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People are curious creatures and we like to know things even though they don’t benefit us directly. Some of us even go to university to study things that don’t have true practicality, but we just desire knowledge in that particular field despite knowing that it will be difficult to find a job or apply that knowledge practically.

We get satisfaction from learning such facts like how two unrelated people lived at the same time in history or that all of the Solar system planets would fit in between the Moon and the Earth, even though it is useless information that you can’t use for your own survival.

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R Carson 2 years ago

So much for code breakers.

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Qaasim Malik 2 years ago (edited)

sad but true. My self and my fellow people need to change a lot. I did not expect what would happen in the replies.Enter at ur own risk. I was stupid when I first posted this comment, and have grown. we all grow, in the end. good luck in your growth.

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Nubis Knight 2 years ago

Those 2 square miles are highly suspicious!

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Gary Davidson 2 years ago

Not really. They were friends of Dorothy.

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Ogre Juan Canolli 2 years ago

Something In The Water....?

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DaVo 2 years ago

The area is called the Communest.

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Brian Bennett 2 years ago

Can you imagine what a picnic it would have been if all these nuts got together?

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Pernille Dyre 2 years ago

Spot on! 🤣🤣

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Billy Maguire 2 years ago

I'd test the water..

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Nikki Barroso 2 years ago

Ha!

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Aaron W 2 years ago

It's possible the same person encountered all five of them then. Probably a cute Jewish girl who rejected Hitler, slapped Stalin, dropped a dollar bill between Tito and Trotsky, and reminded Freud of his mother.

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Madeleine Flowers 2 years ago

I love this sentence.

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Pezor Zass 2 years ago

Tito doesn't get many shout-outs these days

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Quasar 2 years ago

ironically Tito is probably the better man over at least 3 of these guys

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

True…it’s been years since I’ve heard or seen his name!

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Anne Edwards 2 years ago

Didn't he tour with Michael (Jackson). (s)

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Todo Nada 2 years ago

I'm taking note for when time travel is invented. The world will be a better place.

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MPS 2 years ago

I agree, but if time travel was real then wouldn't there be people from the future saying hello to us...

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François Carré 2 years ago

They should all have visited Dr Freud, spill their guts about their frustrations and complexes once and for all, and spare the world some trouble.

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DDmaybeandor 2 years ago

Hitler would just have killed all the moms.

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Steve R 2 years ago

Tito Jackson? I knew he was older than Michael, but didn't realise he was that much older. Although it does explain the lyric "Don't blame it on the sunshine, don't blame it on the moonlight, don't blame it on the good times, blame it on the ruling classes".

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Seaside Charlie 2 years ago

Brilliant

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Irishwoman abroad 2 years ago

Spot the odd man out!

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Brafne Heiwer 2 years ago

Wouldn't it be odd to run into a dictator and a neurologist in the same day?

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Teresa Stabler 2 years ago

Not if they're bff

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Lyone Fein 2 years ago

Something in the water?

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jk nbt 2 years ago

next to a iron door in a brick wall marked "Gates of Hell"

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Max L. 2 years ago

And at least two of them bought dope from the same dealer

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SoapMonkey76 2 years ago

Sounds like the start of a bad joke.....

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Bacony Cakes 2 years ago (edited)

Sitcom! "Stalin! Stop eating my lunch!" "It is OUR lunch, Freud!" *laughtrack* "I will stop eating it when you stop banging your mother!" *laughtrack* "Will you shut up? I am trying to paint!" *laughtrack*

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Gary Born 2 years ago

Did not know this when I was in Vienna

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Nazda Pokmov 2 years ago

Too bad that area was not quarantined off

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Daniel Marsh 2 years ago

So many horrors unleashed. Hitler's nationalist socialism, Stalin's Soviet socialism, Tito's Jackson 5....

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Adrian 2 years ago

Probably explains a lot but were they really that close?

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Abed Habi 2 years ago

Freud, you had one job!

