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In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless floated in space completely unattached to anything, 320 feet away from the space-shuttle with only a nitrogen jetpack back.
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In 1987, several French taxi cabs were installed with a device that would shock unruly passengers in the backseat. The then new product was called “the blazing seat,” and it was being marketed as a way of making taxi drivers’ jobs safer.
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A supplement is a product containing one or more vitamins, herbs, enzymes, amino acids, or other ingredients taken orally to enhance one’s diet. Diet supplements provide a missing nutrient in the original diet. Brain Power supplements have a beneficial effect on brain function in different people. These supplements can help boost memory, alertness, motivation, creativity, and general brain function. They can also help reduce age-related declines in brain function. 1. Fish Oils Oils derived from the tissue of oily fish have a number of benefits for the body system, and a very notable one is that it helps the brain
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What life lies beyond the clouds?
What life forces dance among the stars?
What secrets does the sky hold?
What sort of ferocious creature is sitting on a planet waiting to evaporate us?
Or what sort of dark element hides in the vastness of the unknown, biding it’s time to unleash a dangerous fury over all the planets and lives in it’s path?
These are all the lighthearted thoughts I ponder when I think about the Universe and space. And what could possibly be out there.
Sometimes science and knowledge can be more anxiety inducing than fun.
Remember back in the days of middle school? We’d all learn about space and space travel and theorize about what lies beyond and it would be a fascinating process. That was cool.
Or do you recall enjoying films like Alien, Armageddon and Deep Imapct?
We’d watch them and laugh about how none of that could actually happen.
Now cut to 2021 and I’ve lost track of the number of asteroids I hear about that have barely missed us and or are coming for us.
Now who’s laughing? We know next to nothing about what is out there. And the more we discover, the less I want to hear.
And I’m not alone in this opinion.
Redditor ZenitsuCrybaby wanted to discuss all the things we may not want or need to know but do.
“What is the most terrifying fact about our universe/world?”
“Every once in a while, our sun just emits a solar flare big enough to end civilization.”
“In 1859 we had one hit the Earth powerful enough that the telegraph system became self powered for a while before burning itself out.”
“Fortunately at that time, that was pretty much the extent of our electrical infrastructure, so the damage didn’t do too much to civilization.”
“If one hit today without any warning, every system on long spans of wire would be fried. We’d lose a massive amount of infrastructure.”
“No refrigeration for food distribution, large chunks of communication infrastructure gone, massive amounts of manufacturing capacity gone.”
“Pretty much every aspect of life would be affected. And without that infrastructure, we almost certainly don’t have the capacity to rebuild the infrastructure before people start starving to death.”
“And once people start starving, things are likely to go downhill pretty quickly.”
“You might be wondering what are the odds that we’ll ever see another solar storm that large, and the answer is that we already have.”
“On July 23 of 2012, a similarly sized solar flare missed the Earth by 9 days.”
“In the last few decades we’ve added in some early warning systems and protocols to give us a chance of surviving.”
“Basically we’ll get about 45 minutes warning to disconnect as much of the electrical grid as we can, then hope enough of it survives.” ~ open_door_policy
“The universe’s opinion of us: Mostly harmless.” ~ FredGruntbuggly
“What’s even scarier is that if there is other intelligent life out there, it could have stuff one million times stronger than all of the nuclear weapons on earth combined.” ~ ThatOneDoveSlayer
“How unfathomably tiny our planet is in comparison to the continuously expanding universe.” ~Grentis
“The way that the universe operates on such an infinitesimal small scale, but also an impossibly massive scale freaks me out.”
“Even if we can look at the numbers and know the scale, I feel like our minds can’t really conceptualize it.” ~ Reddit
“What’s worse is that not only is the universe continuously expanding, it’s accelerating.”
“Meaning that as time progresses that distant galaxies will literally fade from view, the light emitted from them will never reach us.”
“Eventually the inhabitants of our galaxy will never know of that the universe extends beyond our local group of gravitational bound galaxies.”
“And even eons beyond that… the notion of other galaxies outside the milky-way will be myth.”
“Dark Energy is one cruel witch.” ~ GRVrush2112
“What’s outside the universe?”
