heard that when they have to elongate your intestines (get them out of the way or whatever during surgery), they just plop them back in, as they will realign on their own.
Mud spider 3 years ago
Sometimes I can feel it when I press on certain spots on my stomach and neck, and I hate it. I know it’s normal, but it’s gross and creepy to me lol
Random Anon 3 years ago
If your insides cannot move, you will have a hard time moving as well.
#35
Not too creepy, but hippopotamus milk is pink
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
Now we must finally discover the chocolate cow
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#36
It takes approximately 359 humans to have enough iron to forge a sword from their blood
Stardust 3 years ago
The adventure of a character as he does a mission and in between he forges a sword from his enemies’ blood. A pefect story. We should all co-write it
Load More Replies... BoredBee 3 years ago
359 humans, assuming they are all male and average overall, you would have about 3 pounds of iron. Army tanks are, assuming, the tank is about 50 TONS. You would need about 39,960 pounds of iron. All together you would need about 4,755,240 people to make just one tank.
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RoseTheMad 3 years ago
I am not one of those humans. I'm constantly on and off iron tablets lmao
Black Pearl 3 years ago
Okay, looking past the whole murder part that most likely has to come with this, can you imagine how sick that would be? Like, you could tell people you owned a sword made from the iron in people's blood.
#37
Not my favorite, but did you know that rats can collapse their rib cage to fit through pipes and can come up through the toilet. They actually have a department strictly for that.
Stardust 3 years ago
There’s the toy department, vegetable department etc.
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I actually really like this fact, we had rats living in our AC once, they were babies and the mother had died in there. Knowing this fact gives me a better idea of how she got in there :)
iseefractals 3 years ago
The limiting factor is their head. As long as an opening is big enough to squeeze their skull through, the rest of their bodies can compress to follow.
Cara Vinson 3 years ago
I once fought a toilet intruding rat that was BIG. My weapon was a string mop. It was awful but one of us had to go.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Have pet rats, can confirm. In fact a fun little game you can play with your rat is using your finger and thumb to make a ring and watching them squeeze through like it's nothing. Unless they're a fatty ratty they can get through any hole that's large enough for their head.
#38
In the Czech Republic, there is a church that is decorated with the bones of 10,000 dead people.
Virus_3000 3 years ago (edited)
Sedlec Ossuary - The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary
María Hermida 3 years ago
Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora. It's one of the places I'll never, ever, visit.
#39
The sun will burn out at some point and unless we as a species escape this solar system, everything we have ever done or will do will be instantly erased and forgotten.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
I would bet that a mass extinction event would wipe us out before the sun gives out.
Stardust 3 years ago
Yeah, at the rate we are going I highly doubt we will see the next century
Load More Replies... David A Paterson 3 years ago
I did some calculations on that. When the Sun does exit the Red Giant phase and burn out in a burst of light and heat, Pluto and the moons of Neptune will be pleasantly warm, within the habitable zone. So we don't actually need to escape the solar system. But I don't recommend staring at the Sun even from there when it reaches peak brightness.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
At that time, Pluto will have a surface dominated by liquid water and an atmosphere dominated by nitrogen. So it'd be a nice place to settle for a million years or so.
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Kiwi Panda 3 years ago
I like to remember this fact when I’m having a bad day-cheers me up a bit
#40
Alaska is the State with the highest missing persons reports in the country.
Chelle 3 years ago
The question becomes is it rural lost person's or persons taken against their wills. Alaska does have an interesting research history regarding both.
Load More Replies... Hank Woods 3 years ago
Yep -- because of the tribe of abominable snowman living in Alaska and eating humans
Mohammad Omar 3 years ago
not true Here are the 10 states with the most missing persons, (Missing Persons by State 2022): California (2,133) Florida (1,252) Texas (1,246) Arizona (915) Washington (643) New York (606) Michigan (556) Oregon (432) Pennsylvania (401) Tennessee (361)
Sergy Yeltsen 3 years ago
That, or getting eaten by bears and other hostile wildlife people try to get too close to...
#41
After getting stung by a cone snail, you don’t feel the sting for a little bit. There is no antivenin and it can be lethal. Treatment is basically keeping the victim alive until the venom wears off.
Catarina 3 years ago
Can somebody please explain how are there still human beings in Austrália?????
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Lara Verne 3 years ago (edited)
They have beautiful shells, so people sometimes pick them up, and get stung.
#42
the armpit is where all your important nerves in your arm so if you stab it you cant realy use your arm.
