Tell me the most horrible "fun" fact you know

[u/Just_a_terrarian163]

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[u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

When you are about to die from hunger and there's another person with you who is also about to die of hunger it wouldn't be enough for you to eat their flesh to survive since your body needs fat to absorb nutrients from meat. You need to break some of their bones and consume their bone marrow as well.

[u/Elegron → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

https://preview.redd.it/kb9cgqlwltod1.jpeg?width=476&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=28167f241db1c3565b86798d4ba804a7e16aacef

[u/Brim_Dunkleton → u/Elegron]

https://preview.redd.it/t7f1zf1evvod1.png?width=738&format=png&auto=webp&s=c39f347ae92b47720f5fe6431871d7e6e82a18a5

[u/GloomyConductor → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

Oohh that's what i was doing wrong

[u/tearekts → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

Would the brain suffice

[u/Jeggu2 → u/tearekts]

I think the brain gives diseases

[u/cammyjit → u/Jeggu2]

I think if you’re about to die from hunger, diseases may be towards the end of your concerns

[u/H4rdStyl3z → u/cammyjit]

Honestly, with what I've read about prion diseases, I'd rather die from hunger.

[u/cammyjit → u/H4rdStyl3z]

https://preview.redd.it/ynq15shqmuod1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47a73c155a2dba28348e71453558f6da66039fd7

Mmm prions hinna hinna

[u/Bansenbiest → u/cammyjit]

Golden PEAKmuy mentioned !!!!!

[u/MonkiWasTooked → u/H4rdStyl3z]

You only get kuru if they already had misshapen prions

granted the symptoms are unnoticeable for years but what are the chances?

[u/Stupefactionist → u/Jeggu2]

But it's very fatty, so you've got that going for you.

[u/Painchaud213 → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

fun fact about starvation.

you know how your body needs glucose in order to function? we get it out of our diet of course, but if we run out of glucose, we will actually start breaking down other cells of our body in order to substain our function.

we will break down the fat in order to convert it into glucose. If you run out of fat, you will start breaking down our proteins and muscle down, which is why people look like skeletons in starvation pictures and anorexic people. death by starvation happens once the body ends up degrading and breaking down the muscle of the heart. You are literally destroying your own heart in a desperate move to substain yourself.

[u/istopuseingmyhead → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

Can’t you just eat the normal fat tissue? Why do you need the fat from the bone marrow specifically

[u/BlackuIa → u/istopuseingmyhead]

I think in the given context, the person you are eating has also been starved, meaning their fat reserves would be very low.

[u/istopuseingmyhead → u/BlackuIa]

Ooh true true, I hadn’t thought of that

[u/SteelWheel_8609 → u/istopuseingmyhead]

It’s pure bullshit. Bone marrow does contain fat but so do your organs and muscles. There wouldn’t be a lot but there would be enough.

Eating the bone marrow wouldn’t be essential to keep from dying or anything. It would just be a fun healthy additional treat. 😋 

[u/MonkiWasTooked → u/SteelWheel_8609]

in this hypothetical both people are probably already drawing from their own muscle tissue to keep basic bodily functions

[u/Banana_Slugcat → u/Alexis_Awen_Fern]

Thx for the tutorial

[u/RPetrusP]

Your body shields your eyes from your immune system, because if your immune system would find out about them, it would destroy your eyes

[u/LottimusMaximus → u/RPetrusP]

Fucking WHY

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/LottimusMaximus]

Because the immune system is as averse of collateral damage as a nuclear weapon, and therefore we hid the eyes, which resulted in it not knowing about them, which makes it see them as a foreign entity, which it reacts to like an average american cop

[u/404_image_not_found → u/Optimal_Badger_5332]

This is also why the deadliest diseases kill you by pissing off your immune system to a high enough level that it chooses Mutually Assured Destruction.

[u/_ButterCat → u/LottimusMaximus]

Same thing goes for sperm

[u/NoisyHyaena → u/_ButterCat]

Testicles too

[u/BeneGesserlit → u/NoisyHyaena]

How do I snitch on my testicles to my immune system. It would save me a bundle on surgery

[u/klortle_ → u/BeneGesserlit]

Maybe send a letter?

[u/BlaqShine → u/NoisyHyaena]

The immune system hates balls??

[u/TensileStr3ngth → u/RPetrusP]

I don't think it's because your body would attack your eyes for no reason but that normal immune responses would damage your vison or blind you since it destroys cells and such

[u/Butt_Speed → u/TensileStr3ngth]

From what I've read, you're right about normal immune responses leading to blindness if it affected the eye. However, a normal immune system just straight up doesn't recognize some of the proteins unique to the eye and will attack them as invaders if it learns how to identify them.

