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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn’t Know

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Today, you can learn anything on the internet. Whether it’s historical, psychological or just plain weird bites of information, people can’t seem to get enough of the tantalizing trivia being shared online. But if you want to see the whole picture, some knowledge might be as interesting as it is disturbing. However, facts are facts, no matter how uneasy they might make us feel.

So when someone on r/AskReddit asked what is a not fun fact, redditors quickly rolled up their sleeves. The thread went viral, amassing more than 82.4K upvotes and 35.1K comments full of the most strangely fascinating pieces of information.

We collected some of the best answers this thread had to offer, so continue scrolling! And after you’re done, don’t forget to share your thoughts and feelings in the comments section below.

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#1

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The search and rescue dogs on 9/11 were getting so sad from finding only deceased bodies, the human helpers buried themselves in the rubble so that the dogs could find them and be happy.

superbunnyblob , Loco Steve Report

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Mazer 2 years ago

This began at the Oklahoma bombing. I had a friend go. He came back so traumatized that he did not speak for years. People love to over generalize and rag on police officers and other first responders. There are more good cops than bad ones, some have witnessed some truly horrific scenes in the line of duty

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know There are more deaths due to mental health issues than all forms of violence combined. People are struggling.

pepeman931 , Claudia Wolff Report

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352points

A B C 2 years ago

And seeking psychological help is still stigmatized. If I break my arm, I go to a body doctor to have them fix it. So if my mind is broken, why can't I go to a mind doctor to have them help me without being called a loon?

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Bored Panda reached out to Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author, most recently, of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. He was kind enough to share some insights about why humans are so drawn to learning new facts and how we benefit from them.

According to the professor, one reason why we find facts interesting is that they are very context-specific. “For example, if I said ‘Would you like to know how guitars are made?’ you wouldn’t necessarily say ‘Yes!’ immediately. You’d more likely say ’Uh … maybe. Is it interesting?’”

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“What’s odd about facts is that the content matters less to whether or not you’d like to learn about it than you’d think,” he explained. Being a psychologist, Willingham is absolutely fascinated by human memory but sometimes it happens that when he goes “to professional meetings and attend talks about human memory that I find boring.”

“And then sometimes, I watch a documentary on something—for example, making guitars—that I didn’t think I’d find interesting in the least and find myself fascinated.”

#3

That your brain erases your nose from your vision, until you actively think about it. You nose is obstructing your vision 100% of the time, but your brain interrupts it as useless information, and removes it. When you start thinking about it, or close one eye, you can see your nose again.

This might seem harmless until you realize the implications.

Your brain, without asking, erases something very real from your awareness. Imagine the possibilities of other things it's doing on it's own like that. There could be a literal 2nd world right in front of us, and it might just be being erased as useless information.

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Jaaawn 2 years ago

Doesn't apply to everyone though- I can always see my nose, it is massive though.

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#4

People who survived the Holocaust and get Alzheimer's often think they are back in the camps. So they escape one of humanity's greatest horrors only to die in it 50 years later.

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Mushroomlover 2 years ago

I had the honor of taking care of several people who had been in concentration camps(they had the tattooed numbers) and this is very true. One guy with dementia could only get baths, no showers because just the word shower sent him into a horrible memory sequence. Their stories were heartbreaking to say the least.

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Curiosity is an innate drive we share with many other species, he told us. It prompts us to learn about our environment, which obviously helps individuals to survive: “We are not curious about everything—we are curious when we think a little exploration will lead to a lot of learning.”

Still, what we gain from learning new information depends on what we already know: “Suppose you say to me: ‘Would you like to know which, of all the bottled sauces made in Kenya, is the most popular?’ I can’t name even one … so if you tell me, that fact isn’t very informative.”

“But suppose I knew a lot about African cuisine. Now that information would be informative, because I have some context to put it in, some existing knowledge to connect it to,” Daniel T. Willingham explained.

#5

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know If 2 male flat worms meet, they will sword fight with their penises until one loses. The loser will become female and they will mate.

YoutuberCameronBallZ , S. Rae Report

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XSpooky_Mint 2 years ago

Kinky

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#6

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know People with extreme scurvy start to have ALL of their old wounds open up. Everything with a scar is held together via an active process with collagen and without vitamin c just sort of...stop.

Hell_If_I_Care , Jonathan Borba Report

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259points

Luther von Wolfen 2 years ago

Also, bones that have broken and healed come apart at the site of the break. It's an amazingly horrific disease.

