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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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online A cats purr released oxytocin and has a naturally calming effect.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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According to this year’s Ipsos Global Happiness report, people worldwide are happier now than during the pandemic, though not as much as they were a decade ago. Around 71% of respondents across 30 countries describe themselves as happy—an improvement from 63% in 2020 but still short of the 77% recorded in 2011.

While these numbers might not seem too bleak, they’re a reminder that close to a third of the planet is unfulfilled with their lives. So much of what affects how we feel is beyond our control—circumstances, setbacks, or challenges we didn’t see coming—and staying optimistic can be hard in the face of it all.

To learn how we can nurture a brighter mindset, Bored Panda spoke with Tracy Bevan, a specialist in transformative positive psychology and founder of Positive Being Coaching.

Bevan shared that one practice that can make a big difference is reflection. “Reflecting on your life, how it is going and your role in it is crucial to wellbeing,” she explains. “It allows you to build a sense of agency. Agency is the feeling you are able to achieve the things you want to in life.”

“Without this reflection, life can feel like something that is happening to us. Instead, be an active participant!”

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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.

Crazy_Raven_Lady:
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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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online Your dog dreams about you.

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

Reassuring? Sure? Factual? I'm just a tiny bit skeptical that any dogs are telling researchers what they're dreaming about.

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While we can’t prevent bad things from happening, Bevan notes that finding meaning in tough experiences can help us recover and even grow stronger. “The people who recover sooner or even come back stronger are the ones who can find meaning in what has happened—to find a purpose in random life events—and then use this to carry them forward,” she says.

What we can control, however, are our daily habits. Bevan points out that small, consistent actions can set us on a path toward more positive thinking.

“The ABC of wellbeing are sleep, food (and water), movement, and breathing,” Bevan says. “Dull but true. Building regular routines around these generates a sense of agency. They are little daily activities that we can (in most situations) control.”

She shares her personal experience: “I started walking every morning during Covid, and it changed how I view myself and my capacity to achieve the things I want to. It has been the foundation from which my confidence and mental and physical health has blossomed.”

“Add to this the taking time to reflect I spoke about earlier. This could be in the form of journaling, a gratitude diary, or any other way you choose to pause and acknowledge the day,” Bevan suggests. “Think about what you brought to it by being present, by being you, and savor that feeling.”

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At the same time, Bevan advises against forcing yourself into habits that don’t resonate with you. “Don’t try to keep a gratitude journal if it leaves you cold. Harness your individual strengths instead. One of my key strengths is playfulness, so I keep a ‘funny things’ journal instead—the silly things that make me giggle through the week,” she explains.
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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I could not possibly leave without my dog, no matter how long it took to find him.

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

Our cat was staying with friends across "town" (Las Vegas) while we moved to another state with plans to send him to us once we had a place to live. He ran away from our friend's house and they found him, wandering the street where we used to live. We had him sent then while we looked for housing.

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

There have been quite a few instances of one person saying about another person "He has all the characteristics of a dog, except loyalty". I would say the same about my dog too, given the number of places we have had to come and collect him from

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

That is amazing. Must be what inspired the movie Homeward Bound.

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

Good reminder to please microchip your pets so the finder can easily contact you.

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2 weeks 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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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Stuff like this happens all the time. Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't true.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online The earth will eventually heal itself from the pollution sometime after humans are extinct.

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

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Being optimistic doesn’t mean you need to feel overjoyed every second of the day. Instead, it’s about finding balance and not letting difficult emotions overwhelm you.

“All emotions are important,” Bevan says. “Who ever said we should be happy all the time? That’s not going to happen. Trying to ignore or downplay difficult feelings like sadness, anger, grief, or frustration will only lead to problems further down the line.”

She encourages embracing your emotions fully. “The more you do, the more you will notice and relish the positive things when they do come along,” Bevan notes. “Optimism and hope are the routes back out of the hard times. Don’t force them, but remember that nothing stays the same forever, and the bad times will pass too.”

Finally, Bevan reminds us of the importance of connection: “If you have been stuck in one difficult emotion for a while, please find someone to talk to. Things are always more manageable when they are spoken about.”

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How funny is it that a Mr. Rogers fan is downvoting negative comments? Clues are available in the lobby.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online Solar is already one of the cheapest forms of energy humanity has ever created, and it's still getting cheaper.

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

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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online Cows have best friends.

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

if they become really good friends they moove in with each other

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online An elevator can not drop if the cable breaks. Thank you Mr. Otis.

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

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

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online If you can read this, your life is like waaaaay better than it would have been 100 years ago.

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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online Smiling even if you don't feel like it, can actually improve your mood.

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2 weeks 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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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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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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online **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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2 weeks 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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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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2 weeks 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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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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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And your genetics, a lot of research I've read about suggests that much more of our base personality comes from our Genes than we like to think.

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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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They have 24 hours of screen time to fill and some days there isn't enough. So they start literally making things up. Actual News is stuff that happened and things people say. CNN, Fox "News" and the rest have been spending more and more time on "Editorial" News over the last two decades. Opinion pieces, talking heads. It's all garbage to fill airtime and make money.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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 weeks 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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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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online Something like 130,000 people escape from extreme poverty every single day.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess this is 100% dependent on what country you're talking about. Because at the same time, there's a lot of countries not doing anything like that.

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

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Penguins have lifelong mates and share childcare responsibilities.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online A single teaspoon of honey represents the life’s work of 12 bees.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks 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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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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2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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#38

Statistically, flying is safer than driving.

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Some birds can sleep while flying.

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

Not just birds. Asymmetrical sleep or unihemispheric slow-wave sleep (USWS) has been found in birds, dolphins, whales, fur seals, and sea lions. They have the ability to keep one hemisphere awake while the other side sleeps. This keeps water mammals from drowning.

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Tigers have antiseptic saliva.

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

That's going to be *very* reassuring if one ever bites me.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online When you sleep your brain is still working process and sort through your memories.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online The longest living species is a jellyfish that can be biologically immortal.

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2 weeks 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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80% of all IRS audits result in a refund.

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

I got a letter from the IRS that I was being audited. They said I forgot to declare some income. I looked into it, and I did, but I also didn't declare the taxes I had paid on that income. When I reworked my taxes, my refund should have been a few hundred more. I sent in the paperwork explaining things, and they sent back a letter saying the case was closed. I figured I just beat the IRS, so I wasn't willing to poke the bear and ask for the extra money.

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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 2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online 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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2 weeks ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"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." THANK YOU VACCINES!

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online That most growth is done in and around relationships.

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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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2 weeks 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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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online Humans and bananas share about 60% of the same DNA.

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

Yeah we share about the same with ALL Eukaryotic organisms. You can sat the same thing about ants and walnuts and slime mold. Most DNA codes for proteins and all multicellular organisms are made of the same proteins.

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

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

Interesting, but not "reassuring" in the slightest, lol. Great, if I'm blown up in a terrorist incident, my particles will be separated from each other, but they won't actually be destroyed.

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50 Reassuring Facts Not Everyone Might Be Aware Of, According To People Online You are the product of 3.7 billion years of evolution. Life is resilient!

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2 weeks 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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