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The vast majority of “Push to Walk” buttons at intersections and “Close Door” buttons in elevators are disabled and only exist to give the illusion of control. In NYC, less than 10% of walk buttons are still even connected to the power grid.
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Life ends. All life does.
And entire new biological processes take place in death that we would never know about—or want to.
Except, that is, if you DO know about it. If you’ve been gifted the awareness of what exactly happens to a human body while it decomposes, you would be the bearer of a morbid fact..
And as a matter of fact, morbid facts are a lot bigger of a demographic of facts than you would really think they are.
“What morbid fact do you know?”
Here were some of those answers.
“If bodies are kept in coffins that are sealed tight enough, such as the in wall type of memorial, sometimes enough gases can build up that the body basically explodes and can spill out onto the ground.”-Mangobunny98
“If you electrocute someone while they are submerged in water, it won’t leave burn marks.”-R3dShield
“I think this is pretty well known on Reddit, but it’s a common misconception that your hair and fingernails continue to grow after you die.”
“What actually happens is your skin dries out, and recedes, which gives the appearance of nails/hair being longer than they were before death”-Antitheistic10
“In Formula 1, safety belts were not mandatory until 1972.”
“Before then, drivers believed it better to be ejected in a crash, and either die instantly from a broken neck or suffer many broken bones.”
“The alternative, they thought, was to be trapped and essentially cremated alive should the gas tanks ignite.”-[username deleted]
“A professor at my lecture today said that deer will lay on decaying corpses because they produce heat and the deer like that. Basically deer treat corpses as their personal sauna.”-4ensicmess
“An adult human body impacting on concrete does not sound organic or ‘wet’ at all, it reminded me more of a car accident than anything else.”
“Source: Last week someone committed suicide by jumping off of the building I live in, I heard the impact and saw the body when I walked out onto my terrace to see what was going on.”
“Second morbid fact, from the same source: The human brain looks far more white & pink when it gets ejected from the skull, I always thought a ‘live’ brain would be red from the blood in it but I was wrong.”-Octosphere
“In the middle ages, you could be boiled in a pot of lead for certain crimes. What crimes they were I have forgotten, but it certainly was a thing.”-necrophiliaisillegal
“Before you die, your last words could be, ‘I don’t feel so good.’”
“I was a paramedic for 15 years and heard dozens of people’s final words. The phrase I heard most often, possibly from half to three quarters of them, were some form of ‘I don’t feel so good.’”
“I’ve also heard, ‘Wait, somethings wrong,’ ‘Somethings happening,’ ‘I don’t feel right.’ ‘Wait, somethings wrong,’ ‘It’s happening,’ and ‘Oh no, Oh no.’”
“People feel the blood leaving their brain I think. Must be like a rush.”-Forbidden_Donut503
“The whole “‘f your erection last more than 4 hours, receive immediate medical’ or whatever is the reason why the Brazilian wandering spider (located in the Amazon) is so dangerous.”
“Its bite is supposed to make you have an erection for a long time and it’s pretty hard to find medical services when you’re in the Amazon.”
“What happens with boners is that blood fills up the penis and mostly stays there until the boner is gone. If it stays longer than 4 hours, the blood is deprived of oxygen.”
“It can turn into a jelly like substance with lots of clotting, so leaving it untreated could clog you up as the blood flows back. By the time you get to a doctor, they have two options.”
“One is get a 60ml syringe w/ a needle and suck out the blood (that’s the consistency of toothpaste), while also flushing it with salt water (also w/ syringe and needle) when those clots stop the needle.”
“The second option, which is usually saved for last, is to vertically insert a small blade inside the meatus/slit in the head and sharply twist it by 90°. Then just let it drain.”-marcy1010
“After the Pulse night club shooting, when the cops were investigating, you’d think it was pretty quiet in there.”
“It was actually a cacophony of ringing cell phones. So many friends and loved ones calling people they knew were there, hoping they’ll answer the phone and say they’re ok…”-Veritas3333
“There’s something called ‘Anaesthesia Awareness’ where of certain people go into surgery and they don’t give you enough anaesthesia, it will look like you’re asleep (eyes closed, not talking or moving), but the patient can still hear and feel everything that’s happening.”
“But here’s the scary part. You’re unable to move, speak or open your eyes. Unless they have a monitor to show your brain activity, you’re stuck with having to endure the pain.”-EveryNameIsStolen
“On Mt. Everest, you have the rainbow valley, the last zone to climb to reach the peak.”
