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Facts You Might Be Surprised to Learn Not Everyone Knows

This goes without saying, but the fact is there is a lot to know about this world, how it works, and all of the people who have ever inhabited it.

Some people know tons of information about a few things, some know a little bit about a lot of things, and others, well… acquiring random bits of knowledge isn’t everyone’s thing.

If you’re curious about some common knowledge-type things that are not common knowledge at all, here are 20 facts that might surprise you.

20. And it doesn’t follow English grammar.

ASL (American Sign Language) is a natural language.

It wasn’t made up any more than English or Taiwanese is made up.

It arose naturally.

19. It’s all on purpose.

The McDonalds’ hot coffee case. People totally misunderstand that!

Not misunderstood, but misinformed on purpose. McDonald’s strategically made a campaign to make people believe that the woman made a big fuss to get filthy rich.

Thing is, it really worked.

On the news, movies and TV shows they used that story as jokes on how to get rich easily. McFck McDonald’s.

18. Just not all at the same time.

We use 100% of our brain.

Saying we use 10% of our brain is like saying we only use 33% of a traffic light.

17. A Bug’s Life taught me that.

Locust are grasshoppers.

16. You’re pulling my leg.

That a singular spaghetti is called spaghetto.

15. There are mnemonic devices.

The order of the planets.

14. Suddenly relevant.

The difference between Quarantine and Medical Isolation.

13. Why would I need to know how to do this?

Apparently, I was the only one in my office who knew that CTRL SHIFT + rotates your document 90 degrees.

12. Important knowledge.

Idk about other people but the people around me didn’t know that the sword in the stone king arthur pulled out isn’t excalibur it’s caliburn and he gets excalibur later on.

11. I did not know that.

Light years isn’t a measurement of time, it’s a measurement of length, so many people don’t know this but so many people do.

Likewise a parsec is a length, not a time. Just admit that Han Solo got it wrong because the script got it wrong and stop trying to retcon it.

10. That’s a bi*ch.

Cows can climb up ladders and stairs, but can’t climb back down.

9. I was so happy when I figured this out!

Category: Useful

Useless knowledge: Most cars have a little gas pump symbol next to the fuel gauge with a little arrow that shows you on which side of your car the gas cap is.

At least in my home country, lmk if you’ve seen it!

8. English doesn’t have to make sense.

Its spelled paid not payed.

I really don’t understand how it was so rarely misspelled a few years ago but now I see it spelled incorrectly every day.

7. I mean…he’s not wrong.

The sign that say “Slower Traffic Keep Right” is usually in some kind of hieroglyphics to the people I share the road with.

6. Put that in your back pocket.

If you’re pluralizing a word such as, for example, “sister-in-law,” you pluralize the root word; so it would be “sisters-in-law.”

Similarly, if you have two guys named Mister Johnson, you’d say “the Misters Johnson” not “the Mister Johnsons”

5. Driving and reading are hard.

Our highway has signs that read

“keep right except to pass”

“move to the right lane and let others past you”

“Slower traffic keep right”

I wish reading comprehension was tested regularly

4. It’s not all in your tummy.

Influenza is an upper-respiratory virus.

Plenty of people know this, but absolutely no one did in my entire radiography class, Including the instructor. We all had to take Anatomy and Physiology 1&2 before being accepted into the program.

Everyone in the classroom thought it was a GI virus or what people refer to as the ‘Stomach flu’.

3. A joke that falls flat.

I once joked to co-workers (U.S., avg age 50) that “I speak Esperanto like a native” and was met with silence; nobody had ever heard of Esperanto.

Note 1: This was a number years before the appearance of the excellent Saga graphic novels, in which the inhabitants of Wreath are all shown speaking it.

Note 2: I learned years later that there are a few native speakers, mostly in multilingual households where Esperanto is the only common language.

2. It’s all very confusing.

That you don’t freeze in space.

The amount of people that think you’ll freeze or even explode in space is crazy.

1. Bless.

Holding the the space bar and moving your finger on an iPhone moves the cursor anywhere you want it, while typing.

Some of these were definitely (very cool) news to me.

What else would fit on this list? Share with us in the comments!

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These People Had Absolutely Terrifying Experiences in the Hospital

Unless you work in healthcare, you probably don’t enjoy walking through the doors of a hospital. We’re usually there for a not-so-great reason, whether we’re sick or injured, or someone we love is sick and injured, so you know…not the greatest memories and feelings.

That said, there’s normal hospital anxiety and then there’s the sort of terror that comes when you see, hear, or otherwise experience trauma you just weren’t prepared for – and those are the types of stories these 12 people have to share.

12. I’m going with both are scary.

In the ER and was given an IV push for pain and left alone in a treatment room. I had a bad reaction to the medication (found out later, I can’t have any form of opiates, real or synthetic, as I have a bad reaction.) In short, I tripped my fucking ASS off, while bleeding heavily, and whatever they gave me seriously slowed my HR and my BP tanked.

I’m not sure what was more terrifying: being fully conscious and aware in a body that is slowly shutting down, or being convinced there’s a 7 foot tall shadow demon standing at the foot of your bed to take you to Hell when it’s over.

11. Horrible beyond words.

Hearing the Dr say, “there is nothing we can do to save her.” And then looking over and seeing tears coming out of my Mom’s eyes. She was intubated.

Knowing she could hear everything but couldn’t respond to us is something I still struggle with. Shit, her death is something I still struggle with.

I love her and wish she didn’t have to go the way she did.

May not be “scary” but knowing I would no longer have my mother anymore was pretty terrifying to me.

10. Some things you don’t want to overhear.

I don’t know if it’s terrifying but I was in the hospital 2 times because of liver problems and one because of a broken leg. This didn’t happened to me but to the persons in the bed next to me.

English is not my first language sorry if it’s not descriptive enough.

First one I heard that the guy went to the hospital because a urinary infection, it got so bad that the operated him and remove part of the scrotum, and the nurse had to clean the area 2 times a week, one with general anesthesia, he got put to sleep and the nurse worked on him the second time with local anesthesia, I never saw him because of the courtain but it sounded like they where working with sandpaper on a piece of wood nad the screams made me lose my sleep for that night, now if I see or feel anything weird down there I got straight to the doctor.

Other time an older men that the doctor just removed part of his foot, he had diabetic foot, and it was the second time, the first time they removed a part but it seems that he didn’t take care of himself so the infection continued, this wasn’t as terrifying but when I was there because of the broken foot I saw a lot of people with diabetics and most of them didn’t took care of themselves, the husband of one woman was smuggling her candies and 2 times the nurse had to inyect her with insulin because the sugar spiked on her blood.

The last one was just a couple crying outside a room their daughter just died, never knew the reason, it was at night, I tried to sleep but when I opened the eyes they where still there sobbing and hugging each other.

9. That is so not right.

my friend broke her hip in 9 places (and a lot of other bones, but that is irrelevant to the story) she was getting prepped for surgery and a surgeon in training rolled her onto the hip that she shattered. all her body weight went straight into her hip.

my friend screamed in agony and ended up seizing due to the extreme pain. that surgeon did not operate on her.

8. I hate stories of kids in the hospital!

My first memory, (it’s pretty vague) is from when I was four. I got appendicitis and needed intimidate surgery as my appendix was about an hour away from bursting. I didn’t understand all of this at the time, but from the perspective of four year old me I was even more terrified then I would have been if I did understand.

I remember my mom taking me to the ER, luckily it was fairly empty and we saw the doctor in about 30 minutes. The doctors said nothing was wrong and I probably had food poisoning. My mom told them to do a scan and they finally agreed. The scan was terrifying, and because I was so scared and wouldn’t stop moving I had to be strapped down which of course made it worse.

By the time the scan was done my grandparents and brother had arrived and were in the waiting room. From then I just remember them putting me on one of those bed things and rushing me to the operating room. We passed my family on the way and I could see my grandfather crying which I had never seen before, (and haven’t since) and so I knew this was bad. My mom was able to fallow me to the door of the operating room. For probably ten seconds after she let go of my hand I was reaching out to her screaming for help and we were both crying. Then one of the doctors put her hand on my shoulder and gently lied me down and I fell asleep.

