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Today, you can learn anything on the internet. Whether it’s historical, psychological or just plain weird bites of information, people can’t seem to get enough of the tantalizing trivia being shared online. But if you want to see the whole picture, some knowledge might be as interesting as it is disturbing. However, facts are facts, no matter how uneasy they might make us feel.
So when someone on r/AskReddit asked what is a not fun fact, redditors quickly rolled up their sleeves. The thread went viral, amassing more than 82.4K upvotes and 35.1K comments full of the most strangely fascinating pieces of information.
We collected some of the best answers this thread had to offer, so continue scrolling! And after you’re done, don’t forget to share your thoughts and feelings in the comments section below.
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#1
The search and rescue dogs on 9/11 were getting so sad from finding only deceased bodies, the human helpers buried themselves in the rubble so that the dogs could find them and be happy.
Mazer 3 years ago
This began at the Oklahoma bombing. I had a friend go. He came back so traumatized that he did not speak for years. People love to over generalize and rag on police officers and other first responders. There are more good cops than bad ones, some have witnessed some truly horrific scenes in the line of duty
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I hope your friend is doing much better now. I'd like to thank him for all he has done. These people are true heroes. They constantly sacrifice themselves for others.
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Sheila Stamey 3 years ago
And no bad police dogs. They're all trained by people and all good boys and girls. Same for rescue dogs only more so.
Just saying 3 years ago
Nurses I know are pretty traumatised by the sheer number of deaths they witnessed during the first wave of Covid. Yes, nurses have to deal with death occasionally, particularly if you work in A&E or ER, but many nurses were relocated from wards where people normally get well and go, and even those used to death were traumatised by the sheer numbers.
JillyMack 3 years ago
Exactly. The chaos and the enormity of it has been severely traumatising. My daughter started her nursing degree last year and her first day of placement EVER was on a covid ward. This, despite the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), strongly advising all Universities in the U.K. not to send first year students to covid wards. She witnessed an entire ward of dying, elderly patients and she was left to deal with it. She came home so traumatised that she ended up with PTSD (and with covid). She was told not to go back to placement but was given no help or counselling. So she made the difficult decision to leave her course and is now studying a science degree.
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#2
There are more deaths due to mental health issues than all forms of violence combined. People are struggling.
A B C 3 years ago
And seeking psychological help is still stigmatized. If I break my arm, I go to a body doctor to have them fix it. So if my mind is broken, why can't I go to a mind doctor to have them help me without being called a loon?
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
I refuse to be stigmatized because my brain can’t keep track of how much serotonin it needs! It was a long time ago, but when it’s appropriate, I willingly talk about being in a locked psychiatric ward...being there saved my life. I had no idea my level of depression was unusual—I thought everyone else was just better at coping. Getting the help you need, be it a splint for a fractured arm or medication for a brain that doesn’t have the chemical make up to keep you moving forward is the important part, and whatever anyone else might think is hooey!
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BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
This is important. It's why people need to start realizing that mental health issues can be just as bad as my physical illnesses. It can even be worse than some of them.
Maiun 3 years ago
Office for National statistics (UK) 2018: 671 murders, 6,507 suicides. Suicide biggest cause of death in men under 45.
JillyMack 3 years ago
That's just awful. The stigma is still huge for men. I have anxiety disorder and depression and I've had enough horrible comments about it as a woman. I can only imagine how much worse it is for men. Toxic phrases such as "man up" are so unhelpful
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
It's sad but very true. Love and hugs to all who are struggling. I am right there with you struggling myself.
Rodah Sammy 3 years ago
Mental health is branded as a none issue in Kenya,"therapy is western culture"We are still people too you know😥
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
This is incredibly misleading. People with mental health issues are much more likely to be victims of violent crimes, rather than perpetrators. "The overall impact of mental illness as a factor in the violence that occurs in society as a whole appears to be overemphasized, possibly intensifying the stigma already surrounding psychiatric disorders." NCBI-NLM-NIH.gov.
Bored Panda reached out to Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author, most recently, of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. He was kind enough to share some insights about why humans are so drawn to learning new facts and how we benefit from them.
According to the professor, one reason why we find facts interesting is that they are very context-specific. “For example, if I said ‘Would you like to know how guitars are made?’ you wouldn’t necessarily say ‘Yes!’ immediately. You’d more likely say ’Uh … maybe. Is it interesting?’”
“What’s odd about facts is that the content matters less to whether or not you’d like to learn about it than you’d think,” he explained. Being a psychologist, Willingham is absolutely fascinated by human memory but sometimes it happens that when he goes “to professional meetings and attend talks about human memory that I find boring.”
“And then sometimes, I watch a documentary on something—for example, making guitars—that I didn’t think I’d find interesting in the least and find myself fascinated.”
#3
That your brain erases your nose from your vision, until you actively think about it. You nose is obstructing your vision 100% of the time, but your brain interrupts it as useless information, and removes it. When you start thinking about it, or close one eye, you can see your nose again. This might seem harmless until you realize the implications. Your brain, without asking, erases something very real from your awareness. Imagine the possibilities of other things it's doing on it's own like that. There could be a literal 2nd world right in front of us, and it might just be being erased as useless information.
Jaaawn 3 years ago
Doesn't apply to everyone though- I can always see my nose, it is massive though.
Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
It gets weirder than that. I have a scotoma as a result of small brain tumour. Essentially I have a segment out of the visual field of both eyes that can't see anything. If you imagine a clock face, from about 4 o'clock to 6 o'clock neither eye can see. Yet to me, I see a complete image. My brain fills in the missing details. If I am tired and not moving my eyes so much, the bit that can't see essentially has a "stale" image and I will miss things that change there. My brain also doesn't pick up movement in the blind part, so if something moves in my peripheral vision, my eyes won't move automatically to look at it and I will miss it. Aside from occasionally walking into doorframes when tired, it doesn't stop me doing anything, but it freaks out opticians who aren't expecting it!
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
Wow that is really fascinating. Thanks for sharing. (Not sarcasm.)
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Leesquee 3 years ago
I have Macular Degeneration for years, with literal black spots in the center of my vision. My brain just 'edits' them out; once, looking at a lovely beach view, I happened to glance to the side and realized my brain had edited out an entire CAR, sitting directly in the center of the view. All I saw was an uninterrupted sunset. That's the day I stopped driving.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
WOW! What a revelation! Also, WOW! What a great fix!
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Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
My neighbor’s brain does that every time he has to put his garbage cans back in his yard.
Jake stenhouse 3 years ago
Do a Google search for “ Why do the moon and the sun look so much larger near the horizon than they do high up in the sky?” for a similar illusion your brain creates
Kevin Donegan 3 years ago
Here's where I learned this fun fact ... when I got my nose pierced and wore a hoop nose ring. For about the first two weeks I could easily see the hoop ... now after a year and a half I don't notice it.
#4
People who survived the Holocaust and get Alzheimer's often think they are back in the camps. So they escape one of humanity's greatest horrors only to die in it 50 years later.
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
I had the honor of taking care of several people who had been in concentration camps(they had the tattooed numbers) and this is very true. One guy with dementia could only get baths, no showers because just the word shower sent him into a horrible memory sequence. Their stories were heartbreaking to say the least.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
You know i was under the impression that the most traumatic experiences usually are blocked from our brain to help us survive but i guess it doesn't work this way with Alzheimer's! It's known that they start to forget the recent events but i never thought they would keep only the traumatic ones! That's so horrible
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King Joffrey 3 years ago
I can believe that. My grandma died from dementia and as the disease progressed, she could remember less and less until all that was left were her memories from the war and, at the very end, one line from a prayer which became all that she was able to say.
Cara Vinson 3 years ago
I had the great sadness to know one of these people personally. It was literal. hell for her every night because the Nazi's were coming.
Louise B 3 years ago
Where I live we have a large Jewish community, many people came after the war and settled here. I used to work in a local hospital and when I first started I would regularly see parents with the concentration camp number tattoos. It still shocked me every single time, it was always a vivid reminder of what they endured. The thought of them having to go through it again is heartbreaking.
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
Chich, the same thing was going through my mind.
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Curiosity is an innate drive we share with many other species, he told us. It prompts us to learn about our environment, which obviously helps individuals to survive: “We are not curious about everything—we are curious when we think a little exploration will lead to a lot of learning.”
Still, what we gain from learning new information depends on what we already know: “Suppose you say to me: ‘Would you like to know which, of all the bottled sauces made in Kenya, is the most popular?’ I can’t name even one … so if you tell me, that fact isn’t very informative.”
“But suppose I knew a lot about African cuisine. Now that information would be informative, because I have some context to put it in, some existing knowledge to connect it to,” Daniel T. Willingham explained.
#5
If 2 male flat worms meet, they will sword fight with their penises until one loses. The loser will become female and they will mate.
Jon S. 3 years ago (edited)
The evolutionary reason behind this is that creating eggs uses more energy and takes time, so it is advantageous to your future offspring to be in the male role and getting to mate many more times over. But eventually all flatworms will tire, lose a fight, and get inseminated.
Seán Baron 3 years ago
You've obviously not been around many gay men then!
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Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
This is the opposite of a not-fun-fact. This is a FUN fact!!!!!!
Terilee Bruyere 3 years ago (edited)
Not quite true. flatworms are hermaphrodites, so each is both male and female. They do penis fence though. Edit: I typed the due rather than they do. My fingers and brain are in a bit of a disagreement today.
#6
People with extreme scurvy start to have ALL of their old wounds open up. Everything with a scar is held together via an active process with collagen and without vitamin c just sort of...stop.
Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Also, bones that have broken and healed come apart at the site of the break. It's an amazingly horrific disease.
A B C 3 years ago
Do you have any source for that claim? Formerly broken bones are not glued together by collagen, but reworked with newly formed bone tissue, so I tend to call BS on this. I also couldn't find any proof of it on my (albeit short) search for your claim.
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Mazer 3 years ago
Super painful. Not recommended. And it’s how sailors from the British Isles got the term “limeys”, ships stocks hundreds of pounds of limes just to combat scurvy
F. H. 3 years ago
And how Germans got the term "krauts". Sauerkraut was an inexpensive but very effective alternative to citrus fruit.
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Grant Barke 3 years ago
To all the guys who had their d**k severed and reattached. Do not masturbate when vitamin c intake has been very very low.
Martin John 3 years ago
This happened to Ernest Shackleton's men when they were shipwrecked at the South Pole in 1913. A steady diet of nothing but meat (penguins, etc.) resulted in very old scars opening up--much to everyone's surprise and dismay. In the end, they were rescued and not. one. man. died!
Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
The story of the Shackleton is truly epic - I highly recommend all to do a little research (the story is too long and complicated to tell here).
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Tonk Terrier 3 years ago
Yes, vitamin C really has nothing to do with fighting coughs and colds etc and everything to do with connective tissues
Yoinks! 3 years ago
Wow. I used to mock Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000) because Wolverine's healed wounds all reopen after his "healing factor" is knocked out by another mutant. I presumed "healed" was a done-and-done deal. Now I know better! And I understand a *little* better my own scars that regularly go through a cycle of getting irritated or scabbing back up. "Intelligent design" my pilonidal cyst scar.
Auntriarch 3 years ago
Is the pilonidal cyst scar located where I'm thinking?
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lazy panda 3 years ago
Anyone else take a mental note of where their scars are? Or am I the only one?
Lisa Haag 3 years ago
Well you are screwed either way cause your belly Button is a scar too...