“Which sounds cute but it’s really the colorful jackets of dead climbers who are frozen in time against the white harsh snow.”
“Also, when close to the peak, the oxygen levels are so low that the body is starting to die. You only have a few minutes to reach the top.”-tarantulaboi
“Also, not sure of how much of a standard practice it is, but if you donate body to a school they will possibly ship your body elsewhere.”
“I know I saw a comment about how you need to be nearby the place you donate to because they dont want to ship you to them, but they may ship you elsewhere.”
“I know at least at the local college by me, they get all their cadavers from Texas (in Illinois, and we ship ours to them) so that theres less of a chance that a student may know the person.”
“And they also cover the faces unless doing any sort of head/face things (again at least the one by me does)”-future_nurse19
“Mausoleums have not only a ventilation system to prevent smells, but the crypt slots are angled towards the back and have a drainage system for uh…liquids coming out of the caskets.”
“Airtight caskets are a problem in mausoleums because the body liquifies inside and can build up so much gas that the lid can almost explode off of the caskets, sometimes even breaking the stone slab at the entrance of the slot.”
“Can you imagine walking through a mausoleum and suddenly the slab to a slot just shatters from the inside?”-crescentcactus
Despite being bone-chilling and morbid in life, these facts could actually be useful for you some day—but hopefully for most of us, that day is very, very far away.
We all love a good fun fact.
They expand our mind just a tiny, gentle amount. Sometimes they bring a smirk to our face. And other times they’re reliable as hell during an awkward ice breaker.
So it’s not a bad idea to keep a few in your back pocket for when, say, you’ve just started a job or a first date is going horribly.
“What are some ‘why the fu** do you know that information’ facts?”
“Squid can literally give themselves brain damage by eating something too big. Their brain is a donut shape and the esophagus runs through it.” — orbitofnormal
“Crayfish (or lobster?) have a sort of open channel like an ear that helps them balance. A few grains of sand sit in it and because gravity is pulling the grains down they always know which way is up.”
“However if you put magnetic metal shavings into the holes and hold a large strong magnet above them they’ll start to swim upside down.” — XamiaArc
“only 10% of a whales sperm enters the mate, 90% goes into the ocean. meaning that drinking ocean water is drinking a percentage of whale cum” — SugonmaBalls
“Leave a human body soaking in a solution of lye and water for several months and it will dissolve into liquid and soft bone dust which can be washed down a drain, leaving no evidence behind.”
“If you need to speed the process up you can heat the water up to just short of boiling and dissolve the body in ~6 hours.” — hananobira
“Some foot fetishes occur because the part of the brain that controls feeling in the feet is positioned right next to the part that produces libido, and sometimes the wires within the brain become crossed.” — S_is_for_Smeagol
“When someone dies in an area where insects can get to them, their face often decomposes first. There’s lots of nice holes on and next to the face that are great for egg-laying.”
“Then, the bugs eat your face and buzz off.” — tapiocatsar
“That Rolling Rock beer almost went bankrupt in the 1990’s. As a last ditch effort they hired a new marketing exec to turn their fortunes around.”
“In their big meeting with all the board members waiting in anticipation for his big reveal he told them to just raise the price. They were ready to fire him on the spot, because they couldn’t sell any at the cheapo price.”
“Then he told them why – their price point was less than Budweiser at the time and that was the standard by which people judged the quality of a beer. He reasoned that if they increased the price to the next tier above Bud and did nothing else, people would believe it was a better beer, even though it was the same as it ever was.”
“It turned into their ad campaign and they thumbed their noses at all the yuppies who drank it by the case in college in the 70’s and 80’s who started buying it again because it was now a ‘better’ beer. It was wildly successful and saved the company.” — Finklemaier
“Andrei Chikatilo, a serial killer from the USSR who was convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering at least 52 women and children, was arrested and questioned by police six years before his official apprehension date.”
“This was because police took a blood sample from him that was different than the blood group of the semen found at the scene of one of his crimes. However, obviously, Chikatilo was guilty.”
“He had a rare genetic condition in which the blood groups of his blood & saliva and his semen are different, which is how he was questioned and released.” — sylveonstarr
“John Kellogg (inventer of corn flakes) was a huge advocate for circumcision because he believed it would prevent us from masturbating.”