I don’t remember anything after that, but it’s still one of my worst memories to date.

7. Not the best memory.

It wasn’t terrifying but the most awful thing I’ve ever felt.

I had a drain put in after having my gallbladder removed and the next day the nurse came in to take it.

That things was in there about 6/7 inches, right up into my stomach and she just slowly pulled it out.

Oh a still shudder thinking about it.

6. Oh my god.

When I was about 12 I was in the ER for some dumb little ingrown nail removal or something and we were waiting for the doctor a really long time.

While we were waiting there were these, like, anguished screams coming from some other part of the building, it lasted a long time and I remember my mom suggesting it might’ve been someone on drugs.

The removal happened and we were walking down the hallway to be released and I saw the mom and brother of one of my good friends in middle school; they seemed really upset so we walked up and asked if they were ok.

Turns out those anguished screams we had been hearing were from my friend who had accidentally fallen into a campfire while chasing his younger sister around. He lived but he had to have skin grafts over a huge portion of his body. It was awful.

5. Anything that messes with our brains is scary.

I had hepatic encephalopathy. Which means I was basically insane due to ammonia buildup in my brain. I couldn’t make coherent sentences. I didn’t know who I was or my wife was. I did compliment her by saying she was a hot nurse, though.

Surprisingly, that’s not the worst part. The most terrifying part happened as I started to get some of my memory back. I kept thinking I was saying I had 5 kids (which is true) but my mouth was saying I had 6 kids. To which my wife was responding, “no you have 5 kids” and my brain heard “no you have 4 kids”.

So for about an hour I was panicking because I thought one of my kids didn’t exist or ceased to exist or something. I wasn’t exactly rational. But it was terrifying and as I continued to get better I would make sure we had the right number of kids, would repeat their names and their birthdays.

4. She should have said thank you.

I’ve been through a lot as a patient; there’s more than a few comments here I can relate to. Honestly the most scary thing that ever happened to me in a hospital was a nurse bringing me medication in a cup and plunking it down demanding I take it. It’s your Flagyl, she told me. I don’t take that, I responded.

She was instantly annoyed: if your doctor ordered it, he wants you to take it. I asked what condition it was prescribed for. She insisted I had to take it RIGHT NOW. I told her I wasn’t taking it without knowing the reason it was prescribed, and I would be happy to wait until she was able to look that up for me in my chart.

She made a huge show of being furious that she had to do this, looked up my record on the computer in my room, said not a single word and snatched it back off my tray table before stomping out in a huff.

3. A different sort of scary.

Not really “terrifying” but it could have been bad, but a few years ago I had to go into the hospital because I injured my hand. I thought it was broke (thankfully it wasn’t), but I was there for several hours. What was terrifying about it was the hospital was completely packed, in fact I couldn’t even get a room or office.

I was treated in the hallway, and as I was waiting (they put chairs out there for all of us “extras”), I saw some of the local EMT’s hanging out. I got to chatting with some of them, and I found out they were stuck there too. I asked why. It was because the hospital was so full they ran out of beds and they needed the gurneys, and they couldn’t leave until they got one back. I asked them what would happen if there was an emergency and they needed to transport a patient now?

They hung their heads, just replying, “let’s not hope it comes to that” because they had no gurney for them.

Worse comes to worse they’d have to call another city to see if they had some, which would increase their wait time for pickup.

The horror of seeing the budget cuts and the overcrowding situation in the hospital was sad, and frightening. I was glad for my own sake that I was able to get out (relatively) quickly (well, at least outpatient) and didn’t have to stay there overnight on a chair or gurney at the possible expense of someone else possibly not getting the chance to be transported because they couldn’t. That was scary to think about, apparently it happens a lot in my area.

2. This broke my heart.

I was in the ER for mental health stuff. (psych ward full, aussies can relate) at about 2am an older man was brought in with cops in tow, who had apparently just escaped being raped for TWELVE HOURS by his supposed close friend.

I didn’t mean to eavesdrop on this obviously very sensitive conversation, but he was (understandably) wailing loudly; bellowing in pain and emotional anguish in an otherwise pretty quiet hospital, and was in the bed directly across from me. From what I heard his rapist and a couple of other people just kicked down his door while he was chilling at home.

I didn’t get many other details, nor would I want to, but I always wonder about the motive a “friend” could have to do such a thing. It’s crossed my mind that it was a hate crime after finding out (the victim) was a drag queen. drag was mentioned because the poor fellow had his make up on still, mascara running black rivers down his scrunched, red face. It was probably the most depressing thing I have ever witnessed personally.

1. I hope this person is ok now.

I spent some time in a psych ward as a kid. It was a bad place and pretty abusive. One of the staff members broke another kids arm and I remember hearing the boy screaming as it happened and afterwards.

It was scary especially because we had no agency between being kids and psych patients so the staff had total control.

Wow. You just never know what you’re going to experience in hospitals, I suppose.

Do you have a story like this? If so, share it with us in the comments.

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People Whose Names Were Dragged Through So Much Mud Their Reputations Didn’t Recover

Good opinions and reputations are equally hard to recover when they’re gone.

Those two facts can sometimes combine in a truly terrible way – like when all we remember about a person is slander and lies, so even though they did nothing wrong and might have even been a good person, no one ever remembers them that way.

This must be a tough thing to come to terms with, I think, but these 15 people had no choice but to try.

15. Everyone was really afraid of Satan in the 1980s.

The MCMartin family of Manhattan Beach, Ca. They were a family running an ordinary daycare school and were vilified to the extent they not only lost their business, their social lives, but had to move and at least one had to change his name.

This was before social media. The local press and attention seeking interviewer did it to them.

Ah, the good old Satanic Panic of the 1980s. When entire towns lost their ever-loving minds over made up sh%t with no evidence.

Just as well nothing like that could ever happen in these enlightened times, right?

14. It breaks your heart.

Lindy and Michael Chamberlain

A lot of people just repeat the ridiculous “Dingo ate my baby” phrase without knowing the story behind it.

A lot of shows have made comical references to it.

Well, this poor family had their 9 week old infant killed by Dingos, they weren’t believed and she was convicted of murder and sentenced to life, and he was convicted of being accessory after the fact.

Turns out their story was true. She spent 3 years in prison before a piece of the infants clothing was found and they were cleared.

But all people remember is “Dingo ate my baby”. How ridiculous, that would never happen!

13. It’s just a moment.

The guy who photographed the African kid dying with a vulture lurking nearby. Apparently after he took the photo he scared off the vulture and the kid survived for another ten years or so, dying when they were around 18.

Photo journalism is incredibly important. His photos are some of the most gruesome and horrifying photos I’ve ever seen. But that doesn’t make then bad in any sense. What Kevin did with his work was utterly and heartbreakingly amazing.

So many of us (let’s be real 90% plus of the global population) are so incredibly privileged that we will never come close to the reality of what his subjects in Sudan lived (and died) through. World famine is still a problem. Full stop. Someone needed to capture it. Because the reality of it is we could have never imagined those horror without seeing them for ourselves. You mentioned the photo of the kid (who was a boy) and the vulture, that ended up winning The Pulitzer Prize.

For me the ones are The Necklace Burning and the boy with the cow. True unimaginable horror. To put blame on a journalist when their job is to document and nothing more was so awful. I cant imagine the guilt, shame and 100 other things he must have gone through. Kevin’s work went above and beyond the call of duty.

Pick a charity, any charity that helps people feed themselves and donate. Locally or abroad. And if you can, keep donating, make it a regular thing!

12. Guilty by association.

Not 100% sure he fits here, because not many know about him, but…

Albert Göring, the brother (or maybe half-brother) of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.

Albert spent 7 years in US custody after the war and then after he was released, he was arrested by the Soviets and again prosecuted.

But, he was anti-nazi. While most of his deeds are only anecdotal, there is enough evidence to show how he helped people escape Nazi Germany. (One of his US prosecutors saw his aunts name on a list provided by Albert and when he called her she confirmed that it was Albert who got her and her husband out.)

After Czech resistance members vouched for Albert, he was released by the Soviets as well, but back in Germany he couldn’t find work due to his name.

