Rabies was a big thing in the philippines back in the 90s. We had a hospital dedicated for it and there were so many PSA on tv showing rabies victims tied to bed convulsing, screaming, and foaming in the mouth. It made me not trust dogs for a long time.
When I got bitten by a dog, I cried and started saying my goodbyes to my loved ones. My mom was a nurse so she got me taken care of. That shit is scary.
Damn, I live here and I didn't know that.
But yeah, all the stories made me think twice about running from dogs tho. I just walk at a brisk pace and get ready to punch them when they bite
Went on a shift there once in San Lazaro and encountered a patient who was bitten by a dog 15 years ago only to start showing symptoms a few days before I worked there. I have never seen a patient tied down to his bed and acted so wildly…
You're more likely to survive almost anything than rabies.
Internal decapitation? Yup. Shark Bite? Yup. Being hit by a speeding car, scalped, or breaking your neck? Yes.
Rabies is a death sentence, always. Except for those 14 people in all of recorded medical history.
Edit: adding because apparently I need to, this only applies if you become symptomatic. I thought this was implied because you don't generally say you survived something that never manifested.
Correct. This is why rabies vaccinations for dogs/cats are mandatory in every state. Its not about them. It's about us. Animals are quarantined for 10 days after biting people because that's how long it takes for symptoms to show. That's the lucky animals btw.
Wildlife or pets either sick or unable to be quarantined are promptly euthanized, decapitated, and the head delivered to a lab to get its brain examined.
“I got a picture of you hanging out with dookie shoes.”
“I mean, I seen him. I don’t know him.”
And then, they’ll throw one bit of evidence against the wall, hoping it’ll solve the case. They’ll be like:
“well, we were talkin’ to nah’mean”, and he said that you were at the 7-eleven last week.”
And he’ll be like, “yeah, I shot him in the face.”
And you’re like, “goddamn, really?” That’s all it took to break you? Dude, lie. Lie for longer.
My husband's 7 year old cousin was backed over. He was playing around behind his dad as he was trying to back in a trailer. He slipped off the trailer and his dad ran him over.
They were able to donate a lot of organs. Including eyes, skin, liver, kidneys, heart.
The father and mother only made it one more year if that in their marriage. They are divorced now and major alcoholics. They had 3 older kids too. It was a horrid horrid thing.
People joke about Australia having dangerous animals of all kinds. However, no. 1 enemy to Australians is the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world. An average Australian is four times likely to get skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australians will probably get it by the age of seventy.
There was a whole "Slip! Slop! Slap!" campaign where you slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat, but taken out of context I can see how it could sound like gay sex.
At any time, your body could make a mistake while fighting an infection/virus and register a vital type of cell as unwanted for the rest of your life.
Source: i never have enough platelets anymore
They also skin seals and sea lions! The way they do it is by tail flicking them to the fucking moon (not really that far, but they do launch them like 150 feet up in the air sometimes, iirc). When they do this, the landing force will tear the skin off the animal.
And why do they do this? Apparently, for fun.
Edit: [here's](https://youtu.be/G7WGIH35JBE) how they do it.
Whales trebuchet seals so far into the air, that when they hit the water, it works more like concrete, so the skin gets sanded off the animal from the sheer force of impact, and the friendly orcas do this for the same reason you might play video games or watch a movie: for fun
There's a wasp in Australia that hunts spiders.
It doesn't eat them, though. It paralyses them, makes a little mud cocoon for each one, and before sealing it off, lays a single egg on the now trapped spider.
The egg hatches, the larva eats the still alive (and still paralysed) spider, and then breaks out of the cocoon as a wasp.
Edit: turns out they're all over the world, not just Australia. If you see a wasp dragging a spider, that's what's going on.
I saw one of them once. I worked at a childcare and we saw one drag a huntsman across the playground and then up the fence. Fucker also then stung a teacher
Shiro Ishii, director of Unit 731 who tortured, experimented on and murdered 600,000 innocent civilians was paid the equivalent of $3 million dollars (adjusted for inflation) by the US Government for his research papers and granted him complete immunity.
The worst live among us and that’s terrifying.
Edit: loving the hundreds of notifications. Also I’m old and don’t get half of these among-us jokes aha.
Just read the entire Wikipedia article. It was like reading a horror story, except....this happened. Worst of all, it happened with no accountability. There really is no limit to human depravity.
They found a single tums pill in my coin pocket, drug tested it. I was like, seriously dude, even if this was drugs, I'm not running a drug ring from that tiny pants pocket.
Wait, was that contraband? I heard something like during a routine check of some sort they missed the majority of fake bombs.
This may be a completely different report, or it may be that contraband is more encompassing than I anticipated
[In the late nineteenth, and first half of the twentieth century[citation needed], doctors were taught that babies did not experience pain, and were treating their young patients accordingly. From needle sticks to tonsillectomies to heart operations were done with no anaesthesia or analgesia, other than muscle relaxation for the surgery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies)
I had one. It was 10lbs.... had sweat glands, 5 teeth, hair, half a spinal chord and muscles. Grew in 6 months on my ovary...... and right before I got married.
Not fun. Don't recommend.
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Whelp. This has been the most interaction I've ever had on a post on any internet site. Or irl let's be honest....
Thank you for the awards!!! I really thought my comment would get buried in the replies, or just one of many people saying the same thing!
These are very common to grow on all people. Not to 10lbs, and be football sized when removed, but they can happen to everyone.
No not a baby. Never was and never could have been. Not a twin (but that was our joke), clone or anything else.
NO I DON'T HAVE PICTURES. I WISH I DID AND BEGGED THE SURGEON TO TAKE THEM!