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Colm Corcoran 2 years ago

I smell sitcom! Call it "Two Square Miles"

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Colm Corcoran 2 years ago (edited)

Freud: Now Heir Hitler, we have your results!; Hitler: What does it say?; Freud: *Pauses with shock*; Freud: That you should not quit your Art Career Heir Hitler. NEXT!; Secretary: Heir Freud, we have a nice handsome young man to see you!; Freud: Hello; Stalin: Hello. I'm Joe

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Auntriarch 2 years ago

I was there for a fortnight in 2017 and it never did me any harm....

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gma 2 years ago

it would be interesting to see a map of those 2 sq. miles to see where the areas are that they lived and their ages in 1913

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Dinorange 2 years ago

You can look up City of Vienna, Austria, that's where they lived. In quite different hoods and areas though

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bushmeat 2 years ago

Freud should hardly be in the same breath!

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Fred L. 2 years ago

That fact had been brought up before. Stalin was not a permanent resident.

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bumble bee 2 years ago

So there was something in the water?

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robjl 316 2 years ago

Sounds like Flint wasn't the first city with bad pipes.

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Josias Sarquiz 2 years ago

In case we get a time machine, we know when and where plant the bombs

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Steve R 2 years ago

Yes, of course you want to kill one of the founders of psychiatry and the man that was in charge of the most succesful resistance movement against the Nazis in Europe. Big brain you have there, be a shame if you used it.

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Billy Mahoney 2 years ago

That District in Vienna is quite popular and beautiful. No surprise they were living there

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GramDB 2 years ago

Wow! is it the water?

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Mya Lugar 2 years ago

To drink the water or NOT to drink the water, THAT is the question!

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Salty Wild Hair 2 years ago

Likely a portal there.

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backatya 2 years ago

they played together on the same block lol

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Kimberly 2 years ago

Freud's a quack so not surprised.

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xXbluthsbannanastandXx 2 years ago

sounds like a sitcom

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Trisha Howson 2 years ago

Very very interesting

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Jimmy Waller 2 years ago

Out of curiosity I looked up their ages at this time (give or take 1-2 years) -- Hitler at age 24, Trotsky age 33, Stalin also at age 33, Tito at age 21, Freud at age 57.

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Sarah Rehmat-Steedly 2 years ago

What was in that water?¡

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Cyndi Moring 2 years ago

kinda like those Liverpool blokes

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Joseph rick 2 years ago

I do not think this bizarre or coincidental at all. That time period is when the great shifts in capitalist organisational took place., in particular the ownership and the state relationships were being forged. The handful of what is essentially families foraged and fought to own the worlds wealth. The germanic centres, including most of europe were the hotbeds of this upheaval and in particular Germany where many of the thinkers and doers either emerged or gathered. Interestingly Lenin, famously, had to get a telegram whilst thereabouts, to let him know the Russian revolution had begun in absentia.

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The Sorrows of Mother LoveJoy 2 years ago

Tito Puente?!

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Henry Russell 2 years ago

that would make a great sitcom

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Shelley Herter 2 years ago

Well, that's chilling...

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Tiny van Pouderoyen 2 years ago

Something in the water?

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Fraxinus excelsior 2 years ago

Imagine that dinner party

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Valerie Anne 2 years ago

Wow

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Manuel Delgado 2 years ago

A shame that the 1st 4 didn't went to therapy with No. 5

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Downunderdude 2 years ago

Aha! That's all. Just aha!

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Jen Szabo 2 years ago

Excuse me?!?

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Squiddles 2 years ago

I blame the sausages personally

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Janeybent42 2 years ago

Something in the water there

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Paul Richards 2 years ago

One well placed bomb

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Nikole 2 years ago

Tito Puente????

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Elita One 2 years ago

Must be something in the water.

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Lyn Moffett 2 years ago

Pity Freud didn't have a chat with Hitler

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Lola 2 years ago

They need to burn some sage in that area.

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Esco 2 years ago

Tito Jackson?!

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pat hayes 2 years ago

small world....🤔

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Jo Johannsen 2 years ago

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Yort 2 years ago

Tito Puente?

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Mary Rose Kent 2 years ago

Nope : Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980), commonly known mononymously as Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman

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Susan Atkinson 2 years ago

Concentrated area

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EyeYamStewPeed 2 years ago

wow

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olx 2 years ago

famous block ig

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Sawyer Kidder 2 years ago

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Information seeking is actually not just a human trait. Every animal explores its surroundings and wants to know things about their environment and other living creatures that are near. But curiosity is the yearning to know the answer and that is what sets humans apart.

