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30 “Unfun” Facts People Have Learned Recently That Are Both Fascinating And Terrifying
Life isn’t just about cute animals, fun artwork, and wholesome stories. Our world is full of uncomfortable historical and scientific facts that would make any Panda feel uneasy and just a bit queasy. However, we think that facts are facts: we have to do our best to see the full picture, even if we don’t feel too rosy and cozy reading some things.
We’ve collected the most ‘unfun’ facts about life on Planet Earth, as shared by internet users on the r/AskReddit subreddit. Scroll down to have a read. Though we have to warn you, these facts really aren’t for the faint of heart. If you’d rather have something bright and light instead, you should definitely check out this Bored Panda article right here about people doing good deeds out of the kindness of their hearts. To the rest of you who are sticking around—we salute your bravery and curiosity. Onwards!
Of course, we have to remember to take everything that we read on the internet with a grain of salt. We reached out to Joseph M. Pierre, a professor of psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, to talk about conspiracy theories, whether some events seem to attract far more lies than usual, and what kinds of people tend to believe in misinformation. Read on for Bored Panda’s interview with him. When you’re done, you should take a peek at our earlier article about not-so-fun facts right over here.
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#1
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at that frequency meaning it can’t communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.
Sammi Meuse 4 years ago
If you haven’t watched the documentary called The Loneliest Whale.. THEY FIND EVIDENCE OF ANOTHER!!
Dispatcherqueen 4 years ago
Watch the Hulu documentary, The Loneliest Whale in the World. Really well done.
Ozymandias73 4 years ago
That's so sad. Wonder if anyone has the time/money to make a sonar device to replicate that frequency and friend the poor thing. Go visit him periodically just to give it some company
maya P.K 4 years ago
i read a book about him, and a deaf girl that travled across lots of places to help him fel like he belonged
maya P.K 4 years ago
it was ade- up of course, but amazing book nevertheless
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#2
More Americans died in 2 months from Covid19 than 10 years of Vietnam.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
We have too many (unnecessarily) deadly diseases killing humanity. Since first spreading from Calcutta along the Ganges Delta in 1817, cholera has killed millions. WHO estimates that each year there are between 3 and 5 million new cholera cases, killing as many as 120,000 people. Untreated, it can kill in a matter of hours.
I I 4 years ago
todays flu is a mutation of The Spanish Flu , so over 100 years later we're still dying because people back then wouldn't wear a mask , plus people wont take the vaccine we have for it , now think about covid , same thing as Spanish Flu , wont take vaccine , wont wear a mask , it's scary to think we could have covid for life like the flu
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Buren 4 years ago
And yet there are still people who believe that it's hoax, refuse vax and mask
Mazer 4 years ago
Let’s get real here US Tops 500,000 Virus Deaths, Matching the Toll of 3 Wars The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined.
Luther von Wolfen 4 years ago
The number of Americans who have died of covid19 is more than double the population of Iceland.
Kevin Donegan 4 years ago
And one group is responsible for this statistic ... the Republican Party.
Fritz Baumeister 4 years ago
Few people actually think it's a hoax. What they do say is that it is way over-hyped. And they'd be right. If you watch the news, you might reasonably believe that half the people that catch COVID end up in the hospital. The truth is less than 1% do. Is COVID a dangerous illness? Sure it is, but it's not as dangerous as they would like us to believe. Now, I'm old enough to remember a really scary epidemic - HIV/AIDS. Back in the 80s, it was a death sentence. There were no effective treatments. You caught it; you died. Period. Now that's some scary sh*t!
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Cold Contagious 4 years ago
All of the deaths from covid have been extremely sad for all the families of the victims all over the world. Even more disheartening is that it's not over yet, more people will die. I do feel saddened for all those who've suffered losses during the pandemic. I wish everyone strength and courage to all.
KatHat 4 years ago
This stat is shocking. Even so, we need to keep focused when dealing with scoffers and deniers, for whom this number will never matter. Here's the stat to hit them with: In the USA, 25% of the medical workforce has quit since covid began. People are leaving the profession quicker than they're joining. PURELY MATHEMATICALLY, it means disaster if medical resources continue to be clogged by covid patients. Think of all the missed cancer diagnoses and treatments; the people waiting in ambulances with strokes or heart attacks who could have been saved, etc. Note I'm not saying at ALL that the covid deaths don't matter, but we have to speak to the deniers in language they'll understand. And unfortunately, what they understand best is "what bad thing might happen to me or my family?" If they've already decided that covid won't affect them, talk about the things that still very easily could.
RedMarbles 4 years ago
Yes, this was always a huge part of the concern but for some reason a lot of people kept focusing only on the death rate of covid and deciding they could live with those odds (which I don't quite get either) while not appreciating the domino effect on all medical needs as the medical field dealt with the unsustainable pressures.
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Lovin' Life 4 years ago
Anti-vaxxers think it's a hoax!!! Really? Look at the numbers people!!!! Covid is real. Why not do your part and mask up and get the vaccine.
#3
When your skin becomes red from spending too much time under the sunlight, it’s basically because your skin cells are committing suicide to avoid becoming cancerous.
Mazer 4 years ago
Even a single sunburn can increase a person's risk of skin cancer. This is because when the skin absorbs ultraviolet radiation from sunlight, it can damage the genetic material in skin cells. In the short term, this damage can cause sunburns. In the long term, it builds up and raises the risk of skin cancer
Caro Caro 4 years ago
I've started to have skin problems, not wrinkles ;). Seriously, my decolleté is permanently damaged and have had 2 cystes removed and I need to be careful.
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Beth S 4 years ago
Also sun exposure activates your immune response and that is why you tan. This is also why people with systemic lupus erythematosus aren't supposed to have sun exposure. Activation of the immune system caused by UV exposure can cause lupus flare which in turn can damage organs and other tissues.
Joann Casey 4 years ago
It's especially bad to burn as a child. But I see loads of elderly (white) guys who worked in the Middle East or around the Mediterranean in the '70's and '80s getting multiple cancers on their noses necks and ears, I am a theatre nurse for reconstructive plastic surgery.
Lynne Harbison 4 years ago
Always had sunburn as a child and no sunscreens. Paying for it now. My nose is a mess. 😥
Holly Hobby 4 years ago
Reminds me of the summer I got sun poisoning at the beach when I was 12.
I was curious to find out whether there are certain historical periods that have more conspiracy theories associated with them. For instance, propaganda during wartime, e.g. during the Second World War, seems to indicate that people may have been more likely to believe in theories rather than facts. However, this might not be the case.
Professor Pierre from UCLA pointed out that there are two ways of looking at this. First off, stating that people during some historical periods were more prone to believing in conspiracy theories isn’t particularly consistent with cold, hard facts. On the flip side, there are certain events that conspiracy theorists tend to focus on when twisting the truth for whatever purpose they have in mind.
In short, the upside is that, historically, people were just as smart then as they are now. The downside? People were only as smart then as they are now.
#4
The youngest person to ever give birth was a Peruvian girl, Lina Medina, a Quechua Indian who gave birth to a child in 1939 at age 5. She had precocious puberty and had her first period at age eight months. She may have been raped at a debauched indigenous religious festival where people often brought small children and rapes were known to occur. The man who raped her was never found, and she was silent about how she got pregnant.
The delivery was by Caesarean as vaginal delivery was deemed impossible. Her son was told that he was her little brother, and she also treated him in this manner. Obviously, she was an incompetent parent, preferring to play with dolls rather than tend to the baby, but that's to be expected. The case is well documented in medical journals, including photos of her pregnant body. It is also in the Guinness Book.
She later married, had another son, went to work for the physician who delivered her and lived a quite normal life. The son was healthy but died young at age 40. She and her family both refused all requests to speak of the case, including offers of significant sums of money. As of 2008, she was still alive at age 75 and living in a slum in Lima, Peru. If she is still alive, she would be 87 years old.
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
I can't imagine the horror she knew. I can partially know and understand that her innocent life was over and she was never the same playful, child that she should have been. It much too much trauma for such a small girl to have to endure.
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LuckyL 4 years ago
And also why even mention this: "Obviously, she was an incompetent parent, preferring to play with dolls rather than tend to the baby, but that's to be expected."
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Emma Starr 4 years ago
MAY have been raped?? No 5 year old can give consent and physically speaking it would be excruciating:(
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
I think the "may" part goes to the location! May have been raped at a debauched indigenous religious festival
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Lara Verne 4 years ago
I did hear about her story, but never heard about any " debauched indigenous religious festival". As far as I know, Lina's father was arrested on suspicion he raped his daughter, but he was later released for lack of evidence.. Also "incompetent parent" WTF, she was 5!
Suz66 4 years ago
I wonder if it was incest because the child she bore died at 40 and they wouldn't discuss it. He could have had some birth defects from incest and died as a result of a genetic defect. Very sad.
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HorrorEyeArcade 4 years ago
the way this was wrote. "incompetent parent" SHE WAS FIVE WHAT THE F**K DO YOU EXPECT? and no matter whether it was a screwed up religious ritual or not, it was still rape. f*****g hell. poor girl. what is our world.
KatHat 4 years ago
I have read about this story many times and there has never been any mention of a "debauched indigenous religious festival" in any of the accounts. This is ignorance at best and hellacious racism at worst.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Why do you immediatedly jump to "racism"? There are many "traditional" practices in many cultures that are really, really shitty by modern moral standards. There are literal child prostitution TEMPLES in parts of Asia, for example. I have no trouble believing that this girl could have been the victim of a nasty "tradition" of her own people.