“If it’s always expanding, what is it expanding into?”
“Any time I think about this for too long it reminds me about how little I understand about the existence of anything and it scares me.” ~ businessgoose3000
“One of the largest “structures” in the universe is the Boötes void. A void is a region of space that contains very little celestial objects or matter.”
“It is a region of the universe 330 million light years in diameter. Despite this it has been found, so far, to contain only 60 galaxies.” ~ NOVAQIX
“I’ve posted this before but I think about it a lot. Our civilization is so, so early.”
“The universe is expected to continue star formation for 100 trillion years. We exist 13.7 billion years after the big bang.”
“That’s 0.014 percent of the total “habitable” time of our universe.”
“If the big bang was January 1st, 1900 and star formation ends at January 1st, 2000. Then it’s currently January 6th, 1900.”
“What are the chances of that? Why do we exist now, so early, instead of any other point in the rest of time?” ~ TheReaper42
“Humans can’t understand the concept of eternal and we can’t understand the concept of infinite.” ~eggslocated
“That’s why I’m scared of the afterlife, If there is one. The idea of simply ceasing to exist scares me, but the idea of existing eternally also scares me.”
“I simply cannot comprehend the idea of existing forever and ever and ever and ever with no end in sight.” ~ edd6pi
“There could be intelligent life on other planets or we could be the only form of intelligent life in the universe. Either scenario is pretty terrifying.” ~ Thomas_Chinchilla
“To me, being all alone in the vast expanse of space is an extremely interesting possibility.”
“I scoff when people say it would be boring or a waste of space.”
“It would be absolutely fascinating if there was all of that out there, and then just us.” ~ dubspace
“You can be born into a completely awful and nightmarish environment, and never escape it. You’ll be born miserable and die miserable.” ~ DANYALKIM
“There’s also people born into these that do make it out and they’re much stronger for it and go on to ensure that many people don’t end up the way they were.”
“Doesn’t make it any better but at there’s a little glimmer in there somewhere.” ~ Reddit
“We’re not yet at the point of no return for the coming ecological catastrophe and we’re gonna sail past it anyway.” ~ zomboromcom
“Considering the fact that our planet is the only one known to sustain intelligent life in the discovered universe.”
“It reminds you of how many things have to line up perfectly in order for that to be possible.”
“It is a very fragile balance, and certain ecological and atmospheric temperatures/resources/chemical concentrations are essential.”
“Yet we look at the way we are carelessly screwing it up, but it is easy to imagine this one in a million planet becoming unlivable.” ~ twilit_earth
“We have millions of unknown living things on our planet, and most will never be discovered due to humans killing nature.” ~ Cubsfan630
“Tbh it’s not even just humans killing nature. Humans are also just not capable of seeing or hearing tons of things.”
“There could be a giant 4 dimensional uv dragon sitting next to me and if I hear a fart my brain will blame it on the dog cause I can’t see the dragon.”
“Or that’s how I interpreted the other posts on this stuff recently lol.” ~ raspberrykitsune
Well that is a lot to process. I don’t remember middle school and high school science classes being so full doom and gloom.
No matter what is out there, one thing is for sure. Humans… we have to do better!
We all play a part in the survival and the downfall, close to home and far and wide.
I’m going to stick to learning about English Lit now. There couldn’t be anything to worry about there.
Right?
I’m a big fan of horror movies and quite a few of my favorite films happen to be depressing, hard-hitting dramas the average person might not choose to watch.
But truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction and real life can often be much more disturbing than anything we might see on our screens or read in books.
For instance, have you ever heard of the Kaimingjie germ weapon attack? During World War II, the Japanese bombed the Chinese with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
The attack is just one of the many war crimes the Japanese committed against the Chinese, and that’s including the atrocities, among them human experimentation, committed at Unit 731.
If you have the stomach for it—and I have rarely been more serious in my life—the film Men Behind the Sun dramatizes many of these crimes.
It turns out there’s no shortage of disturbing facts out there.
Let’s face it, humans are messed up.
“What was a fact you regret knowing?”
“From personal experience… just how fast pigs… process… a corpse.”