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Quokkas, the worlds happiest animal, will throw their babies at attackers if threatened.
Mazer 3 years ago
And turkey vultures will puke on you as a defense mechanism. Since they eat dead rotting flesh, I can’t imagine the smell would be something anyone could stand
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
They also urinate and defecate on their own legs to keep clean and cool off... vultures truly are an interesting bunch.
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Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
They are from Australia what do you expect. None of our cute fuzzy animals are nice.
The only Plueschopossum 3 years ago
Just like Homer Simpson: "Oh my God, space aliens! Don't eat me, I have a wife and kids! Eat them!"
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
I find this so funny. Not because the babies are being sacrificed of course, just that these adorable animals' natural instinct is to yeet their children at enemies.
Dl B 3 years ago
However, while quokkas may not be “tossing” their young at predators, there is research to show that releasing their young is an anti-predator characteristic. Matthew Hayward, associate professor of conservation biology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, explained to Africa Check that macropods have strong control over their pouch muscles and one of the anti-predator responses in females with larger young is to relax their pouch muscles so the joeys drop out. The young will lay writhing and hissing on the ground, attracting the predator’s attention, while the mother escapes. “This makes evolutionary sense because the mum is a proven breeder, whereas the young may be infertile,” says Hayward. So the quokka’s reputation as a bad parent is in part justified.
F. H. 3 years ago
Many animals eat their babies if they come to the conclusion it's not safe enough to raise them.
BarBeeGirl 3 years ago
I learned this the hard way when our hamster had babies. Put her cage on the middle of the table and went to get the kids to show them. Came back and all the babies were gone 😢
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Anne Mitchell 3 years ago
NO, THEY DON'T!!!!! The pouch is a muscular organ that relaxes when the female quokka feels threatened and a joey may fall out and the mother can escape. Female kangaroos and other marsupials do the same as a survival mechanism.. They do not deliberately sacrifice their young.
However, some say that taking the time and energy to learn interesting facts is a waste of time since this information is accessible with a few Google searches and quick clicks on the links. The professor disagrees, saying that factual knowledge is a really important driver of reading comprehension and other high-level thinking skills, like problem-solving.
“Think about how much easier it is to read a passage if you’re familiar with the general topic—I don’t care how ‘skilled’ a reader you are, if (like most Americans) you’re unfamiliar with the game of cricket, you will not be able to make sense of a newspaper account of the game,” Willingham elaborated.
On the other hand, “a ten-year cricket fan in India or other cricket-mad country would have no problem.”
#8
A blue ringed octopus, found in the Pacific, is a tiny and cute little guy, but one painless bite gives enough venom to take the lives of 25 male adults.
Cutie Patootie 3 years ago (edited)
This seems logical, they have to be effective even when deconcentrated through its journey in the water, after all.
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Jon S. 3 years ago
This creature terrifies me, even though I live nowhere near it. I always get this feeling "but how do I know there isn't a blue ringed octopus in this puddle?"
Mark Howell 3 years ago
I notice it only kills men. Is that because women are smart enough not to touch? ;o)
EEF🤓 3 years ago
Nope. Theres a video online of a girl playing with one :p
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glowworm2 3 years ago
Which is why people foolishly pick them up to begin with.
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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
Don’t pick up washed up old coconuts and random shells in Australia if you don’t know where you are and what you’re touching 💕
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
And this is why I dont get in the ocean...theres $h|t that'll bite you in the ocean.
#9
In countries that require you to opt-in to organ donation, fewer than 15% of people register. In the US (an opt-in country), 18 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. “Opt-out” countries see over 90% of their population registered for organ donation.
Phil Vaive 3 years ago
I honestly find the whole "the body is sacrosanct" idea to be ridiculous. When we die, it's a bag of meat and bones. That's it. If someone else can use some of that meat to stay alive longer, then have at er. I'm not using it any more. My family has no use of it any more. All it's gonna do is turn into worm food anyway.
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Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
You said it, bud. I love the idea that there might still be something useful for another person when I’m done. ❤️
Load More Replies... LizzieR1985 3 years ago
Having seen both sides I can tell you its amazing. A friend of mine has received two liver transplants due to a hereditary condition and has been able to watch her son grow. In 2016 my partner suddenly passed away, he was a registered donor and saved the lives of four people, including a seven year old. Its amazing to think that a tick in a box, a simple yes, (to give something that you're not going to use/need again) can give someone else the opportunity to live a long life. Ticking no is just selfish.
JillyMack 3 years ago
I'm so sorry for your loss - but it's a wonderful legacy that your partner has left. *gentle hugs*
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The U.S. won’t change to opt-out. Like most of the paranoia proliferating here, this is another example of it. Many people believe doctors will not work as hard to save them if they know they are an organ donor. 🤦🏼♀️We live in an ignorant, irrational, depressing dystopic novel right now.
Carolus Maxima 3 years ago
We've also lived through the Tuskegee Experiment, forced sterilizations, and other atrocities. Is it paranoia or the understanding that the US has worse medical outcomes for those who don't look like your emoji.
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Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
Don't forget the possibility of living donation. Lots of leukemia patients are waiting for a bone marrow donor match and you don't have to die to give someone that gift.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
unfortunately, when I tried to donate bone marrow, I was unable to because I couldn't afford all the testing required. My insurance wouldn't pay for the medical tests required to donate, and it was very expensive.
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I am proud to say I am an organ donor. Why not save the life of another if you can. IMO, its inhuman to let needed organs die when you no longer need them.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
I've been an organ donor since I got my driver's license. Take whatever you need when I'm gone.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
Me too... and don't just take organs. If my dead body can teach someone to save lives, or shooting it out of a cannon or crashing it in a car will help science, by all means...I'm not using it anymore.
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Zaza 3 years ago
After a few years of preparation we (The Netherlands) are now officially an opt-out country :D
Tami 3 years ago
I'm happy to donate my organs, but they must be taken as-is. No warranty is expressed or implied.
Kevin Donegan 3 years ago
Opt-out should be the policy for lots of things ... organ donors, voter registration, garbage recycling bins and so many other things.
#10
The image that most people have of blobfish is based on a misconception.
people think that’s what they look like all the time but blobfish adapted to live in deep waters, which means the deeper you go, the more water pressurethere is. Their bodies are not meaty like fish but more gelatinous because they adapted to the water pressure. if you accidentally pull them to higher levels but with less water pressure, their bodies don’t handle it well bc there’s nothing keeping their bodies in tact, so their bodies explode.
Basically, every photo you’ve seen of a blobfish where they look big and pink and, of course, blobby is a photo of a dead blobfish.
Merchandise and cartoons designed after what they look like dead. Hell, they’re referred to as what they look like dead.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
This is really devastating! It looks like a very painful torturing death
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Chaboom 3 years ago
I remember reading about mermaids too. If they really do exist in this world, they wouldn't look like how we depicted them - beautiful. Because the pressure under water would have their face disfigured.
While many blame the internet for overloading our brains with tons of information, we are the ones putting the knowledge into context. When the time is right, we can connect the dots and come up with brilliant ideas. So if you catch yourself wondering if you're ever going to use this stuff, just remember—someday you actually might.
#11
Men's belts are the dirtiest item of clothing. Touched after pooping and before washing hands, never washed, and worn daily for years.
May 3 years ago
I only wear belts on dresses, and I don't undo those to use the bathroom. I think it's a lot less common for women to wear belts to hold up pants.
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King Joffrey 3 years ago
Riiiight. I've been wearing the same belt for 10+ years and never cleaned it. Off to steam-clean it now.
Tamara Kroonen 3 years ago
OMG This ruined my life. I can never see a belt the same way as before.
Christian Gerlach 3 years ago
Is this really the norm? I clean things like belts, smartphones and watches with disinfectant wipes and I thought most people did.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
Hahaha lol! Many people learnt to wash their hands properly during the pandemic!
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LuckyL 3 years ago
they're not clothing - but I guess they would takethe lead
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Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Women’s bot don’t get the same kind of wear. Mostly they go with dresses and don’t need to be adjusted when we use the washroom. And if we’re wearing one with pants as a fashion statement, we wouldn’t wear the same one two days in a row. By contrast, my husband wears the same belt every day because it’s comfortable and broken in.
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InfectedVoice 3 years ago
Why would you be wiping your ass with your belt?
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If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.
Mazer 3 years ago
Subtle differences are noted, and staff will sometimes use different colors for each child
KatHat 3 years ago
Sure, and I don't think this entry is saying it's LIKELY, but there's always room for error or "that one time when I was bathing them and had taken off the color-coded clothing..." This entry is a light-hearted nod to possibility.
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Stephanie IV 3 years ago
As long as it happened only once, very early on, you're probably fine with the 'wrong' identity.
Jef Bateman 3 years ago
Maybe Elvis died in infancy, and it was actually Jesse everybody was crazy about.
Bored Panda 3 years ago
This goes to show how arbitrary external "identity" is. You're still you. Yes, it could happen that the parents may have said "That one is [baby A name] and that one is [baby B name]" and that baby B later ended up being forever called by baby A's name. But so what? If the babies look and act so alike that this mistake could happen then when the parents named one one thing and the other another thing, the naming was completely arbitrary. Yes, this fact is true, but it is completely meaningless.
PeachPossum 3 years ago
There's an idea. In later episodes of My Three Sons, the eldest son Robby and his wife had identical triplet sons. All was fine and good until one day Mom gave the boys a bath. She was upset because she could no longer tell them apart. She'd marked their feet with dots with an ink pen and all the ink had washed off in the bath. They took the babies back to the hospital to compare their feet prints with the birth records. I don't know if they take feet prints of newborns anymore, but perhaps they do.
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Francesa Miller 3 years ago
There's a sure way to tell twins apart. The National Forensic Science Technology Center states that, “no two people have ever been found to have the same fingerprints — including identical twins.”
GirlFriday 3 years ago
There are three sets of identical twins in my immediate family (brothers 1, 2& 3 are triplets, but 2 & 3 are identical twins, brother 5 & 6, brothers 11 & 12 - there are other multiples as well) and each time a multiple was born, the nurses marked their feet with different colored markers and noted it on the birth certificates and my parents kept up the marks at home, too.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I have often wondered about this. I prayed daily to never have twins as they run rampant in my family. For some reason this was a fear for me, not knowing one child from the other.
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago
Speaking as an identical twin, we never looked exactly the same and I have never seen identical twins (even babies) look exactly the same and I know like 7 or 8 pairs. 😊 I am speaking of birthmarks, different shaped ears or belly buttons, different personalities and tastes and so on. BUT I also never wanted to have twins, can you imagine suddenly looking after 2 newborns or babies? Huge respect for parents with twins... I hardly knew what I was doing with my first born.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 3 years ago
Had twins as friends as a kid. Their dad was paranoid about this happening so he used a system. He used a permanent marker to put some dots on the big toe nail of one of them and touched it up once or twice a month and waited. Once one of the boys got their first scar, he stopped. They were like 2-3 and got cut sledding on crazy carpets
#13
There is more slavery in the world right now then at any time in history.
Will 3 years ago
To be fair there’s also a considerably larger amount of people in the world then there’s ever been.
A B C 3 years ago
I was about to ask if in absolute or relative numbers. Really wondering about this bit of statistics...
Load More Replies... King Joffrey 3 years ago
Sure but there is also 7 times more people in the world than in 1800s.
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
It's often been better recorded in the past, simply because it was legal...