Load More Replies... Lovin' Life 4 years ago
This is so sad and sickening at the same time. I couldn't imagine what that poor little girl went through.
Louloubelle 4 years ago
And yet Roe vs Wade is at danger of being overturned. If ever there was a case that cried out for an abortion, this is it.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 3 years ago
Commenting from the future (or present I guess), Roe has been overturned and I no longer have the right to control my own body. FÚCK. YOU. SUPREME COURT.
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You might still be “it” from an unfinished game of tag
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Make me wonder if one day I'll get a message from school mates saying you're still it. Then a bunch of people in their 40's have to play a game of tag.
Mad Dragon 4 years ago
No way I ever left a game of Tag while I was "it." I am WAY too competitive!
Thomas Ewing 4 years ago
I've lost years off my life worrying about this! Does baptism take care of the 'it' factor?
Thomas Ewing 4 years ago
If you are "it" too long you automatically get cooties! That's worse than anything.
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Joanna Werman 4 years ago
That may be better than still hiding from hide and seek and never being found
#6
Fatal familial insomnia exists. It’s a rare, incurable prionic brain disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually, you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.
J. F. 4 years ago
Interesting fact: Sleep is the third most important thing we need to survive after air and water. The need for food comes in fourth place
WritingSatyr 4 years ago
Well, that's wonderful considering I'm reading this at midnight. Noted.
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Mazer 4 years ago
Sufferers rarely live past 30. On the other hand there is a dude in India with the exact opposite issue, he sleeps nearly 300 days out of the year. Super rare issues
Marnie 4 years ago
I sleep approximately 365 days out of the year, as do most of us :-) I think you might want to clarify. (Mazer Rackham, is that you?)
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PitbullmomAF 4 years ago
I have chronic insomnia and need 3 meds to sleep. It really takes a toll on the body and soul.
Heather Hillis 3 years ago
I do as well. It sucks big time! I have taken so many medications to help me try to sleep and nothing helps except for Ambien which I will not take because of the side effects. Now my doctor has me on Trazodone. It works a little bit but I still wake up in the middle of the night. I never ever get a full night sleep ever!
Load More Replies... Suz66 4 years ago
The disease, fatal familial insomnia. The name sort of puts it all on the table. It's a progressive, inherited condition, characterized by eventually a total insomnia - leading within about nine months time to death. It's highly genetic and can take out families. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6503414
“Joseph Uscinski at the University of Miami would disagree that there was any increase in conspiracy theories in the 1930s or 40s,” Professor Pierre told Bored Panda.
“His research together with his colleague Joseph Parent going back to the 1800s shows no evidence of that. Based on their research, the only spike from the 20th Century occurred during the 1950’s communist ‘red scare,’ he shared. Though, when we take a peek at specific historical events from a more modern perspective, the situation changes.
“It is true that certain historical events do tend to attract conspiracy theories and there is evidence that times of societal upheaval or crisis when people are feeling unsafe and desperate for clarity offer a kind of fertile soil for conspiracy theory beliefs,” the expert revealed.
#7
Most animals will kill you before eating you, bears just start eating you
ZAPanda 4 years ago
so there's a guy lost in a forest and he comes across a bear. He gets down on his knees and starts praying for deliverance. The bear kneels and starts praying as well. "Thank god", the guy says, "A christian bear!". Then he overhears the bear... "Thank you lord for what I am about to receive..."
SZ 4 years ago
Immediately looks over shoulder for a bear. Cause obviously there is now a bear reading this over my shoulder and hungry
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 4 years ago
I saw a scary video of some girl trying to call her mum while a bear and her Cubs ate her alive. I don’t know why I even watched it
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
i read someplace that polar bears will actively hunt people - one of the few animals that do
Grant Barke 4 years ago
The screaming reminds them how ultra fresh it really is. Pleasure to their ears.
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Monty Is Fiennes 4 years ago
Surely once you are down and no longer fighting...eating commences..
#8
There are at least 8 nuclear weapons known to be missing.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Hiroo Onoda was a WWII Japanese soldier who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to accept that the war was over. He returned to Japan as a hero (Hiroo the hero) in 1974, died in 2014.
The Scout 4 years ago
I remember this one... To get him out of fighting mode, they had to find his former commander (long retired) , who had to give him a direct order to stop fighting...
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Marcellus II 4 years ago
Dammit, Dave! Always you with the problems and aggravations.
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#9
Judith Barsi, the little girl who voice acted Ducky in The Land Before Time was murdered by her father at age ten. All they found of her and her mother were charred remains. The father shot himself after.
Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
Her story is beyond depressing and horrible. You can still visit her grave at Forest Lawn today - the inscription on her tombstone is "Yep yep yep!" - her iconic line from The Land Before Time. :(
Henry Russell 4 years ago
i hate abusive parents in a ton near mine a little girl was shot by here uncle aftr he found out she was secretly going to school
Ladyvischuss 4 years ago
Where do you live, that going to school is so bad?
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
ROTTEN VILE ASSHOLE MONSTER!!!!!! If hell and the devil were real I'd hope he ended up with eternal torture of the worst kinds!!!
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Analyn Lahr 4 years ago
I heard that her headstone has Ducky's quote of "Yep! Yep! Yep!". Ducky was always my favorite.
“Over the past 60 years, the assassination of JFK, the death of Princess Diana, and 9/11 are the most obvious examples of national traumas surrounded by conspiracy theory beliefs.”
He added: “We should acknowledge that many conspiracy theories, like the idea that the Earth is flat, aren’t really based on any kind of obvious traumatic event.”
#10
You have a higher chance of dying on the way to get a lottery ticket than actually winning.
Johanne Trudeau 4 years ago
For years I was spending $15.00 per week on lotteries. I won a few pots of $500.00 but not enough to compensate for all of the money I had spent. So decided to stop buying them, so that's a win in my books...
Walter Brameld 4 years ago
Imagine if you had invested all that money instead.
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Robert T 4 years ago
Depends on the lottery, as some have prizes for partial matches. Winning the jackpot, maybe.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
You even have a very much higher chance of dying on the way to collect your prize than winning.
#11
Your voice on recordings is actually how your voice really sounds. Your voice in your head is a bit muffled and deeper because the sound travels through your head instead of the air. That's why it feels weird to hear your own voice recorded.
Scarlett 4 years ago
...my voice sounds like a dying pig combined with a sick cat on recording. I’m never talking again.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
You can train your voice. Lot's of women use a high pitched voice which is not their natural voice... I just posted some more info here. Naomi Wolf has an interview about this.
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Jods 4 years ago
The first, and last time I heard my recorded voice I went into complete denial. No way did I sound like that.
Gabby M 4 years ago
I was and still am horrified at the sound of my voice, I hate it and can't even comprehend WHY anyone would listen to me.
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BusLady 4 years ago
When I hear my recorded voice I hear my mother. We sound just alike. So it's not unpleasant for me to hear.🥰
Eiram 4 years ago
Lies. My husband sounds very different in recordings than in real life. Recordings don't normally have all the sonic decibels that natural voices have.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
Yes i also refuse to believe that cause i sound awful in recordings
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I always wonder how singers and actors can stand to hear themselves. I guess after a while they get used to it.
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
Yeah, I don't know how much I believe this one. You ever hear a person's voice on TV versus on a YouTube video or something? Like if a voice actor voice acted for a character on a show, and was also a podcaster? They can be vastly different. Or even if you hear someone over the phone on a call vs. in real life. I think that'd really depend on what kind of device is recording and what quality of audio speakers you're hearing the voice through.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
You just described at least five different things that change the way your voice sounds. Voice actors are actors even on their podcasts. All phones do not use the same microphone, speaker, or software. YouTube and TV studio acoustics aren't identical. Your voice on a recording is higher in tone than IRL in your ear regardless of what standard equipment is used.
Load More Replies... Bhaskar Banerjee 4 years ago
Incorrect. The sound of our voice in recordings do not match what we actually sound like due to the fact that the device is unable to catch all the frequency of the voice and also unable to create the variations when it passes through your skin and bones.
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
I sound like a hillbilly child when recorded. I have a very strong country accent.
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Nothing wrong with accents, it's the high pitch that's annoying
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#12
Child helplines are most busy day is Christmas Eve, because parents get drunk and what not. It's so sad to think about.
Monday 4 years ago
That's a myth actually. Depression spikes and suicidal ideation may too, but there are fewer suicides around Christmas since most people aren't alone and thus don't have the chance to attempt. The actual suicide rate spike is in January after the Christmas holidays.
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Kevin Donegan 4 years ago
I answered child abuse phone calls ... true. A "holiday" meant an increase in call volume.
Marcellus II 4 years ago
And don't forget 2020's lockdowns, when kids had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend extra time with their extra-stressed just-or-about-to-be-fired abusers.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Plausible, but I've seen a number of claims like this that have been debunked. Like it went around for a while that wife abuse peaks during the Superbowl ... but then it turned out that statistically, that day is no worse than any other day. Similarly I've heard that crime rates are higher during a full moon ... but apparently actual statistics contradict that to. So maybe this one is true, but I'd like to see the stats. (And I confess, I haven't bothered to look for stats because it's too much trouble and there's nothing I would be likely to be able to do about it anyway. I have never been drunk in my life and my kids are all adults now, so I'm not particularly concerned about watching my drinking during Christmas.)
Jean Thompson 4 years ago
More phone calls are made to "Relate" - a UK marriage and divorce counselling service - just after Christmas than at any other time of the year. So sad.