“Had an old goat die in the barn and didn’t find her for a couple of hours. At the time we had two pigs that were a few months old. Didn’t realize just how much we had messed up by letting them be in with the goats that day.”
“Come evening, we go to close up and do the evening chores, and find half of a goat spilled all over the floor with our pigs rooting around the guts. And that’s the story of how fifteen-year-old me learned to respect pigs.” ~ CalamityJay
“More people jumped from the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 than you think. Do yourself a favor and don’t Google it.” ~ GoreyFeldman
“Seriously. I was on a 9/11 kick recently, if you want to call it that, and I came across a documentary on YouTube of footage stitched together from the first plane hitting to the final building collapsing, lasting about 1 hour and 40 minutes.”
“No interviews, just cellphone footage, old home cameras, and some news footage sprinkled in. There’s a section in the documentary of people beginning to jump one after another. It continues on for the rest of the documentary and it’s very disheartening.” ~ TheChubbyBuns
“The Challenger space shuttle astronauts were most likely alive and awake on the way down.” ~ thezoidberg
“An octopus penis is actually one of their tentacles. So if you would go and pet an octopus at Sea World or some other place you could be groping their penis.” ~ TillyOTilly
“Every year thousands of children write to Santa Clause. One of the most requested things children ask for on their Christmas lists is a dad.” ~ jadedgenie
“There was an experiment once where, every hour, a rat had to choose between getting fed or having the pleasure nerve of its brain stimulated. And the rat being tested starved every time. It’s pretty interesting but also kind of sad.”
“Thanks, Freeman’s Mind.” ~ Superflamegameplays
“Yes, but for those experiments, they keep the rats isolated in cages with nothing else to do. So of course they choose that option all the time.” ~ hammermuffin
“Male ducks gang-rape female ducks.” ~ PopcornVT
“Male and female ducks are also in an evolutionary arms race to develop more and more convoluted genitals to prevent/enable the rape. I am not kidding.”
“Female ducks develop more and more convoluted vagina shapes to make it more difficult, and males respond by developing ever longer explosive spiraling corkscrew dicks.
“The females that can control when they mate (only relaxing their vaginal shape when it’s consensual) are more successful and the males who are better at raping are more successful (in the sense of passing on their genes/having more living offspring), so they just keep evolving in that direction.” ~ holysh*treddit
“Your child is more likely to be abused by someone you know than a stranger. You literally have to protect children more from their own family and friends than random criminals.” ~ CerseiLemon
“The fact that at literally any second you could lose someone you love. Everyone “knows” this but once it’s happened a few times you’re acutely aware of it. A car wreck, a miscarriage, a heart attack, stroke.” ~ SaltyTapeworm
“This is dark, but in the U.S., police are not legally obligated to protect you.”
“There was a case where a police department refused to enforce a restraining order or act after a father kidnapped his three daughters because they assumed he would bring them back to his wife eventually.”
“He ended up killing them and driving their bodies to the police station, where he was then shot and killed. The police department was sued for not acting, but was found not guilty.” ~ ecoseeker
“That there are anywhere between 25-50 active serial killers in the United States, according to the FBI.” ~ nmacro
“Flies don’t have teeth. So, when they land on your sandwich and want to eat some, they barf up the contents of their stomach (often containing another animal’s s***) so the digestive enzymes can get on the food and then they eat.” ~ Tmbgkc
We apologize in advance if any of these truly scared the hell out of you. It’s a big, beautiful world out there, but we’d be lying if we told you it’s not without its horrors.
While we’re at it, we’ll leave you with this—did you know that a brain aneurysm can happen at any time?
Aneurysms are unpredictable and may not show any symptoms until they rupture.
That’s a fact that has kept me up at night sometimes. And if you didn’t know about it, then you certainly know now.
Be afraid… be very afraid.
As much as we’re all aware they’re morbid, morally destitute, and thrive on violence above all else, we are fascinated by the lives of serial killers.
Surf through any streaming site and you’re sure to see at least a few documentaries and fictional dramas whose subject is some guy on a killing rampage.
But whether we feel ethically compromised about that interest or not, the content isn’t about to slow down anytime soon.
“What are some serial killer facts/ facts about serial killers that you find extremely interesting?”