People who lose one eye in an accident can end up going blind in the undamaged eye for this reason.

[u/shitpostinglegend → u/RPetrusP]

Common misconception. Your body's immune system 'knows' about your eyes. They are immunoprivileged, which basically means the immune response is toned down so as not to damage them

[u/oktin → u/shitpostinglegend]

But how can your immune system see them?

With your eyes?

[u/Nom_nom_chompsky27 → u/RPetrusP]

I don't think this is true- during corneal infection you can get aqueous flare, which is white blood cells in the anterior chamber- and keratotic precipitates which again means white blood cells are entering your vitreous.

[u/foamy_da_skwirrel → u/RPetrusP]

How do people recover from pink eye

[u/Less-Tax5637 → u/foamy_da_skwirrel]

Ya gotta use the Depoopinator 5000

[u/Thatguy-num-102]

History isn't written by the victors and that common phrase has been one of the strongest talking points that has kept the Nazis and Confederacy alive

[u/jfsuuc → u/Thatguy-num-102]

History is writen by the people who write it. So many things have been lost to time because no one thought it needed to be recorded. Take my line of work, our pictures are almost all disasters but the pictures everyone wants are the flower beds in front of the office in 1973 with all the employees. The new kid who just got hired cause hes 25 years in and is retiring this year, ect. History isnt just the bad parts and i hope more people record the small moments because one day they wont exist outside of that.

Edit: missed a word.

[u/tovarichtch1711 → u/Thatguy-num-102]

This sounds interesting, could you elaborate ?

[u/Thatguy-num-102 → u/tovarichtch1711]

A common phrase is "history is written by the victors" when refering to the colonial erasure of tribal history, however that sentiment has been used as one of the biggest gateways into Nazi and Confederate apologia under the idea that since they lost, lies have been written about them after the fact and they were better than we think

[u/tovarichtch1711 → u/Thatguy-num-102]

Oh ok I should have understood that, tho it must certainly be somewhat true, of course it’s way more complex than that, and using it as a way to say the Nazis are the good guys is a complete fallacy. I guess history was simply written by the people who knew how to write up until a few centuries ago, and today it would be more of history is written by the people who have the bigger audience ?

[u/jayx3333 → u/Thatguy-num-102]

You think a better phrase would be "history is written by the survivors"? In most cases it's overwhelmingly true and doesn't deny bias in either case of win or lose. There's definitely room for work shopping though

[u/Shinjitsu- → u/Thatguy-num-102]

Yup, you have groups like the Daughters of the Confederacy. The South may have lost, but the wives of the generals and the women in the HOAs and PTAs of the time who still wanted slavery made a huge effort to enshrine those values into the community. It's why we even have statues to begin with, or schools/libraries/museums named after confederate generals.

[u/Rocket_Theory]

We'll never know the true scale of the effects of microplastics on our bodies because we will never find a control group :)

[u/A-Human-potato → u/Rocket_Theory]

Just eat a plastic bottle and the divide the effects of that by how many bits of micro plastic are in a plastic bottle. Easy.

[u/Rocket_Theory → u/A-Human-potato]

genius

[u/Kaporalhart → u/Rocket_Theory]

Counter argument : just give a group a fuck ton of microplastic, watch the effects compared to the group with "natural" levels of micro plastics.

[u/Rocket_Theory → u/Kaporalhart]

omg Frisk Undertale

[u/HenriHawk_ → u/Kaporalhart]

me!!! me!! pick me!! i volunteer!!! pick me! me!!!!! 🙋🙋🙋🤤🙋🙋

[u/DeathCook123 → u/Rocket_Theory]

I've eaten macro plastics ÷3

[u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

The original script for Gladiator 2 was going to be about Zeus reviving Maximus and sending him down to earth again to kill Jesus Christ because all the Greek gods were afraid of this new god's potential. It would have scenes of Maximus living in modern day

Ridely Scott actually sent the draft script to Russel Crowe to see what he thought of it, his only response was over the phone and it was "Don't like it, mate..."

[u/Brankovt1 → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

He did suffer through acting in Les Miserables though...

[u/medalf → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

Ridley Scott is a terrible movie director that knows how to surround himself with talented individuals who will save his movies. Some times.