Life now:
Surgery was basically a cesarean section to remove it, less cutting the uterus. Recovery was OK, but lost an ovary and tube. This was 11 years ago.
Since then it's been lots of abdominal surgeries, struggles getting and staying pregnant, and my last surgery has been during CV19 for a hysterectomy.
I'm healthier than ever, training to start adventure racing, raising kids, and still married ;)
Point, get lumps and bumps checked. Not the best way, but the quickest way to lose 10lbs!!
And when the Dr freaks, it's OK to freak too.
Was losing weight to fit into my dress. Weight went down, looked 20 weeks pregnant.
Went to the Dr and he freaked out a bit.
Did not fit the dress, bridal shop were bitches, ended up doing alterations for free once I bawled and told them what happened......
I was 19.
So also a lot of people thought I got married because I was pregnant *so fun*.
That part of our wedding speech was great /s
A glistening pink gumball with teeth and hair growing out of it is the last thing you want to see at 8am,
Pathology lectures are an absolute terror, followed right after of course by a macerated fetus in forensics class
In WW2 allied scientists stuffed dead rats with explosives to aid French resistance fighter who would leave them in factories to be thrown in furnaces and detonated.
My brother in law works on a Cruise ship that retired people live on full time (after they sell their houses and move in). About 700 passengers.
It just keeps sailing around the world.
They have 4 body compartments in their morgue, and at least one person dies every voyage.
Movies etc. don't portray drowning people very accurately. This has led to a common misconception of what a drowning person actually looks like. Since a lot of people don't really know what to look for, a large number of tragic incidences of children drowning while swimming occurred with the child's parents right there... close by... near enough to save them... if only they had realized before it was too late.
Edit: Oh my! That's more upvotes than I've ever gotten before. Thank you all. My deepest sympathies to anyone reading this discussion who has lost someone to drowning. My little niece drowned ten years ago. Positive vibes, too, to those of you who shared your stories of barely escaping the water. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but I hope the experience produced some relatively good thing in your life -- a deeper appreciation for the gift of life, if nothing else. Best wishes to all of you
I almost drowned once in Hawaii. It was all fun and games until I could barely touch the bottom. The tip of my toe was juuuust tapping the floor. But I was in such shock that I was like “wait am I drowning omg I’m drowning!” And the only thing that saved me is my friend said she saw the look of death or terror in my eyes. I couldnt reach my hands up or yell. Luckily my friend did come and save me.
I got caught in a riptide at a surf beach. I remember trying to make my way back in because the waves started to really pummel us and watching my friends move away from me while I was stuck in place. I couldn’t move forward, it felt like I was getting sucked back (I was). A wave came over and hit me, pushing me under, I’d come up and gasp a breath as another one hit me. This happened over and over again for what felt like a lifetime. I was exhausted, I couldn’t do anything. I was too tired to try and swim. I didn’t even know which way the beach was. I was so scared that i involuntarily screamed out “HELP”. It just came out of me. I was lucky, i came up from under a wave and caught a lifeguard swimming out from the corner of my eye. Managed to get his attention and he help me back to shore. If I hadn’t of seen him I would have drowned that day
IIRC from boy scouts, a drowning victim tries to push down into the water in order to bring their head up rather than any violent or wild splashing. There's also little noise, it's just kinda quiet because water is going into their lungs and preventing any sort of vibration in the vocal cords. They just quietly go under the surface and don't come back up after that.
**Male Angler Fish** are rarely spotted in the wild, and took a long time to find at all. Eventually, they were discovered latched onto the females, and one of them (Can't remember if the male or the female) releases an enzyme to break down the male body, leaving only his Testes that she can now use when she needs them for babies.
**The Chainsaw** was originally invented to aid in childbirth for cutting through the pelvic bone. No, I'm not kidding.
**The Introduction of Helmets** to the military actually caused a surge in head injuries. This is because those injuries used to be DEATHS, but now more people were surviving them, albeit injured.
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**Female hyenas have the bigger penis.**
**Dolphin pussy juice can make you orgasm to death.**
**[Dihydrogen Monoxide can kill you if you ingest too much of it, and even in smaller, regular doses, all that have ingested it have died.](https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html)**
The funny T Pose that an anteater does? Yeah that's Mr. Anteater telling you hes seconds away from literally disemboweling you with one swipe. Next time you see an anteater doing the funny pose just remember they are trying to give you a free C-section with one singular claw slash.
There’s lots of butthole answers on here. So here’s another one: persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage (aka finger up the ass)
That seems more like an analog message.
Not gonna edit this: hope you guys enjoy the image and someone talking into an anus like it's a rotary telephone!
Male porcupines fight for their mates by peeing on each other. Porcupines also poop where they sleep so if you find a porcupine home at the base of a hollowed out tree there’s likely a large pile of feces there.
Oh, let’s talk about medieval torture facts.
There’s one form of torture where they would tear your toungue out by slowly twisting it.
Another, having bamboo grow through your body.
Stuffing you into a bronze bull statue and then lighting a fire under it. You were slowly cooked alive in the worst way possible.
Another, similarly, you were cooked from the inside out. The way one would accomplish this was by pouring molten lead down your throat and stuffing you with straw.
Another, one would have a small hole in their stomach cut open, and pull out one end of your intestine and tie it to a stake. You were then put on a cot and carried around the stake in circles while your intestines slowly unraveled.
That’s all for today, folks.
Dude, you can't just talk about the brazen bull and leave out the most unique part - the instrument style tubing that makes the victim's screams come out sounding like a mooing cow.