He died broke in 1966 and his anti-Nazi activities came to light only decades later.

Edit: I apparently misremembered something: he wasn’t 7 years in custody, only 2 (still long enough) and it was the Czech government that got to him after the US released him.

11. Some things never change.

The Empress Theodora of Byzantium.

In reality, she was a brilliant women who helped her husband rule an empire, and kept the various religions from having open warfare. Did lots of good stuff.

But she got her start as a dancer, basically, a stripper.

this pissed off some of the imperial court so much, one wrote a “history” that made her out to be that era’s biggest porn star. Which became the accepted version for centuries.

10. That will make for awkward dating in the future.

Christopher Jeffries, accused by the British media of murdering student Joanna Yeates in 2010.

He was completely innocent but the media found out he had been taken in for questioning and printed his face on every front page.

I don’t recall an apology being printed when they were wrong.

9. The man had class.

That Cubs fan who caught that ball, Steve Bartman. Everyone was reaching for it, and anyone would have tried to catch it, he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Steve Bartman’s handling of the situation has been nothing but class the entire time. He’s turned down literally every opportunity for public appearances and/or opportunities to profit from his infamy. He declined an invitation to appear in the Cubs’ World Series parade (he did release a public statement congratulating the team). He owes nothing to anybody, and the very people who vilified him are the ones wanting him to appear in public now for their own gain.

See also: Bill Buckner. The Red Sox were on their way to losing anyway. Buckner was the easy scapegoat, but there’s no way he’s making an impactful play on that ground ball.

8. That’s a big oops.

Richard Jewell. He was accused of the bombing in Atlanta during the Olympics but had absolutely nothing to do with it. His life was pretty well screwed.

I was in Atlanta too. I remember how they talked about going into his parents’ house (where he lived) and they found his huge porn stash, making him out to be a weirdo pervert.

It was really sad.

7. You can’t take that back.

Cameron Todd Willingham was arrested and convicted for murdering his 3 children by arson after his house burned down with them inside, and was put to death 12 years later in 2004. Odds are pretty good he was actually innocent — multiple independent investigations have shown that the initial findings were wrong, and that the fire almost certainly wasn’t arson.

All of the other evidence against him was pretty much bullshit, like a psychologist stating that Willingham’s Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin posters were indications that he was a violent sociopath, or a jailhouse informant testifying that Willingham had confessed to him, who has since recanted and who may have been offered a sentence reduction to lie.

Maybe not quite dragged through the mud, but we did kill him…

6. A complete tragedy.

Patricia Stallings was accused of murdering her infant son, sent to jail and not allowed to attend his funeral. When her second son was born (in jail) and had the same issues, doctors accused her husband of poisoning him during supervised visits.

Eventually it was figured out he had a rare genetic disorder called Methylmalonic acidemia. Her conviction was overturned when her case aired on Unsolved Mysteries and dozens of doctors wrote/called in to verify the symptoms of antifreeze poisoning and MMA are deceptively similar.

Her second son was eventually returned to their custody but sadly died at just 23.

5. We did her so wrong.

Marilyn Monroe. She was stereotyped as the dumb blonde sex object similar to Brittany Spears and was rumored to be hard to work with.

Reality was that she was academically intelligent, supported the civil rights movements, had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder along with trauma from experiencing child abuse in foster care.

She was always kind to people and actually helped Ella Fitzgerald be able to get bookings by telling clubs that she’d only attend the club if Ella was hired to sing.

4. That was the end of that.

Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, a famous silent film comedian. In 1921, he was accused of violently raping a woman and causing her death.

He was put on trial three times; the first two trials ended with hung juries, but in the third, when more evidence was reviewed, he was acquitted and a jury even presented him with an apology, stating “Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice has been done him.”

But by that time, he was vilified in the media, and could not find work anymore as an actor.

3. Bless his heart.

Edgar Allan Poe is remembered as marrying his teenage cousin Virginia Clemm, which he did do…because her parents had died, and he apparently wasn’t a close enough relation to her to be considered her legal guardian.

He married her because it was the only way to keep her from being shipped off to an orphanage, and there’s no evidence the marriage was ever consummated, or that he saw her as anything but a younger sister.

2. Every corporate tragedy needs a scapegoat.

Bruce Ismay, the Chairman of the White Star Line and the antagonist in James Cameron’s Titanic. He was the gentleman who said that people wanted to marvel at the speed of Titanic and prodded Captain Smith to sail faster.

In all actuality, Ismay wouldn’t have had much if any input to Smith and, if so, Smith likely wouldn’t have heeded Ismay’s advice as Smith was nearing retirement, and would not have taken advice from a businessman. Alternatively, Ismay knew that he was in capable hands and would never impose upon the captain by telling him how to sail his ship.

Survivors testified that during the sinking, Ismay was trying everything he could to assist with the filling of the lifeboats. He convinced passengers to get into boats and at one point had to be told by an officer to stop trying to help as he was getting in the way. Ismay took a vacant seat on one lifeboat just before it was about to be lowered, which was one of many empty spots on that particular lifeboat.

Ismay was a scapegoat because he was the highest-ranking survivor of the sinking, and he became a recluse afterwards. As another testament to his character, he created several charities aimed at helping families and survivors of maritime incidents.

1. It really does.

Britney Spears.

Shows our true feelings on mental illness/breakdown.

This is a tough lot in life, y’all.

Whose name would you add to this list? Clear the air in the comments!

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Pieces of Knowledge That Aren’t as Common as Some People Think

One of the weird things about human beings is that we can get stuck in our own worlds. Our own bubbles, our own feedback loops, and even in our own heads – which means that sometimes we can have a skewed perception of what is “common” and what is not.

These 21 people, for example, thought these little facts were something everyone knew, but actually, they’re new information to many!

21. I’m sorry, what?

Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment isn’t just a cat in a box. There has to be a device that may or may not kill the cat.

More importantly, the thought experiment is what Schrödinger argued that shouldn’t happen.

He basically said that his opponents’ model is so absurd that it can result in a cat being dead and alive at the same time.

20. So we should capitalize it?

LASER is an acronym for “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”.

19. And it happens quite often.

The moon and the sun can be in the sky at the same time.

Yeah. On almost any given (obviously not cloudy) day you can find the moon.

The amount of people who don’t refuse this despite literally being able to look at the sky and see it is amazing.

18. Ok I knew that one.

Scuba is self contained underwater breathing apparatus.

17. But…science?

Often, when I mention something about the multiple moon landings (manned flights), some people think there was only one landing (and that it was probably fake).

I only learned this a few years ago. It makes sense but, nobody ever talks about the subsequent ones.

The info made Apollo 13 problems make more sense.

16. We learned this from the movies, yeah?

In a formal meal where there are multiple forks/utensils on both sides of the plate, they’re placed so that you can work from the outside inwards for each course.

15. Don’t make it awkward.

If you hold open a door, don’t do that by standing in the doorway.

i’m kinda short and i’ve had people do that to me, expecting me to walk under their arm? it’s so stupid. just get out of my way!

14. The more you know.

Va*inas don’t get “loose” from having s^x they snap back into place pretty easily. If someone with a va*ina felt loose and easy to be “in” during s^x it meant you were doing a good job and they were aroused.

Also, if someone has long labia minora (inner labia), that does not mean they’ve had a lot of s^x or a lot of partners. It’s just genetics.

Vulvas come in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and colors, and p*rn doesn’t always do a good job of showcasing that diversity.

13. What’s the name of the plane, then?

Air Force One is not the name of the aircraft, but the call sign for whatever aircraft the president is onboard. ( I’m in the uk).

Just planes, as far as I am aware.

Plane carrying POTUS- Air Force One

Helicopter carrying POTUS- Marine One

I know that the Secret Service refers to the presidential armored limo as “the beast” due to all of its crazy customizations (it’s effectively just a rolling bunker), but I believe that is what they call it whether the president is aboard or not.

12. A trick we can all use.

I knew this but stole the whole text directly from google search:
Percentages are reversible. So, 16% of 25 is the same thing as 25% of 16 (4). Only one is easier to calculate in your mind than the other.