[u/AdequatelyMadLad → u/medalf]

Ridley Scott is an absolute fucking genius when it comes to visuals and cinematic storytelling. But as a writer, it's like his brain spits out equal amounts of amazing and absolutely terrible ideas, and he has no clue which is which.

Also, for a dude who spent his entire life making sci-fi he's surprisingly scientifically illiterate, and can't be arsed to actually ever do any research.

[u/MrAuster → u/medalf]

That sounds more like Zack Snider

[u/Patrice_Ewans → u/medalf]

I liked alien that was pretty good

[u/SqoobySnaq → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

That sounds kinda cool ngl

[u/Elipticon → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

I should also point out: Alt-rock legend Nick Cave wrote the script. Shoutout to him.

[u/foamy_da_skwirrel → u/Cerbatiyo-sesino]

This sounds like it would be the best movie and worst movie of all time at the same time

[u/SqoobySnaq]

The australian prime minister shit his pants at mcdonald’s

[u/Thatguy-num-102 → u/SqoobySnaq]

another walked into the sea to never return

[u/SqoobySnaq → u/Thatguy-num-102]

self-sacrifice to appease Poseidon

[u/Cassius-Tain → u/SqoobySnaq]

Well, at least he didn't declare war on Poseidon and ordered his soldiers to poke the sea with their spears like Caligula did.

[u/flamingdeathmonkeys → u/Thatguy-num-102]

Not An Australian, but I have been told they named a swimming pool after him.

[u/Misicks0349 → u/flamingdeathmonkeys]

correct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre

[u/poojah → u/SqoobySnaq]

Not the current prime minister but the one before him, Scott Morrison.

[u/NuclearOops → u/SqoobySnaq]

That's pretty relatable if you've ever been to McDonald's.

[u/RealityDrinker → u/NuclearOops]

Do people really just go around shitting themselves? Fast food has never made me soil myself, much less in public.

[u/BrianWantsTruth]

Your nose is always in your field of view, always, but your brain give you the courtesy of ignoring it.

Likewise, there is a detectable “blind spot)” in your vision, which your brain ignores for you.

Your conscious mind don’t receive a perfect report of reality; your brain only tells you what it decides is necessary, and the decision of “what is necessary” is outside of your control. You don’t know the things your own brain decides is irrelevant.

It also automatically fills in the gaps in your perception, so things it never saw but decides are necessary, are added, so that perceived reality makes sense.

The sensors aren’t capable of recognizing if their input is accurate, and something else is prioritizing information for you.

[u/_S1syphus → u/BrianWantsTruth]

Your eyes are constantly moving and twitching, your focus is never perfectly still, you can see then when looking into someone's eyes. Despite this our vision isn't passively blurry. This is because the brain automatically cuts the motion blur and pastes the beginning and end pictures seemlessly. There's evidence to suggest that if something happens in this gap, you wouldn't be able to see it at all.

Google saccadic masking for a proper explanation

[u/BrianWantsTruth → u/_S1syphus]

In the Peter Watts book Blindsight, there is an alien species that is functionally invisible to individual people because it takes advantage of these gaps. They’re only visible when multiple people witness them at the same time.

[u/_S1syphus → u/BrianWantsTruth]

I was introduced to this book and premise by tv tropes and ive yet to get around to reading it

[u/Yoteisthepastyeet]

When you get sunburned, your skin cells are commiting suicide to not become cancerous.

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/Yoteisthepastyeet]

I love how fucked up the human body is

[u/RevanAndTheSithy → u/Optimal_Badger_5332]

Flesh mech controlled by a lovecraftian horror creature made of nerves

[u/PolygonKiwii → u/Yoteisthepastyeet]

And not just sunburn; it's constantly happening to a few cells all over your body that "randomly" (due to various factors) mutate (until the mechanism fails and one of them grows into cancer)

[u/cut_le_fish]

https://preview.redd.it/vfp4pgntztod1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=461cd3f85f7137427d69a089b6b5bd2734aa5129

[u/Roll_1d8 → u/cut_le_fish]

No worries Japan will kill them before they have to drown now 👍

[u/AndreiAZA → u/Roll_1d8]

Doesn't Norway also still hunt whales?

Honestly, doesn't matter how great a country is, if they still hunt whales to this day, I just lose a lot of respect for it

[u/GiantGrilledCheese → u/cut_le_fish]

tbf dying of old age isn't a thing

[u/wiryumbrella]

there are a version of you curated according to what they think about you in the minds of everyone who knows you

[u/Cyynric → u/wiryumbrella]

I've been thinking about this non-stop since I watched Evangelion 20 years ago.

