“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers)

The diameter of planet Earth is 7,926 miles, and it’s inhabited by over 8 billion people. No matter how many articles you read, news outlets you follow on social media and conversations you have with colleagues about current events, there is no way you can possibly keep up with everything that happens around the globe. But if you’re looking to learn about a few things that you may not have been aware of, you’ve come to the right place.

Redditors have recently been discussing important events, discoveries and more that are occurring in real time across the planet, so we’ve gathered some of their replies below. Enjoy reading through this list, and be sure to upvote the information that you’d like more people to be aware of!

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) I've got a peach cobbler going in the oven. Most people aren't aware of that.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Griffith University Queensland, Australia are about to start human trails on groundbreaking research into regenerating nerves in spinal cord injuries.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) While we weren’t paying attention, China used stem cells to reverse type 1 diabetes .

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The war on the poor! They have nowhere to go, can’t find work, can’t find food, and get kicked out of public places because they don’t have “business” being there. The shelters are over crowded, under funded, and picky about who they let in. Inflation has made it impossible to keep food in the house, and pay for the bills/rent. And the reasons they can’t find work are that they don’t have a stable place to put on their applications, can’t pass an interview( when they get one )because of the condition of their looks, and can’t get a call back because they don’t have a phone (because they chose to eat instead of paying a phone bill). It’s really bad. And it’s all brushed under the carpet because a Cheeto felon is running for president.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Bill in the US Senate to ban major corporations from buying homes (forgive me if even I missed a detail, hilarious how little coverage it's getting).

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The amount of energy and emissions that AI is going to require/generate over the next 10 years completely undoes all of the environmental advancements we have made in the past 10 years.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) War in Sudan. 50 million people in Sudan before it started, estimated 9 million people have been displaced and today 750 thousand are facing imminent starvation. For context there are about 5 million Palestinians total in West Bank and the Gaza Strip. I'm not trying to diminish what's happening in Palestine, just to point out how little attention Sudan gets relative to the size of the human impact it's having.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) In late 2023, we saw the first-ever approval of CRISPR-based medicine: Casgevy, a cure for sickle cell disease (SCD) and transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT).

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Hurricane Helene flooded a factory that makes over half of the IV fluids we use. There is a terrible shortage that is impacting care.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The new Euclid telescope is actively taking pictures of space and piecing them together to make a map of our night sky, it just finished the first set.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The Supreme Court is essentially on the ballot but most people don't think about that. They think they're just voting for president, but balance of power on the court is what's truly at stake. Several justices will likely retire in the next 4 years and the president appoints them.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) There are almost 50 million people in modern slavery worldwide, and 12 million of them are children…….

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) In like half the US it hasn't rained in a month and mount Fuji has like zero snow on it.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Forests have started releasing more C02 than they use, insects are going extinct in the united states, and cyanobacteria and algae populations in the oceans have collapsed.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) A lot of people know, but I don't think people are aware enough that big tech companies get a pass on privacy invasions because the US government can subpoena information from them that the government itself is not allowed to collect. I truly believe this is why the US government is going after TikTok so hard because they're afraid of China using the data from the app the way the US uses data from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.

ETA: Also, if TikTok is forced to be sold to American ownership, then they join the American companies in collecting information from Americans and can be compelled by the government like the others.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) We may have basically found a treatment for late stage rabies It has been working pretty well in lab test with rats

Similarly we have found a possible treatment for age-related mental diseases such as Alzheimer's by basically reactivating certain healing factors in the brain of rats and the scientists are pretty confident that this should work in the humans too The era of people living to 120-130 is closer than you think, especially when you look at the fact that especially in healthier countries like Japan there are record high numbers of people living to be over 100.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) This one is near and dear to me:

Cabozantinib (Cabometyx) is a chemotherapy d**g that may be a new treatment option for patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The FDA accepted a supplemental New D**g Application (sNDA) for cabozantinib in August 2024, with a target action date of April 3, 2025. The d**g is intended to treat adults with well- or moderately differentiated pancreatic or extra-pancreatic NETs that are locally advanced, unresectable, or metastatic.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Multiple d***s are in/going in to human trials to regrow teeth.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The 2nd cold war is happening as we speak.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) In a handful of highly specific cases, people have actually been fully cured of AIDS.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Syria
1. We have Turkey actively fighting the Kurds in northern Syria, and actively working closely with Russia to do it.
1A. Turkey js a nato member who helping Russia and Turkey just bought a missile defense system from Russia.