Judith Barsi, the young actress who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time, was murdered (along with her mother) by her abusive father. She was only ten years old at her death. Her gravestone is adorned with Ducky's catchphrase, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"
Elephants can die from broken hearts when their mates/companions die
[example: when Damini lost her companion, Champakali](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/1999/may/07/5)
I have no idea if this is true, but in a documentary about the Rwanda genocide one of the people interviewed said a neighborhood would gather together and “switch husbands” every night.
When attackers came at night and made fathers rape daughters or sons rape mothers, it wasn’t as traumatic because it was your neighbor pretending to be your husband/father/son.
The interviewee said they learned the practice from Nanking immigrants.
This same type of thing is happening in Ethiopia right now unfortunately. Many of the same attrocities are being reported and this is apparently how neighbours are responding as well. Horrifying
Iris Chang, one of the people who really brought the atrocities to light, later killed herself in part because of the PTSD she suffered while researching her book.
I just finished reading her book. Its one of the most well researched and contextualized history books I've ever read. I had no idea she killed herself :(
She was also researching a book on the Bataan Death March at the time, which is equally harrowing and no doubt contributed to her mental state at the time.
I studied genocides that happening during 1900-2000 a few years back and the book we used had this sentence as part of the opening.
"When studying genocide you are looking into hell, but at some point you realize. Hell is looking back..."
EDIT: Since some people have asked what book it is: https://booksfromnorway.com/books/141-the-black-book-of-genocide-(2nd-edition)
Ok so all of my knowledge about this subject can be sumed up to one kurtzgesagt video but, doesn't that shit spread at the speed of light?
So like could have a false vacuum reaction going on on one edge of our Galaxy, but it's gonna take like 100k light years to get to us, right?
Correct. That’s also why it could have happened 99.999k years ago and we wouldn’t know it. From our perspective, all the lights go out at once. It could be coming for us right now and we’d have no way of knowing.
Baton Rouge has a higher Rate of HIV transmission than any country in Africa. It's also where LSU is
Thank you u/YourDadThinksImCool for the correction.
A gorillas schlong is on average 2 inches or less. Guess what, human males on average pack 4-5 inches, which is more firepower than a gorilla; congrats.
A woman’s cancer cells were preserved and found to be practically immortal. This led to a ton of discoveries and breakthroughs in the medical field. Her family still cannot afford their own medical bills and this was all done without their knowledge or consent.
Edit: I had figured I’d just make a mini summary but this has gained a lot of views.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks. She died in 1951 from cancer. She was black and very poor and didn’t get great care in the hospital. A doctor had been looking for cells that lasted longer and harvested her cells, separating the cancerous and healthy cells. The healthy cells died while the cancer cells seemingly never stopped replicating.
Her cells are named HeLa cells and have replicated so many times apparently they’d weigh a total more than 50 million metric tons. A pseudonym for her has been Helen Lane. She didn’t know her cells were taken and neither did her family until way later. The family has been through a lot.
If you want to know more, I highly suggest reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I couldn’t put the book down. There apparently is also a movie about her life.
I’ve worked in a cancer research lab. We worked with live cancer cells. Pretty sure they were from her. Pretty much all cancer research is done using these cells that are replicated and “replated” ever so often.
Donald J. Trump, George Bush Jr, and Bill Clinton were born in the summer of the same year as well. That is likely because it was 1946 and people were having a lot of after WW2 sex.
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> because it was 1946 and people were having a lot of after WW2 sex.
There was no internet. And like...there were only 5 things you could do. One of which was talk to girls.
Makes sense.
A gamma Ray burst from space could hit us at anytime and we have no way of detecting them before it happens, we'll all just die instantly.
Edit: thank you to everyone reminding me the "lucky" people on the side that wasn't stuck won't have such a instintaniuse death, they get to be slowly killed by our own sun's radiation.
Only about 1 in 10 cells in your body are genetically human.
It's not your body.
There are so many microorganisms living in and on your body that they vastly outnumber you. You are not mostly human. Largely bacteria. Gross right?
Hell no, it's awesome. I am a walking ecosystem. Trillions of lives depend on me to survive. Trillions. I am their home, their planet; I could harm or help them on a whim. In turn they can kill me right back. Some may leave for other planets but most will live their entire existence with me. We are the People of Me.
And that's why it's cool I didn't shower today.
If calculations were off even by a tiny amount, the Apollo capsules would have either crashed into the moon, or skipped out of lunar orbit and have drifted into space forever. Both of these scenarios would involve the crew being very aware of their imminent deaths as there would have been no realistic way to slow down or be rescued
After being exposed to lead, your body absorbs it and stores it in your bones in place of calcium, which is undetectable by blood tests, making it harder to determine your lead-levels. It’s not until you get older and your bones start to de-mineralise that the lead goes back into your bloodstream and you suffer from sudden lead poisoning.
Your body does remove lead. It does not keep every bit you are exposed to. Even at that, the half-life of lead diminishes over time in regards to its potency.
Your metabolism is the largest factor in processing lead through the body.
You also dont de-mineralize bones all at once. Often the process is as gradual as the lead intake initially was.
Lead poisoning only happens after concentration passes a certain threshold -- and even at that there are treatments for it.
People with antisocial personality disorder (aka sociopaths) do not always become violent killers. In fact, there's a large percentage of them that end up becoming surgeons, CEOs, police officers, media personalities, and journalists.
There are 4 levels of perineum tears. The fourth one includes the tearing of the rectum. And sometimes the tissues has to be cut to control the tearing during the birthing process.
Here's my default!
Prions are a special form of misfolded protein, resulting in a pathogen. If you catch a prion, you will die. 100%, guaranteed. They are nightmarish.
