50 Weird And Unsettling Facts People Didn’t Ask For, But This Influencer Shared Anyway
Interview With ExpertA content creator from the Philadelphia area, Ashley Washington, knows a few things that keep them up at night. So, they do what every sensible person in their position would—share the horror with others.
Over time, their TikTok account has become an extensive archive of unsettling facts about everything from human anatomy and social practices to the animal kingdom and beyond.
Whether you want to fuel your nightmares or are simply looking for ways to expand your pub trivia knowledge, continue scrolling to dive into the bizarre! And while you do, don't miss the conversations we had with psychotherapists Michelle Maidenberg and Nancy Colier—you'll find them between the entries.
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The United States makes up 4% of the world's population and 68% of the world's serial k**lers.
And ridiculously underpoliced. Per person, we have less than half the cops as Western Europe. Per murder, we have less than one-sixth. Per area, we have one fifth. Our police force is so overstressed responding to catching people as they commit crimes, we hardly have anyone left over to investigate past crimes. As a result, whereas in Europe, "clearance" rate for murders is as high as 98%, In America, it's as low as 50%. The result is that murderers get to commit murder again and again and again.
Load More Replies...But according to Trump and his minions, Americans are all angels and everyone else is bad.
we are also one of the few countries that categorized serial killers (China, Russia, and India, do not take any statistics of this, and do not report for example) as well half the world has no reliable records, etc. Its statistical bias, not actual statistical fact
Clears throat, "known serial killers" I bet there are some in YOUR neck of the woods, you wish you knew about!
68% of known serial killers. I notice that very often when a serial killer is discovered elsewhere their k**l count is 90s to over a hundred, every time. USA has better forensics and policing aimed at discovering serial killers.
Serial kíllers don't usually use guns. Spree kíllers and Mass múrderers do.
Load More Replies...This one isn’t scary. Do you have a quark large population and you don’t have a gun control, you have a lot of anger, you have a lot of uncontrolled mental illness because you have no access to proper healthcare and your healthcare system is designed to bankrupt people for the snakes things, because you don’t have universal healthcare. Which is really unfair. That part is all scary.
As much as we might dislike some of these facts (and other things about the world), closing our eyes won't make them go away.
Dr. Michelle Maidenberg is an adjunct graduate professor of Mindfulness Practice at New York University and maintains a private practice in Harrison, NY. She told Bored Panda, "Denial is a common psychological defense mechanism where a person refuses to accept reality or facts, often to protect themselves from uncomfortable emotions or distress. It can be both helpful and harmful, depending on the context and duration of use."
According to Maidenberg, the benefits include:
- Short-term emotional relief. Denial can help someone cope with shocking or traumatic news (like a medical diagnosis or the loss of a loved one) by softening the emotional blow until they’re ready to process it.
- Preserving functioning in a crisis. In the immediate aftermath of overwhelming events, denial can allow a person to continue functioning, go to work, care for family, or make decisions without being emotionally paralyzed.
- Gradual processing. It can act as a psychological buffer, giving the mind time to gradually accept reality at a pace it can handle.
Your stomach produces a new lining every six days to avoid digesting itself. You'd be amazed at the number of body functions that are there solely to keep your body from just destroying itself.
My dad always tells me that one of the deadliest things in the world is your immune system. If it decides not to work, your pretty much screwed.
Or, as we found out with my Grandson, it goes nuts and tries to k**l you. (Sepsis) Took longer to get his white count under control than getting out of PICU. (1 month)
Load More Replies...When I was in a coma and dying, I was given ‘less than 0 percent chance of survival’. Still til this day every single doctor/specialist I meet looks at me and says “you’ve been through a lot/hell how are you still here” and they stop and stare at me and look into my eyes kind of waiting for an answer.. and still, 10 years later all I can say is “science and medicine… And maybe a little stubbornness“. They always laugh at that part. But I’ve got a copy of my medical files for reasons I won’t write and I went through some of them when I printed some out and it actually says in part of them for reasons I won’t even go into that“my insides were ripping off like tissues“…. I just wanted to share that.
Your stomach contains hydrochloric acid to digest food. Without regeneration, the stomach would dissolve itself. Ever vomit yellow liquid that burns? That's what the acid.
Nope. Every time you throw up there's acid from your stomach in the vomit. The yellow liquid is bile, and you should start worrying.
Load More Replies...And when one of those under-the-radar functions gets goofy, you’re often out of luck before you even notice.
This I believe after spending many hours over my life, experiencing a drastic hangover!
That would be your liver working overtime to help you survive after poisoning yourself with alcohol.
Load More Replies...Your eyes have their own immune systems. If your body’s immune system gets to them you’ll go blind. (Paraphrasing)
Load More Replies...The detriments of denial include:
- Avoidance of reality. "Long-term denial prevents individuals from addressing and resolving real issues, whether it’s a deteriorating relationship, addiction, illness, or financial trouble," Maidenberg said.
- Blocking of personal growth. Refusing to confront uncomfortable truths, we miss opportunities for self-aware reflection, healing, and growth.
- Strained relationships. Maidenberg also highlighted that, "Denial can create conflict with others who see the reality more clearly, leading to frustration, mistrust, or emotional distance."
- Worsening problems over time. Ignoring problems doesn't make them go away. On the contrary, they often escalate because of it, as denying symptoms of an illness can lead to worsened health outcomes in the future.
"Denial can be a healthy initial response to emotional pain, but if it becomes a chronic pattern, it often leads to negative or detrimental consequences," said Maidenberg, who also shares comprehensible bite-sized snippets on human psychology on her Instagram account. "The key is awareness and the ability to eventually transition from denial to acceptance and action."
Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
Psychotherapist, interfaith minister, and thought leader Nancy Colier has, among other things, served as a performance consultant to professional athletes and artists. She told Bored Panda the first step to accepting a reality we don't like or want is to adjust expectations and make peace with the fact that life includes disappointment and discomfort.
"Removing the idea that life should always go well and be comfortable is the first part of getting more ok with what’s not ok. Just the acceptance that not ok is always a part of but not the whole of our life," said the author of The Emotionally Exhausted Woman: Why You’re Feeling Depleted and How to Get What You Need and Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination.
"Secondly, it’s important to create practices that allow you to stay in touch with those aspects of life that are working for you in the moment," Colier continued. "To feel grounded spiritually in some way so that what is 'wrong' or uncomfortable about reality can exist in a larger awareness of what is good and well and always present inside you—that space of all is okay must exist somewhere in us so that we can better tolerate that which is not ok."
The last school to be desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, in the year 2016. Which is crazy.