“Also he tried normalizing putting acid on the clitoris for the same reason” — TrystenConn
“Valery Khodemchuk was an engineer working the Night Shift at Chernobyl’s Reactor 4 the night it exploded.”
“He was the very first person killed in the accident, as he likely died instantly when his body was vaporized by the blast. His remains were never recovered, and the ruins now serve as his tomb.” — TheMadmanAndre
“Opicinus de Canistris, an Italian priest who lived during the 13th and 14th centuries, believed that parts of his body metaphysically represented regions of the world, and that if he felt pain in one area, then it could mean that disaster was about to fall on that region.”
“He also drew a metaphysical “world map” that was basically pictures of random people and animals stuck together instead of an actual map of the world.”
“He actually managed to get the Pope at the time on his side. It speaks volumes about the state of science in the Middle Ages that this blatant psychotic could promote his beliefs under the guise of serving Christianity.” — ugagradlady
“In Silence of the Lambs, when Hannibal Lector gives the infamous quote ‘I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti,’ it’s a reference that he’s off his meds.”
“Some antipsychotics have negative interactions with beans, red wine, and organ meats. It’s kind of an odd joke though, because Hannibal Lector is a diagnosed psychopath in the movie, and psychopathy isn’t treated with antipsychotics.” — [deleted]
Here’s hoping these facts aren’t too unnerving to dust off at a party or a team-builder.
The line between truth and fiction can be a difficult one to find sometimes.
We are bombarded by dueling viewpoints a thousand times a day and it can be challenging to pick out what information is real, and what is just believed because it’s been repeated so many times.
In an effort to root out some of the falsehoods we believe, Redditor and Original Poster (OP) Mutating_Mammal asked:
“What are some common ‘facts’ that people believe to be true even if the existing evidence states the contrary?”
“Camels don’t use their humps to store water.”
“They use them to store fat reserves., Because storing fat reserves around the body like humans would keep them too warm, so they have it all in one spot.”
“Edit: since the day metabolizes as water and CO2, it is in a way a water source.”~ Cielbird
“Oooh, my time to shine.”
“I used to test pool water/hot tub water as a part time job.”
“This is what I learnt from reading the material that the company gave me, but my advice always seemed to work so I think it’s pretty solid.”
“There are two types of chlorine: Free Chlorine and Combined Chlorine.”
“Free chlorine is generally odorless in the pool.”
“It’s the chlorine that can attack bacteria.”
“Combined chlorine is chlorine that has already attacked some type of bacteria.”
“All it just stays in the pool and doesn’t do much.”
“That combined chlorine can make your pool smell like chlorine, or even make your pool cloudy.”
“If a pool smells like chlorine, it has too much combined chlorine.”
“To get rid of it, you need some type of oxidizer.”
“Like a calcium hypochlorite or something along those lines.”
“So in other words. Even if a pool smells horribly like chlorine, it can still be very unsanitary and unsafe to swim in.”~ Fangore
“That Einstein was a bad student, and was bad at math.”
“It’s just not true.”
“He got average-high marks, and was really just disdainful of the structure of school.”
“And he was good at math. Physics is like 90% math.”
“I get why people share it, it’s to make struggling students feel better about themselves, but can’t we tell them about something else instead of lying?” ~ nonfiction42
“People still think an undercover cop has to tell you they’re a cop.”
“How does that even make sense?”
“Months of preparations ruined on the first day because someone happened to ask the magic question.”
“Cops are allowed to lie to you and they will pretend to be your friend to get what they need from you.”
“Side note: Even if you’re innocent of a crime, the first words from your mouth should be ‘I want a lawyer.’ and you don’t provide any information until you have one.”
” ‘Anything you say CAN and WILL be used AGAINST you in the court of law.’ ” ~ sc0n3z
“It is rarely necessary to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person report” ~ emil199
“A person drowning is not likely to be flailing wildly and yelling like in the movies.”
“Drowning can often happen with mostly silence, especially with kids.”
“Read up on the signs, it might save a life.”
“I was drowning and lost consciousness when I was 5, I was told I barely made a sound.”
“I went under, sucked in lungs full of water when I tried to cry out in surprise and blacked out.”
“If it wasn’t for my dad’s instincts and quick action I’d be dead.” ~ Guitar3544
“Alpha theory in dog training.”
