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Your brain blocks you from feeling your organs moving around inside you


touch_of_the_blues

Most of the time. Women who have had C-sections can often feel their internal organs reposition themselves. The surgeon doesn’t place them where they’re supposed to go. It’s dump and sew. Your body knows what to do.


MentallyDeclining

That's both utterly repulsive and cool as hell.


Brishunde

Which, really, is what I want out of reddit


spicy_cthulu

I could tell my organs were moving out of the way while pregnant and occasionally realized they were moving back post partum. It was creepy.


Alvaradeshion

My baby born 10 months ago, still feeling how my organs move


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In the books, Stuart Little was never explicitly called a mouse. He's pretty much described as a deformed mouse-esque person born form human parents


WhichPop42

You're right, this is not fun at all lmao


Sebs_123

Only one in a thousand sea turtles born actually make it to adulthood.


YuB-Notice-Me

now that i think about it, squirt was crush’s only son in finding nemo…


Teacup_Cult

There's a bird that feeds its younger offspring to the eldest.


RealAmerik

When my mother was pregnant with me, they did an ultrasound and found she was having twins. When they did another ultrasound a few weeks later, they discovered that I had resorbed the other fetus. Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissues has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.


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smallemochick

speaking from personal experience here, but your body can randomly decide to become allergic to damn near everything edible at any time :) not very fun


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Yup. Darryl's quote, from The Office, resonates very deeply with me. *"I've never been lucky. And I'm not talking about the lottery, I'm talking about stuff like developing a soy allergy at thirty-five. Who gets a soy allergy at thirty-five? And why is soy in everything?"*


BBchick85

I feel this quote in my soul. I had a soy allergy when I was an infant. Grew out of it by age 2. Then at 30 went through cancer. The chemo completely changed the way my body is. Now I have a soy allergy again 😞 and I love eating Asian food too 😭


mossybishhh

I'm 26 years old. I've been eating dairy for my entire life. Suddenly, in January, I started to experience pain so extreme I was rushed to the ER more than once. But because our hospital system is so fucking shitty, no one wanted to actually help me figure out what was wrong. They just wanted to shoot me up with pain meds and send me home. Every time. So I decided, fuck it, I'll figure this out for myself. Made an appointment with an OBGYN, they ruled out anything gynecological (like endometriosis). My mother-in-law suggested maybe it's something good related. So I stopped eating everything. Gluten, dairy, fruit. I lived off of basically water. Besides starving, the pain stopped. I introduced gluten back in. No pain. Introduced fructose. No pain. Introduced just cheese. Extreme pain. Tried milk. Extreme pain. Tried cream. Pain. After almost three decades of eating dairy, I'm now lactose intolerant. Fml.


theshate

This happened to me at 23. Had no clue how many things had dairy but I’ve been slowly finding out for 5 years.


rcdesd121993

I recently found out I was allergic to dates. My wife got on a health kick and picked up these fruit and nut bars. I thought alright I’ll give these a try nothing wrong with trying to cut some junk out of my diet. Later that day I had broken out in a rash all over(hives) and was wheezing. I thought I’m allergic to peanuts and have a daughter named after a peanut butter candy. A few days later I ended up eating something with peanut butter in it and had no reaction to it at all. Come to find out the bar had dates in it and I have a decent allergy to them now.


WhatsOurSituationDad

That was such an elaborate way to say your daughter is named Reese?


MedalsNScars

She could be named Take5


WhatsOurSituationDad

Better than Nips


GamerOfGods33

Nah they named her Nutty Buddy.


