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Publish Not your original work? Add source Today, you can learn anything on the internet. Whether it's historical, psychological or just plain weird bites of information, people can't seem to get enough of the tantalizing trivia being shared online. But if you want to see the whole picture, some knowledge might be as interesting as it is disturbing. However, facts are facts, no matter how uneasy they might make us feel. So when someone on r/AskReddit asked what is a not fun fact, redditors quickly rolled up their sleeves. The thread went viral, amassing more than 82.4K upvotes and 35.1K comments full of the most strangely fascinating pieces of information. We collected some of the best answers this thread had to offer, so continue scrolling! And after you're done, don't forget to share your thoughts and feelings in the comments section below. This post may include affiliate links. #1 The search and rescue dogs on 9/11 were getting so sad from finding only deceased bodies, the human helpers buried themselves in the rubble so that the dogs could find them and be happy. superbunnyblob , Loco Steve Report Final score: 503points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This began at the Oklahoma bombing. I had a friend go. He came back so traumatized that he did not speak for years. People love to over generalize and rag on police officers and other first responders. There are more good cops than bad ones, some have witnessed some truly horrific scenes in the line of duty 275 275points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 There are more deaths due to mental health issues than all forms of violence combined. People are struggling. pepeman931 , Claudia Wolff Report Final score: 352points POST A B C A B C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago And seeking psychological help is still stigmatized. If I break my arm, I go to a body doctor to have them fix it. So if my mind is broken, why can't I go to a mind doctor to have them help me without being called a loon? 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments Bored Panda reached out to Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author, most recently, of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. He was kind enough to share some insights about why humans are so drawn to learning new facts and how we benefit from them. According to the professor, one reason why we find facts interesting is that they are very context-specific. "For example, if I said 'Would you like to know how guitars are made?' you wouldn't necessarily say 'Yes!' immediately. You'd more likely say 'Uh … maybe. Is it interesting?'" "What's odd about facts is that the content matters less to whether or not you'd like to learn about it than you'd think," he explained. Being a psychologist, Willingham is absolutely fascinated by human memory but sometimes it happens that when he goes "to professional meetings and attend talks about human memory that I find boring." "And then sometimes, I watch a documentary on something-for example, making guitars-that I didn't think I'd find interesting in the least and find myself fascinated." #3 That your brain erases your nose from your vision, until you actively think about it. You nose is obstructing your vision 100% of the time, but your brain interrupts it as useless information, and removes it. When you start thinking about it, or close one eye, you can see your nose again.
This might seem harmless until you realize the implications.
Your brain, without asking, erases something very real from your awareness. Imagine the possibilities of other things it's doing on it's own like that. There could be a literal 2nd world right in front of us, and it might just be being erased as useless information. watch_over_me Report Final score: 305points POST Jaaawn Jaaawn Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago Doesn't apply to everyone though- I can always see my nose, it is massive though. 120 120points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 People who survived the Holocaust and get Alzheimer's often think they are back in the camps. So they escape one of humanity's greatest horrors only to die in it 50 years later. digitaldavegordon Report Final score: 281points POST Mushroomlover Mushroomlover Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I had the honor of taking care of several people who had been in concentration camps(they had the tattooed numbers) and this is very true. One guy with dementia could only get baths, no showers because just the word shower sent him into a horrible memory sequence. Their stories were heartbreaking to say the least. 191 191points reply View More Replies... View more comments Curiosity is an innate drive we share with many other species, he told us. It prompts us to learn about our environment, which obviously helps individuals to survive: "We are not curious about everything-we are curious when we think a little exploration will lead to a lot of learning." Still, what we gain from learning new information depends on what we already know: "Suppose you say to me: 'Would you like to know which, of all the bottled sauces made in Kenya, is the most popular?' I can't name even one … so if you tell me, that fact isn't very informative." "But suppose I knew a lot about African cuisine. Now that information would be informative, because I have some context to put it in, some existing knowledge to connect it to," Daniel T. Willingham explained. #5 If 2 male flat worms meet, they will sword fight with their penises until one loses. The loser will become female and they will mate. YoutuberCameronBallZ , S. Rae Report Final score: 264points POST XSpooky_Mint XSpooky_Mint Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Kinky 205 205points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 People with extreme scurvy start to have ALL of their old wounds open up. Everything with a scar is held together via an active process with collagen and without vitamin c just sort of...stop. Hell_If_I_Care , Jonathan Borba Report Final score: 259points POST Luther von Wolfen Luther von Wolfen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Also, bones that have broken and healed come apart at the site of the break. It's an amazingly horrific disease. 