As a "high achieving" student, the biggest mind-blowing fact I have ever learned has been the sheer amount of straight-up lying that happens in formal education.
It's a lot. Like a lot a lot. History class lied so hard.
<p>Like to this day the amount of lies we were fed leaves me angry and stunned - and not just in history class. Did you know several states are legally allowed to straight-up lie in the curriculum of sex ed classes? There is no requirement that the information taught in multiple states has to be medically accurate.</p><p>One Reddit user asked: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/" target="_blank">What's a fact that absolutely blew your mind?</a></p><p>My one fact is that the educational system is a whole ass purposeful lying liarpants. Let's see what Reddit had to say. </p>
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Oxford
<p>Oxford University was founded in 1096 and is several hundred years older than Machu Picchu.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx8tm8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">GParkerG93</a></p><p>Oxford was founded 300 years before the Aztec empire</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxxhmy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">AnduBandu</a></p><p>Wai..wah wai wai wiai, WHAT?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxif90?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CosmicSnowball14</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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On Trial
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Sharks
<p>Sharks have existed 100 million years before the first trees. </p><p>Sharks first showed up on the scene 350 million years ago and 250 million years ago. Also, sharks have survived 4 of the 5 mass extinctions. They didn't exist for the first one. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx1fss?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Stayathomedadof6</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Room To Spare
<p>All the planets in our solar system can fit between the Earth and the Moon, with a little room to spare.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx85ye?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Imajica0921</a></p><p>Whaaaa? Oddly this one hurts my brain the most.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx9wk2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">dmbf</a></p><p>There's a lot of space in space.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjzntot?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">madgietoyousir</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Clean Bones
<p>That when you brush your teeth you're actually cleaning your skeleton</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjwzxbe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">maidenHELL6669</a></p><p>Gotta keep your bone mech clean. That flesh armor only guards so much.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxoun4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Shumatsuu</a></p><p>Gross, thanks! </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxm8of?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ppity_pangolin</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Light Horizon
<p>There is a light horizon in the universe, and we will never know what's beyond it</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjx2y18?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Money_Display_5389</a></p><p>The funny thing, (or maybe just terrifying thing), is that at some point in the far future, the light horizon will actually get smaller over time. </p><p>This is because the universe is expanding faster then light can travel, and so that light will never make it to us no matter how much time passes, and this phenomenon will only become more relevant.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjynpnr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ZanyThings</a></p>The Beatles
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUxMTc3MS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxODQ5ODcxOX0.1DyC3fQGrmURKaz809wvgafTj26Hak_-WKDyc4B9UoI/img.gif?width=980" id="8d6fe" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3419f853fad72027fcdecbaf7bb2eaa2" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="400" data-height="337" />the beatles GIF by US National ArchivesGiphy<p>The Beatles were only together for 7 years. Well, technically for 8 but they released all of their albums in a seven year stretch, releasing two albums a year for many of those years.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxbtav?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">VikingWithGuns</a><span></span></p><p>Even crazier- when they broke up, Paul McCartney was 28.</p><p>Think about it- all that genius, the music, the success, the greatest band ever to exist- and he wasn't even 30.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjy8t5z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">YourlocalTitanicGuy</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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They Have To Die For My Survival
<p>Diseases are caused by micro organisms. </p><p>Organisms. Germs are organisms. </p><p>It totally blew my mind that the thing screwing my internal organs was a group of sentient living beings that have to die for my survival.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxbgc7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">CrimsonMarksman</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Ice Age
<p>Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iphone than the completion of the Great Pyramid</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxly7q?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">jfaissalesmfe5</a></p><p>Woolly Mammoths still walked the earth when the Great Pyramid was being built.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjy9st1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Volkspanzerisme</a></p><p>So by correlation, Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the movie Ice Age, than the actual ice age.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjzdvjl?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BurritoBandito5</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
Flaunt It
<p>Jumping spiders have basically the same vision we do, they can see us and know when we're looking at them and like to show off!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxibgj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">kikaf32645</a></p><p>Ugh I hate those spiders. We had one in the house once and it kept waving its arms around.'</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjz6duj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Cyannotsus</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjz6duj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Jumping spiders are the only kind of spider, that I as an arachnophobe like.</p><p>They're fluffy, cute and this fact cements that.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/l12ncg/whats_a_fact_that_absolutely_blew_your_mind/gjxnj47?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">HelluhTrill420</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Science is science. Fact is fact. Truth is truth and simple is simple. These are things we must now attest to in 2021. Can we please all get onboard with what has been proven? Everything is not a hoax. One of the greatest lies that for some reason continues to circulate is also one of the most believed farces. The Earth is in fact... round. Gravity holds us down as it revolves, if it was flat.... someone would've walked off the edge by now. Its in pictures by everyone from space and on Earth. What more does it take?