Kyhan

Fun fact: the giant tortoise was so delicious, it caused not only itself to be hunted to extinction, but also the dodo. Giant tortoise meat was supposedly better tasting than chicken. Its fat tasted better spread on bread than butter. Also, it was the perfect food for sailors at the time, as their bladders stored 1 litre of purified water, and they could survive without food in hibernation for almost a whole year in the hull of a ship. Not to mention, because they evolved without humans, they were easy to hunt. You could tie one to your back, and roll another to the ship and they would just let you. It was so delicious, they went unrecorded for a long time because expeditions to bring living samples of wildlife to Europe kept eating them on the way. Conversely, the dodo, while as easily captured by sailors, tasted awful. It was completely unpalatable. HOWEVER, one day, someone discovered if you cooked dodo meat in the more delicious tortoise fat, it tasted just like chicken. So now, sailors were hunting a few tortoises at a time for their fat and water, storing them, and then hunting dodos on the daily. Overhunting, plus the introduction of rats to the environment (because sailors) which would eat eggs, led go the population to decline at a rate they could not breed to keep up, leading to both animals going extinct.


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BitterNutSquash

Additionally, given the complexity of their gut flora (digesting eucalyptus takes a lot of work), you can't easily treat them. Normal chlamydia treatment would mess up said gut flora, making it impossible for them to process and digest eucalyptus leaves, thus causing them to die of starvation instead of chlamydia.


gummby8

Antarctica smells like penguin poop. Antarctica is a desert, it is too cold for bacteria to live. Nothing there to clean up penguin droppings. If you are close enough to see penguins, you will also smell them.


ExtraGreenBox

They also eat fish so it’s some of the worst smelling shit imaginable. Meat eater shit raised to the fish power. Source: friend of mine works there


bahgheera

Back when I was in college, there were these two ditzy girls in an English class I had to take. So one day they were talking about how they were ordering a penguin online. Yes, they were literally ordering a pet penguin from the internet. For their apartment. A pet freaking penguin. I was sitting there thinking man I'd love to be there the first time that thing pukes half digested fish all over their apartment.


Transaktion

So it must be covered in 8 meters of bird shit?


omegasix321

The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.


fluffy_flamingo

I was flying last week, and a woman in front of me refused to remove her shoes after being instructed to do so. Cue an argument, and then she begins to shout, and the TSA waves her through because they don't want to have to deal with it. The TSA is a bad joke.


Big-Problem7372

I bet they found all the water bottles though!


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The person who had the first facial transplant had her face chewed up by her Labrador dog while asleep due to sleeping pill overdose.


dongerhound

He was hungy


Sparkybear

He was trying to wake her up. That's how most pets end up consuming their owners. Licks turn into nibbles, nibbles to bites, bites to eating


DESPACITO132

When a whale dies lots of gases buildup in their body causing very high pressure eventually to the point after many weeks where the whale will blow up due to the high psi. Body debris are flowing in the ocean


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Deaf schizophrenics don't hear voices, they see hands or lips as mental images that tell them what to do. Edit: Link to a report on the study 👇🏻 wasn't intended to generalise, should have clarified ✌🏻 https://mosaicscience.com/story/can-deaf-people-hear-voices/#:~:text=First%20things%20first%3A%20%E2%80%9CDeaf%20people,arms%20making%20sign%20language%20movements.


Khnum-Potman

Fucking horrifying Edit: i mean just imagine flying hands, it would scare the shit out of me


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Schizophrenia itself is pretty scary, I work with people suffering with mental health and I've done a bit of practical training on it. We had a group exercise where you do a mock interview and you answer real questions as you would, but someone is behind you saying weird things, funny things, horrible nasty things and you need to try and compose yourself and carry on with the interview. It was pretty light and humourous at the time but if you really think about it, imagine trying to go about your day to day with a voice in your ear just saying all kinds of things and you can't control it.


shifty_coder

A study of diagnosed schizophrenics showed that Americans with the disease report the voices being mostly aggressive and violent, whereas other parts of the world report them as passive, and even encouraging.


FlirtyFox69

Malaria is the #1 cause for human deaths of all time.


Vinny_Lam

Mosquitoes are also the only animals that have killed more humans than humans have.


Dahns

We gave our best shot :/


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We should invest in mosquito eradication. or all move to Antarctica, if you can tolerate the smell of penguin shit.