According to Professor Pierre, the people who tend to believe in conspiracy theories are those who see the world in very black-or-white tones, as a constant struggle between what is good and what is evil.
“People who believe in conspiracy theories are also often attracted to the Manichean narratives that conspiracy theories offer, involving battles of good and evil pitting against each other in an almost apocalyptic fashion. So, it should come as no surprise that conspiracy theories might sprout up from World War II—a real-life apocalyptic battle between good and evil,” he said.
#13
One day the last person who knows your name will die and you will be forgotten.
You could still be alive when this happens.
September Meadows 4 years ago (edited)
Untrue. Several of my teachers and instructors told me my actions would be recorded in my PERMANENT RECORD and never forgotten! 🙃 If you can't be a good example, then be a dire warning 😉🤪
ephemeral_mochi 4 years ago
"If you can't be a good example, then be a dire warning" is my new motto
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Firefoxy3121 4 years ago
You probably couldn't, because while you're alive unless you're brain dead or have Alzheimer's you'd probably remember your name
NsG 4 years ago
And can tell it to someone else, unless you're literally the last human alive
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#14
Anyone can have a brain aneurysm at any age. No matter your health situation
Mazer 4 years ago
An aortic aneurysms is also possible anytime. I had a schoolmate drop dead during Physical Education class, he had an undiagnosed heart condition
Robert T 4 years ago
Aortic aneurysms are very difficult to diagnose. Back pain is a symptom, which can go unnoticed in someone who already suffers back pain. Both my wife and father-in-law died from aortic aneurysms.
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Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Happened to a work colleague. She was young, it was sudden, I believe she had a kid not long prior. 25 years ago, but I still think of her and how quickly life can be taken away.
Gary Sansom 3 years ago
My boss too: she knew it was there, but one day... She is ok now though, they clipped it..
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Debbie Burns 4 years ago
My best friend had one right in front of me, during recess playing a game of tag, when we were 9 (me) and 10(him) he stopped running, said I don't feel so good, and dropped. It still messes with me to this day, that was in 1980
Jo Morris 4 years ago
And while you can survive an aneurysm, you most likely will die very suddenly.
lazy panda 4 years ago
My aunt has a friend who had an aneurysm at a get together. She survived the trip to the hospital where she then had a stroke and survived that as well. She was in the hospital for 5 weeks and had intense therapy for 3 months but she's almost back to normal.
Load More Replies... Katie Lutesinger 4 years ago
"This place has all three of my biggest fears - alligators, deep water, and brain aneurysms!" "Why would brain aneurysms be here?" "BECAUSE THEY'RE EVERYWHERE, LANA! THEY CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE AT ANY TIME!"
Stringbean 4 years ago
Brother was twenty, he survived after having a stroke as well. I lost part of my eyesight from a blood clot at 17. Thankfully we're both ok, especially my brother, but goodbye health insurance....
DarkAngelNic 4 years ago
Do you guys have factor v leiden? I have it and being on birth control pills almost killed me at 24.
Load More Replies... Stoopham McFernybabes 4 years ago
Not me - I had the CT scan to prove it! (Due to family history)
AnxietyRiddenMom 4 years ago
My best friend in sixth grade died of a brain aneurysm. She was 11
maya P.K 4 years ago
im sorry for your loss i know how it feels to lose your best freind
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There are more slaves today than at any time in history.
More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
Everybody knows Nike uses Chinese slave labor and nobody cares, most of all Nike and the NBA.
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Human trafficking started to become big business because of the war on drugs. Gangs can sell a drug once, whereas s person can be sold over and over. Most trades including fishing, sex, and factory workers.
RedMarbles 4 years ago
So disheartening the world isn't doing a better job to help these powerless people.
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XSpooky_Mint 4 years ago
America be like: Hey, let's end slavery here....But we'll still by s**t from countries that use slaves
kews 4 years ago
Interesting that you're so keen to blame America. Are you telling me you don't buy things made from slave labor? Ever?
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Aliquid 3 years ago
Yeah so? "White" people don't have a monopoly on slavery. Never have. Race has had nothing to do with most instances of slavery across the planet and throughout time. Doesn't change the fact that a certain country built itself on the backs of slaves, and based slavery on race. Just because other people did (and still do) bad things, doesn't somehow excuse that.
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Jane Jane 4 years ago
Today, 167 countries still have some form of modern slavery, which affects an estimated 46 million people worldwide. Forms of modern slavery include slavery by "ownership" ("chattel" slavery), government conscription (forced military service or government labor), forced prison labor, forced migrant labor, debt bondage (slavery until debts are paid), sexual slavery, forced marriage/child marriage, child labor, and forced begging.
Glen MacLeod 4 years ago
Thank you for pointing this out. The point is that people get wound up about slavery in the past, but say nothing about the slavery happening now
Josey Griffin 4 years ago
This just looks like a normal factory to me. They have lighting, tiled floor, and I don’t think it looks bad at all. Don’t know about their pay, but doesn’t look too bad to me.
#16
When the gas chambers were first assembled and experimented with at the Auschwitz concentration camp, the SS soldiers that oversaw the process found that the people inside would start screaming as soon as the gas agent was dropped in. The screaming was so loud that it could be heard through the thick walls of the building, and the victims would continue screaming over the course of 20 minutes until it gradually faded to nothing. The screaming disturbed the soldiers (believe it or not), so they tried to think of a way to drown out the noise so they didn't have to hear it. Their idea was to get 2 motorcycles and rev the engines as loudly as they could at the same time during those 20 minutes.
It didn't work.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Here's a thought, maybe you should've stopped killing millions of people in the first place? Just throwing it out there. You know, I'm just being logical and humane.
Lvisman96 4 years ago
Ummm. Yeah. Sure. And those soldiers would be joing the unfortunate victims and be replaced.
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BorPand8 4 years ago
I read that a lot of them were alcoholics and some committed suicide. The real creepy fact was that they thought they were 'the good guys' and were 'doing the right thing'. Sure it was unpleasant, but it was a necessary duty...
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I was shocked too! I thought you pass out quite quickly! But i guess they really found a torturing way! They were putting people in ovens ffs so this had to be torturing too
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Florence likes women 4 years ago
So sad. This makes me sick. I can’t believe those antisemitist assholes could be fine with pulling that s**t. I would go crazy if I heard people dying for 20 minutes. I can’t believe some people still think this was good.
#17
I’ve been thinking about my parents, who are in their mid-60s. During my first 18 years, I spent some time with my parents during at least 90% of my days. But since heading off to college and then later moving out of Boston, I’ve probably seen them an average of only five times a year each, for an average of maybe two days each time. 10 days a year. About 3% of the days I spent with them each year of my childhood.
Being in their mid-60s, let’s continue to be super optimistic and say I’m one of the incredibly lucky people to have both parents alive into my 60s. That would give us about 30 more years of coexistence. If the ten days a year thing holds, that’s 300 days left to hang with mom and dad. Less time than I spent with them in any one of my 18 childhood years.
When you look at that reality, you realize that despite not being at the end of your life, you may very well be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life. If I lay out the total days I’ll ever spend with each of my parents—assuming I’m as lucky as can be—this becomes starkly clear.
It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
I agree. I miss my family a lot since I am abroad: my mum, grandmas, sister, aunt and uncle, cousins... But my father? Nit at all
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Auntriarch 4 years ago
I see them every day I'm not at work. I can't bear to take a day off and not see them. Thank goodness they moved to my town in 2019
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boatpotatome 4 years ago
My parents are in their 60s and I left home for college 20 years ago. This year, because of Covid travel restrictions, they couldn't leave my city after a visit. They ended up staying with me for 4 months. My silver lining for this pandemic. I spent those 4 months hugging them everyday.
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
They you get older yourself, and start realizing the same thing—-only from the other perspective this time.
v 4 years ago
And you can thank the American, presumably here, "children HAVE to be out on their own as quickly past high school graduation as soon possible!" mentality for this. Probably since the '70's, at least, it's been a point of ridicule in American culture if a person is still living with their parents...whatever the actual dynamic may be. Other than that, the amount of time you spend with your parents, post childhood, is ENTIRELY dependent on you. If you choose to not spend time with your parents don't try to blame society for it.
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
Thankfully, time does not work like that, it does not feel like that. I've only seen my favorite band a couple of times, yet they are very present in my life. Because between those moments I think about them, relisten to them, listen to their new stuff. They occupy and live in my mind. And it's the same with relatives. If I could choose to spend every day for two years with my aunt, then never see her again, over getting to meet her for 300 days over the course of my life, I wouldn't pick the first one. The time between seeing someone is never completely time without them.
Irene Walton 4 years ago
I never moved away from my parents, and my son hasn't moved far away from me either
#18
Only one in every 1,000 sea turtles born ever make it to adulthood
Mazer 4 years ago
They would have a better chance of humans did not mess with their habitat so much
ALEXANDER DALE 3 years ago
It is actually mostly because when turtles are born, that are fifty feet away from shore, so they basically go through trench warfare to live.
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Thomas Ewing 4 years ago
It's not survival of the fittest; it's survival of the survivors. (in all populations-- we are all survivors).
v 4 years ago
This is not something that I'm worried about or that brings me any kind of remorse. Nature, through its billions of years of existence, has devised the best plan of existence for all creatures that live within nature. There is a reason that sea turtles lay so many eggs and only a small fraction of those reach adulthood. Just the same, there is a reason why humans have one of the longest gestation periods in the animal kingdom and, without a doubt, have the longest period of helplessness and childhood/adolescence in the animal kingdom.
