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Sure, we can turn a blind eye to the dark side of the world. But that won't make it any brighter. I would even argue that we should, on the contrary, venture into the shadows. Into the unknown. I believe we'd come out with a better understanding of ourselves. Or at the very least, of our surroundings.
Luckily, there are two Reddit posts we can use as starting points for our journey. One by u/Literal-Pile-of-Poo and the other by u/Yoloextreme345. They're phrased differently but essentially ask the same thing and invite other users to share some of the most disturbing facts they know. And many have. Here are some of the most popular submissions.
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#1
When X-ray technology first became widely available to pediatricians, they noticed a startling high number of broken bones. Befuddled doctors assumed there was a previously unknown pediatric bone disease being observed for the first time. Turns out we had no idea how common child abuse is.
Brian Bennett 4 years ago
Still today X-Rays are showing how "good" parents are exposed!
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Joan Zatorski 4 years ago
This is heartbreaking; and it's the same with incest and sexual abuse. The rate of this abuse against the innocents is horrific. I taught for 20 years & had an increase in reported cases of abuse. But it wasn't that there was more abuse. It was that teachers were finally receiving training on what to look for.
Sheila Stamey 4 years ago (edited)
Also discovered that osteogenesis imperfecta, which I have, is more common than was thought, and sometimes people were blamed as child abusers, who simply had children with brittle bones. I was x-rayed after a car accident at seven. My foreams showed multiple healed fractures. Yes it had hurt. But I was used to it. They were going to arrest my parents. This was in 1972!!! But a doctor, and an old Dr at that, had seen it before! Because, X-rays!
Don't Look 4 years ago
Actually, this is one of the reason that we were asking "why now?" with regards to the widespread child abuse since about the 1990s. By the 90s, mandatory reporting became part of the school bus driver job, any job really that saw children as part of the daily routine. Doctors started having to keep parents out of the patient's earshot to ask "are you okay at home".
DrGirlfriend 4 years ago
I'm looked down on because I won't hit my kids.. they have autism ....I was hit and it destroyed me I don't hit my kids.
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
I can't imagine who would look down on you for such a thing. I was beat with a belt as a child and it had a similar effect on me, as it did you. I've found children who are hit like this grow up in one of two ways: they either become angry and violent adults, or become very compassionate adults. It sounds like you are the latter - you have turned your pain into strength and kindness. If anything, people should be congratulating you.
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Christa-Mari Bentham 4 years ago
Just ask your grandparents and great grandparents, if they are still around, how children were treated and you will realise how bad it was.
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#2
Humans, being mostly Carbon, can be made into diamonds. I plan to go the cheaper route and have my ashes be rolled into a glass paperweight. Some day I might even end up on the shelf of a Goodwill for $2.99
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Have your ashes turned into an hourglass to remind people how quickly time goes by.
Kyle 4 years ago
Yeah, you be turned into a diamond, freeze dried like coffee, be buried in a pod that will grow you into a tree, or, coming soon to the northwest, composted!
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 4 years ago
Oooh I wanna be a tree. But an endangered one so it can’t be cut down
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Cecily Holland 4 years ago
My 4 month old daughter who died of SIDS is now a diamond set in a bracelet charm. There are companies who specialise in turning a loved ones ashes into manufactured diamonds. Cost 3 k but worth it
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
Oh Cecily, I am very, truly sorry. I cannot imagine such a loss.
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Monday 4 years ago
The Hero is given an ash containing paperweight as a crappy holiday gift by their douchy cousin....one night they hear a voice emanating from the object "Granel, finally we meet. I have a quest you must undertake".
Load More Replies... MikeWheelerFan 4 years ago
I plan to become an artificial reef. Helping the environment even after my death.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
I think that I would end up as that weird Christmas gift that no one wants and is regifted amongst the same group of people, year after bloody year. That would be a s**t way to spend eternity.
Debbie Currie 4 years ago
I want to be in a pretty vase on a warm shelf but knowing my son I’d end up in recycling in a heart beat. 🤣
We managed to get in touch with one of the people who started this discussion, u/Literal-Pile-of-Poo, and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us about their now-viral post.
"I think I [came up with the idea for it when I] was just watching TV and [since] I liked reading those kinds of threads in r/AskReddit where people tell stories or something that was just interesting like [random] facts, I thought I would just make a post that I would find interesting to read as well," the Redditor told Bored Panda.
#3
Giving birth has higher mortality rate than having an abortion.
KatHat 4 years ago
The single biggest cause of death of pregnant people in the USA is homicide.
New Prometheus 4 years ago
Globally. This fact needs to be understood more widely. And the murderer is the man/spouse (I recall a discussion between clueless people, who thought that pregnant women would somehow attract random attackers...).
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rumade 4 years ago
Abortions are very safe, especially early abortions carried out with medication.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
@Billy Bitchface The fetus isn't a f*cking person, is it?
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Preetom Karim 4 years ago
Look at demographics, a black woman in the USA is 4x more likely to die in child birth after variables such as access to health insurance, socio-economic status are accounted for. Medical racism is rampant and results in maternal mortality.
Kirsty 4 years ago
I don't know the ratios exactly here but we have similar issues in the UK
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#4
Whales don't die from old age they just lose the strength to pull them selves up for air and slowly sink and drown
Billy Beecham 4 years ago
Damn. I got stage 4 copd so I can relate. Depressing. At least they could just *blink* be dead instead of that crap!
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Dolphins can will themselves not to breathe and die
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Aria Whitaker 4 years ago (edited)
Well, in essence, isnt this still dying of old age? They "lose the strength to pull them selves up for air"...WHY? Because of their old age....young whales do not have this issue, so it IS a roundabout way of old age causing death....
ShatteredExisistance 4 years ago
It isn’t a true fact. Sick or disabled whales can drown. But old whales don’t just drown please don’t believe everything you read.
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buttonpusher 4 years ago
Heard it said a few times it's the worst way to die as it's so painful and terrifying.
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"From the responses, I learned a lot about how nature is much more brutal than it seems. Many of the facts were about weird things animals do," the Redditor added.
But with that being said, they think people should not seek messed up info if they're not into that kind of thing. "The less disturbing things you come across the better in my opinion. But, I feel this post was more geared towards changing your perspective on how things work."
#5
Right now, your Government is doing things YOU think only OTHER Governments do.
KatHat 4 years ago
Don't know where you live, but the Biden administration just passed the most expansive infrastructure package in at least 50 years. Some of them are working.
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Sonja_kitty 4 years ago
I WISH our government did SOME of the things I think OTHER governments do.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Quite sure that's not true. At this moment my government is doing absolutely nothing.
Immortal Emperor Paradox 4 years ago (edited)
My government is trying to create a Hindu Rashtra. What about you guys?
#6
Three of the air packs that were found on the wreckage of the Challenger disaster were activated, meaning at least one of the astronauts was alive all the way to the ocean.
Del Olds 4 years ago
I actually worked on that mission and one of the lead investigators had told me that other than the pilot, copilot and last person in the seating arrangement, all o2 aux systems had been activated. I believe he said the person behind had to do the activation, which implied 5 people were conscious. That investigator also worked Apollo One right out of college and told me that sad story. How did I come by this info, I had worked on the TDRSS fuel and engine systems and when I was watching the launch, I realized immediately it was a pressure-based explosion. So for 3 days I thought I may have caused the problem and was quite distraught. A VP at the company called his good friend, the investigator I mentioned, and they called me to ket me know i had not contributed to the disaster. But I will never forget the impact of that day and how it forever changed how I dealt with setbacks.
Bored Birgit 4 years ago
Wow. Must have been the worst days of your life feeling that guilty.
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Monday 4 years ago
It's likely they were unconscious by then but yeah....the explosion didn't kill them.
Becky Samuel 4 years ago
They had to be conscious after the explosion to trigger the air packs.
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Todd R 4 years ago
It was Astronaut Judy Resnik that manually switched the auxiliary O2 system, proving she was alive and conscious after the explosion. She also had to be aware of what was happening to her and her crew mates. So sad.
GenericPanda09 4 years ago
When I first started in mil intel in the early 90s one of my first bosses had just finished working on the analysis of the Lockerbie bombing and told me there were quite a few of the victims that were alive up until they hit the ground, most unconscious but some not. Knowing that back then gave me a fear of flying that no matter how many flights I've had to take for both work in the that career and others has never left me. Poor f*****s.
jk nbt 4 years ago (edited)
what hurts the most about the crash is that it was 100% avoidable. The engineer who designed the gasket rings placed between the rocket stages warned everyone all the way up to Prez Reagan that a gasket failure during launch was possible in the cold weather. They all discounted his advice and went ahead anyway. The Nasa manager who made the final "green light, go ahead" decision said they had to keep up with the production schedule. This is highly risky experimental space exploration with lives at stake, not churning out hot dogs in a sausage factory according to someone in marketing's production schedule. He did not understand this. If he could not understand this, he never should have held that job. As far as I know, he never had any real accountability.
backatya 4 years ago
That's right. The engineer who told them I heard quit before it happened because they went ahead with the launch
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Its worse to think about what the crash scene investigators encountered when they eventually opened the pod :(
backatya 4 years ago
Not any different then seeing bodies of an aircraft accident.