As per Wikipedia: The last school that was desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi. This happened in 2016. The order to desegregate this school came from a federal judge, after decades of struggle. This case originally started in 1965 by a fourth-grader. The Cleveland School District was racially segregated for five decades, split into two schools, Cleveland High School that was attended by white students, and East Side High School attended by black students. Just think about this for a minute or an hour and then look at the USA now.
They fought this for 51 years and you wonder how they could elect a racist president!
Load More Replies...«In May 2016 a federal judge ordered the town to merge its two high schools. Cleveland High, about 45 percent white, and East Side, 100 percent black, would become one. The district appealed the ruling, but in January the school board announced it would drop the challenge, ending a costly legal battle. In August, more than 900 of the district’s students started taking their classes at the old Cleveland High campus, now rechristened Cleveland Central High School. The East Side campus became the town’s middle school. After its opening in 1906, Cleveland High School served white students, while East Side, formerly known as Cleveland Colored Consolidated High School, served only black students.»
Cosidering they only ratified the amendment abolishing slavery in 2013, it is not surprising! Apparently, state Senator Hillman Frazier introduced a resolution to ratify the amendment in 1995, which unanimously passed both the Mississippi Senate and House, only for the resolution to never become official because then-Secretary of State D**k Molpus never sent a copy of the resolution to the Office of the Federal Register. In light of the former Secretary of State’s unintentional actions, the proper paperwork was finally submitted to the Office of the Federal Registrar on January 30. One week later, on February 7, the director of the Federal Register, Charles A. Barth, replied to the Southern state saying, “With this action, the State of Mississippi has ratified the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
This is apparently very misleading. Two schools were consolidated that had been, respectively, historically black and historically white … but were nearly 50-50 at the time of consolidation. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2024/0805/This-US-town-was-the-last-to-integrate-its-schools.-Now-it-is-fighting-to-save-them
Both schools were not 50-50 white and black students before the integration order in 2016. If that’s what you’re saying.
Load More Replies...East Side High School, which had almost entirely African-American students, and Cleveland High School, which was mixed, were ordered to merge.
For those of us who are familiar with Waffle House, this shouldn't be unusual, but for those of you who don't know what Waffle House is, it's a restaurant in the United States that is open 24/7, no matter what, every day of the year. the US government actually uses something called the Waffle House Index to determine the severity of natural disasters based on how many Waffle Houses are open.
1) NOAA (not Noah) cut only 10% of their workforce, that is it. 2) Wafflehouse Index has been around since 2004 and was invented by the Florida Office Emergency Management and a year later adopted by FEMA.
Load More Replies...I live along the Gulf Coast (U.S.). If our Waffle Houses are closed, there is a hurricane coming
Specifically Federal Emergency Management Agency uses it as one shorthand indicator of how bad the damage of a natural damage was. Not the only index or analytical tool, but a reliable one
It's not just if they are open it also involves the menu they are serving if they are open.
Wow! I didn't know that, very interesting (sincerely, not sarcastically)
I love Waffle House. Chicken melt plate and scattered, smothered and covered hash browns...I miss it a lot
Oxford University was created 200 years before the Aztec Empire.
My University was founded over 100 years before the Aztecs 'met' the conquistadors. In Europe, it isn't uncommon. For example, Bologna, Paris, Glasgow,, etc.
Not 200 years before the fall of the Aztec Empire... 200 years before the RISE of the Aztec Empire. Because they built pyramids, just like the ancient Oltecs, people presume the Aztec Empire was ancient. But it was only established in 1325 (the formation of the oldest of three Aztec kingdoms) or 1428 (the creation of the Triple Alliance, when three kingdoms merged to form the empire).
Load More Replies...Europe was around long before they "discovered" North and South America, but they have conveniently forgotten that the Americas were populated a very long time before they came as "tourists" and claimed it for ourselves................. real pricks aren't we, eh?
Of course the Mayan "empire" of city-state, linked by common culture and paved roadways was founded a thousand years before Oxford or any other university.
In 1953, an F11 fighter jet shot itself down because it was going faster than its bullet was.
In 1973, an F-14 Tomcat was struck by his own missile. Luckily, it was a dummy missile, and he ejected safely.
A retired person I met crewed the bombers that carried nuclear bombs out over the ocean every day back in the 1960's, being prepared for war against Russia. He reported the plane hit some turbulence, he was knocked off his feet and hit the lever that dropped the bomb on the US. Fortunately it was not armed.
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90% of modern apples can be traced back to two apple trees.
And to think I was told it was only one! (Born RC here, but gave it up as a bad habit when I reached the age of reason).
My late aunt had a "Beauty of Bath' apple tree in her garden. It was so old, it was marked on the Ordinance Survey map of her village (near Bath UK)
Fun fact: we have a apple market/festival were you can buy rare breeds and if you bring 3 apples from your garden they will tell you which breed they are (if you inherit old trees for example)
Same with bananas. Over 95 % of the bananas eaten all over the world are just one variety: Cavendish.
Load More Replies...If you planted and grew trees from all the seeds in the apples on the tree - you would not get that apple. Apples evolved to try and find a way to live in every environment. Johnny Appleseed was a propertarian - he tried to claim the land his trees grew on (and the apples were for applejack not eating)
Johnny Appleseed literally spliced and started most of the variety of apples we have today.
Well there are some apples that have been bread with pears, and I'm guessing some wild apple tree species that we can't yet identify
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When someone gets a kidney transplant, unless there's something harmful in that other kidney, like cancer, they typically just leave them in with the new ones.
it's true my husband had a kidney transplant and they left the old ones inside........ they just smush them over a bit to make room....... they don't hurt anything they just don't work
The new one is placed in the pelvis (iliac fossa). If there's a problem, it's easy to get to.
Someone needs to explain the logistics to me. Of you leave in the kidney, then it's occupying a vein and artery at least, otherwise it would die. Where does the new kidney get the blood from??
I know nothing about kidney transplants, but I do know that blood flow can be rerouted.
Load More Replies...It's not that there's nothing wrong with the kidney, it is a non-functuoning kidney. It just doesn't constitute any risk staying in the body so they leave it there just minding its own business. The blood vessels that serve the kidneys are very large and under considerable pressure, so it is far safer not to cut them unless it is absolutely necessary.
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Put a disclaimer on this one, if you're weird about hospitals or medical anxiety, just skip this part. But it's legal in a number of states for medical students to give Pap smears to women under anesthesia without their consent.
Thank you, and this is what I was going to comment, too.
