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You don’t need me to tell you that life can be tough—it’s a truth as old as time. But just because it’s a cliché doesn’t make it any less real. That’s exactly why getting through the struggles, tackling the curveballs, and holding onto a glass-half-full perspective can feel like such a monumental task.

Even the hardest days, however, can be made a little easier with some uplifting thoughts.

This wholesome Reddit thread is here to do just that: offer a collection of reassuring facts to bring you some comfort. Scroll down to soak it all in, and don’t miss our chat with Tracy Bevan, a specialist in transformative positive psychology, for tips on maintaining an optimistic mindset.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Elephants' brains react the same way looking at us, as ours do when we see puppies. They think we're cute.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) A cats purr released oxytocin and has a naturally calming effect.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Your dog dreams about you.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Your brain is constantly rewiring itself, so even if you're stuck in a bad habit or mindset, you can always change it with enough effort, no matter how old you are.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) You never feel like a grown up. You mostly just fake it and assume everyone else are actual adults. My data is only valid from ages 0-46 years of age.

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Yep 44 here and I don’t feel like an adult. I always get nervous to meet my kids friends parents cause I figure they are real adults and they’ll be onto me.

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I feel like a teenager working on projects on the garage, I’m 66.

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I'm 42. Two of my best friends are in their 70s. When I go to them for guidance on something, I tell them I need a grownup's help. My other best friend is 27. They overheard me saying this to one of our older friends, and now they say it when they come to me. It's become our group's little joke.

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Actions have consequences, which seems usually to refer to negative things when people say it, but if actions have consequences, then positive actions can have positive consequences.

This was a big realization for me to find hope and motivation in the depths of depression.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Cows have best friends.

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

One of the reasons I stopped eating meat! These are sentient creatures! I love them

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Most of the things we worry about never actually happen. There's a stat about this, a psychologist looked into it and found around 85% of what we worry about never becomes reality. It’s just our brains trying to keep us "prepared."

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wait. 15% of the stuff I worry about is going to happen? I am *so* f****d.

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**You have more control over your mindset than you might think.**
Even when external circumstances are difficult, you always have some degree of control over how you choose to respond. Practices like mindfulness, positive reframing, or simply choosing to pause before reacting can significantly shift your perspective and well-being. It’s empowering to know that you can steer your mindset, even in challenging times.

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28 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stop and breathe. Drink some water. Its like magic for both nerves and thinking power. If you have a difficult decision to make, research (Qi) shows you will instinctually make the right choise if you need to pee

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) There is a social phenomenon called the “liking gap” where there tends to be a discrepancy between how much a person thinks another person likes them and that other person’s actual opinion of them.

Studies have found that people tend to *underestimate* how much people like them and want to spend time with them.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Nobody is really looking or watching or even cares what you are doing out in public. The vast majority of the people that you see are so busy taking care of their own business that whatever they saw of you was forgotten in a few of minutes at most. I know that I have no recollection of most people I see in public after I leave the venue (supermarket, home depot, etc.) Except for the woman in dirty pajamas at Walmart spraying Febreeze on herself in the big aisle.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People dont notice if things are unnoteworthy. If you suddenly sit up straight as if yousaw something, people will also look up or adjust their seat. If you sway with music, more people will start to show some rythm. We notice what is pertinent for group activeties, at least.

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If you can read this, your life is like waaaaay better than it would have been 100 years ago.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Waaaay better than most people in todays world as well.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Smiling even if you don't feel like it, can actually improve your mood.

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

This actually works a bit. Forcing your cheeks into a grin, even if it just is more a baring of teeth, actually helps me feel calmer. Maybe not happy exactly, but calmer and a bit more pleasant. My daughter taught me this trick years back after learning about it at school. Initially I tried it to humor her, but darned if it doesn't help.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Humans have a natural ability to adapt to almost any situation, so no matter what happens, you’ll find a way to cope.

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

The rise in the rate of people ending their own lives would not seem to coincide with this.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Dogs have an innate sense of loyalty and will go to great lengths, even traveling vast distances, to reunite with the people they love. In the 1920s, a collie named Bobby got lost during a road trip and was separated from his family. He traveled over 2,500 miles across the U.S. to find his way back home, reuniting with them after several months!

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's quite hard for me to belive. I mean how did he know the way? What about obstruction like big motorways, cities, rivers and lakes and stuff?

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An elevator can not drop if the cable breaks. Thank you Mr. Otis.

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Actually it can, we just put a security devices on them that prevent it.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Heart attacks seldom come out of the blue and strike without prior notice. There are almost always tellable signs in advance, listen to your body and get checked out in doubt.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

For women it can be as subtile as a ringing or sounds of waterfalls in your ear, or a pain in the jaw. We dont typically have the "chestpain down one arm" that has been raised as the "norm"

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) The only “normal” people are the ones you don’t know very well. Everyone is weird in their own unique way.