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Dre Mosley 4 years ago
That was a sad day. I was in school watching it in class when that happened.
However, there's something intrinsically human about seeking out gloom. Experts call it negativity bias.
In short, it's our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. Also known as positive-negative asymmetry, this negativity bias means that we feel the sting of a rebuke more powerfully than we feel the joy of praise.
As humans, we tend to:
- Remember traumatic experiences better than positive ones;
- Recall insults better than praise;
- React more strongly to negative stimuli;
- Think about negative things more frequently than positive ones;
- Respond more strongly to negative events than to equally positive ones;
So chances are, we'll see similar posts in the future as well.
#7
I was told by a very senior police officer (a parent of a kid I taught) that it is estimated that 30% of all missing persons reported to police who are never located have been murdered and more often than not they have been murdered by the person reporting them missing in the first place. The police know this, but lack evidence to proceed with prosecutions.
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
What you want to believe doesn:t really affect how it is. I want to believe I'm a wealthy supermodel/ particle physicist.
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Ingrid Karena Santana-Ramirez 4 years ago
As the mother of a missing daughter the past 3 years sadly much of this is true. Sadly still no leads and barely any real search even knowing my daughter reached out saying who she was with and that she felt she was in danger. #FindKassandraRamirez
Carrie de Luka 4 years ago
Oh, I am so very sorry. I just looked her story up. You must be devastated.
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Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I guess this is the reason for the fact that police often investigate the relatives of the missing person as potential suspects.
Nicholas Kraemer 4 years ago
The critical part of that is the "never located". Over 99% of children reported missing in the US are found and are safe
Carrie de Luka 4 years ago (edited)
The recovery rate for the estimated 115 children abducted by strangers in the US each year, a very small but alarming segment of children reported missing annually, is less heartening. An average of 57 percent of them come home alive and 40 percent are killed. The rest remain open cases. Many of the children reported missing are lost, runaways, injured or taken by a parent in a custody case.
Load More Replies... Ingrid Karena Santana-Ramirez 4 years ago
As the mother of a missing daughter it’s upsetting. Sadly the police can’t seem to help nor find my daughter. #FindKassndraRamirez
Autumn 4 years ago
I just went and read about what happened. I’m sorry about your daughter. I hope her son’s doing okay and I hope you’re okay too. I wish you and the police good luck in your search.
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
This kind of thought TERRIFIES me to NO END!!! SO SAD for all of you!!! :'(
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Shawn Brooks 4 years ago
Honestly, that number seems really low. I'd think it would be closer to 70-75% but maybe it's just because I listen to many true crime podcasts
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Estimates made by the authorities are always on the lower side. We all know of the government projects that were estimated at $ 5 million, but due to some minor setbacks set us back $ 125 million.
RinLo14 4 years ago
Out of all people who are reported missing each year, 87-90% are found safe. Of the 10-13% who aren't, 30% of THAT percentage are estimated to have been killed. Not that anyone being killed is acceptable, but I think there's some people who are reading that 30% of all missing people are assumed to have been killed.
#8
Doctors used to perform heart surgery on infants without anesthesia. Thankfully this practice was ended.
In the 1980s.
Billy Beecham 4 years ago
In the 80's? Whose idea was it to not use anaesthesia? Whoever decided that deserves a pineapple up the ass without anaesthesia. Daily.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
It was believed babies didn't feel pain and drugging them was a greater risk
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
A recent post addressed this in depth, and the overall consensus appeared to be that publicly the medical profession took the stance that babies did not feel pain, while privately they feared the infants were at greater risk from the anesthesia itself.
Joan Zatorski 4 years ago
My son was 2 years old when his lip was lacerated up into his nostrils. The ER doctor sewed him up without anesthesia and without any numbing of the skin with lidocaine. When I protested I was escorted out of the ER room And they proceeded with sewing him up. I was a young mother, inexperienced with the ways of the medical establishment and unaware I could file a protest etc. Also, when 3 of my infant sons were circumcised in the 1980's, it was also done without numbing the penis. I was told "the nerves aren't developed enough for it to hurt" and "they are too young to remember the pain". My eyes still fill with tears when I think about that now.
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Katy McMouse 4 years ago
This blows my mind. How could a baby survive this? You'd think the shock their bodies would go through would kill them. There has to be an explanation to this - any Bored doctors out there? Someone explain, please.
Lily Lu 4 years ago
It's really hard to dose anesthesia, it could be fatal when you give people the wrong dose, and medical science didn't work out how to dose infants correctly until relatively recently.
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That was because of the dangers of anesthesia, and they did not know how to give it to an infant without killing them (with adults it has a high error rate and issues, considered the toughest specialty in medicine). Once they figured out how to do it safely, they then did so.
Beth Arriaga 4 years ago
Ok. I respect that argument. But to turn around and say 'oh they don't feel pain' when that is NOT the reason they aren't using anesthesia is just sick and wrong.
Load More Replies... Pepík21 4 years ago
And today is circumcision done in newborns without anesthesia as well. And it permanently Alters the Brain.
Moneythink 4 years ago
I'm not aware of studies proving brain alteration, but I absolutely believe it.
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Beth Arriaga 4 years ago
For too long the idea was that infants and children did not feel pain 'in the way adults do'. Bill sh*t. This is the only reason I refused to have my sons circumcised. If the doctor wouldn't to it to himself without anesthesia, they weren't doing it to my children. And this was when it was highly frowned upon to say NO to doctors and not do what 'everyone else was doing'.
Rose the Cook 4 years ago
So how did the doctors ensure the baby didn't wriggle about if it wasn't anaesthetised?
Alex Bailey 4 years ago
I believe I read that babies going into surgery were given a paralytic drug so they would be still.
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Thomas Ewing 4 years ago
Infants don't tolerate lots of things very well and a small dose of anesthetic is probably fatal.
Veri Rockt 4 years ago
A lot of gyn-procedures call for anesthesia - but it's to expensive to waste on women or whatever 🙄
#9
A Jewish doctor treated Hitler’s Mother(The only person Adolf ever truly loved) while she was dying of cancer. He promised his eternal gratitude to the doctor and even after becoming a pathological anti-Semite and later the Fuhrer, he was true to his word and was adamant the doctor and his family be placed under protection from the purge. While some may think this an act of genuine kindness, I just think about all the lives lost because Hitler never stopped to think that all Jews were capable of good and not just the one who happened to have been good to him because of immediate proximity..
Charlotte A. 4 years ago
Hitler probably didn't have Jews killed because he genuinely feared or hated them - he did it to give the German people a "common enemy" and basically to manipulate the public. Which is kind of worse.
De Gueb 4 years ago
Sadly the same thing is happening today and people just don't see it.
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CP 4 years ago
That is how many racists think. The people I have personally screened are okay. This is why the excuse, "I can't be racist I have friends of that race", falls apart.
Jon S. 4 years ago
I will remember this observation. Useful for arguing with racists and self-reflection
Load More Replies... Susan Widomski 4 years ago
It was not the actions or inactions of Jews that doomed them. It was the insanity that one race or culture is better than another.
Mindy Keys 4 years ago
Just like the racists today who say "Not all ____ people are ____, I happen to have a good friend who is _____". (Fill in race of your choice). See it all the time.
Billy Beecham 4 years ago
All Jews were capable of good? Who the he'll wrote that!? You mean because they are human beings. Period. Saying they were capable of good is like saying some of my best friends are black. You're one of the good ones. Etc.
Monica Michelle 4 years ago
I think about this a lot when someone claims they aren't hateful because they are married to have a best friend or know someone who is...
The Coated Dev 4 years ago
To be honest most of Europe did horrible things just like Hitler (Not saying they were as bad). They basically raped Africa, the Brits beat and bullied whoever they wanted. There were major differences in wealth all over Europe. Constant wars occurred as well.
Jon S. 4 years ago
Hitler killed as many in 5 years as the brits or french did in 100
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#10
When I was younger: realizing that adults don’t have a clue what they are doing half the time either was the biggest wake up call.
Raphael Biock 4 years ago (edited)
... and the more you realize how much bulls**t they told you when they were your current age.
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Helsten Morgan 4 years ago
It was a seminal moment when I realised that my parents weren't always right.
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
"It's funny...cause when you think about it, no-one ever feels like an adult. But their bodies just keep getting older and older and older...and then they die. Poof! *laugh*" --Poppy Playtime, pink tape.
