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People Share Their Favorite ‘How The Hell Did They Discover That?’ Facts

Humanity, for all its faults, is pretty amazing. We’ve learned a lot of really cool things in our time on this planet.

But how did we learn some of it?

Like… who thought it’d be a good idea to prepare a venomous or otherwise dangerous creature for consumption? Didn’t the thought of some rather deadly trial and error frighten them away?

The answer to that is “nope,” in case you’re wondering, and we are referring to fugu, a dish prepared from a pufferfish that can be lethal for human consumption and can also sting when its spines enter the skin.

Fugu’s tetrodotoxin can be so lethal, in fact, it must be carefully prepared to remove the toxic parts and to avoid contaminating the meat.

The Japanese and other countries have strictly regulated fugu’s preparation, just in case you’re feeling adventurous.

But how did that first person grab the stinging, spiky fish blown up like a balloon and discover how to eat it without dropping dead?

Well, we don’t have an answer for that.

And what about other curious things human beings discovered?

Redditor Justoneaccount1234 asked the online community:

“What fact makes you think ‘What the f**k were they doing to discover that?’”

“She wasn’t too disgusted.”

“My mum was diagnosed with glaucoma a while back. She had to use eye drops which she said were derived from bull semen. She wasn’t too disgusted.”

“She was a nurse, she was just endlessly baffled with HOW anyone ever came up with that idea.”

“Like, you’d have to know a fair bit about semen to even think of its uses beyond the obvious one.”

“How do these people describe themselves on LinkedIn?” ~ SuzyJTH

“You know…”

“Hákarl.”

“You know, that shark that is usually poisonous unless you leave it to rot for months.” ~ ObscuraNox

“Chewing the nuts…”

“Coffee can be explained. Chewing the nuts gets you hyper, so someone distilled it.”

“Now black ivory coffee… that had to have been a prank, dare, or the most confusing chain of events for a bean farmer.”

“For those that don’t know, black ivory coffee is coffee made from beans passed through the digestive tract of elephants.”

“The enzymes in the elephant break down the protein in the bean, giving it a less bitter taste.” ~ chocki305

“I have an acquaintance…”

“I have an acquaintance who worked as a dog handler, showing purebred dogs in dog shows.”

“She swears that putting the tip of a wooden match into a dog’s anus is the preferred method for making the dog defecate before going into the show ring.”

“All I can think of is: Who was the drunk idiot that discovered that? How much alcohol was involved?”

“Why did they tell anybody what they’d done? (“Hey, you guys wanna see a trick? Here, Fido!”)” ~ NightmareGerbil

“Just to clarify…”

“I never understood why people started eating onions. I mean, I’m glad they did, but if I’m a caveman and try to eat a ‘food-like substance’ that if I break open makes me cry, I’m probably not ingesting it.”

“I mean, it doesn’t even want me to look at it and punished me for breaking it open. I don’t eat aggressive vegetables.”

“Just to clarify, I really love onions. I just wouldn’t have been the first one to try them.” ~ CanEyeBshy

“In the past two weeks…”

“Anything involving baking soda. In the past two weeks, I’ve used it to make banana bread and pretzels, as well as to disinfect a litter box and clean silver.” ~ _solarmax

“I mean, they figured out…”

“Toast. It had to be an accident, surely.”

“I mean, they figured out to grind the right grains, the right ratio of yeast and water and sugar, etc., and how to cook it to make beautiful beautiful bread.”

“I swear, it must have been an accident that someone was too close to a fire and because of, I dunno, poverty or ignorance, it got eaten and the nirvana that is toast was achieved.

“Who would ever think, ‘This bread is great, I’ll cook it again’?” ~ kiki73

“One presumes…”

“The ancient/medieval alchemists left a lot of records of the substances they studied.”

“They cataloged all the properties they observed for each one – including the taste. One presumes that for the data to be passed on, one had to record the taste test promptly.” ~ schleppenwolf

“The process to make it properly…”

“Chocolate. The process to make it properly is incredibly finicky and takes a long time from start to finish.”