Load More Replies...This practice is explicitly illegal in California and sadly, only 4 other states. The 21 states mentioned previously have moved toward banning the practice, but I don't believe have done so yet. And the Health and Human Services secretary denounced the practice, but appears to have only tied the requirement to obtain consent to Medicare and Medicaid funding. But that was HHS under Biden, not Trump. Every day seems to provide another reason to think of myself more as a Californian instead of an American (Californians voted explicit protections for reproductive freedom, including abortion care and contraception, into the state constitution less than 6 months after US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade).
Make sure to put in writing at a hospital, no medical students touching you during surgery. Write it on the bottom of the consent form and take a picture with your phone.
Load More Replies...Without consent!? Reason number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count not to live in the States.
I think anyone who was r***d by a hospital under the guise of teaching is owed money. The students pay tuition, the women's bodies were used to teach them. The school/hospital should reimburse the women for their (unknowing) servicw. Each woman can make up her own price (as hospitals in the u.s. do when creating their prices) and the money SHOULD NOT go to any insurance company involved because IT WASN'T THEIR BODY VIOLATED. Oh, and the hospitals should pay interest on the money due. This really, really pisses me off! They didn't ask for explicit consent because? How the f**k can doctors think this is all right????? Way to NOT build trust with a patient!!!
'They didn't ask for explicit consent because?' - Because you'd likely say no. That's it. That's the only justification they need. Doctors have a tendency to think they're God and since the patient usually won't find out, what's the harm... Yeah I bet none of them would be happy with a pap smear or a prostate exam done without consent while they were under anaesthetic.
Load More Replies...JFC! Aside from every other thing that's wrong with this, that is classed as sexual a*****t. Or it would be in a normal country.
In the states where it is still - indefensibly - legal, how widespread does it remain in actual practice today? And all hospitals and medical schools should ban it themselves without waiting for some government to finally act.
There's a thing called immune privilege, which is basically just your brain keeping your eyes, brain, and your testes a secret from your immune system so that it doesn't try to k**l them and you.
Ha! So the rest of your body is controlled by a secret sect? Isn't that the stuff of conspiracy theories? 😀
*clickbait add* the one thing your immune system doesn’t want you to know about. White blood cells HATE it
Load More Replies...And pregnancy. Don't forget pregnancy or the immune system would destroy the strange different DNA tissues growing up down there
KÌLL, BP. KÌLL. Fúck your censorism, either dare to tell the whole story or don't tell it at all.
The immune priviledge doesn't keep these organs secret, neither would the immune system attempt to k**l them otherwise. The immune priviledge prevents the immune system from causing an inflammation of those organs, to prevent a loss of function of those organs.
So it doesn't k**l them, it just destroys them so they no longer function. That's so much better. 🙄
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When you cry and your nose is running, it's actually your tears. And if you're like me and you've ever gotten liquid eyeliner in your eye in and wondered why it came out of your nose. They're connected.
I have met many people who don't know this. Common knowledge isn't as common as many people think.
Load More Replies...There was a guy on Letterman's Stupid human tricks who could squirt milk out of his eye - he used this
I watch a lot of True Crime on YouTube. I see fake tears all the time. If there's no snot, they're not really crying.
can't say that i've ever had that happen, so i've never wondered why it did...weird
In 1993, a 16 year old spent about three hours operating a New York City subway before he was caught.
The woman who discovered radium and plutonium, Marie Curie, along with all of her tools, whenever she passed, had to be buried in a one inch thick lead coffin to prevent any of that from getting out and making other people sick.
Nope. The coffin lining was 2.5 millimeters. Less than a tenth of an inch. Now go find out what happened to the onventor of the x ray machine.
He died of cancer at a reasonably fair age. Is it his casket I should be investigating?
Load More Replies..."whenever" and "when" ARE NOT SYNONYMS!!!!!!!!!! It should say "when she passed" as her time of passing is known. You would only use the word "whenever" if it was unknown.
For every pound of fat that you gain, you create an extra mile of new blood vessels for it.
Gram for gram human bone is four times stronger than concrete.
Oh, you poor sausage. You have my sympathy. My mum has arthritis all over and needs double hip and knee replacement but can’t and won’t do it because of reasons even though we’ve assured her everything will be fine. I really hope that you’re in contact with a doctor that is helping you with your pain and symptoms. My mum’s old doctor was USELESS!!
Load More Replies...Concrete is a relatively weak material. It's just that we use it in such big cast shapes that it's strong.
You'd have to use a piece of concrete the same size and weight as the bone.
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Kangaroos can use their singular toenail to dismember other animals. It's horrifying.
They also have pretty sharp incisor teeth, making them more like Fangaroos.
Ever seen an Eastern Grey? The males are commonly 6 - 7 foot tall. They'll kick the living 💩 out of you if you upset them :) 🦘
OP- Do you mean “disembowel”? Dismemberment likely takes more fine motor skills than a kangaroo has.
Deer can do the same thing with their front hooves. Watch their front hooves and antlers for danger.
They are also well known for drowning dogs in dams if they get too close...
Two food facts I love to tell people is :
1. If you are allergic to shrimp, you also can't eat cicadas.
2. In a blind sniff test, 90% of people cannot differentiate between the smell of parmesan cheese and vomit. So sorry if I just ruined that for you.
I’m one of the 10% who can because I have a very strong sense of smell and I’ve always had one. I had no idea the ability to differentiate was so rare!
I’d usta think people can’t smell butyric acid because if they could, they sure wouldn’t eat Parmesan, but I’ve learned through my life that I have a sense of smell like a bloodhound and that most people I talk to have lousy senses of smell (which explains their ability to eat Parmesan! Yuck!)
Load More Replies...Now wondering who found out the cikada allergy. Hey, lets make a study where allergic people eats weird stuff and we see how it goes? 😄
Most likely the exoskeleton of cicadas contains the same sort of allergens as shellfish.
Load More Replies...Parmesan cheese contains the same acid in vomit, if you're wondering.
Which is weird that I love that cheese but can’t stand American made hersheys chocolate
Load More Replies...I can't eat cilantro because to me it smells the same as a wettex ingrained with soap that has gone old, but parmesan and vomit smell very very different to me, is this really a thing?
I'm very glad I get to eat cilantro without worrying about the smell.
Load More Replies...Yay, another thing to add to my list of allergies! Now I'm trying to remember if I used to get a reaction when I used to collect cicada shells (is that the name for the cast offs?). With prawns, it's the shells I'm most sensitive to, a fact I found out the first time I was made to peel my own!
While filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn't get a permit to film one of the scenes, so they just did it anyway. But they hired a fall guy to pretend to be the director and spend a night in jail for it.
I heard that this was just a myth. The scene in question is driving like an absolute maniac in an are that has quite a lot of both vehicle and foot traffic, so I sincerely hope it is actually a myth too
Actually this happens a lot with movies and tv shows that are being filmed outside of the studio. My late husband used to catch big named directors and their crews filming on public lands without permits or not staying within the rules of a permit they do have. He used to have to sit on film sets to make sure they followed the rules.
How did they know the director, and only the director, would get in trouble? Seems a little dubious
That was actually a good deal for the pretend director. I imagine they paid him so he got paid to spend one night in jail!
I'm guessing you're one of those "get off the grass" people, and then you rush over to a bylaw officer to report it.
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Coin Star is tricking you. Coin Star originally had no counting sound and worked much faster. But people didn't believe that it was counting accurately, so they put in a counting sound and made it slower. A similar thing happened with Febreze. It was originally unscented, but nobody believed it worked, so they added scent to it.
When I utilize Coinstars, I tend to bang the c**p out of the dispenser several times. I will always hear additional coins dropping after the fact.
Why do people even use them? Banks will convert all of your coins to cash and not charge you a cent.
Load More Replies...Febreze was meant to neutralize odors. Much like deodorant. Without a scent to it, no one thought it was working as intended. Now we, and our areas can smell how we want them.
I mourn the self-service coin counting machine my bank used to have, only to add the money to your account. So incredibly satisfying to hear that sound...
Vacuum cleaners the same - they had to add sound to make people feel they are doing a good job.
Your corneas are the only part of your body that doesn't get any blood.
“The cornea, being avascular (lacking blood vessels), obtains oxygen directly from the atmosphere through tears and the lining of the eyelids.” :)
That's friggin' scary. Kinda.
Load More Replies...That's why wearing contacts at night (even gas permeable) is so damaging. Nobody told me that and I almost lost my vision because blood vessels were beginning to grow into the cornea because it was starved for oxygen. Everything is fine now, but I only wear contacts that are thrown away daily to prevent that from ever happening again.
Not quite true. The epidermis gets nutrients through diffusion, not from blood vessels. Nutrients in the dermis have to diffuse upward to the surface of the skin. The farther from the dermis, the less nutrients available. So the ones by the surface fill with keratin and díe off.
I call BS again: cartilage also lacks a blood supply. Who TF fact checks these things?!?!?!?!?
You think they fact check blurbs they get from other websites? Once again; they’re a content aggregator, not a news site.
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Crickets listen with their knees. Beats me. I had no idea.
Butterflies taste with their knees, elephants are the only mammals that can not jump.....
Cows can see almost 360 degrees around them.
Most herbivores have wide angles of vision. Helps to see when a carnivore is eyeing you for dinner.
Horses have such a wide field of vision that their only blind spot is immediately behind their tail and immediately in front of their muzzle.
Snakes, specifically pythons, have what's called vestigial legs. So these itty bitty little legs left over from evolution, they're not functional. They don't have bone, they don't do anything.
Whales have vestigial pelvic bones. They went back into the water. TIL from Nova.
And this is used by Theologians, bc the bible says God cursed the snake after the Garden of Eden incident to crawl on its belly, and theological texts at least as far back as 1800 years ago, said snaked had legs and God took them away. When this was discovered, theologians grabbed hold of it
For people that don’t believe in evolution—it’s probably when God took away the nasty snakes legs in genesis 2.
Don't they have them on either side of the cloaca so they have some function in mating?
One of my favorite complex facts is the guy that sings Peanut Butter Jelly Time died in an 11 hour standoff with police. Meanwhile, his brother in law was trying to talk him down. His brother in law is Snoop Dogg.
Not true. The song was written and performed by DJ Chipman of The Buckwheat Boyz. The deceased was Jermaine Fuller. The remaining circumstances are true.
Figs aren't vegan because a bunch of wasps crawl in them and die.
Ya same i always thought they had a strange texture...
Load More Replies...They crawl inside, lay eggs, then the baby wasps leave the fig I think. It's also only in like one or two types of figs and only one specific type of wasp. So you're not likely to find wasps in your figs
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A shrimp can see more colors than you.
Now this one is not exactly true/untrue, whilst we know they have more cones, making them more receptive to a wider spectrum of colours, we don't actually *know* if this means they can see more colours than we can, just that their eyesight is capable. It's mostly guesswork
Why hasn't anyone just asked the shrimp about this?
Load More Replies...maybe i should hire a shrimp to help me colorize my artwork
The lobotomy is still the only neurosurgery based thing to ever receive a Nobel Prize. There also is no Nobel Prize for psychology. It's typically given in economics instead.
Well, no since psychiatry *is* a medical science, why would they have a category for psychiatry? They would just give the Nobel Prize for medicine. What OP means is that if someone discovered a truly ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting, world-altering psychological thing, there would be no Nobel Prize to give that person. Say a psychologist discovered a little ritual that made people happy to eat whatever was the most rational decision for them to eat. OP is saying that the Nobel committee is very unlikely to give one for medicine, and there isn't one for psychology. However, they have given Nobel prizes for psychology-related research in economics, because the scope of economics includes decision-making.
Load More Replies...Not sure I am a fan of lobotomies and now not so sure I am a fan of Nobel Prizes.
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Load More Replies...So they give the award to the "dismal science", instead of the other dismal science
There's no Nobel Prize in economics either. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is habitually awarded along with the real Nobel Prizes, but was established by the Swedish central bank, not the will of Alfred Nobel like the others were.
Load More Replies...The practice of forcing people into lobotomies was horrifying. They shouldn’t have won a Nobel Prize.
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Women who are operated on by male surgeons are 32% more likely to die.
It's more likely you're going to get a male surgeon, because it's a male dominated field, and the fact that medical research is mainly done on men and used as a reference for women, we are at greater risk for any medical procedure.
Some of this is male-female genetics, some is misogyny. Not only are female patients treated differently, female surgeons are too. Throughout their training they are held to much higher standards than their equivalent male counterparts, and only the strongest survive that environment. This means that your female surgeon is likely not only to be more proficient than the equivalent male, they are also more likely to be a super high achiever and more resilient.
They have to work twice as hard for the same results. It's always been that way.
Load More Replies...The statement is ambiguous. Does it mean "Women who are operated on by male surgeons are 32% more likely to die than male patients" or "Women who are operated on by male surgeons are 32% more likely to die than the general population." or "Women who are operated on by male surgeons are 32% more likely to die than those operated on by female surgeons."? And these aren't the only possibilities.
