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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 Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

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

Bitten by a New Yorker OUTSIDE New York must be less likely than bitten by a shark, right?

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

"Hey hooman you can run but you can't hi-- WTF IS THAT A STONE?!"

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

Maybe we should just make them rely on tips to keep the costs down

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

Health care should be free,I don't understand how a country can be so bad to their citizens .NZ has a health system that has shockingly long waiting lists ,but it's at no cost to use

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

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.

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

Would that be 1977?

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

Yes, king Louis 16 was executed

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

And he was not a nice guy: rape, torture and murder of underage girls... but most people think the last one was Christian Ranucci, whose conviction has been questioned again and again, with some absolutely convinced that he was innocent. To the point where there were so many doubts about his guilt that it led to the end of the death penalty in France.

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

Someone who rapes and murders absolutely deserves it.

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

It's certainly a *lot* more humane than the horrific chemical methods used in the USA. The suffering caused by these is terrible. Remember that of the people executed in the US *at least* one in twenty over the last few decades has been proven to be innocent.

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

I think lethal injection is supposed to be less traumatic for the executioner and witnesses, not the condemned, as opposed to previous methods. Oh, and the janitor too. Definitely the janitor.

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

Did they put them in storage? We could use them on some billionaires here in the US. No point building new ones if some are already floating around.

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

Bring back the guillotine as a capital punishment option. Fast and efficient. No more waiting around to see if some drug cocktail is going to work this time. Whoosh and it's over.

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

much more humane than the s**t the US has been doing for forever. both the electric chair and lethal injection are a horror show.

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

The guillotine is violent and horrific but... also quick and decisive. Doesn't make the convict suffer - whoosh and it's done

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

And Christopher Lee was there (nevermind, he was at the last public one in the thirties)

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

Not at the last ever execution in 1977. He witnessed the last public execution, which was in the 1930's.

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

And president Macron is trying his hardest to bring it back! 🤣😱

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

As much as I dislike him, this is false. He even called for an universal abolition of death penalty in 2021.

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

Bring by extreme penalties such as draw and quarter and watch how fast violent crimes drop. Let people defend themselves and their property against looters and rioters without fear of prosecution and watch how fast that c**p stops too. And last but not least, block traffic and get run over. This would be legal only if it's outside of normal crossing s and if protesters refused to move.

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

Macron would be a good reason to bring it back--- no need to sharpen it, dull and rusty takes longer

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

I think the two things are unrelated, but who knows? The emperor's reach was vast.

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

The guillotine is not especially sharp. It has a bevel, but it was the weight of the thing that did the job. MASH.

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

I would definitely want to go first. The blade gets dull.

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

Doesn’t matter how sharp it is. Blade is so heavy, it goes straight through no matter what.

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

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.

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

Isn't Bayer part of the same consortium that sold Zyklon B to the nazi death camps?

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

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".

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

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.)

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

... but men swear they feel more pain when they get kicked in their Richard's nicknames

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

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.

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

True- they also found a lot of spiral fractures caused by abuse.

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

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...

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

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

The 50% that do should tell the other half where this $1000 is located. Then everybody can access it. Seems mean to me.

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

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.

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

Only 66% of the murder cases in the USA get solved ( 90 - 95% in Europe for comparison)

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

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“

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

Ok I have more info on the second point for anyone interested: A surgeon named Robert Liston once performed an amputation in around 2 minutes (first red flag). This had a 300% mortality rate, i.e. three people died as a result of this one surgery, and happened in 1847 I think. 1) The patient died of infection (sepsis). 2) Liston's young assistant had some of his fingers accidentally amputated by Liston and also died of infection (also sepsis). 3) A witness apparently died of shock (possibly from being accidentally slashed or just from fright).

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

So the method to create meat is the same as the method to create meat? What a surprise

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

Here in Alabama, we still have a law that says you can't carry ice cream in your back pocket. Horse thieves used to use that trick to lure horses away while maintaining a posture of plausible deniabiliy.

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

I'll take my stainless steel and well-seasoned cast irons over that Teflon BS every time.

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In some countries children inherit debts of their deceased parents.

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

I think Canada does this. It's pretty cold how it's handled, too. Everything goes to collection agencies and the inheritors of the debt get hounded with phone calls. Who works at these agencies? How do they sleep at night?

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

I wonder how many still think it's a good idea or if 60 years of progression has changed their minds and they see the error of their ways. I hope so.

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

Those statistics are probably very very low. That's cancer that has grown big enough to actually have a diagnosis. It's fairly well theorized and probably wouldn't be very hard to prove that everyone has cancer at some point in time in their life but in most cases our healthy immune system fight it off And cancer is not one disease but hundreds of different diseases so you can do research and work to prevent or treat one of them and that will have no impact

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

Another interesting thing is Dharavi has small industries running inside it... People assume everything is s**t there... Some of the best leather bags are produced there. Also a lot of people despite money do not shift from here... good location and plus moving out means shelling out huge sums in a city like Mumbai...

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

They also rape porpoises to the point of death and use puffer fish to get high. So, I’m conclusion, male dolphins are basically Andrew Tate.

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

To test if they're aware of the image being a reflection of themselves a spec of paint is applied to the animals. If they realise that the reflection shows themselves they'll try to clean away the speck of colour on their own body after seeing it in the mirror, if they don't realise what a reflection is, they try to interact with the other animal in the mirror or don't react at all.

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

If you want to really upset yourself, imagine what the recovery team found when they opened up that capsule after that huge impact and being in the sea for a bit :(

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

"Even the US government" We shouldn't be that surprised now, should we?

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

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

Is it just me, or does that read as though it's an advertisement? 'Try Placenta Plus! Now with added 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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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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That we kill 100 million sharks A YEAR.

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

Mostly for just their fins. Brought to the surface, dorsal fin cut off, then dropped back down in the water to die.

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

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

My grandpa lived closer to his next-door neighbour than to other people who weren't his next-door neighbour.

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

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

Erm . . . how do the eyes become unattached? (Note to self: never get a pug.)

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That koalas carry chlamydia.

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

They don't 'Carry' it, it's not a gene mutation or something. It's an infection and around half of the population of wild koalas are infected.

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

That is not true. The closest from the truth is the one about marriage. You normally cannot marry a dead person. After WWII, derogation were granted by the president to women who were engaged to a man who then died in the war, for child legitimacy reasons. There is no reason to do that today, since the way we treat the legitimacy of a child is not the same as then. As for the Napoléon thing, there is absolutely no law about this. This belief comes from the first French edition of the Animal Farm. The publisher decided to rename the pig into César because they though it would convey the idea of an authoritarian dictator better. They were not legally forced to do this, this was their own choice, and all of the subsequent editions of the book had the pig being called Napoléon.

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

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

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

I thought that the dates were how long he was alive for a second, and was very confused.

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

…the bounty hunters are here. They’re searching for paradise 🍫 🥥

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

I would think that it depends on what they're driving. A horse on a motorbike would easily outpace a human.

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

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