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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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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than a shark.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 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.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread If bees were paid minimum wage for their labor, a jar of honey would cost $182,000.

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xolitaire
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I live in a town full of bee keepers (we even have a bee keeper museum) and our bees are paid very well (in sugar water, they like that better than metal coins or paper)

Jaya
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is not "paid very well", honey is perfect for them and sugar water is just a cheap, weak substitute. We steal honey from them and give them something back that is less optimal for them. It's fine to care more about having delicious honey than about their well-being, but we shouldn't kid ourselves by pretending this is a good deal for them.

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Tiny Dynamine
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Bees (and every other creature) have no need for money and are therefore superior to us, who let money rule us.

xolitaire
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

well they CAN be lead astray with fermented fruit and become drunk

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Angela B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Poor workers that are not able to unionise working for Beezos are worse off than bees.

Seabeast
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They only live about 3 weeks each, though. So we don't have to pay them a pension.

Natasha Arruda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maaaan they get to live free in those white housing projects. Wtf do they need a livable wage for?!

Max Fox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

More than that. A hive produces around 2 LB of honey a day. So a lb of honey takes a hive around 6 hours of full time work, and a hive has around 40,000 workers in it. While not all are collecting honey, all are working on the hive, and a functional hive is required in order to turn nectar into honey. So 40,000 bees working 6 hours for $7.25 an hour comes out about to around $1.5 million, so almost 10X the estimate their.

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Lady of the Mountains
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok realistically though....let's not pay them minimum wage? What would they even do with the money?

Natalie H
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m starting a Bee Union. They’re owed back pay for at least 2000 yrs 🐝💰💰💰💰💰

Valek Fermiga
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perhaps we should consider paying them a decent living wage....?? I mean, pollen doesn't grow on flowers....

Isaac Harvey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Beehives would quickly become a trillion-dollar network of companies within a year.

Alex Raimondi Vallesi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If all the workers all around the world were paid even a minimum wage everything would cost tens or hundreds times the price we pay nowadays...

SadieCat17
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Look at europe lmao. Don't believe the c**p that big corporations tell you about huge inflation with higher wages because they're already raising prices anyway and just price gouging. It's only impossible to pay workers well because the ceo might have to go from 15 million a year to 12 million a year, the poor soul.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread Over 500,000 people go bankrupt annually from medical bills in the US.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 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.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 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

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread During World War 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread Dolphins can be attracted to humans.

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The #1 cause of death for pregnant woman is murder.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 54% of adults in the USA read below a 6th grade level. Bonus, 1 in every 30 children in the USA is homeless.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 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.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread France executed their last person by guillotine the same year Star Wars: A New Hope came out.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 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.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 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.

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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.

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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.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread Chainsaws were invented to cut through the pelvic bone to help women give birth.

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#19

There are more slaves in the world today than there has ever been, ever.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread You're statistically more likely to randomly die during a USA Powerball lottery drawing than win it.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread The youngest person to ever give birth was 5 years old.

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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.

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#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.

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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.

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Over 50 percent of Americans do not have access to $1,000 in case of emergency.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread As recently as 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed newborns and fetuses couldn't feel pain, so some were operated on without anesthesia.

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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.

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A lot of people probably buried their hamsters alive because they didn’t know hamsters hibernate.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread That bees kill wasps by sitting on them and then flapping their wings so hard. This creates a high heat that burns the wasp.

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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.

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#31

The methods being used to create artificial human muscle grafts are pretty much the same methods used to make lab grown meat.

(Source: me, a PhD student making artificial muscle grafts. Also this is an oversimplification so in case my boss see’s this: sorry)

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There's a law that's still on the books in Georgia, states that anyone driving @ night is required to have another person running in front of the vehicle w/ a lantern so the driver can see what's ahead.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread In the beginning, Dupont f****d up their non-stick Teflon pans. They knew high exposure to tge stuff was bad but they never did anything about it. As a result, traces of "forever chemicals" can be found in 98% of the American population (and probably beyond).

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#34

In some countries children inherit debts of their deceased parents.

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A lot of people who voted for segregation in the early 1960s are still alive. The youngest voters would be about 78 years old today.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women (in the US) will have cancer at some point in their life.

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The second most expensive house and one of the biggest slums of the world are in the same city.

'Antilia' ($1 Billion) is owned by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and Dharavi, one of the biggest slums, both in the city of Mumbai.

Oh and 'Antilia' is second to Buckingham Palace ($2.9 billion).

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#38

Dolphins will bite the heads off of smaller fish and use the corpses as a makeshift flesh light to get off.

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#39

Ants have passed the mirror test. Few people know this.

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It's a test to see if animals are self-conscious. they're placed in front of a mirror and if they notice they're in front of it and that they're seeing a reflection, they pass.

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The United States has the largest prison population on earth, surpassing even China. On the other hand, China executes more prisoners per year than every other country on earth does combined. The majority of these executions occur in Autumn.

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More aircraft were lost during WWII than there are airworthy aircraft flying today. The level of death and destruction in war is difficult to comprehend.

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Fungi are much closer related to animals than either one are to plants, and specifically to protostomes: bugs and worms of all sorts. Fungus cell walls are made of the same polymer that arthropods' exoskeletons are made of, and are coded for by the same gene. There have been proposals to reclassify fungi in the animal kingdom.

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The newborn baby megalodon shark was the same size as an adult great white shark.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread There are 8 sunken nuclear submarines.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread 42 percent of America is obese.

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The astronauts in the Space Shuttle Challenger were still alive after the failure of systems and rapid expansion of fuel commonly viewed as an explosion.

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Data on the effects of radiation on human beings was largely obtained by tests performed by various governments on unwitting civilians, soldiers & POWs (even the US government is guilty of this).

Some of these tests were performed knowing full well that the subject would die of or be severely harmed by the radiation exposure (and the details of what happened with each increasing dose of radiation make for some pretty disturbing reading).

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#48

Elephants can control their d**k like a second trunk.

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#49

JFK's convertible wasn't scrapped after he got shot in 1963. A roof was welded on and it was used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter - right through to 1977.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread Human placentas now contain microplastics.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread The CIA faked a vampire attack. I mean they really murdered a guy to achieve it. But something about the whole blood draining thing really takes it to the next level.

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#52

If a man falls on they’re back and they have a boner you should’t move them because it means they got a very bad back injury.

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#53

That we kill 100 million sharks A YEAR.

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#54

Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the Great Pyramids.

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#55

Pug owners are expected to know how to re-attach it's eyes. O_O

Another person replied:

It's not reattaching, but pushing the eyeball back into the socket, and it's better if done by a veterinarian. If it was unattached from the nerves and muscles, there'd be no point reattaching it.

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#56

That koalas carry chlamydia.

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30 Facts That People Had A Hard Time Accepting, As Shared In This Online Thread In France you can still marry a dead person.
And you can't name your pig Napoleon.

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#58

The creator of chocolate chips sold the idea for like a dollar. Or some other number that’s too low.

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#59

John Tyler, 10th president of the United States (1841-1845), still has a living grandson.

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#60

Bounty hunting and Bounty Hunters are active in the United States as well as here in The Philippines.

While The practice of bounty hunting is illegal under the laws of most other countries.

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#61

Humans are faster than horses over marathon distance.

For those questioning this, the post says over a marathon distance. This means over 26.2 miles. A horse is obviously faster than a human and this post does not mean every human can run faster than a horse.

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#62

The Earth rises up by a very small bit when you jump.

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