107points

A B C 2 years ago

Do you have any source for that claim? Formerly broken bones are not glued together by collagen, but reworked with newly formed bone tissue, so I tend to call BS on this. I also couldn't find any proof of it on my (albeit short) search for your claim.

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Mazer 2 years ago

Super painful. Not recommended. And it’s how sailors from the British Isles got the term “limeys”, ships stocks hundreds of pounds of limes just to combat scurvy

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F. H. 2 years ago

And how Germans got the term "krauts". Sauerkraut was an inexpensive but very effective alternative to citrus fruit.

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Grant Barke 2 years ago

To all the guys who had their d**k severed and reattached. Do not masturbate when vitamin c intake has been very very low.

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13 2 years ago

Goddamnit Grant! 😂😂😂😂

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Rez Fidel 2 years ago

Haha.. wtf Grant?!

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Debrina Blackmoon 2 years ago (edited)

No...please just let them if they are abusive piles of s**t monster assholes+, like john bobbit. Really wish it was never found tbh. Same for others chopped if it happened. Nothing will ever change my mind!

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Martin John 2 years ago

This happened to Ernest Shackleton's men when they were shipwrecked at the South Pole in 1913. A steady diet of nothing but meat (penguins, etc.) resulted in very old scars opening up--much to everyone's surprise and dismay. In the end, they were rescued and not. one. man. died!

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Hugh Willie Mungous 2 years ago

The story of the Shackleton is truly epic - I highly recommend all to do a little research (the story is too long and complicated to tell here).

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Jo Johannsen 2 years ago

WOW. Did not know.

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Tonk Terrier 2 years ago

Yes, vitamin C really has nothing to do with fighting coughs and colds etc and everything to do with connective tissues

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Yoinks! 2 years ago

Wow. I used to mock Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000) because Wolverine's healed wounds all reopen after his "healing factor" is knocked out by another mutant. I presumed "healed" was a done-and-done deal. Now I know better! And I understand a *little* better my own scars that regularly go through a cycle of getting irritated or scabbing back up. "Intelligent design" my pilonidal cyst scar.

7points

Auntriarch 2 years ago

Is the pilonidal cyst scar located where I'm thinking?

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InfectedVoice 2 years ago

Bryan Singer is a dirty kiddie fiddler.

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allan dorfling 2 years ago

Hey I actually think that's incredibly intelligent. I mean think about it in essence all you need to do is eat a little bit of vitamin C and your body constantly build and replaces superclue because the driver didn't think and recked the vehicle...that's awesome

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Lovin' Life 2 years ago

This is new to me. Horrific!

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J. Normal 2 years ago

I now think wishing scurvy on someone would be the worst curse.

6points

lazy panda 2 years ago

Anyone else take a mental note of where their scars are? Or am I the only one?

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Lisa Haag 2 years ago

Well you are screwed either way cause your belly Button is a scar too...

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Phil Vaive 2 years ago

Wait, the human body has to continually work to keep old injuries healed? It isn't just a one time process??? THAT is news to me! My poor body must be working so hard with all the bones I've broken

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Seabeast 2 years ago

Scurvy isn't as uncommon as you might think. Long term alcoholics with very poor diets sometimes get it.

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K 2 years ago

That sounds horrific

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third molar 2 years ago

No wonder pirates are usually mean looking. They were probably just in pain

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John Meise 2 years ago

Wtf? Active process? How? I don't understand... What the f**k even is healing then?!?! This is making it sound like a janky fix. How?

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River Daski 2 years ago

healing is your body trying to repair damage, but because damage can never be *entirely* undone, it's kinda like super glueing a broken object--the super glue will always be the odd factor--so is collagen. any creature's body is working to keep itself alive, but it does the bare minimum to do so since energy is a precious resource.

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OctoPaige 2 years ago

Aww man I wish vitamin C would fix my janky collagen, but I was born this way. ( #ehlersdanlossyndrome ) And because the universe has a dreadful sense of humor, I'm even allergic to citrus. 😅😅😅

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Will Lanni 2 years ago

If I saw that actively happening to me it would leave me... scarred.

1point

Iapetos 2 years ago

Carnivore diet be like

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago (edited)

I had major surgery on my upper and lower jaw many years ago. I want some oranges now!

1point

Brandy Grote 2 years ago

Explains why I crave vit C after a surgery...

1point

Andrea Owen 2 years ago

If that's not a way to make your kid eat greens I don't know what is.

1point

ADHD 2 years ago

JFC i didnt know this,

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Salty Wild Hair 2 years ago

That is horrible!

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okpkpkp 2 years ago

Teeth fall out because the gums rot.