“Jeffrey Dahmer…towards the end right before he got caught, had so many bodies in his apartment that he ran out of room and stored one victim in his bathtub. He proceeded to shower over him everyday for a month!”
“Think about that…straddling over a rotten corpse to get fresh and clean for the day. Unreal…” — TrollOfTheInterwebs
“The serial killer Bela Kiss liked to pickle people in barrels stored in his basement. Someone figured it out but they couldn’t get him because he was fighting in World War I. By the time they tracked him down he had disappeared and left a dead guy in his hospital bed.”
“He supposedly joined the French Foreign Legion and deserted that too, and I think history loses track of him after that, with the exception of one possible sighting as a janitor in New York. The janitor disappeared before anyone could confirm it.” — Ayback183
“I am surprised we don’t hear more about Robert Hansen in popular culture. He would kidnap women and turn them loose in the Alaskan wilderness, where he would then hunt them down like animals and kill them.”
“He didn’t have the highest number of victims, but his method of hunting them for sport is absolutely insane.” — glaring-oryx
“Mack Ray Edwards, he was a serial killer who worked for CalTrans. He’d kill his victims and then bury the bodies in places he would later help build the highways over.”
Not all his victims have been found, and many are very likely still under some of the California highways you may have driven over countless times.” — llcucf80
“PeeWee Gaskins, most prolific serial killer in SC drove around in a hearse with a bumper sticker that read ‘I haul dead people.’ He told people that he needed it to take the bodies of people he killed to his private cemetery.”
“He claimed to have killed between 100 and 110 people.” — SCCock
“Jeffrey Dahmer gave the people in his apartment building sandwiches that could’ve possibly been made from his victims’ flesh.” — votedog
“The golden state killer, known at the time as the east area rapist, would often break into the homes of couples, making the woman tie up the man.”
“He would stack dishes on the back of the man and threaten that if he heard the dishes fall, he would kill everyone in the house, then he would rape the woman repeatedly and ransack the house for hours.”
“At a community meeting about the rapist a macho man stood up and went on a rant about how a real man would never let such a thing happen to him or his wife.”
“The rapist proceeded to attack that man and his wife soon after, meaning he was attending the community meeting about himself.” — PM-ME-A-SPICY-MEME
“I find it interesting that apparently the BTK-killer installed alarms at several people houses because of their fear of the BTK-killer.” — bleke_1
“Dennis Rader, aka BTK (Bind Torture Kill) started communicating with police after years of silence in like 2004ish? He had gone decades without being caught and once again started sending taunting letters and items to them.”
“He asked them if he could be traced if he sent them his writings on a floppy disc and they assured him through a communication in a newspaper that no, they couldn’t trace him. He sent them a floppy disc and they found metadata linking to his church.”
“He was arrested shortly thereafter. He was hurt that they would lie to him because he thought they had developed a rapport…” — goatywizard
“Additional BTK funfacts: He worked for a home security company, and gained access to some of his victims’ homes that way.”
“When some home security cos tried to sell me on their services when I first got a house, said ‘not today, serial killers!’ to that whole mess.” — Zebirdsandzebats
“[BTK’s] wife found a poem that he wrote about one of his victims.”
“When confronted he lied and said it was for a writing assignment for a class he was taking and he chose to write it about this woman because she was all over news due to her murder.”
“I think that was the closest a family member came to finding out.” — PantherMoose
“Many years ago I read the entire police report on the Green River killer. I was fascinated by his attempts to cover his tracks by buying new car tires and destroying shoes and getting new ones after murders (to avoid leaving traceable tracks behind.)”
“Also fascinating that he took the jewelry off his victims and left it in the ladies restroom at his workplace and got off on seeing the ‘found’ jewelry on various woman around the office.” — smarmageddon
“Jeffrey Dahmer didn’t eat people with tattoos because he said the ink made the flesh taste weird.”
“Be safe, get inked.” — Bossmantho
“That most serial killers have roughly average, often below average IQs, and their reputation as smart and difficult to catch is because of a couple of high profile outliers and the fact that their victims are usually the sort of people who cops and society don’t pay as much attention to.” — ithran_dishon
“Jeffrey Dahmer was neglected by his parents in childhood and hadn’t even seen his mother for 10 years prior to incarceration. At sentencing his father and step mother asked for 10 minutes to say goodbye and hug.”
