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Ignorance is bliss, whether we are talking about the heat-death of the universe or the amount of worm-like creatures happily living in your eyebrows, some things are better left alone. But like staring at a car crash or a house on fire, we do have a strange, somewhat morbid fascination with things that don’t seem real.
So, naturally, one netizen wanted the internet to share all the strange, unusual, and even creepy facts that do not seem real. So if you enjoy sleeping peacefully, consider another article, as the answers were deeply interesting but somewhat unsettling. If you do stay, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own facts.
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#1
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#2
You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.
Adam Chang 1 year ago (edited)
Bitten by a New Yorker OUTSIDE New York must be less likely than bitten by a shark, right?
#3
Humans are pretty slow runners compared to other races, but we are the best throwers on the planet. No other specie can throw stuff like we do. This is why in case of danger, throwing things in the direction of an hostile animal may scare the s**t out of it.
Take me to dinner first 1 year ago (edited)
"Hey hooman you can run but you can't hi-- WTF IS THAT A STONE?!"
#4
If bees were paid minimum wage for their labor, a jar of honey would cost $182,000.
#5
Over 500,000 people go bankrupt annually from medical bills in the US.
#6
In many countries in the world, cannibalism is actually legal, the only illegal thing is the way you obtain it.
It's made that way so that plane crash survivors won't be prosecuted for, you know, surviving.
#7
The ford pinto was a flaming death trap that ford knew how to fix, and decided not to. The gas tank was fixed right behind an idiotically thin bumper, making puncturing the tank an almost absolute in the case of a rear end collision. If such a collision were to occur, the light frame would also most likely bend around the doors, trapping the driver inside. Ford knew of these defects, but instead of recalling the cars, they decided that on average, they would mostly like only have to pay out around $230,000 per death, which was much cheaper than the recall, which would of cost millions.
TL;DR: ford estimated the cash value of a human life instead of fixing their cars
Did I say that out loud? 1 year ago
I remember watching a documentary about this and what other big car manufacturers have done. It's frightening but no longer surprising what big business will do to protect themselves and their profits.
#8
During World War 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
Take me to dinner first 1 year ago
No jokes on this one, wars are messed up, what are we even fighting for?
#10
The #1 cause of death for pregnant woman is murder.
#11
54% of adults in the USA read below a 6th grade level. Bonus, 1 in every 30 children in the USA is homeless.
#12
The Vatican Archives are something like 50 miles of information that almost nobody can see unless they know it's there and put in a formal request to see a specific thing. My understanding is that nobody can enter just to browse.
#13
France executed their last person by guillotine the same year Star Wars: A New Hope came out.
#14
The Taylor oil spill. So far it’s leaked over a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It started leaking in 2004, before Deepwater Horizon, and is still leaking oil into the gulf today. Next to nothing being done about it.
David Zeller 1 year ago
Something is being done about it. The USCG hired a company to collect the oil as it leaks. They collect about 1000 barrels a day. Apparently this is effective enough that the surface sheen from the leak is almost imperceptible. Taylor, I believe, has been ordered to address the leak or face fines of something like $40K or $50K a day.
#15
In the 1980s the Bayer corporation sold a hemophilia drug that was made from processed donated human blood. In the early days of the AIDS epidemic it was discovered that the product was contaminated with HIV. They were forced to take it off the shelves in America and Europe. Bayer decided there had been too much financial investment in the product and rather than destroy the inventory they sold it in Latin American and Asian countries instead. They even continued to produce it for a few months until their supplies ran out.
There's no way to know how many people were infected with HIV as a result but at a bare minimum it had to have been in the thousands, plus however many those people may have unknowingly infected in turn and so on. In the 1980s when AIDS was pretty much a guaranteed death sentence.
Bayer knowingly killed probably tens of thousands of people and no one went to jail. $600 million settlement.
EDIT: Just a clarification, this treatment was not a dry pill that you swallow. That would be pretty unlikely to transmit HIV as some people have said. It was basically taking blood and removing the rejectable parts and concentrating clotting factors and injecting that into hemophiliacs. In terms of HIV risk it was basically a blood transfusion.
Manic Mama 1 year ago
Isn't Bayer part of the same consortium that sold Zyklon B to the nazi death camps?
#16
During the Cuban Missile Crisis the world was the closest to nuclear fallout in history. A communist submarine spotted something suspicious and 2/3 of the commanding people agreed to launch a nuke. But because the third person voted no they couldn’t. Basically humanity rested on that one person and they didn’t even know it.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
His name was Vasily Aleksandrovich Arkhipov. From Wikipedia: Arkhipov refused to authorize the captain and the political officer's use of nuclear torpedoes against the United States Navy, a decision which required the agreement of all three officers. In 2002, Thomas S. Blanton, then director of the U.S. National Security Archive, credited Arkhipov as "the man who saved the world".
