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30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of A million seconds is eleven days. A billion seconds is around thirty years.

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Lauora 11 months ago

This should be higher. It's actually an interesting fact!

43points

RandomBoredOwl , Jefferson Lucena (not the actual photo) Report

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Cows have best friends

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Kylie 11 months ago

Yes I do = )

52points

Longjumping-Emu-2575 , FRANK MERIÑO (not the actual photo) Report

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of You have to get revaccinated for whooping cough as an adult. I didn’t know this until I caught whooping cough in my late 30s. It was honestly one of the worst things I’ve ever been through. I slept outside in a tent as I was keeping everyone awake. I would cough until I either vomited or passed out, and this went on for weeks. I broke a rib and split intercostal muscles. You’re supposed to have boosters every 8 - 10 years as an adult, and it really made me understand how babies and small children can and do die from the infection.

It starts out very much like a simple cold, slightly sore throat and runny nose. It then progressively gets worse with a cough and tightness in the chest.

Now, every time I get a slight cold, I produce a horrible cough that sounds like a braying donkey, even when I feel fine. I wish I knew about needed to get a booster vaccine, now I tell everyone!

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Jennifer Howe 11 months ago

I had mumps when I was 23. Was the most I'll I've ever been. I had five weeks off work. People don't realise that having a "childhood disease" as an adult is worse than having it as a child.

90points

K19081985 , Pavel Danilyuk (not the actual photo) Report

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of If there’s some sort of horrific injury at an accident scene, like a limb sliced off or a decapitation, emergency workers who are first on the scene will warn the other workers on their way so they can mentally prepare for it.

So if you’re reporting an accident, be explicit in describing injuries so your people can prepare.

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Jules 11 months ago

Makes total sense

42points

zxybot9 , Andrew E. Larsen (not the actual photo) Report

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Brass doorknobs sanitize themselves. Glass doorknobs hold bacteria.

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Spidercat 11 months ago

Silver does the same...

32points

granlyn , The Sleep Judge (not the actual photo) Report

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of When putting your fitted sheet on your bed go opposite corner to opposite corner. Like youre making an x. All my life I’ve struggled with the fitted sheet coming off the mattress and my bed sheets becoming a mess until a few weeks ago when I read a comment on Reddit. It’s changed my sleep and comfort in my bed.

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Zaphod 11 months ago

Now, if I could only fold a fitted sheet.

93points

DjOuroboros , Karolina Grabowska (not the actual photo) Report

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of i don't know why this blows my mind. but if you have a problem with working out a percentage, flip the numbers and see if it makes more sense.

5% of 200 is the same as 200% of 5,
80% of 50 is the same as 50% of 80.

Try it. It's awesome!

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Bob Brooce 11 months ago

I get that most people don't realize/remember but you sort of learned this in elementary school. Maybe as far back as 3rd or 4th grade. It's called the commutative law: 5+2 = 2+5 and 5x2 = 2x5. If you make one of the numbers you're multiplying a percentage or fraction you're still multiplying 2 numbers.

41points

It takes the average abusive relationship survivor about 8 tries or breakups before they successfully leave their abusive partner for good.

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BrownTabby 11 months ago

And they’re at the greatest risk of being killed when they leave their abuser.

101points

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#10

Insect repellent works best if sprayed onto your clothing, shoes, and hat instead of only where your skin is exposed. You won't sweat it off, it absorbs into the fabric so holds more residue instead of bouncing back off into the air. And pay close attention to how long it's supposed to last. Most insect repellents contain two primary ingredients. If it says it lasts six hours? That's how long the first ingredient lasts to repel insects. At which point the weaker ingredient is no longer masked: it attracts insects. Reapply regularly if you're in a place that has insects carrying disease. Do not wait for the first bite to alert you that you need to put on more. Set a timer or check your watch. Stay safe.

Your home-made remedy is not going to save you from malaria or whatever else is in the area. Choose deet, choose the strongest concentration, check the package.