“His father often visited him in prison and he had weekly phone calls with his mother. Despite the heinous crimes they seemed to have some kind of unconditional love. It makes all of the stories I hear about estrangement seem to have a different, strange perspective.” — Goose1963
“I don’t recall which one it was, but I remember hearing that there was a killer who would only go into the home if the front door was unlocked because otherwise he ‘didn’t feel welcome.’ Lock your doors people!” — RealKenny
So if, on the off chance, you want to freak everyone out at a party or an ice breaker, you have plenty of ammo now.
It’s always good to add some new wholesome knowledge to your life.
Here’s extra wholesome facts from the folks on the AskReddit subReddit to hopefully make your day a little better.
“What is the most wholesome fact you know?”
“Someone, while handling coral, discovered that when shattered, coral will grow back and mature at unprecedented speeds.”
“This discovery has led to the very real hope that the Earth’s endangered coral beds can be repaired quickly and efficiently” – breedlesbean
“That’s great to hear! Can you give me your source?”
“I’d really like to read more about that.” –schuelli27
“Of course! Because there are actually quite a few sources, I had a bit of trouble narrowing it down to the best ones but here is a well written article and a PBS video on it!”
“Article“
“In 2002, Kenyan Masai tribe people donated 14 cows to the U.S. to help with the aftermath of 9/11.” –MalonePostponed
“IIRC, the US ‘accepted’ the donation, but let the cows stay in Kenya as the shipping would have been enormous.” –Little-Jim
“To add to this, they started paying the village who offered the cows to look after them on America’s behalf.” –HoundOfNoHouse
“Gorillas make up cute food songs and sing louder for the food they prefer.” –halinw191
“Today I Learned (TIL) I’m a Gorilla” –silkblackrose
“This sounds like my children” –IMuleIt
“This is the link from a Reddit TIL a few days ago” –MuSE555
“Bees sometimes fall asleep on flowers.” –tealgirl94
“I saw one today with its big bumble bee bum sticking out of one today and thought it was dead. Around 40 minutes later it woke up and got back to bumble beeing.” –inselaffenaktion
“They are resting as they’re tired. They can die from dehydration!”
“It is often advised to leave a teaspoon of water and sugar out for bees to drink so they can quench their thirst. It is important that we do this.”
“Always remember to feed the little fellas who spend their entire lives feeding us.” –OmenedRaven
“Mr. Rogers mom, Nancy McFeely Rogers, knitted all the sweaters he wore on tv.” –Cheshire_Cat8888
“Mentioning Mr. Rogers in a thread about wholesomeness is cheating.”
“And since we’re cheating anyway, I’ll take the opportunity to share his quote:”
“‘When I was a boy and would see scary things in the news, my mother would always say to me “look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping”‘.” –pm_me_n00d
“There is an episode of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood (current animated spinoff of Mr. Rogers) where dad tiger says this to his son, Daniel, and I tear up every time!” –mrsgarrett27
“To add to this wholesomeness: When he would feed his fish on the show he would announce that he was doing it because the mother of a young blind girl wrote him saying her daughter was worried that the fish were not getting feed, so, he started doing it to let her know the fish were ok.” –whiteknight804
“Beavers ‘close the door’ of their lodges with sticks whenever they go out and i find it incredibly cute for some reason” –doradeexplora
“Baby Beavers look like teeny adult beavers when born. Before you go ‘well duuh’, think of all the other animals – birds, humans, dogs, cats – that look similar but not identical to their adult versions.”
“Also they have fwooopy tails.” –Redditor
“Also guinea pigs. Every time I see a newly hatched guinea pig my brain cannot compute that it is EXACTLY the same as an adult guinea pig only smol.” –FlippityFelts
“Dogs, when aggressively playing with them, will sneeze to let you know that they are just playing and don’t want to hurt you.” –Agent_301
“My dog sneezes whenever she’s excited. Or going out the door. Or going for a wee. Or a poo. Or anything, really.”