105 105points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 Quokkas, the worlds happiest animal, will throw their babies at attackers if threatened. coreyboi66 , Barney Moss Report Final score: 256points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago So yeeting babies is the secret to happiness we have searching all along. 359 359points reply View More Replies... View more comments However, some say that taking the time and energy to learn interesting facts is a waste of time since this information is accessible with a few Google searches and quick clicks on the links. The professor disagrees, saying that factual knowledge is a really important driver of reading comprehension and other high-level thinking skills, like problem-solving. "Think about how much easier it is to read a passage if you're familiar with the general topic-I don't care how 'skilled' a reader you are, if (like most Americans) you're unfamiliar with the game of cricket, you will not be able to make sense of a newspaper account of the game," Willingham elaborated. On the other hand, "a ten-year cricket fan in India or other cricket-mad country would have no problem." #8 A blue ringed octopus, found in the Pacific, is a tiny and cute little guy, but one painless bite gives enough venom to take the lives of 25 male adults. iwastoldnottogohere , pen_ash Report Final score: 246points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Marine venoms are some of the most potent on earth 94 94points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 In countries that require you to opt-in to organ donation, fewer than 15% of people register. In the US (an opt-in country), 18 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant.
“Opt-out” countries see over 90% of their population registered for organ donation. geronimotown Report Final score: 246points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago US should adopt opt-out 122 122points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 The image that most people have of blobfish is based on a misconception.
people think that’s what they look like all the time but blobfish adapted to live in deep waters, which means the deeper you go, the more water pressurethere is. Their bodies are not meaty like fish but more gelatinous because they adapted to the water pressure. if you accidentally pull them to higher levels but with less water pressure, their bodies don’t handle it well bc there’s nothing keeping their bodies in tact, so their bodies explode.
Basically, every photo you’ve seen of a blobfish where they look big and pink and, of course, blobby is a photo of a dead blobfish.
Merchandise and cartoons designed after what they look like dead. Hell, they’re referred to as what they look like dead. loryhasreddit , Grufnik Report Final score: 244points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Spot on 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments While many blame the internet for overloading our brains with tons of information, we are the ones putting the knowledge into context. When the time is right, we can connect the dots and come up with brilliant ideas. So if you catch yourself wondering if you're ever going to use this stuff, just remember-someday you actually might. #11 Men's belts are the dirtiest item of clothing. Touched after pooping and before washing hands, never washed, and worn daily for years. flowers_are_red Report Final score: 236points POST シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is why I hate belts 48 48points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it. m00n-b4b3 , Cleyder Duque Report Final score: 234points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Subtle differences are noted, and staff will sometimes use different colors for each child 57 57points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 There is more slavery in the world right now then at any time in history. eternalrefuge86 Report Final score: 228points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago And human trafficking 106 106points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters out the smell. anonymous , Anna Shvets Report Final score: 227points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago My mask might be helping me buck that trend 117 117points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 If you shine a flashlight/smartphone on a newborn sea turtle for too long (which could be only minutes), it will start crawling around in circles. Known as the "Ring of Death", it means that the turtle's eyesight has been permanently damaged due to mistaking your lights for the moon that guides it to the sea. By doing this, you have doomed the sea turtle to death right after birth. Seuui Report Final score: 225points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Who was the first fuckwad that did this s**t...need to find him. I know it was a guy. Dont ask me questions. 253 253points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 Most power outages in the US are caused by squirrels. HunterSeparate651 , cottonbro Report Final score: 220points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) Those f*****s have to get the energy of a kabillion wattage running around looking for nuts...they seem to never stop running 59 59points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 Vasily Arkhipov was a Soviet navy officer who was the second in command of a B-59 submarine equipped with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the ships commander was told to launch the entire nuclear arsenal onboard, Arkhipov refused to authorize the attack, after realizing that the launch from the US was an error in their system.