“What’s more, it’s not like a lot of things mentioned here that were probably just the result of being desperately hungry.” ~ mechanate

“Maybe I don’t understand…”

“The complex chemical processes to make certain drugs.”

“Maybe I don’t understand chemistry well enough, but how would they have known the effect that certain drugs, like cocaine, would have on a person?”

“Or was it made for some other purpose and someone said, ‘Hey, this looks like a good thing to crush up so that I can snort it up through my nose.’”

“It just seems weird.” ~ goodietwoshoe

“For those who aren’t familiar…”

“Casu marzu.”

“For those who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a cheese made from sheep’s milk with live maggots in it.”

“It’s actually illegal under EU regulations but there is still black market production because apparently, people want to eat live maggots.” ~ adeon

“They were lucky…”

“When saccharine was first synthesized, the creators didn’t know it was going to be safe to consume.”

“And yet, against the most basic law of the chemistry lab (do not under any circumstances eat that thing you just created, everything can and WILL kill you), they decided that meh, a little bit couldn’t hurt.”

“They were lucky and it was sweet and safe, but seriously don’t eat the stuff you just made from tar – it literally didn’t exist an hour before.” ~ coelicolored

The funny thing about a lot of these responses, at least to me, is the number of people who rest on the assumption that starvation wasn’t a common way to die for many millennia.

You’d be surprised what human beings will eat—and certainly figure out is okay to eat—when they are hungry and there is no other option.

I suppose we should thank them for their discoveries.

Oh, and while we’re at it, be even more thankful we didn’t have to be the ones to do all of these experiments.

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People Share The Absolute Weirdest Facts They Know

In our primary school years, many of us took great pride in the weirdest, most fun facts we could spout out to our friends and family members on command.

Some of us, though, never lost that passion and continued collecting factoids about the world around us.

Redditor lovedump44 asked: 

“Reddit, what is the weirdest FACT you know?”

Some talked about the state of Maine.

“Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.” – Donald_Keyman

“[Maine] is also the only state with one syllable in its name.” – BatskyStarman

The state of Ohio had something going for it, too.

“Ohio is the only state to not share a letter with the word ‘mackerel.’” – hunter07100

There was quite the unexpected fact about sea cucumbers.

“I know that sea cucumbers, to protect themselves from enemies, will hurl their own internal organs at anything threatening them.”

“Pretty wild, I think, but it doesn’t hurt the critter none. The sea cucumber can regrow whatever organs he lost with ease.” – aintyourma

Penguins have an unexpected skill, too.

“Penguins have a gland above their noses that removes salt from seawater.” – Servb0t

Some Redditors loved sharing facts about otters.

“Otters have a secret pocket where they carry their favorite rock.” – theoldraven

“[Otters] also hold hands when they sleep.” – jellyshoes11

“[Otters hold hands]…so they don’t drift apart. We can’t forget the adorable reason!” – biospark02

LEGO was represented on a technicality. 

“LEGO is the world’s largest producer of tires.” – UncensoredChef

This inspired a piece of trivia from the first LEGO Movie.

“In the LEGO Movie, they put fingerprints and scratches on pieces to make the legos looked like they were well played with.” – hannakah_ham

Speaking of yellow characters, Pac-Man was also mentioned.

“If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, it sounds just like Pac-Man.” – Donald_Keyman

And while we’re on the subject of scratching…

“Bonus Fact: If your throat is itching, you can make it stop by scratching your ear.” – Rywell

Some startling timeline facts had to be shared, too.

“Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.” – Donald_Keyman

“More time has passed between 9/11 and today, than 9/11 and the fall of the Berlin Wall.” – chicochic

“The Tyrannosaurus Rex was more likely to have gone to a Miley Cyrus concert than to have ever fought against a Stegosaurus (chronologically).” – Baldybeardy

Two Redditors enjoyed thinking of how we’re all connected.

“Astronomer here! If you look at the large-scale structure of the universe, it looks an awful lot like a brain cell.”

“I always thought that was really weird, but also a neat coincidence.” – Andromeda321

“We are more empty space than we are solid matter.” – its_the_peanutiest

Three Redditors considered how fantastically small some things are.