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Suz66 4 years ago
My dog got hit by a car when I was 7-8 years old. As we were driving to the vet, I asked Dad if she was going to be okay, he said he didn't know. It hit me like a rock. That's when I learned my folks didn't know everything. (The dog survived and lived 15 years, old for a Dalmatian.)
Travis Hassig 4 years ago
I've told my kids I have no idea what the heck I'm doing. I'm a gen X'er. We didn't have to deal with this crap when I was a kid.
Glynn Reid 3 years ago
Adulthood is a scam. Nobody's ever really an adult in their own head. We;re all just a bunch of kids in bigger bodies, who, generally speaking have no idea what we're doing.
#11
There are face mites which live inside your pores next to your hair follicle, eat your sebum, don't have anuses and come out at night to mate on your skin. And there's nothing you can do about it. I'm so sorry.
Billy Beecham 4 years ago
Yup. They be gettin freaky deaky on ya face all night long. You thought you had oily skin. Now you know that ain't oil. It freaky deaky juice.
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
Billy, you're a hoot and I mean that in the best way ever. I laughed so hard when you said freaky deaky juice. Thanks man, I needed that. :)
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Ashley Delacerda 4 years ago
This both awesome and terrible...and I hate you for for the mental image but love you for the word play!
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Becky Samuel 4 years ago
They live their whole lives without pooping, and then when they die their body breaks open and all that poop ends up in and on your face. Well, you asked!
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Genuinely - who cares? They're meant to be there, they're part of my skin ecology, I can't see, hear, or feel them. Why would it bother me?
#12
Urine used to be an ingredient in stained glass.
So now whenever I see old churches with stained glass, I think of piss-stained rainbow windows.
lara 4 years ago
All colors were "fixed" with urine. There used to be "piss pots" out front of dyers. Men would stop, piss in the pot and the dyer would collect the urine to soak dyed cloths in. That would "fix" the color.
F. H. 4 years ago (edited)
Some smaller companies still do this the traditional way. Also "being blue" means being drunk in German for the same reason - because people working with color needed to drink a lot to be able to piss enough. From the same source also comes "making blue" in German, which means to skip work or school - because dyers had big gaps in their work schedule, where they just had to wait.
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
Urine was used for lots of things, including preserving, pickling, tanning of leather and skins. It's a useful commodity.
Ripley 4 years ago
It's also a very useful cleaning agent. If you leave it to sit, it effectively becomes ammonia, and can be used as a cleaning/bleaching agent in laundry.
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Mark Hurner 4 years ago (edited)
Urine used to be a commodity. You'd save it and sell it. The very poor couldn't do this because they literally were so poor, "they didn't have a pot to piss in".
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
Urine has been a valuable commodity all thru history. It was used in laundering clothing, setting dyes, tanning leather and making gunpowder, among other things. During the Civil War, it was considered your patriotic duty to collect urine for munitions manufacture.
#13
There is micro plastic in everything you eat and drink. Even the air you breathe contains plastic
Pungent Sauce 4 years ago
If you can smell poop, there’s actually molecules of feces in your nasal passages. (This goes for anything you smell)
Zalzany Games 3 years ago
Why even before covid I had masks just I use to only wear them cleaning the cat box :P
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Phillip Shepard 4 years ago
These nano particals are everywhere, Once in your body they stay forever. Little is known about the long-term effects of this.
C. Wade 4 years ago
Don't worry, the Earth is fine. We, on the other hand, are f****d.
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Gandalf the Pink 4 years ago
It sadly is. The average human consumes a spoonful of microplastics every week. An entire. Spoonful.
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#14
"If you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you" doesnt mean the attorney is free
Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
True, and it also doesn't mean they're any good. Most of them put zero effort into actually defending you and instead just encourage you to plead guilty and take the prosecutor's offer. Interesting that the judge, the prosecutor, and your court-appointed lawyer are all on the same payroll.
JLH 4 years ago
I worked with PDs at a local courthouse once. Most of them are genuinely well meaning, hard working and trying their best (some are just padding a resume, they suck). The problem is that they can have 20 clients to represent in the same day, and sometimes don't even get the reports till the day of the hearing. The system is just lip service to fair justice, but it's too expensive to do properly, so they just "United States it" and do a half assed job.
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ZAPanda 4 years ago
no idea why you were downvoted. It's correct. This is obviously a usa-only issue.
Load More Replies... Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
Not true in the UK. If you're poor, you get your lawyer for free. Any civilised country would do the same thing.
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago (edited)
In America, public defenders are free as well.
Load More Replies... Mazer 4 years ago
Highlighting one of the reasons why the American judicial system needs to be overhauled simply because it favors the wealthy. I think the public defender system should be eradicated completely and attorneys out to be made to take a couple of public defender cases every year as part of their practice. There has just got to be a better way
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
Where I live there's a sliding fee scale. You have to pay what they deem you can afford.
Nazda Pokmov 4 years ago
A court appointed attorney works for the Court....NOT YOU and is paid by the Court....not you...so you get some pretty lousy representation....been there done that.
#15
The average polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill 52 adults.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
I think the average polar bear could do enough damage without the aid of it's liver.
N G 4 years ago
I'm calling you out on this one. Without its liver it would be dead and would be fairly harmless
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago (edited)
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly(maybe some will get it).
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rotten miracles 4 years ago
Is nobody going to comment on the incredibly cute photo of the deadly predator? Just look at him 🥰
SoozeeQ 4 years ago
He looks like he's saying grace before he eats the photographer! "For what we are about to receive, may the good Lord make us truly grateful". ;oP
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Debrina Blackmoon 4 years ago
Right?! That damn thing will jump at & chomp your throat!
Load More Replies... Daniel Atkins 4 years ago (edited)
This means at one time a scientist studying polar bears though wow there is a lot of vitamin A in the liver. How many people could it kill and did the math. Seems suspicious.
Fluffy Griffin 4 years ago
I think it's from when people were trapped in expeditions and starving, eating a polar bear and dying mysteriously.
Load More Replies... Pyramids_r_not_tombs 4 years ago
Or the fact that Polar Bears will disappear from this planet sooner rather than later.
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
Their numbers are increasing according to a biologist who has bern stufying and tracking them in the Canadian northwest but media only ever show you pics of a post hibernation skinny guy to scare you. Also, they're mating with black bears.
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Randy Klefbeck 3 years ago
For a short period of time in the mid-1980's, carrot chips were marketed as a healthy alternative snack to potato chips. Turns out the process to make them concentrated the amount of vitamin A to the point that if someone ate too many (one bag by themselves) the result would be a bit toxic. They were around for only about 9 months.
#16
One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
That reminds me of that Far Side Cartoon....anyone with me?
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F. H. 4 years ago (edited)
I remember reading an article in a popular science magazine about that. Karen Wetterhahn died from it. She got a tiny little droplet on her glove and that killed her - even though she immediately noticed it and took decontamination measures. She died some months later.
Arcanic 4 years ago
Watched a video about Karen Wetterhahn on youtube. I recommend looking her up if you want to see how horrifying a single drop can be
Nika Strokappe 1 year ago
That's probably also a reason the "don't smell anything in the lab" rule exists...
#17
Around 30 people die every year, getting crushed from shaking a vending machine.
Fajar Kurniawan 4 years ago
So it's true, vending machine kills more human than shark in a year
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
We must start a vending machine hunt to kill all the vending machines.
Load More Replies... rabbitsrabbit 4 years ago
Its an embarrassing way to off yourself but at least you know you aren't alone
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
On a related note, cows kill more people every year than sharks, crocodriles and lions combined.
Grant Clemons 4 years ago
There's only so much idiot-proofing you can do and warning stickers you can apply before you just have to say "F**k it" and hope for the best.
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No, it gets angry and pulls them inside to crush them
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The Starsong Princess 4 years ago
I once watched a guy lose a fight with a vending machine. It ate his dollar and he started banging it with his fists. I thought “This will not end well”. Then he started kicking and banging it simultaneously. The glass broke and there was a shower of blood.
#18
I remember being told eggs have a protein structure so similar to our blood that you could use blood as an egg substitute in cakes etc.
Really wish I wasn't told that
Pieter K 4 years ago
Or you could just use bananas. For blood transfusions, of course. And muffins.
Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
You know what works as an egg white substitute (especially in cocktails like the wkisky sour and gin fizz)? Aquafaba, which is the liquid when you drain a can of chickpeas. Two tablespoons aquafaba equals one egg white.
Brenda Pereira 4 years ago
Good to know! I'll do anything to avoid a raw egg.
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Interesting: https://www.straightdope.com/21344369/can-blood-be-used-as-an-egg-substitute
#19
Dolphins cut of the head of smaller fish and use it for masturbation.
Nature is wonderful innit?
François Carré 4 years ago
Dolphins are clearly way too smart to be completely innocent, as we are.