If he wasnt on that submarine, the United States and Russia would be a big, grey spot on the globe. CrystalPalace1983 Report Final score: 211points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Apparently there has been a number of close calls in the last 40-50 years 76 76points reply View more comments #18 There is a (genetic) disease called FOP where your muscles and tissue turn to bone. Often called "human statue disease"
Eventually people may have to decide whether they want to become "frozen" in a sitting or flat/standing position. mortokes , Joh-co Report Final score: 205points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Lots of horrific diseases out there 103 103points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Your intestines will “wriggle” themselves back into the correct position.
Doctors who do any type of intestinal surgery don’t have to worry (too much) about how they put the intestines back in. H010CR0N Report Final score: 205points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yep..after a heavy meal mine sound like they're having an argument about their preferred positioning.. 186 186points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 Horses can't throw up.
So if they eat something bad or get a bad gas bubble, they just lay down and die. ABucketofBeetles , Sara Kurfeß Report Final score: 202points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Which is why you should never feed any horse anything without talking to its owner first 202 202points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #21 Between 10 and 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate (this does not mean they can't read or write at all, but that they cannot comprehend what they are reading at a high enough level to do many basic tasks, like filling out a form). To make matters worse a very large proportion of these people do not realize they have a problem with literacy and self report as being fine at reading and writing. thegallary Report Final score: 199points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago We see them daily on the socials. Zero surprises 153 153points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Migraines and strokes carry a lot of the same symptoms so if you suffer regular migraines you may not notice you're actually dying one day. InkMaster59 , Andrea Piacquadio Report Final score: 195points POST Tamara Kroonen Tamara Kroonen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Do strokes give auras too? 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 The reason you’re supposed to contact a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than four hours is because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the penis. Blood goes in, deoxygenates, but can’t leave, so there’s no way for fresh oxygenated blood to come in, causing the tissue to turn black and die.
Don’t worry, though! This can be treated by using a big syringe to suck the trapped blood out. boopbaboop Report Final score: 183points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fun times all around! 119 119points reply View more comments #24 Spider - Rain (you read that right) is a real and naturally occurring phenomenon. MachuPicchu1232 , snowytheteddybear Report Final score: 173points POST Mad Dragon Mad Dragon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) It’s a rare phenomenon where thousands of spiders use tiny strands of webbing to float thousands of feet into the air, landing several miles away. 98 98points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 A third of the world's population live in areas that are projected to suffer extended periods of unsurvivable heat by 2070. zissouo , Jonas Weckschmied Report Final score: 169points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yup, and storms will get more intense. Humans are highly adaptable, mother nature’s critters will suffer the most 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 The reason dogs love squeaky toys is because they sound like small animals dying. hux_square , Jesper Brouwers Report Final score: 164points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Not exactly. It’s the sound of some animals when they are in distress, they may not be dying 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Bed bugs procreate by traumatic insemination. Males literally stab females with their genitals. So, just another reason to hate them then. moudre_plus_de_rouge Report Final score: 161points POST Queenie-Poo Queenie-Poo Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Bed bugs can burn for all eternity in the deepest, darkest pits of hell. 127 127points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 There is a mysterious illness called the 'sweating sickness' that hit in multiple small epidemics in the early modern era. It was incredibly contagious and massively deadly, with about a 50% average death rate, but it could be higher. It began with an ominous sense of apprehension, followed by severe pains in the neck and giddiness. They then abruptly stopped and switched to heavy sweating, headaches and delirium. Finally, the person was hit with an extreme urge to sleep, and it was thought to be fatal if you fell to it.