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Marnie 2 years ago

I always get a huge kick out of survival-type scenarios in shows where they seem to think all they have to do is find meat and all will be well. Does not one person in Hollywood know that you can't survive on meat alone for very long?

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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 2 years ago (edited)

I had a classmate at my masters degree with very little resources. He was foreign and used all government grant (in my country that's a thing) buying every single book that was assigned, so to save he ate nothing but fried sausages and instant soup for seven months, until his teeth started to get loose and his gums started bleeding. He had the first stages of scurvy. The doctor prescribed him orange juice in every meal, and he somehow managed to give himself an ulcer. Guess he was not used to moderation...

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Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago

*immediately reaches for the fruit bowl*

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Cayna Warrick 2 years ago

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Melissa J 2 years ago

Idk know what scurvy truly was until this point. 😳

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Mark Kelly 2 years ago (edited)

I assume that'd be in non western, rich countries.

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#7

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Quokkas, the worlds happiest animal, will throw their babies at attackers if threatened.

coreyboi66 , Barney Moss Report

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256points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

So yeeting babies is the secret to happiness we have searching all along.

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However, some say that taking the time and energy to learn interesting facts is a waste of time since this information is accessible with a few Google searches and quick clicks on the links. The professor disagrees, saying that factual knowledge is a really important driver of reading comprehension and other high-level thinking skills, like problem-solving.

“Think about how much easier it is to read a passage if you’re familiar with the general topic—I don’t care how ‘skilled’ a reader you are, if (like most Americans) you’re unfamiliar with the game of cricket, you will not be able to make sense of a newspaper account of the game,” Willingham elaborated.

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On the other hand, “a ten-year cricket fan in India or other cricket-mad country would have no problem.”

#8

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know A blue ringed octopus, found in the Pacific, is a tiny and cute little guy, but one painless bite gives enough venom to take the lives of 25 male adults.

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Mazer 2 years ago

Marine venoms are some of the most potent on earth

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#9

In countries that require you to opt-in to organ donation, fewer than 15% of people register. In the US (an opt-in country), 18 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant.

“Opt-out” countries see over 90% of their population registered for organ donation.

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

US should adopt opt-out

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#10

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The image that most people have of blobfish is based on a misconception.

people think that’s what they look like all the time but blobfish adapted to live in deep waters, which means the deeper you go, the more water pressurethere is. Their bodies are not meaty like fish but more gelatinous because they adapted to the water pressure. if you accidentally pull them to higher levels but with less water pressure, their bodies don’t handle it well bc there’s nothing keeping their bodies in tact, so their bodies explode.

Basically, every photo you’ve seen of a blobfish where they look big and pink and, of course, blobby is a photo of a dead blobfish.

Merchandise and cartoons designed after what they look like dead. Hell, they’re referred to as what they look like dead.

loryhasreddit , Grufnik Report

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244points

Mazer 2 years ago

Spot on

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While many blame the internet for overloading our brains with tons of information, we are the ones putting the knowledge into context. When the time is right, we can connect the dots and come up with brilliant ideas. So if you catch yourself wondering if you're ever going to use this stuff, just remember—someday you actually might.

#11

Men's belts are the dirtiest item of clothing. Touched after pooping and before washing hands, never washed, and worn daily for years.

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シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ 2 years ago

This is why I hate belts

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#12

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.

m00n-b4b3 , Cleyder Duque Report

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Mazer 2 years ago

Subtle differences are noted, and staff will sometimes use different colors for each child

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#13

There is more slavery in the world right now then at any time in history.

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Mazer 2 years ago

And human trafficking

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#14

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters out the smell.

anonymous , Anna Shvets Report

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227points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

My mask might be helping me buck that trend

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#15

If you shine a flashlight/smartphone on a newborn sea turtle for too long (which could be only minutes), it will start crawling around in circles. Known as the "Ring of Death", it means that the turtle's eyesight has been permanently damaged due to mistaking your lights for the moon that guides it to the sea. By doing this, you have doomed the sea turtle to death right after birth.

Final score:

225points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

Who was the first fuckwad that did this s**t...need to find him. I know it was a guy. Dont ask me questions.

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#16

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Most power outages in the US are caused by squirrels.

HunterSeparate651 , cottonbro Report

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220points

Rijkærd 2 years ago (edited)

Those f*****s have to get the energy of a kabillion wattage running around looking for nuts...they seem to never stop running

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Vasily Arkhipov was a Soviet navy officer who was the second in command of a B-59 submarine equipped with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the ships commander was told to launch the entire nuclear arsenal onboard, Arkhipov refused to authorize the attack, after realizing that the launch from the US was an error in their system.