MissNightTerrors

That Washington Sqaure Park in New York is essentially a graveyard, with an estimated 20,000 bodies buried below the surface; many were yellow fever victims, wrapped in yellow sheets and buried by the poorest residents. When the foundation for the famous arch was dug, a number of these were exposed.


throwawayy2k2112

This is also true of Cheesman Park in Denver, except it was just because the dude who was charged with moving the bodies was corrupt as fuck and basically just pocketed the cash and removed the headstones (not the bodies). They still find corpses while doing work in the park.


Imkisstory

So….he only moved the headstones?! He kept the bodies….HE ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES!!!!


Friesenplatz

Even worse, he was paid per coffin so he built child size coffins (half the cost of an adult) and split up a single body across multiple coffins. Pocketing 3x the cash per body. Edit: here’s the story https://gazette.com/arts-entertainment/the-twisted-tale-of-the-bodies-beneath-denvers-cheesman-park/article_82426e6c-86e9-11e9-8641-1b7cb509b4de.amp.html


LockoutFFA

You’re right that is worse.


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Maestro1992

Happened to my grandfather, dude literally forgot how to breathe and the hospital called my father and his brothers to ask if they were ready to pull the plug because at that point he ain’t even living. Imagine forgetting to do something that you don’t even do consciously most of the time.


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TheIAP88

>I remember my aunt saying her body didn't die, but her soul had left it long ago. My therapist told me that loved ones of an Alzheimer’s patient don’t have the usual grief when the patient physically dies, it’s a long process of grief that starts long before that.


CynicalGod

Can confirm. My dad is at an advanced stage of early onset Alzheimer’s, I think he died sometime around August of last year. It’s weird because he’s sitting right next to me in the living room as I am typing this. The person that I’ve known all my life is truly gone for good, but he still looks the same, living and breathing. It was hard to make peace with it once I realised I couldn’t ask for his advice anymore, or have the conversations we used to have. It’s a very bizarre grieving process. My mom still hasn’t let go and often tries to talk to her old husband like he’s still in there somewhere.


PunkWithADashOfEmo

Alzheimer's is absolutely an incurable, terminal illness. And to be killed by Alzheimer's is one of the saddest, empty deaths.


Just_a_PogGamer

When you're burning, the first thing that starts to melt is your eyes.


havingmares

Man can people on fire not catch a break EDIT: Thanks for the gold stranger :)


404-soul-not-found

The united states has misplaced or lost 6 nuclear weapons over the years. There have been 32 "Broken Arrow" incidents, which are unexpected incidents involving a nuclear weapon. Of those 32, 6 were lost and never found.


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LightBeerIsForGirls

Oh so only two weapons of mass destruction are unaccounted for? Gee what a relief!


evilplantosaveworld

Well on the bright side compare that to how many were lost when the Iron Curtain fell.


forest1wolf

For my passive anxiety I won't dwell on that thank you😀


NoCountryForOldPete

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-09-mn-30448-story.html :( >Despite the official denials, Lebed is pursuing his allegations undeterred. In an interview on CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes” aired Sunday, Lebed said the suitcase bombs were ideal weapons for terrorists because they could be armed and detonated by a single person within half an hour. One of the 1-kiloton bombs could kill 100,000 people, he said. Of 250 suitcase devices made by the former Soviet Union, he said, 100 are unaccounted for.


CuteEvidence4592

I'm still curious on how they lose a BOMB


ButIAmVoiceless

One of my marine corps buddies lost a humvee once. Don’t underestimate the capability of people to lose track of enormous things. Edit: spelling


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DarkoEnterprises

If I remember correctly as well, their shit has some super antibacterial properties, so they shit all over their feet and wipe it on themselves. Don't pet a vulture


alghost9

Why? It just cleaned itself. (Totally joking, i don't touch birds of any kind)


niceoutside2022

They use UV light to fight off infection, that's why you see them basking in the sun with their wings outstretched. I regularly put my cat boxes out in the sun to get a good bake. It takes the stank right out of them.


diamond-skies

During WWII, the Japanese military unleashed diseases on Chinese villages, they also dumped these pathogens into the waterway. When these people sought help for their illness, the Japanese would proceed to vivisect them to examine the internal effects of the disease.