We know almost nothing about it, nothing about how it spread, how it was caused, only that if you got it you were either surviving or dead within 24hrs. There are horror stories of people leaving town on hunting trips and returning the same day to find almost everybody in the village dead, with only a few scattered survivors.
The worst thing was, you did not gain immunity. You could live through the sweating sickness once, and then get it a few days later and die. Or live through it two or three times, and then get it and die. It was horrific, and we don't know why it disappeared and we don't know if it will ever return. OverchargeRdt Report Final score: 159points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Happened in the British Isles. a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. It occurred near the time of The War of the Roses, speculation includes it was linked to the outrageous living conditions and bad sewage disposal or a hantavirus virus type of disease. All very fascinating 97 97points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 The glaciers of the Antarctica shelves have melted (and continue to melt) at so fast a rate that even if we enacted radical and worldwide climate change laws today, it's going to take hundreds of years to recover them to their pre-industrial levels. starstarstar42 Report Final score: 154points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) And if every human acted to reduce their carbon footprint, it still wouldnt be enough. Corporations are the biggest polluters 118 118points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 It was once thought for birds (parrots, magpies) to learn to talk, you had to release their tongue. This was done by cutting their tongue completely or partly off, of course without any anesthesia or pain killers. The tongue release plays absolutely no role in the birds' ability to talk. Penkinvaltaaja , Caio Report Final score: 147points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This was a terrible practice. 135 135points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #31 There is a non-zero maximum threshold for the amount of cockroach that can be present in ground coffee because it is literally impossible to keep them out entirely. jjonesdagreat , Andrea Tummons Report Final score: 146points POST Mad Dragon Mad Dragon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The accepted level is apparently 10 mg per pound of ground coffee. Time to get a coffee grinder and switch to whole-bean coffee! 113 113points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 In Australia there is a plant called the Gympie-Gympie which has such a severe sting that horses who brush against it throw themselves off cliffs because they’d rather die than continue to experience the pain ottersintuxedos , Steve Fitzgerald Report Final score: 141points POST Serial pacifist Serial pacifist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) It’s the same with trying to explain science to antivaxxers. Several scientists have reportedly jumped off a cliff rather than experiencing the pain. Antivaxxers believe they just fell off the edge of the Earth. 206 206points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 The threat of a deadly bird flu spreading to humans is always there. It takes just a little bit of negligence in screening chickens for this to happen. barnorth , William Moreland Report Final score: 140points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Chickens are not the only issue when dealing with bird borne or hosted viruses. And thank GOD their are researchers all over the world learning about all of these issues 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 A man once had a tapeworm get cancer. That cancer metastasized, and the man passed away from tumors of tapeworm throughout his entire body. WrongJohnSilver , CDC Report Final score: 134points POST Deja Katz Deja Katz Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I heard about that story: the man involved was already immunocompromised from hiv and must have picked up tapeworms. Rather than the worm itself getting cancer, it is thought one of their eggs penetrated the lining of his intestines, mutated and ultimately became cancerous. By the time doctors discovered the cause, he’d become too sick to treat. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 Live Chat support agents can see what you type before you send it, so they can reply quicker. Proactivealex Report Final score: 128points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago If they could see what I type before I think it, I’d be more impressed 102 102points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 80 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! 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Publish Not your original work? Add source Today, you can learn anything on the internet. Whether it's historical, psychological or just plain weird bites of information, people can't seem to get enough of the tantalizing trivia being shared online. But if you want to see the whole picture, some knowledge might be as interesting as it is disturbing. However, facts are facts, no matter how uneasy they might make us feel. So when someone on r/AskReddit asked what is a not fun fact, redditors quickly rolled up their sleeves. The thread went viral, amassing more than 82.4K upvotes and 35.1K comments full of the most strangely fascinating pieces of information. We collected some of the best answers this thread had to offer, so continue scrolling! And after you're done, don't forget to share your thoughts and