Obviously, it started with humans wanting to know their surroundings to survive and it was what helped us develop and achieve the advancements that actually are practical and useful for our lives. The Encyclopedia Britannica claims that “Over thousands of years, only the most curious people reproduced, leading to the characteristic curiosity of modern-day humans.”

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Kookamunga 2 years ago

He's lucky he wasn't disemboweled. Beware the evil Ostrich foot! ostrich-de...2d33cf.jpg

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

Yet there are more stars than grains of sand. Astronomy stops making sense after you reach scales like these

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R Carson 2 years ago

Interesting....

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APL 2 years ago

It's called aphantasia. Another, related, issue is that many people have no inner monologue.

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Now curiosity doesn’t have that practical aspect, but we seek it because our brain rewards us for getting to know more. The Encyclopedia Britannica explains, “Researchers have determined that dopamine, the brain’s reward chemical, is intricately linked to the brain’s curiosity state. When you explore and satisfy your curiosity, your brain floods your body with dopamine, which makes you feel happier. This reward mechanism increases the likelihood that you’ll try and satisfy your curiosity again in the future.”

There are actually two types of curiosity: epistemic and empathic. Epistemic curiosity is the one that makes you research something you want to know about more and empathic is the one that drives you to get to know what other people think and feel. And the more you encourage both types of curiosity, the easier it is for you to learn even more.

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NsG 2 years ago

There's no such thing as a fish

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Jessica Wood 2 years ago

What did she think of it?

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Eat Dirt Crow 2 years ago

And yet, there's a housing shortage. Make it make sense.

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We couldn’t have come this far as a species without having curiosity and without trying to learn things that might seem useless or illogical. The best part is that our brain itself makes us feel happy about knowing things and learning.

So did your brain ward you for reading through this list? Which fact surprised you the most? Do you know of any other facts that sound very bizarre but are actually true? Share them in the comments and upvote the facts that made your brain release the most dopamine!

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Rage of Aquarius 2 years ago

That's horrifying.

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Emma 2 years ago

Whose mouth hurts after eating pineapple?! Is this a thing?!

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Yort 2 years ago

How is that ableism??

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Who the What 2 years ago

In 60 or so years, this will be "There was only 66 years between the invention of Twitter and the apocalypse."

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Qaasim Malik 2 years ago (edited)

I sense a disturbance in the force....nope that's gary's blood.

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M O'Connell 2 years ago

Not exactly though. The first device that we would recognize as a "fax" came in 1880 with Shelford Bidwell's 'scanning phototelegraph'. It was able to scan a 2D original document, rather than previous machines which required an operator to manually trace over the original with a stylus

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EyeYamStewPeed 2 years ago

Is this good or bad, though?

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M O'Connell 2 years ago

It's the nightly fireworks show.

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EyeYamStewPeed 2 years ago

JESUS CHRIST

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Who the What 2 years ago

What is a "zodiac" in this context?

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R Carson 2 years ago

Solves calling one by the wrong name.

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EyeYamStewPeed 2 years ago

Painting with mummies - sounds like a reality TV show from the 90s

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NsG 2 years ago

All on the same flight, or four separate occasions?

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K Witmer 2 years ago

The US needs to follow suit.

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R Carson 2 years ago

Sloopy hang on.

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EyeYamStewPeed 2 years ago

Second one's a bit obvious

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Luther von Wolfen 2 years ago

Iommi cut off the tip of one finger, which did affect his playing, but he didn't "invent" heavy metal.

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BingeFest1 2 years ago

The Beatles reunion is a big deal especially considering that Pattie Boyd was George Harrison's ex wife and the inspiration behind the song Something

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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 2 years ago (edited)

Jeb Bush is the guy that invented Head-On (apply directly to the forehead). Bill Bellichick is Kim Kardashian’s latest boyfriend.

