Person Invites People To Share The Saddest Facts They Know And Boy, Do They Deliver (40 Pics)
As much as we’d like to be cozy, comfortable, and content all the time, that’s really not how the world works. Life is full of sadness—it’s an inseparable part of the human condition and we need to learn to embrace the less-than-savory parts of life alongside the pleasant ones. You can’t have happiness without sadness and each gives the other meaning.
Redditor Graham_craker invited their fellow internet users to share some of the saddest facts that they know in a viral thread. And, we’ve got to say, these hit hard. Really, really hard. For instance, the recording of the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird singing its mating call and not getting a response because it was the last of its kind, hit me in the feels so hard, I just want to curl under a warm blanket and eat ice cream all week long.
You might end up feeling blue just like us and Eeyore the Donkey. Remember to upvote the facts that made you appreciate life and how fragile it is even more as you scroll down. Just remember to grab a pack of tissues because you might end up tearing up. (PS—here’s a wholesome post to pick up your mood afterward.)
Of course, constantly living just with negative emotions and nothing else isn’t good for your mental health. Bored Panda spoke about depression, how to recognize it, and how it doesn’t always look like sadness with Emma Morton from the University of British Columbia. You’ll find her insights below, so be sure to read on, dear Pandas.
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There's a recording of the last Kaua'i Oo bird singing before it went extinct. It was a mating call sung by a male bird. The song has breaks for the female bird to respond. There's no response because the male Kaua'i Oo is the last of its kind.
On 9/11 the search and rescue dogs were getting so sad from finding so many dead bodies that the search and rescue helpers hid themselves in rubble to make the dogs happy.
Bonus fact: dogs stay up thinking about their problems just like humans do.
Laika, the first dog to be sent out to space, died alone up there. She had no idea what was happening and I still find it extremly cruel that she got sent to space "for science". Poor Laika :/
Morton from the University of British Columbia explained to Bored Panda that depression doesn’t always look like sadness, even though some people assume that it does.
“While teariness and low mood may be a warning sign of depression, people may seem more tired or mentally ‘scattered’ than usual, lose interest in their usual hobbies or activities, become withdrawn, or change their sleep and eating patterns,” the researcher went into detail about how we act when we’re depressed.
The money in off shore bank accounts 5 years ago could end world poverty for 50 years. Forbes once had the headline: Poverty is a choice, just not by the ones in poverty.
Elephants will mourn other elephants in their group dying and will hold funerals for them and will even recognize the bones of said elephant and cry out in sadness.
I remember hearing about an elephant that befriended a dog and when the dog passed away the elephant mourned its death.
Dodo birds were really friendly because they had no natural predators and we killed them all.
Morton warned that those of our friends and family members who are constantly talking about death, expressing hopelessness about the future, or increasingly use alcohol or other substances may be “particularly at risk of suicide.”
However, it’s not always easy to recognize depression, as some people can pretend that everything is all right, even though they’re not doing well at all. According to the professor, perfectionists are especially prone to doing this.
Cats are the most euthanized pets in shelters even over pitbulls.
I worked at an animal shelter when I was a you g lad and every f**king time someone came to adopt a pet it was a dog! I even heard a family say “ we want a dog only cats don’t love you”
I socialized many of their cats and most of them were so sweet, and cuddly and made me just so sad inside everyday watching people adopt dogs and ignore the cats. This was a no kill shelter but still it was so heart wrenching I quit because of that.
Cats do love you back you just have to earn their trust and they show it differently than dogs. All animals show love in their own special way.
The biggest issue with cats is they can breed more often than dogs and people just don't want to get their cat desexed. The number of cats needing homes is far greater than dogs needing homes.
Read about a dolphin who had learned some basic communication and was in some sort of pen. Dolphins can suicide by going under water and refusing to go back up for air. This dolphin was miserable and told it's handler goodbye before going under and killing itself. The fact the dolphin was sentient enough to chose suicide breaks my heart.
Karen, the name of the dolphin who played Flipper committed suicide- refusing to take a breath. After the show wrapped she was sent to an isolation pen in Miami.
There has been a day when you and your childhood friend got out to play for the last time and none of you two was aware of it.