NsG 4 years ago
Once a species becomes clever it learns the capacity for evil
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Brandon Marlowe 4 years ago
Well, there goes our plan to "swim with the dolphins" next vacation.
Enby.Minecraft.Bee. 4 years ago
Also you have a higher chance of being sexually assaulted by a dolphin than being eaten/harmed by a shark
#20
People dying often smell sweet. Not in a sugary way, but much more in flowery way. It's the decompositions of the body already starting. It can also smell vaguely like alcohol, especially their breath
crazy_cat_notAlady 4 years ago
i know this! not just people, but animals too. sometimes weeks in advance. if u smell this, u can predict death with almost 100% accuracy. :(
BigOrangeTractor 4 years ago
Me and my husband are farmers (him lifelong, me since I married him *mumble* years ago) - he can smell when an animal is going to die within the next day or so. It's a blessing really because it makes it so much easier to decide on the most compassionate course of action.
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lil ninja 4 years ago
I believe this to be something only certain people can smell though. I have been a continuous care hospice nurse for about 15 years, meaning I sit at the bedside of patients to help maintain their comfort during their final moments (12 hour shifts). There is definitely a smell that many patients will have while dying a natural death. However to me it is never floral or pleasantly sweet, but while in the same room another person may comment of this beautiful fragrance. I have no deficient in my sense of smell in general. I don’t like the version I smell.
Michelle Carlson 4 years ago
This is probably ketones building up in the blood from kidney failure
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during my dear Mama's last hours before death (June 2013), she exuded a strong vinegar odor; breath, skin everywhere. By the way, she also had visitation from my brother, who had passed in 1999. She opened her eyes and spoke very clearly to him, obviously answering questions...then she reached up to take his hand I guess. Pretty emotional for us all....
Melissa Boatman Linebaugh 4 years ago
My sweet senior pup is in her last days, and we have noticed our crazy puppy being exceedingly gentle with her and sniffing her constantly. 😢
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
I'm so sorry. It is a rough time. I hope your pup's passing is peaceful. My heart goes out to you.
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My darling, darling old cat smelled like fallen autumn leaves in the end. One morning I knew for sure that she was going to go that day, partly because that sweet, peaceful scent was even stronger. I held her all day and later I kept the top I was wearing in a sealed bag. I could smell her on it for months and it helped a bit with the pain. That sad but oddly comforting smell will never be gone from my memory.
Nazda Pokmov 4 years ago
Nurses can go into a room with a dying patient and immediately smell death on them. It comes with practice....lots and lots of practice.
jk nbt 4 years ago (edited)
Some nursing homes & hospices use pet cats as comfort animals. Their job is to go around to the residents & give them hugs & love. Sometimes these cats park themselves overnight in bed with a resident, who dies the next day. No, they are not murder cats. They can predict when someone will die within 24 hours. This explains it.
y a n a 4 years ago
I could smell this from my grandma when she was dying of cancer. I was the only one in a room of 12 people who could smell it. I thought I was going crazy.
Bee 4 years ago
I completely agree and believe you. My husband fought pancreatic cancer for nearly six years. His last few months, he has this sickly sweet smell to him. Cancer really does have a smell when it takes over the body and It changed to a more pungent, sharp smell a few days before he passed away. I knew by that change that it was his time at age 39.
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von Funnyname 4 years ago
I'll agree to disagree here. My neighbor, years ago, was ailing and had a fall a bunch of years back. I heard it through the wall and helped his wife get him to bed. I went home and smelled what can only be likened to actual death on my skin and clothes, so I bathed and washed them. The smell remained, seeping through the walls it seemed. He died a day later in that same bed and the smell didn't leave the house until about a week afterward. It was most certainly not sweet, but rather the most putrid, noxious smell I think I have ever had the displeasure of imprinting on my brain.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
It might smell differently to different people but still be the same smell.
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The fungus that can take over a bug's brain and turn them into basically a real life zombie ant
Virgil Blue 4 years ago
The last of us fungus was based on these real life fungi. Another fun one is that parasite that manipulates brains and makes mice and rats fall in love with cats with of course fatal consequences. Humans can get them too and it is essentially a source of crazy cat ladies.
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Mazer 4 years ago
There is a super weird one that infects snails, causing the eye stalks to pulse, birds eat the snail, bird poops, snail eats poop, cycle continues. The worse parasite IMHO (rarely humble) is called Chagas Disease, a beetle called an assassin bug will bite you near your mouth while you are sleeping, this is why it is commonly called a “kissing bug” if the assassin bug carries a parasite, you are doomed. The parasite can take decades to do enough damage for you to produce symptoms, by then, it’s too late. The parasite prefers making its reproduction nest out of your heart and lungs. The only way to test is to get bit by the beetle raised in a sterile lab, then have the beetles poop tested, which basically only tells you that your days are numbered.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
Where does it live ? So I can avoid going there
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#22
A human head can twist approximately 306° before it pops off
Ms.GB 4 years ago
You see officer, I was scrolling through bored panda earlier today and.....
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the Kat who says ni 4 years ago
Till it pops off, maybe a bit sooner to die :)
Load More Replies... buttonpusher 4 years ago
Now I'm imagining a head popping off like a cork in a champagne bottle.
Susie Elle 4 years ago
I once read that you need a substantial amount of force to just "pop off" a neck, or rather, to break someone's neck like they do in the movies with a good twist sideways. Apparently the average person probably couldn't do it.
Verena Abt 4 years ago (edited)
Who found that one out?? I used to do that. With my Barbie doll.
Vicki Perizzolo 4 years ago
and we know this why? I heard once it takes about 800# pull to actually pull a head off - also something I didn't need to know
#23
In order to conserve water, a camel's urine comes out as a thick syrup.
Allan Breum 4 years ago
Thats one of the grossest things I've read all day... Have an up-vote. :P
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
And, might I add, it smells like... well, let's just say I was at some camel stables in the middle east a couple of years ago, and I was petting a camel when it let loose. You don't ever want to smell that. Ever.
Aria Whitaker 4 years ago
OMG...and to think some in the ME are actually drinking camel urine to "cure" the coronavirus??!! Revolting....
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Brandy Grote 4 years ago
Oh lordy. People are DRINKING IT to "prevent Covid". Not even to make stained glass!
Brandy Grote 4 years ago (edited)
Do their legs get sticky? Do they squat? How long does it take? Dammit, there goes my search history again...
#24
You can grow teeth on your ovaries.
Not A Panda 4 years ago
I have one of those, a terratoma. I could have it removed, but it's not bothering me and I like the looks I get when I tell people I have teeth on my ovaries.
Natalie Bohrteller 4 years ago
Since I've had two of them, have them at least controlled because they can become malign and can grow. They can also have effects on your hormone levels.
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Catpoker88 4 years ago
This is what causes cramps, it's really just your ovaries grinding their teeth!
June 4 years ago
Teratoma. You can grow hair or teeth on your ovaries or testicles, and also in your brain. You're welcome !
Natalie Bohrteller 4 years ago (edited)
They grow in the ovary, in dermoid cysts. Basically they are stem cells that started to develop into specific tissue. It can happen in testicles too, but then they are usually malign. In ovaries they are typically harmless. I had one in my left and one in my right ovary and were removed. Both contained bone, fat, and hair tissue.
Jessica Combrink 4 years ago
Just genuinely asking here - how does one detect this? Is it painful or picked up on scans?
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PixxelDust 4 years ago
It's called a teratoma. Interestingly, I was diagnosed with having one about a week ago. It's a kind of non-cancerous tumour made of cells that randomly specialise to be bone or hair. I have teeth in my right ovary! :D
#25
Decomposing bodies:
Generally, it could take about a year for the body to decompose into a skeleton in ordinary soil and eight to twelve years to decompose a skeleton.
And if a dead body is inside a coffin and buried deep underground, it could even take 50 years to decompose all tissues on the body.
Billy Beecham 4 years ago (edited)
Yet if you leave it in the tub of a non air conditioned apartment you get soup in like what, eight days?
CP 4 years ago
I know a lot of people will disagree but burying our dead is a waste money and land.
Moneythink 4 years ago
I plan to be composted. Here's hoping I become fertilizer for a sequoia.
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Eb 4 years ago
Depends on the soil. It's fascinating to see the bodies that have been recovered from peat soil, still largely intact after 2,000 years or more. Apparently sandy soil is more acidic and reduces a body to bones quickly, which is why ancient human remains are rarely found in desert countries.
Tassenküchlein168 4 years ago
I have questions. Then why we use coffins? And what’s about hundreds of years old skeletons, digged out by archeologists?
Nubis Knight 4 years ago
And if the ground is to moist it can lead to a "wax"-like state of the decomposing corpse instead of completly rotting away.
#26
It takes 8 pounds of pressure to tear off a human ear; a force approximately equivalent to crushing a soda can.