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Read up on Dollar Heroes. North Korean laborers used in the Russian and Chinese labor force. Horrific. https://nhpbs.org/schedule/summary.aspx?progId=DocWorld412
Shortstuff 3 years ago
China is full of prison camps where the inmates are political prisoners. They work from dawn to dusk with no pay. The prisons are actually factories producing cheap products sold all over the world. No labour costs. 😡
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September 3 years ago
I live in a tiny backwater town in the middle of nowhere on the way to wherever. We have 2 dedicated detectives in the PD who's only job is fighting human trafficking and slavery. The most common focus seems to be Asian run nail salons and eateries, although I'm certain it's a problem all over.
#14
You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters out the smell.
DUN DUN 3 years ago
I know right!? Like, I can't wear my mask for the second time because it smells like a dead rat
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Francis 3 years ago
so when you got a lung transplant, does the lung smell differently than your 'old' one? will you smell it then?
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
This sort of happens when we can have olfactory fatigue -your can be exposed to a smell constantly and not notice it!
Mark Howell 3 years ago
So what does the brain actually let us experience, if it's not noses or internal body smells ?
Ti Wa 3 years ago
It more or less only lets us perceive thing it believes are "important". I spent some time looking into neuropsychology and vision for my master's thesis. And have come to the conclusion that humans have an amazing visual system but are effectively almost blind.
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Thomas Ewing 3 years ago
So THAT'S how wild animals can detect a camouflaged hunter...stinky air.
Queen Jackson. 3 years ago
Imagine we could smell cancer just like dogs do, our brains just don’t care.
#15
If you shine a flashlight/smartphone on a newborn sea turtle for too long (which could be only minutes), it will start crawling around in circles. Known as the "Ring of Death", it means that the turtle's eyesight has been permanently damaged due to mistaking your lights for the moon that guides it to the sea. By doing this, you have doomed the sea turtle to death right after birth.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Who was the first fuckwad that did this s**t...need to find him. I know it was a guy. Dont ask me questions.
LuckyL 3 years ago
I imagine it's researchers watching the turtels hatch at night and they needed light. And now thing about how long it probably took them to figure out why some of the turtels started walking in circels - and maybe they even used more light to be able to observe them better
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Xenon 3 years ago
A lot of beach hotels where they hatch have started turning out all their lights when the hatch happens so the baby turtles don't get disoriented. I think that's great, myself. Also, they will not let nature tourists on the beach at time either.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
That's sad. People are d***s. Just recently some tourists messed with some endangered sea turtle eggs on a beach in South Carolina where signs clearly said to stay away. They smashed eggs and recorded it for Snapchat.
Imma 3 years ago
Things like this make me lost faith in humanity. And they probably call themselves "influencers" 🙄
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#16
Most power outages in the US are caused by squirrels.
Rijkærd 3 years ago (edited)
Those f*****s have to get the energy of a kabillion wattage running around looking for nuts...they seem to never stop running
Earl Grey 3 years ago (edited)
This is completely stupid and absurd, and I have worked in the US utility industry for 22 years. The leading and most frequent cause of service interruptions and unplanned outages is severe weather, what we call “‘gray sky events.” This encompasses thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, high winds that topple trees or tree limbs, lightning strikes, ice damage, etc. Vehicles crashing into power poles is another, as is plain old equipment failure, human error, vandalism, cyber attacks, brownouts due to high demand, and so on. Wildlife damage is real but so far down the list that it is hardly worth mentioning.
thatmagicgaychick 3 years ago (edited)
f**k ice damage. I just got a foot of snow, power was out for 2 days.
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Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
One enterprising squirrel took out a utility box on the ground...another took out a can on the pole.... we were without power for days until they replaced the items...
Suebee70 3 years ago
I absolutely believe this. We had no less than 3 phone/internet outages back when we got internet via the phone company & had a landline phone - all caused by the same stupid squirrel chewing into the same phone line that ran through the branches of "his" tree. He apparently had an issue with the line being there. Finally had the company relocate the wire outside of the branches.
#17
Vasily Arkhipov was a Soviet navy officer who was the second in command of a B-59 submarine equipped with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the ships commander was told to launch the entire nuclear arsenal onboard, Arkhipov refused to authorize the attack, after realizing that the launch from the US was an error in their system. If he wasnt on that submarine, the United States and Russia would be a big, grey spot on the globe.
The Scout 3 years ago
This act lead to a lot of uncertainty on the part of the USSR - They simply did not know whether to execute him for insubordination or to give him a medal for saving the day. After thorough consideration they settled for the latter. He died of kidney cancer in 1998, probably as a late effect from radiation leaks on atomic submarines.
Rob Chapman 3 years ago
On September 26, 1983, at a nuclear bunker near Moscow, the computers reported a U.S. first strike was under way. Colonel Stanislav Petrov, on duty at the time, chose not to report the "attack" to the Kremlin, thus violating orders, as he believed it was a computer error. He was proven right. Had he blindly followed orders that day, most of the Northern Hemisphere would have become an irradiated wasteland.
The Scout 3 years ago
Another close call. The authorities could neither publicly commend nor punish him, as that would have exposed the vulnerability of the rocket systems. So they just ignored the event, but a little while later - and of course completely without any ties to his role in this - Petrov was promoted and given a medal for his merits at "improving the facility".
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Phil Vaive 3 years ago
Reading this in 2022, I'm not so sure that would be the worst thing in the world. (Mostly sarcasm...mostly)
Earl Grey 3 years ago
That is very inaccurate. That “entire nuclear arsenal” consisted of exactly one nuclear torpedo, and launching the “special weapon” required the consensus of the three senior officers on board. The sub was out of radio contact because it was running deep to avoid detection. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59
Ya boi Jakobi 3 years ago
if im correct, there had to be 3 people to launch those nukes on that sub
#18
There is a (genetic) disease called FOP where your muscles and tissue turn to bone. Often called "human statue disease"
Eventually people may have to decide whether they want to become "frozen" in a sitting or flat/standing position.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Most terrifying one for me is Lockdown Syndrome. Happens (on rare occassions, luckily) after a heavy concussion or a brain stroke. Leaves you completely paralyzed, except the eyes, and yet fully aware. It is like being in a coma, but you can feel, hear and see everything.
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Alexandra Davis 3 years ago
I'm bed bound 90% of the time and believe me, it gets old quick! I miss working and feeling useful so much!
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Betsy Novack 3 years ago
Like getting older with a body that starts falling apart the minute the warranty expires, aging is a pain in the ass. Looking for that leg that fell off in the night or aches and pains in places you didn't know existed, all the other stuff that can wreak havoc on a body and make life feel like your doing time and hoping for early parole just is just such a different picture than we think it is as a kid.
Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
You should Google the X-Ray of someone suffering from this. It's nightmare stuff.
#19
Your intestines will “wriggle” themselves back into the correct position. Doctors who do any type of intestinal surgery don’t have to worry (too much) about how they put the intestines back in.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Yep..after a heavy meal mine sound like they're having an argument about their preferred positioning..
pat hayes 3 years ago
hahahaha! thanks, that was a great comment..( burp), scuse' me.
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Deja Katz 3 years ago
Not completely true. Surgeons do have to take care because your bowels don’t ‘like’ being exposed or touched during operations. You can have complications like gut motility issues and adhesions if your bowels have been over-handled.
King Joffrey 3 years ago
Of course they don't just chuck it back in but they don't have to worry too much about how they're positioned once they're back in.
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If you wouldn't mind just putting everything back where you found it, I'd really appreciate it.
Kirsten Kerkhof 3 years ago
It hurts like heck until they are back though. I had surgery where they removed part of my large intestine and of course had to put it back. For days it felt as though I had bubbles of gas/air that hurt so much when I moved positions (lying down to sitting, sitting to standing could take minutes). And then one day I woke up feeling just fine. Guess that night they found their position. I can only imagine it released one heck of a fart as they did so …
Rikke Persson 3 years ago
True story. When you are pregnant everything is pushed around in there and moves back into place after some time, but not immediately. I got appendicitis a week after I gave birth, but the doctors wouldn’t operate unless it got critical, because they couldn’t tell where the appendix was exactly, and said they would have to open up my entire abdomen and go on a treasure hunt to find it…
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
Except the few cases where your intestines make a bowel twist and you need medical help fast.
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
Unless you get adhesions, and the scar tissue prevents that. Painful, and deadly without MORE surgery, which can also cause more adhesions!
Lisa Metz 3 years ago
This. If you don't have surgery, you get a horrific tube shoved down your nose and your stomach contents suctioned for days, without eating or drinking. Its very very unpleasant.
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#20
Horses can't throw up.
So if they eat something bad or get a bad gas bubble, they just lay down and die.
Mazer 3 years ago
Which is why you should never feed any horse anything without talking to its owner first
PeachPossum 3 years ago
And never throw plastic bags of dog poop into a pasture. Horses are attracted to the smell of grain the urban dog poop, they eat the poop, bag and all, then they die.
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Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
There is a German saying "I have seen horses puke" as a reaction if someone tells you something is impossible.
Mary Peace 3 years ago
So 'Puking Horses' is equivalent to 'Flying Pigs', just more disgusting!
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Well it’s a little more complex than that: you try to move any obstruction and use pain meds. Fun fact horses can have choke which means food gets stuck in the trachea, can build up and reach the top of the esophagus and kill them.
IlovemydogShilo 3 years ago
I wouldn't call that a "Fun" fact. Fact yes, but there's nothing fun about it.
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Given how easy it is for a horse to die or get injured it is a wonder they have survived. Had a friend who was a ferrier and the problems they can develop with their hooves...
Upstaged75 3 years ago
Yup, they are really quite fragile for such enormous animals.
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Eva Bryson 3 years ago
It's called "choke" and a vet can most probably save the horse's life if they get there in time. It's caused by not producing enough saliva when eating very dry hay or grain.
Persephone 3 years ago
Yeah choke is a completely different ailment from colic, but can have similar symptoms. Don't feed whole apples... they can get stuck past a horse's teeth and they have no option but swallow (or they can be possessive and bolt food), or they may need their teeth floated as well. Being a knowledgeable and responsible horse owner is best, and there's a ton of ignorance in this whole thread from people who were around a horse once or twice.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 3 years ago
Not necessarily. There are many treatments for colic (depending which type of colic it is) and horse owners know what signs to look for that will tell them a horse is sick. First of all we don't let them lie down and keep them walking - then we call a vet. We also keep medication on hand that can help until the vet arrives. The form of colic is then treated appropriately. (Unfortunately for the vet it usually means sticking their entire arm up the horse's ass) In severe cases (where the intestine is blocked or twisted) we will take them to the hospital and surgery can be performed. Most horses will survive this type of event a few times in their lives.
GFSTaylor 3 years ago
They can be saved if humans realise there's a problem in time, and take action. If there's no help from humans, the horse will almost certainly die.
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Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
I looked it up and giraffes are more like cows, in that they have multiple stomachs, and they can throw up :)
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Yeah, just what I was going to say. They have no gag reflex. Luckily for them though if they eat something bad they have massive, MASSIVE livers to help compensate for any toxins.
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Between 10 and 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate (this does not mean they can't read or write at all, but that they cannot comprehend what they are reading at a high enough level to do many basic tasks, like filling out a form). To make matters worse a very large proportion of these people do not realize they have a problem with literacy and self report as being fine at reading and writing.