#17
I grew up Africa (Zambia) When we were 5 we were told not to swim in dirty water because of Bilharzia (schistosomiasis)
Microscopic worms that burrow into your skin or enter up your urinary tract and then lays eggs inside your body.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
Yep. My father wouldn't even let us use the swimming pool until it had rained "to clear the bilharzia". Never mind that a pool using chlorine wouldn't have any... (Grew up in and still live in Jozi, Mzansi - or Johannesburg, South Africa.)
#18
Chainsaws were invented to cut through the pelvic bone to help women give birth.
Take me to dinner first 1 year ago
... but men swear they feel more pain when they get kicked in their Richard's nicknames
#19
There are more slaves in the world today than there has ever been, ever.
#20
You're statistically more likely to randomly die during a USA Powerball lottery drawing than win it.
Take me to dinner first 1 year ago
You're statistically more likely to die than to live eternally
#22
That you are literally just data being interpreted by your brain. And we know for a fact your brain is not perfect, and might not be good at doing that.
A cool fact that illustrates it, is that your nose is obstructing your face 100% of the time. Your brain just removes it, and fills in the blanks. You can see your nose sometimes when you think about it, close one eye, or put the tip of your finger right on the tip of your nose.
If your brain is removing that kind of data as just a "default" setting, what other "default" settings do we have that are literally making so we can't see, feel, smell, or hear the things around us?
It's just wild to think that everything I see, hear, feel, smell, and taste, might just be my brain messing up interpreting the data. And the scariest part, is it could be consistent across the entire species.
What we perceive as "real" might not be real at all. Just an incorrect interrpertation.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
Everyone at work says my sense of smell is super sensitive to the point I seem to smell things much stronger than others, and that makes it so frustrating because they don't smell the perfume and mildew on the secondhand clothes that are being put out on the floor. Now, my sense of touch, on the other hand, is s**t. Sure I can feel textures, but I don't have a good grip and everything just feels too smooth and slick, or like nothing. But others can feel very well.
#23
The X Ray machine is largely responsible for the Child Protective Movement. In the 40’s and 50’s cases for Shaken Baby Syndrome were noticed causing a large push in child protection.
#24
The shear size of the nuclear contamination zone thats in the middle of Washington state, called the Hanford reserve.
No one speaks of how the middle of our state is unlivable due to the polluted groundwater from all the improperly stored nuclear waste.
Sky Render 1 year ago
I remember my parents used to try to claim that the various oddities about me were caused by that. Really though it was all just a weak cover-up for the fact that they moved to WA specifically so I could be born at Kadlec Hospital and receive neonatal care for my intersex condition...
#25
Over 50 percent of Americans do not have access to $1,000 in case of emergency.
#26
As recently as 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed newborns and fetuses couldn't feel pain, so some were operated on without anesthesia.
Gabriela Cink 1 year ago (edited)
I don't like how this fact always sound. They didn't believe, they did research and can't measure and confirm that baby is feeling pain as their neural system is underdeveloped. And there was also concern about negatives of anesthesia and dosages. New research with new posibilities confirmed it, that babies feel pain.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
When my sister was born premature in 1986, the nurses assured my mom she was just cold as she screamed while they did a spinal tap. Because she couldn't feel pain.
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Gramma Carol 1 year ago
When my son was born in 1975 I happened to be walking that hallway & saw a doctor performing a circumcision on a newborn boy who was strapped down and clearly had no pain meds. I went to the nurses' station and demanded to rescind the permission I had given for my sons circumcision. The nurse tried to tell me the procedure was medically necessary, and I could not rescind the permission. I informed her that they were not going to torture my baby like they were that little one I just saw. My husband is not clipped, and I informed her to that fact. Upon seeing my willingness to go up the command chain she relented and gave me the paper. What they were doing to that child was barbaric!
Anouk T 1 year ago
They still do that unfortunately. But good for you to make that decision it was very brave of you especially at the time. Circumcision is genital mutilation, no matter how much people dress it up in nice or medical words. It is what it is and it hurts the baby and could be dangerous and cause men many problems further down the line, much more serious than the ones those who are pro say it helps to avoid…
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 1 year ago
Stupid. I mean, to get the baby to breathe, you slap it and make it cry. Why does slapping it make the baby cry? Because it hurts!
StrangeOne 1 year ago
This mentality still exists and I saw it tonight on social media "Babies cry and it's good for them as it expands their lungs...They just don't like the procedures so they'll fuss." My reply was "What if you got stabbed? Would you be like "hehe that tickles"?
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
I am forever wondering how some people can believe that there are living creatures that don't feel pain. Do they not realise that pain is to warn of possible harm to the body.
Walter Bravenboer 1 year ago
Donnot forget it has also to do with the use of anesthesia, it is very complex to use anestheics on one so small, so probably they had to choose between two evils.