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
To itch my earlobe when I have earrings on I pull on my earring a little bit... yeah that's not gonna happen anymore
Shell O 4 years ago
I met a girl once, whose ear had been sliced off when a man had picked her up in a pub (just messing about drunk) and dropped against a juke box
Vicky Z 4 years ago
Mine was almost sliced at the age of six when a classmate pulled my earring! (We were piercing ears very young in the 90's) thankfully the earring wasn't good quality and broke
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Don Golosso 4 years ago
8 Pounds is roughly 4 kilograms. If you can lift a bowling ball you can tear off an ear...
Load More Replies... What ninjas can't 4 years ago
A friends teacher told her and her classmates when they were younger that if they ever were attacked or somebody was trying to abduct them they should hang on to that persons ears and fall down so their weight would be put on the persons ears.
Batman Cody Fried Chicken Butt 4 years ago
Actually, it takes about 6 pound of pressure, meaning if you tie a milk jug you someone's ear and drop it, their ear would rip off.
#27
The body fat of a drowned person turns into a soap-like substance if they stay under water with no air contact
Billy Beecham 4 years ago
Yup yup. Tyler Durden says selling back their own fat asses to the rich was 👍
von Funnyname 4 years ago
Came here to say similar. Off you go Space Monkey
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François Carré 4 years ago
You can also collect human body fat and make cool expensive soap with it - or explosives. Get the movie reference ?
#28
Anything and everything about Albert Fish. Man was a true degenerate. If you're faint of heart or have a weak stomach, do NOT look him up. Absolutely disgusting. I wish I could unread everything I read about him.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Because we all know you want to know now. "Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, child rapist, child murderer, and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
Monday 4 years ago
Let's not forget he sent a letter to the parents of a little girl he kidnapped, murdered and ate specifying that she died a virgin, but he totally could have raped her if he wanted to.
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Rainyrose 4 years ago
I looked him up AFTER i saw all these comments saying to NOT look him up....i wish i wasnt so curious now
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Don't Look 4 years ago
Its the needles in his groin and autocoprophagy (own feces eating) that I think would be the key "why are you like this" features here. The things he did to other people are inexcusable. But not worth researching.
Zalzany Games 3 years ago
Rapping and eating kids is ok, sending a letter to parents of victim saying their girl died a virgin but he could rapped her if he wanted ok. Eating his own s**t, oh that is too far. I am kind worried about you...
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T.Milly 4 years ago
Fish was a pure savage. He ate a few of his victims & when he wasn't practicing cannibalism, he would eat his own feces. Fish also enjoyed burning himself with hot irons & fire pokers & he inserted sewing needles into his groin area (30 needles were found in his groin after he reported it to a psychiatrist).
#29
That some tumors can grow teeth and hairs
Eva the Egg 4 years ago
QCNCJNWVNEVJNWN I searched up becuase im very stupid and OH MY GOD SOMEONE HAND OVER THE UNSEE JUICE
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Beatrice Multhaupt 4 years ago
The resemblance between a tumor and a fetus is the reason the immune system usually fails to attack the tumor. Whoever figures out what's going on here has a good chance of coming up with a cure for cancer.
#30
Your bones are warm and wet.
CP 4 years ago
It isn't the knowing part. It is the thinking about it part.
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Chyppa Homer 4 years ago
I don't think you'd mind too much, at that point :D
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Martin Kaine 4 years ago
Yes, but don't we all have to slap the back of our necks now, after seeing that X-ray?
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#31
Toilets are designed so it is impossible to pass out while puking and drown in one. If someone drowns in a toilet they were murdered.
Justbecause 1 month ago
Or a small child. Children are top heavy and cant get themselves back up and out of the water. Close toilet and bathroom doors people.
#32
A turtle penis is nearly half the length of the turtle, they are the most well endowed reptile.
Per-Ole Sjuve 4 years ago
No wonder April O'Neil hung around the sewer with the four brothers.
Penny Fan 4 years ago
Oh no she better don't! You had to go there didn't you...
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Batwench 4 years ago
The picture is of a tortoise. Turtles are adapted for water, tortoise for land and terrapins for attitude.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
good point. In German, though, we don't make that distinction, it's all "Schildkröte", so maybe it's a translation-error? Or it encompasses all shell-reptiles whether land- or aquatic?
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
And this fella on the pic looks really smug about that fact :-D
#33
When a frog throws up, its entire stomach will fly out its mouth and just hang there. The frog then flings out the contents of the stomach and swallows it back down.
Faith Nicole 3 years ago
What the hell?! Has anyone ever witnessed any animal (other than indoor pets) throw up, let alone stick around to see a frog puke out its own stomach then swallow it back into place?
#34
the surgery with the highest mortality rate was 300%. how did this happen? well, there was a surgeon called Robert Liston who was famous for his fast amputations, and when I say fast I'm talking 30 seconds to 1 minute surgeries, 180x faster than amputations now (this happened in the 1800's). one day he was performing an amputation but accidentally amputated much more than he should have, due to the fact that the patient was thrashing about in pain while assistants held them down as there was no anasthetic at the time. he was amputating so fast that he cut through his assistant's finger. the surgical tools were probably dirty as both the patient an the assistant died of infections. as for the third guy, people enjoyed watching Liston preform surgeries and he was at the front of the crowd. Liston slashed the spectator's coat, which supposedly caused the spectator to die of shock (likely a heart attack).
TL:DR doctor amputated guy, cuts assistant and slashed spectator's coat, causing all 3 to die.
BananaJo 4 years ago
Btw to anyone who might be wondering, they would usually hack it off. So there you go
Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
Total concentration, docter breathing, 3rd form, triple death
Devil's Advocate 4 years ago
Why would you bother with an amputation when most patients died anyway?
#35
When dolphins become attached to humans and then the human they like are gone for a long time, the dolphin will drown itself from sadness
Granel 4 years ago
Not the only animal that does this. A LOT of animals do this. Be nice to pets, they're MUCH smarter than you believe.
Batwench 4 years ago
My pets are smarter than some people that I have met.
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Dolphins will also try to mate with humans that they like. I have heard, regrettably, that someone was okay with this.
De Gueb 4 years ago
When I have to travel and leave my dog she often get sick and has diarrhea after a couple of days. I travel a lot for work so I have a regular lady who also has a dog that looks after her. The dog stays at my house and the lady takes here for walks and with the other dogs. She often sends me videos of my dog playing or being cuddly with her. When I'm back she ignores the lady, wont even look at her.
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Apparently, during WWII, mastiff boarded when their families evacuated London stopped eating. I hope it is aprocryphal
#36
A person split in half by the stomach doesn't die instantly. It has some lastly moments of suffering. Source: a person was hit by a train and split in half in front of me. He took some time to die.
Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
Surprisingly common at subway and train stations, when people fall into the gap between the platform and a moving car. The friction of the moving car twists the torso around and around, essentially separating the upper and lower halves but leaving them connected. With a ruined spinal cord, the victim feels little pain and remains alert. First responders hate these incidents because they know that the only way to get the victim out--which has to be done--is by moving the train. The instant the pressure is released, the victim dies, even though they FEEL okay up to the last instant. It's a horrible scene for everyone involved.
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
I knew someone who died in an industrial accident this way. He survived for well over an hour before the machine was finally turned back on to release him. He was coherent the entire time. I still can't fathom that.
Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Google Harish Nanjappa, a young Indian man who was torn in half during a road accident in 2016 and lived long enough to ask that his eyes and other organs be donated.
Joanie 4 years ago
That is so sad. Bless him for thinking of others during his last moments on Earth.
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#37
Those bitter, sour, or otherwise nasty tasting pistachios had a worm, larva, or some other pest in them. I always assumed that I just needed to deal with a couple spoiled pistachios per bag and it’s no big deal. Nope. Larvae. I’ve never had pistachios since learning this.
Debra Timah 4 years ago
I bit into a pear as as very small child (one of my earliest memories), and showed my mom that there was half a worm where I'd bitten. She told me it was just protein and was full of the pear it had just been eating, and just shrugged like "it's fine". Even so, it took me decades before I could eat a fresh pear again without slicing it up and inspecting it first. So it made quite an impression on me anyway - maybe because it was such a rare occurrance, in that it only happened once, so other fruits seemed "safe" and only that one seemed not?
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Come one, you already ate tons of larvae with different food. Just ignore it or you will not eat anything anymore 😂 (fruits, vegetables, cereals, nuts... even meat, probably)
Anne Reid 4 years ago
In the US, most foods (especially cereals) are allowed to have insect parts in them, as it is impossible to filter them out. I forget the actual ratio of food to bug bits, but it goes by weight of the food.
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Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
That's okay - I find them uneatable already, so they can have all the worms and eggs and larvae they want 😋
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François Carré 4 years ago
As long as they're not toxic, it's fine. You have no idea how many micro-organisms you actually swallow along with fresh food - not to mention those which already live (and even thrive) all over your body.