feelings in the comments section below. This post may include affiliate links. #1 The search and rescue dogs on 9/11 were getting so sad from finding only deceased bodies, the human helpers buried themselves in the rubble so that the dogs could find them and be happy. superbunnyblob , Loco Steve Report Final score: 503points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This began at the Oklahoma bombing. I had a friend go. He came back so traumatized that he did not speak for years. People love to over generalize and rag on police officers and other first responders. There are more good cops than bad ones, some have witnessed some truly horrific scenes in the line of duty 275 275points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 There are more deaths due to mental health issues than all forms of violence combined. People are struggling. pepeman931 , Claudia Wolff Report Final score: 352points POST A B C A B C Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago And seeking psychological help is still stigmatized. If I break my arm, I go to a body doctor to have them fix it. So if my mind is broken, why can't I go to a mind doctor to have them help me without being called a loon? 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments Bored Panda reached out to Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author, most recently, of Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. He was kind enough to share some insights about why humans are so drawn to learning new facts and how we benefit from them. According to the professor, one reason why we find facts interesting is that they are very context-specific. "For example, if I said 'Would you like to know how guitars are made?' you wouldn't necessarily say 'Yes!' immediately. You'd more likely say 'Uh … maybe. Is it interesting?'" "What's odd about facts is that the content matters less to whether or not you'd like to learn about it than you'd think," he explained. Being a psychologist, Willingham is absolutely fascinated by human memory but sometimes it happens that when he goes "to professional meetings and attend talks about human memory that I find boring." "And then sometimes, I watch a documentary on something-for example, making guitars-that I didn't think I'd find interesting in the least and find myself fascinated." #3 That your brain erases your nose from your vision, until you actively think about it. You nose is obstructing your vision 100% of the time, but your brain interrupts it as useless information, and removes it. When you start thinking about it, or close one eye, you can see your nose again.
This might seem harmless until you realize the implications.
Your brain, without asking, erases something very real from your awareness. Imagine the possibilities of other things it's doing on it's own like that. There could be a literal 2nd world right in front of us, and it might just be being erased as useless information. watch_over_me Report Final score: 305points POST Jaaawn Jaaawn Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 9 months ago Doesn't apply to everyone though- I can always see my nose, it is massive though. 120 120points reply View More Replies... View more comments #4 People who survived the Holocaust and get Alzheimer's often think they are back in the camps. So they escape one of humanity's greatest horrors only to die in it 50 years later. digitaldavegordon Report Final score: 281points POST Mushroomlover Mushroomlover Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I had the honor of taking care of several people who had been in concentration camps(they had the tattooed numbers) and this is very true. One guy with dementia could only get baths, no showers because just the word shower sent him into a horrible memory sequence. Their stories were heartbreaking to say the least. 191 191points reply View More Replies... View more comments Curiosity is an innate drive we share with many other species, he told us. It prompts us to learn about our environment, which obviously helps individuals to survive: "We are not curious about everything-we are curious when we think a little exploration will lead to a lot of learning." Still, what we gain from learning new information depends on what we already know: "Suppose you say to me: 'Would you like to know which, of all the bottled sauces made in Kenya, is the most popular?' I can't name even one … so if you tell me, that fact isn't very informative." "But suppose I knew a lot about African cuisine. Now that information would be informative, because I have some context to put it in, some existing knowledge to connect it to," Daniel T. Willingham explained. #5 If 2 male flat worms meet, they will sword fight with their penises until one loses. The loser will become female and they will mate. YoutuberCameronBallZ , S. Rae Report Final score: 264points POST XSpooky_Mint XSpooky_Mint Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Kinky 205 205points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 People with extreme scurvy start to have ALL of their old wounds open up. Everything with a scar is held together via an active process with collagen and without vitamin c just sort of...stop. Hell_If_I_Care , Jonathan Borba Report Final score: 259points POST Luther von Wolfen Luther von Wolfen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Also, bones that have broken and healed come apart at the site of the break. It's an amazingly horrific disease. 