It means women who are operated on by male surgeons are much, much more likely to experience complications than men who are operated on by a male OR female surgeon, or women who are operated on by a female surgeon. I’ve posted links to the study in these comments, they answer all your questions.
Load More Replies...All surgeries considered or for a given type ? Because the most dangerous ones, cardio and neuro are male dominated fields.
They used “21 of the most common and emergent surgeries,” and had roughly equal levels of both male and female surgeons. The sample size was over 1.4 million patients over 12 years. https://www.utoronto.ca/news/female-patients-operated-male-surgeons-more-likely-die-suffer-complications-u-t-study
Load More Replies...I WAS MORE LIKELY TO DIE A YEAR AGO? Wait all I know is two women who did it on me PHEW IM OKAY
No wonder with that beard being exposed ..... disgusting. No surgeon would be allowed to operate like that.
In my personal experience women surgeons are better than male surgeons. They have to be.
“A study from the University of Toronto found that female patients operated on by male surgeons were 32% more likely to die and 16% more likely to experience complications compared to those operated on by female surgeons.” https://www.utoronto.ca/news/female-patients-operated-male-surgeons-more-likely-die-suffer-complications-u-t-study
Load More Replies...I think that is implied in the comparative analysis. BTW you mean ‘hollow.’ ‘Hallow’ means to make sacred. We can only hope that one day women’s bodies are treated as sacred as men’s
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The plant orchids are named after the Greek word orchis, meaning testicles.
This is indeed factual. I took a Pathophysiology class last summer and the medical term for undescended testicles is cryptorchidism. Either one or both testicles remain in the abdomen instead of descending into the s*****m. I'm hoping that this doesn't get censored beyond comprehension.🤞🏻 Edit- s c r o t u m aka ball sack.
The word orchid is derived from the Greek word (orchis) for testicle because of the shape of the root tubers in some species. (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Before toilet paper, people used corn cobs.
Toilet paper 🧻 has only been used for a little over a century, so many, many things were used before that.
They also used leaves, grass, cloth rags they could re-wash, etc.... Basically anything that would do the job.
The custom of shaking hands using the right hand came about because of the ways people wiped, often with just their left hand. That left a clean right hand for day-to-day usage,
The custom is shaking hands actually came about to show you did not have a weapon as most people are right handed and hold a weapon in their right hand. It has nothing to do with wiping your b*m
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This one truly haunts me. The pH of your "downstairs" can disintegrate an ant.
This is nonsense. I live in a bungalow and I often see ants walking across the floor completely unharmed.
So why aren't we using this knowledge to deal with the fire ants?
My pH can disintegrate my own nose hairs. Menopause is no joke. Keeping clean now is worse than when I was a bleeder.
"than when I was a bleeder"? Omg, that's a great expression.
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A park ranger at Shenandoah National Park was hit by lightning seven different times.
Or at least give up their high-alpine pole vaulting hobby
Load More Replies...I believe this one. My uncle was struck by lightning six times. He believed that once your were struck by lightning you were more likely to be struck again. I would think that once you were struck, you'd learn to be real careful when you experience the warning signs. My father's whole family just didn't give a c**p about electricity. Housing contractors, early computer techs, they all worked with it and had no fear of it. I remember seeing the lights dim and simply yelling, "DAD! Turn off the [circuit] breaker!" 110 volts wasn't going to stop any of them.
Some people have very long leaders. That's why someone in a big crowd can be struck.
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You are more likely to survive being shot in the head than to survive rabies.
once symptoms develop rabies is as close to 100% fatal as makes no difference. Less than 20 people , worldwide, have been documented as surviving
Yeah that's why you need to get to a hospital immediately after having been bit by any type of wild animal, it's not worth the risk. Oh and rabies can be transmitted through saliva in any way, not just bites. So even if you're just licked by a wild animal (at least rabies prone species or areas) it's a good idea to get to a hospital.
Load More Replies...For visitors to Australia be grateful that is one thing you don't have to be worried about with regard to the wildlife
There are lots of diseases we don't have, such as rabies, foot & mouth etc. Partly because we're an island, but also partly because our Quarantine laws are super duper strict.
Load More Replies...Anybody else remember this joke: guy is diagnosed with rabies, immediately asked doctor for paper and a pen. Doctor asks: are you going to write your will? You still have time. Guy: no, I need to make a list of people I need to bite!
Most rabies diagnosis in humans happens during autopsies of the dead.
Stay away from raccoons, folks. (And bats, foxes, skunks, and coyotes. These are the rabies vector species in the Western US.)
Unless you live here in Australia, where there is no rabies. Here you have to just die of being eaten by a crocodile while being bitten by snakes.
The inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in Pringles can in dedication to the brand.
No, no, no: "Once you have one, you just can't stop. EVER!!!!!"
Load More Replies...A friend put her boyfriend's ashes in a Pringles can, as a temporary vessel (I know, weird). A neighbor's child was visiting and, being a child, found the can and opened it. Luckily, I saw her doing so and stopped her just as she was about to tip the can over.
Perhaps also a bow to all the consumers who died from eating too many Pringles.
The Victorians ate almost all of the mummies. Almost all of them.
No, the eating was a very small part. The where used as fertilizer, pigment at similar. The victorians did destroy most of the mummies they found, but not by eating. That was more of a fad and not something everyday folk went aroung munching on.
what i was gonna say! mummy-eating was much less common than mummy-grinding-up-into-paint.
Load More Replies...Not sure this is correct, as a lot of mummies were ground up to make a pigment, "mummy brown" which, apparently, was last created in the 1960, and only stopped because the company ran out of mummies to grind up... https://harvardartmuseums.org/article/a-pigment-from-the-depths
It is, in fact, true. People really did eat mummies.: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
Load More Replies...Not almost all of them, some were used as snuff, some in paint, anything that could make money really.
So glad I was not around in the Victorian era. That’s horrifying! Just the thought is making me nauseous
The victorians were rather strict in their diets and sought low calorific meals instead of high calorific :)
Some were used in " medicines ", but mostly as pointed out by Panda Kicki, pigment in paint.
In 1980, Saddam Hussein was given a key to the city of Detroit.
In fact George H W Bush was good buddies with him too. While in the CIA he was key in Hussein’s takeover in Iraq. Until the Kuwait invasion by Iraq.
They were often flown in the Bush private jet, wined and dined, as well as, the Bush's invested in business ventures with the Husseins. Power thrives on ignorance and fear of the masses. One only has to take a look around today. Those that ignore history are bound to repeat it. Wash, rinse and repeat. We are in an eradication - wash - process.
