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It is said that knowledge is power and with every day people learn more and more by experiencing things or hearing it from others. Some of the information that we hear not only is useful but also draws our interest in a specific topic or field. There is also another type of information that can be not so intriguing and even seem scary. But facts are facts no matter what.
Having this in mind, a Reddit user asked other people online “What are some not so fun facts?” and soon members started sharing things that might be interesting as well as disturbing.
Here are 44 best facts out of 10k replies shared by members of Reddit. Which one of these do you find the most interesting? Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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#1
Crows are currently experiencing their stone age, but we will never see cool modern crows because we will be long gone before they reach the next stage.
Basically they have been creating tools which researchers are saying are actually more advanced than ones that early humans made. They also have been studied domesticating wolves! They hunt with them, sleep with them, and individual crows have been seen specifically bonding with individual dogs, like humans do with pets.
Eagle Girl 3 years ago
Like pigeons they also remember if you feed them & come back
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Little king trash mouth 3 years ago
"The live crows on set welcomed me as their own. One even tried to mate." — Moira Rose
Thundernight 3 years ago
Except it won't be an asteroid that wiped us out, but rather our own selves.
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GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I love crows, and I am always happy when one lands in my yard or at my feeder. They are so clever and underrated.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Let's build Knowledge Arks so maybe they can learn all that we have learned. We'll save our heirs a lot of trouble.
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WiTchY_WoMaN 3 years ago
So does this mean in about 2 and a half million years we're gonna have talking birds, going to school, shopping, etcc....?
Jace 3 years ago
They can already “talk”. They’re actually great mimics. Though that’s not language.
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François Carré 3 years ago
I think that's completely biased. An anthropocentric point of view on other species. The fact we've just started to pay attention, during the last decades, to animal intelligence (like advanced social interactions and strategies, use of tools, evidence of self-consciouness...) doesn't mean they have just started to do it and therefeore are slowly progressing towards the same kind of civilization as us, following our path as if we humans were the top of evolution. It is definitely not how evolution works. Yes, crows are smart, and yes, they can do a lot of amazing things. But they've been around for much longer than any human civilization. They were probably doing this long before we ever paid attention to it. And they have no reason to mimic us any further - I even think it was more us who imitated other animals in the first place - if they don't feel the need to.
Lav Oravaf 3 years ago
I worked with crows in a rescue center, they are amazing animals. literally geniuses. Loved working with them
Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
Crows are smart enough to understand laws of displacement. We should be lucky that they haven't developed past their stone age.
Fulsome Kitten 3 years ago
Another not-so-fun fact to add: a group of crows is called a Murder. Sleep well!
#2
On 9/11, firefighters had to hide in the rubble for the rescue dogs to find because they kept getting depressed that they couldn't find anyone alive.
#3
A woman’s cancer cells were preserved and found to be practically immortal. This led to a ton of discoveries and breakthroughs in the medical field. Her family still cannot afford their own medical bills and this was all done without their knowledge or consent.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks. She passed away in 1951 from cancer. She was black and very poor and didn’t get great care in the hospital. A doctor had been looking for cells that lasted longer and harvested her cells, separating the cancerous and healthy cells. The healthy cells died while the cancer cells seemingly never stopped replicating.
Her cells are named HeLa cells and have replicated so many times apparently they’d weigh a total more than 50 million metric tons. A pseudonym for her has been Helen Lane. She didn’t know her cells were taken and neither did her family until way later. The family has been through a lot.
If you want to know more, I highly suggest reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I couldn’t put the book down. There apparently is also a movie about her life.
#4
The number one cause of death for pregnant women worldwide is Murder. Horrific to think about.
#5
Pluto didn't even make a full orbit of the sun from its discovery to its demotion.
#6
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were born in the same year.
#8
You're more likely to survive being shot in the head than rabies.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
From what I have seen and heard, it's A cruel and painful death. My heart goes out to anyone who has lost someone to rabies.
#9
People joke about Australia having dangerous animals of all kinds. However, no. 1 enemy to Australians is the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world. An average Australian is four times likely to get skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australians will probably get it by the age of seventy.
#10
At any time, your body could make a mistake while fighting an infection/virus and register a vital type of cell as unwanted for the rest of your life.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
Your immune system can also decide that your own cells are enemies, and attack them. (Speaking as someone with multiple autoimmune disorders.)
#11
Vet tech here … most of our older pets don’t die of old age, they die of cancer. It sucks.
There’s no way to prevent cancer. It’s a mutation of cells. However, to keep your good boi or gurl with you longer some things that really make a difference: a quality diet (please don’t feed them the cheapest stuff, it’s like humans eating the cheapest foods; not terribly healthy though it may fill all the nutritional requirements), all the regular vaccines (for the love of Dog, make sure you get your puppies the Parvo vaccine!), and a good flea/tick and heart worm preventative. Exercise and not letting them become overweight, and regular dentals are even better!