105 105points reply View More Replies... View more comments #7 Quokkas, the worlds happiest animal, will throw their babies at attackers if threatened. coreyboi66 , Barney Moss Report Final score: 256points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago So yeeting babies is the secret to happiness we have searching all along. 359 359points reply View More Replies... View more comments However, some say that taking the time and energy to learn interesting facts is a waste of time since this information is accessible with a few Google searches and quick clicks on the links. The professor disagrees, saying that factual knowledge is a really important driver of reading comprehension and other high-level thinking skills, like problem-solving. "Think about how much easier it is to read a passage if you're familiar with the general topic-I don't care how 'skilled' a reader you are, if (like most Americans) you're unfamiliar with the game of cricket, you will not be able to make sense of a newspaper account of the game," Willingham elaborated. On the other hand, "a ten-year cricket fan in India or other cricket-mad country would have no problem." #8 A blue ringed octopus, found in the Pacific, is a tiny and cute little guy, but one painless bite gives enough venom to take the lives of 25 male adults. iwastoldnottogohere , pen_ash Report Final score: 246points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Marine venoms are some of the most potent on earth 94 94points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 In countries that require you to opt-in to organ donation, fewer than 15% of people register. In the US (an opt-in country), 18 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant.
“Opt-out” countries see over 90% of their population registered for organ donation. geronimotown Report Final score: 246points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago US should adopt opt-out 122 122points reply View More Replies... View more comments #10 The image that most people have of blobfish is based on a misconception.
people think that’s what they look like all the time but blobfish adapted to live in deep waters, which means the deeper you go, the more water pressurethere is. Their bodies are not meaty like fish but more gelatinous because they adapted to the water pressure. if you accidentally pull them to higher levels but with less water pressure, their bodies don’t handle it well bc there’s nothing keeping their bodies in tact, so their bodies explode.
Basically, every photo you’ve seen of a blobfish where they look big and pink and, of course, blobby is a photo of a dead blobfish.
Merchandise and cartoons designed after what they look like dead. Hell, they’re referred to as what they look like dead. loryhasreddit , Grufnik Report Final score: 244points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Spot on 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments While many blame the internet for overloading our brains with tons of information, we are the ones putting the knowledge into context. When the time is right, we can connect the dots and come up with brilliant ideas. So if you catch yourself wondering if you're ever going to use this stuff, just remember-someday you actually might. #11 Men's belts are the dirtiest item of clothing. Touched after pooping and before washing hands, never washed, and worn daily for years. flowers_are_red Report Final score: 236points POST シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ シ *’-BLOODLUST-‘* シ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This is why I hate belts 48 48points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never caught it. m00n-b4b3 , Cleyder Duque Report Final score: 234points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Subtle differences are noted, and staff will sometimes use different colors for each child 57 57points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 There is more slavery in the world right now then at any time in history. eternalrefuge86 Report Final score: 228points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago And human trafficking 106 106points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters out the smell. anonymous , Anna Shvets Report Final score: 227points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago My mask might be helping me buck that trend 117 117points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 If you shine a flashlight/smartphone on a newborn sea turtle for too long (which could be only minutes), it will start crawling around in circles. Known as the "Ring of Death", it means that the turtle's eyesight has been permanently damaged due to mistaking your lights for the moon that guides it to the sea. By doing this, you have doomed the sea turtle to death right after birth. Seuui Report Final score: 225points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Who was the first fuckwad that did this s**t...need to find him. I know it was a guy. Dont ask me questions. 253 253points reply View More Replies... View more comments #16 Most power outages in the US are caused by squirrels. HunterSeparate651 , cottonbro Report Final score: 220points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) Those f*****s have to get the energy of a kabillion wattage running around looking for nuts...they seem to never stop running 59 59points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 Vasily Arkhipov was a Soviet navy officer who was the second in command of a B-59 submarine equipped with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When the ships commander was told to launch the entire nuclear arsenal onboard, Arkhipov refused to authorize the attack, after realizing that the launch from the US was an error in their system.