Load More Replies...This needs more context. The USA and Iraq were on good terms in 1980. A donation to the Sacred Heart Chaldean Church was made by Hussein totalling 450K. The Detroit area is the largest population of people from the Middle East outside of the Middle East. The Iraq elections in 2005 had locations in the region because of this. So, the key to the city in 1980 makes sense.
Bullies in the playground like to associate with all the other bullies.
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.
I remember telling people i was a billion seconds old when I turned 31 last year lol
But in fact that happened seven months later! Could have had two parties!
Load More Replies...This is used to illustrate the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire, to give perspective to those of us who can't fathom either amount of money
And then we have multibillionaires who have more money than anyone can need.. and we still enable and encourage this. And we still consider humans as the intelligent species...
And a trillion seconds ago is the last Ice Age and the existence of both Neanderthals and early modern humans.
Great, the youngest I can retire is 2,000,000,000. Hope my 401K rebounds by then.
The guy that built the Taj Mahal built it in honor of his wife, who he impregnated to death. And then she died in childbirth. He wanted to build the Taj Mahal. Not only did he put everybody in debt doing this, but after it was built, he wanted no one to ever be able to build anything even remotely similar. So he k**led all of the architects and designers. And then anyone who actually physically built it, he cut off their hands and legs so that they couldn't build it again. Then a couple of years, he decided he wanted one, but in black. And then his son had had enough of it. So his son k**led all of his other brothers, took a throne, had his dad put in jail, and then, while he was in jail, presented his dad with all of his dead brother's heads on a platter, which eventually drove him into madness. He plucked all of the hair off of his head and body and then died.
All of that is nonsense. Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal, was fighting wars and revolt, and he was a victim of a power struggle with his sons, one of which declared Shah Jahan incompetent to rule and put him under house arrest... nothing to do with lack of money. And there is no historical evidence that any of the builders were mutilated or killed, and it is estimated over 20,000 people were involved in the construction of the Taj Mahal. The rumour of a "black Taj" was debunked in 2006 when archeologists partial constructed a pool in the Moonlight Garden (on the opposite river bank of the Taj Mahal, where the rumoured "black Taj" was to be built) and they found the pool perfectly reflected the Taj Mahal. Scholars believe the rumour of the "black Taj" can be traced back to fanciful writings from 1665.
Looked into this. It's almost 100% BS. The notion that Shah Jahan killed the workers and designers of the Taj Mahal is pure internet myth. There is no historical basis for this. In fact, it wasn't completed until after Jahan's death. Jahan was deposed by a son... sort of. He became extremely ill, and appointed his heir to rule as his regent. His other sons fought for their shares of the kingdom. One of his sons defeated the others and had them killed, and declared his father unfit to rule on account of lingering effects of his illness. Given the grief of Jahan, I'd even say that it's a little sick to say he impregnated his wife to death as if it were a bizarre method of murder.
How can you impregnate someone to death...and then they die in childbirth?
By getting her pregnant again and again even when she has already had life threatening pregnancy complications, I'd guess
Load More Replies...That king's name is Shah Jahan and his wife's name is Mumtaz Mahal. And there son's name who killed the rest of the brother's was Aurangzeb. Shah Jahan was crazy about Mumtaz, to the point he married one of their daughters name Jahanara Begum, because she look exactly like Mumtaz Mahal. He's the only king in India known to marry his own family. (P.s. I am not justifying his actions, I am just stating the history. And also most of the statements written in this fact is not true.)
Sounds like the Trump family's future..................................
House flies can live up to two months.
Mine either. Maybe two hours if the cats are feeling lazy
Load More Replies...And some can give birth when dying, I helped one give birth one time as a kid cos I felt bad killing something in labor etc, then found out from an entomologist that they do this automatically when dying. So I’m glad I made her a little leaf bed and stick hut 😂
i normally just open the window and tell them to leave, works like a charm.
I had one in my apartment last year. I rescued it from the toilet twice and I was sad when I found it dead on the windowsill.
The United States just started reprinting Purple Hearts. We had a stockpile of thousands of them from World War 2 in anticipation from an attack on Japan.
In anticipation of the estimated wounded US military members from a traditional invasion of Japan. The expectation was every Japanese able to walk would be mobilized, even if they could only be armed with sticks. The estimated Japanese losses far exceeded the actual deaths from the A bombs, counting upto the present.
Yeah, that's one thing the Hate America First crowd forgets about Hiroshima. The bombs killed 60,000 people, mostly civilians. A land invasion of Japan would have resulted in the deaths of millions, maybe tens of millions, of Japanese civilian deaths.
Load More Replies...In all, approximately 1,531,000 Purple Hearts were produced for the war effort, with production reaching its peak as the Armed Services geared up for the invasion of Japan. Despite wastage, pilfering, and items that were simply lost, the reserve of decorations was approximately 495,000 after the war. By 1976, roughly 370,000 Purple Hearts had been earned by servicemen and women who fought in America’s Asian wars, as well as trouble spots in the Middle East and Europe. This total also included a significant number issued to World War II and even World War I veterans whose paperwork had finally caught up with them or who filed for replacement of missing awards. https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/402206-every-purple-heart-issues-from-1945-until-a-few-years-ago-were-made-for-the-invasion-of-japan/
The US Estimated at first 500,000 US de aths and 2.5 million Japanese de aths from a US Invasion with over 1.5 million US soldiers injured. With the first 3 invasion waves have 100% casualty rates. After the war, the US and Japan militaries re-ran the numbers based on that Japan's military was stronger than the US realized with more weapons and defenses, as well as conscripted civilian defense. The 1947 revised numbers placed it as first 5 waves 100% casualties, with 1.3 million US KIA, and 3 million wounded, and between 70%-90% of the entire population of the Japan as casualties.
My father served in Vietnam. He used to say the Americans would get a Purple Heart cutting themselves shaving.
Purple Hearts are the award given to US military personnel if they are wounded in action. The US military printed a huge number of Purple Heart awards because they expected to have extremely high numbers of casualties during the planned invasion of Japan in WW 2. Because we didn't have to invade, they have been using the stockpile of awards since the end of the war, until recently they has to start printing new ones because they're finally running out.
Load More Replies...It's almost like the US government was planning large scale military operations in the near future.
Japan didn't have an atomic bomb. They were on the verge of having a centrifuge to enrich uranium. https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-japan-bomb-20150805-story.html
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Texas is three times bigger than the UK.