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Steve mc 11 months ago

But bear in mind deet was developed as a softener for plastics and it will do that. To spectacle frames, clothing, climbing ropes etc

81points

Jonaessa , Dmytro Glazunov (not the actual photo) Report

#11

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of You can ship bees in the mail!!!

I was waiting in line at the post office, and the clerk came back with a package, and the customer says, “No, these aren’t my bees. Is there another one back there?” And I thought, “Holy s**t. Not only can you ship bees but enough people do this that it could result in a bee mixup. What in the actual eff.”

I got on the phone and told everyone I could think of.

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133points

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Beeps 11 months ago

Bumble bees, too. You can buy entire hives in cardboard boxes.

5points

RumpleHelgaskin , Joshua Ganderson (not the actual photo) Report

#12

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of A hot spoon on a bug bite distroys the protein that makes it itchy and subsequently the itching stops!

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132points

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SirWriteALot 11 months ago

needs to be like 60°C which will also slightly burn you. Also, there are dedicated battery powered "heat-sticks" for this (and cold sores)

63points

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#13

That plants take in CO2 and break it apart and take the carbon and turn it into stems, leaves etc. they literally build themselves out of the carbon in the air. This is how plants are carbon sinks, and why burning plants (fossil fuels) releases the carbon back into the atmosphere. I actually didn’t realize they built their bodies with the Carbon they take in from the air!

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PeTeH 11 months ago

Also, he carbon is released back when the tree dies and rots.

26points

four2andnew , Pavel Danilyuk (not the actual photo) Report

#14

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of I forget the exact percentage, but a ridiculous number of those diagnosed with ADHD as adults are diagnosed after their child receives a diagnosis first.

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Donkey boi 11 months ago (edited)

Just to be clear, this is just the diagnosis. Edit: For further clarification, I am saying that Adults do not develop ADHD as a result of their kids having it. Rather, the adult had it all along, but was never diagnosed.

135points

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#15

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of I have aphantasia, didn't figure it out until I was in my 30s. I thought when people said like imagine or picture something it was a figure of speech. Had no idea everyone has brain pictures and a very small percentage of people have no visual imagination or what's called aphantasia.

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Intriguedpanda 11 months ago

Is this the same as no inner monologue?

28points

#16

That any A.I. smart enough to pass a turing test is smart enough to know to fail it on purpose.

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General Anaesthesia 11 months ago

And here we are using CAPTCHAs to prove to computers that we are human. (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)

46points

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#17

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Sudden hearing loss. It happens overnight in one ear, can happen at any age and they don’t know the cause. But if they treat it in 48 hours you have a good chance of it returning- the longer you wait the less likely you’ll recover anything.

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LP 11 months ago

It's called sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL) and if you experience it you need to go to the emergency and insist on seeing an ENT immediately. You need a high dose of prednisone and hyperbaric oxygen therapy if available. If treated within the first couple of weeks there is a good chance of recovery, but it dwindles to near zero chance shortly after that. Don't listen to anyone who tells you to just rest, get exercise, etc.. You can and will lose your hearing in that ear permanently.

75points

#18

Snakes can fart and it's incredibly loud.

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Robert Millar 11 months ago

... and long.

68points

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#19

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Anyone old enough to remember when old dog s**t will turn white? It doesn't happen anymore because they made a change to the dog food.

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MellonCollie 11 months ago (edited)

I thought that was part of the process of it breaking down! But i haven't seen white dog poop in quite a while, indeed. How odd.

66points

#20

If you want to reheat white rice and have it be just as tasty as the first time you cooked it put it into a strainer and pour hot water over it. It comes out like you just cooked it and all fluffy again. (Preferably really hot water from like a kettle)

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Bob Brooce 11 months ago

Same thing for leftover pasta. I pour some (near) boiling water into the container, stir it around for a few seconds then use the lid to drain the water. That save the trouble of cleaning a strainer or colander. PS. IDon't listen to Uncle Roger. f you try to reheat rice in a colander instead of a strainer you can expect a lot of the rice to go through the holes along with the water.