If he wasnt on that submarine, the United States and Russia would be a big, grey spot on the globe. CrystalPalace1983 Report Final score: 211points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Apparently there has been a number of close calls in the last 40-50 years 76 76points reply View more comments #18 There is a (genetic) disease called FOP where your muscles and tissue turn to bone. Often called "human statue disease"
Eventually people may have to decide whether they want to become "frozen" in a sitting or flat/standing position. mortokes , Joh-co Report Final score: 205points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Lots of horrific diseases out there 103 103points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Your intestines will “wriggle” themselves back into the correct position.
Doctors who do any type of intestinal surgery don’t have to worry (too much) about how they put the intestines back in. H010CR0N Report Final score: 205points POST Rijkærd Rijkærd Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yep..after a heavy meal mine sound like they're having an argument about their preferred positioning.. 186 186points reply View More Replies... View more comments #20 Horses can't throw up.
So if they eat something bad or get a bad gas bubble, they just lay down and die. ABucketofBeetles , Sara Kurfeß Report Final score: 202points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Which is why you should never feed any horse anything without talking to its owner first 202 202points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #21 Between 10 and 20% of US adults are functionally illiterate (this does not mean they can't read or write at all, but that they cannot comprehend what they are reading at a high enough level to do many basic tasks, like filling out a form). To make matters worse a very large proportion of these people do not realize they have a problem with literacy and self report as being fine at reading and writing. thegallary Report Final score: 199points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago We see them daily on the socials. Zero surprises 153 153points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 Migraines and strokes carry a lot of the same symptoms so if you suffer regular migraines you may not notice you're actually dying one day. InkMaster59 , Andrea Piacquadio Report Final score: 195points POST Tamara Kroonen Tamara Kroonen Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Do strokes give auras too? 33 33points reply View More Replies... View more comments #23 The reason you’re supposed to contact a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than four hours is because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the penis. Blood goes in, deoxygenates, but can’t leave, so there’s no way for fresh oxygenated blood to come in, causing the tissue to turn black and die.
Don’t worry, though! This can be treated by using a big syringe to suck the trapped blood out. boopbaboop Report Final score: 183points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Fun times all around! 119 119points reply View more comments #24 Spider - Rain (you read that right) is a real and naturally occurring phenomenon. MachuPicchu1232 , snowytheteddybear Report Final score: 173points POST Mad Dragon Mad Dragon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) It’s a rare phenomenon where thousands of spiders use tiny strands of webbing to float thousands of feet into the air, landing several miles away. 98 98points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 A third of the world's population live in areas that are projected to suffer extended periods of unsurvivable heat by 2070. zissouo , Jonas Weckschmied Report Final score: 169points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Yup, and storms will get more intense. Humans are highly adaptable, mother nature’s critters will suffer the most 60 60points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 The reason dogs love squeaky toys is because they sound like small animals dying. hux_square , Jesper Brouwers Report Final score: 164points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Not exactly. It’s the sound of some animals when they are in distress, they may not be dying 86 86points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Bed bugs procreate by traumatic insemination. Males literally stab females with their genitals. So, just another reason to hate them then. moudre_plus_de_rouge Report Final score: 161points POST Queenie-Poo Queenie-Poo Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Bed bugs can burn for all eternity in the deepest, darkest pits of hell. 127 127points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 There is a mysterious illness called the 'sweating sickness' that hit in multiple small epidemics in the early modern era. It was incredibly contagious and massively deadly, with about a 50% average death rate, but it could be higher. It began with an ominous sense of apprehension, followed by severe pains in the neck and giddiness. They then abruptly stopped and switched to heavy sweating, headaches and delirium. Finally, the person was hit with an extreme urge to sleep, and it was thought to be fatal if you fell to it.