“Maybe everything is exciting?” –t-scotty
“My dog does this when she gets excited about meeting someone familiar, I always thought it was something uncontrollable TIL” –SvenskBlatte
“My trainer told me that some breeds do this as a way to “clear their head” when getting excited or flustered. A person might pause for a moment and shake their head but a dog sneezes to reset themselves.”
“I was told this is especially common in terriers and other smaller breeds” –My_Invalid_Username
“Dolphins will assign other dolphins a sound, kind like a name, and even if the dolphin doesn’t know who said it’s ‘name’ it will still respond.” –lobo_Cop
“It’s even cooler than that. The dolphin’s ‘name’ is called a signature whistle.”
“A dolphin’s signature whistle usually fully develops within the first year of life, and rarely changes throughout adulthood. A calf develops its own signature whistle based on the signature whistle of an adult in its pod.”
“The calf does not copy the whistle, instead it uses it as a model. Calves tend to model their signature whistles after those of adult dolphins who they do not spend much time with.”
“This leads to the signature whistles of individual dolphins in the same pod sharing certain characteristics, almost like a family name.”
“When two dolphin meet in the open ocean, they emit their signature whistles to each other. From this they decide whether they are friends of if they should fight or run.”
“So with this information, we know that dolphins can use vocalizations to reference others. And they have a sense of permanence and continuity of others.”
“The question is do dolphins use vocalizations to reference objects, and will they do so without being taught by a human. The really cool thing is that is the basis of language.” –tweakingforjesus
“When seals feel safe and content, they do this thing.” –subjection-s
“they become banana” –Rantsandopinion
“They not only become banana, they become happy and calm bananana.” –Redditor
“I actually went home on Friday for the day and was on the train from Edinburgh when I saw some seals on a rocky shore doing this. I feel happier knowing this” –CaledonianWarrior
“There was a guy who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge when he was 19 and immediately realized he’d made a huge mistake. He miraculously survived the fall.”
“Thanks to help from a sea lion he was kept afloat and it swam around him until he could be rescued. He is now a mental health advocate and has gone on to save who knows how many people from making that same leap.” –morbidnerd
“Kevin Hines is the guy’s name. He was a guest speaker in a class I once took.”
“Fascinating to listen to what was going through his head as he fell. Instant regret, reaching out for the rail as he fell back away from it.” –DangerBrewin
“I am not a religious person, but this really sounds like a divine intervention.” –Turhaturpa
“Well, female sea lions can act a bit interesting around divers. One kept trying to feed a National Geographic diver penguins.”
“It made numerous attempts including stuffing one into his face, and got anxious that he wasn’t taking it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was maternal behaviour, but quite wholesome that they do it to another species.” –inselaffektion
“I like to think that in its own way, that sea lion has also helped save all those lives along with the kid who survived the lowest point in his life.” –morbidnerd
Hopefully these wholesome facts helped improve your day, even if just a little.
They say history is written by the victors, but who would ever want to write about some of these tales?
The hardest truths to read about are the saddest ones, where terrible tragedies and awful atrocities happened to real-life people.
Maybe reading about them in hindsight will make things easier? Or maybe it’ll just make you happy you live in the era you do now.
“What historical fact makes you cry?”
“WW1- Mercy dogs, they would go out into no mans land and find wounded soldiers. They would bring medical supplies for the soldiers to patch themselves up.”
“Or if the soldier was to mortally wounded, stay and comfort them in their final moments.” ~ Lucky-daydreamer
“I learned about this in a Dan Carlin podcast. During the German-Soviet war, there was a Red Army soldier who sang each night with a hauntingly-beautiful voice. His comrades would give him their tea rations and scarves to protect his larynx.”
“One night, he couldn’t sing because he had gotten sick.”
“A German soldier crawled across no-man’s-land and tossed something into the Soviet trench; the Soviet soldiers thought it was a grenade.”
“However, it was a package containing a letter asking if the singer was okay and if he needed medicine. A truly heart-warming moment in an otherwise horrific front.” ~ Scruffy_Nerf_Hoarder
“The story of Alex (1977-2007), an African grey parrot who learned to speak, recognize objects and play with his owner. It was one of the smartest parrots ever reported.”