Stardust 3 years ago
If you stab it will you end up dying as well? Since the nerves are important and the signals don’t reach
APL 3 years ago
Well, if you stab it you'll probably sever the brachial artery, so yes, death is probable.
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I have a friend who teaches martial arts, and he told me (and demonstrated in a mock sparring match) that going for the armpit is one of the best and fastest ways to disable an opponent's arm, and that if they're holding a weapon in that hand they won't be able to use it.
JustAnother Soul 3 years ago
I had lymphectomy surgery in my armpit and the whole part of my shoulder has been numb and dead ever since.
Issey 3 years ago (edited)
That's a big risk in a fight. Trying to reach the armpit will most likely earn you a punch to the face or worse. If you want an opponent to stumble/be distracted with the added bonus of high blood loss, go for the back of the ankle joint with your knife. I'll... see myself out.
#43
The average human will shed about 40 pounds of skin throughout their lifetime.
Stardust 3 years ago (edited)
That’s a lot. How much of the dust in our house is just dead skin cells?
LagoonaBlueColleen 3 years ago
If you have a skin disorder the rate can be much higher or lower.
#44
During the Victorian Era, it was not uncommon for families to take pictures with recently deceased relatives. This was done as one final moment with that person to honor them.
Lambchop 3 years ago
The deceased was dressed and posed as if they were alive, with family members providing arms to steady the corpse. In the case of small children and babies, the mother would sometimes hide behind a drape or blanket and reach out to prop up a child for the photo.
The Scout 3 years ago
Unfortunately this myth still persists in spite of having been debunked countless times. There was a thing as victorian post mortem photography, wich mostly was done with coffin or sometimes bed motifs. Some customs surrounding death were very morbid to our standards. But the correography of death into lifelike photos was mostly fake. The "body stands" often cited for this were actually posing stands to prevent movement during a shoot, so their presence is a proof for a moving (ergo alive) model. The blanket method was common so the mother could keep the child quite during the photo without being in the photo herself. For details, see https://skepticink.com/incredulous/2016/06/19/myth-victorian-post-mortem-photography/, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-post-mortem-photographs, https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Fake-Victorian-Post-Mortem-Photos or https://dustyoldthing.com/victorian-post-mortem-photographs/.
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Mud spider 3 years ago
Everyone thinks this is creepy but I personally think it’s pretty sweet and we should do this especially with our generation not socializing enough
Whodathunkit 3 years ago
I have pictures of my great grandfather's brother who passed as a little boy. He's in the casket. We also have a head sculpture of him as well. His name was Osborne.
Isabela Cincu 3 years ago
It is understandable, people wanted an image of a dear person...but I found some cringey pictures of a funeral in the 1970s...people crying, the coffin and the deceased (a cousin of my mother, who drowned himself at age 22). My grandma says it was a common practice. Anyone heard about such horrific ,,custom,,?
#45
Joseph Stalin had ideas about creating a human-ape hybrid army for the soviet union
Ólafur Unnar Jóhannsson 3 years ago
So... Putin was made by some mad scientist, in top secret lab, somewhere in Siberia.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
I'd lay good odds that other countries had the same idea. It wouldn't be very effective because apes are easily frightened and can't run well.
Ricardo Ferreira 3 years ago
Stalin had a class-B villain mind with all the USSR's resources at his disposal.
Lara Verne 3 years ago
Ilya Ivanov was biologist who came up with that idea. He went to Africa and tried to artificially inseminate female chimpanzees with human sperm, and failed. He intended try the same with ape sperm and human females, but authorities there find out about it and forbidden it. Stalin funded these experiments; he thought that ape-human hybrids would make great soldiers.
allan dorfling 3 years ago
So there is actually a story or myth rather about this that during their experiments they managed to impregnate a woman with a believe orangutan sperm, the pregnancy lasted a few weeks before she had a miscarriage
#46
There is a thing commonly called “Alice in wonderland syndrome” it’s when a person has episodes lasting from minutes to days of hallucinations often extremely bad nobody knows what causes it since it’s extremely rare it often starts when the person is a child
Stardust 3 years ago
To those of you who have hallucinated: what does it feel like and how were your senses affected?
