Have you ever learned something and immediately thought... "Nevermind, I don't wanna know!"
I think we've all been there.
The worst has to be a bad medical diagnosis.
Knowing you or a loved one will pass and there is no way around it.
So then you have to just sit and wait.
Because facts are facts.
Life is littered with truths can be just be... too much.
Redditor4thestorywanted everyone to share some basics about life that basically suck. So they asked:
"What’s an unfun fact?"
Taxes. I hate the truth about taxes. I weep around accountants.
Calm Down
Calm Down Golden Girls GIF by TV LandGiphy"You can get depressed about having depression and get stressed about having anxiety."
notacatus
Thrown In...
"When you recycle plastic, most of it just gets thrown in the landfill."
Backpacker_03
"Currently a big topic in Australia, because we were sending it to China to supposedly get it recycled, and then all of a sudden China decided it would no longer take imports of that from anywhere, but we don't have enough recycling capacity to make up for that loss yet."
gdmzhlzhiv
'tap-dancing'
"Among the many horrendous effects of the Hiroshima bombing, there were so-called "ant-walking alligator people": victims who were so badly charred that their skin appeared scaly like an alligator's and who blindly walked around the broken streets, usually faceless/eyeless from the blast."
"They're described in the book To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino."
"The alligator people did not scream. Their mouths could not form the sounds. The noise they made was worse than screaming... They uttered a continuous murmur like locusts on a midsummer night."
"He also describes other horrific sights in the book, such as a 'tap-dancing' man who was nicknamed that because the bottoms of his feet were reduced to nothing but bone, and when he walked it sounded like tap shoes. Also, a 'pink horse,' a horse with no skin or hair, just muscles, which aimlessly followed a survivor around, seemingly numb to any pain."
peachyixxy
Violence Under the Sea
"Octopus punch fish for no reason."
Aztech06
Octopii also have some of the most self destructive mating habits. A male throws his penis at a female for her to inseminate herself with, and then leaves to wander aimlessly until it dies. The female in turn will lay eggs and guard them, not eating or sleeping until it also dies Basically, every healthy octopus you've ever seen was a virgin."
Ledlazer
Sun Death
sunburn GIFGiphy"When your skin becomes red from spending too much time under the sunlight, it’s basically because your skin cells are committing suicide to avoid becoming cancerous."
themesila
The sun and me don't mesh. So I feel that.
Are you Hungry?
sloth GIFGiphy"Sloths have such a slow metabolism (which is the process of converting food into energy) that they can die of starvation while on a full stomach."'
Toilet_Lid420
Anyone...
"Anyone can randomly die of a brain aneurysm."
SAVARD3435
"A friend of mine passed away at 17 in the middle of a lacrosse game from a Brain Aneurysm, it was so shocking that it could happen to someone so young."
copenmeghan
"My aunt had an Aneurysm, she was talking with my uncle at breakfast one morning he heard her pause mid-sentence went to ask her what she had said dead Aneurysm, 37 yrs old."
Royal-Tea-3484
Kill Count
"Cigarettes have killed more people in the 20th century than both world wars combined."
TheEvilStapler
"I mean how can you confirm that cigarette was the reason of persons death? Like it does worsen your well being and increases chance of health issues but like what if a person is smoker and they die of heart disease which they probably had even without smoking. Does that go towards the 'cigarette' kill count? Like you know what I mean? What if those deaths were just regular deaths but just because they were heavy smokers it got associated with it.?"
JoeGRcz
end of life...
"Research has shown that most elderly people would prefer to pass away at home, but the statistics show most of them die in hospital (often connected to tubes, getting invasive blood tests, etc) or in nursing homes."
manlikerealities
"There’s a great documentary about end of life care that covers how most patients want to die with dignity, but families often keep pushing for more treatment. It’s called Extremis on Netflix."
Jedi-Ethos
lifelong issues
Season 10 Hug GIF by FriendsGiphy"Among your group of lifelong friends, one of you will attend all of your funerals, and one will attend none of them. Read this one last time this thread happened and holy f**king sh*t bro."
hereticjones
Don't let sad facts ruin your existence. They are what the are. Keep chugging along.
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And the opportunity for strangers online to unburden themselves arose when Redditor _Lord_Infamous asked:
"What is a scary, unsettling fact about you?"
Certain facts about these Redditors are perplexing.
Blank Space
"I do not actually remember a decent chunk of my life, whenever I talk about most of my childhood I use words that leave room for mistakes and am generally using memories and ideas I've compiled from hearing other people say things about me."
"There is actually a large chunks of facts about myself that I only think I know, and don't have personal confirmation of."
– Cendruex
Dead Or Alive
"I’m convinced with no evidence that my father is still alive and that my whole family is lying to me. I logically know he is not. But every knock on the door I open half expecting my father. Could be something to work through … but it’s not really affecting me day to day. My grandfather died and I thought I would feel the same way. Nope. He is dead and I miss him but he is dead."