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You cannot save everyone. But the small kindnesses you share can dramatically affect the people around you, even if they feel insignificant to you.

Shout out to the guy at the supermarket the other day who patted me on the shoulder and said, "You're going to be ok." He had no way of knowing that I suffer from chronic depression, and that I'm in a dark place at the moment. He just thought I looked sad or empty or whatever and took a moment to remind me that it's ok to be human. It was nothing to him, but in that moment it was everything for me.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) The earth will eventually heal itself from the pollution sometime after humans are extinct.

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Premium 51 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

But until humans go extinct we will just keep f*****g up the earth, so the rich can get richer.

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You are a mosaic of everything and everyone you've ever loved.

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I once read that we are "The sum of our education, our upbringing, and our experiences."

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23 minutes ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wish I had desided on a good Sorting system at the go. Now there are 1a through 4508776519€]=[[>÷*%% and sooo many footnotes

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When you think about the times in your life you've been embarrassed, you're probably the only person in the world that remembers it and thinks about it.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Except for that time that Sue drove off from the gas station with the pump nozzle yanked off its hose and stuck in her tank. That was memorable, Sue

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There is always someone out there who loves you. Someone who notices your presence, and finds it comforting. Someone who thinks about how you made an impact on their lives. Someone who anticipates to hear your voice again. There's always someone. Things will be better buddy, I promise.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, not always. There are some people that are utterly alone in the world.

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You’ve already survived 100% of your bad days.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) A single teaspoon of honey represents the life’s work of 12 bees.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Solar is already one of the cheapest forms of energy humanity has ever created, and it's still getting cheaper.

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My city started putting up solar panels on all public buildings about 15 years ago. And when I say "all public buildings," I mean it. City hall, both branches of the public library, all the public schools, the social security office and DMV, even the main office for the buses, all of them. Currently, my city uses something like 45% solar energy for its energy needs and has saved the taxpayers several million dollars in energy costs.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) That you do get a bit more self-assured in your 30s compared to your 20s and genuinely stop caring about what others think of you as much.

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1 hour ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Even better once you hit 40 and now I'm halfway through my 50's I've genuinely never been happier. Its wonderful!

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) I've found that once you spend a month cutting out soda/candy and fried food, they taste awful.  I used to crave this??  It doesn't even take that long to reset your taste buds.


Also similar: if there's something common that you don't like, trying a tiny bit once a day can make you get used to it.  It took years before I got on the cilantro train, but if you give me a taco, I can handle it now.

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Best thing I ever did was give up soft drink and junk food. Better for my health and wallet! And I don't miss it in the slightest... it's been 5 years

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) The longest living species is a jellyfish that can be biologically immortal.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NOT SPECIES. ANIMAL species. There are plenty of microorganisms what reproduce by binary division that have been around longer.

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We’re made of the same atoms and quarks of stars, trillions of years before us. Essentially, we’re made of the universe; and in a way, that means we’re essentially the universe admiring itself. I think that’s pretty neat.

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The same atoms and quarks? So ... from perhaps 100 or more universes ago? I'm pretty sure that if you convert matter to energy and that energy back into matter, in just a few cycles it's not even the matter of Theseus.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Humans and bananas share about 60% of the same DNA.

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

That's just an average. It's 59.85% for women and 60.13% for men.

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Slow progress is still progress.

This fact helped me get through high school and currently college. No matter how behind you are, you are closer to being caught up with each assignment you complete. You are making progress no matter how small it seems.

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Some birds can sleep while flying.

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Your survival instincts will kick in in ways that you never even imagined

I was road cycling, and I’m fairly experienced on the roads, but not any serious incidents. there was a car coming up to a stop sign. He slowed down, but then just continued moving forwards. I realized, at the last second that he was 100% running the stop sign and I was *going* to get hit. There was no way around it, I’m getting hit

To this day, I don’t actually know what I did in that last millisecond second to avoid being seriously injured. The car hit me, but I managed to do something to alleviate impact

I think about incidents like that and I am amazed that I am a dope in my everyday life yet there is a part of my brain that activates in situations like that.

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Our brains have developed instincts that have developed from millions of years of evolution and been passed down from pre-human ancestors. People joke about the "monkey brain" or "lizard brain," but those instincts are very real. Our subconscious minds are far more aware of our surroundings than we give them credit for.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Crime rates have continuously gone down year after year after year, objectively the world is a safer place than it was (for crime anyways) years ago the news just talks about it more now.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Regarding Microplastics: this is not the first time this has happened. 


The reason we have coal deep below the ground today is because for millions of years nothing existed to decompose trees. They just built up and up and up in ever deeper layers. Eventually something evolved to fill that niche, and today we have termites and fungus and wood eating bacteria, dozens of ways trees can be broken down by the natural world. 


The same will happen with plastics. It will go away, in time. .

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Something like 130,000 people escape from extreme poverty every single day.