Peter Weir 4 years ago
yes isnt evolution special.....??? many animals product multiple offspring due to the dangers..but yet we mourn the loss of a child but did you know you could have many more..strongest survive..
Thomas Sweda 4 years ago
Who actually counted them? And how nice that it was such a round number.
#19
Touching an AM radio broadcast tower will kill you, and not only will it kill you, but it will hurt the entire time you're dying. Number one, the voltage is so high that your hands would instantly clamp to whatever charged part of the tower you touched, then because it's oscillating at a frequency your cells can't feel you wouldn't be able to feel yourself being electrocuted until it starts to heat your body from the current, and you'd also be able to hear your body acting as a "speaker" where you'd literally be able to hear whatever was on that particular station as you die.
ric carter 4 years ago
Former radio engineer here. I was trained to always keep one hand in my back pocket when touching a 50kw transmitter's guts with the other, to avoid creating a through-the-heart circuit for all that juice. So if you *must* grab a transmission tower, only use one hand, and stand in footwear with thick, insulating soles. Have fun there.
John Meise 4 years ago
Wait, what? Towers are just there to hold antennas and dishes, nothing should happen if you touch a tower. Maybe they meant touching an AM broadcasting antenna?
Simon Lyngbo 3 years ago
Yeah, it's the antenna they mean. If yhe whole tower was an antenna, it would ground out.
Load More Replies... v 4 years ago
Part One: I'm calling bullshite on this one. Radio frequency (RF) broadcast doesn't, can't, operate on the idea that the tower itself is the broadcasting mechanism. The picture itself, even though an unrelated stock image, represents this quite well as there are 10 antennas pictured. If, IF, RF broadcast worked the way OP imagines it to, there would be no way to delineate one frequency from another and every AM radio station would have to have its own specifically tuned tower. Also (in the U.S. anyway) there is at least one light, if not multiple lights, at some point on the tower above 60 feet so as to warn aircraft that "HEY I'M STANDING HERE!!! PAY ATTENTION!!!". If towers operated as OP would like to have us believe, the light itself wouldn't work and, most importantly, there would be no way for a Tower Technician (see how I capitalized the title of this workman?) to change the bulb when it, and it will, burns out.
Jan Smith 4 years ago
Amperage vs. Voltage: The Dangers of Electrical Shock https://www.thespruce.com/amperage-not-voltage-kills-1152476 Safety Overview Risks Effects Prevention Image There are many dangers associated with electricity. An accidental shock can cause severe burns, damage to internal organs, and even death. Interestingly, while most people think of electricity in terms of voltage, the most dangerous aspect of electrical shock is the amperage, not the voltage.
JACKSON NIESE 4 years ago
Yes but ohms law. Voltage goes up and resistance(body) stays the same Amperage goes up.
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Part Two: Because Tower Technicians deserve, without question, their own call out...however small mine may be. Tower Technicians are some crazy, balls of tungsten, m***********s. They, day in and day out, put their lives on the line to maintain Radio Frequency (RF) towers so that our daily live may go on as if nothing is wrong in the world. These Tower Technicians scale towers of the most minimal skeleton (see picture) needed to support a particular antenna or set of antennas. These tower range from a height of about 500 feet to about 2,000 feet. Climb your ass up to 2,000 feet to do nothing other than change a light bulb before you even try to push some bullshite like this.
#20
That brain-eating amoebas exist at all and is also pretty commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. Apparently, only 4 people have survived getting it in the last 50 years.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
I know people who would be safe from it and the amoeba would starve to death in their head.
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
That disturbing moment when a zombie looking for brains walks right past you ...
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Monday 4 years ago (edited)
The show "monsters inside me" had a sad case of a little boy that died from this. He went from having a headache after coming back from a family vacation by a lake to dead in just a few days. Don't breathe in lake water.
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
You are more likely to suffer and die due to the impacts of toxic algal blooms. Recently researched and a documentary made called “Toxic Puzzle”. Stay away from foul smelling bodies if water
Romenriel 4 years ago
Especially if the water has weird colour, red or yellow. Never ever touch it. That's much more common than the brain-eating amoeba.
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InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Technically not a true amoeba, but a shapeshifting amoeboflagellate excavate.
John Dilligaf 4 years ago
when I think of all the ponds and lakes and rivers I swum in as a kid
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
Out of the 5 who got it...? Pretty useless info without any comparison.
#21
When Hitler was four years old he fell into a pond next to a church and nearly drowned. however, the priest jumped in and saved his life. to think that WWII and the holocaust, as well as modern history as a whole, could have been prevented if not for that man is mind-blowing.
Monilip 4 years ago (edited)
There were more bad people in these times, not just Hitler. I think WWII would happen anyway, probably different thought. There were more reasons for WWII,not just "Mein Campf" ["Mein Kampf" is correct title, I made a typo]
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
I subscribe to the theory that "Hitler" was inevitable. If it wasn't him it would have been someone else. We approaching a similar precipice now.
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LuckyL 4 years ago
if not for this man - hitler - you mean? I hate how it makes it sound as a men who saved a child is somehow responsible for the holocaust
bumble bee 4 years ago
What's really scary is how this type of "logic" is being used today to justify things that should not be.
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Is it therefore acceptable to watch a child drown? Any responsible adult would prevent a child from drowning. Whatever happens in their future is not ours to decide.
Vicky Z 4 years ago (edited)
This reminds me the dilemma: if you were a time traveler from the future would you kill Hitler when he was a child knowing that everyone would consider you a monster?
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 4 years ago
It's really naive to think that all of this history hinged on just one person. The political atmosphere that created him, still existed and would have resulted in another, just different explosion of tension.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
It isn't clear if the war really would have been prevented, people tend to forget the USSR in that equation. Though, it would be an interesting thought experiement on how it all turned without Hitler
bumble bee 4 years ago
Hitler was the charismatic face of it all. There were plenty of them that without Hitler, it still would have occurred.
Load More Replies... Monday 4 years ago
It also could have been prevented if he got into art school. Or if he'd met different people growing up.
Zaza 4 years ago
No. Someone else would have led the nazi's. If Hitler never even lived at all the war still would have happened
Load More Replies... Ladyvischuss 4 years ago
His mother's life was saved by a Jewish doctor, and Hitler kept him and his family off limits from deportation.
Zaza 4 years ago
It's not as easy as that. Hitler wasn't the one and only big boss of the nazi's like most people seem to think, he was more of a charming frontman that the public enjoyed listening to than enything else (ok well yea and evil, he was evil of course). But the war would have happened even if Hitler never lived
The Starsong Princess 4 years ago
Perhaps WW2 and the Holocaust would have been prevented if Hitler died. Or perhaps someone else would have risen in his place who caused even more atrocities but avoided the mistakes that caused Hitler to lose WW2.
#22
According to quantum mechanics, there's a small chance the whole universe will suddenly disappear in the next 5 seconds also there's a small chance the universe, the earth, all the people, the buildings, whatever device you are reading this from, your posts, the replies, the whole internet, your knowledge of everything, your personality, your memories, your existence, etc... was created just 1 second ago
Kirk Mckeever 4 years ago
I'm gonna put another shot of whisky in my morning tea....y'know...just in case.......
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
according to quantum mechanics, there's another world in which I am a billionaire, but that doesn't help me much does it?
Grant Barke 4 years ago
In another universe you are a cucumber still growing on a vine.
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NC 4 years ago (edited)
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams
Jessica Gunn 4 years ago
Technically, everything is happening at the same time, so the small chance that everything was created a second ago, is actually that everything was created now, in this instant, and there's no "past". Linear time is a human construct
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
We might be some kid’s high school experiment, and actually be living in a Petri dish.
Orange is aging 4 years ago
I think about this a lot actually. Like, it’s possible that today is the first and only day you will spend on earth. All of your memories are totally fake but they feel so real that you convince yourself you’ve been here all your life
Marie Claude Cajolais 4 years ago
So there is a chance that I dont have to go to work tomorrow??
#23
When preparing a body for an open casket, the mortician will sew the person's jaw shut (to keep their mouth from flopping open) and place special contact lenses on the eyes lined with hooks, both to keep the eyelid from snapping open due to shrinking tissues and to give the eye a bit more natural bulge, as the eye tends to sink into the socket after death.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Whats with people and open coffins? I dont want to see the decaying corpse of my loved ones
Kendra Miller 4 years ago
I want to be put in my favorite pjs, put in a sack or a shroud, buried and with a tree planted on top. No formaldehyde, makeup or sewing necessary or wanted. I don't want to poison the plants around me, I want to feed them and complete the circle of life.
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BusLady 4 years ago
At every open casket funeral I have been to, the body doesn't even look like the person as I knew them in life.
Evelyn Haskins 4 years ago
A very good re4ason to NOT have a viewing. My sister told me that they had dome my mothers hair in a way she NEVER wore it and plasters he face with cosmetics which she never used, Also her wedding ring went missing a the mortuary :-(
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Nope. My corpse will be donated either to the local medical school or to my state's body farm. Cremate whatever's left and fertilize a tree or something.