– rkspm
Warning: Self-Harm Trigger
"Growing up I had a recurring nightmare set in my grandparents backyard looking at the back of their house. There was just something 'off' about the house. Something mildly sinister. I dreamt this over and over, many times over the years."
"In 2018, my dad (who now owned the house) went into the backyard to that spot and killed himself."
"I haven’t had the backyard dream since."
– OSUJillyBean
Nightmares Come True
"I had a recurring super vivid intense dream at like 4.... my uncle was chasing us around a labyrinth with a large knife... trying to kill me and my grandmother. 25 or so years later the same uncle (complete paranoid delusional schizophrenic) murders my grandmother at her condo... with the very nice chef knife I bought her for Christmas the year before..."
– Serotu
Severe Trauma
"Less scary and more shocking, but when I was 9 years old I survived a home invasion where I was shot 6 times. I played dead on the floor until the man left and called 911 and in my adrenaline rush I thought they couldn't find my house so I crawled with my left are swinging the wrong way and my right leg limp from nerve damage, all the way to the front door when he broke in from the back of the house."
"I lived with only my mother who unfortunately didn't survive. I vividly remember picking out the guy in a photo line up while recovering in the ICU."
"I am very lucky to have kept my left arm, I have 32 pins and screws to make up for my shattered elbow. My left leg has permanent nerve damage and I now have 'drop foot'. Despite my physical injuries and PTSD, I am doing very well."
– skullexis
We are not all born the same.
Complete Immunity
"I'm one of the lucky few with the CCR5-delta-32 mutation. Why is that relevant? It makes me immune to HIV and a handful of other pathogens, most notably the Bubonic Plague."
– SursumCorda-NJ
Sharper Image
"I have 2 lenses in my right eye, so it focuses like binoculars. My doctor wrote a paper about it. Mostly blinded as a baby in my left eye. Dr suspected my right lense split then healed as 2 distinct lenses. Better than 20/20 in my right eye."
– The_Smoot
Prematurely Slim
"When I was born, I was so premature that my dad, who had quite dainty piano fingers, could slide his wedding ring up my arm to my shoulder. (I weighed 2 lbs, born at 27 weeks)."
– cyanomys
Losing Digits
"I had 6 toes on each foot at birth and got them cut off you can see the place they cut them at."
– HearingAccurate8616
People live with the unfortunate risk that their lives can be cut short at any given moment.
Ticking Time Bomb
"I have an enlarged aortic root. It's very unlikely, but it could spontaneously rupture leading to the medical term adjusts glasses... 'instantaneous death'. I would pass out, bleed to death, and then fall over. Dead before hitting the ground. And it could happen at any time. My wife is very uncomfortable thinking about it lol."
– ignisnex
For The Sake Of Survival
"my immune system backfired and tried to murder me and almost succeeded. I now have to take multiple injections every single day all day or i'll die a painful death within a week."
"Just trying to write diabetes in the most bad-a** way."
– monstrinhotron
A friend of mine once told me that the name I've known him by was not his real name.
He had gone by an alias, which everyone at work assumed was his actual name, to protect himself and his identity after he had been violently hunted down, stalked and threatened for his life for witnessing a murder.
The suspects involved were eventually caught and locked away for good.
I don't remember all the other details about the traumatizing incident because I was completely stupefied.
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/
"What is your "WTF did I just watch?" movie?"
Disturbingly Real
"Kids."- jn-indianwood
Dystopian Doesn't Even Begin To Describe It
"'The Lobster'."
"You have a certain time to become married and if you fail to find a spouse you get sent to an asylum where you must find a spouse from among the other singles."
"If you again fail to find a partner, you must choose which animal you want to be turned into, and then they turn you into that animal."- Leemage
A Podcaster's Worst Nightmare
"Tusk."- wdeallan
With A Title Like That...
"Martyrs."- Patient_Homework9730
Willem Dafoe Smile GIFOnly 67 Minutes... But Plenty Of Gore
"Tetsuo the Ironman (would very strongly not recommend for people with weak stomachs)."- PeruvianPolarbear14
A Homicidal Car Tire... Yes You Read That Correctly...
"Rubber."- Askfreud
Glad It Didn't Disappoint... I Guess?
"Salo, or 120 days of Sodom."
"Granted, I had a phase where I was purposely looking for disturbing movies and this one sure didn't disappoint."- Reddit
Was The Title An Actual Apology?
"Sorry to bother you."- kappaidan
Darren Aronofsky At His Strangest...
"Mother."- dank-yharnam-nugs
jennifer lawrence mother movie GIF by mother!GiphyMeet The Parents gone wrong...
"I'm Thinking of Ending Things."- Vandalatwork
Charlie Kaufman Strikes Again!
"Being John Malkovich."- getlough
Happy Dance GIF by benjamin lemoineOne thing that can be said about all these movies, those who see them will never forget them.
Which may or may not be a good thing...
Now, which film should we add to this list?