“People with perfectionism may invest a lot of energy in keeping up appearances, so this is not always easy for friends and family to detect. If someone you know experiences a lot of pressure or stress in their work, family life, or relationships, it’s important to listen for the signs of toxic perfectionistic thinking, and to show you care and express your concerns,” the researcher said.
The United States government:
Fed radioactive oatmeal to mentally challenged children to see what would happen.
Allow black men with syphilis to believe they were being treated while actually letting them die from it to see what happened when it was left untreated.
Plus:
There are people that do not vaccinate their children because of internet memes.
There are people that truly believe the world is flat.
On december 5 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau, after the round-call of the morning, which was atrocious since you would need to stand still for hours until the count matches, the SS took the entirety of the women camp moved them in front of a ditch within the camp and asked the 6000 present alive women to get naked.
Then, the SS armed with whips, pistols and canes got over the ditch, made two parallels lines to create some sort of corridor. Then they screamed the women prisonners to jump over the ditch and run through the corridor of SS soldiers.
During the run, the SS with the whips and cane struck/whipped/pulled away all the women they deemed "unfit for labor" due to sickness and physicall exhaustion. Out of the 6000 women that day, around 1500 made it to the end of the corridor without being pulled away : They were the lucky ones and the camp commandant made a speech sort of like "You were chosen to live".
The 4500 women pulled away by the SS or who couldn't jump far enough to pass the ditch were pushed into trucks and send to the gas chamber. They apparently screamed like banshees full knowing they were sent to their death.
Very few women survived from 1942 to 1945 in auschwitz, but the detail of this day is present in the few books/testimonies from survivors because of how horrible it was.
One of my neighbors has a nine year old daughter who has a very rare genetic condition. She's not expected to live much beyond her mid - late teens. The girl doesn't know and believes she's a perfectly normal child. It's heartbreaking to hear her saying that she wants to be a hairdresser when she grows up. She ain't never gonna grow up
However, not everyone will be up to sharing what’s going on in their inner world of emotions straight away, so it’s important to be patient and polite but persistent. “People might not open up the first time you ask, so continuing to check in regularly and establishing yourself as a safe person to talk to is important. These can be challenging and stressful conversations to have, so it’s important for loved ones to get support in asking these questions and look after their own mental health.”
Hachikou was a Japanese Akita dog who each day would wait at the train station for his owner to return from his commute. One day his owner had an aneurysm at work and passed away. Hachikou would spend the next ten years waiting at the station.
We don’t deserve dogs, they are too good.
I watched the hachikou movie in class, literally everybody was crying, all the girls were in groups sobbing and the boys were like "cAn i gO tO tHe bAtHrOoM rEaL qUiCk i hAvE sOmEtHiNg iN mY eYe"
For animal testing involving dogs, most laboratories use beagles as they are the most forgiving of the people inflicting pain on them.
There is a genetic disorder that makes it impossible for some people to sleep. So far only 20 people are known to have it, and none have lived past 30...
Somewhere right now a child is being abused or fearing it happening again. Child abuse is the saddest f**king thing to me
All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they essentially begin to sink and drown
They become a source of food for the other animals after they die.
The first and only time most men receive flowers is at their funeral.
Swans can die of a broken heart when their mates die.
Animals are routinely horrifically abused and neglected, and nobody cares unless they're a cat or dog.
Whales that sing in the wrong key get lost and are alone in the ocean.
One day, sometime far far far in the future, someone is going to speak your name for the very last time and then you’ll be completely forgotten about.
You never get to see your child's entire life.. Or you do..
That sex trafficking children is real, actively ongoing, and adults will be professionally doing it all across the world at any given point
There is a remote island in the south Pacific that had a lighthouse built on it in the 1700s. The keeper kept a cat to keep him company. Everyday the cat would bring the keeper a dead bird. The keeper had never seen birds of this type before, so he kept the tiny carcasses to show scientists who'd be on exploration ships. The scientists determined that they were flightless songbirds - the only known species of flightless songbird ever discovered, then and now. One day the cat just stopped bringing the birds to the keeper. One cat caused the extinction of an entire unique species. No one ever saw a living specimen and no one ever heard their song.