… Now, the trick isn’t great for numbers where you can’t do either percentage in your head, like 17% of 39 or 39% of 17 (fuck knows how much that is… 5.5? 6? around that, pretty good still…)

11. Unless you like to be yellow.

I got laughed in my face when I told people that smoking (amongst other harmful things) is very bad for your skin.

and your teeth. Not just staining, it damages your gums.

10. Just to have babies.

Chickens do not need roosters to lay eggs.

And I just learned this from my nana who grew up on a farm…if you slaughter a chicken and see their innards, they have multiple eggs inside of them, in different stages of development, in different sizes.

I was shook, I had no idea about that.

9. It’s just a myth.

That the idea that you eat x number of spiders every year is complete hogwash.

The myth is that you eat eight spiders a year in your sleep. There’s a really good video about this by the channel LEMMiNO on YouTube.

He actually falls down the biggest rabbit hole, learning that the myth apparently originated from an article written by one Lisa Birgit Holst in a magazine.

He then finds that the origin of the myth… is a myth in and of itself, simply to prove how easy it is for people to believe what they read.

8. A simple trick.

You know when there’s a Friday the 13th in the calendar because that particular month starts on a Sunday.

If there is a Friday the 13th in September, there will also be one in December.

I also once had to explain why Halloween could never fall on Friday the 13th.

7. It’s not as cush a job as many think.

The academic job market for professors has been horrible for decades. It’s not a new problem.

Just saying because when I hear people complain about having a PHD and not being able to get a faculty job.

WTF, didn’t that come up during grad school?

6. I bet there are so many things like this.

If you hold down the Windows key and press the left or right arrow it will snap the open window to that side for multitasking.

Lots of people waste time dragging and resizing.

5. Nobody likes a bully.

Crows chase birds of prey – some small birds will do it too.

There are pictures at work of raptors getting mobbed by smaller birds and I’m always surprised when people are amazed by it. It happens fairly often in my neighborhood.

4. Nature is weird.

Platypus lay eggs but are mammals.

My aunt had to check on google for my dad to believe me lol.

I knew this ever since I was a kid because i loved reading about animals and always thought it was common knowledge.

3. You know which of your friends to ask.

Apparently, the difference between “your” and “you’re”.

and “there” and “their”

saw “to” mistaken for “two” yesterday, I had to close the app.

2. If only more people knew…

When you get added to a Facebook group with thousands of members, there is absolutely no need to make a post thanking everyone for letting you join.

1. Sad but true.

I’m definitely not the only one. But there is a big gap between those working in the medical/scientific community and the general public.

For example, a lot of people don’t realize the huge biological differences between different cancers.

One drug is never going to cure all cancer types.

Cancer isn’t one disease.

Every instance is different.

I’m not saying which ones were new to me, but I definitely learned a few things.

What fact would you add to this list? Surprise us in the comments!

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What Was Your Worst Job Interview? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Have you ever been at a job interview and you know right from the start that it’s a bad idea and there’s no way in Hell you’re gonna get the job?

Yeah, I’ve been there, too! And those interviews are the worst!

But, like my father always said to me, every interview, whether good or bad, is practice for the next one, so you might as well do as many as possible.

Still though…not a whole lot of fun.

Folks on AskReddit shared their worst job interview stories. Let’s take a look.

1. Humiliated.

“The interviewer insisted on knowing why I’d left graduate school.

Now, I had left graduate school because my advisor died in a car accident and the whole small department was thrown for a loop and no one seemed to know or care what was going to happen to me or my just started research project.

The *sshole interviewer wouldn’t even accept “My advisor died suddenly” and dug into the gory details until I was almost in tears (even intimating that I must have had “feelings” for my advisor.)

I couldn’t wait to get out of there and in my haste to leave I knocked some solutions off a cart (which had no business being in his office BTW) on my way out. I’d never been so humiliated in my life.

After that, I was sure I’d never get a job in science.”

2. Downsizing.

“Company was downsizing.

All employees in a specific yet exclusive division were fired and ordered to reapply for their position plus two other jobs in the company. You’d either get one of those jobs or be terminated.

The subsequent interviews were conducted with a manager and an HR person.

First interview in executive suite: Manager asks why aren’t you applying for this key supervisory slot? (I had listed it second on my list.) Me: I would prefer to stay in my expertise in which I won a National award. HR: I didn’t know awards like that existed.

Second interview: Current boss likes me for my existing job (for which I was heavily recruited from another company). HR: Wow, so you’re the guy who does this job? I had no idea a real person did it.

Third interview: HR person says he’s never heard of my division or that employees actually worked at night. I had listed this job in which I merely served as a minor manager as third on my preferences. Really didn’t want it but had to list three.

The results: I was retained but transferred to the third dead-end day job. My old award-winning job was given to an aging staffer who never worked in that position or had a clue. The supervisor job went to a brilliant colleague who wanted and deserved it.

I quit very soon thereafter and joined a bigger company with better benefits. Skill pays off.

After all that, my old company, seeing the error of its ways in lost production and general lack of ability, offered me a bonus to return.

Nope, nope, nope. And I’m returning the corporate knife you stuck in my back.”

3. Not a good one.

“I drove an hour away to an interview at 8:00 am. I waited outside the interviewer’s office until 8:30 am with no one to tell me where to go or where she was.

Finally, another employee walks by and I ask if they know where this woman is to interview me. They had no idea where she was, why she was late, and told me if she wasn’t there yet, I should leave because she probably forgot (…ok?).

I decide 45 minutes is the cut off (especially standing in a government building looking like a creep waiting. 8:45 on the dot she rushes in, flustered, wet hair, and in casual yoga pants.

With all the resurgence of patience I could muster, I greeted her and was met with a passive aggressive scolding of how the interview was at 9, not 8. (Uh… I tripled checked the email asking me to interview and it was 8. We had conducted a phone interview and she followed up with an email request to an in person interview at 8. I was 100% positive on this, I hate being late.)

Even with this, and i did say, “I’m certain you said 8 am, ma’am” she wasn’t having it. Conversely, she also went on about why she was late, surmounting in, she went to the gym and forgot her underwear to change into and had to stop at a store and buy new ones after working out, before coming to work.

She told me this. In the first 5 minutes. Why? I didn’t ask her!

Regardless, she looks at my resume, apparently for the first time, because she proceeds to tell me how it is unimpressive and my graduate studies should have yielded numerous publications after 1.5 years. (In my field, most don’t publish until after 3-4 years.)

Even still, she kept saying how I had “moved up the interview time”, showed me the work spaces and told me I “probably wouldn’t be interested in what they do there”. I politely told her I had driven, at her request, to be there and interview for employment, I was VERY interested. She waved me off.

As we left, I just tried to hold it together (I was very poor and very desperate for a job), thanked her, and she told me how great it is to work for the government, how good the benefits, the pension, the time off are. On and on. She said, “If you can find an opening working for the government, you should try to check it out and get hired on!”

I just looked her in the face and said, “Yes, ma’am, that was my hope with today’s interview. Thank you.”

And left.

And sat in my car and bawled the whole drive home like the desperate loser I was.

That was a low one, to be sure.”

4. What’s wrong with that?

“Was invited for an IT “helper” position when I was 17.

Would help fix computers for people at a shoddy PC fix shop.

They asked me “Whats the first thing you check if a customer calls and says their screen doesn’t turn on?”

I said “Well, you gotta check if they have it plugged into a socket”

They laughed and said thank you that will be it. Then led me to the door and gently pushed me out.”

5. Ugh.

“At an interview, they asked me, “If you could be any animal, what would you be?”

I answered “Otter” because you know, fun, active, and work well with their hands. They debated whether or not to hire me because of that answer because, “We only hire predators, never prey”, and they weren’t sure how to quantify an Otter because none of them had ever paid the least bit of attention to any sort of animal documentary or read biology or you know, visited a zoo recently.

God that job sucked hard.”

6. A twofer.

“Two of them.

1- the recruiter started to fold my cv into a paper plane during the interview. (Didnt get the job)

2- was pawned off unsuspectingly to the CFO of a company five mins into my interview with the CEO. The CFO had no idea what to ask so he went the “tell me your biggest flaws” way. I was so dejected that I said “you’ll have to hire me to find out”.