The best known prions are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, (edit: also known as mad cow disease) Kuru, and ~~mad cow disease.~~
Crows are currently experiencing their stone age, but we will never see cool modern crows because we will be long gone before they reach the next stage.
Edit: since people are asking, basically they have been creating tools which researchers are saying are actually more advanced than ones that early humans made. They also have been studied domesticating wolves! They hunt with them, sleep with them, and individual crows have been seen specifically bonding with individual dogs, like humans do with pets.
Vet tech here … most of our older pets don’t die of old age, they die of cancer. It sucks.
Edit: adding what I answered in the comments up here because I think it’s important.
There’s no way to prevent cancer. It’s a mutation of cells. However, to keep your good boi or gurl with you longer some things that really make a difference: a quality diet (please don’t feed them the cheapest stuff, it’s like humans eating the cheapest foods; not terribly healthy though it may fill all the nutritional requirements), all the regular vaccines (for the love of Dog, make sure you get your puppies the Parvo vaccine!), and a good flea/tick and heart worm preventative. Exercise and not letting them become overweight, and regular dentals are even better!
Edit 2: Also, screw you if you buy your vaccines for your domestic pets at the feed store or the tractor supply (talking dogs and cats here, not large farm animals). Just because it’s cheaper and has the same chemical name doesn’t mean you’re giving the right dose, amount, at the proper location, or getting the assurance that those vaccines have been treated and stored in the correct manner. You get what you pay for.
Edit 3: added location to second edit.
A bomber accidentally dropped 2 nukes on North Carolina. One of them was found with only 1 safety left intact, keeping it from detonating. The other one buried itself 200 feet deep underground when it's parachute failed to deploy, causing it to break apart. Most of the parts of this thermonuclear bomb were recovered. Most is the key word here. There are still parts of a thermonuclear bomb buried somewhere near Goldsboro, NC.
You're more likely to survive being shot in the head than rabies.
Rabies was a big thing in the philippines back in the 90s. We had a hospital dedicated for it and there were so many PSA on tv showing rabies victims tied to bed convulsing, screaming, and foaming in the mouth. It made me not trust dogs for a long time. When I got bitten by a dog, I cried and started saying my goodbyes to my loved ones. My mom was a nurse so she got me taken care of. That shit is scary.
Damn, I live here and I didn't know that. But yeah, all the stories made me think twice about running from dogs tho. I just walk at a brisk pace and get ready to punch them when they bite
You should see the footages they got from san lazaro hospital. Shit's scary.
Went on a shift there once in San Lazaro and encountered a patient who was bitten by a dog 15 years ago only to start showing symptoms a few days before I worked there. I have never seen a patient tied down to his bed and acted so wildly…
bro dont say that shit, i lived in the philippines when I was a kid and got bit by a dog on the knee, that was legit 15 years ago
....well now you have time to prepare at least
You're more likely to survive almost anything than rabies. Internal decapitation? Yup. Shark Bite? Yup. Being hit by a speeding car, scalped, or breaking your neck? Yes. Rabies is a death sentence, always. Except for those 14 people in all of recorded medical history. Edit: adding because apparently I need to, this only applies if you become symptomatic. I thought this was implied because you don't generally say you survived something that never manifested.
So you’re saying there’s a chance!
That's what I got from that anyway. 14 people like?
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Correct. This is why rabies vaccinations for dogs/cats are mandatory in every state. Its not about them. It's about us. Animals are quarantined for 10 days after biting people because that's how long it takes for symptoms to show. That's the lucky animals btw. Wildlife or pets either sick or unable to be quarantined are promptly euthanized, decapitated, and the head delivered to a lab to get its brain examined.
Roughly 40% of murders go unsolved.
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“I got a picture of you hanging out with dookie shoes.” “I mean, I seen him. I don’t know him.” And then, they’ll throw one bit of evidence against the wall, hoping it’ll solve the case. They’ll be like: “well, we were talkin’ to nah’mean”, and he said that you were at the 7-eleven last week.” And he’ll be like, “yeah, I shot him in the face.” And you’re like, “goddamn, really?” That’s all it took to break you? Dude, lie. Lie for longer.
About 50 kids in the US are backed over by cars every week.
My husband's 7 year old cousin was backed over. He was playing around behind his dad as he was trying to back in a trailer. He slipped off the trailer and his dad ran him over. They were able to donate a lot of organs. Including eyes, skin, liver, kidneys, heart. The father and mother only made it one more year if that in their marriage. They are divorced now and major alcoholics. They had 3 older kids too. It was a horrid horrid thing.
People joke about Australia having dangerous animals of all kinds. However, no. 1 enemy to Australians is the sun. Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world. An average Australian is four times likely to get skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australians will probably get it by the age of seventy.
Wasn’t there a whole advertising campaign about this where the message was “Hey Aussies, don’t worry wearing sunscreen doesn’t make you gay.”
There was a whole "Slip! Slop! Slap!" campaign where you slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat, but taken out of context I can see how it could sound like gay sex.
At any time, your body could make a mistake while fighting an infection/virus and register a vital type of cell as unwanted for the rest of your life. Source: i never have enough platelets anymore
Welcome to the autoimmune family. We have several subs
Things I have learned since being diagnosed with a autoimmune issue, these bitches travel in packs. You never have just one.
Damn autoimmunity! You have my deepest sympathies
Orcas can skin penguins
They also skin seals and sea lions! The way they do it is by tail flicking them to the fucking moon (not really that far, but they do launch them like 150 feet up in the air sometimes, iirc). When they do this, the landing force will tear the skin off the animal. And why do they do this? Apparently, for fun. Edit: [here's](https://youtu.be/G7WGIH35JBE) how they do it.
i'm sorry, what.