“He loved his owner and his owner adored him as well.”
“In the end, he suffered arteriosclerosis, so his owner went to see him one last time, to which Alex told his owner: ‘You are good; I love you.’ She replied, ‘I love you too’.”
“Alex said ‘I’ll see you tomorrow’ and the owner replied ‘yes, I’ll see you tomorrow’.” ~ metal_gearmen
“Henry Gunther was an American soldier killed during WWI at 10:59am on November 11th, 1918; one minute before the Armistice took effect at 11:00am.”
“Gunther charged a German roadblock outfitted with machine guns. German soldiers tried waving him off knowing the war would come to an end in mere moments.”
“Apparently he got too close, fired a couple rounds, and was promptly shot and killed instantly.” ~ _DMYZ
“The Sand Creek massacre is particularly bad. They had so much faith in the peace treaties that had been signed, the signs of good faith from American settlers.”
“Only to be massacred. The leader of the camp, Black Kettle, desperately holding up the American flag he’d been given with a white flag underneath it, encouraging his people to gather around it—thinking that the [United States Army] would realize they were allies and stop the killings. Only to be shot down.”
“The descriptions of the massacre are brutal—children tortured and slaughtered, pregnant women with their children torn out of their stomachs. Genitals torn from corpses and taken for trophies.”
“It really made me realize you can never underestimate the cruelty of mankind. Especially considering most of the murdered in this massacre were defenseless women, children, and elderly.” ~ Lia_Is_Lying
“There were approximately 300 infants and children that were murdered in Jonestown, being forcibly fed or injected with cyanide. I feel so much pain for all the victims but the kids in particular make me ache with despair.” ~ Lastofherkind
“There were some teens that weren’t among the number, because they were gone playing a basketball tournament.” ~ qualitygravedigger
“When Alexander Hamilton’s eldest son died, his second child Angelica Hamilton had a mental breakdown and she never recovered. Sometimes, her family would walk into a room with only her in it, and she would be speaking to her dead brother.” ~ meenakshi96
“Teddy Roosevelt’s mother Mittie and his wife Alice, who had just given birth days before, both died in the same house on the same day, hours apart from each other. In his diary entry that day, he drew a large black X and scribbled ‘The light has gone out of my life’.”
“That’s some heavy sh*t right there, man.” ~ fracking_toasters_
“Christmas Day, 1914. German and British soldiers got up from their trenches and called a 48 hour truce to just chill and even play soccer.”
“This makes me cry because it shows that the soldiers of both sides really found it pointless to fight other people just cause their country said so. This is probably the strongest story of unity I’ve heard about in history class.” ~ Electoriad
“In WWII an American pilot named Charles Brown was flying a B-17 in a bomb raid over Germany where his aircraft was severely shot up and entered a free fall when Brown passed out. When Brown awoke, he was only a few thousand feet above the ground and barely was able to recover the aircraft.”
“When the Luftwaffe spotted a limping B-17 far below the formation, they dispatched a pilot named Franz Stigler, a soon to be ace just 1 kill away, with 2 Downed B-17s earlier that day. As he approached from the rear, Stigler noticed that the B-17s tail gunner didn’t move and after further inspection, realized he and several other gunners were dead. Stigler saw this and remembered what his flight instructor had said years ago, ‘if you shoot a man in a parachute, ill shoot you myself’.”
“Stigler saw this limping B-17 as no different from a downed pilot in a parachute. To prevent German flak cannons from taking it out, Stigler flew in formation with the B-17 all the way until the English Channel where it landed safely. Stigler never mentioned the incident, and could’ve been court martialed for it.”
“Decades later, Charles went looking for the enemy pilot that saved his life that fateful day, and eventually met him face to face, becoming close friends and dying just a few months apart from each other in 2008.” ~ OleRockTheGoodAg
History can be a harsh critic, leaving you feeling like all of time is a cruel place.
May we all make the best choices we can to make sure history looks back on us with kind eyes.
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Japan has an almost forgotten indigenous people, the Ainu and they were only legally recognised as an indigenous people of Japan in 2019.
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