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Having started as a content creator that made articles for Bored Panda from scratch I climbed my way up to being and editor and then had team lead responsibilities added as well. So it was a pretty natural transition from writing articles and titles as well as preparing the visual part for the articles to making sure others are doing those same tasks as I did before well, answering their questions and guiding them when needed. Eventually I realized editing gives me the most enjoyment and I'm focusing only on that right now.

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

Pluto has volcanoes made from water, not lava. It is also so cold there that nitrogen is solid at the surface. There is a possibility that Pluto may harbour life. The moons Europa(jupiter’s), Enceladus and Titan (saturn’s) have a chance of sustaining life

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Alex the Country Dog 2 years ago

Better, and lesser known, than any single item in the post. Thank you.

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henry weston 2 years ago

did you know that 72.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

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Robert Thompson 2 years ago

83% of people know that 😅

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Melissa TO 2 years ago

Nothing to lose, nothing to gain

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Omiyaru 2 years ago

6 out of every 5 statisticians agree with this.

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Lance d'Boyle 2 years ago

So true.

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Aliquid 2 years ago

The most common type of person to die from a gunshot wound in America is... a married, white male over 50, with physical health issues. A fact about suicide that nobody talks about.

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Becky Samuel 2 years ago (edited)

Women are four times as likely to attempt suicide than men, just far less likely to be successful because they tend to use less violent methods. This is suspected to be because women care more about the affect they will have on the people who find them. Anyone who tries to pull out the old chestnut about "cry for attention" can go take a long walk off a short pier and to see if they can find their empathy and humanity.

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CodedMind 2 years ago (edited)

Nice way to make a legitimate issue both your's and op's seem more like a competition. Let me preface this by stating regardless of gender/orientation ALL SUICIDE IS TRAGIC AND PREVENTABLE with the right help. All life is precious!! By treating op's statement as it doesn't matter since it involves men you're basically saying that the fact women are more likely to "attempt" suicide is worse. Then there is your statement about "long walk off a short pier" basically telling someone to commit suicide that doesn't agree on a commit about suicide. The affect of people who find them isn't the only reason. Unfortunately women have been programmed to worry about their looks (due to societal programming from social media, beauty corporations, tv, men, etc. Which is something that definitely needs to be gotten rid of... But that's a whole other discussion) which has been documented why most try alternative methods that don't affect looks. Even some men suffer from the same programming

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ojjunior 2 years ago

The longest land border France have is with Brazil.

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Anapv 2 years ago

How? They are in different continents

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John Baker 2 years ago

Quite a few of these are indeed sh!tposts.

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Nitro Codes 2 years ago

I am dumb, what does sh!tposts mean? the word itself, i what word you implied.

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sharron lynn parsons 2 years ago

A rather interesting post, I am a senior who is happy to learn more, thanks for the information !!!

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bushmeat 2 years ago

Too many American facts.

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John Baker 2 years ago

A fact is a fact, numbnuts. Ours are just as good as yours.

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Freder 2 years ago

How many more times will all of these be recycled on bp

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Chinmayee Kalghatgi 2 years ago

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Alex the Country Dog 2 years ago

Better, and lesser known, than any single item in the post. Thank you.

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henry weston 2 years ago

did you know that 72.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

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Robert Thompson 2 years ago

83% of people know that 😅

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Melissa TO 2 years ago

Nothing to lose, nothing to gain

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Omiyaru 2 years ago

6 out of every 5 statisticians agree with this.

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Lance d'Boyle 2 years ago

So true.

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Aliquid 2 years ago

The most common type of person to die from a gunshot wound in America is... a married, white male over 50, with physical health issues. A fact about suicide that nobody talks about.

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Becky Samuel 2 years ago (edited)

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CodedMind 2 years ago (edited)

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ojjunior 2 years ago

The longest land border France have is with Brazil.

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Anapv 2 years ago

How? They are in different continents

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John Baker 2 years ago

Quite a few of these are indeed sh!tposts.

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Nitro Codes 2 years ago

I am dumb, what does sh!tposts mean? the word itself, i what word you implied.

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sharron lynn parsons 2 years ago

A rather interesting post, I am a senior who is happy to learn more, thanks for the information !!!

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bushmeat 2 years ago

Too many American facts.

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John Baker 2 years ago

A fact is a fact, numbnuts. Ours are just as good as yours.

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