2. The US last week bombed a Syrian airport. This is unusual in that the IS normally only fights ISIS in Syria, this was against a Syrian government controlled airport.

3. Iran is actively funding Hezbollah in their fight against Israel. Hezbollah who also support the Syrian government has fighters in Syria fighting.

4. Israel has bombed multiple targets in Syria including the capital.

5. All of this is like a quagmire of alliances, and it looks like the Middle East is just going to keep burning.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Not to be the Debbie Downer here, but utter and complete social upheaval brought on by ecological and climate collapse.

We aren’t ready for the complete catastrophe that is just around the corner. News sources are barely reporting on the dangers of cascading systems let alone those that have already collapsed.

- AMOC
- BOE
- Natural Carbon Sink Overload
- Soil Quality
- Methane
- Ocean Acidification
- Wildlife Extinction
- the list goes on and on

We aren’t ready for the hell on earth that awaits us. And it’s going to happen much sooner than later.

Estimates of 2100 or end of century are straight up hopium at this point.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Taiwanese chip manufacturing plants being rigged with explosives in the event of a Chinese invasion and the increase of US Marines being deployed to Taiwan.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Data privacy erosion.. the mass surveillance is growing with companies and governments collecting extensive data on people.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Just how badly our kids need more support at home so they can do well at school. Just how far behind socially and academically our kids are because they don't get enough help at home!

I'm a 5th grade teacher.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) There's a mining company preparing to blow a hole in
a pristine piece of desert in Nevada. Right next to that hole is a 10 acre spot where a tiny desert plant called Tiehms Buckwheat is eaking out a living.
There are 50% less Tiehms Buckwheat plants now than there were a decade ago because half the population disappeared virtually overnight.
The Bureau of Land Management, which will ultimately permit the mining company, said the plants likely disappeared because of rodents (although the rodents chose an odd time to decimate a plant they've lived next to for hundreds of years).
This little plant grows nowhere else on Earth. It has evolved to thrive in that soil - heavily laced with lithium.
And because lithium extraction is more important, that little plant will likely become extinct.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) We're running out of helium
https://www.npr.org/2019/11/01/775554343/the-world-is-constantly-running-out-of-helium-heres-why-it-matters

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Last night in a hospital somewhere near my city, a man was brought in for a broken spinal cord from jumping off of a 2 story building, to try to k*ll himself. He and his girlfriend had been in an argument and he stood on the balcony, threatening to jump, and then did. Obviously survived, because a 2 story house is not tall enough to do the job. He proceeded to call his girlfriend from the hospital to break up with her. A few hours later, his girlfriend jumped off of a 3 story building, successfully k*lling herself.

The crazy s**t happening in the lives of others is always something baffling to me. It’s happening all the time, everywhere, and we have no idea.

LimeyLoo , Tom Fisk/Pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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Matt Du 21 hours ago

A moment to late to change, that still eats at me. Very brief backstory. The father was having an affair, wanted a divorce, moving out. The mother wearing a nightie, wanders out into a very bad winter's night. They found her body huddled in a corner the next day. He stayed for the kids. Fast forward the kids are adults and moving out, the father has asked his mistress to marry him. The youngest venomously opposed it, telling his father he was dead to him if he married her. The father jumped off a multistorey carpark. Ironically I worked with both mistress for about three years and the son for about two years, work friends with both. About 18 months later. I'm waiting for my bus home when I get tapped on the shoulder, it's the son. He'd been in a mental facility for over a year and do I want to go for a pint. I had overtaxed my liver forcing me to stop drinking because of my own declining mental health; didn't feel fair to share that, so went home. He jumped off the viaduct that night.

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Binky Melnik 12 hours ago

Ah, Matt; I’m so sorry you live with that. I hope to hell you’re not beating yourself up about that, as I strongly believe that even if you’d stayed with him that evening that he’d have still done it soon anyway. Cripes; that family was a mess. I’m not sure ANYONE coulda helped those people out. 😞

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Petra Peitsch 6 hours ago

May it be an unpopular opinion, but these two were just Darwin-awards winners. I hope, they didn't have any kids.