Came here to say the same. This photo includes both Arizona and Utah, you'd have to drive for HOURS to get to Texas from here.
Load More Replies...An American told a Brit, "You could fit your whole country into Nebraska." The Brit replied, "Yes, but why would I want to?"
And Alaska is almost 2.5 times the size of Texas. And the photo, is of Monument Valley, U.S. Route 163, looking from Utah into Arizona. Also, I enlisted in the United States Army to get out of Texas. And, I chose Infantry, to get out of Texas faster. Other than driving through, or for work, I have not been back.
Don't say Americans lack brains. Heck, we got brains we haven't even used yet.
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It's been proven that painkillers can actually make you less empathetic towards other people and can dull emotional pain.
“research suggests that common painkillers like acetaminophen (Tylenol) can reduce emotional pain, (particularly social pain like rejection or hurt feelings) potentially by affecting similar brain regions involved in both physical and emotional pain processing.”
I've been on strong painkillers for years and this is not remotely true in my case.
Load More Replies...Dude, I take prescribed hydrocodone and I still have hyper-empathy. I guess I'm an outlier.
Same here T4 for 30 years, and I get shooting pains into my hands if I read angsty books.
Load More Replies...Painkillers - even opiods - don't work for me. Guess that's why I'm empathetic and suffer emotional pain.
It's basically a cure for not being a sociopath.
Load More Replies...Paracetamol is the most studied, but there are indications that ibuprofen's empathy-reducing effects are greater in women. Opioids have been studied, but it's a broader category because their abuse is so common, but they also reduce the ability to feel emotional pain. Painkillers also reduce the ability to be happy for others, according to studies. (And I thought hormones during menstruation made me ruthless, but now I blame ibuprofen 🙃).
Load More Replies...I used to take a pretty large amount of pain pills for an illness I have. I was empathetic to the family of exiled scottish royalty who I was sure were living in a cave under our basement. Scared of the people burying nukes in our front yard, and terrified of the huge snake people who could somehow also drive who were coming to eat me. soooo yeah.
Being scared of the snake people is perfectly reasonable. I mean, they can drive?
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Rabbits can't throw up.
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was running to go fight another fight, away from the first fight. - Jack Handey
Load More Replies...Hence a rabbit should never be starved before surgery. If the vet tells you to do so, get a new vet! Rabbits need to eat frequently otherwise they can develop gut stasis which can be fatal.
No rodents can, as far as I'm aware, which is why I think that rat poison works?
And rats. That's why soda bicarbonate is a rat poison mixed with powdered sugar.
If you're allergic to chocolate. You're also allergic to cockroaches.
Rubbish. Based solely on the fact that FDA rules specify a maximum allowable amount of insect parts in certain foods, but it does not follow at all that all chocolate contains that much, or indeed any at all. https://www.thetakeout.com/cockroaches-in-chocolate-cause-allergy-fda-debunks-1847996401/
ALL chocolate contains fairly high amounts of cockroaches, according to my allergist. Alright I know that's true, I'm keeping my chocolate and pretending I don't know this fact. 😬😵💫
Load More Replies...Your chocolate already has cockroaches in it. According to FDA guidelines, certain levels of natural contaminants are legally permitted in food products. For example, chocolate can contain up to 60 insect fragments per 100 grams, while peanut butter may have one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams. Cinnamon is allowed up to 400 insect fragments per 50 grams, and canned citrus juices can contain five or more fruit fly eggs per 250 ml. Mushrooms may legally include up to 20 maggots or 80 mites per 100 grams, and wheat flour can have 75 insect fragments per 50 grams. Even hops used in beer can contain more than 2,500 aphids per 10 grams.
Load More Replies...My Grandpa had a can of chocolate covered ants...
Load More Replies...Did you read the article I linked? It's not my extrapolation but the FDA's, and by the way cockroaches are specifically not included in the tiny permissible amounts allowed by them. Here's another link https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/10/fact-check-there-are-not-cockroach-parts-in-your-chocolate.html and another one here https://en.dismislab.com/chocolate-cockroach-factcheck/
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Babies are born with their skull, just not in one piece. That will never be normal to me.
Baby's have about 300 bones, they fuse as they age until we get to the normal adult amount of 206.
If it *was* in one piece, giving birth would be even more painful and horrifying.
Their skulls have to be flexible in order to fit through the birth canal. Imagine the agony for mum and baby if the skull was fused and rigid.
And I believe that it's part of our trade-off for being bipedal. Our pelvises allow us to walk upright but make labor and delivery more difficult. That's why human babies are little more than fetuses for the first few months.
Load More Replies...It's like that so they can come out without getting stuck and killing both the mother and themselves. Sometimes you can hear it click when you give birth because it pops...
One of my favorite bragging points when pregnant was that I currently had more bones than other people. My partner was not impressed by my boasting about my excess of bones.
When one of my kids was under a year & injured himself, I found out that the bones in his feet (any kid's) are not fully formed until after they are about a yr old. Poor kid had to wear a cast 'just in case'
If the skull were in one piece how on earth would the head grow??? Silly comment.
Part of the reason people need glasses because the outer layer of your eye is the wrong shape. Now, if you're like me, after learning that fact, anytime I see somebody's side profile, I always look at the shape of their eye. Not that I'm gonna know what I'm looking at, but just for fun.
*Part of the reason some people need glasses. Plenty of people without astigmatism wear glasses
Astigmatism is due to your eye being the "wrong" shape
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I'm very nearsighted but have never been diagnosed with astigmatism.
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You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday.
It may have some weight, anecdotally - people tend to over indulge on their birthday, which can lead to more accidents. Also, I have dealt with quite a few incidents where people have taken their own lives on their birthday...
Sounds like a statistic that someone just pulled out of their a*se
Well, this whole list is made by a "content creator", so you're probably right.
Load More Replies...I wonder what the likelihood of other holidays is. I know two people who died on Christmas and one on Thanksgiving. One was the result of old age/emphysema, one overdosed, one was a su!cide.
You can get constipated related amnesia. You can be so backed up that it puts pressure on your vagus nerve, and when you finally do release all of that from your body, it can cause a form of amnesia.
Aside from the fact this girl is a wretched writer, I don’t understand this one. Wouldn’t pressing on our vagus nerve also potentially cause amnesia? Or, say, wearing a belt that’s too tight, or getting a strenuous massage? Why would it be only peristalsis, or did she leave lotsa stuff out to have something that sounds most interesting of all the choices?
Agree!!!! This list is total BS and the writing is beyond horrendous. Come on, BP. We need better.