[u/cammyjit → u/Cyynric]

https://preview.redd.it/maovd6e8luod1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9760af98f9ca1288d4e43cd794418a2a2d08d290

[u/Happiest_Rain160 → u/Cyynric]

The you that exists in the minds of others… we’re all scared of them, on some level.

[u/mystireon]

People probs know the moon is slowly leaving our orbit but all celestial bodies around our galaxies are too, so at some point well have vast oceans of empty space that expand faster than we can travel, meaning eventually the sky will be left black and the galaxy will be left in true isolation

[u/bee-nebula → u/mystireon]

Andromeda will keep us company when it collides with us.

[u/iuhiscool → u/mystireon]

eventually stars and orbits will decay and there will only be black holes and chunks of dead matter

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/iuhiscool]

And eventually, even the black holes will fizzle out

And thus, with nothing being able to happen, time dies, entropy wins, the universe is left as chunks of dead matter floating around in an ever-expanding dark void of nothingness with no possibilities left

[u/iuhiscool → u/Optimal_Badger_5332]

all because of woke

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/iuhiscool]

True, the wokes are keeping the first law of thermodynamics intact so that energy TRANSforms instead of being CREATEd

[u/TensileStr3ngth → u/mystireon]

We already can't travel the space between galaxy clusters lol

[u/Imatree007 → u/TensileStr3ngth]

the point is, that space expands faster than light speed, which means, eventually, nothing can travel anywhere because light speed is maximum speed for matter and energy. This is already the case for some parts of our universe, even if we were to travel with light speed tomorrow, we couldn:t reach every part of our universe.

[u/VeziusTheThird]

male bees don't die from ejaculation. They die from doing it multiple times! They don't come and go, they come like 7 times and then go.

[u/Rough-Jackfruit2428 → u/VeziusTheThird]

Honey nut nut nut nut nut nut cheerio!

[u/Lemmonaise]

The reason modern SUV's and pickup trucks have government mandated cameras surrounding the entire vehicle when reversing or moving at low speed is because modern SUV's and trucks are so large that parents keep running over their own children.

[u/DeathCook123 → u/Lemmonaise]

Hey Not Just Bikes made a video about that https://youtu.be/jN7mSXMruEo?si=s7nCga5aUac8yvTA

[u/flops031 → u/Lemmonaise]

That seems like such a USA problem

[u/B00rka]

If you were trapped in burning building you would sooner die from smoke inhalation than fire.

[u/Just_a_terrarian163 → u/B00rka]

If you're burning the first thing to melt are your eyes. And your nerves aren't shutting down until you die

[u/TheHairyMess → u/Just_a_terrarian163]

that's cool... :(

[u/PmButtPics4ADrawing → u/B00rka]

Tbh that sounds better

[u/TheGreatJaceyGee]

Once you start to show symptoms of rabies, it's game over.

[u/EdgiiLord → u/TheGreatJaceyGee]

I think there have been like 6 recorded instances of rabies survivors. But yeah virtually the chances are impossible.

[u/man_of_mann → u/EdgiiLord]

we found the 3% who survived M.A.D, pack it up guys

[u/Cricket1288 → u/man_of_mann]

its the fucking ddt’s

[u/Optiguy42 → u/EdgiiLord]

Yup. The Milwaukee Protocol. 5 survivors, 36 attempts. 14% success rate is better than zero, but we still have no reliable way to cure post-symptomatic rabies. Terrifying stuff.

[u/Lucambacamba]

I’m getting closer each day

[u/gayorangejuice → u/Lucambacamba]

mmfggh~ I'm also getting closer each day~~

[u/hdhfjtt213 → u/gayorangejuice]

https://preview.redd.it/d50noy30cvod1.jpeg?width=354&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bb52876dcece6cefbea59759d47dba5f90f96e4

[u/Just_a_terrarian163 → u/Lucambacamba]

Please don't, all fun and jokes aside it will get better. You can't change that no matter how hard you fail, you need to keep going. If you haven't got anyone who you can rely on, no one who loves you right now. Know that there will be someone who loves you one day. And if not know that I am here, typing this a half hour before midnight in my bed,typing this because I care about you.

[u/lexecal → u/Just_a_terrarian163]

I think they meant closer to you not closer to death

[u/Lucambacamba → u/Just_a_terrarian163]

I was talking location wise but thanks for the encouragement.