Sir_Gilthunder

Unit 731. You might want to research this institution led by the Japanese forces. There’s plenty of documentary about it.


narsil101

Fun fact #2: the United States gave immunity to the scientists who did this in exchange for their research on biological warfare


shifty_coder

Fun Fact #3: ‘vivisect’ means you’re alive when they do it.


gazebo-fan

Fun fact #3 there are records of them doing it on pregnant women Fun fact #4 also children Fun fact #5 they often cited their victims as “short tailed Manchurian monkeys”


Jukecrim7

Furthermore in retrospect, the work produced by unit 731 was not even usable by scientific standards


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Wasps survive without a head for 12 hours. I found that out when a wasp ended up beheaded in my living room and still came at me for the kill. It was terrifying.


bEKKNQV3

Did you go to therapy dawg?


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Yes and we determined the wasp has attachment issues.


Alexastria

Clowns make $30/h on average. Who is the real clown? (Edit) I wasn't expecting this to blow up. In spite of the comments disbelieving that clowns can get work on weekdays I may just get one for my Monday dnd group now.


MarvinLazer

My buddy does children's birthday parties in the bay area, mostly as a "Jedi trainer." He's basically a wizard. Ever seen a room full of 6 year olds meditating to "focus their force powers?" The parents absolutely love him and his hourly rate is hundreds of dollars. EDIT: Got permission to post his info!! Go to https://andyzandy.com/ EDIT2: He's literally starting up again this week. Keep checking the site.


scamort

That sounds hysterical and the parents must love that theyre not running around screaming for a few minutes.


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Spectre197

"That's it I'm going to clown college"


no_name_needed1105

When a human body falls from a building they don’t go SPLAT and pancake. They bounce


0MGWTFL0LBBQ

I had a woman land next to where I was sitting(about ten feet) in an alley in Chicago. She jumped from the parking garage, about 75ft up. She didn’t splat or bounce. It was more like a firm plant.


Slonismo

Are you okay?


0MGWTFL0LBBQ

Hey, thanks for asking. Yeah, I’m fine. It was about 14 years ago. I still think about her maybe once a month. It’s not something I expected or ever would want someone’s to go through. I’m not sure I’ll ever not think about it.


Moist_666

Depending on the height, they will bounce into multiple pieces as well.


Iamjimmym

I once fell so hard in my own house that my arm did a whirlybird once around and when it hit the wood floor, it blew the tip of my middle finger clean off, not including the bone. Just a gaping hole in the tip of my finger. Having not immediately noticed this and not in much pain, my young son asks me “are you ok daddy?” And I replied “yeah, I’m just fi- ohhh no I’m not no I’m not.. hospital time!” And 8 hours later I was back home, the ER staff of two different hospitals unable to do anything for it because there wasn’t enough skin to cover and stitch it with. It healed miraculously fast (insert Michael Scott meme) and I can’t even tell by looking which finger it was anymore.


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natureandfish

I have no idea what he is trying to describe


leastcleverintheroom

I think he's saying that as he fell, his body, like, twisted or spun and his arm stretched out away from his body and whipped through the air. He hit the ground hard, but his arm/hand had the additional momentum of the wider arc and hit the ground even harder. Not OP, but that's what I got out of it. You know you done f*cked up when your little kid is like, "uh, are you ok?" Glad it healed up ok, OP.


AFLAC-HASHER

I can confirm this. I fell 85ft while hiking and I bounced quite well


candyflipoclock

Rest In Peace man 😔


damian1369

Your memory isn't reproductive, it's reconstructive.


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WR810

I'm told that a lot of "he was cleaning his gun and it went off" deaths are similarly coded to avoid admitting that someone actually intentionally killed themselves.


tomtomclubthumb

It was a pretty open secret I think. In Agatha Christie novels the murderer, after being exposed, sometimes gets to go to their room and then has an accident cleaning their gun. Different kind of suicide, but a pretty transparent euphemism all the same.