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Centralia, PA — the site of the long-burning underground fire — has been reclaimed by nature. I was there several years ago as a last-minute decision on the way to somewhere else, and was interested to see the Silent-Hill-style landscape and the big stretches of graffiti. It’s not there anymore. It’s big beautiful plants and trees. 

If you know what you’re looking for, you can figure out where parts of individual houses are based on the pipes that remain, but that’s largely it. It was so comforting to be there, in a weird way. .

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is what's been happening in Chernobyl too, at least until the war. Abandoned places get taken over by nature quickly.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) That most growth is done in and around relationships.

Aka

You have to experience in order to grow.

And I wish more people knew this so that they would give others more chances over writing them off right away (all within reason of course).

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49 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You don't need other people in order to have experiences. You only need to walk around the planet with your mind awake and engaged.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) Below are global facts that paint a very different picture of our world than the doom scrolling.

In 1930 90% of the worlds population were living in abject poverty (less than $2 a day adjusted for inflation). Today only 10% of the worlds population live in abject poverty. The economic activity of the wealthy and middle class in developed nations are globally fixing the problem.

In 1950, the average life expectancy at birth was only 48.5 years. In 2019, it was 72.8 years. That’s an increase of 50 percent.

Out of every 1,000 live births in 1950, 20.6 children died before their fifth birthday. That number was only 2.7 in 2019. That’s a reduction of 87 percent.

Between 1950 and 2018, the average income per person rose from $3,296 to $15,138. That’s an inflation adjusted increase of 359 percent.

Between 1961 and 2013, the average food supply per person per day rose from 2,191 calorie to 2,885 calories. That’s an increase of 31.7 percent.

In 1950, the length of schooling that a person could typically expect to receive was 2.59 years. In 2017, it was 8 years. That’s a 209 percent increase.

The world’s democratic score rose from an average of 5.31 out of 10 in 1950 to an average of 7.21 out of 10 in 2017. That’s a 35.8 percent increase.

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Penguins have lifelong mates and share childcare responsibilities.

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80% of all IRS audits result in a refund.

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Statistically, flying is safer than driving.

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8 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Statistically, no. That just a under a narrow lence of miles traveled pr death or smt. The effect of the aviation buisness, with all its polution, where it pollutes, how it increases our effort to extract more "pure" pollutions and then have to get rid of the waste of that procedure,,, all have a much higher negative effect on the total, than cars can ever have

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You're currently on your personal best for most consecutive days alive, and tomorrow you're going to break your current personal best for most consecutive days alive.

You're as young as you'll ever be, so enjoy it.

You're the oldest you've ever been, so enjoy it.

and other such useless platatudes that sometimes help you feel better, sometimes don't.

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The Yellowstone cauldera is a massive volcano but since it regularly releases pressure and heat through geysers unless there is a massive earthquake or something equivalent that would cover multiple states then it’s not likely to ever erupt.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

lol says who? Definitely not geologists. And most people don't realize there's a supervolcano currently erupting under Antarctica.

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It’s actually pretty rare for bats to have rabies. They’re terrible hosts for the disease. That being said, a bat that’s grounded etc is definitely sick, so it’s best not to touch it, just in case.

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25 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Generally speaking, it's best not to touch any animal you're not familiar with.

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Everything is made of energy, energy can’t be created or destroyed.

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Tigers have antiseptic saliva.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) If Mr. Rogers met you there's a strong chance he'd be very proud of how far you've come.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) There’s a lot of good government agencies trying to make things better. I work for a wastewater treatment plant that aims to do better than current guidelines and has been an industry leader in reducing emissions and protecting the environment. We’re among 60 of 20,000 agencies who have had 26 perfect years of protections. A lot of us want to make this world better and got into government to make things better.

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom was with DEQ for over 20 years and specialized in stormwater and wastewater. DEQ was severely defunded during the Bush years and she finally took early retirement after seeing the way things were going downhill.

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#51

When I lose something, I find it comforting to know that it is somewhere. Sounds silly, but it makes me feel better.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) You are the product of 3.7 billion years of evolution. Life is resilient!

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1 hour ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK as long as it is understood that humans aren't the "target" of evolution. It's about survival, so nematodes are just as much the "product" of evolution

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) When you sleep your brain is still working process and sort through your memories.

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“What’s A Reassuring Fact That Not Many People Know?” (57 Answers) The human brain has the capacity to hold 2.5 million gigabytes of information.

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

lol another made up thing. Brain and a computer memory are apples and oranges, although people like to try and make it like there is a similarity.

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Only female mosquitoes bite.

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If 99% of people think you’re unattractive, there are still roughly 70 million people who think you’re attractive.

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Premium 40 minutes ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, but 70 million people don't live in my town.

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We are unimaginably tiny in the grand scheme of things and nothing we do will ever cause a difference to the universe. So do what you want, and go for it.

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