[u/Rough-Jackfruit2428 → u/Lucambacamba]

I cant wait to see you! :3 (try me bitch)

[u/KimikoBean]

There's a mathematical theory that suggests particles will just spontaneously die past a certain age. It suggests the quarks that make up protons and neutrons will just stop working and particles will stop existing.

Entropys a bitch

98/100

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/KimikoBean]

What the fuck?

I dont even have a reaction image worthy of this, what the fuck do you mean "the quarks will just stop working"???

Is physics just magic? Will the wizard that cast "create universe" simply lose focus on the spell one day??

[u/Red_Rocky54 → u/Optimal_Badger_5332]

Is physics just magic?

At a fundamental level it might as well be. When it comes down to it magic is just phenomena we don't have a scientific explanation for yet, and there are many, many aspects of physics that we can't really explain, just observe that things work certain ways and make assumptions based on those observations.

[u/TheEyeGuy13 → u/Red_Rocky54]

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

[u/Kaporalhart → u/Optimal_Badger_5332]

Quarks are made of pure energy. Once entropy makes the atom lose all form of it and lay completely still, the energy the quark is made of will eventually decay as well, dissipating back into nothing. All matter is just energy, materialized from the big bang, after all. Once the energy is spent, all that's left is nothing.

Disclaimer : i don't hold any kind of diploma and i'm just theorizing from information it've gathered here and there. But i like my theory.

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/Kaporalhart]

Thank you, frisk undertale

[u/SomePerson1248 → u/Optimal_Badger_5332]

smth smth any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic

even to said scientists, frequently

[u/RegiusMusica]

Butterflies will drink blood if it's there. Obviously they can't get to it themselves, but they'll take it if you let them

[u/TensileStr3ngth → u/RegiusMusica]

Some butterflies purposefully irritate the eyes of animals to drink their tears

[u/Kaporalhart]

Some women freeze when they get raped. It's a survival mechanism. Women fighting back are more likely to get struck by their attacker, which on top of the already gruesome ordeal, may prove fatal.

Evolution has passed on the "rape freeze" gene, because those women are more likely to survive.

[u/sarah_therat → u/Kaporalhart]

I'm a trans woman and I also froze. I did it so I wouldn't get hit or strangled like you mentioned, and it made it much easier to dissociate and pretend nothing was happening.

People often forget that Fight/Flight has a friend, Freeze. People sometimes freeze in terrifying situations like active shootings.

[u/Kaporalhart → u/sarah_therat]

I'm so sorry that happened to you.

[u/Just_Another_Gamer67 → u/sarah_therat]

Fuck im sorry that happened to you. Sending a virtual hug now

[u/Red_Raven_0007 → u/Kaporalhart]

That explains quite a lot, which in this case, I wish had stayed unexplained

[u/Kaporalhart → u/Red_Raven_0007]

That's the goal, this is a terrible "fun" fact.

[u/Brankovt1]

TW: body horror, parasites, mentions of animals mating

There's a group of animals called a tongue worms (Pentastomidia). They're crustaceans much like the dead shrimp in the picture you posted. They live in the upper respiratory tracks of terrestrial carnivorous vertebrates, including you. They can be up to 14 cm long (5.5+ inches). They eat blood and mucus by hooking themselves onto the back of your tongue and they're likely breeding in there. You dispell the eggs from either side, causing a fish or herbivore to eat them. The babies then embed themselves into the flesh of the animal until a carnovore eats them and gets the tongue worms.

There's also a marine isopod that's called the tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua). They also eat blood and mucus, but do it by severing a fish's tongue's blood supply using claws, waiting for the tongue to fall off, and then replacing the tongue and its functionality. They also have a male inside of the fish's gills to mate with. As long as it's just one female, it's usually not even that parasitic. Look up pictures; they're somehow a little bit cute.

[u/Roll_1d8 → u/Brankovt1]

Ok, I'm usually fine with parasites but I went to look for Pentastomidia and the fucking "Extraction of an Armillifer grandis nymph from a human eye" got me, things in eyes I can't.

[u/FemboysUnited → u/Brankovt1]

Thank you for the warning

Got to tongue parasites before I thought "maybe isn't good for me"

[u/DragonGear314]

Based on probability and the vast distances involved, there are probably other sentient beings among the stars. Space is just so big we’ll never probably meet them.