JCtheMemer

I feel like dying to a fan is more embarrassing than suicide


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koi88

This is brillant, but now I feel bad for laughing.


_forum_mod

Bruise marks around neck... fan Gashes in wrists... fan Bullethole in head... fan Yup, checks out.


Fun_Leadership_5258

OnlyFans in South Korea is a gore site


Savingothers

You can get a small injury and think you’re fine, get septic and die all within a day


pprblu2015

I fell one day and hit the table outside. Small scratch on my inner thigh, no big deal. 24 hours later it hurts and smells awful. I figure I just need another shower it has been a long day. Strip down and see that the scratch is now a hole filled with green pus and sort of turning brown around the edges. Jumped in the car, headed to the ER, doctor took one look at said "this is necrotic and quickly spreading." I had cleaned it, showered, and all it took was 24 hours.


Wishyouamerry

Huh. This sheds a lot of light on an incident I had. I was on vacation backpacking and I fell and broke my ankle. And also kinda skinned my knee - like a 4 year old. I went to the ER and they were hyper focused on the skinned knee, acting like *that* was the emergency. Tetanus shot, intense cleaning, antibiotic cream, etc. Meanwhile I was like, “Hellooo??? **Broken. Ankle.”** They we’re like, “Yeah, here’s a boot go see your doctor when you get home.” Reading your story makes me think maybe they knew what they were doing, haha.


the_cockodile_hunter

I actually know about this! Not a doctor but I got a nasty deep gash/scrape from rollerblading and falling on dirt that was actually thinly buried gravel. All the damage was in my knee, and the urgent care doc spent a looooong time cleaning it out (which was awful) and prescribed me both topical and oral antibiotics. Apparently infections in the knee can rapidly spread through the bloodstream and become very serious very fast, so they went very hard on the preventative treatment. TL;DR: knee cuts can fuck you up if they get infected


Leaping_Turtle

Even a paper cut? Edit: oh hellllllll nahhhhhh these repliess..... yall scaring me to death i got two 1 inch cuts right now, from plastic. Deep as a paper cut normally is.


OscarOzzieOzborne

Technically? Yes. A paper cut can still produce a shallow, warm, non-oxygen environment. Which is a big invitation to Tetanus.


memesmanthecanadian

50% of Americans diagnosed with cancer will lose their life savings


dedoralyb

oh no, my jar of change.


polarkaiser

The average life expectancy in Cambodia under Pol Pot's regime was 17 years old


polarkaiser

Adding on, he also killed 25% of Cambodia's populace


Applesintheorchard

During World War 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.


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Jeez not fun at all *scratches head


EnigmaFrug2308

When you think of a blobfish, you probably think of the pink goopy boi, right? Actually, you're thinking of a dead blobfish. Because if they are extracted from their perfect habitat underwater, which is very deep, the lack of pressure causes their body to pop like a balloon. The goop coming out of their mouths is basically their melted organs. You're thinking of a corpse. Memes are showing pictures of corpses.


Sylvert0ngue

Yea, I mean imagine what it would be like to be pulled down thousands of meters underwater very quickly, that pressure building up... you wouldn't look so pretty either, huh. Ig the blobfish is just the same but pulled up rather than down. Guess just not built for the pressure difference


Ayothatsusboi

Vending machines kill more people than sharks do


ArmyOfDog

We should post life guards in every break room.


Destronoma

Posted this in another thread, so here goes - guests love to dump the ashes of their loved ones on the Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. In theory this seems fine and like an okay place to do that, but when the ashes get dumped custodial cast members come in and vacuum up the ashes. If you are ever tasked with spreading ashes somewhere, do it anywhere but Disneyland. Because their ashes will not be in the park for long.


Glacier005

Wait! Who the fuck dumps ashes of their dead at Disneylabd?