“There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world…” – hotbuk**ke

“Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.” – Swaily_P

“You can fit 3 Jupiters in the space between the Earth and our Moon.” – Question_4_you_guys

Two Redditors mentioned some surprising finds.

“A tomato plant was found on a 40-year-old volcanic island by the name of Surtsey. Scientists were baffled about how it got there.”

“Turns out a scientist took a dump which contained tomato seeds, and the plant grew.” – speeds_03

“Antarctica has two ATM machines. However, only 1 of them is working…” – Nebih

Three Redditors couldn’t choose just one factoid to share.

“Here are some interesting and odd facts:”

“Mammoths went extinct over 1000 years after the building of the great pyramid in Egypt.”

“A strawberry isn’t a berry, but an avocado is.”

“The can opener was invented 50 years after the can. They used bayonets or smashed them open with rocks in the intervening time. The rotating can opener that we’re familiar with took over 100 years to finalize.”

“The spikes on a stegosaurus’ tail are known by paleontologists as the thagomizer, which is a term coined by none other than Gary Larson in the Far Side cartoons.” – techniforus

“The world’s deepest postbox is in Susami Bay in Japan. It’s 10 meters underwater.”

“Light doesn’t necessarily travel at the speed of light. The slowest we’ve ever recorded light moving at is 38 mph (miles per hour).”

“In 1567, the man said to have the longest beard in the world died after he tripped over his beard while running away from a fire.”

“There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.”

“[Until 2016] the last time the Chicago Cubs won the baseball World Series, the Ottoman Empire still existed, and women did not have the right to vote in the United States.”

“John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s still alive today.” – Donald_Keyman

“Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the day he was fatally shot. At the time, it wasn’t charged with protecting the President, but still…”

“John Wilkes Booth’s brother once saved Lincoln’s son’s life.”

“Furbies are banned from the NSA’s offices — as they may be spies. (They’re not really spies, but the NSA is being extra-careful.)”

“If your name is Richard Parker, stay the hell away from boats.”

“In March of 1951, both the US and UK were introduced to Dennis the Menace comics. But the two Dennis [characters] were totally different and their creators didn’t know about the other one across the Atlantic.”

“The US Civil War started on Wilmer McLean’s farm. He left the area shortly thereafter but couldn’t avoid the war, as it ended at the home he fled to.”

“The code names of the beaches used for the D-Day landings appeared in crossword puzzles before the campaign.”

“The people who make government pens will never see the words those pens write because all those people are blind.”

“Mountain Dew once admitted that mice would dissolve into a jelly-like substance in order to win a lawsuit.”

“There’s a massive, burning pit of natural gas aflame in Turkmenistan which has been burning since the early 1970s.”

“The US once considered nuking the moon, and Carl Sagan worked on the project.” – MrDNL

From facts about space to the strangest finds on Earth, combined with animal oddities and surprising timeline overlaps, these facts left many a fellow Redditor stunned, as well as wondering what other odd trivia they could uncover.

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People Divulge The Darkest Facts They Know About Cartoons

*The following article contains discussion of suicide/self-harm.

Cartoons have a special place in our memories.

The tinkling sound of the cereal hitting the bowl. The calm of the house settling around us.

There is something brightly nostalgic about those memories, something almost too good to be true.

Of course, if something seems too good to be true…

Before we dive into the darkness, a content warning. There will be mentions of suicide, murder and domestic abuse.

Redditors heeded the siren call of nostalgia when Reddittor Amateurfatgeek22 asked:

“What are some dark facts about cartoon shows?”

That’s smurf’d up. 

“There was a Smurfs PSA that was made for UNICEF I believe where their entire village is carpet-bombed.”~Djangolives

Apparently, someone should’ve spent some time on Undercover Boss.

“Ren and Stimpy was an absolute nightmare for the people who worked on it. John K ordered them not to make the same face twice.”

“Pretty, but it was hell for the workers because they were constantly drawing things.”

“John K was a nightmare boss.”

“One of the producers had a sign on his wall labeled ‘John’s knees’ and invited people to kick it.”

