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[-] the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works 151 points 1 year ago

70% of the worlds surface is covered in water. None of that water is fizzy. Therefore the earth is technically flat…

I’ll be my coat, no need to send the pitchforks.

[-] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago

You're so wrong!

Only 70% of the Earth is flat.

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[-] greyscale 24 points 1 year ago

Banned for being too fun

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[-] fubo@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

Many people who die "of old age" have an utterly miserable time of it at the end, sometimes for months or years. Medical treatment to keep a person alive when they've already lost their faculties irrecoverably can be incredibly cruel.

There's a reason that longevity research focuses on prolonging healthy life, not just prolonging life processes.

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[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago

"Stranger Danger" is largely a myth as the most likely place for a child to be abused is in their own home and the most likely culprit is a trusted family member.

[-] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

That's why I don't trust family members that would abuse my kids.

[-] ludwig@reddthat.com 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't trust myself with my kids either since I'm a close relative, I exclusively only entrust my kids to totally random strangers off the Internet.

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[-] gabe@literature.cafe 80 points 1 year ago

Your eyes have “immune privilege” meaning your immune system effectively does not know they exist as it would attack them and make you go blind if it did.

[-] Sunstream@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Additional unfun fact, in case the implication goes by anyone; some few folks have discovered exactly how much it sucks when your immune system discovers your eyes and have, indeed, gone blind because of it :(

[-] Mambert@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

Meaning, if you ever get a cut in your eye, go to the doctor, or else you'll lose the eye.

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[-] ArcheTelos@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

There's tons of carbon frozen in Arctic permafrost. As the planet warms up, the ice melts, dumping more CO2 into the atmosphere and causing a runaway effect.

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago

Yet we can't runaway from that problem

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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago

Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.

[-] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 22 points 1 year ago

Just in case anyone was looking for a slickly-animated, duck-filled video with soothing narration that they could watch to learn more, here:

https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI

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[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 49 points 1 year ago

There is an athropod that will replace a fish's tongue.

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[-] Clipper152@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago

That our memories are all we really know and have. They're also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.

Be careful.

[-] Artaca@lemdro.id 26 points 1 year ago

Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don't tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you've forgotten!

[-] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 19 points 1 year ago

“There are a group of people who believe that each day, when they sleep, they die,” the old man continued. “They believe that consciousness doesn’t continue—that if it is interrupted, a new soul is born when the body awakes.” The old man continued....

“The thing about this philosophy is how difficult it is to disprove,” the old man said. “How do you know that you are the same you as yesterday? You would never know if a new soul came to inhabit your body, so long as it had the same memories. But then … if it acts the same, and thinks it is you, why would it matter? What is it to be you?"

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[-] Rinnarrae@beehaw.org 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That there's notorious war criminals still alive such as Henry Kissinger that probably won't face any repercussions for their atrocities in their lifetimes.

Also there are billionaires and politicians in power that could easily at least start switching to clean energy and plastic alternatives but choose not to.

[-] Hhffggshn@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Kissinger received a fucking Nobel Peace Prize.

It was one of the defining moments of my childhood that turned me into a radical.

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[-] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 45 points 1 year ago

Fanta's creation was a result of American companies cutting off business with Germany during WWII. Coca Cola stopped sending ingredients to the local bottling plant in Germany but the ones there still wanted to work and make money. They took the ingredients they still had access to and made a new drink, Fanta! Once the war was over and Coca Cola made contact with them again they liked the new drink and just made it part of their brand.

I had to stop telling this normally as it tends to make people hate me for making them feel bad about drinking Fanta. I tell them it's fine. I drive a Volkswagen. But they still feel gross about it so I stopped telling people or at least tell them that they may not want to drink Fanta anymore and give them the choice.

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[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago

A factoid is something that looks like a fact, but is not

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[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was once a study to test the amount of "poop particles" (feces based bacteria) on everyday objects. The study consisted of putting objects in places that would be more or less likely to have feces and a control group which was isolated from any source of feces based bacteria to the best of their ability. The microbiologists running the study were unable to tell which group was the control.

This is written to the best of my memory and some details may be wrong but the meaning is the same

[-] Autisticat@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

In graduate school I swabbed a public toilet seat and wiped the specimen in a Petri dish. My cohort swabbed the bottom of their shoe and did the same. The public toilet specimen grew virtually nothing. The shoe specimen grew the equivalent of a rainforest in bacteria.

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[-] SoBoredAtWork@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago
[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

The word "bed" looks like a bed

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[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

There are more Panda Express restaurants than there are pandas.

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[-] Dinodicchellathicc@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

The guy who shot john Wikes Booth was once solicited by prostitutes. He was so so appalled by his boner that he decided to castrate himself with pinking shears (scissors). He then goes to church and walks it off before seeing a doctor.

The real sad part is that he was undeniably driven insane by his work as a hat maker. Fur hats were shaped and then brushed with mercury, which led to hat makers getting mercury poisoning from the fumes.

Basically the poor guy melted his brain, chopped of his balls, enlisted into the union army and was forced to march on a boken leg, killed the most infamous man in the world, and was then locked up in an asylum.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Conditions on the road of bones in Russia were so bad that and it was so hard for them all to be taken to a cemetery that, for every meter of road, there's a body of an overworked road worker buried underneath the road. And the road never got to anywhere good.

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[-] Treefox@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago
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[-] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Several (if not all) of the astronauts who died in the Challenger explosion probably didn’t die immediately. They likely remained conscious and aware for at least several seconds, and died on impact with the ocean surface.

[-] essellburns@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

That fairness doesn't exist, everyone has their own idea of it based on their background, experience and belief system.

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[-] demystify@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I once, out of curiosity, mounted an expedition to the darkest regions of the internet, aka The Dark Web.

There's some shit there that can scar you for life. Don't ever go there, seriously.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 1 year ago

I was on the Internet in the wild west period when you could just as easily stumble upon the kind of stuff you can only find on the dark web just making a Yahoo search.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Ahh the days of orgish, rotten, thisisacryforhelp, stile project, theync

Why, when I saw.my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!

Yeah, the internet used to be fucked. There were noooo rules. It was kinda like paradise but with landmines. Lots of landmines.

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[-] Hhffggshn@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

You're never more than eight feet away from a spider.

[-] StThicket@reddthat.com 18 points 1 year ago

Did you know that arachnids' legs are hydraulicly controlled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid_locomotion

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Genocides typically are never actually punished and their main perpetrators often get away with it.

If you rape someone in the U.S., your odds of going to jail for it are only 0.01% . A hundredth of a percent. 0.01 out of 100 rapists ever actually see jail or prison.

[-] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The age of consent in Germany is 14.

Also applies to other countries in Europe iirc, but I can't confirm that because that's not something I'm willing to put in my search history again.

Edit: It's more complex than that, read the replies by @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de and @Turun@feddit.de.

[-] Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de 50 points 1 year ago

Age of consent in Germany is a staggered system. With 14 you're able to consent under specific conditions (them being there's no exploitative element to the relationship), but still could file charge against the older person if they're over 16. With 16 the first rule still applies; from 18 on you're able to consent, period.

So for example when I was 14 I had a boyfriend, also 14, and neither of us committed any crime under this ruling. The law acknowledges that teenagers are allowed to have relationships with each other while putting every borderline case through a case-by-case hearing at court.

It's actually a really good idea, so it kinda is a fun fact.

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[-] AbsolutelyNotCats@lemdro.id 18 points 1 year ago

As I get older I see more unfair aspects of the world

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