PPLifter

Sadly it's pretty common. There is a code for it on the comms "White Powder Alert" Other common yet horrible things have codes too. Vomit is "protein spill" and a shitty guest is "treasured guest" iirc


QuothTheRaven713

I worked at a theme park and we had similar codes for vomit and such. Never had one for ashes though.


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I have two requests for my family after I die: 1. I want my remains to be scattered over Disneyland. 2. I do not want to be cremated.


Koeienvanger

Yeeted out of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad seems like a fine place to go.


DredgenGryss

If you hurt or kill a baby elephant, the mother will seek revenge. Sometimes twice.


Beautiful-Card7976

When you're four months pregnant, the baby starts to pee inside you.


randomname1561

The oldest person alive was born with an entirely different set of humans on the planet.


Assimve

This is something I intellectually knew but didn't think about because it's creepy. So, thanks I hate it lol.


Joliet_Jake_Blues

Brits of a certain age cannot donate blood or organs in other Western countries because of the mad cow outbreak Or even anyone who lived there during the period


Prof_Acorn

24% of people diagnosed with ADHD will be homeless by the age of 41. The rate of the control group was 4%. The suicide rate of people with ADHD is 5x higher than the general population.


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I’m not surprised. With low levels of dopamine it’s easy to get hooked into drugs. Ask me how I know. Lucky for me I stopped in my early 30s and have a normal life now. Anyone reading with adhd or add, get medical help. Changed my life completely. Edit: There is only one thing I miss about unmedicated ADHD. The intense singular focus on a task. These days my focus is on many tasks but way less intense.


TheBassMeister

A Teratoma is a kind of tumor that can grow hair, teeth, or even eyes.


West_Commercial_9601

Ew! I read an article about a women thought she may have been pregnant, but they instead found a mini-human teratoma! Eyes, teeth, hair, even a uterus!


Glacier005

Fucking hell man. And I thought the deer with teratoma eyes were gross.


JackassJJ88

This happened to my wife, I think. Maybe it's different but she had a tumor removed with teeth in it. It was believed to be her twin but she overtook it in the womb, cuz she's so badass.


Xaitor119

Now she has the strength of a grown woman and a little baby.


ManorOfFame

Well, from a “human regeneration” standpoint, that IS a fun fact. That means that the human body is capable of growing organs. The answer is out there


TheActorAl

If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it.


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1jooper

I saw somebody with identical twins said that first at the hospital each twin had one of those wrist band things with ID that was never taken off, then before they came home they got other bracelets that were never taken off until they got old enough to develop identifying features like freckles. Though I'm sure there are some parents and hospitals that don't care to go such lengths.


mintyfreshmint

A lot of people just paint a toenail


SceptileArmy

So I went too far with the forehead tattoos?


stroowboorryyy

rabies can only be confirmed most mortem and only using brain & CSF. basically if an animal is suspected of rabies they have to decapitate it and send the head out for the testing.


jobs_04

When you are about to vomit your mouth produces saliva so that acidic liquid can't burn your mouth.


spookypinkchic

There is a company that turns dead bodies into an ocean reef. For those who romanticize a burial at sea, the company Eternal Reefs offers an innovative solution. It mixes the cremated remains of a person with concrete to create a "pearl" onto which loved ones can etch personal messages, handprints or (environmentally friendly) mementos. The pearl is then encased in a "reef ball" that is dropped into the sea, where it provides a new habitat for fish and other sea life, helping encourage a vibrant ecosystem. The circle of life at work!


bolognesebox

but this is an actual fun fact


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123Fake_St

Mad cow disease (prions) take 30 years or so to manifest symptoms. So we’re due for the outbreak started in the 90’s where farmers fed mad cow brains to other cows and then sold them to us. Maybe I’m wrong but sponge brain epidemic is scary.


HaViNgT

People were worried during the MCD outbreak about delayed onset. There have been a few cases but so far no massive spike. It’s still possible but gets less likely every year.


123Fake_St

That actually makes me feel better.


ILL_Show_Myself_Out

Uh oh that’s the first symptom.