RoseTheMad 3 years ago (edited)
I'm Schizophrenic. They can indeed affect your senses. Hallucinations can be Auditory (hearing things) Visual (seeing things) Olfactory (affects sense of smell) Gustatory (affects taste) and Tactile (feeling things, eg: something crawling on you, or something touching you) and these types can of course, combine. A hallucination I used to often get is that I was throwing up. I would see and feel the sickness, and taste/smell how acidic and awful tasting it was. But to everyone else, it wasn't happening. I can't really explain how it feels, because to me, it can seem real. Even when it's terrifying, but I just have to make myself realize that it isn't. Sometimes its hard though because you might not even realise you're hallucinating at all. Thankfully, I have my wife to help, and even my cats, who come keep me grounded by curling up next to me and nudging/meowing at me. (I didn't even train them to do that or anything, they just do. It's strange how they just know when I need them x3)
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Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
Alice in wonderland syndrome typically refers to of hallucinations of distortions in perspective and time. Someone who has it might feel much smaller than the environment, or much bigger, or that time runs slower etc.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 3 years ago
There's also this thing called 'punctuation aversion syndrome', and it is one of the most enraging conditions ever.
Cara Vinson 3 years ago
It's also common among migraine sufferers. Mine usually involved thinking 'my hands are so bigsosmallsobig'
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
I have phantom smells when I’m about to have a massive migraine! :( I’ve tried describing them - the one I “smell” most commonly is kind of a mix of orange citrus-y smell and acetone and poop.
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Queen fhk 3 years ago
I have an important question can someone please differentiate between imagination and hallucinations?I kinda mix both !
#47
6 fingers on one hand is actually a dominant trait.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
I remember reading that some 40 or so years ago. Checking web. Yes "If polydactyly is caused by just a single gene that only affects the number of fingers or toes and nothing else, then it is typically a dominant trait."
Neill Powell 3 years ago
I have met 2 people with this trait and it's a curiosity for about 10 minutes and then you start forgetting about
#48
Your eye has approximately the same proteins as an egg white, and both react similarly to hydrochloric acid, which solidifies the usually liquid substances
David A Paterson 3 years ago
Do you know this one? Human eyeballs start off solidish, and slowly liquefy as you get older.
Stardust 3 years ago
So if I live long enough will my eyes melt and fall off?
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Šimon Špaček 3 years ago
According to legend, Leonardo da Vinci cooked eyeball in egg white, because he wanted to make an autopsy of eye. This way the eyeball was solid so he could cut it and explore the eye.
#49
When you happen to be murdered there is only an about 40% chance that your murderer will be found and punished.
#50
The US is still missing at least 6 nuclear bombs somewhere on the continent from "Broken Arrow" incidents.
APL 3 years ago
"Empty quiver" incidents. "Broken arrow" is when a nuclear bomb develops a fault.
Fish Fingers 3 years ago
Didn't they once drop one over like, Idaho due to plane malfunction, then when they retrieved it three of the four failsafe mechanisms were armed?
Bobby 3 years ago
I've read stories about the bomb or the warhead being dropped by mistake but I haven't heard about a fully assembled weapon being dropped
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#51
There was once a surgery done with a 300% mortals rate
Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago (edited)
The doctor was performing the surgery and by mistake cut off the hands of one of his assistants who then developed gangrene and died. The patient also died. One of the people who stood watching died of a heart attack. An abridged version of what happened.
Huge goth 3 years ago
I heard about this. he operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant's fingers along with a patient's leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality
Piper L 3 years ago
“Liston, like many other surgeons, proceeded in his usual lightning-quick and bloody way. Spectators in the operating-theater gallery would still get out their pocket watches to time him. The butler’s operation, for instance, took an astonishing 25 seconds from incision to wound closure. (Liston operated so fast that he once accidentally amputated an assistant’s fingers along with a patient’s leg, according to Hollingham. The patient and the assistant both died of sepsis, and a spectator reportedly died of shock, resulting in the only known procedure with a 300% mortality.)”
#52
The human brain continues to give off electrical signals for 20 to 40 seconds after death.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
That'd be about right. There was an experiment on a guillotine. When a person on the French guillotine was asked to keep blinking for as long as possible after beheading, they kept blinking for about that long.
ggus44 3 years ago
"Hey, so... after we kill you, if you could just keep blinking, that would be great. Thanks!"
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Patchouli was used to cover up the smell of decaying flesh during the Black Plague.
The Scout 3 years ago
It was also a very popular perfume and room fragrance in the 60s and 70s because of its ability to cover weed smells...
François Carré 3 years ago
And yet, weed smells way better than patchouli IMHO.