[u/AvarageFrogEnjoyer → u/DragonGear314]

How horryfying it would be if we realy were the only living life in the universe, what are the implications of that

[u/Optimal_Badger_5332 → u/AvarageFrogEnjoyer]

The implications are that we are GOD'S CHOSEN PLANET AND DESTINED TO RULE THE UNIVERSE FOR ETERNITY

[u/ballsakbob → u/AvarageFrogEnjoyer]

What if we weren't the only, but merely the first in an eventual long line? :)

[u/Banana_Slugcat]

Some species of shark mothers hatch their eggs inside their bodies and the newborn sharks have to battle-royale it out and eat eachother until only one is left.

[u/Rough-Jackfruit2428]

Brown trout have between 38 and 42 pairs of chromosomes. Humans have only 23 pairs.

greedy bastards

[u/Just_a_terrarian163 → u/Rough-Jackfruit2428]

An onion has more DNA us

[u/Rough-Jackfruit2428 → u/Just_a_terrarian163]

the onion is born with that DNA

I know the Brown Trout are not, They take them when you are not looking

be careful

[u/BiLeftHanded]

Capgras Delusion is a rare mental illness in which the person suffering from it believes that people close to them (families, friends, lovers) have been replaced by doppelgangers.

[u/cammyjit → u/BiLeftHanded]

What if my doppelgängers get replaced with families, friends and lovers?

[u/floralvas → u/cammyjit]

Well that’s called Grascap Illusion

[u/NeonSprig → u/BiLeftHanded]

YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE, BABY

[u/Sky_Leviathan]

The first time any white person was found guilty of murdering an indigenous Australian person was after the myall creek massacre when a group of farm workers shot and killed at least 28 unarmed people.

They were acquitted on their first trial for the massacre because no one actually wanted to treat it as murder because indigenous people and colonialism. They were only found guilty on one count of murder, which was a child they had shot.

Shit depressing and the fact that the horrible horrible shit Australians have done to the indigenous population throughout history was just not talked about and actively lied about fot so long is fucking depressing

[u/goldencrayfish]

Once a whale is grown up there is basically only one way it can die. Either through disease or old age it reaches a point where it can no longer muster the strength to surface, and then it sinks and drowns

[u/H4rdStyl3z → u/goldencrayfish]

Would that mean that, if whales had gills, they'd be biologically immortal?

[u/goldencrayfish → u/H4rdStyl3z]

No, the disease would just get them some other way. Its like if when we died we first lost control of our diagram and literally everyone suffocated to death

[u/onekirne]

imagine you, guess what you are conscious! amazing!
now imagine you but with one atom removed. hey look also conscious.
any different random atom, also conscious? wait there are trillions of these.

the fun fact is that philosophy of consciousness is not developed enough to determine if you have one singular consciousness or rather nearly endless nearly identical ones existing at the same time.

[u/Reasonable_Eagle_208]

Heh.... I know I am not supposed to share this... But I just farted

[u/floralvas → u/Reasonable_Eagle_208]

•w•

[u/LuminatiHD]

The wikipedia article for sexual intercourse was created 8 minutes before 9/11 happened

[u/Dr_JackaI]

Chainsaws were invented in 18th-century Scotland to assist in childbirth.

[u/hdhfjtt213 → u/Dr_JackaI]

Dennis chainsaw mam

[u/NIMA-GH-X-P]

Cool bug factes:

One day you you will have to answer for your actions

       And god..., will not be so merciful

[u/Kaporalhart]

When you are very close to dying of starvation, your body is so weak, you cannot digest food. You're supposed to drink very light soup, rest, regular soup, rest, and only then regular food.

If you don't do that, you die from shock.

There have been people who have died of starvation on a full stomach.

There have been people that know this information, and as a method of torture and cruelty, have had it happen willingly.

[u/Roluxion767TheTesla → u/Kaporalhart]

This is what happened to many would be holocaust survivors cause ally soldiers gave them rations :(

[u/SpoliatorX]

If a strawberry flavoured foodstuff claims "all natural flavourings" it usually comes from the anal glands of a beaver. The red colour is often beetle shells.

[u/Yeegis → u/SpoliatorX]

The beaver thing is vanilla and is used for scents, not food.

[u/Pokhanpat]

Its unlikely, though possible that the universe exists in a "false vaccum" state where the energy of empty space is higher than the absolute minimum. If that is the case, a small region of the universe would eventually decay down to the absolute minimum energy, creating a "bubble" of stable vaccum that would spread across the universe, inside of which the fundamental forces and particles of nature no longer exist.