And this is just one of the many reasons cats should not be allowed to roam. Cats and foxes are responsible for the extinction of many animal species. Whilst I don't like the idea of culling cats and foxes, it is necessary to protect thousands of vulnerable animals. Especially in Australia where a lot of our animals are small and many without defences.
There's more people in slavery now than in the 17-1800's. Pretty sad
785 million people do not have access to safe water. (Access includes having having water within a 30 minute round trip for collecting it and carrying it home).
And this is one reason why I don't agree with people having millions and millions of dollars when millions of people don't even have the basics to survive let alone lavish luxuries.
Life can be heartbreakingly unfair. A friend‘s sister suddenly passed away because of a heart attack last summer at age 40, leaving behind a bright, young, then orphaned son. My friend and his wife immediately took him in, gave him a home, and cared so much for him. They were very careful, loving, and considerate. They found a preschool for him, went to therapy with him and participated in it in order to support him getting through the trauma of losing your only parent. In December my friend passed away because of a heart attack.
Many people go through the last years of their life sad and chronically lonely
A guy in my area had just retired on a Friday. The following Wednesday he was out fishing and a thunderstorm came up. He pulled his boat out of the lake and while standing next to his car on the boat ramp lightning took him out. 5 blessed days of retirement.
I'm madly in love with my wife of 35 years. We are each others best friends and we are together 24/7. We do massages on each other every morning and snuggle/spoon together all night. We haven't spent a night apart in 3 decades. We are older now and I know one of us is going to die alone.
The Ukranian Famine (Holodomor) killed at least 3.5mil people back in 1932-1933. Stalin's insane plans to optimize state crops while starving out the farmers themselves is some of the most horrific sh*t I've ever heard of. Death by starvation has got to be one of the worst possible ways to go.
The English did the same thing to the Irish during the Great Famine. The enforced poverty killed just as many people as the potato blight itself.
Rwanda genocide School children massacred with machetes It could have been prevented And this is why I hate the expression “everything happens for a reason)
You can do everything in your power and work as hard as you possibly can, sometimes [stuff] just doesn't work out. You very well won't ever accomplish your dream, despite all your efforts.
I hate this kind of mentality.You may not acomplish your "dream" but you're still likely to end up in a really good place. Like if u get straight As and don't get into an ivy League uni you still have much greater options than the rest of your peers. And if u don't go uni at all, you may still be more knowledgeable than those around you , wherever that may be. Hard work always pays off. The degree to which is does depends on luck and a whole load of factors but it still leaves you better off than where you were before.
Stephen Hawking died a little over a year before the first photograph of a black hole
Researchers accidentally killed the oldest animal in 2006
There is a plastic bag at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
I’m calling foul, at least on the photo provided. The floor of the Marina trench doesn’t have vegetation like that. It’s mostly bare.
A majority of people, when asked, would rather die at home than at the hospital. A majority of people, when recorded, die at the hospital rather than at home.
It hit me like a brick. Was thinking about my dad who died at 73. Thinking about my age (44) I realized my life was likely more than halfway over.
Well going by my family history I have about 15-25 years to live.
A dog will lie awake at night after getting in trouble or having a bad day thinking about it. Additionally dogs feed off our energy so if you are having a bad day, anxious or depressed that actually rubs off on your dog.
Mother hamsters will sometimes eat their newborn babies. This can be for a variety of reasons, but one of the major problems is that a mother hamster will get stressed out and assume that she does not have enough food or space for all of the babies to survive inside of their tiny cage.
At the 9/11 museum I learned the unfortunate fact that Flight 93 flew upside down for a period of time before crashing in the field. Apparently, people all over the plane were vomiting. If you’ve even been on a flight where someone throws up nearby, you can imagine how disgusting, awful, and traumatizing this had to have been. Breaks my heart just thinking about it.
Another sad fact is that 8 children were on those planes. 3 were on a trip to California with their teacher. Two siblings (ages 8 and 3) were traveling with the parents, and after missing their original flight, were put on Flight 77 (crashed into the Pentagon.)