If he wasnt on that submarine, the United States and Russia would be a big, grey spot on the globe.

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Mazer 2 years ago

Apparently there has been a number of close calls in the last 40-50 years

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#18

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know There is a (genetic) disease called FOP where your muscles and tissue turn to bone. Often called "human statue disease"

Eventually people may have to decide whether they want to become "frozen" in a sitting or flat/standing position.

mortokes , Joh-co Report

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Mazer 2 years ago

Lots of horrific diseases out there

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#19

Your intestines will “wriggle” themselves back into the correct position.

Doctors who do any type of intestinal surgery don’t have to worry (too much) about how they put the intestines back in.

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205points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

Yep..after a heavy meal mine sound like they're having an argument about their preferred positioning..

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#20

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Horses can't throw up.

So if they eat something bad or get a bad gas bubble, they just lay down and die.

ABucketofBeetles , Sara Kurfeß Report

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Mazer 2 years ago

Which is why you should never feed any horse anything without talking to its owner first

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#21

Between 10 and 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate (this does not mean they can't read or write at all, but that they cannot comprehend what they are reading at a high enough level to do many basic tasks, like filling out a form). To make matters worse a very large proportion of these people do not realize they have a problem with literacy and self report as being fine at reading and writing.

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199points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

We see them daily on the socials. Zero surprises

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#22

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Migraines and strokes carry a lot of the same symptoms so if you suffer regular migraines you may not notice you're actually dying one day.

InkMaster59 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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195points

Tamara Kroonen 2 years ago

Do strokes give auras too?

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#23

The reason you’re supposed to contact a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than four hours is because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the penis. Blood goes in, deoxygenates, but can’t leave, so there’s no way for fresh oxygenated blood to come in, causing the tissue to turn black and die.

Don’t worry, though! This can be treated by using a big syringe to suck the trapped blood out.

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

Fun times all around!

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#24

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Spider - Rain (you read that right) is a real and naturally occurring phenomenon.

MachuPicchu1232 , snowytheteddybear Report

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173points

Mad Dragon 2 years ago (edited)

It’s a rare phenomenon where thousands of spiders use tiny strands of webbing to float thousands of feet into the air, landing several miles away.

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#25

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know A third of the world's population live in areas that are projected to suffer extended periods of unsurvivable heat by 2070.

zissouo , Jonas Weckschmied Report

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169points

Mazer 2 years ago

Yup, and storms will get more intense. Humans are highly adaptable, mother nature’s critters will suffer the most

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The reason dogs love squeaky toys is because they sound like small animals dying.

hux_square , Jesper Brouwers Report

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Mazer 2 years ago

Not exactly. It’s the sound of some animals when they are in distress, they may not be dying

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#27

Bed bugs procreate by traumatic insemination. Males literally stab females with their genitals. So, just another reason to hate them then.

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Lorrie Rothstein 2 years ago

Bed bugs are awful. They are extremely difficult to get rid of

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#28

There is a mysterious illness called the 'sweating sickness' that hit in multiple small epidemics in the early modern era. It was incredibly contagious and massively deadly, with about a 50% average death rate, but it could be higher. It began with an ominous sense of apprehension, followed by severe pains in the neck and giddiness. They then abruptly stopped and switched to heavy sweating, headaches and delirium. Finally, the person was hit with an extreme urge to sleep, and it was thought to be fatal if you fell to it.

We know almost nothing about it, nothing about how it spread, how it was caused, only that if you got it you were either surviving or dead within 24hrs. There are horror stories of people leaving town on hunting trips and returning the same day to find almost everybody in the village dead, with only a few scattered survivors.

The worst thing was, you did not gain immunity. You could live through the sweating sickness once, and then get it a few days later and die. Or live through it two or three times, and then get it and die. It was horrific, and we don't know why it disappeared and we don't know if it will ever return.

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Mazer 2 years ago

Happened in the British Isles. a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. It occurred near the time of The War of the Roses, speculation includes it was linked to the outrageous living conditions and bad sewage disposal or a hantavirus virus type of disease. All very fascinating

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#29

The glaciers of the Antarctica shelves have melted (and continue to melt) at so fast a rate that even if we enacted radical and worldwide climate change laws today, it's going to take hundreds of years to recover them to their pre-industrial levels.