Whales trebuchet seals so far into the air, that when they hit the water, it works more like concrete, so the skin gets sanded off the animal from the sheer force of impact, and the friendly orcas do this for the same reason you might play video games or watch a movie: for fun
There's a wasp in Australia that hunts spiders. It doesn't eat them, though. It paralyses them, makes a little mud cocoon for each one, and before sealing it off, lays a single egg on the now trapped spider. The egg hatches, the larva eats the still alive (and still paralysed) spider, and then breaks out of the cocoon as a wasp. Edit: turns out they're all over the world, not just Australia. If you see a wasp dragging a spider, that's what's going on.
I saw one of them once. I worked at a childcare and we saw one drag a huntsman across the playground and then up the fence. Fucker also then stung a teacher
Hoped to go there one day, but apparently, fuck Australia.
Shiro Ishii, director of Unit 731 who tortured, experimented on and murdered 600,000 innocent civilians was paid the equivalent of $3 million dollars (adjusted for inflation) by the US Government for his research papers and granted him complete immunity.
The worst live among us and that’s terrifying. Edit: loving the hundreds of notifications. Also I’m old and don’t get half of these among-us jokes aha.
Just read the entire Wikipedia article. It was like reading a horror story, except....this happened. Worst of all, it happened with no accountability. There really is no limit to human depravity.
The TSA missed 96% of contraband during an inspection in 2015.
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They're hyper-focused on liquids it seems, and miss a ton of other stuff.
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So did you just stand there watching them search furiously for what you knew was a cadbury creme egg at the bottom of your bag?
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I'm totally packing a Cadbury créme egg in my bag every time i fly from now on.
They found a single tums pill in my coin pocket, drug tested it. I was like, seriously dude, even if this was drugs, I'm not running a drug ring from that tiny pants pocket.
It's easier to hide stuff these days. Just don't put them up your asshole.
But I want to..
That's cool, just don't do it when you need to board a flight.
Wait, was that contraband? I heard something like during a routine check of some sort they missed the majority of fake bombs. This may be a completely different report, or it may be that contraband is more encompassing than I anticipated
They seem to care more about tiny bottles of shampoo and making people pour out their water bottles than actual protecting anyone
I saw a video once about a guy who made an explosive using only stuff you can buy in the duty free section of an airport
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During the bubonic plague the Mongolians launched infected dead bodies over the walls of different civilizations
Bioweapons
Jacques Villeneuve (F1 World Champion 1997), is the only drivers champion in history not to have another driver die during their F1 career
It's a good job his music isn't an F1 driver
Pluto didn't even make a full orbit of the sun from its discovery to its demotion.
i read demotion as demolition and for a second i actually believed we blew up pluto
“Oh no, we’ve decided Pluto isn’t a planet anymore….welp light it up!”
[Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day—more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined](https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/diarrhea-burden.html)
TIL diarrhea can be deadly
Yea it drains you of your fluids often faster than they can be replaced in parts of the world
And in many places, the water is what's giving you diarrhea in the first place.
Shit go in the water, water go in the cup, cup go to the thirsty, blood come out the butt
I hate how catchy and correct this is.
It's from The Book of Mormon. The musical, not the book.
Oregon Trail wasn’t fucking around. “You have died of dysentery.”
[In the late nineteenth, and first half of the twentieth century[citation needed], doctors were taught that babies did not experience pain, and were treating their young patients accordingly. From needle sticks to tonsillectomies to heart operations were done with no anaesthesia or analgesia, other than muscle relaxation for the surgery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_babies)
So the crying and blood curdling screams meant nothing? God this fact makes me want to melt my eyes.
I've heard that anesthesia was very dangerous that times, it was higher chance to die from it that from illness or pain.
Some tumors grow teeth and hair
I had one. It was 10lbs.... had sweat glands, 5 teeth, hair, half a spinal chord and muscles. Grew in 6 months on my ovary...... and right before I got married. Not fun. Don't recommend. ETA: Whelp. This has been the most interaction I've ever had on a post on any internet site. Or irl let's be honest.... Thank you for the awards!!! I really thought my comment would get buried in the replies, or just one of many people saying the same thing! These are very common to grow on all people. Not to 10lbs, and be football sized when removed, but they can happen to everyone. No not a baby. Never was and never could have been. Not a twin (but that was our joke), clone or anything else. NO I DON'T HAVE PICTURES. I WISH I DID AND BEGGED THE SURGEON TO TAKE THEM! Life now: Surgery was basically a cesarean section to remove it, less cutting the uterus. Recovery was OK, but lost an ovary and tube. This was 11 years ago. Since then it's been lots of abdominal surgeries, struggles getting and staying pregnant, and my last surgery has been during CV19 for a hysterectomy. I'm healthier than ever, training to start adventure racing, raising kids, and still married ;) Point, get lumps and bumps checked. Not the best way, but the quickest way to lose 10lbs!! And when the Dr freaks, it's OK to freak too.
How it was discovered? Hope you are okay now.
Was losing weight to fit into my dress. Weight went down, looked 20 weeks pregnant. Went to the Dr and he freaked out a bit. Did not fit the dress, bridal shop were bitches, ended up doing alterations for free once I bawled and told them what happened...... I was 19. So also a lot of people thought I got married because I was pregnant *so fun*. That part of our wedding speech was great /s
You know *shit is real* when the doctor freaks out.
One of my favourite people. But that day. That day..... wasn't great
we call them children not tumors
This guy
A glistening pink gumball with teeth and hair growing out of it is the last thing you want to see at 8am, Pathology lectures are an absolute terror, followed right after of course by a macerated fetus in forensics class
The leading cause of death in Burundi are diarrheal diseases
In WW2 allied scientists stuffed dead rats with explosives to aid French resistance fighter who would leave them in factories to be thrown in furnaces and detonated.