“By the time he left it was reduced to a hole.”

“They made several episodes that were just the animators ranting about how much of an asshole that John K was.”~CrazyCoKids

The darkest of facts.

“A literal dark fact: Batman: the Animated Series had their backgrounds drawn on black paper instead of white paper, to make Gotham appear darker.”~PianoManGidley

Someone’s got a bone to pick.

“The creator of Skeletor was inspired by a corpse in a haunted house that he was 100% sure was real. Turned out he was right.”~Scodo

The implications aren’t so fun.

“In Disney’s Gargoyles, Goliath believes his entire clan is either dead or turned permanently to stone, and he asks the Magus to turn him to stone forever as well.”

“Yes, there were improbable terms to break the curse … but effectively, he was committing suicide.”

“He knew he was among the last of his kind and did not know if he would ever wake up again.”

“He left behind a rookery full of eggs (the next generation) when he did so.”

“Also, in City of Stone, Demona smashes statues that are humans turned to stone — she kills people on screen in a Disney cartoon.”

“Lots more examples from Gargoyles, but those two stick out.”~mynonymouse

Speaking of implications…

“There’s no normal animals in Pokémon, yet you see the characters eat meat all the time”~t00nland

Some shows hid their darkness in plain sight.

“Not so much about the production, but there is an obscure animated movie called The Adventures of Mark Twain that is stop motion animated, and in one pretty f*cked up scene Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn and Becky are greeted by an angel who says his name is Satan.”

“Except he looks nothing like a traditional angel, he holds a mask on a stick for a face which contorts into a demon and skeletal face at times.”

He then has the kids sculpt a village with people and a castle out of sand, and Satan then brings them to life.”

“The sand people get along but soon start fighting and Satan kills them by summoning lighting, causing an earthquake, etc…”

“The kids are horrified, but Satan just nonchalantly says they can make more and waxes poetic about how life is a vision and we don’t matter.”

“I can’t really do justice describing how eerie it is, but if you look up disturbing kid’s cartoons on YouTube, it’ll pop up.”~Lrehcsa1926

The whole point of some of these shows was the darkness. 

“When the Wind Blows is a movie that uses a bright palette and pleasant childhood aesthetic to tell the story of nuclear attack aftermath could-bes.”

“It follows an awfully gullible elderly couple with an overzealous trust in their government as they go on with their lives after the strike, which progressively gets worse as they succumb to radiation poison.”

“Sounds bad?”

“The pamphlet they seem to rely on is real and it’s just as out of touch and unsettling.”

“It has been suggested that it’s actual purpose is allowing for a better clean-up after you’re f*cking dead.”

“See also here.”~SoCriedtheZither

While other times the darkness lurked behind the scenes.

“The studio had to get someone else to sing ‘Soon You’ll Come Home’ in All Dogs go to Heaven because the voice actor, Judith Barsi, had such a traumatic home life because of an abusive, alcoholic father that she couldn’t sing the song without having a breakdown.”

“She and her mother were murdered by him before the movie was released in a double-murder/suicide.”

“She was only 10.”

“She was also the voice of Ducky from Land Before Time.”

“Her tombstone reads, ‘Yep! Yep! Yep!’ “~nnelson2330

After so much darkness, how about we end on something a bit lighter?

“I remember reading an interview with an animator who worked on the original She-Ra back in the 80’s, made by Filmation that there was some rather weird arguments from the producers over She-Ra not being lady-like enough.”

“Like a proper lady shouldn’t pick up and throw a tank, despite the fact that’s the literal point of the character, the most powerful woman in the universe.”

“And there’s an actual clip of her throwing a tank in the opening credits.”

“Of course there was a lot of push back from the artists and directors that She-Ra should be kicking all kinds of ass, and hurling tanks around.”

“I noticed in the last season of the new She-ra there’s a scene where she’s throwing tanks around and someone admonishes her for it saying ‘We don’t throw tanks at our friends’.”

“I can’t help but wonder if that was a nod to the old She-Ra and the hard time they got for tossing tanks around.”~Patches67

The cartoons we grew up with were meant for our enjoyment and education.