LMW 4 years ago
That's exactly what I want as well! No wake, no funeral...just take my body
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Lady Cadaver 4 years ago
I worked in a mortuary preparing bodies for 7 years and I disagree that it is necessary to do that. I always tried to avoid doing that if I could. The mortuary fridges are cold so if you use these few tricks, it will really help. 1. Place a coin on each eyelid you close and on the day of the open casket, they will remain that way without glue or sewing. You can place the wooden block we used to support the neck, between the chin and the chest to keep the mouth closed, it also remains that was on the day. If a person died and was dehydrated and their eyes were sunken in, I would inject some water just under the eye and it would raise up and look normal. If a person died of a heart attack or aneurysm and you don't want their faces to turn purple, you slightly raise their torso, neck and head so no pooling occurs around their face. I always felt it was disrespectful to sew their mouths shut or glue their eyes etc. if I didn't have to.
Mrs. Mir 4 years ago
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I feel comforted in the fact that I now know how to humanely prepare a dead body. xx (being cheeky)
Load More Replies... Caro Caro 4 years ago
Aaaaw YUK. Please no open coffin for me. Just toss me in the incinerator or compost heap.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
have you heard of that lab in the states that puts bodies in various ... locations... to see how they decay? Like in a large municipal garbage bin? Apparently the latter becomes soup.
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Carly Weber 4 years ago
And that's one of the reasons I'm being cremated. I've already told all my family members. It's also cheaper.
Sweetie Dahling 4 years ago
There are different (also less invasive) ways of keeping the mouth from opening - Ask A Mortician on YouTube has some interesting videos on it.
September Meadows 4 years ago
Unless I die suddenly I'll have no funeral. If a doctor gives me the long face and an expiration date, or I just can't do for myself anymore, then I'm going on a long camping trip somewhere beautiful never to be heard from again o7
Gabby M 4 years ago
I have expressed this same idea to my children. No fuss, no crying, no ridiculous fee to show me off and people to say how good I look, then take up valuable landscape. NOPE I'm out on my own terms. Hmm maybe that forest in Japan(?) where folks go to die. Or the Body Farm, do good for humanity.
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Want some fun? Meet a mortuary assistant and ask for tales behind the scenes. Ewww!
Catpoker88 4 years ago
Those eye caps are also very pointy on the convex side to help them latch onto the eyelid skin.
#24
The most common cause of death for tall people is a heart attack, brought on by the fact that their hearts just naturally have to work harder than average to circulate all that blood through that larger body.
Left-handed people are most likely to die in an accident involving a power tool, because they’re all designed by right-handed people, for right-handed people.
Just me 4 years ago
I'm like 5 feet and right handed,will live forever...if not dying on my way to get that lottery ticket.
Aahzmandus Pervect 4 years ago
"Left-handed people are most likely to die in an accident involving a power tool..." Really? Most likely?
Jeffrey Diehl 4 years ago
Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Ringo Starr are left handed. And the only living members of the Beatles.
#25
After experiencing the symptoms of Rabies there is no going back, you are dying 100%
Monilip 4 years ago (edited)
Not true. There are two experimental treatments knows as the Milwaukee Protocol and the Recife Protocol. Study from 2020 reports 11 known survivours. Teenager Jeanna Giese is first known survivour (she became sick in 2003). However it's experimental, complicated and not always working. Still it's not 100%, its 99%.
Monday 4 years ago
It does depend on where you are. If I show symptoms of rabies I'm 100% going to die because my town doesn't even have a hospital and the neighbouring town's hospital is old and underfunded.
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Serial pacifist 4 years ago
When syphilis appeared, this is what it was called in different countries: England: French disease, France: Spanish disease, Russia: Polish disease, Poland: Turkish disease, Turkey: Christian disease, Germany: French evil, Japan: Chinese pox. Beethoven, Napoleon, Henry VIII, Tolstoy, Capone, Lincoln, and Van Gogh all had it.
RedMarbles 4 years ago
People sure love to vilify other groups of people. Hopefully civilization can get past it for the sake of all our futures.
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Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
I participated in a workshop about rabies, they said if you ever wake up and there is a bat in your house go for rabies shots, regardless if you think you were bit, as a scratch can transfer rabies too.
Autumn 4 years ago
Yup. You most likely won’t notice a bat bite and they’re common carriers of rabies. It’s definitely best to get a shot.
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Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
That raccoon has some surprisingly clean teeth, might I point out.
#26
From 1948- the end of the Cold War, there were approximately 5,000 close case scenarios in which Nuclear weapons were launched or detonated. The fact that we are alive is a statistical miracle.
Bettye McKee 4 years ago
The Cold War did not end in 1948. It began in 1947 and ended in 1991. It was a tense period of time for those who were aware of it. It amazes me that so many were completely unaware of it.
Eglė Bukauskaitė 3 years ago
This post on BP is 6 months old and on reddit even older... Boy how young we were thinking that Cold war actually ended...
Matthew Howard 4 years ago
that is so misleading you are forgetting to account for which ones were tests and which ones were actually attacks.
#27
There is more plastic than plankton in the ocean
Mazer 4 years ago
We are a bunch of an inane creatures who will pay for our folly sooner than later
Tenacious Squirrel 4 years ago
And yet people still buy and 'throw away' single-use plastic, plastic nappies/diapers, toys, it's a never-ending list. They just don't seem to care.
Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
Humans must be the only species that habitually shits where it eats. It's insane.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
Only because people don't know what plankton is and they mix up algae, seaweed and plankton all the time. These are not the same things people.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
watch what will happen. We'll invent a bacterium that eats plastic and once we release it, it will evolve into this amoeba thing (Evolution 2000) and destroy us as well: EvolutionA...a7-png.jpg 
SupernaturalPanda 3 years ago
There’s more plastic in Hollywood than anywhere else on earth....IMO
#28
There are only 2 states in the US that have outlawed child marriage. One of them only just put it into law a few weeks ago. 23 states don’t even have an age limit on marriage.
Mazer 4 years ago
The marriage age in the United States is the age at which a person can marry in the United States as a right, or with parental consent or other authorization. This age is set by each state and territory, either by statute or the common law applies. In general, an individual can marry upon reaching 18 years of age in all states except in Nebraska, where the general marriage age is 19, and Mississippi, where the general marriage age is 21.[1] The general marriage age is commonly the age of majority, though in Alabama the general marriage age is 18 while the age of majority is 19. Age of consent laws vary.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
And there are 6 states were "animal love" is legal + the grounds of Guantanamo Bay (for civilians).
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago (edited)
Uuuh, i have two questions. A: What ones? B: What are the nuclear launch codes? C: How can i steal The Football without anyone noticing? D: Do you have a Joe Biden voice changer handy?
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Dave P 4 years ago
Not exactly, and every state had some form of age limit, usually due to commonlaw court rulings and not actually written. And "child marriage" is complex to understand. For example in NJ they used to have 16 before they banned a few years ago, now it is 18, but age of consent is 16 for sex. They used to have it pegged to age of consent. In New York 16 is our legal age for marriage, with parental consent and the spouse is within 4 years of age. Technically called child marriage because the person is under 18. But these laws date back to a time when 15 or 16 was not unusual for marriage, and while are out of date today, are not what most people think of child marriages.
Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago
There have been cases of 11 year old girls who were married after being raped, in states where parents or a judge have to consent. If the judge is from the same fundamentalist religious group as the parents it was happening.
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Linda R Ryan 4 years ago
Mississippi's minimum legal age is 15 for girls and 17 for males with parental consent. Otherwise, it is 21. I live in MS.
David Andrews 4 years ago
Samantha Bee did an interesting bit a few years ago on child marriage laws in the US https://youtu.be/B0lwiInZG1E
Mark Johansen 4 years ago
Umm, no. This page, for example, https://theamm.org/articles/920-how-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-get-married-in-each-state, lists the minimum age to get married in every US state, and it lists every state as having a minimum age of at least 18 to marry without parental consent. Most states have laws saying that people 16 or 17 can marry if their parents and/or a juvenile court consent. I found three states on the list that don't have an explicit minimum age (but require consent from parents or a court). Maybe there's some truth to this if you define your terms just right. Like only 2 states have laws specifically forbidding kidnapping a child and forcing her to marry you. But such a law would be unnecessary and redundant because it's already illegal for minors to marry and it's already illegal to kidnap someone and it's already illegal to rape someone. Maybe there are many states that provide special cases when someone under 16 can marry if they meet whatever conditions.
Nadja Lambacher 4 years ago
It used to be worse... One advocate against child marriage was married at age 11 in 1971 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Johnson
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Read https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/marriage-age-by-state. Child marriage is legal in some states.
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#30
A new mattress weighs about 90lbs, a used mattress weighs about 110lbs
Mazer 4 years ago
She’d skin cells and the critters who feast on them. If it concerns you, vacuum your bed
Anagram margana 4 years ago
This sounds made up…otherwise why wouldn't it specify Twin, Queen or King?
Chrissa Gordon 4 years ago
A twin non-pillow top perhaps. Recently moved a rather old mattress that always had water proof protection on it, was extremely light weight.
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In 2014 the CDC once found a smallpox sample that they had lost and didn’t even know it. It was just laying around in some random storeroom.
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
Half of all human DNA originally came from viruses, which infected and embedded themselves in our ancestors’ egg and sperm cells. Most are now extinct, but French researchers applied for permission to resurrect one of them. The government approved the project.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Actually some people hipotezise that perhaps virus started first as a particle of dna transfering information between cells (as bacterian sex is) that later developed into the infectious thing we know of
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George Pepe 4 years ago
They recently found some vials that were labeled small pox. However, it turns out they were vaccine doses and had been mislabeled.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
I don't think Karen of Parler would fare any better. I think she'd drink the sample.