“The researcher that originally described the dominance theory was watching captive wolves at a zoo- a pack that was artificially created from unrelated specimens.”
“The hierarchy in this curated collection was determined through fights and struggles for dominance and this dynamic was then applied to domestic dogs and how they view themselves in relation to humans.”
“This drove the ‘dominate your dog’ style of training popular with Cesar Millan and his acolytes.”
“When the scientific community was able to observe a wild wolf pack, however, they discovered that wild packs are family units and operate much the same way with a parental breeding pair at the top and their younger offspring forming the pack, sometimes several litters at a time.”
“As the pups grow older, they break off and form their own packs.
“The researcher that dismantled the theory, David Mech, described it thusly:”
” ‘Attempting to apply information about the behavior of assemblages of unrelated captive wolves to the familial structure of natural packs has resulted in considerable confusion.’ “
” ‘Such an approach is analogous to trying to draw inferences about human family dynamics by studying humans in refugee camps.’ “ ~ Still_Mighty
“Chicken is cooked when it is no longer pink and the juices run clear.”
“In fact, it’s cooked when it hits 75C (165F) and that’s it. What it looks like depends on the cut.”
“Chicken breast often has significant pink in it when it hits the temperature, which is why most people complain about dry boring chicken, because they overcook it.”
“On the flipside, wings can look cooked when they aren’t, which is why they’re a major source of food poisoning.”
“The most important thing I learned working in a commercial kitchen.” ~ aegeaorgnqergerh
“People have a misconception that we work less today than we have throughout history.”
“In actuality, hunter-gatherers worked an average of 3 to 5 hours a day.”
“Ancient civilization farmers only worked during seasonal and agricultural periods, averaging about 10 hours a day for only 120 days a year.”
“Roman documents show that most artisans only worked about 6 hours a day from the hours of 6am to mid-day. They were given multiple holidays from frequent festival days.”
“Medieval farmers and peasants worked about 8 hour days in the summer, but worked less in winter months due to less daylight, averaging only about 5.5 hours of work each day.”
“It wasn’t until the mid-18th century that workdays became longer, with the invention of replaceable part.”
“Workers in London in 1750 worked 11 hours per day, five days a week.”
“Sunday was the day of rest, but those in gainful employment also skipped work on Monday, which was dubbed ‘Saint Monday’ at the time.”
“The industrial revolution was the kickstart of long workdays and few holidays or leave.”
“Factory workers in mid-19th century England worked 16 hours a day, 311 days per year”
“Comparatively, the average office worker today in the USA works 7.8 hours a day, 311 days per year.”
“TLDR; we work more today than almost every other generation leading up to the 18th century.” ~ SaltySFSailor
We tend to accept the things that we hear over and over again, but repetition does not mean accuracy.
Take a harder look at the long-held “facts” that you believe, and you might just find that they don’t hold up as well as you thought.
There are all kinds of truths in the world that are fascinating, but there are also some that are absolutely terrifying.
So much so, these facts can keep people from sleeping at night.
“What’s a terrifying fact that keeps you up at night?”
“If you’re diving with sperm whales and they make a click at full power, it could vibrate you to death, which I can only imagine would be one of the worst ways to die.”
“As unpractical as it is for me to be in that situation, not much would top being paralyzed underwater with internal hemorrhaging.” – NorthMcCormick
“About 5000 people die in their sleep every night with unknown causes.” – bubbles_teh_monkey
“That one moment I’m here and living and the next moment I could be 6 feet under or turned into ashes.” – MelanieSenpai
“Everything could just be taken away in an instant.” – boopydo1
“Living alone for a long time, I’m always worried how long my body will be discovered if I die in my sleep.” – Adonis_X
“It’s probably not helpful to hear about the guy whose kids stopped talking to him because ‘once again’ he didn’t show up for Thanksgiving.”
“So, a cop friend was called out to his house when the electricity was turned on to prep the house for foreclosure auction…”
“When the heat automatically kicked on (in August), the smell was horrendous… not from the body – it was long past the smelly point – but by the accumulated smells in the ducts from the prior winter when he passed… probably around Thanksgiving.”
“Take away? Be reliable. Call when you say you’ll call; show up when you promise to.”