DuchessDegu 4 years ago
Not pleasant, but it won't kill you, so enjoy the larvae free pistachios
#38
Elon Musk’s father is currently with and has a child with his step-daughter. He became her step-father when she was about 3
Francesca Annoni 4 years ago
So..the sister of Elon musk (step sister) is now his step mother..so he is uncle of his brother..
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
Edgar Alan Poe fell in love with his cousin but waited five years to marry her - when she reached age 13.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Cousin marriage is pretty common ( Elizabeth and Phillip were cousins and its common in many parts of Africa and South Asia) and he lived in the 19th century. He's also not known for being the most normal or stable of people.
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I know a guy who as a child with his wife, one with his mother in law and another with his step daughter. They all live in the same house.
over it already 4 years ago
That is terrible and fascinating. i must know where they live (general region, not specifically of course.)
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#39
Most seamonster sightings are whale penises
Sakura 4 years ago
No, it's true. Whale penises look like large tentacles.
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Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
This is the new "you Swallow eight spiders in a year' fact. No way to quantify sounds like it could be true just weird and funny enough to get repeated. At least once a week on BP.
#40
I recently learned that Nutella has a sun protection factor of 9.7. Since then I can't stop thinking about that.
KatHat 4 years ago
This is kinda dumb. Anything opaque that you can smear on your skin would have some level of sun protection factor. Why single out Nutella?
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
I was thinking the same. You could smear paint or porridge on your face with the same result.
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Arwen 4 years ago
You could spread it on your skin and it would act as a light sun tan lotion.
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#41
In ancient Egypt, the deceased bodies of beautiful and high ranking women were left to decay for several days before mummification to discuourage necrophilia by the embalmers.
Ivana 4 years ago
I mean, I would rather be raped when I was dead than when I am alive. So if I had to pick one or the other, I guess I would say I wish more rapists were into necrophilia.
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White Wolf 4 years ago
I have read the same, not so long ago. Apparently, this myth has been debunked.
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#42
I remember hearing some dude (retired military) on a podcast talk about how fragile our electric grid really is, and if it ever went down some 60%-ish of the population would die in about 2-3 months because nobody knows how to gather food or water anymore.
Matthew Zornig 4 years ago
Forgive me if I need more evidence than some random guy on a podcast
Kimi Tomminello 4 years ago
I'm more afraid of people losing it than I am of losing power. Make friends with farmers, that's my recommendation. I may be biased as I'm a retired ag researcher.
Yeah, you heard 4 years ago
I love it when some ex military dude on a podcast gets quoted as if his claims are fact.
J. F. 4 years ago (edited)
For all the people saying this isn't true because a military guy said this - yes, the powergrid is indeed that vulnerable. It doesn't take much for grids to overcharge, and due to them being linked and covering a wide area they are the weakest link in any country's infrastructure. (There was an incident here in Europe in November 2006 - one line was shut down here in Germany and the overcharge caused a 2 hour blackout all through middle Europe)
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
While I do not know how true this is, apparently, our power grids are very weak as many are past upgrades of 20 years or more. They are hard to access and cross state lines that makes fixing them difficult.
Daniel Cadman 4 years ago
Move to south africa its a daily occurrence. Ah load shedding just another way the government has buggered its people around...
#43
Just everything about dementia. It’s absolutely f**king terrifying.
lara 4 years ago
The thing about dementia and Alzheimer's is only those around you are aware of it. You don't recognize it except when the "clouds clear."
Meike H 4 years ago
In the first stages you're most certainly aware of it. It must be incredibly scary.
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Jenny Pugh 4 years ago
I'm a care worker and have always said that dementia is harder on the loved ones than the sufferer themselves.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
One of the scariest medical conditions I can think of is Locked-in Syndrome. Completely paralzyed, except the eyes, yet totally aware and conscious.
Sheila Stamey 4 years ago
I live in an assisted living center. Sometimes I wonder about the folks with dementia and schizophrenia. I've almost decided that some of them are actually seeing/talking to spirits. Especially when s someone is about to die. They start talking to mother, or daddy, or a deceased person. Usually within two weeks they are gone.
Jon S. 4 years ago
May dad spent two years talking to invisible people. He sometimes told me creepy stories about them as well. But I'm pretty sure it was all in his head, just the barrier between memory and reality had tumbled down.
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Lost my Grandad to dementia last year 2 weeks before Christmas. It truly is a horrific disease.
Faith Nicole 3 years ago
Yes it is. My grandfather is in the final stages and it's terribly sad to watch this man who was always loud extremely sarcastic with a heart of gold turn to a body in a bed/wheelchair with no motor skills, eyes that can't focus/are blind, and can't swallow without the help of others to make sure he doesn't choke and die. Can't walk can't sit up can't do anything but sit there in his state of mind, alone 😔
Bret Sander 4 years ago
I've done home support for almost 30 years. I assure you that people who suffer from dementia have periods of clarity and are devastated by the loss of their ability to remember aspects of their previous life. It's heartbreaking for them, for their family, and for me as a care giver.
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Everyone’s butthole is as unique as a fingerprint.
François Carré 4 years ago
I we were a dog civilization, somehow we would surely have come to the point of doing buttholeprints by now, though.
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#45
There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery in 2016, including about 25 million in forced labour, and 15 million in forced marriages.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
I was going to say something how consumers wants cheap products, but then I realized it's not entirely our fault companies chose the resources. For those who have been aware and let it continue or continued turning a blind eye, for shame. At least investigators, like CBC's Marketplace, has brought some of it to light. Unfortunately people are still buying these products.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
only if they are doing free work and not being compensated would that count, yes.
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#46
That figs contains wasps. They pollenate by the wasp crawling inside the male plant and then the female one however the female plant has a smaller hole and the wasp dies inside. The wasp decomposes in the fruit. So if you eat a ripe fig you eat at least one wasp. Used to be my favorite. So sad.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Again, extra protein. There are bug bits in just about everything you eat. It's fine
Corena Smith 4 years ago
Exactly, pretty sure there are "acceptable levels" of insect bits in almost every food product.
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Granel 4 years ago
I heard the figs we eat are NOT the ones with wasps. No difference either way for me, tho.
Lillukka79 4 years ago (edited)
Yes, most of the figs we eat are selfpollinating so no wasp. And even the ones with the wasp, you can't see it since it's dissolved in the fruit.
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Chloe *Leah* Pheonix 4 years ago
The look of horror on Markiplier's face when Amy told him this in the middle of eating fig pastries
#47
There is no guarantee that all life on earth won’t end in the next moment, simply because the wrong type of radioactive space waves hit us
Kanuli 4 years ago
Let me doubt the „all life“. There’s plenty of thick stone, iron, lead protection at places, with people, bugs, animals most likely sheltered. But then again, even if a handful would survive, I doubt the would survive for long.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
There's critters under the water that live beside magma-chimneys. They don#t need oxygen to survive. There's also plants enough on this planet that will not care about radioactivity as long as the sun is around - "life will find a way" is not just Hollywood. As long as the planet will not burn to a crisp, life WILL find a way.
Load More Replies... Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago
Kinda elegant way to go in my opinion. Better than struggling through pandemics, enconomic crises, world war 3, nuclear fallout and so on ;)
#48
If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains. Eating brains is how you catch a disease called Kuru. It is 100% lethal.
Zenozenobee 4 years ago (edited)
Being a cannibal isn't/wasn't unacceptable everytime, everywhere. Various cultures practiced endo-cannibalisme either to absorb the strenght/energy of their lost ones, either because of the lack of protein supplies. Kuru was identified among the Fore on an Island where antropophagia was part of the funeral rite. There is a difference betwenn eating your deads to honor them or not to starve and to kill people/eat someone else deads to appropriate their energy (stealing it from their people)
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Jihana 4 years ago
It's Creutzfeldt-Jacob, named after two German neurologists. It's not one guy called Jacob Creutzfeldt.
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IlovemydogShilo 4 years ago
Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.
F. H. 4 years ago
That's very inaccurate. Kuru was only ever observed in one population on earth. They practiced funary cannibalism. One of the theories is that they had one sufferer of Creutzfeldt-Jabcob's among them at one point and the prions just spread through their cannibalistic rituals.
#49
During the Black Death, people would be so infected with the plague that the buboes (those lumps) that you could hear them gurgling with bacteria
Pumpkin Spice 4 years ago
"Lord Bob, are you sure you're not sick?" "I'm sure" *gurgle gurgle*
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
And if you contracted the Black Death, it works fast. You could be walking around happily in the morning, notice the first lumps, and be dead by nightfall. (I read a rather graphic book about the Middle Ages for a research report. Can't quite remember the name, but it was a beautifully-written book in which you're a time traveler who went to the Middle Ages. It teaches you rules and such that you need to survive. And etiquette and proper fashion :).