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Fossilization is actually quite rare. It takes a very specific set of circumstances for something to even become a fossil let alone have it survive to the modern day. This means there are likely millions of species of animals, plants, and other organisms that we will simply never know about because they either: A. Never fossilized. B. Their fossils were destroyed (either naturally or by humans). C. The fossils are in an area not easily accessible to humans, like at the bottom of the ocean or under the ice in Antarctica. For all we know, there could’ve been an advanced civilization that existed before humans, but we may never know about them because any trace of their existence has been lost to time. Kinda makes you wonder if WE’RE gonna end up that way...
Ozacoter 4 years ago
No. This post is true when it comes to the many species that never fossilized. But if there was an advanced civilization we would have found it sincw inorganic matter gets preserved much better. Unless for some reason they only used bone, wood and leather for their houses and tools and not stone
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
Could have been millions of years ago, with whatever they left behind now buried deep, deep in sediments.
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Wilf 4 years ago
Except there are enough fossils around to allow us to infer quite a bit about the species we HAVEN'T found fossils for. In recent decades, understanding of life's history has changed markedly as the documented fossil record has been extended seven-fold to some 3,500 million years ago, well into the pre-Cambrian, an age more than three-quarters that of the planet itself.
Wilf 4 years ago
Here's a good summary. https://www.pnas.org/content/97/13/6947
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#33
Deforestation in the Amazon got up 55% from January to April
Caro Caro 4 years ago
Bolsonaro is a pig. He turns a blind eye so that companies (his cronies) can chop down trees and the indigenous peoples have to flee.
Mazer 4 years ago (edited)
Buy furniture and wood responsibility. There are plenty of onsite places to get information on how to avoid using your dollars to support this tragedy and others, like palm oil etc
ZAPanda 4 years ago
Are they deforesting for WOOD or to make cattle farms for macdonalds?
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 4 years ago
55% from what? There's no metric here. I hate when people spout facts like this. Finish your claim or go home.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
You don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to work that one out, Cee Ya Ray.
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The next Einstein could have very well been born, but never had access to proper resources to grow
ZAPanda 4 years ago
This argument assumes genetic essentialism, that is that geniuses are born and need just schooling say, to become apparent. If we discard that assumption and argue that perhaps it's about access to schooling etc., then really the question becomes one of, what percentage of talent loss are we currently sitting with, given that the education system(s) around the world are various degrees of not-great? The answer is, I would suggest, around 50%, mostly due to the developing world lacking these resources.
#35
When doing CPR/chest compressions you're going to hear a loud crack. That’s the sound of the sternum/ribs breaking.
AnxietyRiddenMom 4 years ago
This happened to my husband a few months back. I was just so happy he was alive, I wasn't worried about his ribs. Afterwards, he was in miserable pain for months. No doctor would do anything to treat it. They don't wrap ribs anymore apparently.
Susie Elle 4 years ago (edited)
Also the reason you need to put your hands roughly at armpit height is because the tip of the sternum can break off and stab holes in the liver and surrounding tissues during chest compressions if you place your arms too low.
Sail Westerly 4 years ago
I was told on my first aid course - breaking a rib or two or puncturing the liver is the last of your casualty's problems.
Wise beauty 4 years ago
Would you rather die or have a few broken ribs? If my heart stopped beating, I would gladly trade it out for a few broken ribs.
#36
A hippo’s bite is as strong as a grand piano falling on top of you from a 3 story building. They can also run up to 25 MPH.
Supernatural 4 years ago
What a strange unit of measurement...grand piano falling from varying heights.....shall we just do away with PSI and go with GPPF(grand piano per floor)
Monday 4 years ago
Easier to visualize a piano falling than to convert PSI to a mental picture.
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My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think hippos are responsible for more deaths per year than crocodiles. I saw a documentary years ago stating this.
Supernatural 4 years ago
Yeah...but what's the stats for fatalities /grand pianos falling from 3rd floors?
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Nikki Sevven 4 years ago
I love my country, but man, we will do ANYTHING to avoid using the metric system.
Boodah Jones 4 years ago
We can't visualize the metric system/psi...but we can visualize a grand f*****g piano falling from a 3 story building.....which is the point. smfh
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Scar tissue is constantly in repair, and lack of Vitamin C will eventually cause old scars to reopen.
Mazer 4 years ago
Scurvy. Which is a lack of vitamin C will cause every injury you ever had to come to life. The term LIMEY comes from British sailors using limes to prevent scurvy
#38
The moon Is slowly moving away from the earth, meaning in the future people will only be able to see a small light. Saturn's rings whilst beautiful... We're created by Saturn literally ripping an icy moon apart, causing the pieces to spread out forming a ring. After a while, large bits of debris pulled in lesser bits and formed the moons that carved out the lines. Jupiter's eye is shrinking, meaning the red spot will one day be gone. The star known as Betelgeuse? Can never spell it, will have or at some point will go supernova and we'll see that after the light reaches here, it'll light up the sky as bright as day for a while A wandering black hole with sufficient mass could easily pull the sun and or any planets away from their normal orbits... And these particular black holes wander hence their names. So one could pass by at any time and we would be screwed.
MadamGreenIce 4 years ago
Betelgeuse could have gone supernova by now and we wouldn't know. It takes 600 years for light from Betelgeuse to reach us. Also last year there was speculation it was about to go supernova because it was dimming. Turned out false alarm.
James Pasquini 4 years ago
Yeah, just a case of gas. A good belch and he was back to being bright again. ;o)
Load More Replies... LuckyL 4 years ago
Had to look up the star. It's expected to go out in a super nova in something between 1000 and 100.000 - so nothing to look forward to in the near future
ThatGuv 4 years ago
Well, given the rate at which Jupiter's eye is shrinking, they're predicting it will be gone in under 20 years...
Load More Replies... Steve Barnett 4 years ago
The moon is moving away from Earth at a similar rate that a fingernail grows.
Shine Caramia 4 years ago
Stars will stop being visible from earth because space is expanding faster than the speed of light
UpQuarkDownQuark 4 years ago
The moon is receding, but very slowly. Just about 3.8cm per year. It’s about 380,000km away now, and at a consistent rate it’ll take a billion years to go another 33,000 km away. By the time the sun swallows the Earth, the moon will still be clearly visible.
#39
Every unborn baby grows a moustache in the womb, which then spreads to cover the entire body. The baby then eats the entire hair called lanugo, and excretes it after birth with their first bowel movement, which is a substance called meconium
My Name Is Mars 4 years ago
My son was born prematurely and was still covered in lanugo; we called him Baby Werewolf until the lanugo fell off because he had the hair across his forehead, over his ears, on his feet and hands. The meconium bowel movement is black and tar like, very sticky. Even premature babies born with lanugo have the meconium bowel movement; my son did. I remember how messy it was and the nurse coming to help me clean him up.
Monday 4 years ago
And sometimes the excretion happens before birth and the baby breathes it into their lungs.
#40
You know when you search for businesses, and you see the maps? and get directions and stuff? The companies aren't necessarily the "best companies"... they just paid a lot of money to pop up when you searched for them. I know because its my job to manipulate the search. Lots of good companies have the budget to show up, but unfortunately, so do unethical companies.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Just as everybody knows that banks never text, mail or phone you to warn you that someone is emptying your bank account and that's why you have to hurry and transfer your money to an off shore bankaccount in the Cayman Islands....
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Idk about everyone else, but when I'm looking for a business I'm just looking for what's available in my city. I can look for what's "best" when I research reviews and make my opinion. If I'm understanding this correctly as it took me a few times to comprehend what the point is.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
I asked for restaurants in an area and only a few pins dropped. When I zoomed in to see building shapes, there were lots more restaurants.
#41
Dead people can get goosebumps
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
Same here. This is a little freaky to think about.
Load More Replies... Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
Yes, sorta like normally. We tend to think of death as this instant thing, like you shut off like a lamp. But it really is a dragged out process. Different parts of the body dies at different rates. Luckily the cognitive parts of the brain are the first things to die so you won't be aware for most of it. The skin stays alive for much longer. I believe the liver or the kidneys are the last parts to die, one of those. And that can take days in some cases.
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You're going to die one day with a lot of your hopes and dreams completely unfulfilled and unrealized.
Mazer 4 years ago
What if my hopes and dreams are that i have died having then unfulfilled and unrealized??
Sofia Brolo 4 years ago
they would be realized at the moment you die having unrealized them
Load More Replies... Grant Barke 4 years ago
Anything is better than eternal nothing. Unless there is a God, then heaven will be better than unfulfilled and unrealized dreams on this God forsaken planet.
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
That's why in Buddhism, hopes and dreams that are difficult to fulfill are seen as unecessary suffering. You don't _have_ to hold onto dreams you once had if they are no use to you chasing them anymore, you can find much more happiness in just letting them go. 😊
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
I'm trying to prevent this and this about it more I'd like to admit.
bumble bee 4 years ago
Most hopes and dreams are based on societal expectations and pressure. So who cares what was left unfulfilled/unrealized.
#43
The female tarantula hawk wasp stings a tarantula between the legs, paralyzes it, then drags the prey to a specially prepared burrow, where a single egg is laid on the spider's abdomen, and the entrance is covered. Sex of the larvae is determined by fertilization; fertilized eggs produce females, while unfertilized eggs produce males. When the wasp larva hatches, it creates a small hole in the spider's abdomen, then enters and feeds voraciously, avoiding vital organs for as long as possible to keep the spider alive. After several weeks, the larva pupates. Finally, the wasp becomes an adult and emerges from the spider's abdomen to continue the life cycle
Serial pacifist 4 years ago
The Antechinus marsupial has so much sex that it literally dies. 11 months old, males reach their 'sperm limit'. Then, they do it for up to 14 hours with each female, until their bodies break down. The male will get gangrene and various other infections, dying before his birthday.