30points

#21

Feeding your cat higher quality food, or going to a raw meat diet (with assistance from a veterinarian), will make your cat's poop and pee nearly and sometimes completely odorless.

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Nina 11 months ago

Sometimes being the key word.. The tigers in the zoo where I've worked only got raw meat, but you really didn't want to smell their poo!

59points

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#22

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Robins see their reflection in your glasses and go into attack mode.

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Donald 11 months ago

Had one that would sit on my dads sideview mirror after visiting our bird feeder and fight his reflection until my dad left for work. Little fella liked to c**p all over the car door while he was going at it too.

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#23

People who use sign language have accents.

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Kitty Champagne 11 months ago

It's less of an accent but more of a dialect! Different signs in different regions :) You can also "mumble" in sign language, which is when you sign a bit unclear. I'm not deaf myself but learned it for a year and it's stunning how you have the element of time and space incorporated into the language. We cannot do that in spoken word.

52points

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#24

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Buffalo sauce is just hot sauce with butter.

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Ima Manimal 11 months ago

And vinegar

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#25

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Only one in ten family fortunes survive to be passed to a third generation.

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David 11 months ago

Remember 1/5 of people in the top quintile will end up in the bottom Quintile in the US. about 1/3 of the 1% will end up falling out of it for example. There is a lot more volatility at the top, especially after multiple generations than people realize.

19points

#26

If you want to win Monopoly, be a shark, buy everything you touch if you're low on cash mortgage properties to buy more properties. Don't bother buying hotels, buy all the houses as soon as possible so nobody else can.

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cugel. 11 months ago

Get the orange set = win

21points

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#27

Owls have eyetubes, not eyeballs

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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 11 months ago

Which is why they can turn their head so much to compensate for their eyes being fixed.

28points

Jayjames55 , Timur Weber (not the actual photo) Report

#28

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of Not everyone has internal monologue

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Charlie the Cat 11 months ago

I sometimes wish my inner monologue would shut up. I can't hear myself think.

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#29

The fuel gauge on a car’s dashboard often has a little arrow on one side of it. It indicates which side the fuel cap is on .

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Lauora 11 months ago

I only learnt this after 10 years of driving. It was one of the greatest tips I recieved in life

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#30

We had cows and slaughtered one for meat. I thought it would make it easier to eat, as I simply cannot stomach the cruelty of mass production. Anyway, the way that the steers mother reacted was horrifying. She was in the next paddock over, but afterwards she ran over to where it happened and screamed. She pawed at the earth for weeks, crying. It haunts me. I can’t actually believe how we process animals.

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Donkey boi 11 months ago

You thought that slaughtering an animal, within proximity of a herd member, would be a good idea, and wouldn't affect the other herd members??? You are a fecking idiot! The most basic humane method is Isolate, incapacitate, relocate, then dispatch.

303points

Lady Gypsy Rain 11 months ago

Even chickens will react to this

14points

Mystery Kitteh 6 months ago

Ummm Donkey boi, do you happen to work for the C.I.A? I had that same list (isolate, incapacitate, relocate, dispatch) in a spy novel I read a while back.

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Linda Riebel 11 months ago

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Ace 11 months ago

You don't like the cruelty? Then you go and slaughter an animal in plain sight of its mother? What sort of monster are you?

74points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 11 months ago

Monster, not necessarily. Ignorant, yes.

29points

Deborah B 11 months ago

Why would you slaughter a steer in a paddock? That seems stupid and cruel. You move it to where it's going to be processed, then you kill it where you can clean up appropriately, and don't distress the herd.

66points

Mrs Irish Mom 11 months ago

Jesus they done in with the mother cow in the next field, thats sick 😥 and sad

49points

MellonCollie 11 months ago

OMG that's horrifying. That poor mother cow.

38points

Verena 11 months ago

Like every animal living in a social group, cows feel the loss of a friend or kid. Every milk cow grieves the loss of her calf. Support the dairy farmers who leave the calves with their mothers. They have still enough milk to sell and less costs, due to normal socialized groups, healthier cows and no milk-substitute to be bought. If killing them for a meal, slaughter the entire group and use the freezer. Meat stays perfectly fine for several months.

