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"If knowledge is power, then the internet is full of useless power." – Brett Erlich.

While I do want to say that Brett's statement is still very true, even in the years following his Viral Video Films School lessons, it's safe to say that some bits of knowledge are important, valuable, and useful.

For this article, it's an emphasis on valuable, as people on Reddit are sharing the most valuable pieces of knowledge that they know and felt like sharing after being prompted.

Besides scrolling down and finding out what people online had to say, why not have something to add as well in the comment section below!

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Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Condoms are cheaper than diapers

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Don’t accept criticism from someone you would not ask for advice from

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Read. It can help you regain your ability to focus on a single task for an extended period of time. It can also cultivate creativity and expand your world view.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) It is perfectly possible to make no mistakes and still lose. This it not a weakness, it is life

    (Yes it's a Picard quote but it is very accurate)

    TheLoneSculler , Pixabay Report

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

    Remember this episode. Eventually Data did not try to win. He tried not to lose, and drove the alien crazy. Sometimes best to drive the alien crazy.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Police in America are legally allowed to lie to you to get a confession. They can lie about all kinds of evidence they have on you and that you have no chance but to confess. Don’t say a word other than to ask for a lawyer. Never fall into the belief that it’ll get worked out in court later, the second you confess you’re done.

    Even if you are guilty and want to confess still get a lawyer. They’ll work out a plea bargain for you that you could not get if you confessed to a cop before your trial.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) “No” is a complete sentence.

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

    I think of that whenever I hear that song, "Baby It's Cold Outside." She said no, dude! Quit being a creep and call her a cab!

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) You always think you're going to have more time. You won't. Make the most of today.

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

    I’ll do that later, I just have 3 hours left which is a lot of time

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) It is a freeing feeling once you stop caring what people think of you

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

    I still care to the extent that I put on pants when I leave the house.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) If you feel like you're being watched and feel like you're in danger when you don't see anything around you, chances are, you definitely are.

    Don't ignore your 'fight or flight' response.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) When you decide to sober up, be prepared to lose many people you thought were your friends.

    ruxson , Himanshu Choudhary Report

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

    It was worth it for me. Over a year sober now, made actual friends in the process.

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    #11

    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) The most important piece of information you can give 911 is WHERE you are. Followed by what the problem is.

    Even if no other information is given. Someone can still be sent to a location to see what the problem is.

    Bonus. If you accidentally call 911, just stay on the line and tell them it was an accident. It happens a lot. They wont be mad. If you hang up. They have to call you back, that is irritating.

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

    My kids did that once, officer showed up to see why someone called 911 and then left the phone and dropped a bunch of stuff in the background. I explained that my kids knock stuff down for a living, training to be demolition experts!

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) You're allowed to go to restaurants on your own! No one is going to think it's strange, and the staff might treat you extra-well. I always suspected they thought I was a critic... So if there is some place you want to try but no one willing to go with you, don't deprive yourself!

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

    I used to do this all the time. No one ever told me it was considered weird. So I like to treat myself a little after payday. Who cares?

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Not very many people care about you. Cherish the ones who do.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Just because you are being respectful to the police doesn’t mean they won’t take advantage of you. Don’t ever let them search any property of yours ( a vehicle counts , anything with a lock on it counts) without a search warrant. Even if they say “ oh that’s suspicious, an innocent person would let me search” it doesn’t matter tell them to show a warrant.

    Always be respectful but don’t be a push over.

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

    Famous last words: "If you don't have anything to hide..." Ask the officer who wants to "look around" your house, "Can I look around yours? Fair's fair."

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) A dropped knife has no handle. Don't try to catch it.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Don't drive if you haven't slept in the last 24 hours. A person who has been awake for 24 hours is as cognitively impaired as a person who is drunk.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) If you need to cancel a hotel reservation last minute and there will be a penalty, call the hotel to move the reservation to a different date outside the cancellation window (they always will). Then call back and cancel it :).