Scagsy 4 years ago
I once had a night like that with my wife, but with reading. Neither of us died either. Which was nice.
Load More Replies... Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Now I'm wondering how unfertilized eggs can still produce ANYTHING.
bumble bee 4 years ago
Fitting end to a species who drinks blood/fluids to survive anyway. Go wasp
#44
Trees actually only make roughly 20% of the world's oxygen with the other 80% consisting of the algae phytoplankton, so simply planting trees isn't as effective as you'd think
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
It's about as effective as all these "carbon neutral" companies producing exactly the same amount of co2 as they always have, but because they pay into plant-a-tree schemes, they're suddenly "environmentally responsible". It's all BS.
Jods 4 years ago
Certainly not where I live. The local council is hell bent on getting rid of acres of woodlands so they can widen the roads ease traffic congestion. Only thing is, they’re widening the roads to accommodate more cyclists thereby creating more traffic congestion. It’s so hilly round here that no one unaccustomed to cycling is suddenly going to ditch their cars.
Kika González 4 years ago
So then where do we help algae phytoplankton? Planting trees helps reverse deforestation. And THAT helps a lot
#45
Tapeworms can grow up to 32 feet inside of you and they eat half of what you eat
Little Wonder 4 years ago
No they don't. Weightloss from tapeworm infection is due to nausea and feeling sick, therefore having a smaller appetite.
#46
Your bones are always wet.
Mimi La Souris 4 years ago
I don't understand either, I put it in the same category as men who think women don't fart
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#47
Bananas are slightly radioactive.
Robert T 4 years ago
Almost everything is radioactive, not just things containing potassium. Bananas are only very very slightly radioactive due to the tiny amount of K-40 they contain. See https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/you-asked/it-true-banana-radioactive
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
Recent testing by CEH and others has found that commonly sold breakfast cereals contain residues of toxic chemicals such as glyphosate and arsenic without consumers' knowledge or consent. And airline crews are limited as to how many trips they can take over the North pole (fastest route from US to Europe etc) due to the increase in radiation exposure. Your body can absorb more radiation taking a plane trip than from x-rays
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
It takes an impossible to eat amount to get negative effects from that (we would die from several other things before). Brazil nuts on the other hand shouldn't be consumed in large quantities, as they have high amounts of radiation (not more than 2 nuts per day are recommended here in Germany)
Lucifer Takashi 4 years ago
If you eat around 400,000 bananas in 10 minutes you'll die of radioactive posining.
Larks (Taylor's Version) 4 years ago (edited)
if you eat 800 bananas in a day you'll die from radioactivity
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
Hate to have to break it to you, but you're already radioactive. Edit: Thank you for editing your comment so that mine doesn't make sense. You originally said "be radioactive". If you eat 800 bananas in a day, you'll die because your gut will explode, long before the radioactivity becomes the equivalent of having a single x-ray!
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Deep-sea octopus babies take 5+ years to hatch, while mama octopus never leaves the “nest” to feed and dies when the babies hatch. She doesn’t eat for 5+ years!
#49
There's a planet where it rains molten glass... horizontally... at 5400 mph or 8700 kmh
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Elon Musk thinks that's where we should all move to. Free windows for everyone.
#50
Horses are omnivores
Lucifer 4 years ago
Though technically correct, it's more of an opportunity than a necessity. Cows, deer & other herbivores have been known to eat other animals when there isn't anything else around. There stomachs have evolved to digest plant based food. And eating meat doesn't happen on a regualr basis.
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
All I can see now is a horse eating a cheeseburger with everything.
'Tammy Chapman' 4 years ago
i saw that one video where a horse straight up eats a baby chick while the mom chicken freaked out.
Upstaged75 4 years ago
I can confirm that my horses have never eaten anything meatier than an apple. Perhaps wild horses will consume anything, but domestic ones are pretty content with hay and grass. Although I did once have a mare who loved Gatorade and whatever other food she could snatch from the hands of an unsuspecting human. :)
#51
Your lips are made of the same skin as your anus. Do you have lips on your a**, or an anus for a mouth?
Francis 4 years ago (edited)
when you open your mouth while you're sh*tting, you're in some way a donut :)
Jody Whitmarsh 4 years ago
Also, your b******e has taste bud glands which is why you can feel the spicy foods going out
#52
New research shows that the North Pole will be gone in 40 years no matter what we do now.
Dave P 4 years ago
Yeah, I call BS, 1) the doom and gloom crowd has incorrectly predicted this several times, We passed 4 different periods of total melt already. 2) Less than 3% of scientist support the extreme models, most take a much more moderate approach of a much slower warming and change, and at current rates it would take 300 years for that, and we are 100 years till we hit the point of no return. I trust the rational scientists who tend to be right, rather than the fringe alarmists who have been wrong time and time again.
Chris Sprucefield 4 years ago
They have predicted this many times over now, proven wrong, every single time, so what's different with this one?
Julieandthephatones 3 years ago
nnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
#53
A single female tiger killed 436 people in India. She is known as the Champawat Tiger.
Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago
killed in 1907. A postmortem on the tigress showed the upper and lower canine teeth on the right side of her mouth were broken, the upper one in half, the lower one right down to the bone. This injury, a result of an old gunshot, according to Corbett(hunter who killed her), probably prevented her from hunting her natural prey, and hence, she started to hunt humans. Sooo...not her fault apparently.
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
Either that, or she held a grudge against humans!
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Lizard Gaming_YT 4 years ago
Ok, but how many tigers have people killed? I bet the answer is a LOT higher
#54
Dolphins in captivity usually commit suicide by suffocating themselves. Famous example: Flipper
#55
Squirrels will eat baby birds and horses will eat baby chicks if given the chance.
Firstname Lastname 4 years ago
I read this as "squirrels will eat baby birds and horses" and was very impressed until I finished the sentence.
Upstaged75 4 years ago
Yeah, again I'm going to go with no, my horses would not eat chicken if given the opportunity. Horses are prey animals at heart, so they would rather run away from something moving than eat it. Maybe wild horses that were really hungry might, but in general it doesn't happen.
#56
It takes longer to say WWW than it does to say World Wide Web
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
Only in english and other languages that call that letter very long, as "doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou" would be "weh weh weh" in german for example
C. Wade 4 years ago
Same in Romanian, we just way Ve Ve Ve (as in the 've' sound in 'velcro').
Load More Replies... ZAPanda 4 years ago
and most people are not aware of the following. (1) www.whatever.com is a specific server or computer somewhere. It does not HAVE to be "on the web", it's just a fully qualified domain name pointing to a specific address. (2) you can often leave out www because it's redundant to type that if you are already using a web browser (http-protocol based app), to access something using http... so a lot of sysadmins simply point the www.whatever.com entry to the same machine that handles the whatever.com domain. This habit leads to (3) the need for an MX (mail exchanger) entry which defines what happens to email protocol attempts ... because @whatever.com means deliver the mail to the server whatever.com. Since whatever.com is handling web, you probably want mail to go elsewhere, e.g. mail.whatever.com. But you don't want to bother people by writing @mail.whatever.com.
Tweetysvoice 4 years ago
I just say "dub dub dub". It's faster than either and everyone understands.
#57
Whales don’t die of old age. Eventually, they just don’t have the strength to resurface and slowly drown.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
So they die of old age. Its like saying "humans dont die of old age eventually their bodies start failing and they die".
ZuluIsraeliAmnesiac 4 years ago
So, they get so old that they are too weak to resurface? And don't die of old age?
digitalin 4 years ago
Now I'm picturing the equivalent of whale wheelchairs-- flotation devices for elderly whales to adjust their buoyancy... someone get on that.
Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Maybe some just become sick then too weak. Or have birth defects.
#58
Your nipples are older than your teeth
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Only just, I learnt the other day that kids already have their adult teeth in their faces, just waiting to come down!
James Pasquini 4 years ago
Now that's one piece of trivia I'll have to share with my wife. roflmao!
Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
Depends what you mean by older. The nipples being flesh and skin, the cells are all replaced over a handful of years. But bone, like teeth is replaced much slower. So in that sense it would be the opposite 🦷🦷
#59
Scallops have eyes. Around 200 under the Shelly lip
#60
Bacteria (usually) outnumbers your own cells on your own body.
Tweetysvoice 4 years ago
Many people don't realize that the vast majority are GOOD bacteria and we can't survive without them.
Beta 4 years ago
Yeah that’s the bad thing about hand sanitizer it can kill off good bacteria
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Researchers in Israel and Canada say the ratio between resident microbes and human cells is more likely to be one-to-one.
Hugo Raible 4 years ago
There is a kilogram of bacteria in our guts - and they are our friends.
#61
There is a sunken boat on the English Channel near where I used to live called the SS Richard Montgomery. It is filled with live dynamite and, if disturbed, will explode causing flooding in most of London and killing hundreds of people. Nothing has been done about it because American authorities claim the ship has been extracted safely and is no longer there, claiming to have photographic evidence as well as a receipt. It is still there to this day and every day hundreds of ships pass the nearly-sunk masts - a single mistake could mean catastrophe for London and the southeast of England.