Robert T 3 years ago (edited)
I think this has a lot to do with US form designers. Have you tried filling in a US immigration form? The labelling of the boxes is absolutely terrible. It also asks questions which are meaningless in an international context - "crimes involving moral turpitude" is not something most people outside of the US will understand, let alone those whose first language is not English - not only that, but it is most likely not a concept in the visitor's country's laws, so you can't be convicted of it.
Kevin Donegan 3 years ago
You just have to see how many people believe "the Big Lie" and realize critical thinking along with common sense is dead in 40% of the population.
Julius Zuke 3 years ago
When I was a teacher/librarian, my students were reading a chapter book per week and totally enjoying it. With the rise of Big Media and the internet, it became harder and harder to promote reading as an enjoyable activity. The problem here is that newspapers and book publishers fact-checked everything to maintain their reputations as reliable sources of information. Big Media and the internet don't always care about the truth, so people became used to hearing sketchy information, not realizing the effect that falsehood has on health and government. We may never get mass literacy back, but we need to make sure that critical thinking is a huge part of our educational system.
Rissie 3 years ago
The ones that can't read or fill out a form have a clear problem with reading/writing. There's only so much pretending to get away with. Most people however are sufficient enough readers to fool themselves into thinking they understand the words that are entering their brain. But are not capable of translating the words and sentences into the concepts that are described with them. And a lot of that finds its roots in an educational system that doesn't grasp that that is what we are doing with language. Most people just go with the flow and imagine they are fine readers, and some are, and some really, really, aren't/
#22
Migraines and strokes carry a lot of the same symptoms so if you suffer regular migraines you may not notice you're actually dying one day.
F. H. 3 years ago
No, they don't. But they can act as a warning sign if you are in a risk group and suddenly develop migrane with auras or just auras.
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SCamp 3 years ago
Yep have a weird condition where I get the aura but not the migraine. I had childhood migraine (headache plus aura) which stopped when I was around 19, then the aura re-emerged in my 50s. At first I thought it was my eyesight going wonky because I had no headache but the optometrist told me that’s what was happening. Just had one this morning, goes for 20 minutes then fades away
Amelia Bedelia 3 years ago (edited)
That happens to me too. Freaked me the f**k out the first time it happened. I've never actually had the headache.
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Poppy 3 years ago
My gran had what we thought was a stroke, she was unable to talk and had facial droop. We called her GP who attended and got very annoyed with us because it was a migraine. My mum had to point out we weren't medically trained to distinguish between a stroke and a migraine. He apologised after that.
Mari 3 years ago
I hope you will find a better GP, he had no right to be annoyed. Even he apologised, that's no behavior for a GP. Alarming symptoms have always to be taken serious, and you were right to be alarmed.
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K W 3 years ago
Me too. It took me months to get diagnosed correctly. The doctor at the hospital who 1st treated me said I needed to do yoga because there was nothing wrong with me. 1st neurologist told me I needed a psych eval. My pcp told me I had hysteria. Thankfully I transferred doctors and got correctly diagnosed because my new doctor had the condition herself.
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I has a migraine that cause difficulty speaking and numbness/loss of coordination on my right side. It was absolutely terrifying because I didn’t know those could be migraine symptoms. I thought I was dying.
Jason Boyd 3 years ago
A year ago I went to Emergency with symptoms of a stroke. Nothing on MRI or blood tests although staff believed everything I said about symptoms of loss of sensation and weakness in half my body. ED docs were clueless about the cause, then they called down a neurology consult. Similarly unable to arrive at a diagnosis so was escalated up through seniority in the neuro dept. At a more in-depth subjective history taken that day, I noted I got migraines 3-4 times a year. This was the missing bit of information. One of the most senior consultants had read about hemiplegic migraines but never seen one. So I had temporary stroke symptoms that lasted 6 hours acutely but were gone completely after 2-3 days. Pretty scary at the time as I was a trained physiotherapist who treated stroke patients and didn't want that for myself at 40 years...
Jeff Bunn 3 years ago (edited)
Those could be absence seizures!! I start to see an aura around things for anywhere from 30 seconds to a couple of minutes before I have the seizure!! I actually lose consciousness for a few seconds to a couple of minutes from them and then, when I regain consciousness, my head comes apart!!! It’s like a migraine headache times 10!!! Believe me on that because I have both types of headaches!! Please consult a neurologist!!
Sarah Luna 3 years ago
Migraine sufferer here...had one for days and I couldn't get it to stop. Then I woke up in a hospital...after suffering a burst brain aneurysm that caused a stroke. After learning everything all over again (from writing my name to driving a car) I hyper-react to any headache. But it's just a regular ol' headache and I'm doing everything I can to make sure that the worse case scenario doesn't happen again.
#23
The reason you’re supposed to contact a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than four hours is because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the penis. Blood goes in, deoxygenates, but can’t leave, so there’s no way for fresh oxygenated blood to come in, causing the tissue to turn black and die. Don’t worry, though! This can be treated by using a big syringe to suck the trapped blood out.
Jaaawn 3 years ago
And guys, don't use Viagra recreationally- only use it if you genuinely need to. Seems to have become something younger guys use more often since it became available to obtain without a prescription in my country (bloody expensive though.)
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
It's cheap as chips here in the UK (less than $5 a tablet).
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Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago
I'm now imagining vampires everywhere sneaking viagra into guys drinks so they can pay a visit later and 'drink from the source'. lol
#24
Spider - Rain (you read that right) is a real and naturally occurring phenomenon.
Mad Dragon 3 years ago (edited)
It’s a rare phenomenon where thousands of spiders use tiny strands of webbing to float thousands of feet into the air, landing several miles away.
Deja Katz 3 years ago
Thank goodness, I thought it meant literal spiders raining down and terrifying me
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Mazer 3 years ago
Lots of critters can get sucked up into the upper atmosphere, then “rain” down on unsuspecting people. Reports have included fish, frogs etc
Tamra Stiffler 3 years ago
Yep. Experienced a frog rain myself. Fun times.
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SerumSeven 3 years ago
If only people could imagine how miserable they'd be if there weren't any spiders.
#25
A third of the world's population live in areas that are projected to suffer extended periods of unsurvivable heat by 2070.
Mazer 3 years ago
Yup, and storms will get more intense. Humans are highly adaptable, mother nature’s critters will suffer the most
Randolph Croft 3 years ago
Not just more intense - more often. Tornado 'season' will be all year long.
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Jessica Bertram 3 years ago
another Coloradan? yep. Denverite here. it's GODAWFUL. those poor families. And there will be more UWI fires, and urban firestorms. it's here. it's real. it affects us.
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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
The end won't be instant. It'll be gradual and has probably already started.
K W 3 years ago
I love all the climate change deniers on here. Meanwhile actuaries are paying attention and looking at how risky it is to insure houses in areas that will be increasingly affected. Gonna be interested to see how that affects home loans too in the U.S. Also you know ski hills are screwed.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
It's happening a lot in CA where wildfires are getting worse every year.
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From the Bloomberg Climate Report 05/11/2020 (Eric Rosten): When heat and humidity produce a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C, the body passes a “survivability threshold,” said Radley Horton, associate research professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and a co-author of the study. It’s theoretically the point when humidity and heat prevent skin from being able to cool off by sweating, causing the body to overheat, potentially fatally. “Conceptually, this is a really powerful, scary idea,” Horton said. It’s “the notion that the combination of heat and humidity could be so extreme that a perfectly fit person, sitting in the shade, not moving at all, endless supply of water, either unclothed or wearing perfect clothes for sweating, would not, thermodynamically, be able to sweat fast enough to avoid overheating and getting heatstroke.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago (edited)
A small town in my province was burned off the map this summer. You sure it isn't already happening?
Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
I didn't see the sun for a week when Oregon had it's big wildfire in September 2020
K W 3 years ago
Montana hasn't had everything on fire yet but the smoke from other places made our air unbreathable for a good part of last summer. I've never seen fire/smoke season last that long before.
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The reason dogs love squeaky toys is because they sound like small animals dying.
Mazer 3 years ago
Not exactly. It’s the sound of some animals when they are in distress, they may not be dying
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
Dogs don't enjoy the anguish - they enjoy the successful hunt. I have a dog who is very very careful with anything that has a face. He took out a teddy bear from the trash and guards it still.
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Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
They also sound like puppies squealing. Our Dobie was very kind to her toys, and our GSP's tore them to shreds.
Bonni Poch 3 years ago
I learned this last summer when my terrier cross killed 2 baby bunnies in my backyard. It all made sense as soon as I heard the kits screaming. I tried to save them, but couldn't get there quick enough. Three did wind up surviving to maturity though.
Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago
Whoopee. Takes the fun out of listening to my dog play with his toys!!
#27
Bed bugs procreate by traumatic insemination. Males literally stab females with their genitals. So, just another reason to hate them then.
Keerthi Vardhan 3 years ago
I guess all those bites from the creatures of hell can be presumed to be a procreation attempts with human tissue.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
There's a big difference between a bite from the mouthparts and a stab with the genitals. They don't bite the females.
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allan dorfling 3 years ago
Not gonna lie I have a weird cartoon image in my head here of the male running after the female saying something like"come here my love time to make our future" while having a jack the ripper outfit and a bloody knife in his hand
K 3 years ago
I recently learned of bed bugs and I'm not right since. Disgusting horrible things
Queen Jackson. 3 years ago
They used to live in our clothes, and carpets when we lived in our old apartment. Never lived in a home with carpet since.
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what horrifies me is that bed bugs evolved to never touch human feet because the person might sleep walk and squash them. also they can learn a person's rem cycle so they can feed without the person disturbing them O_O
K 3 years ago
Are you really serious? I genuinely feel ill thinking about it
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David F 3 years ago
If you introduce cockroaches to the environment they will eat all the bedbugs
Vicky Z 3 years ago
And then what are you supposed to do with all the cockroaches?😱😱😱😱
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CatWoman312 3 years ago
Bed bugs and mosquitoes - two organisms that can go extinct and wouldn’t crash the ecosystem
AngelWingsYT 3 years ago
Man thanks for the PTSD 😩 i had bed bugs for months! Those fückerş are more reliant that a cockroach!
K 3 years ago
How do you get them? Is it from furniture or does someone have to have them?
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#28
There is a mysterious illness called the 'sweating sickness' that hit in multiple small epidemics in the early modern era. It was incredibly contagious and massively deadly, with about a 50% average death rate, but it could be higher. It began with an ominous sense of apprehension, followed by severe pains in the neck and giddiness. They then abruptly stopped and switched to heavy sweating, headaches and delirium. Finally, the person was hit with an extreme urge to sleep, and it was thought to be fatal if you fell to it. We know almost nothing about it, nothing about how it spread, how it was caused, only that if you got it you were either surviving or dead within 24hrs. There are horror stories of people leaving town on hunting trips and returning the same day to find almost everybody in the village dead, with only a few scattered survivors. The worst thing was, you did not gain immunity. You could live through the sweating sickness once, and then get it a few days later and die. Or live through it two or three times, and then get it and die. It was horrific, and we don't know why it disappeared and we don't know if it will ever return.
Mazer 3 years ago
Happened in the British Isles. a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. It occurred near the time of The War of the Roses, speculation includes it was linked to the outrageous living conditions and bad sewage disposal or a hantavirus virus type of disease. All very fascinating
C. Wade 3 years ago
I wonder if the disease was viral/microbial and it just died along with the last infected person? This is my first time hearing about this.