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Mazer 2 years ago (edited)

And if every human acted to reduce their carbon footprint, it still wouldnt be enough. Corporations are the biggest polluters

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know It was once thought for birds (parrots, magpies) to learn to talk, you had to release their tongue. This was done by cutting their tongue completely or partly off, of course without any anesthesia or pain killers. The tongue release plays absolutely no role in the birds' ability to talk.

Penkinvaltaaja , Caio Report

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

This was a terrible practice.

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know There is a non-zero maximum threshold for the amount of cockroach that can be present in ground coffee because it is literally impossible to keep them out entirely.

jjonesdagreat , Andrea Tummons Report

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Mad Dragon 2 years ago

The accepted level is apparently 10 mg per pound of ground coffee. Time to get a coffee grinder and switch to whole-bean coffee!

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#32

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know In Australia there is a plant called the Gympie-Gympie which has such a severe sting that horses who brush against it throw themselves off cliffs because they’d rather die than continue to experience the pain

ottersintuxedos , Steve Fitzgerald Report

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago (edited)

It’s the same with trying to explain science to antivaxxers. Several scientists have reportedly jumped off a cliff rather than experiencing the pain. Antivaxxers believe they just fell off the edge of the Earth.

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#33

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The threat of a deadly bird flu spreading to humans is always there. It takes just a little bit of negligence in screening chickens for this to happen.

barnorth , William Moreland Report

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Mazer 2 years ago

Chickens are not the only issue when dealing with bird borne or hosted viruses. And thank GOD their are researchers all over the world learning about all of these issues

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People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know A man once had a tapeworm get cancer. That cancer metastasized, and the man passed away from tumors of tapeworm throughout his entire body.

WrongJohnSilver , CDC Report

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134points

Deja Katz 2 years ago

I heard about that story: the man involved was already immunocompromised from hiv and must have picked up tapeworms. Rather than the worm itself getting cancer, it is thought one of their eggs penetrated the lining of his intestines, mutated and ultimately became cancerous. By the time doctors discovered the cause, he’d become too sick to treat.

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#35

Live Chat support agents can see what you type before you send it, so they can reply quicker.

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Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

If they could see what I type before I think it, I’d be more impressed

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#36

The majority of laugh tracks were adults recorded in the early 1950s, meaning that you are mostly listening to dead people laugh.

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redties_and_blackparades 2 years ago

well if you put it THAT way

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#37

There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at their frequency meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.

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Mazer 2 years ago

Great documentary. More work needs to be done on its genetics

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#38

When you get a sunburn, it's actually your cells dying so they don't get tumorous.

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Stephanie IV 2 years ago

Uh-ohhh

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#39

A certain type of angler fish reproduce via the Male burrowing into the side of the female, eventually fusing. The Male life is lost in the process.

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Deja Katz 2 years ago

Any male trying to burrow into me uninvited is certainly at risk of losing his life

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#40

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know During ww1 thousands of dogs were taken from families for the war effort and when the war was over most of them were just shot because it was cheaper than feeding them for the trip home and finding their homes.

jveer817 , McLellan, David Report

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ᴠᴀ̈ɪɴᴏ 2 years ago

so sad 😔

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#41

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans can't handle that much vitamin A.

gangbangkang , Alan Wilson Report

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47points

Mazer 2 years ago

I think eating organs specifically designed to filter toxins is crazy. Early arctic explorers were advised not to eat the livers of their sled dogs if conditions were such that the dogs needed to be consumed

42points

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#42

If you touch an AM broadcast tower, you will die. The tower itself acts as the antenna and is energized with up to 50,000 Watts. Not only will it kill you, it will hurt the entire time you're dying. And since the electricity is modulating, the arcs formed by your body will act as an arc speaker, and you will be able to hear whatever is on the station who's tower you're touching. See example. Your last moments could be spent listening to an ad for car insurance.

adragonthatsgay Report

Final score:

47points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

Aargh f**k...would it be possible to change the channel to a more funky one?..cant die over a f*****g Chevy commercial

29points

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#43

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Urine was used for teeth whitening and bleaching of clothes in Ancient Rome. Yes, they rinsed their mouth with human AND animal urine.

Der_genealogist Report

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46points

Wilf 2 years ago

Urine was a commerical 'product' until very recently. In the late 18th and 19th century it was collected in industrial quantities in the UK and then used in the woollen industry to fix dyes in cloth.

32points

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#44

An 18 year old can legally adopt a 17 year old.

smg4_fan75 Report

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46points

Katy McMouse 2 years ago

I'd imagine this would be beneficial for orphaned siblings/other young family members in need of guardians. It's not unheard of and I'd imagine covid will make this fact (?) more relevant.