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Aileen Grist 11 months ago

I'm a vegan for the animals. I wish I wasn't - I love meat and dairy, but I just couldn't do it any more.

23points

MP 11 months ago

I felt the same as you. Loved eating steaks and stuff but I know animals have the right to life. And that it seemed ridiculous to keep eating them. I lasted like ten years but being vegan just became unbearable to me, I was always left out and having complicated meal times. I felt like I was sacrificing my health in many ways too. I gave up. But I commend those of you who stick it out. Ten-ish years was enough for me, I don’t think I’ll ever be vegan again.

5points

FaceTime Audio 11 months ago

I’m a lifelong vegetarian, and I feel about the same. I have many reasons why I continue to be vegetarian, but one is that I can’t stomach eating flesh. I eat dairy and eggs, but not that often.

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SadieCat17 (she/her) 11 months ago

If it's an ethical issue, you should see if there are any local butchers in your area. The cattle on smaller farms are usually treated a lot better and get to graze instead of being trough fed. They get happy lives and you getting higher quality meat.

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JessieJ&LilyLovebug 11 months ago (edited)

Consider what would happen to all the animals if the humans of the world all went Vegan...people aren't going to just care for those animals without a purpose for them... Now, go in the bathroom and look in the mirror. Open your mouth and look at your teeth. Do they look more like a cow's or a wolf's? Why do you think that is? Humans are PART of the food web, not above it or removed from it. Expecting humans to be herbivores is silly...we don't expect wolves, lions, or Orcas to be vegetarians...because ecologically, and anthropologically, it is illogical.

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Lavendar rose 11 months ago

That makes me so sad .

12points

Karen Bird 11 months ago

You literally gave the herd a warning like a mafia Don! Kind of glad it haunts you tbh

8points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 11 months ago

Newsflash: animals grieve. 👍

7points

FloralDangerNoodle 11 months ago

Why is this on this list?! It doesn't belong here! NOT a 'random fact' at all, just a horrible, cruel situation!

6points

Jules 11 months ago

What a terrible thing to do. Just because most humans see animals as food, do not think for one moment that they aren't sentient beings that feel emotional pain

5points

Sue Bradley 11 months ago

So pleased I am Vegan

5points

jennifer brinkman 11 months ago

Murdered a child in front of the mom? EVIL!!!

3points

dayngerkat 11 months ago

This sounds like it was written by a vegan

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M Zellmer 11 months ago

A rare concept is that predatory animals do not commonly consume individual animals that they personally know. Not saying hunger won't overwhelm them, but the 'pet or food?' Applies almost everywhere across the animal kingdom. We aren't programmed to eat animals we know, that's why we mentally separate food from pets. What's hardest to separate is the death part, and that's what he was witnessing, the natural grieving over death. Death comes, and how we view others reactions gives us insight and empathy. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna eat cows, just not the ones I know.

2points

Laura Williams 11 months ago

Why would you slaughter an animal next to it's friends.

1point

Leigh 11 months ago

When I was a kid I grew up on a farm. We grew our own food and raised our own animals. I'd get attached to the animals and I couldn't stand the butcher. I used to cry while eating my pet. As an adult I don't think I'd feel quite so bad about eating an animal humanely raised. I feel a lot more guilty eating factory farmed animals.

1point

Carole G. 11 months ago

Bloody he//, what's wrong with you? It should haunt you & now it haunts the rest of us!

1point

Sonia Ceacero 10 months ago

The day we all become aware that WE DO NOT OWN the animals, the rivers or the seas, but that we are part of a living planet, we will be better people and we will not torture our fellow travellers on Earth.

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MR 11 months ago

I saw a video of cow skins layed out next to the live ones. Yes, they were looking and screaming. It was horrific. Disturbing that people actually believe animals don't have feelings and are dumb. Seems like it's the humans that lack feelings and are dumb.