Also, screw you if you buy your vaccines for your domestic pets at the feed store or the tractor supply (talking dogs and cats here, not large farm animals). Just because it’s cheaper and has the same chemical name doesn’t mean you’re giving the right dose, amount, at the proper location, or getting the assurance that those vaccines have been treated and stored in the correct manner. You get what you pay for.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Our vet (who is also a top surgeon) actually recommended that we buy our pet drugs online as they work out way cheaper. This was partly due to the fact that our pup was born with a bad liver and because of that we couldn't get insurance. So she was helping us out. If you buy your drugs from a reputable pharmacy then there is no reason to suspect that they are any less effective than vet-supplied medicines.
#12
The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.
#13
Roughly 40% of murders go unsolved.
#14
The creator of Plants vs. Zombies was fired from EA because he hated the idea of microtransactions.
#16
There's a wasp in Australia that hunts spiders.
It doesn't eat them, though. It paralyses them, makes a little mud cocoon for each one, and before sealing it off, lays a single egg on the now trapped spider.
The egg hatches, the larva eats the still alive (and still paralysed) spider, and then breaks out of the cocoon as a wasp.
Turns out they're all over the world, not just Australia. If you see a wasp dragging a spider, that's what's going on.
lenka 3 years ago
Wasps also hunt baby catapillars. They puncture the little catapillars and lay thier eggs inside the caterpillar's body. The wasp larvae hatch and begin to eat the caterpillar alive from the inside until they break through the caterpillars skin and start weaving thier cocoons. That's not even the worst part... the poor caterpillar will remain alive just long enough to protect the wasp cocoons until they emerge.
#17
In 2006, a team of scientific researchers in Iceland were gathering clams in order to study the effects of climate change. They froze the clams, which ended up killing them. They ended up killing the oldest known clam still left alive, nicknamed, “Ming”, which was 507 years old.
#18
We're closer to the year 2051 than we are 1991.
#19
Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
#20
Persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage (aka finger up the a**)
#22
That in all likelihood your name will be forgotten after 2 generations.
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I suspect my name has already been forgotten by most of the people I have ever known. Oh, well, there's always BP. 😁
#23
During the bubonic plague the Mongolians launched infected dead bodies over the walls of different civilizations.
#24
A gamma Ray burst from space could hit us at anytime and we have no way of detecting them before it happens, we'll all just pass away instantly.
#25
In WW2 allied scientists stuffed dead rats with explosives to aid French resistance fighter who would leave them in factories to be thrown in furnaces and detonated.
Wise beauty 3 years ago
They also put small bombs on bats that would fall of within a day or two & explode.
#27
A gorillas schlong is on average 2 inches or less. Guess what, human males on average pack 4-5 inches, which is more firepower than a gorilla; congrats.
#30
Everyone celebrates their birthday each year. But we also have a "deathday" we unknowingly pass each year but because it hasnt happened we dont know which day.
iblowsheep 3 years ago
YOU may not know your deathday, but are you sure there isn't someone close to you who does?
#31
False Vacuum Decay - the entire universe could blink out of existence in (from our perspective) an instant.
#32
About 50 kids in the US are backed over by cars every week.
#33
The funny T Pose that an anteater does? Yeah that's Mr. Anteater telling you hes seconds away from literally disemboweling you with one swipe. Next time you see an anteater doing the funny pose just remember they are trying to give you a free C-section with one singular claw slash.
Pezor Zass 3 years ago
i'm sorry? are you guys meeting anteaters every day? maybe i'm more sheltered than i thought.
#34
The average number of arms/legs a human has is less than 2.
Terilee Bruyere 3 years ago
That makes sense, considering there are more amputees than there are conjoined twins or those with birth defects resulting in extra limbs.
#35
Orcas can skin penguins.
Johnny Rodriguez 3 years ago
I think it's more interisting that the orca is a natural enemy of the moose..
#36
Dentists have the highest suicide rate of all doctors.
Toni Alabakovski 3 years ago
I thought it was veterinarians? Or do they not count? Or I could be wrong?
#38
There is only one Pokémon that cannot learn any normal type attacks, and that Pokémon is Weedle.
#39
Suicide Squad has won more Academy Awards than The Shawshank Redemption.
#40
Harriet Tubman was a spy for the Union army and gave them lots of good information but she never received a pension or got military burial due to her race and gender.
What do you think ?
Jo Choto 3 years ago
I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
No you didn't 3 years ago
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
I could spend all day absorbing strange and useless knowledge. Well, technically, I've been doing it for years. Wish there was a career for it.
No you didn't 3 years ago
There is. Apply at BuzzFeed and recycle all of it endlessly.
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