45points

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#45

Even if you had a job that payed you $500,000 every fiscal year, it would still take you over 369,000 years to get as wealthy as Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk

Heckboi19 Report

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46points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

And yet all the foot-shooter still think these guys shouldn’t pay taxes.

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#46

A magnetar (a type of neutron star) is so powerful that, if you came within 1,000 kilometers of one, your entire body would dissolve as the magnetic field rearranged the sequence of atoms in your body.

DoubleDeckerz Report

Final score:

45points

Rijkærd 2 years ago (edited)

Why the f**k would you want to be 1000 km from a star? Haven't ya'll learned from being sunburnt and looking like a bad medium rare steak

49points

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#47

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The youngest person to ever give birth to a baby was a 5 year old little girl.

OkBanana5047 , Mysterious Nights India Report

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44points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

Nightmare might begin to describe this.

40points

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#48

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Sloths only have enough energy for their weekly toilet trip to the jungle floor. If the baby falls from their underside in the trees onto the floor, they choose to preserve their energy and leave it to be eaten.

hannahkate2850 , Javier Mazzeo Report

Final score:

43points

ᴠᴀ̈ɪɴᴏ 2 years ago

de laziest

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#49

Male dolphins like to hunt fertile female in groups and hound them because they are unwilling. The females are often injured during this, some even die.

Helpful_Shock_8358 Report

Final score:

43points

Mazer 2 years ago

TRIGGER WARNING***** gang r*pe in the dolphin world is common, as are aggressive mating practices of the sharks and sea otters and countless other critters

59points

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#50

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Climbing Mount Everest has a 6.5% mortality rate.

What's more harrowing is that if you die, you will most likely be left there. There's currently over 200 dead bodies on Everest that are irretrievable, and now serve as markers for other climbers. Not a bad place to eternally rest, but upsetting for those left behind who can't give you a proper burial.

erinxeddie , Rupert Taylor-Price Report

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43points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

But you might become a landmark

30points

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#51

Certain sleep disorders that cause you to act out your dreams are strong predictors that you're developing a neurodegenerative disorder like Parkinson's or Lewy body dementia.

Vanatoare Report

Final score:

41points

Rob Chapman 2 years ago

My father started acting out his dreams a few years ago. He was later diagnosed with vascular dementia, which he passed away from 5 months ago.

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#52

During the Seoul Olympics 1988 a large amount of doves were released into the stadium, when the giant brazier was lit many of the released doves were sitting in it, resulted in many doves being burned alive.

A-Human-potato Report

Final score:

40points

Mazer 2 years ago

One of the most popular trash sculptures (made from trash found on Oregon’s beaches) is a 6-foot-wide sea star made from plastic water bottles, most from the 2008 Olympics in China.

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#53

In the United States, roughly 1/3 of all food is thrown away each year.

citizenfaith01 Report

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40points

Mazer 2 years ago (edited)

New laws have been put into effect in California. Food waste now must be put in the green bin along with yard clippings, it is hoped this will be composted and reused and reduce the production of methane

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#54

The FBI estimates there are between 25-50 active serial killers in the US at any given time.

ScotchBender Report

Final score:

40points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

Are they doing anything about ut or they just laying the numbers out there for mass hysteria consumption...

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#55

Armadillos can carry leprosy and can pass to humans just by being in proximity. Kind of fits the mood of 2020-2021 one could argue!

Big_Bunned_Nuns Report

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38points

Mazer 2 years ago

People can catch hantavirus virus and the plague in the Western US present day, it’s not uncommon

12points

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

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#56

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Bus seats are designed so that you cannot tell how dirty they really are.

SmallAndScarred , BUS002 Report

Final score:

38points

Mazer 2 years ago

And they are disgusting, as are plane seats and hotel carpets

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#57

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a Japanese man, was wounded by Hiroshima atomic bomb while on business trip. He then returned to his job in Nagasaki where another nuclear bomb dropped.

bloxiefox Report

Final score:

38points

Mazer 2 years ago

Yup, he reported that the blast made survivors incredibly thirsty. Those who quenched their thirst died shortly afterwards. He was an exceptional person, offering to lecture on his experience in hopes of it never happening again. His family reported that to speak about his experiences was very hard on him, yet he went to lecture all over because he felt it was paramount that people understand the devastation involved

41points

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#58

Once you die, your eyeballs dehydrate and lose ocular pressure and flatten into eye raisins your skull.

mister_doctor_sir Report

Final score:

38points

シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ 2 years ago

… really?!?