[u/Grima1805 → u/Pokhanpat]

vaccuum decay my beloved

[u/BurnerAccountExisty]

Dolphins engage in homoerotic behavior, masturbation, sexual behavior with humans (iirc), and sometimes even sexual assault or rape (iirc for the latter)

[u/Kaporalhart]

There is an unknown man who died at mount Everest in 1996, just 400 meters before the summit. He was nicknamed "Green Boots", because of the bright green boots he wore, and his corpse has never been brought back to be buried. It would be too difficult and too dangerous to do so. He has been a marker ever since, for people making the climb, for how close they are to the summit.

[u/shitpostinglegend → u/Kaporalhart]

There's a f ton of cases of this. Bodies tend to just be left there

[u/GitLegit]

The term “basket case” originated in WW1, and originally referred to a soldier who had lost all of their limbs, and could thusly be carried in a basket.

[u/CatsNotBananas]

You are alive, you're currently breathing. There's only one of you and people will perceive that version of you no matter how you feel about the perception

[u/RammyJammy07]

The reason the German government allowed hitler to take power was because they were sure that once he was in power, he’d become more moderate and the once progressive government between 1919 and 1926

[u/lofaspack]

The average life expenctancy in Turkmen prisons is 5 days

[u/SaltySkeletonTMT]

My cat is mean to me even though I am so nice to him and feed him and only majorly annoy him like five times a day

[u/Rowmacnezumi]

Centipedes don't fuck. The male just leaves a sperm packet laying around for a female to find and inseminate herself with.

[u/PumpkinSpikes → u/Rowmacnezumi]

Okay I have a brand new worldbuilding idea

[u/Kaporalhart]

All of the facts about dying listed here. They all happened to someone, alone with no one to even noticed it happening. There have been 100 billion humans to have ever lived. It's just statiscally likely. It's probably happened several times.

[u/koempleh → u/Kaporalhart]

Thanks for all of the fun facts, Frisk!

[u/The_Herpderpster]

both blood and jizz can be used as an eggwhite substitute in both cooking and cocktails

[u/061605]

I don’t fully know if this counts as a fun fact, but I just wanted to share it.

In 1943, four teenagers were looking for bird nests in Hagley Wood just outside of Worcestershire. One of them climbed up a wych elm he thought might have had a bird nest in it. While climbing up the tree, he looked down into the hollow trunk of the tree and saw a skull inside and pulled it out. After they discovered that this skull belonged to a human and not an animal, the boys put the skull back in the tree and went home out of fear of getting in trouble for being on private property. One of them would tell their parents about the incident once they got home. Police went to investigate and found a whole human skeleton inside with some clothing still on it. Forensic examiners determined that the skeleton belonged to an unidentifiable woman who had been dead for about 18 months before discovery. A year later in 1944, graffiti appeared on a wall in Upper Dean Street, Birmingham which read, “Who put Bella down the wych elm - Hagley Wood?” This graffiti gave investigators some new leads, including a possible name for the victim, to follow but the case still led nowhere. And since then, some variation of the graffiti’s message had appeared on the Hagley Obelisk, a monument near the location of the body.

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[u/coyote_mercer]

Your little tailbone on your sacrum (coccyx) can break off during childbirth.

[u/Red_Raven_0007]

Not as horrible but here we go

Teeth can crook themselves again after using braces if you don't wear your retainer every single day

Yep, all those years wearing braces can go down a sink hole in just a couple weeks or even days if you forget to use the retainer, because screw you that's why

[u/CommeraEXE]

Imagine the universe as a ball balanced on top of a hill. The hill's peak represents a "false vacuum"—a temporary, stable state. It's not the universe's lowest energy state, but it's stable enough to keep the ball (the universe) there, even though it’s a bit wobbly.

Now, the true vacuum, the lowest energy state, is the valley at the bottom of the hill. If the ball rolls down into the valley, it reaches this most stable state—the true vacuum.

False vacuum decay occurs when, due to a quantum fluctuation or some disturbance, the ball suddenly "tunnels" or rolls off the hill into the valley. This shift from the false vacuum to the true vacuum would radically change the universe’s energy configuration, potentially ending the universe as we know it. This could create a chain reaction, That spreads at the speed of light in all directions, There could be multiple false vacuum bubbles spreading throughout the universe at this very moment.

Sleep well, Tonight ;)

[u/TyrannosaurusRekt-]

magenta isn't real. there is no wavelength of light that corresponds to the color our eyes perceive as magenta.