Interview ended five mins later. I spent 30 mins crying at my hubris and stupidity in the parking lot. Got the job.”

7. Not a good start.

“In a group interview, the interviewer crossed a line through my name on the list he had after I told him what I graduated in.

This was within the first 5 minutes of a 40 minute meeting…”

8. Rude.

“I walked in at 2:45 for a 3:00 interview.

At 4:00 I asked reception for the last time if I was going to be interviewed. Finally they showed up 5 minutes later.

There were two people doing the interview. They were hostile. Rapid fire questions. Half of which had nothing to do with my experience. One kept asking me where I worked during such and such a time. Despite the other one looking at my application with all that info.

Then they told me that IF they hired me it’d be for a position below what I applied for. Much lower pay and I couldn’t take time off.

Finally they basically told me they’d be watching me like a hawk and if I did drugs I’d be fired and arrested. I have never even smoked pot. I stood up and told them this wasn’t for me and walked out.

It was bizarre. I felt like I was being interrogated for a murder investigation as the prime suspect.”

9. No, thanks.

“Job was for a vibration analysis engineer.

I knew how to do the job well. I knew the pay should be around 95k, and they stated 55k (in the interview). When I tried to discuss my point, they said, “don’t worry, there’s plenty of overtime”.

They also mentioned since they weren’t involved with many balancings at the moment, I would assist the cleaning crew with a lot of the cleanings.

I’ve never been so uninterested in a job in my life.”

10. Totally exessive.

“Five interview rounds with the last interview round being with the CEO all for an entry level customer service job.

During the last interview, the CEO said you weren’t allowed to get sick, and you weren’t allowed to leave at the end of the day until all of the work had been done. So even though the job was 8-4 the CEO said customer service reps often stayed until 6 PM or later.

She also asked if I would be comfortable secretly reporting to her about what the customer service team is up to. I declined the job offer and the company harassed me with emails asking why and what they did wrong.

Really glad I didn’t take the job.”

11. Let me ask you a question…

“In the middle of my interview, the manager asked me if my current workplace (that I was trying to leave) was hiring.

When I said I didn’t know, he asked if I’d be willing to drop off a resumé for him anyway.”

How about you?

What do you think is the worst job interview you’ve ever had?

Share your stories with us in the comments. Thanks!

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People Discuss the Scariest Experiences They’ve Had in a Hospital

Most people who spend time in hospitals as patients would say those buildings are not their favorite places. No one likes having to go to the hospital, or stay for awhile, even before all of this past year and covid happened.

You’re alone a lot of the time, you’re scared, you’re in pain, you’re dying to go home, you don’t know what’s happening – take your pick, because there are dozens of reasons not to be a fan.

These 14 people had experience that go beyond the typical discomfort, though, and what they went through might scare you into avoiding hospitals even more than you already do.

14. Kids should not have to be in hospitals.

As a child I was hospitalized a lot due to heart issues. One day I was out in the halls waiting for the play room to open up, I was about 8 at the time. There was a girl on my floor who walked with a huge machine that pumped her heart for her.

She was walking around too with what looked like her mom or older sister. Suddenly her machine started beeping, the nurses rushed. They were speaking German since this was a Berlin hospital ( I don’t speak German I’m Russian )

The look on her face before she collapsed was absolutely horrific, her eyes went almost blank and her lips were starting to go blue. Still haunts me, never found out what happened to her.

13. The fear of not being able to move when something goes down.

As a young adult I was hospitalized due to sepsis. I was in the hospital for a few months. The first day I was transferred to a new hospital I heard this loud terrifying noise outside my door late at night and the ground started to rumble.

I was in Florida so an earthquake was practically impossible but I had no idea what else it could be. I sat paralyzed in my bed, heart pounding out of my chest.

I finally worked up the courage to press the call button. You can imagine the chuckle the nurse had when she had to tell me it was just the floors being cleaned. I was panicked!

12. This hurts my heart.

It really wasn’t that bad but I was 5 and very very scared. It was after waking up from anesthesia after having my tonsils removed. Due to a genetic thing painkillers or anything anesthetic doesn’t really affect me.

So I wake up and I am in a huge amount of pain, I’m surrounded by strangers and I can’t talk. And then I see the bandage on my arm from the IV and start crying. It felt like forever until my Dad and Mom were there.

But definitely being alone, in pain and unable to voice it was the scariest thing for me

11. Thank goodness someone was there to talk to them.

I was strapped down and on a ventilator. I woke up and I was on heavy drugs so I kept thinking I was in a very bad dream and and trying to get out.

I only did that a couple times but I remember having to be told it was real and not a dream. Whatever I think is real is the dream. And after a few seconds it would clear up.

10. Sometimes you don’t want to know.

Toward the end of my father’s life (he had terminal cancer), we had to take him to the emergency room. We got him checked in and as we’re waiting for him to be seen, we hear several ambulances.

Without going into too much grossness, there were three teenage kids (and they were kids) that all shot each other over some argument. So much blood. I had just never seen anything like that in such close proximity. All I kept thinking was that these boys had mothers and fathers and siblings. They were rushing all three in for surgery, but I doubt any of them made it and if they did, there had to have been permanent consequences.

I hope I’m wrong and I never did find out what happened to them, but man. That was some crazy, disturbing shit.

9. That’ll get your heart going.

I was strapped down and on a ventilator. I woke up and I was on heavy drugs so I kept thinking I was in a very bad dream and and trying to get out.

I only did that a couple times but I remember having to be told it was real and not a dream. Whatever I think is real is the dream. And after a few seconds it would clear up.

8. What is the matter with some doctors??

After going out to drink one night and having not much at all, I blacked out. I was either drugged or had a bad reaction to hops, still not sure. Next day, I threw up nonstop for about 14 hours. When every muscle in my body was cramping bad enough I could barely move and my heart started acting real funny, I called an ambulance and went to the ER. They did every sort of test, gave me the runaround in a million different ways. But that wasn’t the scary part.

My parents had come, and the three of us were sitting in the room; at this point I was fine. In walks a doctor. He come in, says, “We got some tests back. Your white blood cell count is a little high. It could be leukemia,” and then walked out without another word.

They ended up shipping me off to another hospital to figure out what was going on and my dumb ass agreed. Other hospital was super confused, basically said you can throw up until you’re dehydrated enough to not be able to hydrate yourself again and I was perfectly fine now that I’d been rehydrated.

But that moment where we were sitting there contemplating the fact I may have fucking cancer in my blood….that was terrifying. I don’t have leukemia. I probably just have a hop intolerance.

7. A teen’s nightmare.

I had intestinal surgery when I was about 13.

Recovery was about 7 days to be sure that all the plumbing was working properly. Well about the 5th day I had woken up to a fairly large wet spot covering my crotch and gown.

Turns out I had a wet dream and was still unable to move easily to clean myself so I had to inform the nurse. I know it’s not much compared to these others, but to a 13 year old it was a nightmare!

6. They’ll hear them, always.

I was in a car accident with my mom back in 1999 here in Texas. A large van ran the red light at a four way intersection and t-boned us. The accident was so bad they took us all by ambulance to the emergency room.

The people who hit my mom and I were in the room next to us. The woman was heavily pregnant but explained to the doctors something felt off for many, many weeks but that her doctor in Mexico said the baby was fine. The ER doctors did an ultrasound and determined her baby was dead and that it wasn’t due to the accident – they figured the baby had been dead for WEEKS.

I’ll never forget that woman’s screams. It was heartbreaking. It was a mixture between heartbreak and disgust. She kept screaming “get it out of me, get it out of me”.

I’ll never forget that moment.

5. Unnerving indeed.

My wife used to work as a psych nurse at a hospital in the city we lived in. She was on the floor on the 4th of July about ten years ago. I get a call from one of her coworkers telling me she’d been assaulted by a patient. She took a pretty good sucker punch, and was down in the ER to get checked out.

Well, I’m with a couple of my friends, and we all head in to see how she’s doing. We’re sitting with her as she’s laying in one of the beds, when we hear this awful wailing.