Load More Replies...We hear pandas work to keep a kind environment. If you don’t like something there is a better outlet to provide constructive feedback on free to read content. Please be kind.
The greatest number of children born to one woman is 69 kids. And her husband left her and had 18 kids with someone else.
The accuracy of that is heavily disputed. But it is fairly sure she did get many kids, maybe not quite that much. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/valentina-vassilyeva-children/
Her poor, poor, poor, poor uterus. How, even??? Poor uterus!!! The v****a, even...
I agree, her poor uterus 😬. Also, Bp, why are we censoring vagína? It’s not a curse word.
Load More Replies...Supposedly she had 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets, so yes, it is theoretically possible.
No singletons? Using those numbers, she was pregnant for at least 20 of her 75 years.
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Your hair collectively grows about half an inch every month. But each of your hair strands added together grow about 10 miles a year.
I know right? Even the little strip in the back stopped. Can't even grow a decent skullet lol. And what's up with the bushes growing in my ears now?
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This one's really cool, but the way your brain prepares to intake alcohol if you drink it regularly. Same thing with dr**s. If you go somewhere you don't normally go when you drink, or you drink something different than normal, or you're in a different situation, it's at a different time of day. Your brain hasn't had time to mentally prepare for that. So you're actually going to get more drunk than if you were, you know, having your usual glass of wine at home.
If only this was written comprehensibly. What am I griping about? Illiteracy is the new lingo.
Wonder if drinking wine out of a teapot in a shopping cart would make it easier to understand this "fact"
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Squids have a donut shaped esophagus, which is really unfortunate for them, because if they eat anything that's too big, they get brain damage.
This is incorrect. Squids have a donut shaped BRAIN :) and their esophagus passes through the middle, meaning if they try to swallow food that is too large, it can put too much pressure on the brain and cause damage.
Chlorine doesn't have a smell. What you're smelling is the reaction between chlorine, pee and any kind of oils or things that come off of your body. Just think about that next time you're at a pool.
The chlorine smell in both cases comes from the same chemical reaction. When bleach (sodium hypochlorite) breaks down, it releases hypochlorous acid - the same disinfectant used in pools. This acid reacts with tiny traces of organic compounds (like skin oils or dust in the air, even in a "clean" bottle) to form chloramines, the same smelly byproducts created when pool chlorine interacts with sweat or urine. So , the sharp odour means chlorine is reacting with something, even if it's just microscopic contaminants.
Load More Replies...Ok no. Chlorine has a smell. Chloramines are the pool smell.
It's actually true, this is why so many people end up in the hospital after cleaning their homes. If you mix the wrong cleaning solutions you can create chlorine gas by mistake, and you won't be able to smell it. It's incredibly dangerous. A common mistake is anti mold products and then acidic products in bathrooms.
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There are more ants alive today than there have been humans ever. Ants are also the most populous animal basically anywhere. And on top of that, if you put the weight of all humans together equals the weight of all ants currently living.
Also, the weight of all the beetles that ate alive on Earth outweigh the collective weight of all the rest of the animals alive right now.
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In 1950 they used live bears to test Mach 2 ejection seats.
They, being… who??? So annoying this writer doesn’t cite reputable sources.
not the guy that buckled the bear in. He's in the bear's stomach.
Load More Replies...u.s. air force. The bears suffered broken bones but none were killed in the tests (I am NOT condoning this, just reporting so you know) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251548/Drugged-strapped-ejector-seat-BEARS-used-fighter-jet-test-pilots-Cold-War.html
I wonder what was going through the bear's mind? Hell, read about Laika, the stray dog and all the monkeys blasted into space. Humans have used one another and animals for ages for experiments. It would twist many a mind if the masses knew about underground fetal labs.
I looked up underground fetal labs. Found underground labs, non mentioned "fetal."
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We don't know where eels come from. And our best guess is a Bermuda Triangle. Of course.
of course we know where eels come from. You see little Johnny, when a mommy eel and a daddy eel like each other very much .....
But what we don't know is where mommy eel and daddy eel meet. Nobody has ever discovered the eel breeding grounds.
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Cleopatra was credited with creating one of the first "dzz dzz machines", and it was just a box full of bees.
It’s a….ahem….erotic stimulator 😅 stories say cleopatra put a bunch of bees in a gourd so she could enjoy the vibrations
Load More Replies...That's... a lot of ants for women to disintegrate with their pH "downstairs".
Tiktok in this instance, that is word for word what the person says. Censoring on tiktok was intended to get more views by getting their content past people's personal filters.
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The abysmal layer of the ocean is the layer that is in complete darkness. It makes up 83% of the ocean and 60% of earth. The thing that makes this worse is that, one, we can't really get very far in the ocean. But two, that the square law doesn't apply underwater. The square law says that as things get larger, they have kind of a breaking point where they would be crushed under their own weight. So they can't get too big. But the ocean does not apply there, of course.
It's the abyssal, or abyssopelagic zone. Ranges from 13,000 to about 19,700 feet below the surface. I'm still laughing about the "abysmal layer".
Animals, including humans, cannot manage pressure at extreme depths because of the air pockets in their lungs. It compresses until the animal (or rover, sorry) implodes. Fish don't have lungs, so they aren't susceptible to the pressure. Some mammals (certain species of whales for example) can completely collapse their lungs and therefore dive deeper, but that's an exception. It's the intense cold and lack of light that keep the population low at great depths. Here's more: https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/animals/deep-sea-fishes-not-get-crushed-pressure-sea-floor.html
What was this? Certainly not English. This was just words thrown together.
Of course it doesn't apply here because water won't compress, unlike oxygen and many other gases.
Some very confusing to me but maybe because not my first language. Some complete BS
These sounded weird because they’re all from a TikTok video of a lady just conversationally saying these facts to us.
THIS IS AI; it is also riddled with false “facts” and I honestly think I’m completely done with BP. With the endless ads, the narrow-minded anti-US rhetoric, and now AI spewing nonsense? Freaking unreal. Cancel my subscription and gimmie my money back, BP. Waste of my time; and seriously misguided health facts? I just can’t. Bye, Felicia.
Some very confusing to me but maybe because not my first language. Some complete BS
These sounded weird because they’re all from a TikTok video of a lady just conversationally saying these facts to us.
THIS IS AI; it is also riddled with false “facts” and I honestly think I’m completely done with BP. With the endless ads, the narrow-minded anti-US rhetoric, and now AI spewing nonsense? Freaking unreal. Cancel my subscription and gimmie my money back, BP. Waste of my time; and seriously misguided health facts? I just can’t. Bye, Felicia.