“That way, when you don’t show up, people won’t just shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Well, it’s just Harold being Harold’ – instead they’ll say, ‘They alway shows up or at least call when they can’t make it! Something’s wrong. We should check on them.’” – tmccrn
“We live in a world where the rich pit us against each other as they get richer, and it’s so far gone that people would rather defend corporations that trickle out comfort (all the while reinforcing the system) than accept the necessary uprising will be uncomfortable.” – FetaMight
“The thought that if I was a multimillionaire, I would invest a lot of money into making sure it stayed that way, which is kinda scary considering how powerful money is as a resource.” – pathemar
“I’m likely going to work full time for the next 40 years with almost zero free time.” IAmAToiletDontAsk
“We live to consume.”
“Go to work, make money, spend that money to live and contribute to your economy, repeat.”
“If you’re lucky, you retire around 60. If you’re really lucky, 30. If you’re really lucky, you’re Elon Musk’s kid or some s**t.” – sloop-salad
“The dollar is worthless. The treasury is not just empty, it owes the rest of the world trillions, and the government somehow owes itself more trillions.”
“Despite this, or more probably because of this, we continue to spend more than the rest of the world combined on the deadliest military in history.”
“There will be a reckoning, and I don’t think it will be gentle or pretty.” – Plethorian
“I’m concerned that no one has mentioned climate change. This is the greatest existential threat mankind will ever be exposed to.”
“I’m regularly stunned by the existential crisis that is thinking about climate change. It usually strikes me in the shower.” – 9T3
“Life is just about finding distractions to keep yourself busy so you don’t think about the fact that there’s nothing you can do in your life to stop the Sun from exploding and wiping out the entire humanity with it.” – NotDaWaed
“I’ve reached the conclusion that it’s more important to live a life worthy of being remembered after your death, than to live a life that actually is remembered after your death. You have no control over the latter, and you won’t care.” – michaelochurch
“When I die, I will be forgotten in a few decades unless I do something amazing or horrific. It’s much easier to do something awful than it is to do something great.” – ZerenTheUnskilled
“I’m worried nobody will remember me after my generation when I die.” – rascally1980
“It would be nice to know you have had a positive impact on someone’s life. I have been lucky in my life and career to have had people I look up to.”
“Now I am getting to the age of those people I look up to, and I wonder if I had an impact on anyone in that same way.” – sadicarnot
“Folks, when it comes time to look back on your life, what you will regret are the things you did not do, not the things you did.”
“Go live your life with vigor and passion.” – ocrohnahan
“How many things I’ll never know. What will happen to humanity long after I’m dead?”
“Do you ever think about time? If it’s a property of the universe, what happens when the universe ends?”
“If the universe ends in a Big Crunch, where the expansion of the universe reversed and all matter converges in the same spot, will another Big Bang happen?”
“Will it happen exactly like the original one?”
“If that is the case, is time a loop? Has this already happened before? How many times have I thought about this and how many times have I written this comment? Has my death already happened an infinite amount of times?”
“There is no way to know the answer, and that’s something I never stop thinking about.” – whatthef**k21
Any of these facts could potentially be troublesome for someone if they were to think about it and its implications for too long.
The clear message in all of this, though, is to live life to the fullest, since tomorrow is never guaranteed.
In 1997 a Danish woman visiting New York City was arrested and strip-searched for leaving her baby in a stroller outside a restaurant while she and the baby’s father dined inside, a common practice in Denmark. She later sued the city and was awarded $66,000.
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The big four artificial sweeteners – Saccharine, Cyclamate, Aspartame and Sucralose – were all discovered after scientists accidentally tasted the chemicals. Saccharine was discovered in 1879 by Constantin Fahlberg, who was researching coal tar derivatives and forgot to wash his hands before going for lunch. Cyclamate (Sweet ‘n’ Low) was discovered in 1937 when graduate […]
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An australian man suffered from am heart attack in an accident and spent 15 days in a coma. To celebrate his miraculous recovery, he bought a lottery ticket and won a $30,000 car. When asked to reenact the win by local news, he agreed and bought another scratch card. He won $250,000.
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Nickelodeon is named after the first theater in the world exclusively devoted to showing motion pictures. Opened on June 19, 1905 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nickelodeon’s name was concocted from nickel (the cost of admission) and the ancient Greek word odeion, a roofed-over theater.
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In 2019, the cardigan sweater that Kurt Cobain wore during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert sold for $334,000. It is currently the most expensive sweater to ever be sold at an auction.
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