10points

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#59

Rabies is terrifying. You can get it and not even know it from bats, which live across the globe. It might hit you right away, it might be in three years. But it doesn't matter because once symptoms set in, you're already dead.

SaugaCharlesChen Report

Final score:

36points

Steve Barnett 2 years ago

'Now here's Tom with the weather!'

54points

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

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#60

Valentine’s day is a holiday with one of the highest s**cide rates.

ImStupidOkay13 Report

Final score:

36points

MrLoufoque 2 years ago

Why the hell is "suicide" censored?

76points

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#61

Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant, 1976: The Almost-Chernobyl of East Germany.

In short: Due to a short-circuit resulting in a fire, almost all coolant pumps failed.

The NY-Times says: "[A] Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster was prevented only when a single water pump in the emergency cooling system was able to draw off pressurized water heated to high temperature by the ''decay heat'' left in the reactor's core, thus preventing a meltdown."

This incident became public with reunification in 1989.

anonymous Report

Final score:

36points

Alan Gale 2 years ago

Three Mile Island has entered the chat.

10points

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#62

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know There are 8 unaccounted for American nukes and literally an unknown quantity of missing soviet nukes that range all the way from warheads to suitcase bombs.

seanprefect , R.P Piper Report

Final score:

35points

J. F. 2 years ago

It's assumed that the locations of around 50 warheads all around the world are unknown

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#63

Every day several hundred babys are born in withdrawal.

LKg_kwinsee88 Report

Final score:

35points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

Heartbreaking

18points

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

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#64

Some Perfumes, or more specifically, musks you use come from the anal and secretion glands of musk deers and civet cats.

Lethalkittyboss Report

Final score:

33points

XSpooky_Mint 2 years ago

Don't ask about vanilla flavoring

23points

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#65

Chronic Wasting Disease. (Forgive me, I’m no expert) It’s a prion disease. It’s kind of like mad cow disease for deer. It’s 100% fatal. The problem comes with the fact that prions cannot be destroyed. So the infected deer can urinate in a field spreading this disease into the soil, then into the foods we eat. It’s been shown to infect some primates as well. So the risk of human transmission must not be ignored.

Learning that last night definitely kept me from sleeping soundly.

LiterallyCasey Report

Final score:

32points

Mazer 2 years ago

It’s a hotly debated issue among hunters. It’s also fascinating

11points

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#66

If all the spiders in the world were to eat all the humans, it would only take them a year.

Final score:

32points

シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ 2 years ago

Okay. Now time to die.

15points

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College Student Does Exactly As Told After Roommates Demand They Keep Their Stuff In Their Room

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#67

Quantum field energy levels could in theory 'glitch' at any moment causing vacuum decay thus ending the universe.

The_Snollygoster Report

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31points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

In theory

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#68

To make it into the richest 1 percent globally, all you need is an income of around $34,000.

Final score:

30points

Rijkærd 2 years ago

We are mad at the 1 percents 1 percenters....and anything called rich by Forbes

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#69

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know There are Demodex mites crawling on your eyelashes right now, and there's NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.

Superman246o1 , sstirk69 Report

Final score:

29points

Mazer 2 years ago (edited)

The human body is host to a vast assortment of parasites which we are blissfully clueless about

33points

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#70

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know The FDA allows a tiny amount of things like rat droppings or insect parts in certain foods.

Sovereign-Over-All , Joshua J. Cotten Report

Final score:

29points

Steve Barnett 2 years ago

Reference: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook#products

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#71

There’s a specific part of your head where all four skull bones meet, that same place has a really juicy artery

If you were to fracture it least one of those bones, it could slice that artery open, crushing your brain with your own blood

Effectively, you could kill someone with one punch

T3rraBlox Report

Final score:

29points

Mazer 2 years ago

There are many incidents of people suffering either debilitating injuries or death as s result of these blows. It’s one of the reasons why MMA fighters are not allowed to hit opponents on the back of the head.

30points

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#72

The adult teeth of toddlers are right underneath their eyes.

GoopyAssLookingBch Report

Final score:

29points

Mazer 2 years ago

I envy shark species that just continue replacing their teeth.

29points

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#73

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know If a female hamster gets too stressed, it will eat its kids.

Sea_dog123 , Ellie Burgin Report

Final score:

28points

Mazer 2 years ago

Many creatures will engage in eating each other or their young when TSHTF

20points

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#74

They say with our farming techniques we only have about 50 more harvest before our soil is too eroded to use.

godofmediocrity53 Report

Final score:

27points

Bella10 2 years ago

Kiss The Ground. Another excellent and thought provoking documentary about this topic.