It’s interesting that the subject-matter didn’t always line up with those lofty goals, and truly heartbreaking that behind the scenes, events were sometimes much darker.

If you or someone you know is struggling, you can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).

To find help outside the United States, the International Association for Suicide Prevention has resources available at https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/

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People Describe The Most Badass Historical Figures Of All Time

History is very rich and full to the brim with stories of people who led full and interesting lives. The problem, of course, is that you probably heard about the same ones over and over again.

You’re probably tired of hearing about George Washington by now, and that’s okay.

But what if people told you that as cool as Washington’s life was—it would do you good to learn about how he tackled a smallpox outbreak that could have decimated his troops—there are others out there who are just as cool, if not cooler?

We heard about Raoul Wallenberg, Ben Salomon, and others after Redditor Master_Mudkip asked the online community:

“Who would you consider the most badass person in history?”

“He got away with it…”

“Raoul Wallenberg.”

“During World War II, he posed as a Swedish ambassador and confidently lied through his teeth to Nazis for years to save tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.”

“There were instances of him flagging down trains bound for death camps, and yelling at the machine-gun-toting SS men that Swedish citizens were on board, handing out homemade fake passport documents to as many Jews as possible as he went.”

“He got away with it for so long because Fascists have a thing for confident authority figures.”

“The guy was captured by the red army in 1945 and likely died in a gulag.” ~ crappyentrepreneur

“They say when his body…”

Ben Salomon.”

“The dude was just a dentist who got drafted into World War II. He was tending to injured soldiers when four Japanese soldiers entered the tent and killed a man he had just saved.”

“This man killed all four of them, then grabbed a machine gun and fired upon the incoming Japanese forces, letting the injured escape.”

“They say when his body was discovered, 98 enemy troops lay dead in front of him. He had been shot 72 times and bayonetted over two dozen times before he died. What a legend.” ~ DarkwingDave007

“I’m sure most of us have thought…”

“Welles Crowther, aka The Man In The Red Bandana.”

“I’m sure most of us have thought about what it must have been like in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and it must have been debilitatingly petrifying.”

“He was 24 years old working on the 104th floor as an equities trader.”

“Made his way down to the sky lobby of the South Tower and found a badly burned woman, carried her down 17 floors, then went back upstairs to help guide others to the only passable stairwell.”

“Stayed up there helping others and working with the fire department until the towers collapsed. He’s responsible for saving around 20 lives and died a damn hero.” ~ FrankSkapopolous

“She went undercover…”

“Nellie Bly.”

“She went undercover and endured abuse to cover neglect and abuse in Blackwell’s asylum.”

“She then went to Mexico and called out the dictator for going after the press and oppressing his people and then fled/was exiled from Mexico because of that.”

“She traveled the world in 70-something days to prove you could travel the world in 80 days or less (based on the Jules Verne novel), also did some reporting on the Eastern European front in World War I, and was arrested after she was mistaken for a British spy.”

“And she did so much more! Such a badass and one of my historical heroes.” ~ Cheshire_Cat8888

“No one…”

“Witold Pilecki volunteered to enter the Auschwitz death camp and escaped it to report what was happening there to allies of Poland. No one gave a f*** at that time.” ~ Buckszpryt

“Then when he landed in Okinawa…”

“Desmond Doss, an army medic in World War II who was constantly belittled and abused by his battalion and superiors for refusing to use a weapon as it went against his beliefs.”

“Then when he landed in Okinawa and more than half of his battalion were shredded by Japanese machine-gun fire, Desmond Doss crawled through the dirt over the course of several days to as many of his injured allies as he could and dragged them all the way back to the 40-foot cliff they had scaled up from, and lowered them to safety.”

“Some of these injured men were lying 15ft from the enemy machine gun itself, and all the while Doss wore his medic helmet, which stood out like a giant bullseye on a battlefield where the Japanese soldiers were ordered to kill doctors first to crush morale.”

“In the end, he saved the lives of 75 men and survived with an arm fracture from a sniper round and several pieces of shrapnel embedded in his body from when he tried to kick a grenade away from him and his men.”