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Always wear closed toe shoes and long pants in and near wooded areas. Check yourself for ticks on your clothing, or on your dog. Lyme disease is no joke

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

    This was proven in New Guinea during WWII where US troops wore long trousers while the Australians wore shorts and suffered infections on their legs.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Fire doesn't burn where fire has burned (unless there's some kind of accelerant like gas). So if you are in a forest fire, brush fire, field fire, etc. try to go to where the fire came from, because the fire won't go back there since there's no fuel for it to consume.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Take care of your teeth, or you'll pay not only monetarily but in excruciating pain. Worse than natural child birth pain.

    Brush, floss, see your dentist, don't sip soda all day and for God's sake don't use your teeth to cut thread or open bottles. Skip [illegal substances] at all possible.

    This is the best advice you will ever get. I swear to you.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Heart attacks for women are very different from mens. Men have pain in the chest that goes up the left arm, women experience

    •Chest pain or discomfort, upper back or neck pain, indigestion, heartburn, nausea or vomiting, extreme fatigue, dizziness, and shortness of breath

    Fluttering feelings in the chest (palpitations)

    Shortness of breath, sudden fatigue, or swelling of the feet, ankles, legs, or abdomen

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

    So basically it presents as a variety of symptoms that when women tell their doctor, doc is going to say 'that's normal, you're overreacting, take an asprin'. Super.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) While driving, maintain a minimum 3 second gap between your car and the car in front.

    Pick a stationary reference point like a bridge or lamp post. When the car in front passes it, count "one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three". If you pass the reference point before you finish counting, you are too close to react in an emergency situation. Back off the gas and increase the distance.

    In bad weather, increase the count to four or five.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Anything you say can and will be used AGAINST YOU in a court of law.

    Note how there is no mention using what you say to help you.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) If you fall into cold water (the ocean) don’t immediately try and swim. Lay on you’re back and try and control your breathing. The cold temperature will take your breath away and you will initially take small quick breaths, you need to slow down your breathing as quickly as possible so your lungs can fill with air, once you have done that you will find it easier to float.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) Learning how to get along with people you don’t exactly like in the workplace will do wonders for your career- sometimes it isn’t about having talent it’s enough to be a good decent person to others.

    Coming from me- a talentless corporate hire. Aka the personality hire, hahahah!

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

    Sounds like a Boy Band: The Personality, The Cute One, The Funny One, The One Stuck Doing All The Work.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) If you're outside during a storm and get a metallic taste in your mouth for no seemingly no reason then you're about to get struck by lightning.

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

    or if ur hair stands on end like when you rub a balloon in ur hair.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) An ultracrepidarian is someone who expresses their opinion on subjects they know almost nothing about.

    IamPlatycus , Mikhail Nilov Report

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) If you're ever in a survival situation where you have to forage for food, *don't bother looking for mushrooms*. The likelihood of finding an edible species that won't make you sick or kill you is so astronomically low that it's better to just spend that time looking for roots, berries, and herbs.

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

    And to check if the berries are poisonous, crack it open and rub it on an arm. If it does not give rashes it is most likely not poisonous

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) If a baby's crying in pain and you can't figure out why, there's a good chance they have a muscle cramp. Like, if their big toe is turned down and won't move, then they probably have a cramp in their foot. I've found that stretching the cramped muscle makes it go away almost immediately! So, for the foot cramp, you just grab their big toe and gently but firmly pull their toe up away from the cramp. The cramp will resist at first and that's why you have to be firm, but once you get past that the cramp and the pain are gone. Then hold the stretch position for a minute to make sure the cramp doesn't immediately come back.

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

    Also, check the insides of baby's socks for loose threads which can wrap around tiny toes.

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    Viral Thread Has Folks Listing Bits Of Valuable Info They Wish Everyone Knew (30 Answers) You can learn entire new careers on youtube for free.

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

    Thanks to YouTube I now know (and have actually done) how to change the brake rotors and brake pads, as well as servicing the brake calipers on a 2002 BMW 325i.

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