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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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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.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.”
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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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. 
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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.”
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    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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    #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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    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.

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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.
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    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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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We see them daily on the socials. Zero surprises

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this has a lot to do with US form designers. Have you tried filling in a US immigration form? The labelling of the boxes is absolutely terrible. It also asks questions which are meaningless in an international context - "crimes involving moral turpitude" is not something most people outside of the US will understand, let alone those whose first language is not English - not only that, but it is most likely not a concept in the visitor's country's laws, so you can't be convicted of it.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You just have to see how many people believe "the Big Lie" and realize critical thinking along with common sense is dead in 40% of the population.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of them managed to become a president with the support of the rest so it doesn't surprise me

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a teacher/librarian, my students were reading a chapter book per week and totally enjoying it. With the rise of Big Media and the internet, it became harder and harder to promote reading as an enjoyable activity. The problem here is that newspapers and book publishers fact-checked everything to maintain their reputations as reliable sources of information. Big Media and the internet don't always care about the truth, so people became used to hearing sketchy information, not realizing the effect that falsehood has on health and government. We may never get mass literacy back, but we need to make sure that critical thinking is a huge part of our educational system.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well this is what happens when 1/3 of NYC public school students graduate High School at a 6th grade or lower reading level, and we dont even have the worst system in the country.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The ones that can't read or fill out a form have a clear problem with reading/writing. There's only so much pretending to get away with. Most people however are sufficient enough readers to fool themselves into thinking they understand the words that are entering their brain. But are not capable of translating the words and sentences into the concepts that are described with them. And a lot of that finds its roots in an educational system that doesn't grasp that that is what we are doing with language. Most people just go with the flow and imagine they are fine readers, and some are, and some really, really, aren't/

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    those are rookie numbers, Romania has like 42% functional illiteracy in school children.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And I think most are anti-Vaxers, conspiracy believers and Rep… Never mind.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Comprehension is somewhere I struggle. I can read something several times and still not understand what I have just read, but I can read and write. It is a struggle.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A good way to spot them is no reading material at home or the office. They talk and let others do their thinking. Sad but true. They may have a TV guide and that's it.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, many of these folks do not speak English as their first language.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, is it a matter of education or is it that people near the left fifth of the bell curve of intelligence just can't do better?

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see that a lot at work. People ask me for some information, I google it, show them the screen with everything they need to know written on it, even try a few key comments about what is important to read... but they hardly look at the screen and look at me instead, obviously waiting for me to read it loud for them.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s frustrating, my dad is illiterate and dyslexic but also in denial 😂

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Getting away from all the political BS on the issue, this is really a significant challenge as societies get more complex. In 1820 you didn't need to read at all to be successful in the majority of careers. By 1920 reading and writing were necessary for more and more jobs. Now there is hardly a single job that doesn't requires some level of reading comprehension. Even just getting from point A to point B often takes reading skills. The unfortunate truth is that across the continuum of human intelligence there are likely 10-20% who do not have the mental capability to actually learn to read and comprehend at the level needed for many of the common tasks of modern life. As society gets more complex the problem will only become worse, with those who can't mentally process those greater challenges being marginalized and devalued. Unfortunately piling more money and effort into education won't help, because it's a matter of innate capability.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this goes a lot deeper than just being illiterate. I have ADHD and sometimes I have to read something more than once to comprehend what’s being read simply because my mind wasn’t focusing on what I read. I also tend to have issues comprehending the info if I find it boring or not informative. I did well in college, but I did find myself having to reread assignments multiple times to remember what I read.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Frankly, based on what we have seen the last few years, I am surprised it is not a higher %.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And even more are selective deaf. You can always see tiny square shaped lights in darkness, after being told "please turn off smartphones in theater".

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I work in adult literacy in Australia and the OECD surveys around 40 countries for literacy and numeracy rates every 10 years. The most recent survey for America is around 54% of Americans don't have the necessary reading and writing skills for every day life. More info here https://www.oecd.org/skills/piaac/publications/countryspecificmaterial/PIAAC_Country_Note_USA.pdf

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yet almost every business tries to direct you to their web site in an attempt to avoid human contact.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not surprising even though I didn't realise it was that many people.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the digital age jn Europe as well the majority of things you have to didn't online are incorrect but you are blocked from continuing if you don't sign.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have strabius in both eyes but I was told i was faking or doctors didn't care much to actually figure out what was wrong. IM getting sugary and its all going to be okay but im one of many.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you mean strabismus? At any rate, I hope your surgery goes well. Best of luck to you!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This explains a lot about the fundamentalist right wing.

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    Lol that reminds me that I was in debate class and my teacher was talking to us about Trump. She then just goes "As a teacher I can tell the signs of someone who is illiterate and he does" funniest thing I heard from a teacher

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I taught English at a special needs school and quite a few of my pupils were functionally illiterate. It really didn’t matter how hard they or the teachers worked, writing was just … beyond their capabilities. I sometimes wished we wouldn’t have to torture them with something as abstract as writing when you could tell it was sheer torture to them. That said, they did indeed not consider themselves as being functionally illiterate as they didn’t necessarily know what it was anyway.

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    Sorry, been living in America for 10+yrs, the 10-20% estimation is way too low. Not trying to be funny with that, it genuinely fuc*ing saddens me.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    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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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    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

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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    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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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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

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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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    Every day several hundred babys are born in withdrawal.

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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    #67

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

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    The adult teeth of toddlers are right underneath their eyes.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I envy shark species that just continue replacing their teeth.

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    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.

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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    The human tooth has 36 calories!

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    #78

    Himalayan blackberries can allegedly grow under your skin!

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    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 :(

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    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.

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    2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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