We turn around, and there’s this kid. Maybe mid teens? I can see the blood on his arm, running down and straining his clothes and the gurney. Turns out, he had blown his hand to shreds playing with fireworks. The screaming was extremely unnerving.

My wife was okay, but that poor kid was not.

4. Curtains aren’t always enough.

I went to the ER three months ago for seizure-like symptoms (turned out to be convulsive syncope and pretty treatable with an adjustment of my medications). However, I’ve been in medical lockdown this pandemic because my asthma is out of control. My doctor, at my appointment over the summer, stared me down and said, “You can’t get sick, do you understand? Your lung functioning can’t drop any further. You have no wiggle room left.”

But seizures are an emergency, and could mean something bad, like a brain tumor. So I reluctantly went to the ER and sat in the waiting room. Ten minutes later, a Covid patient comes in. She announces to the front desk that she’s been diagnosed and is having trouble breathing. She’s instructed to take a seat and wait. Now, with all the social distancing, there’s limited seats available. The only one left is one exactly six feet away from me. There’s no place left for me to go, so I listened to her cough and wheeze and struggle to breathe for half an hour, absolutely terrified that I was going to catch the virus. I got called back for some tests and was given a bed in the non-covid area, but it was in the hall. The hospital was so full that all of us non-covid patients were crammed together in one ward. I was right by the doors that led into the covid hall, and got to watch doctors in full hazmat suits walk around. I kept thinking it looked like a movie in there.

And then a trauma patient was brought in and wheeled to an observation room. The curtains were pulled, but it was one of those glass-walled rooms, so you could still sort of see in. There were a lot of nurses and doctors running in and out. And there was a lot of blood – it was sort of pooling on the floor. The patient was yelling. Not screaming, but making those deep, loud, animal-like groans that says they don’t have the air or energy for a full scream. And all of us, stacked up in beds along the wall, tried not to look, because it felt like we were witnessing something private.

But those groans… they carried across the entire ward. It was terrifying. I could see some of the other patients trying not to cry. And to the other side of me, right over the cubicle wall, a nurse was on the phone talking about insurance and medical bills, and sounding bored and robotic, like she’d answered all of these questions hundreds of times before. It was absolutely surreal.

I got out a couple of hours later, but the entire experience was just… I still can’t find the words to describe it. I’d never been so afraid in my life. Afraid for myself, afraid for the patients, afraid for the doctors… just afraid for everyone going through it.

3. Textbook terrifying.

I was staying in a low security mental ward. I had let my insomnia get the better of my life and mental health and absolutely had to be admitted to get my medication and sleep schedule back to a productive place. While I there, you get to be friends with other people doing long stays.

I became friends with a guy that was a little bit younger than me and didn’t really think anything of it. However, this guy started to become a little.. unhinged? And really started only focusing on me. It got to the point of where he was waiting for me outside my room all the time, eating what I was eating, stuff like that. Hey, maybe I’m being a good example because I’m getting better and he wants to do the same! NOOOOOPE.

Turns out, he had paranoid schizophrenia and thought I could cure him. It came to a head one day where I was trapped in the rec room with him until our doctor could come since he would literally freak out if I left his sight.

The last time I saw him, he was being escorted to the high security ward, mumbling my name over and over again. He wasn’t breaking eye contact with a cold, unnerving stare and he held an outstretched hand towards me as the double security doors closed. I think about that stare when I don’t prioritize my mental health and get the shivers every single time.

2. Thank goodness for the happy gas.

When I was between 3 and 4 I had to have emergency abdominal surgery for a blockage. The scariest thing I’ve seen was either my parents having to stop at the double doors that visitors can’t pass, as they hurriedly rushed me to the surgical area. Mom crying on dad’s shoulder, dad looking very concerned.

Or, the guy they wheeled next to me in prep for the surgery. Back in the 70s they didn’t care about privacy and there weren’t curtains between patients, at least not in the surgery prep at this hospital. The guy next to me was an elderly man, unconscious with tape all over his face.

I have no idea what the tape was for, probably just to hold an intubation tube or something, but in my mind it looked like they just carved his face up and used tape to put it back together.

Scared the sh%t out of me! I didn’t know what they were going to do to me, if I would look like that guy etc… But shortly after that they gave me the happy gas and all was good.

1. You can’t forget that.

Was about 12 years old got bit by a poisonous spider. In ER for it. The guy in the next curtain was apparently shot and stabbed with knife still in him. Nurses opened the curtain didn’t realize me and my dad were in the next area over and so I saw a guy scream and holding in a knife in his gut.

I would not be ok if these happened to me, my goodness.

If something terrifying has happened to you in a hospital, share the story with us down in the comments.

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People Were Surprised to Learn That Not Everyone Knows These Facts

We spend quite a bit of time in our own heads – after all, we hang out with ourselves more than we ever do anyone else. That means we (hopefully) spend time musing on stuff that interests us, but it can also mean our perception of what other people know and like can be skewed.

Below are 22 cool facts that people (wrongly) assumed were common knowledge before someone informed them otherwise.

22. Just not many.

There’s actually male Calico cats. Of course they have a different variation of chromosomes (XXY instead of XY in most cases) but they do exist!

I had one as a kid and everyone told me it was impossible haha

21. Not just for Santa.

It’s genuinely shocking the number of people who don’t realize reindeer are real animals.

[EDIT] Another fact related to this thread is that caribou and reindeer aren’t the same even though they’re the same species. Some countries distinguish them by name and some don’t, which is where the confusion comes from.

20. Who…who has a mouse wheel?

You zoom in and out by holding control and scrolling your mouse wheel. It is so frustrating watching someone fumble for the zoom controls. But I don’t want to be a d%ck and call out the solution.

Just use your mouse wheel!

19. Simple and elegant.

In the US, odd-number highways are north/south, even-numbered highways are east/west.

Be aware that there are two systems in play for numbering exits, and they depend on state choice. If you’re traveling, be sure to know what you’re going to see.

Sometimes exit numbers are “Exit 15 is the next exit after 14” and other times it’s “Exit 15 is 15 miles from where they highway started.”

18. There are all kinds of tricks.

The order of the colors of the rainbow.

I was face painting and a girl was visibly upset, trying to explain to the other face painter that the rainbow on her face wasn’t ordered correctly.

Apparently, neither he nor the wife of the person running the gig knew that rainbows have order.

It was a weird day, to say the least.

They were both full grown adults.

17. Dude.

If you press the windows key and the period key at the same time, it pulls up a whole list of emojis.

16. Pass it on.

The fact that gum, when swallowed, doesn’t stay in your system for 7 years or whatever you’ve been told as a child. It just immediately passes through your system.

I have had this conversation too many times with people whenever I swallow my gum because there isn’t a trash can around.

15. If you’re ever stranded on a tropical island. With a straw.

You know the three dots on a coconut? One of them is “fake” and you can stab it with a steak knife and easily carve out a hole big enough to get a straw through.

Oh and just in case, you don’t need to use a lot of force to check, the knife should sink into the fake dot extremely easily and bounce off the real ones. Do not go all in on stabbing a coconut.

14. Thank goodness.

Mayonnaise is not dairy! I’m lactose intolerant and anytime I ask if a food has dairy in it a surprising number of people think mayonnaise is a dairy product.

13. They literally teach us nothing.

So much legal stuff that I feel people should have learned in high school:

when you are the victim of a crime, you don’t need a lawyer and you aren’t in charge of prosecuting the defendant. Criminal cases are always the government versus the defendant, so the government is represented by the office of the district/commonwealth/US attorney

pleading Not Guilty is how you get a trial. I can’t believe how many people say omg he is such a liar for pleading not guilty when everyone knows he did it. Well pleading not guilty does not mean he didn’t do it. It means he is making the state prove their case, which he is constitutionally able to do

“just get a restraining order”. No, you can’t just get one. There is a standard to meet, it varies by jurisdiction, but generally your life/safety has to be threatened. So no, you can’t get a restraining order against that company that called you 3 times

12. You don’t say.

Cyclists shave their legs to make massages more comfortable and for hygiene purposes in case of an accident. It has nothing to do with aerodynamics.