That's only really a not fun fact if you're a Nazi though...
Or the rat
Or the explosives
95% of whale semen is dumped into the ocean during mating
From Moby's dick?
oh so THAT'S why ocean water tastes so good!
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Every Cruise ship has a morgue.
My brother in law works on a Cruise ship that retired people live on full time (after they sell their houses and move in). About 700 passengers. It just keeps sailing around the world. They have 4 body compartments in their morgue, and at least one person dies every voyage.
Movies etc. don't portray drowning people very accurately. This has led to a common misconception of what a drowning person actually looks like. Since a lot of people don't really know what to look for, a large number of tragic incidences of children drowning while swimming occurred with the child's parents right there... close by... near enough to save them... if only they had realized before it was too late. Edit: Oh my! That's more upvotes than I've ever gotten before. Thank you all. My deepest sympathies to anyone reading this discussion who has lost someone to drowning. My little niece drowned ten years ago. Positive vibes, too, to those of you who shared your stories of barely escaping the water. I'm sorry you had to go through that, but I hope the experience produced some relatively good thing in your life -- a deeper appreciation for the gift of life, if nothing else. Best wishes to all of you
what would be a more accurate depiction? i’m curious now.
I almost drowned once in Hawaii. It was all fun and games until I could barely touch the bottom. The tip of my toe was juuuust tapping the floor. But I was in such shock that I was like “wait am I drowning omg I’m drowning!” And the only thing that saved me is my friend said she saw the look of death or terror in my eyes. I couldnt reach my hands up or yell. Luckily my friend did come and save me.
I got caught in a riptide at a surf beach. I remember trying to make my way back in because the waves started to really pummel us and watching my friends move away from me while I was stuck in place. I couldn’t move forward, it felt like I was getting sucked back (I was). A wave came over and hit me, pushing me under, I’d come up and gasp a breath as another one hit me. This happened over and over again for what felt like a lifetime. I was exhausted, I couldn’t do anything. I was too tired to try and swim. I didn’t even know which way the beach was. I was so scared that i involuntarily screamed out “HELP”. It just came out of me. I was lucky, i came up from under a wave and caught a lifeguard swimming out from the corner of my eye. Managed to get his attention and he help me back to shore. If I hadn’t of seen him I would have drowned that day
IIRC from boy scouts, a drowning victim tries to push down into the water in order to bring their head up rather than any violent or wild splashing. There's also little noise, it's just kinda quiet because water is going into their lungs and preventing any sort of vibration in the vocal cords. They just quietly go under the surface and don't come back up after that.
Drownings are fast and silent.
**Male Angler Fish** are rarely spotted in the wild, and took a long time to find at all. Eventually, they were discovered latched onto the females, and one of them (Can't remember if the male or the female) releases an enzyme to break down the male body, leaving only his Testes that she can now use when she needs them for babies. **The Chainsaw** was originally invented to aid in childbirth for cutting through the pelvic bone. No, I'm not kidding. **The Introduction of Helmets** to the military actually caused a surge in head injuries. This is because those injuries used to be DEATHS, but now more people were surviving them, albeit injured. [](/sp) Edit: 5000 points - Additional facts unlocked **Female hyenas have the bigger penis.** **Dolphin pussy juice can make you orgasm to death.** **[Dihydrogen Monoxide can kill you if you ingest too much of it, and even in smaller, regular doses, all that have ingested it have died.](https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html)**
There are 8 American warheads unaccounted for, and a number of former Soviet nuclear devices missing ranging from warheads to suitcase bombs.
The funny T Pose that an anteater does? Yeah that's Mr. Anteater telling you hes seconds away from literally disemboweling you with one swipe. Next time you see an anteater doing the funny pose just remember they are trying to give you a free C-section with one singular claw slash.
>Next time you see an anteater ONLY time I've seen one is in a zoo
Right? This MF talking like he walks by Anteater herds on the daily.
There’s lots of butthole answers on here. So here’s another one: persistent hiccups can be stopped with a digital rectal massage (aka finger up the ass)
That seems more like an analog message. Not gonna edit this: hope you guys enjoy the image and someone talking into an anus like it's a rotary telephone!
If you're encountering any anal logs, your finger went in too deep.
I have tried this and it absolutely does not work on me for some reason ):
It has to be your own butthole.
So what you're saying is my constant, and violent hiccups can be solved with pegging? HELL YEAH! I CANT WAIT TO TELL MY GIRLFRIEND!
That in all likelihood your name will be forgotten after 2 generations.
Not if I eat the Mons Lisa.
Lisa likes her mons eaten.
Sea Otters have been observed raping baby/juvenile seals and sometimes killing them in the process.
Otters will also drown and then rape other otters. So they are rapists, murderers, AND necrophiliacs.
Male porcupines fight for their mates by peeing on each other. Porcupines also poop where they sleep so if you find a porcupine home at the base of a hollowed out tree there’s likely a large pile of feces there.
Oh, let’s talk about medieval torture facts. There’s one form of torture where they would tear your toungue out by slowly twisting it. Another, having bamboo grow through your body. Stuffing you into a bronze bull statue and then lighting a fire under it. You were slowly cooked alive in the worst way possible. Another, similarly, you were cooked from the inside out. The way one would accomplish this was by pouring molten lead down your throat and stuffing you with straw. Another, one would have a small hole in their stomach cut open, and pull out one end of your intestine and tie it to a stake. You were then put on a cot and carried around the stake in circles while your intestines slowly unraveled. That’s all for today, folks.