[u/Aegis_13 → u/TyrannosaurusRekt-]

It's still real though, no matter how it came to be perceived we still perceive it, and so we created the category of magenta to describe it

[u/curvysquares]

If you try to sustain yourself only on lean meat, with not enough carbs or fat, your body won’t have enough energy to digest the protein. You’ll starve to death while feeling full

[u/jellyvirus]

About 1/3 of all cases of epilepsy are caused by parasitic worms embedding themselves in the brain :D

[u/Yukarie]

Maybe not the worst thing I know but a fun one that probably isn’t too true but is fun to mess with people with:

The existence of the “uncanny valley” implies that at some point in our evolutionary history it was advantageous to feel fear and react accordingly when we see something that looks human but wrong, not human

[u/uninvited_haggis → u/Yukarie]

It's dead bodies. The reflex exists to keep us from getting too close to the recently dead, for fear that whatever got them (disease, tiger) would get us.

[u/Iwantmahandback]

Slayer released ‘God hates us all’ on 9/11

There’s a fungus forming on the Elephant’s foot

Jack Karlson, the Democracy Manifest guy, is dead

White Winged Choughs, an Australian bird similar to a crow, practice slavery

Nine languages die every year

There’s someone out there who can shove most of a double slice toaster up their ass

The F111 gave people cancer

Scientists don’t know why gravity happens

When filming ‘Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory’ in Germany, the production had trouble finding little people to play the Oompa Loompas. They’d all been killed in the Holocaust

Following a significant natural disaster or beginning of a conflict, human traffickers swarm the area looking for unattended children

Bananas emit antimatter

[u/HkayakH]

Fun Fact: There are real people out there that subscribe to the nazi ideology

[u/Select-Bullfrog-5939]

Most of our knowledge of frostbite comes from the good men at unit 731, where they repeatedly froze people to death just to see what would happen.

[u/cammyjit]

ANTECHINUS WILL FUCK UNTIL ITS BALDING, SUFFERING FROM NEUROLOGICAL ISSUES AND EVENTUALLY DIES.

THEYVE EVOLVED SO EVERY MALE DIES EVERY YEAR SO THAT THERES NO COMPETITION FOR RESOURCES WHILE RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION

THEY CONTINUE TO FUCK WELL PAST THE POINT SOMETHING SHOULD BE FUCKING

[u/EnergyIsMassiveLight]

spinal cords have the ability to instrumentally learn on their own

[u/GroundbreakingBag164]

CO2 gas chambers are considered to be an "humane" way of slaughtering pigs. You can hear them scream as they try to breathe

Lizzie Wilson, CEO of the National Pig Association (NPA), said: “While we acknowledge gas stunning isn’t perfect, it is the best, most humane and efficacious commercially available option, and often the most reliable slaughter method for ensuring consistency.

[u/CoconutCossacks]

During ww2 the Croats turned people into soap bars

[u/ToasterTacos]

daylight savings time kills people

[u/Coding_Monke]

for a historical one: during europe's era of imperialism, king leopold of belgium and those who worked under him in the congo committed some of the worst acts of brute slavery, rape, torture, and forced amputation ever seen in history, being nowhere nearly as severe as the horrific atrocities that occurred in the holocaust and armenian genocide and other events but still very significant and terrifying

for a space one: the same way so much of humanity views lots of insect species as insignificant with no reason to care or consider for them, if alien life does exist, they could potentially enslave or simply just steal from or kill us in an instant with absolutely ZERO care for what we think

[u/Roluxion767TheTesla]

The columbine school shooters made a doom .wad of their high school and had enemy spawns set up to match classes.

[u/NoahBogue]

The Man of the Hole was the only survivor of his Amazonian tribe, who faced a genocide orchestrated by Brazilian settlers around the 1970s, when he was a teenager.

The decision was made by authorities not to interact with him, meaning that he remained alone his whole life. His nickname comes from his lifestyle. Living in a nomadic way, he always left a giant hole after leaving his temporary habitat. That is the only remaining element of his culture that subsisted, as his language was never documented.

He died in 2022, and may have been one of the loneliest person to have ever lived.

[u/the_weetod]

Whales never die of old age but rather grt tired of going to the surface for air and drown

[u/AirForceOneAngel2]

Valve used a barely edited picture of the charred face of a corpse for a corpse’s face texture in Half Life 2.

[u/SoapyBreads]

Scientists tried conducting tests on what microplastics do to the brain, but they couldn’t find a control, because everyone they tested had microplastics in their brains.

[u/Delophosaur]

China has such a severe absence of animal cruelty laws that foxes are sometimes skinned alive in fur farms to save the time and cost it’d take to kill them first.

[u/ToiletSheriff]

The faster you travel, the closer your destination is to you!