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Vasana Phong 3 years ago
Isn’t this where the nursery rhyme’ ring around the rosey , a pocket full of posies…came from?
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Actually that's a myth. The rhyme was around before the plague, and the words are not actual symptoms of plague.
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Zoe's Mom 3 years ago
Flowering plant. The oils are extracted to make a scent that is very strong. I happen to like it mixed with Frangipani (Plumeria) which is a type of flower.
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#54
"The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds, given adequate vacuuming systems"
Myrtille rat 3 years ago
you'll need adequat equipment to forge that sword made of 359 people,you don't want to waste your "ingredient"
Stardust 3 years ago
The special ingredient. It would make a perfect book
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Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Where can I acquire one of these vacuums? Asking for a vampire friend. 🧛♂️
Sven Grammersdorf 3 years ago
It could be done even faster than that, given more powerful vacuuming systems
#55
Your skeleton is always wet
Sweetie Cake️ 3 years ago
that word makes me uncomfortable and i don’t know why
Load More Replies... Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
Oh yeah?! When I die in a desert somewhere and decompose away entirely to just dry brittle bones, my skeleton won’t be wet THEN! Ima go decompose RIGHT NOW just to prove you wrong!
Babyoda42 3 years ago
TIBIA honest, it has a SKELEton of things it wants to say. Like how it plays the tromBONE
Load More Replies... Emily M 3 years ago
Also since what makes you "you" is your brain, your skeleton inside 'inside' your body--- you are inside your skeleton
James016 3 years ago
We are brains, piloting skeletons that wear meat suits.
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Patients under going colonoscopies are most commonly put under conscious sedation, meaning the anaesthetic doesn't actually numb pain, or even send you unconscious, they just impair your ability to form memories. You are awake and aware of the pain, you just don't remember.
Lennart 3 years ago
At least in Germany not true. You get midazolam and propofol as short acting sedatives. I have been at many colonoscopies, no one was in pain/ BP or heart rate rises.
Hphizzle 3 years ago
In Japan they don’t recommend any type of sedation. Yep, I was wide awake and very aware of it all. It feels weird, but honestly, the worst part of a colonoscopy is the prep.
APL 3 years ago
Yeah, here in the UK sedation is optional. It's not for pain, it's for nerves.
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Not A Panda 3 years ago (edited)
I've never been put under for a colonoscopy and to be honest, I don't see the use. I've had a few of them, and sure, it feels crampy and weird, but not painful. They even cut and seared some polyps, and because the inside of your guts don't have nerves, you can see it but not feel it.
Sergy Yeltsen 3 years ago
That actually makes me feel a lot better. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Inga Paškevičiūtė 3 years ago
I had both types of colonoscopies - when you're put to sleep and when you're awake but don't feel pain. When I was awake, I got to see my colon. And when I was asleep, it felt like a nap.
Not A Panda 3 years ago
They printed photos for me to take home too, it was fascinating to watch. Little blobs of smoke in my guts :D
Load More Replies... Lady Z Azrael 3 years ago
Oh no... you remember everything. Last one I had they totally messed up and I felt everything and it felt like someone doing me apart from the inside. Still traumatized and right know I have to have another abdominal surgery (number 16) and I refuse to have a colonoscopy so they won't do the surgery.
James016 3 years ago
When I had mine, I was mildly sedated. I do remember it. Though I'm in the UK so it may be different to the OP's location. I would like to erase the prep period from my memory. That is a lot worse
Remi 3 years ago
Yeah, the clenser is not fun to drink and the diarrhea it causes is no picnic. Dunno why they're trying bs people into thinking the operation is painful tho
Load More Replies... Isabel Care 3 years ago
Just relaxed and aware, watched the whole of mine. A little discomfort as it went round corners, but no where near as painful as an average period.
#57
The average number of hands per person is less than two
Lennart 3 years ago
Goes for everything except heart and head maybe, as it's easier to loose something, than to gain more... Eyes, ears, noses, limbs, reproductive organs, prolly even more people with currently no liver (will end fatal shortly) than with 2...
Lakota Wolf 3 years ago
You should see my collection… I think I skew the statistics. /WINK
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#58
Time and space don't exist at the speed of light. Time isn't frozen, the universe isn't out of view, they truly don't exist at the speed of light.
David A Paterson 3 years ago
It's more subtle that that. Suppose you were to sit upon a photon. Time and space don't cease to exist but the universe loses a dimension, being either three space and no time dimension or two space and one time dimension. Unless the universe is infinite, in which case the missing dimension reappears.