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Katinka Min 3 years ago
Because it was so deadly, the virus did not surive. That's what makes Covid19 so dangerous: That is only MARGINALLY deadly adn can thus spread liek crazy. Movies have tought us to be afraif of diseases with fast horrific deaths, but its the midlevel dangerous ones like polio, covid etc that really bring our countries to their knees. And the f*cking antivaxxers are NOT helping!!
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago (edited)
That's what I want to tell an idiot at my school who believes that it's stupid that there's a lockdown/restrictions, because Covid is "just the flu". Sure, this disease does have a decent survival rate, but this is a new disease and there are still people dying of it (around 5.47 million worldwide). And I don't know about you, but it sounds absolutely unpleasant to get even if you don't die.
Load More Replies... Honu 3 years ago
Another interesting historical disease I recently read about: Arnaldia or febris emitritea. It killed quite a few people on the Third Crusade. Both Richard I of England and Philippe II of France were seriously ill with it. There were multiple waves of it. Symptoms included a very high fever, sore throat, headache, mouth ulcers. This could last weeks or months. Oddly, people's hair and nails would fall out a few weeks after they got better. Sometimes they would grow back, sometimes not. No one's quite sure what it was.
Alonso Victoria 3 years ago
This illnes also cause terrible diharrea, vomiting and nose bleeding, you could survive the sweating and the urge to sleep, but apparentlyif you started with the nose bleed, you were practically death.
Brandy Grote 3 years ago
The world could have been so different. Different players on the board. People who died to this oddity who should have been royal advisors or spouses... weird.
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago (edited)
That's terrifying that we don't know whether it's completely gone or not. The disease is just horrific and the fact that no one knows how it spreads or how it first originated is also terrifying.
Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
It's what killed Prince Arthur of England, allowing Henry VIII to become the next heir and king. And we all know how great that turned out.
#29
The glaciers of the Antarctica shelves have melted (and continue to melt) at so fast a rate that even if we enacted radical and worldwide climate change laws today, it's going to take hundreds of years to recover them to their pre-industrial levels.
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
And if every human acted to reduce their carbon footprint, it still wouldnt be enough. Corporations are the biggest polluters
Deja Katz 3 years ago
Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. As long as they’re making money, they don’t care if there’s no future for your children.
Caspar Teppema 3 years ago
We never had a chance. Ever since the start of the industrial revolution we were doomed.
Pamela Blue 3 years ago
And two good volcano blasts can undo anything puny men can do to solve the problem. Yes we need to look after our environment. No - mother nature can undo what we do faster than a bolt of lightning (or a volcano or 2, or 3)
Jerry Royal 3 years ago
Geologist have proven that ten thousand years ago, the ice stretched over half of north America, it has been melting ever since. Yes, the climate changes and humans are so full of themselves, we actually believe we can affect it!
Batman Cody Fried Chicken Butt 3 years ago
You know, that's weird. In 2020 there was a record number of the ice in the Arctic and Antartica increasing.
#30
It was once thought for birds (parrots, magpies) to learn to talk, you had to release their tongue. This was done by cutting their tongue completely or partly off, of course without any anesthesia or pain killers. The tongue release plays absolutely no role in the birds' ability to talk.
Coffee panda 3 years ago
I heard this when i was a child. I thought my friend made it up. Poor birdies. How about not keeping birds as pets. Let them fly.
Jef Bateman 3 years ago
I don't think this post is completely accurate. Splitting the tongue was common in order to allow corvids to talk, but you didn't remove their tongue. If it was ever done to parrots, it was just somebody who was confused. I agree it is a cruel practice (still done in some places, apparently), but it wasn't done exactly like this.
David Muth 3 years ago
I was doing psittacine aviculture for a decade and never heard of this.
#31
There is a non-zero maximum threshold for the amount of cockroach that can be present in ground coffee because it is literally impossible to keep them out entirely.
Mad Dragon 3 years ago
The accepted level is apparently 10 mg per pound of ground coffee. Time to get a coffee grinder and switch to whole-bean coffee!
Nizumi 3 years ago
Meh - a little protein in the ol' insta - fine by me. Look - the little guys have been roasted to oblivion and then ground to powder. Zero risk for disease. Now, the mouse pee on the outside of the container, that's another story...
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
You woke up today wanting to set fire to the world, eh?! Now I must wash all food containers in bleach.
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I've never ever seen a cockroach in real life! They look funny in the videos of people freaking out, especially if you imagine them wearing little top hats for some reason.
Daria B 3 years ago (edited)
I envy you. I had wars with them. Even learnt to differentiate between various species. Good riddance. Hope I'll never see these buggers again. Okay, outside, but not in my home.
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Brandy Grote 3 years ago
Mmm, extra protein! I wonder if it shows up on the nutrition label because of that?
#32
In Australia there is a plant called the Gympie-Gympie which has such a severe sting that horses who brush against it throw themselves off cliffs because they’d rather die than continue to experience the pain
Serial pacifist 3 years ago (edited)
It’s the same with trying to explain science to antivaxxers. Several scientists have reportedly jumped off a cliff rather than experiencing the pain. Antivaxxers believe they just fell off the edge of the Earth.
Ellie Rosser 3 years ago
Bullshit. The horses go over cliffs because they are trying to get away from the pain and too scared and painful to exert caution. No way in hell they are standing at the top of the cliff assessing the pros and cons of suicide!!
13 3 years ago
If you think that's how suicide works then you are extremely naive.
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Scarlett 3 years ago
Didn’t some poor guy wipe his butt with this and later commit suicide because it hurt so bad?
KMill 3 years ago
I heard about that - I think they nicknamed it the suicide tree because of that.
Load More Replies... BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
What the hell, Australia? What dangerous plants and animals don't you have?
Mark Fuller 3 years ago
Oh crap. And I was just anxious about the heat and insects down under! This further compounds my belief that Neighbours and Home & Away are actually filmed in Europe, because Oz is soooo deadly, there's literally just a few dozen people left. Probably.
Lost Demigirl 3 years ago (edited)
Northern Gympie Gympie is the worst.... SEQ doesn't have it that bad, but still bad enough. Also, search up wait-a-while plant if you're interested. Edit: No, Australia isn't bad. Great place to live, just caution is required if you go bush.
Uber Mensch 3 years ago
Crikey! Is there _any_ genus in Australia that doesn't try to kill or maim a person?
#33
The threat of a deadly bird flu spreading to humans is always there. It takes just a little bit of negligence in screening chickens for this to happen.
Mazer 3 years ago
Chickens are not the only issue when dealing with bird borne or hosted viruses. And thank GOD their are researchers all over the world learning about all of these issues
Leah Helbig 3 years ago
They tired a vaccine for bird flu and the virus kept creating variants to escape the vaccine. The variants became so deadly that the had to cull thousands of chickens to stop the spread.
Jj321 3 years ago
In the 70's, I think, my grandmother's neighbor bought something like 30 chick's. They all died, so they called the company. A government agency came out, inspected, took the dead chickens and told them to not enter the chicken shed for 2 years.
jk nbt 3 years ago
I worked in a turkey processing plant in the 70s to pay for college. A flock of birds came up north from Mexico during spring migration. They landed in an outdoor flock of turkeys. They infected the flock with bird flu. The plant vet caught the problem after noticing some of the turkeys were walking around acting drunk on the unloading dock. Sure enough, they had it. It got as far down the processing line as the eviscerating station where they pull the intestines out. Six people caught the bird flu. All went to the hospital. The symptoms were the same as a severe flu that just won't heal or get better. Three of the six, 50%, died. The experts tell us to expect a 50% mortality rate if this ever goes viral. The method of spreading is by direct contact, so this would probably not happen. It was not airborne like the covid.
Hannah Edwards 3 years ago
Someone’s got bird flu in the UK, it was on the news today. Something different to look forward to.
Ambry Petersen 8 months ago
Interesting that they call it bird flu when the three species it mostly effects are chickens humans and cows.
#34
A man once had a tapeworm get cancer. That cancer metastasized, and the man passed away from tumors of tapeworm throughout his entire body.
Deja Katz 3 years ago
I heard about that story: the man involved was already immunocompromised from hiv and must have picked up tapeworms. Rather than the worm itself getting cancer, it is thought one of their eggs penetrated the lining of his intestines, mutated and ultimately became cancerous. By the time doctors discovered the cause, he’d become too sick to treat.
F. H. 3 years ago
This sounds more reasonable. The eggs of the European fox tapeworm spread similar to cancer in your whole body anyway and can very well kill you like that.
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Okasan Willis 3 years ago
My grandfather was a doctor and he once removed a 22 ft tapeworm from a young man. For years we had the jar he kept it in on a shelf in our barn
#35
Live Chat support agents can see what you type before you send it, so they can reply quicker.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
If they could see what I type before I think it, I’d be more impressed
Susan Stanford 3 years ago
I am a Live Chat agent. Our system used for chatting with customers doesn't allow us to see what the customer is typing, we can only see what they have typed after they hit enter to send it. As for why it takes a long time for a response sometimes, there are many factors that can affect this. In my company, Live Chat agents assist two customers at a time and the system we are using to chat with is all that system is used for. Customer account information is maintained in multiple other systems and a lot of times we are waiting on systems while you are waiting for an answer from us. Also, it can take time to review an account if there are a lot of notes/extensive history. Agents are monitored so if an agent is using live chat time for breaks, it doesn't go unnoticed by management, at least not in my company. Chat avoidance can get you fired. Having been in this field for some time, I do understand there are bad agents who don't care and that makes us all look bad.
SoulSurfer 3 years ago
May I ask in what industry you're working as a CS manager in iGaming myself?🙂
Load More Replies... Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
Well, not all live chat agents. It depends on the chat software they use.
Pearl 3 years ago
Because they might be doing other things..taking a break/going to the bathroom/ eating...etc. Usually the chats will say " We're not online right now, but provide your email and we can respond when we're available."
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#36
The majority of laugh tracks were adults recorded in the early 1950s, meaning that you are mostly listening to dead people laugh.
PeachPossum 3 years ago
I hate when they wake me up with their laughter at night, the freaks.
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NC 3 years ago
Watching old shows that do the laugh track, you may notice there's this one burbling sort of weird laugh that goes around every so often when the laugh track has made a complete circuit. I used to notice it watching shows like M*A*S*H. I knew even back then those were likely mostly dead now people doing laughing.
#37
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at their frequency meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.
Joonscrab 3 years ago (edited)
There's a song about it too : . . Mom said the sea is blue She said to let out your voice as far as you can But what to I do? It’s so dark here and there are only different whales speaking entirely different words! I just can’t hold it, ma! I want to say I love you Alone, I look back at this music sheet that’s like a rotating song This ocean is too deep Still, I’m lucky (No one besides me knows of these tears.) I’m a whalien. . . . . . These are just parts of the lyrics. It's a beautiful song. You can listen to it here - https://open.spotify.com/track/1otHp4s8IRCLn1JZcVrNhz?si=5jyn93dGQ7OInBIlgiUpYw
Load More Replies... Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
There’s a doc coning yo on him. He is likely a hybrid and sometimes that prevents mating. (Like in a mule)
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
Just listened to his song, it’s very strange and makes you feel a little extra bad for him
Rosemary Booth 3 years ago
I haven't heard the song but I already feel horrible for that poor whale! :(
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Tamara Kroonen 3 years ago (edited)
I'm a poor lonesome cowboy. And a long long whale from home...
#38
When you get a sunburn, it's actually your cells dying so they don't get tumorous.
Kishibe Angelo 3 years ago
i wouldnt say uh oh because there are more cells that make u up then stars in the sky
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A certain type of angler fish reproduce via the Male burrowing into the side of the female, eventually fusing. The Male life is lost in the process.
