There’s never a bad time to share a fun fact. You can easily break the ice in any conversation or lighten the mood by sharing some information that others might find amusing. But what are we supposed to do with all of those unsettling, uncomfortable and upsetting facts that are floating around inside our brains?
Today, we’re dedicating our attention to disturbing info, pandas. Redditors have recently been sharing some of the least fun facts that they know, so we’ve gathered some that you might not want to know down below. I’ll warn you right now to keep reading at your own risk, and be sure to upvote the facts you wish weren’t true!
#1
Old people move so slow because everything they do hurts. I’m getting old and it’s starting to happen.
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#2
I was a social worker. I saw a lot.
The first three weeks, we were in a classroom doing intensive training. Every day, someone would walk out. It wasn’t out of being rude, it’s because each person has a point at which they cannot go any further. They showed us some of the worst. The deal is, they do it for very good reason. If we are so horrified that we refuse to learn about the abuse, how will we recognize it in one of our kids?
That’s what I ask of all adults. PLEASE, if you see something, don’t assume it’s impossible so you can push it out of your mind. A whole lot is possible.
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#3
The number one cause of death for pregnant women is domestic violence.
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#4
A lot of people in nursing homes will die shortly after family leaves. I’ve had funeral directors tell me this is very accurate. Both my parents did. We were there, left for the night and while gone, they died. It’s like they don’t want to expire in front of anyone.
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#5
You ever use bleach without gloves, and it gets kinda slimy?
That slime isn’t the bleach. It’s your skin melting.
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#6
There’s an extremely high chance that Boeing executives contracted a hit on one of their former employees for being a whistleblower and basically the public response (other than a few angry social media posts) has been “well, yeah, that’s just what happens…”.
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#7
ER Doc here
A lot of people know when they are about to die, even if they don’t know why. Just instinctual, they even say it very calmly and knowingly “I’m gonna die.” Or something similar. And then they code.
Or. They say they have to go the bathroom. Then code.
I am dead serious.
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#8
We don’t know the effects of micro plastics on the human body, partially because we can’t find a control group.
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#9
Bus seats are designed so that you can’t tell how dirty they are
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#10
The fact that the “couple” down the street from me with 3 kids are not husband and wife. They are in fact brother and sister.
Yes I know it for fact I went to grammar school with them.
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#11
That Munmorah power plant in Australia was allowed to operate for decades with a significant diesel leak in an underground reservoir that contaminated the water table. When demolishing the plant you could light the sand that surrounded the tank on fire (about 50 meters each way), and if you dug lower than the sea level anywhere within a I guess about a 1km radius you could smell diesel.
It’s a high fishing surfing area. That was far from the only contaminant. Pfas, Pfos, chromium, etc. People live very close to it. People eat the fish for years from the hot water outlet. (Was a super popular “secret” fishing spot)
Also during the demolition there was lots of contaminated water collected – This was sent through a filtration process and pumped into the ocean. It had multiple sediment filters and a water/oil separator. I do not believe it was adequate filtration before it was sent back into the sea.
No one seems to know. I only know because I was part of the works post operation.
Makes me wonder how many heavy industrial entities got to do who knows what and get away with it.
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#12
That one in five men will leave their wives when they get extremely sick or have to care for them in some manner.
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#13
Living a healthy lifestyle, eating right and exercising buys you the slowest rate of death possible, at best. I work with the elderly and a 95 yo woman mumbled that “this is what I get for being healthy…stiiiiiillll here.”
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#14
Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.
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#15
Mentally handicapped children are roughly three times as likely to be sexually assaulted.
Note that roughly 25% of all healthy girls and 5% of healthy boys will be the victim of CSA before they are 12.
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#16
When gas was introduced into common households during the industrial revolutions, people started paying more attention to what they put on their walls, now that they were lit up. They began decorating more, and wallpaper became a much more important part of the modern home. At the time, green was a very popular colour, as it had never really been an option to decorate with that colour before. However the green colour was obtained with Arsenic (as white paints were often obtained through a lead product). After a while, wear and tear made it so that people literally started breathing in bits of their arsenic wallpapers, and feeling bad within their homes. Their doctors would then suggest they go on holiday to the sea, as the ocean air often had proven a successful remedy. But of course, it was a remedy simply because they were no longer breathing in arsenic. The companies that made these wallpapers were well aware of their nefarious effects, but it took people boycotting “en masse” for them to actually stop production, several decades later.
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#17
Australians’ greatest enemy isn’t spider, drop bears, killer roos, massive insects, or devil snakes; it’s the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and an Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australian would be diagnosed with it by the time they reach the age of 70.
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#18
You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker then die from a shark.
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#19
It’s possible for rats to swim up your toilet piping. There are enough air pockets to travel all the way into your bathroom. I could have lived my whole life not knowing this, but here you go.
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#20
Many lullabies are about plagues or a hanging.
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#21
Dental Hygienist here.
There is a type of gum disease that is caused by maggots in your gums. Literal maggots from flys laying eggs in your mouth to feed on your rotten flesh.
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#22
It’s incredibly common for people to be eaten by their pets if they die alone. However, it is WAY more likely in cats than in dogs. Cats will pretty much eat you as soon as their food runs out, if they have any. Some of them will eat you even before their food runs out. Dogs are different, they will only eat you out of necessity, if they’ve exhausted all previous foodstuffs that they can get to and if they can’t escape from the property and it will be days before that happens.
There is a reason for this. Dogs are omnivores. They will primarily eat meat but can eat vegetables. They can survive without meat. Cats are obligate carnivores, which means they HAVE to eat meat. There’s a specific protein that they can only get from meat and it’s essential for their organs to operate properly, otherwise, they will die and it’s not a quick, quiet death either. So given the absense of meat, your pet cat will eat your soft squishy bits first. Usually the face.
Source-used to be an RVN.
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#23
When whales and dolphins get too old they just drown.
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#24
Greater than half the population of the USA reads at or below fourth grade level.
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#25
If you die on Mount Everest, it’s too dangerous and too expensive to move your body. So you’ll be stuck there forever, and depending on where you die, other climbers might use your body as a trail marker.
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#26
There’s a very concerning number of nuclear warheads that are unaccounted for.
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#27
There’s a relatively good chance that you already own the clothes that you’ll die in.
*To clarify, I’m not threatening you, haha.
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#28
Brain aneurysms are still a thing perfectly healthy people can drop dead from with no visible symptoms whatsoever. Pop! Dead.
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#29
Everything you experience and perceive is just an incredibly vivid hallucination based on _very_ sparse and broadly interpreted data from our own senses.
We infer reality. We don’t witness it.
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#30
There is a whale called 52 Blue
that only sings at their frequency meaning it can’t communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.
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#31
Horses can’t throw up. If they need to throw up, they’ll die.
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#32
At some point the number of yesterdays you’ve had will be greater than the number of tomorrows you’ve got left.
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#33
When you’re burning to death your eyes melt out of your head before you die. So you’re still alive while your eyes are melting.
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#34
That you are not immune to propaganda, and that chronically online children and adults alike are manipulated to becoming violent extremists .
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#35
Smell is particle based… remember that next time you go into a smelly restroom…
I gotta know it, now so do you.
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#36
Vulture bees – the bees that eat meat! (Do not eat the meat honey).
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