“He was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor.” ~ -CorrectOpinion-

“He is widely known for his exploration…”

“Peter Freuchen. He was a Danish explorer, journalist, author, and anthropologist.”

“He is widely known for his exploration of the Arctic Circle and discovery of vast areas of Greenland.”

“He was an Indigenous rights activist, having married an Inuit woman. He escaped a death warrant issued by the Third Reich for punching Nazis.”

“Won the $64,000 question as a contestant on the game show. He wrestled a polar bear and won. And as if this all wasn’t enough, he escaped a near-death encounter in a blizzard by fashioning a spade out of his own frozen feces.” ~ SpaceMonkeyXLLII

“That teenage girl…”

“That teenage girl that was the sole survivor of a plane crash and made her way through the Amazon…. She’s definitely up there!” ~ smokeandlavender

To which this person replied…”

“Julianne Koepke.”

“While injured, bleeding, and functionally blind nonetheless. She had a strong prescription and lost her glasses in the crash.”

“I remember reading that she waded through a river, using a shoe to tap in front of her and scare off possible snakes. She was then found by a native tribe boating in the river.” ~ lordoftoastonearth

“It’s common to be brave…”

“Definitely Major Hugh Thompson. I’m sure there are people who have done similarly brave things, but not that I know about.”

“In 1968, Thompson managed to stop the My Lai massacre almost single-handedly. He arrived after many civilians had already been killed, and couldn’t understand how they had died.”

“After realising his fellow American soldiers were firing on unarmed civilians, he landed his helicopter between the Vietnamese and the soldiers.”

“He then told the troops that if they continued to do what they were doing, he and his crew would open fire on them. After getting back to base, he filed a complaint about what he had witnessed.”

“His complaint was covered up, and he was shunned as a traitor. It wasn’t until 1998 that the army acknowledged he did the right thing.”

“It’s common to be brave in war when you know that you’ll be lauded as a hero – it’s another thing entirely to do it knowing you’ll be seen as a traitor.

“He turned against his troops and country to protect innocent lives, despite what it would cost him, and I think that’s about as brave as you can get.” ~ hellebellet

Well, I don’t know about you, but I definitely feel enlightened after reading these.

Wouldn’t it be great if you had heard about these when you were in school at some point?

Perhaps that would have made history class more interesting for many of you.

We all know the basic memorization model isn’t necessarily the most conducive way to learn.

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Learn Facts About Ogham and What Does Ogham Jewelry Represent?

Ogham is named after Oghma, the Celtic God of elocution and beautiful speech. Ogham is an ancient linear script that was Ireland’s first written language. The Dingle peninsula contains the world’s greatest concentration of Ogham stone engravings, originating from the fourth century. Ogham’s origins are certainly before the foundation of Rome. Because each letter is linked with a specific tree name that the ancient Irish held in high esteem, Ogham is also known as the Tree Alphabet. This provides an uninterrupted connection to an ancient civilization for whom the natural world was at the heart of their existence. The Ogham

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9 Facts About Real Christmas Trees

It is believed that the Christmas tree has been around for at least one or two millennia as well as being a must-have adornment for many people who celebrate Christmas and exchange gifts with family and friends every year. Decorations specialist Deemer Cass of the UK company Fantastic Gardeners says that Christians were not the first to decorate and adorn Christmas trees. When it comes to real Christmas trees, most people are confused about why they are better. Because real trees help absorb massive amounts of carbon dioxide emissions compared to emissions created through fake trees, they are preferable in

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People Talk About How to Prank Scientists With Time Travel

We’re gonna do a little thought experiment that will probably make you stare blankly at the wall while your mind races for an hour like it did to me.

Or at least I hope it does.

God bless Reddit for bringing us all prompts like these:

You can go back 100,000 years to a cave that will be discovered by archeologists, what do you write on the wall to mess with them? from AskReddit

Time travel pranks. Gotta love it. Let’s delve in, shall we?

1. Testing

“Test post please ignore”

– Eldrake

2. Ritualistic

Am an archaeologist and can safely say, “No, it’s not ‘ritual’” scrawled on the wall will fuck with us forever.