Juliet Hadaway 4 years ago
okay ive heard about this. some researchers don't believe it will do anything just a big splash. no one dead. (although i may be wrong)
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
@Ray, Bombs and munitions, not dynamite. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery
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authorities considered non-intervention to be the safest course of action. That became particularly true when a 1967 attempt to clear the Kielce – a smaller wrecked munitions vessel almost four miles (6.4km) out to sea – triggered an explosion that measured 4.5 on the Richter scale and damaged property in nearby Folkestone, though no injuries were reported. Experts doubt that all the munitions will go off at the same time.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
The ship is guarded 24/7/365 and there is a no-entry exclusion zone around the wreck. There is radar surveillance so any ship entering the exclusion zone is immediately detected and it will be intercepted. For more facts: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/850374/SS_Richard_Montgomery.pdf
ZAPanda 4 years ago
yeah if it's wet i seriously doubt it will blow. not like it's plastique or something
Load More Replies... Serial pacifist 4 years ago
More historical artifacts lie underwater than on land. It includes art, statues, treasures, coins, entire cities, and over 1 million ships, all of which can be found at the sea bottom. The oceans hold 20 million tons of dilute gold, enough to supply each living human with 9 lbs.
Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
I read an online article about this, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-52918221 they said: "explosives still aboard the sunken vessel were TNT, which "is likely to be inert because of the fuses having degraded over time".
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 4 years ago
It a) is not in the English channel, and b) would not cause flooding in 'most of London'.
#62
Humans have caused 322 animal extinctions over the past 500 years
Ozacoter 4 years ago
To be fair we arent the best species at that. Check the Great Oxidation event. Bacteria didnt use to be able to produce much oxigen until one grouo developed the ability. They changed the atmospheric composition so much that most species alive at the time (other bacteria) died.
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
Wilf Batty with the last thylacine killed in the wild. An Endling. He looks pretty chuffed with himself, doesn’t he? Wilf_Batty...135bf1.jpg 
#63
As dead bodies decay, they "burp" or release gasses. For this reason, caskets and mausoleums need to be ventilated so that the gas can escape.
#64
There could be some planets swimming in the deep space without suns and even without galaxies. and you can't even see stars from their surface. absolute darkness.
Pixie 4 years ago
Rogue planets. For the german speakers here: theres a podcast by an austrian astrophysicist, Florian Freistetter, called Sternengeschichten thats really good.
RandomHumanBean 4 years ago
cool! sadly, literally the only word in german i know is pencil sharpener
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Loads of people have their ashes scattered at Disneyland - the place is essentially one giant haunted house
Ray Martin 4 years ago
This is largely an urban myth. However, upon my death I have two requests. The first is that my remains are to be scattered around the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride. The second is that I am not to be cremated.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Somebody already did that. Try, i dunno, It's A Small World.
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Csaba Hegedűs 4 years ago
This whole ash scattering is a myth in the first place. A cremated body produces about 10-20 kg ash. You get an urn after with like 1 kg of ash to scatter. The rest just stays there, I'd think it goes in the dust-bin or something.
#66
The sun is becoming hotter and in about a billion years, the oceans will boil off and our atmosphere will be unable to sustain any form of life.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
And so will all other stars eventually. Why would ours be different? We are not going to be alive by then anyway. No species can last that long
Steve Barnett 4 years ago
4 billion, but yes. The Sun dying will engulf Earth and everything will be destroyed.
James Pasquini 4 years ago
We'll have to make that change on our calendars. Whew! What a relief! lol
Load More Replies... James Pasquini 4 years ago
I don't think I will be around in a billions years, so... boil away! I do believe our atmosphere will have been incapable of support life long before the oceans boil off.
#67
Eskimo women suck the snot out of their babies nose with their mouth
Summer Mason 4 years ago
This was a common practice In all ethnicites till it became taboo to do so. Now most mondren westren medicine give you a suction cup at birth to remove snot or choking hazards in small babies.
AnnaBanana 4 years ago
Some mothers still do it, if desperate. Reason #645 I have no kids!
Load More Replies... Ray Martin 4 years ago
That is generally considered a derogatory term, much like 'the N word'. Secondly, countless parents of all races and creeds have done that when necessary, including me on one occasion, so applying it solely to one group of people seems more racist than anything else.
Susie Elle 4 years ago
Also, you swallow your own snot countless of times during any given day.
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Mazer 4 years ago
Is this current or past?? Some African tribes introduced a new born into the tribe by having tribe members spit in the babies mouth. I do not know if this practice continues
#TheGregoryProject 4 years ago
'Eskimos' i can't believe people still use that term. so weird.
#68
There are about 2,500 languages that have died out and/or are being less and less used with each passing day
Theoretical Empiricist 4 years ago
OK, my stomach just did three back handsprings and a triple-twist back flip. Reminds me the Delee suction device that the served this purpose, except the DeLee had a trap between the snot and the mouth.
#69
People who handle cockroaches develop allergies to them. This usually prevents them from drinking pre-ground coffee because of the cockroaches that get grounded in with large batches.
Susie Elle 4 years ago (edited)
This sounds like an urban legend as foods processing factories are usually super duper clean. Also, who 'handles cockroaches'?
Jihana 4 years ago
No I believe it, you can't keep a factory completely empty of insects, that's just not possible. There is probably a limit of how much insects are allowed in foods. Also, people who handle cockroaches: exterminators, people who keep animals that eat cockroaches, people who work in places cockroaches are common
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Chris Scritchfield 4 years ago
Ummm nothing made up here except maybe the allergy https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/insect-rodent-filth-in-food-wellness/index.html
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
So that explains that awful taste of Starbucks and Tim Hortons coffee. Sick.
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
Science teacher at my kids' school breeds them to show the kids the stages of growth. Entomologists I can imagine have had to handle their fair share while learning. Herp keepers (reptile and amphibian owners) often feed specific varieties to larger specimen reptiles/ amphibians. Exterminators for work purposes. Property managers/ landlords.... I can list quite a few more, but you're right, it's not a normal thing.
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Scuba Divers can experience a sudden change in pressure when swimming near pipes and will get sucked inside, doesn’t matter the size of the hole. It’s called Delta P, worst part? Someone else usually has to go inside the pipe to remove the body.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
seems false. If the pipe is like, 1mm wide, I doubt it. What kind of pipe? Sewerage? That would be going outwards into the sea. Etc.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
It can happen if you end up too close to a hydro dam or near a nuclear power plant that sucks in ocean or lake water. Usually they have warning signs and large walls, but some people ignore them.
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Rijkærd 4 years ago
This need more clarity. *doesnt matter the size of the whole? *And some else to go inside?
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
Example (crab violence warning): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgKxWlTt8A
Load More Replies... Caro Caro 4 years ago (edited)
There's this Dutch expression for dying "De pijp uit gaan" which means dying and translated is "leaving the pipe". ('Leaving the pipe' probably comes from the rabbit and badger hunt or the duck hunt. Hunters also called the connecting corridors between rabbit burrows pipes. Of course, if a rabbit went out of the pipe during the hunting season, the animal had a high chance of being shot).
#71
Most people will live and die with none or barely any influence on the future of our planet
Susie Elle 4 years ago
If you take into consideration that the atoms and energy in your body are never wasted and will contribute to the birth of a next organism (animal or plant) - then you actually have a very profound influence on the future of the planet :)
Ozacoter 4 years ago
It is so fascinating if you think about it. That we are made of atoms that might have been another person, an dinosaur, a virus, a meteor...
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
True. Most of us are just insignificant extras on the stage. There are just a few who will be remembered for a longer time. Either because of the atrocities they committed or because of their beneficial contributions to our civilisation.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
The only thing we need to think about is how we can contribute to society in a positive way. Then you will know that you've been worth it.
Dee 4 years ago
Only if it doesn’t bring you joy. If it makes you happy to work on your puppet show please do continue.
Load More Replies... #72
Just because you click together, doesn't mean you'll be together forever. Not everyone positive you meet is meant to stay in your life.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago (edited)
Everybody dies, so even the best relationships will break up at one time.
#73
Jesus may love you, but everyone else thinks you’re an idiot
Final score:
-32points
Captain Awesome (Submission author) 4 years ago
Yeah, but I wanted to join in!
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
Not true, more like a majority opinion. There are at least 2.2 billion people on earth who believe this. However, there's a solid 5.7 billion people who don't. (Americans may be surprised to know that outside North and South America, and Sub-saharan Africa, most people are NOT christians).
Animelover13ฅ(• ɪ •)ฅ 4 years ago
Actually he could have been a real person
Load More Replies... Captain Awesome (Submission author) 4 years ago
I just like to say something aggravating Ave watch people ignite. Gives me joy.
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Just Browsing 4 years ago
Some of these are only partially correct, some are complete BS :( :(
TeethClipper 4 years ago
That makes your claim only partially true and false at the same time.
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Joeshar 4 years ago (edited)
If you decide not to have a child, you are the first and last being with that decision from your ancestors after 4.5 billion years.
Frisinator 4 years ago
Yeah these facts should really be checked. There has been enough incorrect stuff published in a the last few years. Just sayin
Just Browsing 4 years ago
Some of these are only partially correct, some are complete BS :( :(
TeethClipper 4 years ago
That makes your claim only partially true and false at the same time.
Load More Replies... Joeshar 4 years ago (edited)
If you decide not to have a child, you are the first and last being with that decision from your ancestors after 4.5 billion years.
Frisinator 4 years ago
Yeah these facts should really be checked. There has been enough incorrect stuff published in a the last few years. Just sayin
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