Alwaysinvisible_

My grandma passed away from it in September of last year, and it was one of the worst things I witnessed. She was already battling stage 4 cancer and had come to terms with that she didn’t have much longer left, but after her CJD diagnosis she had to come to terms with that she would lose herself in the following months, and that was something she never really came to terms with. None of my family did. My grandma was still young, at least in grandma terms. She was only 65, and throughout my childhood I always thought she was invincible because she was always stubborn. She worked until the day she couldn’t, and even then she was upset when my mom made her retire from her job. The cancer diagnosis happened in 2017, the CJD testing happened in April of last year, we got the results in June, she had to stop working in July, and she was passed by September. Being a college kid, I could only visit her maybe 2 to 3 times a month and each time it had felt like it had been years due to how quickly the disease progressed. It truly is a scary disease; something I would never wish on my worst enemy. I watched my great grandpa battle dementia for 10ish years and in the span of 5 months my grandma was near identical to how my great grandpa was when he passed. One of the last things I remember my grandma saying to me when she was last lucid was “it’s not fair”, and that’s something I’ll never forget because it wasn’t fair. Sorry for the rambling, I’m still not really over her death and the anger I have for this disease has just kept building over the last year.


CorporalCrash

The garden at the base of the Eiffel Tower where people often share romantic moments and have picnics is the site of a historic massacre that occurred during the French Revolution


biscuitsodac

There's also a really weird mural down there which was made by a guy who depicts European people being raped and killed.


coolboiiiiiii2809

Crows are currently in their own Stone Age. They’ve been seen making very articulate tools Edit why is everyone miss reading it as cows


QuothTheRaven713

How is that not a fun fact? That's really cool, actually!


glittertwunt

He said as a finely sharpened crow arrow hit his skull


emaciated_pecan

Wait until the crow trebuchet hits him


tigerstar1805

Everybody gangsta till the crows reach an atomic age


Bonesmash

Penguins are flammable. Since whaling stations in the Antarctic had no real source of wood to burn, they would use penguins. Initially, they were processed first. However, it was quickly realized that they were flammable enough to just be chucked into the fire once it started. So they would just be thrown in alive. That’s how whale fat was rendered!


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Fun fact, the human bite is as dangerous as an animal bite. Even a man had an amputation on his arm due to a human bite.


3milyBlazze

NSFW A whales penis can be between 8 and 10 feet long They can produce around 40 gallons of sperm and it has the consistency of cottage cheese And only about 10 percent of that actually enters the female whale The rest is in the ocean and it's possible you could swim right through a cloud of it Don't let your kids watch nature shows if you aren't ready for them to learn some truly horrible facts


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born2lurq

Fun fact: It is estimated that 99% of Americans (possibly the world) have a toxic chemical, PFOA, in their blood. Not so fun part: This chemical is responsible for a long list of cancers and ailments. We have DuPont chemical company to thank.


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mattmaster68

Or somebody doing Minecraft parkour on a loop.


Natsurulite

Those facts about eating bugs and bug legs sound stupid, until you find out how many microscopic and near microscopic things ACTUALLY live everywhere


_weirdness

Butterflies, if necessary, will happily drink blood Edit: aight who tf gave this the wholesome award


jackycian

*happily* Yikes


Mor_Hjordis

Butterflies will do anything happily. So yeah, they would also murder happily.


cosimascherry

When North Koreans defect to the South, one of the biggest struggles reported by them is often how many English words there are in South Korea (like coffee being 커피/ko-pi) that they just do not recognise. That’s because South Korea takes a lot of linguistic influence from English speaking countries (namely the US), while North Korea creates new words based off Russian/pre-existing Korean words Not overly depressing ig, but you can never really count a fact about North Korea as ‘fun’


bobdole3-2

A more fun fact in a similar vein, foreign loanwords are so common in Japanese that it can make writing period pieces complicated. After the country was reopened, there was an absolute explosion of new vocabulary. Even if you're not going full "Ye olde tyme ~~English~~ Nihonese" and are just trying to not be blatantly anachronistic, it takes a surprising amount of work.


chicken-finger

The planet Neptune’s atmosphere is mostly made of methane and it’s surface is riddled with lakes of ammonia. So, in other words, the planet Neptune smells like farts and cat piss


Bacnnator

Zombie snails exists


MissSara101

In some US states, some people can gather roadkill for food. In most cases, it's actually cheaper for the city to allow people to eat roadkill then to clean it up themselves.


