“What Is A True Fact That Sounds 100% Fake?”: 50 Interesting Facts

Yeah. He could roast his peanuts from 50 yards away. (Don't go there, Pandas.)

But it didn't teach him to properly pronounce "nuclear".

Hours. But isn't that what everyone would want in their own lives? I've been married for 30 years, my husband and I don't function well when we are separated, I can see the Carter's slipping away together. It's what I would want after 70 years.

No we don't. We know he is a good man, and in fact, he was too good to be in politics because politics in general, and DC in particular, is a machine - it will grind up anyone and everyone, the good, bad and the ugly. Carter was "blue dog" Democrat, much like his fellow Georgia Democratic governor, Zell Miller. Both were good men who loved their country and the state of Georgia. They wouldn't survive being in today's far extreme left Democratic party, they'd be considered too conservative. We wish Jimmy Carter all the best.

It's about the US health care system, so it's math, not maths

now their friends will laugh at them cause they don't have the biggest private jet

I believe this wholeheartedly as a US system. It reeks of corruption

They have stockholders. Look at how much they made off opiates

That's not even what they're referring to though. The US government already spends more per capita on healthcare than any other Western government. If they changed to a streamlined single payer system and used that system to get drug prices down to what the rest of the western world pays as well, then government expenditure on healthcare should go DOWN. Meaning you should be paying lower taxes (let's be honest they'd just plough the savings into the military) as well as no insurance payments and no deductibles. And because it would be single payer you should have more choice in doctors too - none of this out of network b******t.

Yes because Medicaid is state issued insurance for people below a certain income level, that's how it works. She doesn't have enough $ to pay $3-4k per month

Medicare, which is what the OP refers to, is different than Medicaid, however.

Medicaid is for very very poor people. Don't be jealous.

No, but if you live in the Northern part, you are close to a Tim Hortons.

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They also keep the mosquito population down. I live in a state where it gets hot and humid, and rains a lot in summer, so we get a load of mosquitoes if we’re not careful (like we dump and dry out anything outside that holds standing rainwater, which is where mosquitoes lay their eggs). We also have bats and purple martens, both of whom are natural mosquito control. They don’t bother me, and I don’t bother them. I don’t even know where they call home, as it’s apparently not in any of the buildings on or around my property—-not that I would even mind it if they occupied an empty building here anyway. As far as I’m concerned, let them feast and fill their bellies with mosquitoes as much as they want. I will never call pest control or Natural Resources to take the bats away. I am quite happy to peacefully coexist alongside them.

When I worked in wineries, we had bats nesting in the rafters. They ate the fruit flies that could spoil the wine.

Without bats, how would we play baseball ?

Too bad the rabbies are endemic in bat population :( otherwise I would cuddle with them fluffy/skinny wings all day

They're my spooky, fuzzy little mosquito-chomping babies!

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Er...Covid?

Mosquitos are why I'm on both Team Bat and Team Spider.

Word

Wingéd whippets!

@Brian Droste I have so much respect for you, being calm when an animal comes in the house. I wish more people would be the same. They are living beings who have the same right to live as we do. 🦇💙

One of my earliest memories is of my father beating a bat to death with a broom because the poor thing flew down our chimney and flapped around the living room. I was 3 and was completely traumatised. Poor bat.

Well, we now have a name for their condition! I can't remember what it is called (waiting for mum to email the info) but it is caused by two faulty genes on chromosome 4. Only 35 reported cases of it worldwide, which isn't a surprise, since until now I'd only heard of one possible case. It isn't mitochondrial either, or X-linked, as was assumed, which means there is less chance of us passing it on to our kids.

he's worse than Zeus!