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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.

#1

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know There are more deaths due to mental health issues than all forms of violence combined. People are struggling.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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?

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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.”

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“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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doesn't apply to everyone though- I can always see my nose, it is massive though.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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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.”

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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

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

Hell_If_I_Care , Jonathan Borba Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also, bones that have broken and healed come apart at the site of the break. It's an amazingly horrific disease.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Quokkas, the worlds happiest animal, will throw their babies at attackers if threatened.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So yeeting babies is the secret to happiness we have searching all along.

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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

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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#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.

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#10

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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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.

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#12

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Subtle differences are noted, and staff will sometimes use different colors for each child

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There is more slavery in the world right now then at any time in history.

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#14

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters out the smell.

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#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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Who was the first fuckwad that did this s**t...need to find him. I know it was a guy. Dont ask me questions.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Most power outages in the US are caused by squirrels.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those f*****s have to get the energy of a kabillion wattage running around looking for nuts...they seem to never stop running

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently there has been a number of close calls in the last 40-50 years

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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#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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep..after a heavy meal mine sound like they're having an argument about their preferred positioning..

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Horses can't throw up.

So if they eat something bad or get a bad gas bubble, they just lay down and die.

ABucketofBeetles , Sara Kurfeß Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Which is why you should never feed any horse anything without talking to its owner first

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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.

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#22

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

InkMaster59 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

#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.

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#24

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Spider - Rain (you read that right) is a real and naturally occurring phenomenon.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know A third of the world's population live in areas that are projected to suffer extended periods of unsurvivable heat by 2070.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yup, and storms will get more intense. Humans are highly adaptable, mother nature’s critters will suffer the most

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just more intense - more often. Tornado 'season' will be all year long.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The end won't be instant. It'll be gradual and has probably already started.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's happening a lot in CA where wildfires are getting worse every year.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have the misconception that 2070 is very far from a now but it's 48 years. And it's really not a lot of years to act.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A small town in my province was burned off the map this summer. You sure it isn't already happening?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't see the sun for a week when Oregon had it's big wildfire in September 2020

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Madagascar is already suffering. Certain places are already feeling the extreme change

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I feel for you guys. I will most likely not be here that party.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd be in my 110s. Won't be a problem for me but I'm trying to make it better for the ones not born yet. By 2070, saying like, You been living in a cave?, and What rock did you crawl out from under? Will have different connotations 😆🥵

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

more of the same rhetoric they have been spouting for 50 years , i do not care 100% lol

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If they keep the jet fuel out of the higher altitudes nature will correct it's self haven't u noticed since cv19 and reduced air travel weather is changing

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Underground lifestyles will become increasingly more attractive

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Humans are highly adaptable at the expense of anything that gets in their way. We must find a way to be a part of the bigger picture instead of changing the picture and expecting it will all be cleaned up after us.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The climate change situation may turn out as bad as some fear, but in the mid-to-late '70s there was the 'Global Cooling' scare, and at that same time Paul Erlich's supposed 'population bomb.'

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Global cooling was entirely different. It was measured, but the press made it into a different story. It was a greenhouse effect of what science then was also starting to get aware of.The whole Earth's climate system has periods of stability and change. The only reason we fear this change is because it will wreak havoc on us as a species. And yes, we are the little worms meddling in that balance, causing that effect. But so was were plants with their fancy photosynthesis. The difference is we could be able to stop it because we are aware of it. Unlike plants.

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Good. Remove half of all humans and global warming will sort itself out.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The reason dogs love squeaky toys is because they sound like small animals dying.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not exactly. It’s the sound of some animals when they are in distress, they may not be dying

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Bed bugs procreate by traumatic insemination. Males literally stab females with their genitals. So, just another reason to hate them then.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bed bugs can burn for all eternity in the deepest, darkest pits of hell.

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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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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.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And if every human acted to reduce their carbon footprint, it still wouldnt be enough. Corporations are the biggest polluters

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The accepted level is apparently 10 mg per pound of ground coffee. Time to get a coffee grinder and switch to whole-bean coffee!

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know 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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know A man once had a tapeworm get cancer. That cancer metastasized, and the man passed away from tumors of tapeworm throughout his entire body.

WrongJohnSilver , CDC Report

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Live Chat support agents can see what you type before you send it, so they can reply quicker.

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