– TheMinisterTurtle

3. Oops

“Turns out time travel only works once per timeline. Sorry Guys.”

– Commissar_Genki

4. They will come…

This planet shall be our second home.

– Acharya007

5. Man to man

My regards to Steven Hawking.

Tell him sorry I couldn’t make it to his party.

– Sipyloidea

6. They’ve responded

The pulsar map that we included on voyager.

– A**munchStarpuncher

7. Betas

Hi devs, I found a bug within our simulation.

I was somehow transported back 100k years without any of my items but I still have my abilities.

If I could be transported back by tomorrow that’d be great, thank you!

– _Puddingmonster

8. The shadow

They have taken the bridge and the Second Hall.

We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long.

The ground shakes…drums, drums in the deep. We cannot get out.

The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out.

They are coming.

– notmyrealfarkhandle

9. Memes

Aliens.

With a crude portrait of Giorgio Tsoukalos

– _Ekename_

10. Walkers

I’d def put footprints on the ceiling

– haphazzard66

11. Remember me?

Remember me Michael?

Remember telling me that my time machine would never actually work?

Guess what, f**k you and your “rules of space time”

– Walunt

12. Do NOT

Do not the ca

– electricaldogbus

13. Confusion

I bet you’re confused right now.

– Upset_Anything2628

14. Curse you

what I’d do is find out who was in the team and when they were born (before I left).

Then, once I got there, I’d put their names and birth dates on the cave wall, and I’d then put the same date (let’s say 9/9/21) and then I’d write “the curse is true. Your days are numbered.”

– kingkong139

15. The coma copypasta

IF YOU’RE READING THIS, YOU’VE BEEN IN A COMA FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS NOW.

WE’RE TRYING A NEW TECHNIQUE.

WE DON’T KNOW WHERE THIS MESSAGE WILL END UP IN YOUR DREAM, BUT WE HOPE WE’RE GETTING THROUGH.

– A_man_on_a_boat

16. Intergalactic commerce

If leave a bunch of fake records of transactions with an alien species.

Write up a fake history of alien contact.

And then make up a story recording fake history of a conflict between an alien civilization and advanced humans

– IceColdAardvark

17. Question answered

A picture of a chicken laying an egg and a big #1

– MoreCommonCents

18. Wise words

Here may be found the last words of Joseph of Arimathea: “He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of Aaaargh

– tcjaeger

19. Welcome

You may be wondering why I’ve gathered you all here today

– moeron9

20. The cool S

You know that “S” that everyone seems to remember writing in their notebooks in elementary school? That

– ghostfoxthefirst

21. Programming

printf(“hello world”);

– young_fire

22. Simulation theory

In big bold letters “SIMULATION #54286”. – asimgeker

23. Ads

There are hot milfs in your area.

– Stalin6989

24. A warning

Leave by 2022.

They do not come in peace.

– MageManatee

25. It’s true!

Draw the earth as flat, you will convince 1% of the idiots of the future

– CisWhiteEarthworm

26. It me

I would write my own name, date of birth, place of birth, and anything else generic that would identity my present self.

This isn’t really messing with them, but it could make my life a whole lot more interesting, that’s for sure.

– TinnieTa21

27. The return

“In 100,000 years they will return. Beware.”

– wws4990acct

28. Futurama

Dear Fry,

Our time together was short, but it was the best time of my life.

-Leela

– VapidHooker

29. Meta

The URL to this thread.

– redguy989

30. NOT AGAIN!

This cave painting was brought to you by raid shadow legends

– that_sweet_old_lady

I think I’d probably write something like “all the religions are wrong” and see what happens.

But what might YOU write?

Tell us your time pranks in the comments.

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People Discuss Inventions They Think Did More Harm Than Good

It’s fascinating to think about what inventors might have had in mind when they came up with new ideas.

And it’s also interesting to ponder whether they could really comprehend where their inventions would eventually go and what kind of impact they would have on the world.

Folks on AskReddit shared what inventions they think did more harm than good.