F. H. 4 years ago
That's the reason why those strains of the plague always died out. They were evolutionary dead ends. They killed every host they could get and that very fast. That also meant even primitive quarantine measures were often effective.
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#50
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like frightened or injured prey. Day ruined
Buren 4 years ago
But have you seen my dog playing with his squeaky duck? It makes my day though
Amanita Virosa 4 years ago
Ours too he loves his squeaky toy. Well loves to try and kill it anyway. ;)
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Orcas will slap baby seals 80+ ft into the air with their tails until the seal's skin comes off, and eventually dies. The orcas will then not even eat it after, meaning that they literally just do it for fun.
Gata Nick 4 years ago
They also drown baby whales just for fun or to only eat their tongue. Orcas are horrible bullies.
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
Well they earned the nickname "killer whale" for a reason, if not we'd probably have nicknamed them "sea panda" or something.
Load More Replies... Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago
Yeah, they are fun. Orca (mammal) can sometimes catch a shark (fish) by it's tail and just hold on to it till shark suffocates.
Natalie Payseur 4 years ago
When they hunt sharks, when the sharks die, they only eat the liver.
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Melissa Boufford 4 years ago
In the Pacific Northwest there are transient orcas and resident orcas. Resident orcas only eat fish.
phoenix crystalite 4 years ago
Orcas are like humans Kill stuff for no reason Only eat small parts of the animal
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
Orcas can be assholes. But I'm going to piggyback this with another thread someone tried arguing that animals, and only the carnivores, will kill out necessity for food, and they were pretty adamant.
#52
When someone is beaten and suffers blunt force trauma to the back of the head, it isn’t brain damage that kills them. Most of the time it damages the bones in the roof of your mouth and nose and the bleeding from these highly vascular areas make the person drown in their own blood.
#53
Cows can create mummified foetuses inside of their uterus. If the foetus dies and is not retrieved, the body absorbs all the liquids and humidity from the foetus, and what is left is a tiny dried up hard solid mummy of a calf.
Virginie Michaud 4 years ago
Saw that with my cousin who is a vet. Also 4 cows that were struck by lightning, and several cows that had "milk fever", a prolapsed uterus, we did a c section during a storm in a barn under a single light bulb, and there was another cow with a broken clavicle, one that lost a hoof, and one that had a basketball-sized cyst. All during just 1 week!
#54
Doctors removed the eyes of Jack The Rippers last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the killer.
Jo Davies 4 years ago
It was called Optography. And I am pretty sure they only photographed them, not removed
Max L. 4 years ago
Im not sure Id like to hear how do you know, despite I believe you.
Load More Replies... Stephanie A Mutti 4 years ago
I'm guessing it was a science that was still in the theoretical stage
Walter Brameld 4 years ago
I vaguely remember seeing something like this on a show way back in the 80s. The idea was that it used to be believed that visual memories were stored in the vitreous gel inside the eye.
Ky Di 4 years ago
They thought the very last image that the person sees (hopefully the killers face, they thought) would be burned into the eyes/pupils, and they would be able to see it, almost like an image burn. But sadly that's not true. If it was, way more murders would be solved. Or just tons of eye-less victims.
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When a morbidly obese person is being cremated the oven doesn't need to get as hot as when a thin person being cremated due to the fat burning at a high temperature.
Rissie 4 years ago (edited)
This explanation is wrong. It takes longer for the tissue to burn fully so it has to be at its highest temperature for a longer time, risking overheating the equipment. They have to keep an eye out for this and a lower temperature overall might be the way to keep the equipment safe. The temperature of fat burning is not high enough to combust the material fully, there's also a lot of water and other material within the fatty tissue layers. The smoking point of lard, for comparison is 190 degrees celsius, a cremation oven reaches about 900-1000 degrees celsius. So it's not the fat burning, it's controling the temperature because of the time it takes for the extra tissue.
Paweł Duda 4 years ago
Do basically if you create crematorium that burns only obese people, you will have more profitable business.
Lady Cadaver 4 years ago
Also, you cannot cremate someone with a pacemaker or the crematorium goes Boom!
Stephanie Keith 4 years ago
Yes it does. It was definitely unnecessary and a morbidly gross joke, but made sense for sure.
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#56
How rabies takes over in the human body. It's disturbing and f**king traumatizing to read.
Fajar Kurniawan 4 years ago
I use to think when you get bit by infected dog, you will behave like a crazy dog too
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
It's not far off, you foam at the mouth, become aggressive, stiffen up and can't consume water, pretty much what a dog does.
Load More Replies... Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Shine Caramia: if there isn't a rabies vaccine, then what the heck am I required to get as a military dependent? A fantasy vaccine? Weird.
Load More Replies... Michelle Carlson 4 years ago
There's a book called Rapid about the virus. Absolutely fascinating. And horrible. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B0072NWKG0/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_Y4KT72TPTQN3GKSXV84P
Justbecause 1 month ago
As an Australian I will take spiders and snakes everyday over the chance of getting rabies, the plague, limes or any of that other super scary stuff.
#57
That the average human will talk to 16 murders during their lifetime.
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
Also, how in hell would you come up with a ludicrous statistic like that?.This is truly stupid.
Kevin Corcoran 4 years ago
Oddly phrased... What is the average human? Or, is it, on average, humans will speak to 16 murderers? One is a non specific subset of the population, the other is everyone on average. If you get what I mean? If it was the latter, then that means between 7-8Billion of us.. over the course of 70 odd years.. there are 100-120 Billion interactions with murderers? Assuming all interactions aren't unique, and there's some heavy duplication of murderers in these interactions.... My mind is melting! Like some murderers kill once, others several times. I just have a feeling if this was true, all of humanity would need to be dead! This is just such a meaningless statement
My O My 4 years ago
But I get you! Maybe because I'm tired though - good night
Load More Replies... H.L.Lewis 4 years ago
I had a mailman who ended up being a murderer. He seemed like a really nice guy when he was delivering my mail . Then he was replaced by this guy who wouldn't say hello. I moved and the new mailman eventually bought the house next to me. He's actually a really good guy, but he was new to the postal service and had gotten a really difficult route, since he had no seniority yet. The first guy had murdered his wife. So yeah, Scary.
#58
A cremation oven is about 1800° F. Lava is about 2000° F. Hawaii has accessible lava.
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
Yeah would kinda squash tourism at the volcano and I don'y think Hawaii wants to be the place where your loved ones get cremated.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
I think the implication is you can dispose of your dead in Kilauea.
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There are little microscopic insect thingies that live in the follicle of each one of your eyelashes.
#60
Until the 1980’s, people had no idea that Orangutans had two different sub-species and ended up cross breeding the two. And the end result was known as the “cocktail orangutan”. The problem with these hybrid orangutans is while they are fertile, they suffer numerous health issues and allowing them to continue to breed will result in the orangutan population to diminish even more
K 4 years ago
Most zoos that have Orangutans have done genetic testing and health workups and those are checked and rechecked and then checked against the other Orangutans eligible for breeding. It's how the Species Survival Plan works. Breeding of any endangered animal is done very carefully
Virginie Michaud 4 years ago
Now. And in zoos that abide by those stamdards.
Load More Replies... Becky Samuel 4 years ago (edited)
Three. There are three orang-utan species. The cross-breeding problem occurred in many species; one of the most damaging was the inadvertent crossing of African lions with Asiatic lions.
#61
4% of people on Death Row are innocent.
Adam Jeff 4 years ago
4% are proven to be innocent and have their convictions overturned. There's no way of knowing how many are innocent but unable to prove it.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I think the percentage is much, much higher than that. The preponderance of people on death row in the USA, are men, those of colour, and those whose educational level stops around elementary/primary school. The more organizations like the Innocence Project that exist, the more we see that too many of these people were tried, convicted and sentenced without proper evidence, because they didn't have the means to fight back against the system.
Nancy Baldauf 4 years ago
And I'll bet that there is even a higher percentage among long-term prisoners who are NOT on death row, especially those who had court appointed attorneys.
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Lsai Aeon 4 years ago
Just read a news article last night, 2 of the guys "convicted" of the murder of Malcom X are in the process of being exonerated
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
No, they *were* exonerated. Because they were innocent, just as the one actually guilty murder had always said, just as THEY always said. But FBI and Police at the time were happy with having caught someone and just withheld witness-statements (one of them being an alibi for one of the men) and other evidence that could have proven their innocence (would have, more likely) and it turns out that those two men had to spend 20 YEARS in prison until they were released and NOW someone actually said "Oh... whoops?" One of them men died a few years ago, and the other is 83. A life stolen because police was not just sloppy but criminally incompetent and too eager to just get anyone convicted. And I bet you they would have executed them if there had been the death penalty for murder.