Deja Katz 3 years ago
Any male trying to burrow into me uninvited is certainly at risk of losing his life
ᑎᗩOKI ́ ᑌᑎᑌ 3 years ago
Epic comment! Actually fell off my chair in fits of laughter!
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François Carré 3 years ago
Also, the male is incredibly tinier than the female, with a rudimentary organism that just looks like a slightly improved ballsack.
#40
During ww1 thousands of dogs were taken from families for the war effort and when the war was over most of them were just shot because it was cheaper than feeding them for the trip home and finding their homes.
Keerthi Vardhan 3 years ago
Shows who the real animals are.. The dark side of calling oneself humans.
Steve Barnett 3 years ago
Also refer to the British pet massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_pet_massacre. * * * N.B. NOT COMFORTABLE READING. * * *
#41
If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans can't handle that much vitamin A.
Mazer 3 years ago
I think eating organs specifically designed to filter toxins is crazy. Early arctic explorers were advised not to eat the livers of their sled dogs if conditions were such that the dogs needed to be consumed
Nevid 3 years ago
The liver is also an organ designed to store a lot of carbohydrates and lipids, so there is a good reason for carnivores and omnivores to consume liver.
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Jill Tremblay 3 years ago
I never could understand why Liver is supposedly so good for you. The main purpose of a liver in any animal is to filter out toxins. No ?
#42
If you touch an AM broadcast tower, you will die. The tower itself acts as the antenna and is energized with up to 50,000 Watts. Not only will it kill you, it will hurt the entire time you're dying. And since the electricity is modulating, the arcs formed by your body will act as an arc speaker, and you will be able to hear whatever is on the station who's tower you're touching. See example. Your last moments could be spent listening to an ad for car insurance.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Aargh f**k...would it be possible to change the channel to a more funky one?..cant die over a f*****g Chevy commercial
Mazer 3 years ago
Being electrocuted is a brutal thing, surviving may end up just being an exercise in extended torture. I have a friend who electrocuted himself at work, he is plagued with health problems from seizures and narcolepsy to intractable pain.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
Worked around some AM broadcast towers back in the 70s - not in touching range! - and sometimes you could hear the radio broadcast sort of emanating from the tower. It was not quite like hearing it from speakers, it was more just sort of *there*. Very odd.
Douglas Mock 3 years ago
With my luck they'll be on a Journey triple play and I'll not only be in pain the entire time, I will be consumed with disgust and hatred.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
As long as it’s not any of today’s singers ! ( Screamers I should say !)
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
I'm sure that I can hold on to 50,000 watts and live long enough to identify the audio...
Persephone 3 years ago
Is this the same type of tower people have thrown plants on and they've started "singing"? This is a serious question... the plants frying transmitted the frequencies audibly.
#43
Urine was used for teeth whitening and bleaching of clothes in Ancient Rome. Yes, they rinsed their mouth with human AND animal urine.
Wilf 3 years ago
Urine was a commerical 'product' until very recently. In the late 18th and 19th century it was collected in industrial quantities in the UK and then used in the woollen industry to fix dyes in cloth.
Robert T 3 years ago
Now you're just taking the piss. (This is where the expression comes from).
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Mazer 3 years ago
Urine is still used to tan leather. So is brain matter. The saying goes, every mammal has enough brain matter to tan their own hides.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
Was going to say about the leather too but i thought the practice stopped in 18-19th century! Didn't know they still do it to be honest
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DarkAngelNic 3 years ago
Isn't it from the movie Hail Caesar? Where Clooney played an actor in the like the fifties who had a role as Caesar.
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Persephone 3 years ago
If you were "piss poor", you were poor enough to sell your urine to get by; that's where that saying comes from. "Too poor for a pot to piss in", means you were too poor to afford the pot to collect it to then sell... I love humanity.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
I tried it out when I was 15, long story short a prank war led me to cover my BFFs blonde hair and pillow in her sleep with blue hair dye and cochineal dye. The only thing that got it out was my pee cos I mentioned some book I read about romans and pee 😂 100% works, you couldn’t tell the pillow was ever stained
#44
An 18 year old can legally adopt a 17 year old.
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
I'd imagine this would be beneficial for orphaned siblings/other young family members in need of guardians. It's not unheard of and I'd imagine covid will make this fact (?) more relevant.
F. H. 3 years ago (edited)
There's no need for that though, that can usually be done by a stewardship, especially if it's only for a few years.
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Fritz Baumeister 3 years ago
When the parents die, young adult children are sometimes given guardianship of their minor siblings. Not sure that this would be that much different.
Happy_Pandalover 3 years ago
True. Also adoption rules are quite strict and it‘s not easy to adopt in general. Chances are high your adoption plans will get rejected when you‘re 18 and trying to adopt a 17 year old. You need to be able to provide for the child.
Load More Replies... Frannie Kaplan 3 years ago
Legal but impossible. They would have no parenting skills or financial means. It's normally done in emergencies to keep siblings together
Anne Reid 3 years ago
It’s usually an older sibling adopting a younger one to get them out of foster care and to keep the family together. Too bad you never learned compassion from your family.
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Even if you had a job that payed you $500,000 every fiscal year, it would still take you over 369,000 years to get as wealthy as Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
And yet all the foot-shooter still think these guys shouldn’t pay taxes.
Bill 3 years ago
Elon Musk just paid more taxes than any American in history.
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Arianna Ibbotson 3 years ago
If Elon Mush gave every homeless person in the USA 100,000 dollars to get a decent sized house and start their lives again, it wouldn't make a dent in his salary
Bill 3 years ago
Space X just whopped NASA and Boeing's butts at a fraction of the cost to tax payers while advancing technology rhat will help out your life and lead to solutions for global warming. How is that a bad thing?
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albernistuff 4sale 3 years ago
Folks need to learn the difference between 'worth' and annual salary. Being worth billions doesn't mean you have cash sitting in the bank. If either dies tomorrow, the value of what they have doesn't disappear. It just means they have control or influence over a section of the economy worth that amount. Also whether you like them or hate them, they have created systems and services that enough people want to make use of and are willing to spend they own dollars to make use of them. Amazon continues to get away with treating employees poorly because people will still work under those conditions. Have a massive walk-out, or incredibly high turnover and wages will eventually improve.
Rucha Vanarase 3 years ago
You're looking at their net worth, which makes no sense. People can't really have net worth, only companies can.
madbakes 3 years ago
So maybe it would take 100,000 years? Semantics don't change the insane amount of money they have.
Load More Replies... Jill Tremblay 3 years ago
I would really like to see what they donate money too. Do they help the Shriners Hospital? Do they help the ASPCA? What really nice things do they do?
Meredith Hill-Mulligan 3 years ago
I don't think I would want to be that wealthy. If I were, I would constantly be worried if people were trying to get to know me for 'me' or for my money. I would also be eternally worried about kidnappers and assassins.
Azure Adams 3 years ago
send them both to space and leave them there. After a year, redistribute their wealth
#46
A magnetar (a type of neutron star) is so powerful that, if you came within 1,000 kilometers of one, your entire body would dissolve as the magnetic field rearranged the sequence of atoms in your body.
Rijkærd 3 years ago (edited)
Why the f**k would you want to be 1000 km from a star? Haven't ya'll learned from being sunburnt and looking like a bad medium rare steak
C. Wade 3 years ago (edited)
Magnetars aside, even if it was the last thing I did, seeing a spinning black hole in person would be my favourite thing to do. Fun fact, if you were to 'stand' in the photon sphere, you could technically see the back of your head because light travels in circles. Real life Third-Person Shooter.
Per-Ole Sjuve 3 years ago
1000 km is pretty close when talking about space. The earth moon is about 384 000 km away.
Douglas Mock 3 years ago
I'm much happier being 100 million miles from a star than getting up close.
#47
The youngest person to ever give birth to a baby was a 5 year old little girl.
Serena Philipos 3 years ago
Ok I have so many questions like who’s the dad. And how do you get your period at 5? I feel so bad for this little girl.
PeachPossum 3 years ago
Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado experienced menarche at 8 months old.
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Synsepalum 3 years ago
Ugh, imagine menstruating at 5-years-old, let alone giving birth and the horrors that led to giving birth.
Frannie Kaplan 3 years ago
Rape of course, and difficult to induce an abortion in a 5 year old in the 1900s. The patriarchy is ansoluste garbage, can not wait for humanity to die out. There were no consequences for the father. She had premature puberty that's also how.
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#48
Sloths only have enough energy for their weekly toilet trip to the jungle floor. If the baby falls from their underside in the trees onto the floor, they choose to preserve their energy and leave it to be eaten.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
From slothconservation.org "When a baby sloth falls and becomes separated from mom, they will cry to alert their mother to where they are. Mom will climb down from the canopy to retrieve her baby, but as sloths have a top speed of 2mph, this journey will take a lot of time and energy."
PeachPossum 3 years ago
Hope she remembers to take a pee break when she picks up the baby. My luck, I'd get all the way back up the tree with the baby only to turn around to go back down.
Load More Replies... Coffee panda 3 years ago
So.. Motherly love is a myth for some species. At least they dont throw the babies like quokkas.
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
So, why make the trip down for a bathroom break? Seems like gravity would suffice.
RandomHumanBean 3 years ago
the laziest thing on earth. baby falls? nope! leave it to rot! otherwise, i cant make my weekly toilet trip!
#49
Male dolphins like to hunt fertile female in groups and hound them because they are unwilling. The females are often injured during this, some even die.
Mazer 3 years ago
TRIGGER WARNING***** gang r*pe in the dolphin world is common, as are aggressive mating practices of the sharks and sea otters and countless other critters
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
And they rape people and other animals, they are weirdos of the sea
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Vortex Lazer 3 years ago (edited)
Dolphins aren't cute animals, they are pretty sadistic when it comes to mating.
CbusResident 3 years ago (edited)
Also, male gorillas sometimes rape females, and sometimes do 'gorilla infanticide', wherein they go around bludgeoning to death the babies of every other male. The mothers of the ones killed then reflexively go into estrous and the infanticidal male then mates with them.
#50
Climbing Mount Everest has a 6.5% mortality rate.
What's more harrowing is that if you die, you will most likely be left there. There's currently over 200 dead bodies on Everest that are irretrievable, and now serve as markers for other climbers. Not a bad place to eternally rest, but upsetting for those left behind who can't give you a proper burial.
Kim Charles 3 years ago
You need to watch the doco Sherpa to see the true horror of how bad climbing Everest is. The bodies end up back at base camp and start to defrost and pollute the water. There is also tonnes and tonnes of rubbish. I did read that bodies aren't meant to be removed
Kay blue 3 years ago
At one point they were considering making it a condition of climbing Everest that you had to bring down a certain amount of rubbish. I don't know if it was ever implemented though.
Load More Replies... Mazer 3 years ago
I think it was last year, I might be wrong. Hikers and locals pulled hundreds of tons of trash off the mountain, including some deceased hikers. Not an easy feat at all.
F. H. 3 years ago
Most of the time, they are just pushed over cliffs if possible.
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Karolina Hofman 3 years ago
That would probably be George Mallory and/or his climbing partner Andrew Irvine, who perished in 1924. Mallory's body was found in 1999.