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Roy Phillips 11 months ago

Best idea is to separate the animal from the herd, then get it drunk enough so that it passes out. At this point, it's a problem only if you are the one being slaughtered. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-animals-drunk-economical-stress-meat.html Copy and paste.

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Paul Gerrard 11 months ago

Cows arent bred for meat. They are old. Cattle are young and grown to adolesence for meat

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Graeme Glen 11 months ago

We are all learning as we go through life. I always find it interesting how every 4 years or so a newspaper article breathlessly states "Science proves dogs have a sense of humour"

0points

Michael Goldman 11 months ago

This is a lie. We live on a farm and this has never ever happened.

0points

Richienotsorich 11 months ago

Whaaat? You're saying someone isn't being honest on social media? Next you'll be telling me the OP is a vegan trying to convert omnivores!

0points

DC 11 months ago

... so there is something worth hiding from another animal in it, that, I read right, here?

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Richienotsorich 11 months ago

Really fancy a steak now and it's 0730hrs!

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Timbob 11 months ago

That’s the way I think about trump and democracy !

-2points

Curlz 11 months ago

Educational to all those meat eater that think animals skip happily to the slaughter house

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Curlz 11 months ago

It's horrifying either way.. there is no appropriate way of killing an animal ... you are taking one of it's family member's away .. it's barbaric either way

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#31

The Catholic Church used to consider beavers as a type of fish for lent meals, due to their aquatic lifestyle and scaly tails.

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Mint Sauce 11 months ago

I always knew there was something about Catholics and beavers........

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#32

30 People Share Quirky Facts They Think Everyone Should Be Aware Of The first land predators were probably big marine scorpions.

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PattyK 11 months ago

The photo is of a horseshoe crab, not a marine scorpion.

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"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#33

At least in the state of Florida, if you donate your body to science through the state, you need to leave contact information for your family to receive your cremated remains after they are finished using your body. If they can't contact your family, your remains are dumped into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Zaphod 11 months ago

That would be fine with me.

22points

#34

You can make powdered sugar by just grinding regular sugar in a coffee grinder. Seems obvious, but mind blown.

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Michael None 11 months ago

Or a mortar and pestle.

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

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#35

Warm water on a jellyfish sting not pee

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The Mom 11 months ago

What about a hot spoon?

15points

#36

Give a deck of cards a good shuffle and most likely that is the first time a deck of cards has ever been in that order in the history of all decks of cards.

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Trinity Han 11 months ago

You know, once I was playing Uno with my cousin and after I shuffled, we found that literally ALL of the power cards were at the exact back of the stack with no number cards in between.

8points

#37

if you're constipated long enough, your poop will come out of your mouth :/ sorry you had to find out like this but i learned about it from a medical documentary and they were even more graphic.

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Richi Weiss 11 months ago

That's right but happens not that often in normal daycare, because being that constipated it hurts so bad u will see a doctor before it happens. Usually..

14points

#38

You know those dancers in the Just Dance games? That's done with practical effects. Real people dress in white body suits and makeup under the real clothes and actually perform those dances.

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Elchinero 11 months ago

You know those dancers in the Just Dance games? NOPE!

29points

#39

chimpansees are brutal and savage, hunt in packs and wage nonstop warfare on other chimp tribes over territory and resources

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CanadianDimes 11 months ago

This is extremely exaggerated. Some populations of chimpanzees do hunt in groups (which is neither brutal nor savage as a behaviour because lots of animals hunt in packs) but this is not remotely their main source of food and not all chimps do this. Some groups will wage coordinated attacks on other groups, but again, not all, and it’s not non-stop. Like all primates, chimpanzees are behaviourally complex. Some populations use stone tools as hammer and anvils to crack open nuts and this behaviour is learned by juveniles in the group who then do it as adults and their children learn how, making this both tool use and a cultural practice. Chimpanzees can absolutely be violent and aggressive but painting them as only such is lazy and inaccurate.

24points

#40

Walt Disney is older than plastic.

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Ace 11 months ago

Not strictly true. There were a number of plastics developed in the late 19th century. Yes, the first one with much a commercial use was Bakelite, just a few years after WD was born

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