We know almost nothing about it, nothing about how it spread, how it was caused, only that if you got it you were either surviving or dead within 24hrs. There are horror stories of people leaving town on hunting trips and returning the same day to find almost everybody in the village dead, with only a few scattered survivors.
The worst thing was, you did not gain immunity. You could live through the sweating sickness once, and then get it a few days later and die. Or live through it two or three times, and then get it and die. It was horrific, and we don't know why it disappeared and we don't know if it will ever return. OverchargeRdt Report Final score: 159points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Happened in the British Isles. a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485. The last outbreak occurred in 1551, after which the disease apparently vanished. It occurred near the time of The War of the Roses, speculation includes it was linked to the outrageous living conditions and bad sewage disposal or a hantavirus virus type of disease. All very fascinating 97 97points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 The glaciers of the Antarctica shelves have melted (and continue to melt) at so fast a rate that even if we enacted radical and worldwide climate change laws today, it's going to take hundreds of years to recover them to their pre-industrial levels. starstarstar42 Report Final score: 154points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) And if every human acted to reduce their carbon footprint, it still wouldnt be enough. Corporations are the biggest polluters 118 118points reply View More Replies... View more comments #30 It was once thought for birds (parrots, magpies) to learn to talk, you had to release their tongue. This was done by cutting their tongue completely or partly off, of course without any anesthesia or pain killers. The tongue release plays absolutely no role in the birds' ability to talk. Penkinvaltaaja , Caio Report Final score: 147points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago This was a terrible practice. 135 135points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #31 There is a non-zero maximum threshold for the amount of cockroach that can be present in ground coffee because it is literally impossible to keep them out entirely. jjonesdagreat , Andrea Tummons Report Final score: 146points POST Mad Dragon Mad Dragon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago The accepted level is apparently 10 mg per pound of ground coffee. Time to get a coffee grinder and switch to whole-bean coffee! 113 113points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 In Australia there is a plant called the Gympie-Gympie which has such a severe sting that horses who brush against it throw themselves off cliffs because they’d rather die than continue to experience the pain ottersintuxedos , Steve Fitzgerald Report Final score: 141points POST Serial pacifist Serial pacifist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago (edited) It’s the same with trying to explain science to antivaxxers. Several scientists have reportedly jumped off a cliff rather than experiencing the pain. Antivaxxers believe they just fell off the edge of the Earth. 206 206points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 The threat of a deadly bird flu spreading to humans is always there. It takes just a little bit of negligence in screening chickens for this to happen. barnorth , William Moreland Report Final score: 140points POST Mazer Mazer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago Chickens are not the only issue when dealing with bird borne or hosted viruses. And thank GOD their are researchers all over the world learning about all of these issues 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 A man once had a tapeworm get cancer. That cancer metastasized, and the man passed away from tumors of tapeworm throughout his entire body. WrongJohnSilver , CDC Report Final score: 134points POST Deja Katz Deja Katz Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago I heard about that story: the man involved was already immunocompromised from hiv and must have picked up tapeworms. Rather than the worm itself getting cancer, it is thought one of their eggs penetrated the lining of his intestines, mutated and ultimately became cancerous. By the time doctors discovered the cause, he’d become too sick to treat. 85 85points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 Live Chat support agents can see what you type before you send it, so they can reply quicker. Proactivealex Report Final score: 128points POST Grumble O'Pug Grumble O'Pug Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 9 months ago If they could see what I type before I think it, I’d be more impressed 102 102points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 80 images. It’s been shortened to the top 35 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! 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