16points

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#75

The human tooth has 36 calories!

Funky_Mayonnaise Report

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27points

Deja Katz 2 years ago

Crunch crunch

20points

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#76

According to the World Bank Group, the world produces about 2 billion tons of garbage every year.

sensitive_sloth Report

Final score:

26points

Mazer 2 years ago

The more cities there are, the more dependable people are on consumer goods, the more packaging is used.

10points

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#77

That that if the sun exploded we wouldn’t even know for 8 minutes.

Caydenej Report

Final score:

25points

Steve Barnett 2 years ago

True, light does take about 8 minutes to get to us from the Sun. But it will never 'explode' as such. It will die slowly, becoming larger and larger, then eventually engulfing Earth.

19points

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#78

Himalayan blackberries can allegedly grow under your skin!

quietfangirl Report

Final score:

24points

Mazer 2 years ago

Based on a number of incidents where a cut was made and a small piece of the plant became lodged in the wound. The wound provides the plant matter with the moisture and nutrients it needs to grow, plus those plants are very very adaptable and hard to irradiate. Not so far fetched

21points

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#79

People Are Sharing 35 Not Fun Facts They Wish They Didn't Know Oftentimes when Pandas have cubs, if they have more than one they will choose which one to keep and abandon the other because she can’t care for two.

Grizzlies are the opposite. If they have a litter of just one, sometimes they’ll abandon it and try to mate again the next year to try for a litter of multiple cubs :(

SwankyyTigerr , Daniel Zupanc Report

Final score:

23points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago

Not true. Loads of single cubs with bear moms. It’s highly challenging to raise multiple cubs. Male bears will kill and eat them, too.

18points

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#80

Air breathing mammals like whales and dolphins might beach themselves because they got old and it's better to die in the sunset than to drown at sea.

Dadpool33 Report

Final score:

11points

Grumble O'Pug 2 years ago (edited)

Is this supported in fact or research, because it sounds like opinion

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Ieva Gailiūtė

Ieva is a writer at Bored Panda who graduated in Scandinavian studies from Vilnius University. After learning the Swedish language and getting completely lost in the world of Scandinavian mythology, she figured out that translating and writing is what she's passionate about. When not writing, Ieva enjoys making jewelry, going on hikes, reading and drinking coffee.

Ieva is a writer at Bored Panda who graduated in Scandinavian studies from Vilnius University. After learning the Swedish language and getting completely lost in the world of Scandinavian mythology, she figured out that translating and writing is what she's passionate about. When not writing, Ieva enjoys making jewelry, going on hikes, reading and drinking coffee.

Austėja Akavickaitė

Austėja is a Photo Editor at Bored Panda with a BA in Photography.

Austėja is a Photo Editor at Bored Panda with a BA in Photography.

What do you think ?

Lovin' Life 2 years ago

Very interesting to read. Not sure that all are true but interesting.

12points

Croquet Cases 2 years ago

"they say" is not a credible source.

4points

Rissie 2 years ago

If you care, look it up.

3points

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Tracey Arthur 2 years ago

Still fascinating

2points

Virtually Fabulous 2 years ago

How about no more internet

0points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

Sources or gtfo. So tired of these posts by BP

-2points

Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

Jees this isn’t Encyclopaedia Britannica. If you are THAT tired either a) don’t read ‘em or b) head off to one of the thousands of alternatives that are on the internet.

18points

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

If something interests you enough, you'll research it. Most of us just want to read quick facts and move on.

6points

Rissie 2 years ago

Nah, it's a great starting point if you see something you care enough about. Don't be lazy.

5points

Lovin' Life 2 years ago

Very interesting to read. Not sure that all are true but interesting.

12points

Croquet Cases 2 years ago

"they say" is not a credible source.

4points

Rissie 2 years ago

If you care, look it up.

3points

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Tracey Arthur 2 years ago

Still fascinating

2points

Virtually Fabulous 2 years ago

How about no more internet

0points

Frannie Kaplan 2 years ago

Sources or gtfo. So tired of these posts by BP

-2points

Gavin Johnson 2 years ago

Jees this isn’t Encyclopaedia Britannica. If you are THAT tired either a) don’t read ‘em or b) head off to one of the thousands of alternatives that are on the internet.

18points

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LynzCatastrophe 2 years ago

If something interests you enough, you'll research it. Most of us just want to read quick facts and move on.

6points

Rissie 2 years ago

Nah, it's a great starting point if you see something you care enough about. Don't be lazy.

5points

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