I was in middle school at the time, but nearly 20 years later, 9/11 facts continue to haunt me.
Don't downvote Bill's comment. "Okay. Let's roll." These were the last words spoken by Beamer heard by Lisa Jefferson, one of the passenger trying to take back control of Flight 93 before it fell on the field. They failed, but made sure that the plane didn't reach its suspected target, the White House or the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington
There was an Air Force nose decal made with the "Let's Roll" to commemorate this. Lets_roll_...82d0c8.jpg 
Oh god. I wasn’t alive during 9/11 but the more I learn the harder it is to accept that it happened
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And you are an air crash investigator with the NTSB Mama Bear??
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The inevitability of entropic decay I guess
I used to worry about death, then I thought I could live on through others, then I realized those others will eventually die, then I realized that even if they build a statue of your greatness and fill history books with your name, civilizations will crumble, history will be forgotten, stars will burn out, until eventually the heat death of the universe
I used to romanticize star trek as the ultimate goal of humanity, but now I realize that no matter how much we progress, how well we get along and focus on a common goal, how much of space we explore, how many planets we terraform, no matter how much we try to bring peace and order to chaos, everything and everyone will eventually die and become nothing
And what's worse, in this incredibly temporary and meaningless existence most conscious creatures get, they are miserable, mistreated, exploited, unfulfilled, trodden upon and left behind for others to get ahead
So basically working on a saturday is a nonesense
There are over 2,500 ancient languages that are either already extinct, or in danger of being forgotten forever.
Last year in the worst of the pandemic, residents of North Korea had to hand over their pets to supply food. I can't even imagine how heartbreaking it had to be to send your source of happiness to let others and yourself eat it.
About 80% of ducklings won't reach their first birthday
Nature is cruel, but that’s why so many ducklings are born to a mother duck. The strongest survive. It’s natures way of controlling the population.
Mine is that there are a lot of dead bodies inside the death zone on Mount Everest, and they will just lay there forever because no one can go to retrieve them
They actually use these frozen bodies as markers for climbers. They’re serving a useful purpose in death.
My cat has a tumor in her stomach
An Octopus dies after giving birth because she stops eating while hatching their eggs.
Edit: She lays eggs and does not give birth. And she protects that egg and therefore eats nothing until it has hatched. I really didn't think right while typing the sentence I'm sorry.
I learnt this watching My octopus teacher. It was so sad. I cried like a baby.
i forget the percentage of it but a shocking amount of people die alone with no spouse or family. this always seemed to be a pessimistic estimation to me but it really sunk in when i worked in a hospital. which means our chances of dying alone in some nursing home or house is higher than we think.
Identity theft is not a joke. Millions of families suffer every year.
Bill Finger, the man who created a vast majority of if not everything that makes Batman a success today, not only never got credit in his lifetime, but was also called a liar by Bob Kane.
Kane who came up with an idea of a bat themed vigilante called The Bat-Man, later used his fathers law firm to make up a contract in which he not only got sole credit but also any major proceeds stemming from the success of Batman.
Bill died penniless and on his couch in a bad apartment in 1974 while Kane was running around telling everyone he created Batman and such.
The grinch lived where everyone dumped their trash. So how do you think he obtained his dog max? Someone threw the dog away in a dump on the tip of a frozen cliffside, surely to die. F*ck the whos.
that i won't get to feel my husbands presence anymore...he passed away suddenly on the 11th i miss him every minute of the day
I'm sorry. Go to familyfriendlypoems.com and look up Death Is Nothing At All. I hope it helps you in some small way. I would post it here, but it is too long, and you must read the full version. It ends with...."How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting, when we meet again"
Penguins sometimes get raped by sea lions. These young seals are those who can't mate with a female because a larger sea lion controls a massive harem.
After getting raped, the penguins' head are munched off most of the time.
Whenever I change an old spiral florescent or incandescent lightbulb in seldom used fixture, I think to myself, "This bulb will probably out live me."
I'm not dying of anything that I know of, but I'm at that age where I know most of my years are probably behind me.
At 33, I've reached the point where things I built when I was 18-20 are needing to be re-done. I find that irritating because 13-15 years doesn't feel like that long ago. Thinking about building them better is also depressing because I have no intent of having children, and therefore no one to pass those new sturdier things on to.