Load More Replies... François Carré 4 years ago
Indeed, death penalty is wrong on all levels but this might be the top one.
ZAPanda 4 years ago
There's an interesting tech in japan (google Kamitani labs) which does mind reading. Apparently they can tell if you recognise something. So: take the accused. Show them the victim's face. See if they recognise it.
Robin Pickering 4 years ago
Assuming that they didn't see the victim's face a thousand times at trial.
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Raccoon Queen 4 years ago
ONLY FOUR PERCENT WERE NOT AS HORRIBLE AS I THOUGHT!!!!!!!!!! Okay I’ll stop yelling, I was scared it was more like 30%
Lech Dąbrowski 4 years ago
Which is of course still too much. That's the reason I'm against death penalty - I'm not arguing that there are crimes deserving death - only that I don't want government to have a power to kill people.
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There is faecal matter eeeeeeeeverywhere
#63
That people who drown in confined spaces will claw the skin off the bone of their fingers trying to get out. They sometimes claw their own throats open.
MyOpinionHasBeenServed 4 years ago
This pertains to any method to dying in a confined space. At Auschwitz (not sure I spelt that right) you can see nail marks in the walls in the gas chambers.
#64
Takes 3hrs for a 180lb human to completely dissolve in a bathtub of potassium hydroxide.
Monday 4 years ago
Fun fact: You can buy potassium hydroxide online right now! I can buy a 1 kg tub of the stuff for R59 [$3.76] and get free shipping.
M M 4 years ago
Looks like wrong chemicals are under surveilance. If you want to buy 1litre of H2O2 you have to show your ID and get written into a special book. :-( I love it for cleaning our bathroom.
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Lillukka79 4 years ago
It causes an exothermic reaction so no need for outside heat.
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If you sniff any odor, it means a tiny amount of the sniffed matter entered your nose.
Therefore if you sniff vomit ...
Natalie Bohrteller 4 years ago
Technically, when you smell vomit, you smell butyric acid. It's also in Parmigiano cheese, which is why it also has a vomit like smell. It's best to be smelled when you open a bag of grated Parmigiano. How do I know that? Chemistry teacher. Sometimes I let my students smell the acid. ;)
Uisgea Beatha 4 years ago
Some American chocolate makers use butyric acid as a preservative, so it's no wonder Europeans think Hershey's tastes like barf.
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Isabel Care 4 years ago
Adding cumin to stuff makes it taste as if someone has already tried (and failed) to digest it. Or is it just me that can't stomach it? And why do some carrots taste like soap?
#66
During the cold war British tornado pilots where told not to worry about having enough fuel to return to base as there wouldnt be a base to return to after the first 2 hours of war
Anna Snorrepot 4 years ago
do you mean take their plane and park it at home? The homes would be destroyed by the nuclear war they were anticipating back then.
Load More Replies... J. F. 4 years ago
Tornadoes are able to carry nuclear weapons - when they where on long range missions it would have meant that the base already got hit by one
Load More Replies... Luis Hernandez Dauajare 4 years ago
Not really. It shows how the military brass was aware of the reality of a nuclear war...
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CaptainDinosaur 4 years ago
I believe this is in the event actual hostilities broke out. As in a nuclear exchange. Air fields would most likely be priority one targets.
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#67
When you are cremated the ovens do not melt your bones. The fragments are put in to a blender and pulverised in to the ash that we think of with cremation
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
Firstly, bones don't melt. Secondly, most of the bones are cremated to ash, but some fragments are left that are indeed finely ground up in a blender-type machine. It's not like your flesh is cremated and then your entire skeleton is put in a blender.
s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
Some of these 'facts' here must come from second graders whispering nonsense to each other at recess.
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Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
wanna put my skeleton in a blender watch it it spin around into a beautiful Obilivion. Rendeveau and I'm through with you.
Isabel Care 4 years ago
The ash absorbs moisture from the air and solidifies over time. Waiting too long to sprinkle Uncle John's ashes will mean having to use a hammer or returning the urn to have them ground again. Let's all take a hammer to mama's remains so she can rest in pieces
Dave P 4 years ago
they can creamate the bone to ash, that is not allowed by law because they require the ashes to be able to be DNA tested, but the Nazis had ovens hot enough the destroyed the bone to ash and eliminated any DNA evidence.
F. H. 4 years ago
Where did you get this from? The cremation furnaces used by the Nazis only reached about 1000°C and most bodies were just burned in "cremation pits".
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That if you think or imagine licking anything it doesn’t matter what it is, you just know what it feels like, your tongue just knows.
Yort 4 years ago
Yeah it’s written really stupidly, but I think it’s saying like, if you see a metal pole, you can imagine what the texture of it would feel like on your tongue even if you’ve never licked a pole before, and you can imagine the metallic taste because your brain knows what metal tastes like, approximately.
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Kristin Ingersoll 4 years ago
And if you think or imagine the color blue, you just know what it looks like, your eyes just know. Uh-huh. This would be... thinking. Definitely a fact I never wanted to know.
Anna Snorrepot 4 years ago
Poster says that although you've never licked a tree you can probably imagine very well how that experience would be. Gritty, strangely "not cold", earthy. You KNOW it but you've never done it. That is some weird skill to have
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Anna Snorrepot 4 years ago (edited)
nope, just be kind and have a bit of imagination. Poster says that although you've never licked a tree you can probably imagine very well how that experience would be. Gritty, strangely "not cold", earthy. You KNOW it but you've never done it. That is some weird skill to have.
Load More Replies... oddkiddo 4 years ago
So tell me; what would it feel like licking the edge of a serrated knife dripping with rubbing alcohol? Because I actually don't know
Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
I have the unbridled curse of knowing exactly what something will both taste and feel like just by looking at it, so I will answer. The alcohol hurts more than the knife does, since licking alcohol tastes EXTREMELY unpleasant. But licking a serrated knife, while being a bad idea, won't hurt you as long as you don't press too hard and it's a relatively old knife.
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#69
After the Tienemann Square Massacre. To get rid of the bodies, Chinese tanks drove over them and "pancaked" them so troops could easily just use hoses to wash them into the gutters
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
This seems like an urban legend. I've seen enough "pancaked" roadkill to know it is still pretty chunky and not really able to be washed off. Even with a high pressure hose it would be stringy and get stuck in drains.
Monday 4 years ago
Not to mention it'd clog up the tank's wheels after a while, it's far easier to just haul a body away than it is to reduce it to washable mush.
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I've seen things pancaked by other heavy machinery. Not much difference between a combine or a backhoe and a tank weight wise. And my brother had a coworker get run over by a bulldozer. He was not that squished and certainly not able to just be hosed off the side walk.
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Or you could just post an alleged citation in the time it took you to write that rant
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Autumn Artemis 4 years ago
The most depressing thing about this article was the relentless commentary from our dear friend Peter Weir. Have the day you deserve, sir.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I've never seen anyone want to get negative votes so badly. It's really very sad for him, in a way, spending his life trying to piss people off to get attention.
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More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
As horrible as these are, it's still a nice break from the real world.
Don't Look 4 years ago
Don't look at them as facts. Look at (some of) them as either the alternative view or even the lateral version of something. For instance, instead of worrying about microplastics in the air, consider that you are actually inhaling it from your own clothing. Either way, feel free to disregard 90% of these. It's not like we can actually do anything about them anyway.
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Pablo Ramos 4 years ago
Brushing your teeth is the only action you take where you're actually cleaning a part of your skeleton.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
Here's a kid who was born without a jaw. Posted his first rap song on Youtube. https://www.9news.com.au/good-news/non-verbal-teen-born-without-jaw-releases-first-rap-song/32430bd6-6202-4342-b0b0-8b336914be12 Mumble rap, presumably.
Autumn Artemis 4 years ago
The most depressing thing about this article was the relentless commentary from our dear friend Peter Weir. Have the day you deserve, sir.
GoddessOdd 4 years ago
I've never seen anyone want to get negative votes so badly. It's really very sad for him, in a way, spending his life trying to piss people off to get attention.
Load More Replies... More Thinking Needed 4 years ago
As horrible as these are, it's still a nice break from the real world.
Don't Look 4 years ago
Don't look at them as facts. Look at (some of) them as either the alternative view or even the lateral version of something. For instance, instead of worrying about microplastics in the air, consider that you are actually inhaling it from your own clothing. Either way, feel free to disregard 90% of these. It's not like we can actually do anything about them anyway.
Load More Replies... Pablo Ramos 4 years ago
Brushing your teeth is the only action you take where you're actually cleaning a part of your skeleton.
fuggnuggins 4 years ago
Here's a kid who was born without a jaw. Posted his first rap song on Youtube. https://www.9news.com.au/good-news/non-verbal-teen-born-without-jaw-releases-first-rap-song/32430bd6-6202-4342-b0b0-8b336914be12 Mumble rap, presumably.
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