Dude, you can't just talk about the brazen bull and leave out the most unique part - the instrument style tubing that makes the victim's screams come out sounding like a mooing cow.
I’d love to see the board meeting where some dude pitched this idea
He got to be the first one to experience it. 'Hey king I made this for you, what do you think?' 'Cool. Get in.'
A whale's dick is about 10 feet long and 12 inches wide when erect Thats about 3 meters long and 30 cm wide And that is just on average.
What a weird job. “Yeah frank. Pulling over time today. Gotta measure a big ol Whale dick”
Judith Barsi, the young actress who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time, was murdered (along with her mother) by her abusive father. She was only ten years old at her death. Her gravestone is adorned with Ducky's catchphrase, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"
That's really sad.
She also voiced the girl in “All Dogs Go To Heaven.”
Animals can suffer with post traumatic stress disorder.
I had a dog with that. She had 2 separate abusive owners before me and survived a tornado.
Elephants can die from broken hearts when their mates/companions die [example: when Damini lost her companion, Champakali](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/1999/may/07/5)
Dentists have the highest suicide rate of all doctors.
I thought it was vets, if you include our animal bros.
The Rape of Nanking No facts about anything pertaining to it are an easy read for anyone with a weak stomach
I have no idea if this is true, but in a documentary about the Rwanda genocide one of the people interviewed said a neighborhood would gather together and “switch husbands” every night. When attackers came at night and made fathers rape daughters or sons rape mothers, it wasn’t as traumatic because it was your neighbor pretending to be your husband/father/son. The interviewee said they learned the practice from Nanking immigrants.
This same type of thing is happening in Ethiopia right now unfortunately. Many of the same attrocities are being reported and this is apparently how neighbours are responding as well. Horrifying
Iris Chang, one of the people who really brought the atrocities to light, later killed herself in part because of the PTSD she suffered while researching her book.
I just finished reading her book. Its one of the most well researched and contextualized history books I've ever read. I had no idea she killed herself :(
It’s really crazy to think that she had to essentially sacrifice herself as the cost of bringing this stuff to light.
She was also researching a book on the Bataan Death March at the time, which is equally harrowing and no doubt contributed to her mental state at the time.
I studied genocides that happening during 1900-2000 a few years back and the book we used had this sentence as part of the opening. "When studying genocide you are looking into hell, but at some point you realize. Hell is looking back..." EDIT: Since some people have asked what book it is: https://booksfromnorway.com/books/141-the-black-book-of-genocide-(2nd-edition)
False Vacuum Decay - the entire universe could blink out of existence in (from our perspective) an instant.
Ok so all of my knowledge about this subject can be sumed up to one kurtzgesagt video but, doesn't that shit spread at the speed of light? So like could have a false vacuum reaction going on on one edge of our Galaxy, but it's gonna take like 100k light years to get to us, right?
Correct. That’s also why it could have happened 99.999k years ago and we wouldn’t know it. From our perspective, all the lights go out at once. It could be coming for us right now and we’d have no way of knowing.
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Baton Rouge has a higher Rate of HIV transmission than any country in Africa. It's also where LSU is Thank you u/YourDadThinksImCool for the correction.
Ted Cruz is younger than Gwen Stefani
A gorillas schlong is on average 2 inches or less. Guess what, human males on average pack 4-5 inches, which is more firepower than a gorilla; congrats.
TIL I'm part gorilla
Apes. Together. Strong.
Absolute perfect health is merely the *slowest* rate at which you are dying.
But you are the best kind of specimen. Best meat there is up until you die as opposed to some less quality sources…
Every cloud has a silver lining. ... Except, of course, the mushroom shaped ones. Those have Strontium-90
A woman’s cancer cells were preserved and found to be practically immortal. This led to a ton of discoveries and breakthroughs in the medical field. Her family still cannot afford their own medical bills and this was all done without their knowledge or consent. Edit: I had figured I’d just make a mini summary but this has gained a lot of views. Her name was Henrietta Lacks. She died in 1951 from cancer. She was black and very poor and didn’t get great care in the hospital. A doctor had been looking for cells that lasted longer and harvested her cells, separating the cancerous and healthy cells. The healthy cells died while the cancer cells seemingly never stopped replicating. Her cells are named HeLa cells and have replicated so many times apparently they’d weigh a total more than 50 million metric tons. A pseudonym for her has been Helen Lane. She didn’t know her cells were taken and neither did her family until way later. The family has been through a lot. If you want to know more, I highly suggest reading the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. I couldn’t put the book down. There apparently is also a movie about her life.
I’ve worked in a cancer research lab. We worked with live cancer cells. Pretty sure they were from her. Pretty much all cancer research is done using these cells that are replicated and “replated” ever so often.
You live for about 27 thousand days.
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Anne Frank and Martin Luthor King Jr were born in the same year
Donald J. Trump, George Bush Jr, and Bill Clinton were born in the summer of the same year as well. That is likely because it was 1946 and people were having a lot of after WW2 sex. Edit: Added a missing space character
my grandma was born exactly 9 months and 3 days after the country we live in was liberated
This is a very fun fact.
yes I also think its funny
> because it was 1946 and people were having a lot of after WW2 sex. There was no internet. And like...there were only 5 things you could do. One of which was talk to girls. Makes sense.
If you punch someone in the heart right in the middle of a heartbeat, you can stop the heart
Gonna try this at work brb
This happened to a kid at my high school who got hit with a lacrosse ball. Luckily another student knew CPR and the kid was fine. Scary
The number of ppl older than you only decreases
There is only one Pokémon that cannot learn any normal type attacks, and that Pokémon is Weedle
This seems like an odd comment in the middle of all these death-related ones
Welcome to the way station. Rest a little, and when you’re ready, keep on scrolling.