Let’s take a look.

1. That’s a hot take.

“Al**hol as a beverage.

Like it or not, if al**hol as a beverage was discovered today, it would be illegal.”

2. Major problems.

“Lead in paint.

Doctors were telling us it would cause severe neurological problems for about 80 years before the US finally listened and banned it.

There are houses in the US today that still have lead paint.”

3. Going way back.

“The cotton gin.

Yeah it alleviated the work of slaves but it catapulted the demand for slavery and some historians note it as one of the causes of the American Civil War.”

4. Done a lot of damage.

“High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Used to sweeten food, enhance flavor, and add texture and volume, HFCS is a cheap and easily mass-produced ingredient that’s become a prime culprit of the US obesity epidemic. Why? Well from 1970 to 2000, there was a 25% increase in “added sugars” in the US.

After being classified as GRAS, HFCS began to replace sucrose as the main sweetener of soft drinks in the United States. At the same time, rates of obesity rose.”

5. Be careful with that thing!

“It has to be the guillotine.

A French device which appeared during the French Revolution because France still employed gruesome methods of execution which were faulty at times. The guillotine was invented as a means of quick painless execution, but it was so efficient that it led to an increase in its usage during the following years, as the punish rate skyrocketed.

Needless to say, the good intentions of its creation turned bad quite quickly… Talk about having a happy trigger finger.”

6. My teeth hurt.

“Soda/sugary drinks

Drinking sugar drinks contributes to obesity, diabetes and other diseases. Yet it’s available EVERYWHERE you go. And cheap to buy.

It also doesn’t help that soda in aluminum cans are lined with BPA that can cause high blood pressure. And soda is also packaged in plastic bottles that also contain BPA which can enter the blood stream and cause cancer.

If the sugary drinks don’t get you first… The packaging will.”

7. It adds up.

“The keurig cups.

From what I recall the guy that started that whole thing regretted it because of the amount of garbage those little single use keurig cups waste.”

8. A forever chemical.

“Teflon. A cancer causing chemical used in everything from baby bottles to fabrics to cookware and everything else.

Teflon is a “forever chemical” and is detected globally in humans, soil, drinking water, food and animals.”

9. Weapon of war.

“Machine g**s.

The inventor of the AK-47 said something along the lines of, “I would have preferred to have invented a lawn mower.””

10. Seems to be out of control.

“Cable news

It’s nonstop mind control now.

They tell folks what to buy (which they do now by calling it a shortage, results in mass panic.) I’m sure someone holds shares in whatever they tell as it’s just getting odd now.

They tell folks where they should vacation and not vacation.

They tell folks what brands they should and shouldn’t buy.

They tell folks who they should and shouldn’t vote for. This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

Yes, they pass all this off as opinion peices, people just take it as the truth and not an opinion.”

11. Echo chamber.

“Twitter.

Echo chamber, ego inflating, self importance and attention seeking galore.”

12. People have strong feelings about it.

“Airbnb.

Started as an opportunity for people to rent out a spare room and meet travelers. Has morphed into a short-term rental platform where wealthy second home owners let entire homes or apartments at the expense of local communities.

Residents in once peaceful neighborhoods are forced to endure all the impacts that come with living next to makeshift unregulated hotels and group accommodation.

Loud parties any night of the week, a steady stream of strangers in apartment blocks or residential streets, parking congestion, masses of rubbish, security issues, loss of community all become commonplace.

Long-term rentals dry up because Airbnb is more lucrative and local businesses, in some cases even local hospitals, can’t find staff as they have nowhere to live. Long-term locals find themselves kicked out of their rentals to make way for another more lucrative Airbnb.

They are left with nowhere to go as other long-term rentals have gone the same way and it’s pushed prices up so much that buying a property is no longer an option.

Residential neighborhoods become a smattering of hotels without the volunteers and local people that once gave the place the sense of community that attracted many visitors to the area in the first place.

Most Airbnb users wouldn’t be aware of the detrimental impacts Airbnb can have for local communities.”

Now we want to hear from you.

Tell us what inventions you think did more harm than good.

Do it in the comments!

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