I learnt today that if a grizzly bear has a single cub it will abandon it
Junko Furuta's killers are alive and well and free.
This is one of the true crime cases that has always stayed with me, partly because of the pure brutality of what they did to that poor girl, but also because so many people stood by and let it happen. The boys parents who allowed her to be tortured in their house should have been charged too
One day, the person who loved you and held you the most as a baby put you down and never picked you up again.
Or that likely dozens of species go extinct every day.
eating disorders affect at LEAST 9% of the global population (that’s huge) and anorexia is the most lethal mental disorder there is, 1 in 10 people affected by it will die. not the most lethal eating disorder, the most lethal MENTAL disorder. and eating disorders rates have been climbing very rapidly these past few years.
AND no one talks about/ believe it happens in males too. Its NOT a strictly female disorder
Whenever you see a lone Canada Goose, it has lost it’s family..
Or maybe he was the biggest dickhead of the group and even they couldn't stand him.
if a sheep is not sheared, it will be weighed down and eventually fall over, and ends up starving to death
That means, If sheep were wild, they would probably be extinct by now.
the teen suicide rate is steadily increasing in multiple states (last time i checked)
Especially now that kids don't just deal with bullying at school, but online as well. There is just so much pressure. I hated school and was bullied relentlessly but I am so grateful that I grew up before the digital age.
People treating animals horribly will never stop.
People treating animals horribly are also very likely to become violent criminals in later life.
That every 20 seconds, a child dies from a lack of accesss to clean water.
I hate this kind of propaganda. "Every minute a child dies of malnutrition, give money." "Every 20 seconds a child dies from lack of clean water, give money." Now on breaking news: Country where people are dying from hunger and lack of water has decided to spend $500 billion on the military.
The average lifespan of an individual on the autism spectrum is 39 years.
Chris Farley's last words where "Don't leave me", said to a prostitute who then stole his watch.
Diarrhea is the #1 leading cause of death in children
Diarrhoea which causes dehydration and is more prevalent in countries/regions that don't have access to clean water.
Otters are rapists. As soon as a female is of age, males will violently attack her. Sometimes killing her and continuing to assault her corpse.
"Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it"
Kermit : The Muppet Christmas Carol
Why do you stop there? The saddest part comes right after! "I am sure that we shall never forget Tiny Tim, or this first parting that there was among us." That's when the waterworks starts. Every damn year...
The older we get, the older our parents get.
My mom was 22, and my father was 24, when they both had me. At the age of 8, my father passed away. He was 32 years old at that time. Now, i’m 23 years old, and my moms 46……only got one parent left, and as much as I hope to have her forever, sadly, one day, I’ll lose her, too.
And that’s just life.
The Christmas after the peaceful Christmas during WW1 was one of the bloodiest days of the war
The youngest mother in history gave birth aged five years, seven months, and 21 days.
Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado is a Peruvian woman who became the youngest confirmed mother in 1933. It's amazing that the human body could go through that, but so sad that she had to go through that and some pedo even thought it was a good idea to have sex with, at the time, a four year old.
Did that young girl survive? I hope that pedo was taken care of the sick f**k.
I'm not going to find out what happened before the big bang, if there's life on other planets, if there's a reason for the existence of anything at all
With the African slave trade America has many black people now who are descendants from the original people who were imported as slaves, pretty much common knowledge. In Asia with places like Saudi Arabia who also bought slaves they do not have this as males were castrated and I'm sure it was called "cock and bull" where both testicles and penis would be removed, this was happening to male boys as young as 12 and the survival rate of the procedure was as low as 1 in every 5.
Jake Paul was in my grade up till we graduated high school. No matter how I live my life he will always be more successful then me. He was a sh*t back then too. Not as depressing as some of the other stories here but it makes it hard to go to work very day.
Some people, either through loneliness, age, or mental health, are so closed off from the outside world that they either can't or don't know how to take care of themselves until they die. Most of the time the only way for anyone to notice that something is wrong is either by accident or the smell.