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UncleJohn3000 14 hours ago (edited)

You can die by sneezing. 2 stories is plenty, he just did it wrong.

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Nikole 7 hours ago

Headfirst and onto concrete?

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Pittsburgh rare 5 hours ago

This one surely redefines a toxic relationship

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Jeremy Klaxon 11 hours ago

Soon, BP is going to censor every word. L**t n**ht, i* a ho****al so*****re i* m* c**y...

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dv79vfk6vh 17 hours ago

hmmmmm

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Alex Martin 21 hours ago

Would that be considered weaponized incompetence?

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Glix Drap 23 hours ago

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) The Myanmar/Burma Civil War has been going on since 2021. Some 50,000 k*lled and millions displaced.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Worst Famine in Sudan in 40 years 25million people without food security as a civil war rages around them.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) A surprising number of animals are adapting to urban life in ways we barely notice.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) Children of opiate addicts and overdose victims are growing into adults after a lifetime of being ignored and abandoned. Everyone is wonder why the young people are so sick, we have the stats. Millions of people addicted to substances and extreme substances that obliterate parental engagement is starting to show.

Im one of the flood into foster care in the 2010's, now even more parents are overdosing or have moved to fent from traditional hard substances They give their kid computers and then leave them until they are 18 if they don't abandon them physically.

Those kids are becoming sick adults and think they are flawed when they have been consistently disadvantaged their entire life. That adult who never feeds themselves well, doesn't pursue any of their goals or ideas, never spends on their needs, never plans for the future is a child who was ignored and taught their ideas and health weren't valuable or worth pursuing . They weren't taught how to strategically plan and coordinate a project.

Sick adults are child victims who didn't get help. And we are now seeing their apathy and illness rise in real time .

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) They discovered a new antibiotic that k*lls MRSA.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) I learned today that North Korea has sent 10,000 troops to Russia.

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“What’s Going On Right Now That Most People Have No Idea About?” (35 Answers) A high school in Georgia has tested over 300 students and staff for tuberculosis because of exposure.

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What do you think ?

Cee Cee 1 day ago

Well that's a cheerful read for a Monday morning.

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Auntriarch 23 hours ago

Yes, what happened to the cute animal fix

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David Paterson 21 hours ago

Slightly more than 50% correct. Bored Panda is improving.

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Binky Melnik 11 hours ago

BP doesn’t create these; they’re a content aggregators. Average people submitted these to Reddit.

G A 10 hours ago

Fat rich arseholes are stealing the supply lines of d***s meant for diabetics.

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Roan The Demon Kitty 11 hours ago

since a good chunk of this was quite depressing imma just leave this here: https://www.positive.news/

Thank you for your service

AnnaB 10 hours ago

I want to volunteer for stem cell research into hearing loss. ☹️

I'm really, REALLY worried about the resurgence of illnesses that were almost eradicated and how nonchalant everyone is about it and underplay the lack of vaccines until it's late. Wake the f**k up.

BrunoVI 6 hours ago (edited)

Some good news: worried about fossil fuels? The U.S. (for example) has seen the rate of increase of solar-energy production regain its 35% per year growth rate from the pre-covid era. Solar energy is now cheaper than many fossil fuels. At its current growth rate, it will supplant all other forms of electricity production in less than eleven years, quadrupling every five years. Even if its rate of adoption quadruples only once more, it will replace all fossil fuels in 20 years. For some reason, the government's estimate of future energy use, which has utterly failed to preduct current growth, pictures adoption of solar energy SLOWING, which is bizarre because solar energy isn't based on comsumption; adoption slowing actually would require a collapse in the solar-energy industry, which no-one is predicting. (I estimate solar energy replacing 80% of fossil fuels by 2040; the resulting price collapse of fossil fuels which make it economically difficult to rid that last 20% without bans, but it's probably beneficial economically to maintain a niche market anyway.)

cugel. 7 hours ago

I wonder this.. So much discourse - essentially modern culture - is being done online. Yet so much of this can be lost forever by some beancounter, not wanting to store some hard drives, saying "Clean em up and sell em, that'll save a few dollars"

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