Monday, April 13, 2020

Not Fun Facts to Feel Weird About


If you needed any more chilling reminders that you aren't as secure as you might have thought, here are some not fun facts and observations about supervolcanoes, biology and physics that could do the trick. To undo some of these, here are some nice facts to counteract all the messed up ones.

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Text - SinkingCarpet 4.1k points · 9 hours ago Your sneeze is so powerful it can rupture your throat

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Text - inducemenow 3.3k points · 9 hours ago If the earth stopped rotating for even 1 second, everything on earth would fly 800 miles per hour due east and kill almost every living creature instantly

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Text - mbattagl 3.1k points · 9 hours ago Your average person is only 9 missed meals away from becoming a violent lunatic.

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Text - FiascoMan 2.4k points · 9 hours ago The classic: One day your mom/dad put you down, and never picked you up again.

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Text - limpnoodsmccrood 30.5k points · 12 hours ago The serial killer Richard Chase would try random houses to break in to. If the door was unlocked, he saw it as being an invitation. If it was locked, he saw it as a sign that he was unwelcome.

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Text - GravyxNips 28.1k points · 13 hours ago People who sleep less than 6 hours a night are at an increased risk to die prematurely.

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Text - FrogginBullfish_ 26.9k points · 14 hours ago - edited 10 hours ago There is a spider that has fangs so powerful that it can bite through a leather boot. It usually attacks multiple times and you have to grab it and pry it off of you. It is also incredibly deadly. Edit: I wrote it below here, but it's the Sydney Funnel Web Spider. Because of its venom it is the deadliest spider.

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Text - SmallTownMortician 25.2k points · 14 hours ago When an autopsy is performed, the organs are removed, weighed, sliced and placed into a plastic bag. This includes the brain and tongue. Once they're finished, they put everything together in the plastic bag and place it in the chest cavity. So when you're buried, your brain is actually in your chest.

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Text - babyyodadoodles 22.7k points · 13 hours ago It's estimated that there's somewhere around 25-50 serial killers that are active each year in the US.

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Text - TheKentuckyRifleman 21.3k points · 12 hours ago The Frontal Lobotomy was performed with no anesthesia and it was an outpatient procedure.

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Text - AlanMercer 18.1k points · 13 hours ago - edited 5 hours ago Thirty percent of the weight of solid feces is dead bacteria.

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Text - arturiusboomaeus 14.5k points · 11 hours ago There are a fair number of missing nuclear weapons.

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Text - 24hourcinderella 14.0k points · 12 hours ago Pigs will eat humans if given the chance.

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Text - Egodram 12.9k points · 13 hours ago If an imploding star were to create a gamma ray burst, and that GRB were to hit the Earth, we'd never know it... because we'd simply cease to exist. POOF!

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Text - eternalrefuge86 11.7k points · 13 hours ago It takes 22 pounds of pressure to pop a testicle

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Text - Chefshipwreck5897 10.8k points · 13 hours ago On average, you will walk past 36 murderers in your lifetime. Hopefully the next time you do go past one, they'll say, “no not that one, too good looking."

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Text - Miss_Speller 9.4k points - 11 hours ago - edited 10 hours ago This one's a little esoteric, but |MCAfee SECURE false vacuum decay. O fundamental properties of the universe might suddenly decide to change one day. It might be an insignificant change, or so great - the that all matter would just cease to exist, and we wouldn't see it coming until we blinked out of existence.

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Text - SomethingBerry 8.9k points · 12 hours ago The one that I remember most often is this one: "Either we are completely alone in this universe, or we are not."

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Text - SendNoodlessssss 8.0k points · 11 hours ago You have mites in your eyelashes.

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Text - ralo229 7.0k points · 9 hours ago · edited 8 hours ago If the Yellowstone Super Volcano erupted, it would decimate most of America. It's unlikely to happen any time soon, but it's 2020: The Year of Absolute Fucking Shit. So, it wouldn't surprise me at this point.

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Text - JSanzi 4.4k points · 11 hours ago O People's "conscious" decisions are usually nothing of the sort; they're usually made subconsciously. Then, all the conscious mind normally does is build narratives about the previously-made decisions. Those narratives consciously seem to arise concurrently with the decisions, but really they arise only afterward. Research on split- brain patients has proven all of this. Simply put: your brain makes choices without you knowing; then tricks you into think

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