There is/was a Dutch guy who films the cleanup of those kinds of houses (he has a cleaning service specialized in those kinds of extreme cases). One woman's toilet backed up and she just did her business on the bathroom floor for months. In another case a guy had a square meter of space to sleep in, the rest was literal garbage halfway up the wall. He even made holes in the walls and floors to stuff it in.
A friend of ours asked us to help her clean a dead aunts house out. There were literally stacks of newspapers from the floor up to the ceiling forming some kind of labyrinth. There were hundreds of bottles of all kinds of cleaning fluid, thousands of boxes of tissues, millions of car parts but she didn't have a car and didn't even know how to drive one. We spent 2 weeks clearing all the stuff out and must have filled dozens of dumpsters and containers. But surprisingly, there was not a mouse or rat in that house.
No human alive today will ever see atmospheric CO2 levels below 400 ppm.
how there’s probably some dude scamming an old lady rn
Yes yes many everyone scams, they do not care about gender race reglion, just money
There's a rough 1:1 equivalent of pounds of CO2 produced to pounds of concrete produced in concrete production.
But concrete reabsorbs 80% of the amount of CO2 that it generated during the limestone firing process. it initially accounts for 10% of all CO2 emissions but it eventually has a smaller footprint over time. They have created concrete where the binder is graphene or slag instead of cement. It needs to be scaled up and pourable but we are on the right track.
And why the f are we reading them? I don't know why i clicked! I'm sad now
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Here's my conclusion-Humans are a vile and horrible species, we don't deserve animals and the Earth is a sad, lonely, depressing place.
What a terrible way to think of this amazing gift you have.
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How many children in my town went to bed last night without having enough to eat? Even if it's only 1, that too many. That's sad and also pathetic. What kind of society lets kids go hungry?
These are sad but I don't often read these or the TIL ones, after finding that some of them can be false or based on inaccurate information. And I don't want to research every single one. It would be nice if sources could be included.
"Humans are easily the cruelest animals on the planet. No wonder they call it the descent of man." - George Carlin
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"When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal of earthly creatures." - Plato (427 - 347 BC/BCE) Greek philosopher
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When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans
They were also given small pix laced blankets on reservations. On purpose.
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I learned this yesterday. Here in Czechia, during communist dictature in 1950's, pregnant women imprisoned for political reasons had no medical assistance during birth. Their newborns were also not given any medical care nor food. Many of the mothers were unable to produce milk due to starvation and most babies died in one year. Sometimes guards would take newborn from the mother and lock them in two separate cells, forcing the woman to listen to her child cry and die. The worst part is that it took 40 years for democracy to be restored so noone was punished for these crimes.
It took 40 years for democracy to be restored in the Czech Republic, and in US it took only 4 years to almost kill democracy, and the American "patriots" are not done yet trying.
Load More Replies... The 1943 Bengal Famine killed 3 million people. India was under British Colonialism at that time. Most of the food ration that should have gone to those affected, went to the British Army who already had a surplus amount of food. On being asked about it, Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive. Now, most economists argue that the famine didn't happen due to less rain but because of policies passed by Britain under Churchill.
As sad as it is, one thing is true: people are breeding like rabbits, even faster, in India and elsewhere, and humans never go extinct like poor animals do. Pope Francis told folks in South America, that they don't need to reproduce like rabbits; again, these are countries where women do not have rights to decide how many children they want to have; abortion is, of course, illegal even in cases of rape and incest.
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The saddest fact I know: The 'No Child Left Behind' act started a trend of providing funding to schools based on how well the students perform on standardized testing, in an effort to incentivize education. In reality, poor schools perform poorly, and therefore become poorer schools after funding cuts. Even worse, significantly low-testing individuals in decent schools can be forcibly transferred to another school in the middle of the year so that they don't count on either the sending or receiving school's annual roster for grading/funding purposes. The underperforming individual now has their year interrupted, loses contact with friends from their last school, and typically has to travel further to get to their new school...all of which contributes to them learning even less. The 'no child left behind' act has actually driven schools to deliberately and selectively leave children behind in order to get more funding.
What are you saying, Troux that poor children are not smart as other children?
