You ever hear a fact that makes you ever so slightly uncomfortable?
You can't go on looking at life quite the same, though, your world hasn't changed....much.
u/Garfunckel asked:
What is a fact that is mildly disturbing?
Here were some of those answers.
The Gays Do Not Approve
Joe Exotic's husbands weren't gay.
As a gay person this really did disturb me. He was so predatory. He met them when they were little more than kids and got them hooked on it for sure. And I was really troubled on that story they touched on briefly about the 12 year old boy who was "teaching him magic" for, hilariously, anti-drug presentations at schools.
Reset Button
The universe could end at any given moment, and we wouldn't even notice.
And by end, I mean wiped out in terms of both space and time. None of this would have ever happened.
(Wish that novel had gone through.)
Killing For Fun
Dolphins are known to brutally kill baby porpoises for no reason. They don't eat the porpoises, and the porpoises don't antagonize them in anyway.
We Will Never Know
Nobody knows the motives of Stephen Paddock, the guy who did the 2017 Vegas shootings. No political or religious affiliations, no recorded reason for doing it. 59 killed, 869 injured in the attack and nobody knows why.
Zoonotic Parasites
Genetic testing has shown that head lice and pubic lice have separate origins. Head lice have remained with us since we split off from our chimp-like ancestors. Pubic lice, though, were found to have originally come from gorillas.
But Not On Purpose
Cows on average kill more people per year then bears, snakes, scorpions, alligators, crocodiles, and even sharks.
Deers kill more people per year than Cows!
The Future Freaks Me Out
There is a date on the calendar that is the day you die. Could be Jan. 1, could be July 20, could be September 12, whatever it is, there's a day with your name on it. And mostly likely already there has been a random day where you thought, now what's the date again today? And that was the future date of your inevitable death.
It's For The Oppression
We can put a man on the moon, bend time and space in a mine shaft in Illinois but can't develop and establish a technologically competent, federally universal, state compatible, audit friendly permanent voting system in America.
Community Trash Cans
There's a higher chance to find a dead body under your bed than your trashcan (i'm talking about a trashcan that is meant for all of the people in the building)
Antiquated
That intersex new born babies genitalia are surgically changed to look more of a stereotypical "penis" or "vagina". Often times without the parents consent.
Sugar, Oh Honey Honey
How beeswax is made.
A specific group of bees fill up with honey as much as possible and then hang in chains, one attached to the next, from the top of the hive to the bottom. As they hang there, slowly tiny white plates of wax form between the shell-like layers of their abdomen and protrude out from in-between the layers. Other bees gather these up and chew them a little bit to soften them and they're then used to build cells or whatever repair jobs are needed in the hive.
Uhhh....
Female cats cycle via induced ovulation. The male tomcat has barbs on its penis (if he's not castrated) that cause the female cat a considerable amount of pain. These pain signals go to the brain and tell the ovaries to send out an egg to be fertilised. Always thought that was kinda f*cked up.
Interplanet Threat
I've been haunted by this thought for a while but us humans don't serve a real purpose to this universe, we don't benefit it or even help it, we just happen to live in it and sh*t on it and once the earth becomes uninhabitable due to us we will just teraform a new planet and do the exact same thing to it on and on until our species dies out. I am sorry if this may have offended anyone or hurt anyone and I do not intend to do so
More Common Than We Think
I noticed this morning while researching, epidemics and pandemics happen much more commonly than I think most people realize. Obviously, bigger ones are rarer, but at any given time there's two or three little bugs going on somewhere around the globe that could grow much, much larger.
My Organs Didn't Like That
The joke going around stating, "at least all of my organs are on the inside" is fully inaccurate, as the skin is technically one of the largest organs of the human body, and is meant to stay on the outside. Meaning that it would much more accurate to say, "at least I don't have lasting damage on my largest organ."
The End
There is a date on the calendar that is the day you die. Could be Jan. 1, could be July 20, could be September 12, whatever it is, there's a day with your name on it. And mostly likely already there has been a random day where you thought, now what's the date again today? And that was the future date of your inevitable death.