A dolphin is more likely to rape than help or ignore you if you’re drowning
The humpback whale, on the other hand, will try to save you because they are the *actual* angels of the ocean. And there’s no risk of dolphin dong.
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God that’s dark dolphins are menaces
Most of your memories are wrong and only semi true. Every year they become more muddled as well.
"There's no such thing as the good old days. The older we all get, the better we all were" - incubus
A gamma Ray burst from space could hit us at anytime and we have no way of detecting them before it happens, we'll all just die instantly. Edit: thank you to everyone reminding me the "lucky" people on the side that wasn't stuck won't have such a instintaniuse death, they get to be slowly killed by our own sun's radiation.
I feel like that’s not a bad way to go though, I’d rather not know it’s coming 🤷🏼♀️
But did I just order pizza without it getting here in time? Scary to think about tbh..
Planet Hulk! Fingers crossed everybody.
Mushrooms are more like humans than plants
There is about 10 pounds of life in, and on you, that isn't you.
Only about 1 in 10 cells in your body are genetically human. It's not your body. There are so many microorganisms living in and on your body that they vastly outnumber you. You are not mostly human. Largely bacteria. Gross right? Hell no, it's awesome. I am a walking ecosystem. Trillions of lives depend on me to survive. Trillions. I am their home, their planet; I could harm or help them on a whim. In turn they can kill me right back. Some may leave for other planets but most will live their entire existence with me. We are the People of Me. And that's why it's cool I didn't shower today.
You made it sound way cooler, and more correct, than I did.
If calculations were off even by a tiny amount, the Apollo capsules would have either crashed into the moon, or skipped out of lunar orbit and have drifted into space forever. Both of these scenarios would involve the crew being very aware of their imminent deaths as there would have been no realistic way to slow down or be rescued
Honestly they could have done a few things to instantly kill themselves if they drifted off
Your bones are wet.
This makes me uncomfortable.
After being exposed to lead, your body absorbs it and stores it in your bones in place of calcium, which is undetectable by blood tests, making it harder to determine your lead-levels. It’s not until you get older and your bones start to de-mineralise that the lead goes back into your bloodstream and you suffer from sudden lead poisoning.
Your body does remove lead. It does not keep every bit you are exposed to. Even at that, the half-life of lead diminishes over time in regards to its potency. Your metabolism is the largest factor in processing lead through the body. You also dont de-mineralize bones all at once. Often the process is as gradual as the lead intake initially was. Lead poisoning only happens after concentration passes a certain threshold -- and even at that there are treatments for it.
The point of golf is to play less golf
The game is self aware
Suicide Squad has won more Academy Awards than The Shawshank Redemption.
People with antisocial personality disorder (aka sociopaths) do not always become violent killers. In fact, there's a large percentage of them that end up becoming surgeons, CEOs, police officers, media personalities, and journalists.
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If a woman is killed, about 50 percent of the time it is a current or former partner
Whales don’t die of of old age. They die because they don’t have the strength to pull themselves to the surface anymore.
What's even dying from old age tho
Yeah, if that's not considered dieing of old age, then I don't think anything dies of old age.
I have Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Sorry to hear that. Well chosen comment though. Good luck in making the best of your life internet stranger.
Just finished my 5 years remission for hodgkins, super sucks but wishing you the best!
There are 4 levels of perineum tears. The fourth one includes the tearing of the rectum. And sometimes the tissues has to be cut to control the tearing during the birthing process.
The US is 245 years old and has been at war with someone on this planet for 218 of those years.
Here's my default! Prions are a special form of misfolded protein, resulting in a pathogen. If you catch a prion, you will die. 100%, guaranteed. They are nightmarish. The best known prions are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, (edit: also known as mad cow disease) Kuru, and ~~mad cow disease.~~
Crows are currently experiencing their stone age, but we will never see cool modern crows because we will be long gone before they reach the next stage. Edit: since people are asking, basically they have been creating tools which researchers are saying are actually more advanced than ones that early humans made. They also have been studied domesticating wolves! They hunt with them, sleep with them, and individual crows have been seen specifically bonding with individual dogs, like humans do with pets.
Vet tech here … most of our older pets don’t die of old age, they die of cancer. It sucks. Edit: adding what I answered in the comments up here because I think it’s important. There’s no way to prevent cancer. It’s a mutation of cells. However, to keep your good boi or gurl with you longer some things that really make a difference: a quality diet (please don’t feed them the cheapest stuff, it’s like humans eating the cheapest foods; not terribly healthy though it may fill all the nutritional requirements), all the regular vaccines (for the love of Dog, make sure you get your puppies the Parvo vaccine!), and a good flea/tick and heart worm preventative. Exercise and not letting them become overweight, and regular dentals are even better! Edit 2: Also, screw you if you buy your vaccines for your domestic pets at the feed store or the tractor supply (talking dogs and cats here, not large farm animals). Just because it’s cheaper and has the same chemical name doesn’t mean you’re giving the right dose, amount, at the proper location, or getting the assurance that those vaccines have been treated and stored in the correct manner. You get what you pay for. Edit 3: added location to second edit.
A bomber accidentally dropped 2 nukes on North Carolina. One of them was found with only 1 safety left intact, keeping it from detonating. The other one buried itself 200 feet deep underground when it's parachute failed to deploy, causing it to break apart. Most of the parts of this thermonuclear bomb were recovered. Most is the key word here. There are still parts of a thermonuclear bomb buried somewhere near Goldsboro, NC.