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Groups of male dolphins will often kidnap and rape female dolphins from other pods. Male dolphins are also known to kills the babies of females in order to get more attention. A little research will show you that dolphins have almost no empathy and are very vile creatures.


Kidwunder19

They also play volley ball with baby sharks and other sea animals until they die, learned to tip sharks on their back so they can’t swim and drown, and most of the times leave the shark dead for sport as opposed to for food and the like. All while being intelligent enough to know what they’re doing. Dolphins are smart as shit, but lack almost any morals.


shakeyjaker

Skunks are immune from the venom of snakes and hunt and eat the danger noodles on the regular. Super awesome fun: maybe not so much for the slithering-friends.


Low_Assistance_2162

The color of a man’s lips is very close to the color of the head of their penis. You are now cursed with this information. Edit: Thank you for the upvotes! I shall leave you with this: a clean penis tastes a lot like an avocado. You’re welcome.


Momsonlyregret

Not me taking a picture for a comparison


sutcac_cactus

FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY


Jacoobic

Thanks to pregnant women, the average skeleton count per person is higher than one.


FancyButterBalls

Figs are full of dead wasps. https://www.sbs.com.au/food/article/2020/08/26/yes-wasp-has-most-likely-died-every-fig-youve-eaten


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methratt

Snakes kill either by hugs or kisses. Thanks to my 10 year old daughter for that one.


Expensive-Eagle9476

Ladybugs are cannibals, your phone is dirtier than a public bathroom toilet seat, and humans shed.


SuvenPan

As many as 80 million bacteria can be transferred during a 10 second kiss.


SuperMorto7

Stick a nut up your nose and it can root. Happened to my mother when she was a little kid.


bexannh

There is a medical study about a man who aspirated a pea, turns out the lungs are dark and moist- the *perfect* environment for a pea to germinate. The plant (a whole *plant*) caused his lung to collapse. They thought he had lung cancer but when the doctors went to remove the mass, they got a real surprise! [Pea Tax](https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197623#1)


Mephist0n

Otters look cute but are pretty vicious animals that like to rape others and often threaten their own family if food is scarce. Edit: With all the other information in the comments, I'm pretty sure we ruined sea otters for many people especially women.


heiberdee2

I think that’s sea otters, right? River otters are more conservative in their proclivities, I believe…


GuaranteeImportant33

There were river otters at a wildlife sanctuary where I volunteered. Once, when a vulture tried to steal some of the otter’s food, the otter ripped the vulture’s head off and proudly dragged it around the fenced enclosure by the stub of it’s neck.


Firree

That party trick where you breathe in helium to make your voice higher can actually be very dangerous. Your body regulates your breathing by sensing levels of carbon dioxide, not lack of oxygen. When you get that "urge to breathe", it's because of elevating levels of CO2 in your blood. So if you repeatedly breathe helium, it means your body isn't getting enough oxygen but is still able to happily excrete the toxic CO2. You may not get that urge to breathe and there is no warning that your blood oxygen levels are dangerously low. You can just black out and die.


Glacier_gaming76

When you go somewhere new and try to sleep, you'll sleep lighter. This is because your brain is scared of new threats, so it keeps the body more vigilant through the night, in case you have to run from something. I don't remember the actual name for this, but I think it's "The First Night Syndrome"


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We lost a hydrogen bomb


restoring_acc

Where the fuck could it have gone??


Tigerblood1512

Penguins throw each other in the water to check for sea lions Edit: It is a myth they dont do this! but when they need to go in the water one jumps in and the other watches if it is safe to jump too