11. A wild time, indeed.

Ruby red grapefruit. Is the result of atomic gardening.

The 50’s were a wild time with ideas of how to “harness the atom”.

Fascinating.

10. You can ignore the numbers.

Once with a bunch of friends I was the only one to know that ingredients on food labels are written in order of quantity in the food item.

9. For my lazy peeps.

That “K” pauses YouTube videos. Spacebar does it but it also does the last thing you clicked.

More than that, L skips ten seconds and J goes back ten seconds. It’s from editing softwares. Professional editors use JKL often to move around the edit. Slightly differently than YouTube though. K is still pause, J is rewind, L is play/fast forward.

If you hit multiple times it goes faster. If you hit J or L while holding down K it will move one frame at a time. Quicktime uses JKL too, but it uses it like editing softwares instead of the way YouTube does.

8. They’re not the same.

Penguins only living in the South Pole while Polar bears live in the North Pole. Some people think that polar bears and penguins both interact with one another.

7. But do you want to?

You can eat the skin of a kiwi.

6. Bless.

You can get sharpie off smooth surfaces with expo marker

5. Shortcuts are life.

I just yesterday had a close friend of mine, mind you, he’s very knowledgeable of computers, be starstruck when i mentioned Middle Mouse Button could be used on Chrome to open stuff in new tabs or close said tabs.

He mostly uses keyboard shortcuts so he just used CTRL+LMB to do the same, which i had no knowledge was a thing.

4. The face I am making right now.

One fish, two fish if the same species.
One fish, two fishes if not.

I know, It goes against everything you’ve ever been taught.

3. I didn’t know this until I was an adult.

Narwhals are real creatures. Had conversation with a couple of grown ass adults that thought they were mythical whale unicorns… Had to show them multiple pictures, at that point I could not look at them without laughing.

2. So many weird English things.

That it is “should have” instead of “should of”.

I obviously don’t think I’m the only one who knows that but I’m baffled by how often I read that mistake.

1. Apostrophes are hard.

Not every word that ends in an ‘S’ necessitates an apostrophe.

I’m not telling how many of these are new to me, but I’m happy to know them all now.

What’s a fact you think more people should know? Share it with us in the comments!

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What Inventions Are So Good They Can’t Be Improved Upon? Here’s How Folks Responded.

I’ve never thought about this before, so I’m excited to see what kinds of responses people came up with!

And I’m curious to see what you think, so please reply in the comments after reading through these!

What invention is so good it can’t be improved upon?

Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.

1. Most likely.

“I’ve heard the Pin setter machine in bowling Alleys has never had a redesign.

It was perfect already.”

2. Good thing we have it.

“P-trap.

A simple and elegant way to prevent odor from coming into your house via sink, toilet, etc.”

3. XLR.

“The XLR cable.

Until they can beam something directly into your head, we kind of hit a dead end for perceived sound. The simplicity of what a cable can do by allowing both AC and DC power to flow through so you can power and draw signal from a microphone.

Plus the fact it’s so simple to remove the noise you get from outside interference makes it even more genius.”

4. It’s perfect!

“The paper clip.

Last major patent was in the 1880s.”

5. Use the bones!

“Those bones they use for tanning leather.

People have tried using all sorts of different materials but bone always works best apparently.”

6. After all these years…

“The brick.

It has been made of mud, then mud with straw, then mud with clay, then finally with clay alone. That is as far as progress has taken the brick, in the (guess) 8,000 years since it was invented, and it is still in use today.

Someone, lost in the obscurity of ancient history, realized that you couldn’t build really strong stone structures with irregularly-shaped small natural stones, and hewing huge lumps of stone into regular shapes was just ridiculously hard work.

That person also observed that mud that fell into a fire was left hardened when the fire died down. So they figured that if you shaped mud into regular shapes, big enough to carry one in each hand, you would have all the advantages of small irregular stones and large geometrically-carved stones, but with none of the drawbacks of either.

This thought must have taken a second to dawn on the inventor. The practical work to prove the concept must have taken a weekend, at most. Perhaps a week or two to get the shape just right. And here we are, thousands of years later, and the d*mn thing has barely changed at all.”

7. Perfection.

“Pizza.

You can change it up, you can ruin it, and you can fold it half like a crazy calzone munching madman, but you can’t beat perfection.”

8. Can’t beat ’em.

“Most professional classical music instruments are already in their final stage like piano and violin.”

9. That name, though.

“The spoon is a pretty incredible invention.

It can often sub as a fork or a knife, and it has a great name.”

10. Works just fine.

“The basic sewing needle.

It really hasn’t changed in thousands of years.

There is no need for change.”

11. We all need them.

“Windshield wipers.

My engineering professor always lectured us on how perfect the design is and how and new changes made are strictly aesthetic and don’t work any better.”

12. Steam turbine.

“The steam turbine.

It is such a useful way to convert heat into electricity that it would not be surprising to see one strapped to a fusion reactor (if one ever get built).”

13. What would we do without it?

“Gonna have to disagree with the TV remote.

It needs sharp pointy bits so people know when they’re sitting on it.

Also, less of those buttons that serve no purpose but to confuse grandparents.”

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How Did You Get Out of Deep Depression? Here’s How People Responded.

If you’ve never dealt with depression before, it is really terrible.

You feel aimless, sad, exhausted, and something as small as taking a shower or eating a meal seems like climbing Mount Everest.

But the key is figuring out how to get out of that terrible state. And accomplishing that is different for everyone.

Folks on AskReddit talked about how they were able to get out of deep depressive states. Let’s take a look.

1. That helped.

“I dragged myself out of bed and went for a walk with my little cousin.

Having him hand me flowers and point out planes was the most hopeful thing I’ve ever experienced.

It was if I was seeing the world from his joyful perspective.”

2. Gotta start somewhere.

“I commit myself to brushing my teeth every morning.

I tell myself I don’t have to do literally anything else all day, but this one tiny, easy thing I have to do.

So I brush my teeth, with full permission to go back to bed and wish I was dead right after. But usually once I’ve done it, I feel like maybe I can do one more thing today.

But that’s all! I don’t have to anything else at all today, but I can probably manage to brush my hair. So I do that.

And I just keep doing tiny, easy things, and when I can’t do anymore, I already gave myself full sincere permission to call it a day, so I lay on the couch and wish I was dead, and sometimes while I’m doing that, I’ll think of one more tiny, easy thing I can do, and I’ll do that, and maybe a couple other things.

I want to be clear that it’s not about tricking myself into being productive; it’s about being accepting of my bad days and giving myself permission to do the absolute minimum until the next day, when I will reevaluate where I’m at and what I can do.”

3. Motivators.

“At first: my son. I HAD to get out of bed, he couldn’t take care of himself as he was way too young. (2,5/3 years old).

But it got worse and worse and worse. I realized it was very bad when he came up to me with his toy car and I had absolutely no energy or desire to even say “oooh yes! Car!”

What eventually helped was being dragged to therapy by my aunt. I have had therapy for 2 years. After the first session I went home with one specific idea from my therapist and it helped me most: I put a journal next to my bed and forced myself to write ONE good thing about/for the day.

It started with 30 pages of one line: “Made breakfast for me and son”

Gradually there were 2 things: “Made breakfast for me and son” “Got dressed”

Two notebooks later I could write things as “Thought of a morning routine” And eventually “completed full morning routine”

I have recovered but still have setbacks as I have recurring depression episodes. My son is now 9 years old and he kind of knows what is going on when I have one of the episodes and he knows about the notebooks. To this day I still use them. It has never gotten back to just one line a day. Most beautiful thing? If I can’t think of something……….. my son can think of something.

I have even come across some things HE wrote down for me without me knowing. They’re like secret little surprises to find at night. Those are the BEST motivators!”

4. Give yourself permission.

“I gave myself permission to do nothing. This permission removed feelings of guilt & anxiety about the inactivity.

Then, once I had given myself permission, I relaxed and rested. My body and mind needed that.

Eventually, I got better and felt like doing something again.”

5. You gotta do it.

“Forced myself to see a doctor and get on meds.

Nothing in my life and relationships with people changed, no trigger.