Load More Replies... François Carré 3 years ago (edited)
Maybe not a popular opinion but I think climbing the Everest and other 8k tops around is just the apex of human vanity anyway. It's OK that some crazy pioneers proved that these places could be reached, but we'd better leave them in peace now, instead of turning them into awful touristic landfills. And accept that high mountains, just like deep oceans, are not meant to be our playground, period.
Upstaged75 3 years ago (edited)
They have actually retrieved or moved a few of the more famous "landmark" bodies. But yeah, it's not a place you f**k around. There's a more recent horrible story of an Indian man who had to leave his wife up there to die because she couldn't get up and walk any more. He had to either leave her to save his own life or stay with her and die too. I believe she made him save himself. Devastating!
#51
Certain sleep disorders that cause you to act out your dreams are strong predictors that you're developing a neurodegenerative disorder like Parkinson's or Lewy body dementia.
Rob Chapman 3 years ago
My father started acting out his dreams a few years ago. He was later diagnosed with vascular dementia, which he passed away from 5 months ago.
Poultry Geist 3 years ago (edited)
I dreamed I was eating something the other day and woke myself up biting air ! 😂😂😂
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
I can taste things in my dreams, something I'm very happy about. I can also feel things, which is why the "pinch myself to see if I'm dreaming" thing doesn't work on me. Yay.
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Oh s**t. I need to call the doctor. I thought it was just sleep walking but maybe it’s more serious
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
I forget my dreams about 14 seconds after I wake up, so I guess I’m safe.
Hedgehogpanda 3 years ago
I am imagining somebody dreaming about doing something embarrassing and someone recording it.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Louis Zamperini, a veteran of WW2 and whose life was portrayed in the movie "Unbroken" had night terrors for the rest of his life. He had a recurring dream about killing his Japanese captors with his hands, and at one point he tried to strangle his pregnant wife...
#52
During the Seoul Olympics 1988 a large amount of doves were released into the stadium, when the giant brazier was lit many of the released doves were sitting in it, resulted in many doves being burned alive.
Mazer 3 years ago
One of the most popular trash sculptures (made from trash found on Oregon’s beaches) is a 6-foot-wide sea star made from plastic water bottles, most from the 2008 Olympics in China.
Lovin' Life 3 years ago
I love your knowledge! Thanks for sharing. It really helps to understand things.
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Robert Bailey 3 years ago
And living doves have not been used since then. That's why you get symbolic doves.
#53
In the United States, roughly 1/3 of all food is thrown away each year.
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
New laws have been put into effect in California. Food waste now must be put in the green bin along with yard clippings, it is hoped this will be composted and reused and reduce the production of methane
Fat Harry 3 years ago
Neat! Like we've had in the UK for 20 years now, or elsewhere in Europe for even longer. The US is always SO FAR BEHIND with these things.
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September 3 years ago
I cannot imagine this as it's a very rare circumstance for food to go to waste in my home. It was never an issue when growing up either. Usually food only is wasted if something burns while cooking which happens like once a decade. I don't have the income to waste a third of my food, and even if I were Bezos rich, I wouldn't waste food. I just don't understand this at all
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
I have also grown up in a household where it's uncommon for people to leave plates unfinished, but there are always some less desirable leftovers or something of the sort that gets thrown away. And I've seen in many other households that they throw food away that isn't eaten. A lot of food gets wasted, yes.
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#54
The FBI estimates there are between 25-50 active serial killers in the US at any given time.
Rijkærd 3 years ago
Are they doing anything about ut or they just laying the numbers out there for mass hysteria consumption...
bob bruce 3 years ago
I know I'm going way out on a limb, but I'm pretty sure that most murders are investigated.
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Casey Ironmonger 3 years ago
"Picked up a hitch-hiker. Seemed like a nice guy. After a few miles, he asked me if I wasn't afraid that he might be a serial killer? I told him that the odds of two serial killers being in the same car was extremely unlikely."
IeabellAlakar@aqueenofaplanet 3 years ago
Ones that are paved with memories?
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#55
Armadillos can carry leprosy and can pass to humans just by being in proximity. Kind of fits the mood of 2020-2021 one could argue!
Mazer 3 years ago
People can catch hantavirus virus and the plague in the Western US present day, it’s not uncommon
vivioh 3 years ago
I’m very familiar with the Hantavirus but what plague are u speaking of?
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Karis Ravenhill 3 years ago (edited)
One positive of Scotland - it's too cold for anything harmful to survive there - or we already killed anything that could be harmful. Your worst enemies there now are the Midge (small cousin of the mosquito), the cold weather, and the locals. When I came to america and found all the deadly diseases, animals and insects wandering around, my first question was "Why the fuc* don't you put this in the brochure? THE PLAGUE?! YOU HAVE ACTUAL 16TH CENTURY PLAGUE?!". Mr. Toad's Wild Ride does not prepare you for this.
King Joffrey 3 years ago
A few years ago there was a story about a Texas man who shot an armadillo on his property, the bullet ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the head. Can't remember if he died or not.
PeachPossum 3 years ago
I think he was shot in the jaw but survived. Is that the one you are thinking of? I saw another that a man in Georgia shot an armadillo, the bullet ricocheted and hit his mother-in-law.
Load More Replies... Persephone 3 years ago
People eat them too... sounds like a super dangerous dinner, or what you take to the Chilli cook off at the job you hate....
Mushroomlover 3 years ago
Prairie dogs carry plague also! Cute little things with a deadly secret!
#56
Bus seats are designed so that you cannot tell how dirty they really are.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
And the sponge in your sink. And your remote. And avocados need to be washed before you cut them. And your mobile's touch screen is like a loo seat. And anytime you buy food that's been handled by a person - Yep. You get the idea.
Load More Replies... September 3 years ago
I had to use the bus for awhile. I always checked the seats before sitting down. I knew that they were dirty in an invisible kind of way but I looked for signs of tiny livestock (bed bugs, lice) and for obvious signs that someone with a leaky adult diaper had been sitting there or nearby. Public transportation of any kind is a gamble. Self driving taxi's in the future will be great so long as there's enough of them to be able to sanitize each one between customer uses.
#57
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man, was wounded by Hiroshima atomic bomb while on business trip. He then returned to his job in Nagasaki where another nuclear bomb dropped.
Mazer 3 years ago
Yup, he reported that the blast made survivors incredibly thirsty. Those who quenched their thirst died shortly afterwards. He was an exceptional person, offering to lecture on his experience in hopes of it never happening again. His family reported that to speak about his experiences was very hard on him, yet he went to lecture all over because he felt it was paramount that people understand the devastation involved
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
When this was posted before someone posted: them he retired to Fukushima. I still giggle over that one.
King Joffrey 3 years ago
There's more to this story. After the Hiroshima bombing, the guy returned to work only after 3 days and was in the process of being berated by his manager for sounding 'crazy' when the second bomb hit. He also lived into his 90s and had something like 9 children.
#58
Once you die, your eyeballs dehydrate and lose ocular pressure and flatten into eye raisins your skull.
Jaaawn 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, they sometimes look as though they've collapsed in on themselves.
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Catpoker88 3 years ago
This is why funeral homes use eye caps. They are spikey convex discs that hook onto the back of the eyelids, it gives the illusion that the eyes are still where they should be and makes open casket funerals slightly less upsetting for the attendees.
#59
Rabies is terrifying. You can get it and not even know it from bats, which live across the globe. It might hit you right away, it might be in three years. But it doesn't matter because once symptoms set in, you're already dead.
Mary Henkle 3 years ago
there have been 29 reported cases of rabies survivors. The last one was a little girl in Northern CA in 2011.
June 3 years ago
Why downvote her? She is almost right. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266186/
Load More Replies... Katinka Min 3 years ago
Fortunately, you can get vaccinated against it, if you are bitten by a wild animal. (At least in the first world) And they do need to bite you, so you should know.
sailor moon 3 years ago
No actually most bats don't have rabies and more stray dogs and cats have rabies that bats around the world
BlackPearltheSeaWing/NightWing 3 years ago
Ahahaha I'm going to my room now to hide from the bats.
Persephone 3 years ago
Yes once it becomes symptomatic, you're a gonner; feral domestic animals (like cats and dogs) are a huge spreader too.
Moo Moo Futch 3 years ago
I do believe there are treatments for it now when the symptoms kick in. I could be wrong but I believe I watched something about this on one of those medical detective type docs where someone got sick and they were stumped.,
#60
Valentine’s day is a holiday with one of the highest s**cide rates.
Big Blue Cat 3 years ago
Because world has come to a point where we have to add trigger warnings even in news articles, because someone will always get butthurt and people have started to censor themselves.
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Mazer 3 years ago
In San Francisco on Valentines Day, single, unattached people go out to eat at the Stinking Rose restaurant, they specialize in dishes heavily dowsed with garlic (a member of the rose family).
Angelar 3 years ago
Oh, I have been there! I didn't know about this tradition though - Food was delicious
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Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant, 1976: The Almost-Chernobyl of East Germany. In short: Due to a short-circuit resulting in a fire, almost all coolant pumps failed. The NY-Times says: "[A] Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster was prevented only when a single water pump in the emergency cooling system was able to draw off pressurized water heated to high temperature by the ''decay heat'' left in the reactor's core, thus preventing a meltdown." This incident became public with reunification in 1989.
#62
There are 8 unaccounted for American nukes and literally an unknown quantity of missing soviet nukes that range all the way from warheads to suitcase bombs.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
This is a touch misleading. The unaccounted for US nukes are basically in known locations, but are at the bottom of the ocean and deemed impossible to recover. They are unlikely to ever pose a threat. Some of the missing Soviet ones are much more problematic, as they just went walkabout during the breakup of the USSR.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
I really hope some are with someone who stole them just to hide them away from bad people 😂 wishful thinking
#63
Every day several hundred babys are born in withdrawal.
Veronica Sjöberg 3 years ago
Well... babies can have withdrawal from prescribed meds too, like antidepressants or pain meds given for pregnancy-related issues, not only street drugs.
Lolabean 3 years ago
Yes, my son went into withdrawal at a day old. Then couldn't say whether it was my antidepressant, or a med I had been giving during labour (I was given anti sickness meds, something to bring down my bp, and something else cos I'd randomly stopped producing urine). It was heartbreaking, and I still feel a lot of guilt 8 months later. But we were both much safer in the doctors' view that I had stayed on my meds during pregnancy despite the risks.
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 3 years ago
This is awful. I took custody of an addicted baby. Its is heartbreaking. You feel so bad because all you can do is hope for the best and be there.
Kishibe Angelo 3 years ago
yeah and a lot has to play like SIDs, abortion, and miscarriages it's sad
Stephanie Cunningham 3 years ago
A friend adopted a child who was born addicted...he has had a tough life. He has multiple behavioral and health issues and has had nearly 20 surgeries at 9 years old.
Summer Mason 3 years ago (edited)
There are many programs at children's hospitals that you can go in and comfort these babies by holding them and hugging them.
#64
Some Perfumes, or more specifically, musks you use come from the anal and secretion glands of musk deers and civet cats.
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
I eat Teewurst. I have absolutely zero problem with musks and civets. The only thing disgusting are the conditions the animals live in before being butchered - so I buy good meat and synthetic perfume.
Steffen Rehm 3 years ago
I´m glad, i do not wear extra parfums. I take what is in my shower stuff and i have to shower daily anyway. can hardly stand the scent most of the stuff on the market.