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I have never been more relieved to finish reading a post,I feel so depressed and helpless. :,(
here is something to think about, "somewhere in the world, a child is r@p3d and killed, people dying alone, people living in poverty, people committing su!d!e, animals dying for testing so, who are we as humans to be making our dreams come true when we could easily make someone else who is going through stuff, dreams come true. cuz we as humans don't deserve to live if no matter what, bad things will always happen"
I could not read all those stories. They did impart information that I wasn't aware of, but to know that some animals kill themselves because of what we humans do to them was just horrendous. I simply had to stop reading them. Too awful!
Why is no one saying #21, please say she somehow survived, and if she died and you read this, I know you don’t know who I am, but my best wishes to you. 🙏🙏🙏 be strong, man. My best.
I just found out someone I've been secretly in love with for ten years .... loves me back. And then I found out I have incurable cancer.
I'm so sorry, that must have been such a crushing blow... I'm wishing you all the best for your remaining time. I know you probably are already, but make as many happy memories as possible & get all you can out of each & every day. Stay strong, friend. ♡
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What messed you up, Maris madness?? That you learned something about reality?
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There's a possibility that when you die, everyone you love will already be gone.
After reading the first two entries, I admit my heart can't take going any further. I'm f****en crying, literally
What else can you do, Raena Calis? Did you asked yourself that question?
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Why the hell did I read this? Curse you, Bored Panda, for your recent click-baity titles and poor examples making me think this wouldn't REALLY be a downer!!!
Why the hell did you read this, Daniel Marsh? I don't know, but what I know for sure it was not to learn about all that suffering in the world, and, based on that, knowledge, to try find ways how to help all those who suffer of no fault of their own. It's always about you, isn't it?
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Jesus Christ is this just disaster porn? Everyone here makes up enough anxiety for them selves and this gives them an excuse not to go to work as they are too sad about things
I have never met anyone who skipped work b/c they felt sad unless it was b/c they had to attend a family funeral.
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The animals in pet food commercials are starved for hours prior to taping. To make the product seem 'wonderful' as the animal attacks the meal with enthusiasm.
The only animals I've seen that haven't attacked a meal with enthusiasm were sick or overfed. Pets on normal, healthy diets can be enthusiastic about food. Also - "starved for hours"? Most pets wait almost an entire day between mealtimes (breakfast & dinner) & for some pets it's better to feed them once a day because of their metabolism. Are you implying not feeding a pet for a few hours is "starving" it? Are you implying a pet should be constantly snacking throughout the day, lest they be unfed for a few hours?
Load More Replies... And why the f are we reading them? I don't know why i clicked! I'm sad now
Load More Replies... Here's my conclusion-Humans are a vile and horrible species, we don't deserve animals and the Earth is a sad, lonely, depressing place.
What a terrible way to think of this amazing gift you have.
Load More Replies... How many children in my town went to bed last night without having enough to eat? Even if it's only 1, that too many. That's sad and also pathetic. What kind of society lets kids go hungry?
These are sad but I don't often read these or the TIL ones, after finding that some of them can be false or based on inaccurate information. And I don't want to research every single one. It would be nice if sources could be included.
"Humans are easily the cruelest animals on the planet. No wonder they call it the descent of man." - George Carlin
Load More Replies... Ever notice how so many people here continually ask "Why?", "Who is that?", "What is that?" and so on. Honestly folks, Google literally puts the world at your fingertips...
"When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal of earthly creatures." - Plato (427 - 347 BC/BCE) Greek philosopher
Load More Replies... When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans
They were also given small pix laced blankets on reservations. On purpose.
Load More Replies... I learned this yesterday. Here in Czechia, during communist dictature in 1950's, pregnant women imprisoned for political reasons had no medical assistance during birth. Their newborns were also not given any medical care nor food. Many of the mothers were unable to produce milk due to starvation and most babies died in one year. Sometimes guards would take newborn from the mother and lock them in two separate cells, forcing the woman to listen to her child cry and die. The worst part is that it took 40 years for democracy to be restored so noone was punished for these crimes.
It took 40 years for democracy to be restored in the Czech Republic, and in US it took only 4 years to almost kill democracy, and the American "patriots" are not done yet trying.