After months I just picked one of those rare “motivated enough to go make myself a sandwich” moments and dragged my *ss to the hospital instead.”

6. Big improvement.

“I had a bad bout of depression the end of last year. I wasn’t going to end it, I don’t think, but I didn’t care if I died.

Just straight apathy for living and everything.

On my absolute worst night, after an entire day of sitting on the side of the bed and staring at the floor, I called my mother. It was late and though we are close, I don’t often call her out of the blue. She knew something was wrong when she answered.

The next day I made an appointment with a doctor and a therapist. I got on medication to fix my non-existent seratonin and started opening up about my feelings with professionals, friends, and family. I realized how much people cared about me.

As the meds started to build up, I found myself exercising everyday, just like pushups and planks and stuff. I started buying more fruits. I eat a lot of berries. All this made me feel physically better.

After a few weeks I got passed up for a job that I had interviewed twice for, thought I had, really wanted, and kind of needed. It didn’t put me into a crashing depression. I was disappointed but it was just a problem to overcome.

Depression is a sickness just like anything else. I totally understand that many of the Americans reading this don’t have insurance but a month supply of lexapro using the Good Rx app is dirt cheap.

I hope the people reading this can find a purpose and a happiness. Life is neat. I know it sucks for you right now though.”

7. Man’s best friend.

“My dog has helped so much with my anxiety and depression.

I would see him just living in the moment and started making attempts at savoring the moment when I felt good. A nice breeze on a hot day, baby animals, a sunset. And then I discovered mindfulness, which led to practicing gratitude and loving-kindness.

I wanted to have more energy to play with my dog so I paid better attention to my diet. The way I used to before I developed a chronic illness. My dog is one of my biggest motivators.”

8. Support system.

“Honestly, my friends and family.

I’ve been so deep into depression that I spent 2 days trying to take my own life. Repeatedly. I remember that I texted my best friend how I was feeling but she didn’t answer so I immediately thought she hated me and wanted me dead. I climbed up on my balcony and almost threw myself off it. But my neighbor came home and I didn’t want to traumatize them.

I ended up in hospital hours later but I was released. My friend texted back and her message was “I wish I texted you back sooner.” But what really sealed the deal was that I was in the psych ward following another suicide attempt. My entire family (unknown to me) was cleaning and refurbishing my apartment. I called my sister to check on my cat when I heard my other little sister.

She didn’t know where I was exactly, she just knew I wasn’t feeling right in my head so she kept repeating “I love you, I love you” Over and over to make sure I heard her. Sometimes I still want to die but then I remember her repeating “I love you” And suddenly I can either find the strength to continue or check myself into a mental ward.”

9. It’s a big world.

“Astronomy.

Something about realizing how huge the universe is & still I was born. For what? Maybe just to be. For so long my depression came from not living up to the expectations I thought I should’ve been. So many people live searching for a purpose, but you ARE the purpose.

Out of all the planets in all of the systems in the WHOLE universe, we found ourselves in the one planet we know of that can sustain life.

Also changing the way I see religion as a result. I was taught (catholic) that we must live good lives to please this man in the sky. But with astronomy I started seeing everything different. To me, God is the universe. It created itself, & created us.

Not for a greater purpose, but just to live. We don’t have to strive to be a perfect human because we are already living in this heaven that as far as we know is the only one. I don’t want to live my whole life for this after life & miss the one Im in.

Perspective changed.”

10. Time to eat.

“Eating.

Doesn’t matter if you want to do it or not, your body needs it so badly. It takes a lot of work to get to the kitchen and scavenge some leftovers or a big snack, but it pays off wonderfully.

It might not make you happy, but it helps give you a little boost of energy to take care of yourself through the day.”

11. Time to move on.

“Quit my job.

On week 3 now of unemployment and never been happier. Turns out my soul sucking job of 6+ years as an accountant has been slowly killing me inside to the point of being suicidal. I’d been doing the job of 3 people for 2+ years (sh*tty company=high turnover issue – shocker) and I fully intended on sticking it out at least 1 more tax season before quitting.

But the first ~2 weeks of January were so bad, workload wise, the worst ever in my entire 6 years working there, that I put my notice in for the end of Jan.

Taking a few months off to work on myself and re-discover my hobbies and interests again before looking for another job, hopefully less soul sucking. I realize most people don’t have this luxury but quitting that sh*thole has given me life back.”

Have you ever been able to snap out of a deep depression?

If so, how did you do it?

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People Discuss the Unrealistic Things in Movies That Really Bother Them

I have a very distinct memory of watching the movie Speed at the theater when I was younger.

It was really exciting, and when the part when the out-of-control bus being driven by Sandra Bullock jumped that HUGE section of highway and landed safely on the other side happened, two older gentlemen sitting in front of me started dying laughing because of how unrealistic it was…

But I was pretty young and didn’t pick up on the ridiculousness of it at the time, so their laughter hurt my feelings. And it ruined my life. And apparently, I’m still not over it…

The point is that all kinds of wacky things happen in movies.

AskReddit users opened up about unrealistic things in movies that really get on their nerves.

1. Painful.

“People who yank out their IVs.

I tugged on mine once and I f*cking cried.”

2. Seems like you’re doing fine.

“Working as a waitress, or some other near minimum wage/poverty wage job and having excessive time off and money and things like huge houses.”

3. He’s fine.

“The standard car flips over five times and catches on fire and every single time, Vin Diesel walks out unscathed.”

4. Doesn’t happen.

“Finding car keys “hidden” behind a car’s sun visor.

I don’t know a single real human who has ever used this method when stashing keys.”

5. Found it!

“People Googling exactly what’s happening to them and getting the answers they’re looking for. Happens a lot in scary movies.

A house is being haunted by the ghost of a tall man, and the owners Google “Tall man ghost” and find exactly the article that explains who the ghost is and what happened to him.”

6. No problem!

“”I need information from this computer.”

Tech guy runs over and starts hammering wildly on the keyboard, “I’m in!”

The keyboard is plugged into a xbox, and the OS is windows 2000.”

7. Let’s have a look…

“The fight or flight response doesn’t seem to exist in horror movies.

If I come across a friend’s dead body in the woods, my first instinct isn’t to investigate the scene.

I am getting the f*ck out of there and calling the police.”

8. What could it be?

“Most people in real life know what zombies and vampires and such are, but in a lot of movies people act all perplexed like “what the heck is THIS new monster thing?”

And scratch their heads…”

9. I like beer.

“When someone asks for a beer, they never specify what kind of beer they want but the bartender always seems to give them the right one.”

10. Not accurate.

“Why is Africa always depicted as nothing but dirt roads, bush and animals?

I live in Africa and have never had an elephant strolling by my window or a giraffe eating through my kitchen window.

Also, we have some really nice houses, not just huts. We also have high rise buildings, blue flag beaches, five star resorts, world standard airports (not just the dirt strips you see in movies) and much more!

And don’t get me started on the “African/Wakanda” accent they used in Black Panther….”

11. Hmmm…

“When they try to casually slip in something that you just know will be crucial later on in the film.

Like someone saying to the hero, “how’s that online course in lock picking going ?”

You know he’ll be picking a lock at some point later .”

12. Funny.

“Dressing room montages.

You waited for the last possible minute to buy that outfit you need (it’s going to change your life!) you’re not going to be laughing and goofing around in the dressing room.

You’re going to be going, “It doesn’t fit!” while your mom stands outside the door saying, “Do you think a different size would work? Do you want me to ask if they have a 12?” “NO I HATE IT THERE’S NOTHING HERE I’LL NEVER FIND ANYTHING I’M NOT GOING TO THE PROM”.”

13. This is true.

“In a horror movie, everyone acts insanely stupid.

No one ever believes each other, they go outside to investigate a loud noise when there’s been a string of murders, etc.

“Our best chance is if we split up”.”

14. All of this stuff.

“Getting a parking spot right in front of the address in a big city.

Falling 15 feet and then catching yourself by one hand on a tiny protrusion.

A character just enters the house and starts talking. Even when the scene is in an interior room. No doorbell, no getting the door.

Adults walking around an elementary school without being questioned or accosted by staff.”

What unrealistic things in movies really get on your nerves?

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