#65
Chronic Wasting Disease. (Forgive me, I’m no expert) It’s a prion disease. It’s kind of like mad cow disease for deer. It’s 100% fatal. The problem comes with the fact that prions cannot be destroyed. So the infected deer can urinate in a field spreading this disease into the soil, then into the foods we eat. It’s been shown to infect some primates as well. So the risk of human transmission must not be ignored. Learning that last night definitely kept me from sleeping soundly.
Yort 3 years ago
...what issue is being debated? “Prison disease exists” “it’s a hotly debated issue” what do you mean??
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Moyd Shank 3 years ago
my wifes cousin got it and somehow survived. Ate road kill for decades. racoons, deer, opossoms etc. And not what you call a poor man by any means. Now, tell me again why the usda is a bad thing...
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
He won't survive for long though. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is untreatable. He will just get weirder and weirder, and suffer painfully, until the holes in his brain get so big he's paralyzed and eventually unable to breathe.
Load More Replies... Persephone 3 years ago
Prions are the most alien thing on Earth. Don't eat nervous system tissues from animals. They aren't viruses or bacteria, just proteins... proteins that then hijack the ones in your own body.
Chich 3 years ago
Nature's main objectives seems to be to get you to procreate and then kill you.
Vetus Vespertilio 3 years ago
Considering what we’ve done to her, can you blame her?
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If all the spiders in the world were to eat all the humans, it would only take them a year.
Mazer 3 years ago
This is a bit of a leap. Spiders don’t eat like people do, they can go for quite awhile without food and since some spider species prey on other spider species, things might take a bit longer as far as eating the human race out of existence. Oh and people in the Antarctic would be just fine
François Carré 3 years ago
I don't know of any spider species who would be interested at all in eating humans, though.
King Joffrey 3 years ago
But how long would it take for all the humans to eat all the spiders?
#67
Quantum field energy levels could in theory 'glitch' at any moment causing vacuum decay thus ending the universe.
C. Wade 3 years ago
I remember watching a video about it. What would happen would bend and break the laws of physics, it would be so abstract, we can't even begin to imagine it. And it would probably happen in a split second so we probably wouldn't even have the time to process what's happened.
Load More Replies... Rissie 3 years ago (edited)
The universe as we know it, has some pretty basic rules and is very likely part of something bigger in which those rules can be different. If our "region" experiences an oopsie in one of our most basic rules, it most likely bursts like a bubble.
Load More Replies... Rissie 3 years ago
Not necessary, it would be everywhere. And nowhere at the same time.
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To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000.
King Joffrey 3 years ago
I don't think this is true. I read an article about it recently and off the top of my head you needed to be worth (total assets) $900k to be in the 1%. The interesting thing was that you only needed to be worth $4k (yes! four thousand dollars) to be richer than 50% of the global population. In other words, if you can afford a 4k car, you're already richer than half the world's population.
#69
There are Demodex mites crawling on your eyelashes right now, and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
Mazer 3 years ago (edited)
The human body is host to a vast assortment of parasites which we are blissfully clueless about
Stephanie IV 3 years ago
They, on the other hand, aren't. The fungi and bacteria that form your biome in your colon make you eat sugar, if there's too many candida. Maybe they're our handlers. We'll never know.
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T. D. Bostick 3 years ago
Oh the nightmare of the Demodex is far worse. They're born without anuses, so the can't crap. They die because they're holding too much feces, and when they go, they explode all that fecal matter onto your face.
François Carré 3 years ago
I can do something about it, like give them names and small talk to them when I look at my eyes in the mirror.
Serena Philipos 3 years ago
Actually you can cut off your eyelashes and then problem solved. 😂
#70
The FDA allows a tiny amount of things like rat droppings or insect parts in certain foods.
Steve Barnett 3 years ago
Reference: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook#products
Deja Katz 3 years ago
They’re complacent about too many other things for me to be complacent!
Load More Replies... Dre Mosley 3 years ago
FDA. .what a joke. The phrase, "FDA Approved" instills little confidence.
#71
There’s a specific part of your head where all four skull bones meet, that same place has a really juicy artery If you were to fracture it least one of those bones, it could slice that artery open, crushing your brain with your own blood Effectively, you could kill someone with one punch
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
This is why violence in movies is so phony, esp with pol getting hit in the head.
F. H. 3 years ago
Even if you take just the proper skull and leave the face out, you have five skull bones and they do not meet in a single point. Only three of them do. While it's true that the bones are very thin there, there are so many other points where a person can die from a single blow. Straight in the face with a bit of bad luck can be absolutely enough.
François Carré 3 years ago
I think you can also kill someone with a punch in the nose strong enough to push the nose cartilage inside the skull and through the brain.
Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
Many people are killed every year by a single punch . . . . . . but most often, I think, it's because their heads bounce of the pavement. That's why it is MAD to get caught up in those closing-time skirmishes. You could end up in jail for any years on a murder or manslaughter conviction.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
if you know anatomy there are lots of places that can be fatal.
#72
The adult teeth of toddlers are right underneath their eyes.
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
Don't mind me, just over here...cuddling with my 2 year old brother...
#73
If a female hamster gets too stressed, it will eat its kids.
Melissa Morse Tolentino-Potter 3 years ago
I had a hamster that did this. We had to get the rest of the babies out of the cage so that they would be ok. Quite disturbing actually. Found just a tiny tail in the cage
Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
Don't we all sometimes want to do this? And thirty years later regret that we didn't?
Batgirl Kitty 3 years ago
Oh…yes this is true. My mom had a bunch of hamsters when she was little. The mom one, ate one in front of her eyes, and when she came home from school they were all gone. She had her older brother clean up the mess because she was to horrified. They put the mom on the nearby prairie path. (For some reason there was already a bunch of hamsters there)
Luann Udell 3 years ago
This happened with our first hamster. My kids were devastated. For years after, whenever any of us lost/misplaced something & asked where it was, we'd say, "Puffy ate it."
#74
They say with our farming techniques we only have about 50 more harvest before our soil is too eroded to use.
Mazer 3 years ago
A bit of a stretch since regenerative farming practices are getting much more popular. Watch the movie “The Biggest Little Farm”…good stuff
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
I wish they would catch on much quicker and wasn't illegal for so many commercial farmers.
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PupperPanda 3 years ago
What happened to crop rotation to enable the soil to regain essential nutrients?
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago (edited)
Too many commercial farmers that are not legally allowed to use crop rotation or other sustainable farming techniques. Their contracts to the seed providers includes clauses forbidding them to use anything but the seed and fertilizers provided by the company.
Load More Replies... PupperPanda 3 years ago
Oh man, when I was at school in the 80s this was standard practice. Hard to believe we've come so far and yet gone backwards :-(
CbusResident 3 years ago
Again, see Paul Erlich, 1970s: The Population Bomb! The Population Bomb! The Population Bomb!l.....which never happened.
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
Who are ,”we”, and are you talking about no more growing crops in 50 years ?
Amanda Black 3 years ago
This doesn't sound right. We're not 50 years away from a global famine. There are other things to worry about but not this.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
Oh goody. Another armchair commenter that dismisses facts because they don't 'sound right'. Scientific education is important people!
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Guillaume Derode 3 years ago
There's no scientific evidence whatsoever to back this claim. It's fake news that gets repeated over and over again and nobody seems to feel the need to factcheck it...
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
I went to ag school and, no, I would never laugh anyone off campus for this. Without a good deal of more sustainable farming going on there is a real threat to the soil. I worked the field doing soil and water research. Commercial farms' soil is quite depleted of minerals and basically hardscrabble.
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The human tooth has 36 calories!
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
And uranium has 18 million calories per gram. Doesn't make sense? That is because the energy value of calories is based on how much is required to boil water. Anything that burns has calories. So think about that next time you are counting calories to be healthy.
Perfumista Perfumista 3 years ago
am I correct in assuming 0 as it is indigestible?
Load More Replies... Bored Panda 3 years ago
That is not a fact. Maybe "an average human tooth has 36 calories", but teeth come in different shapes and sizes and it's not possible that all of those consist of 36 calories worth of teeth.
#76
According to the World Bank Group, the world produces about 2 billion tons of garbage every year.
#77
That that if the sun exploded we wouldn’t even know for 8 minutes.
Steve Barnett 3 years ago
True, light does take about 8 minutes to get to us from the Sun. But it will never 'explode' as such. It will die slowly, becoming larger and larger, then eventually engulfing Earth.
#78
Himalayan blackberries can allegedly grow under your skin!
Mazer 3 years ago
Based on a number of incidents where a cut was made and a small piece of the plant became lodged in the wound. The wound provides the plant matter with the moisture and nutrients it needs to grow, plus those plants are very very adaptable and hard to irradiate. Not so far fetched
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
besides the fact that any organic matter under the skin will be attacked by the immunsystem and in worst case get infected. That would happen long before the plant would be able to grow.
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#79
Oftentimes when Pandas have cubs, if they have more than one they will choose which one to keep and abandon the other because she can’t care for two.
Grizzlies are the opposite. If they have a litter of just one, sometimes they’ll abandon it and try to mate again the next year to try for a litter of multiple cubs :(
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago
Not true. Loads of single cubs with bear moms. It’s highly challenging to raise multiple cubs. Male bears will kill and eat them, too.
Rissie 3 years ago
Sadly it is a choice. The chances of having a single cub grown into a healthy adult is small. It takes 2 years to raise a litter, or single cub. While she raises the single cub, she can't have another litter. So it is an option to leave the single cub and hope for a larger litter after one year. Increasing chances of survival. I'm not making it up https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/283601?journalCode=an#:~:text=A%20mother%20grizzly%20could%20either,1969)%20within%201%20yr. told me so.
Load More Replies... Mazer 3 years ago
Something much like it is true with many raptor species, called the Able and Cain syndrome.If more the one sibling hatches, the stronger one will actively kill its sibling. No inference by the adult birds
Evil Little Thing 3 years ago
It takes a lot of effort to feed baby birds enough so they don't starve to death. One chick is easier to keep alive than two, might as well be the strong one
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
Cheetahs can't support a litter of one because they won't produce enough milk unless there is more than one. Actually how cheetahs EVER survive childhood in the wild is crazy. It's like a 25% survival rate and they're on their way to extinction even without human destruction of their environment.
Persephone 3 years ago
Many species, including some birds, will choose only 1 to raise, bc they cannot find enough nutrition to raise 2... which would likely lead to both babies dying of malnutrition if they tried.
#80
Air breathing mammals like whales and dolphins might beach themselves because they got old and it's better to die in the sunset than to drown at sea.
Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago (edited)
Is this supported in fact or research, because it sounds like opinion
Rissie 3 years ago
It says might. So it's most likely a proposed theory as to why these animals sometimes seem to purposely beach themselves. Go google.
Load More Replies... Pisco 3 years ago
Not a thing. We cannot know if a sunset is even pleasant for other animals. They get beached likely because they are too weak to fight the waves
Kat Sauer 3 years ago
can't imagine it would be pleasant for whales - their eyes evolved to work best in water, not in air. Most whale species cansee something like 40 meters in the water, and less out of the water - so they wouldn't even be able to really comprehend that sunset. Not to mentioned they see everything in shades of grey!
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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
It was probably from an ocean themed post originally before being a random screenshot here
Load More Replies... Hugh Willie Mungous 3 years ago
When they beach they often do so in considerable numbers and all age groups are involved. Including the young. Unfortunately.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
This one is a massive stretch, and doesn't address mass beachings that include all ages.
Concept-Peter Roosdorp 3 years ago
Quite the claim. Any fact behind it. Like that animals have shown interest in "beauty"?
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Gavin Johnson 3 years ago
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