Annie Olive 1 year ago
My husband had surgery as a baby in 1983, he remembers nothing has a high pain tolerance and a beautiful daughter. He is more tramitised by Woke belief that this was torture. It was life saving surgery, would you rather he died!!!
Annie Olive 1 year ago
My hubby had a major op as a baby in 1983, he has a freakishly high pain tolerance! It is doubtful he had any pain relief or anesthesia but remembers nothing and has no memory of pain. He is more traumatized by the wokes saying it was torture. He would have died without the op and our beautiful daughter would not exist!!!! Don't judge they did the best they could.
Victoria Burnell 1 year ago
Simple observation tells you babies feel pain. Accidentally stab them with the safety pin while diapering and let the crying begin. Did we really need to spend money to research it?
Mary Peace 1 year ago
Maybe they just said, "Oh, babies cry anyway, they want a cuddle from their mum or they want a feed, don't worry about it."
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Nikki Hilton 1 year ago
Watch any newborn boy get circumcised and you'll know for sure that babies feel pain.
Anouk T 1 year ago
This just proves how insensitive medical world was (and still is)… any mother or anyone who has ever had a motherly like relationship with a baby would know that they feel pain…and joy and many other feeling and emotions. I call bulls poop that they ‘didn’t know’. It was just easier to perform procedures and test and all that.
Take me to dinner first 1 year ago
I think purely in the name of science we should try operate them without anesthesia
#27
There are more unsolved murder cases than there are solved and that's just the ones we know about.
There a lot of bodies at the bottom of most large bodies of water. Be it from accidents or suicides water seems to attract them.
Micro plastics are finding it way into absolutely everything. I don't recommend googling it.
Medical progress has a dark history of testing on the unknown masses.
TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)
Only 66% of the murder cases in the USA get solved ( 90 - 95% in Europe for comparison)
#28
A lot of people probably buried their hamsters alive because they didn’t know hamsters hibernate.
#29
That bees kill wasps by sitting on them and then flapping their wings so hard. This creates a high heat that burns the wasp.
Bernd Herbert 1 year ago
That’s a bit overdramatic and inaccurate. How could the bees flap their wings in that ball? First of all, this behaviour is only seen in the Japanese Honey bee. Secondly they vibrate theor flight muscles and woth that the temperature within that ball rises above 45C and in addition to that the CO2 levels as well. So the hornet dies of heat and lack of oxygen. It most certainly doesn’t „burn“
#30
Doctors actually used to do autopsies and get into a surgery or aid with childbirth without washing their hands. This of course resulted in a lot of deaths and I read somewhere that the first doctor to suggest washing hands was ridiculed, put in an asylum by his colleagues and there he was beaten by the guards and later died. (Probably because of the wounds he suffered from the beatings)
Oh and there is a surgery with a 300% mortality rate.
What do you think ?
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Did you know that in a few billion years, earth is going to become just like Venus? All the water will evaporate and surface temperatures will rise and make life as we know it impossible on the surface. Here’s another fact: the universe can theoretically end right now if a glitch occurs in the Higgs field.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Elaborating on the last fact: The Higgs field creates the Higgs boson which gives mass to other particles. The Higgs field is set at a particular value which is at the lowest energy level. If it turns out that the Higgs field is not at its lowest energy level, it can be what we call “metastable “. If it is metastable then there’s a chance that an event like a black hole evaporating can cause the Higgs field to crash down into a lower value which would release a lot of energy. It can create a sort of bubble of destruction that expands forever and consumes and destroys everything in its path
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Dustin Braham 1 year ago
i couldn't get past the first 4 words of the first example. I've never seen so many tips in my whole a*s life. lost all credibility with me.
Addi 1 year ago
a lot of vegans have nonvegan family members that they eat with regularly. it's a personal choice, everyone you eat with should also personally make a choice on whether they want to be a vegan.
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Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Did you know that in a few billion years, earth is going to become just like Venus? All the water will evaporate and surface temperatures will rise and make life as we know it impossible on the surface. Here’s another fact: the universe can theoretically end right now if a glitch occurs in the Higgs field.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Elaborating on the last fact: The Higgs field creates the Higgs boson which gives mass to other particles. The Higgs field is set at a particular value which is at the lowest energy level. If it turns out that the Higgs field is not at its lowest energy level, it can be what we call “metastable “. If it is metastable then there’s a chance that an event like a black hole evaporating can cause the Higgs field to crash down into a lower value which would release a lot of energy. It can create a sort of bubble of destruction that expands forever and consumes and destroys everything in its path
Load More Replies... Dustin Braham 1 year ago
i couldn't get past the first 4 words of the first example. I've never seen so many tips in my whole a*s life. lost all credibility with me.
Addi 1 year ago
a lot of vegans have nonvegan family members that they eat with regularly. it's a personal choice, everyone you eat with should also personally make a choice on whether they want to be a vegan.
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