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago (edited)
This is because of the mathematics of relativity. The closer to the speed of light you go, the slower clocks outside your space ship tick. And the shorter distances in front of you become. Meaning, at the speed of light, all distances in front of your space ship are exactly zero, and all outside time is standstill. All future points in the direction you travel become laid on top of each other, in like an infinitely flat pancake. Realistically, you and your space ship has mass so you'd need an infinite amount of energy to reach the speed of light and you wouldn't survive the transition. But from a photons "perspective" it is formed and absorbed in the same moment, even if its journey is trillions of light years. But from us who aren't moving at that speed, that looks like one lightsecond per second. The weirdest lesson from relativity I think is that the passing of time is inherently subjective. There's no universal time.
Gandalf the Pink 3 years ago
This does mean however, we could reach the stars. If we managed to go pretty close to the speed of light, since we can't go AT the speed of light, what would look like 1000 years of travel on earth could be like 5 aboard the space ship. There is another annoying limitation however, g forces. We can't just reach near light speed instantly and brake instantly, or we would be vaporized from the forces. We'd have to slowly accelerate and deaccelerate to protect our fragile primate bodies. And that means out of 1000 years we'd only be able to cut it down to maybe 950. Not very cool anymore unfortunately.
Load More Replies... JustAnother Soul 3 years ago
Time and space as we know it don’t exist on the quantum level either which is a lot of why the laws of classical physics don’t gel with the world of quantum physics.
Stardust 3 years ago
If we can unite the two branches we get the theory of everything and we can understand what happened in the first second of the universe’s existence
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I think it's quite common, but before you die of hunger, your stomach, in an attempt to have food, starts to eat the organs arround it so when you die of hunger you are just an empty body
Lambchop 3 years ago
This is a taradiddle. When you are starving, your organs will shrink as they dehydrate, but your body doesn’t digest them. The stomach has a protective mucus lining which prevents stomach acid from dissolving the walls of the stomach.
AnxietyRiddenMom 3 years ago
I had to Google taradiddle. I must use this word in a sentence at some point. Thank you for the new word
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Ansi 3 years ago
This is totally true. I read it in another thread. 😲 The stomach grows a kind of opening, almost like a mouth, and sucks nutrition from the organs next to it like a leach sucking blood. It's called Cunninghams law. (Please, if you didn't learn about Cunninghams Law in another recent thread. Google it or just know it's a joke)
Stardust 3 years ago
Nonono, it’s not cunningham’s law you buffoon. It is actually Newton’s law
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Random Anon 3 years ago
Life and nature is essentially a horror story marketed with rainbows and unicorns to keep the audience engaged and from losing their minds.
Adam Zad 3 years ago
"Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something." - Dread Pirate Roberts
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Stardust 3 years ago
At this very moment the universe can end. Look up vacuum decay, it is very interesting. Also, a gamma ray burst can eradicate life on earth at this second. We may not see it coming before it’s too late
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
I’m going to just keep worrying about monkeypox, I can only worry about one disaster at a time!
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madbakes 3 years ago
Do you have an Android? If so, no, you're not the only one.
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Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
Hydraulic pressure can be scary. If you have a cut and a strong enough jet of liquid hits it, it can penetrate the cut and fill the skin up like a baloon. Mechanics have to be mindful of this, since they deal with hydraulic systems filled with oil, which can and do fail. It's known as hydraulic injection injury. Don't google it.
Random Anon 3 years ago
Life and nature is essentially a horror story marketed with rainbows and unicorns to keep the audience engaged and from losing their minds.
Adam Zad 3 years ago
"Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something." - Dread Pirate Roberts
Load More Replies... Stardust 3 years ago
At this very moment the universe can end. Look up vacuum decay, it is very interesting. Also, a gamma ray burst can eradicate life on earth at this second. We may not see it coming before it’s too late
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
I’m going to just keep worrying about monkeypox, I can only worry about one disaster at a time!
Load More Replies... madbakes 3 years ago
Do you have an Android? If so, no, you're not the only one.
Load More Replies... Izzy Curer 3 years ago (edited)
Hydraulic pressure can be scary. If you have a cut and a strong enough jet of liquid hits it, it can penetrate the cut and fill the skin up like a baloon. Mechanics have to be mindful of this, since they deal with hydraulic systems filled with oil, which can and do fail. It's known as hydraulic injection injury. Don't google it.
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