Load More Replies... The 1943 Bengal Famine killed 3 million people. India was under British Colonialism at that time. Most of the food ration that should have gone to those affected, went to the British Army who already had a surplus amount of food. On being asked about it, Churchill has been quoted as blaming the famine on the fact Indians were “breeding like rabbits”, and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive. Now, most economists argue that the famine didn't happen due to less rain but because of policies passed by Britain under Churchill.
As sad as it is, one thing is true: people are breeding like rabbits, even faster, in India and elsewhere, and humans never go extinct like poor animals do. Pope Francis told folks in South America, that they don't need to reproduce like rabbits; again, these are countries where women do not have rights to decide how many children they want to have; abortion is, of course, illegal even in cases of rape and incest.
Load More Replies... The saddest fact I know: The 'No Child Left Behind' act started a trend of providing funding to schools based on how well the students perform on standardized testing, in an effort to incentivize education. In reality, poor schools perform poorly, and therefore become poorer schools after funding cuts. Even worse, significantly low-testing individuals in decent schools can be forcibly transferred to another school in the middle of the year so that they don't count on either the sending or receiving school's annual roster for grading/funding purposes. The underperforming individual now has their year interrupted, loses contact with friends from their last school, and typically has to travel further to get to their new school...all of which contributes to them learning even less. The 'no child left behind' act has actually driven schools to deliberately and selectively leave children behind in order to get more funding.
What are you saying, Troux that poor children are not smart as other children?
Load More Replies... I have never been more relieved to finish reading a post,I feel so depressed and helpless. :,(
here is something to think about, "somewhere in the world, a child is r@p3d and killed, people dying alone, people living in poverty, people committing su!d!e, animals dying for testing so, who are we as humans to be making our dreams come true when we could easily make someone else who is going through stuff, dreams come true. cuz we as humans don't deserve to live if no matter what, bad things will always happen"
I could not read all those stories. They did impart information that I wasn't aware of, but to know that some animals kill themselves because of what we humans do to them was just horrendous. I simply had to stop reading them. Too awful!
Why is no one saying #21, please say she somehow survived, and if she died and you read this, I know you don’t know who I am, but my best wishes to you. 🙏🙏🙏 be strong, man. My best.
I just found out someone I've been secretly in love with for ten years .... loves me back. And then I found out I have incurable cancer.
I'm so sorry, that must have been such a crushing blow... I'm wishing you all the best for your remaining time. I know you probably are already, but make as many happy memories as possible & get all you can out of each & every day. Stay strong, friend. ♡
Load More Replies... What messed you up, Maris madness?? That you learned something about reality?
Load More Replies... There's a possibility that when you die, everyone you love will already be gone.
After reading the first two entries, I admit my heart can't take going any further. I'm f****en crying, literally
What else can you do, Raena Calis? Did you asked yourself that question?
Load More Replies... Why the hell did I read this? Curse you, Bored Panda, for your recent click-baity titles and poor examples making me think this wouldn't REALLY be a downer!!!
Why the hell did you read this, Daniel Marsh? I don't know, but what I know for sure it was not to learn about all that suffering in the world, and, based on that, knowledge, to try find ways how to help all those who suffer of no fault of their own. It's always about you, isn't it?
Load More Replies... Jesus Christ is this just disaster porn? Everyone here makes up enough anxiety for them selves and this gives them an excuse not to go to work as they are too sad about things
I have never met anyone who skipped work b/c they felt sad unless it was b/c they had to attend a family funeral.
Load More Replies... The animals in pet food commercials are starved for hours prior to taping. To make the product seem 'wonderful' as the animal attacks the meal with enthusiasm.
The only animals I've seen that haven't attacked a meal with enthusiasm were sick or overfed. Pets on normal, healthy diets can be enthusiastic about food. Also - "starved for hours"? Most pets wait almost an entire day between mealtimes (breakfast & dinner) & for some pets it's better to feed them once a day because of their metabolism. Are you implying not feeding a pet for a few hours is "starving" it? Are you implying a pet should be constantly snacking throughout the day, lest they be unfed for a few hours?
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