Redditor u/jbarms wanted to hear from those of us who have come around to giving into facts and science and those of us who brought people to the "circle" by asking..... Former Flat Earthers. What made you come round?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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Wisdom in Age
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Love the Sphere
<p>I convinced a flat earther, temporarily, by asking him if it was possible for a sphere to be so large that you could not tell it was a sphere my simply being on the surface of it. It took him a while, I used an analogy of a extremely long line that was so slightly curved you could not tell so by looking at a small section of it. Eventually he said yes to the sphere and I told him that was how big the earth is.</p><p>A few days later he reverted, most of these people aren't mentally stable, they believe in a lot of conspiracies.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><em>Edit: </em>Corny edit, but as connoisseur of flat earth content my personal favorite is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorDaveExplains/videos?view=0&sort=p&flow=grid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Professor Dave</a> on YouTube. He is a underappreciated dude who just had a Science channel on YouTube and got brigaded by flat earthers for an unrelated video. He made like 6 video responses in total just owning these guys but they eventually gave up. Check it out. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja0qp9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">McClain3000</a></p>
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Get a Clue
<p>Look, it's really easy:</p><p>If the Earth is flat, there would be an edge(s). And there would be a freaking Disney park at the edge, and we could bungie jump off the side and paraglide into the void etc etc.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Someone would be making an absolute ton of money off of it - if it existed.</p><p>Guess what? Nobody is doing that -- in this world where absolutely everything is exploited for profit -- if no one is making money off of it then it does.not.exist. No edge. Not flat. Get a clue. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja0p36?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gedwyn19</a><span></span></p>
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Gazing...
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzUwNC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODk0NTI3NH0.CMaG4vsYTI0c4UrX79w1USMFUQl4RmKQdv7v7jWCp14/img.gif?width=980" id="e52c6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="84c569de18182631e7590cdd9f09ce5c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />shock what GIF by The Voice UKGiphy<p>I was debating a flat earther in Mexico, and I asked him about how GPS worked if there were no satellites. </p><p>He said that they had devices in the ground to route you.</p><p>I told him the Mexican government is barely able to put decent water pipes in the ground; would he really think they had the tech to put routing devices in the ground?</p><p>He chuckled with a thousand mile gaze.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9twq9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">mzaouar</a></p>
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"Truth behind the curve"
<p>I watched a documentary about flat earthers called "Truth behind the curve" and my analysis from watching that these flat earthers are a group of people who found a community to be a part of. It's a shame their community is based on a lie, but I saw a bunch of people who were to be part of a community.</p><p>Most of the people were social awkward and what not, and so an opportunity to be an influential figure within the community so they double down on their flawed logic.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The more against you are of them, the harder they rep their flatness.</p><p><em>TLDR: </em>I see flat earthers as a group of lonely people looking for a community that will accept them.</p><p><em>edit: </em>wtf did not expect this comment to blow up. Thanks for the silver, and the dialogue everyone. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9ycvd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">imthatguydavid</a></p>
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"What do you think now," said the Captain.
<p>The inclined seat conformed perfectly to his body, strategically placed in the cockpit so he could reach no buttons with outstretched arms. The straps anchored him firmly in place, they were uncomfortable but necessary. The engine burst to life with a roar that burned out all the other audio, the vibrations tore through his body and he felt his body sink back into the seat as the G-Force began to take hold.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>The captain was watching the readouts on the LED displays and monitoring their trajectory as the acceleration began to peel his thoughts away, there was no more room in his brain, it had been filled by pure fear. The boosters grew with greater ferocity as they lifted higher into the sky, the sun beaming down on the left side of the shuttle.</p><p>But faster they went.</p>
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<p>Through max Q and higher into the stratosphere until the engines grew quieter, the air more silent, and the vibrations became less violent. They were approaching space, the final frontier.</p><p>An hour later, and with the path of the shuttle a success he noticed as his raw emotions withdrew that his body felt funny, head hair drifted aimlessly across his eyes as the captains pen hovered in mid air and he knew the impossible was true, his childhood dream, he was in space. Weightless.</p>
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<p>The captain turned around to him, and motioned him to unhook his seatbelts. He did as he was commanded. They both left their chairs and glided over to the tiny glass windows to overlook the magnificence of Earth.</p><p>"What do you think now," said the Captain.</p><p>He recoiled in horror, it couldn't be. NASA had replaced the windows with high definition screens in order to perpetrate their lies that the world was spherical. Those b**tards. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9kdl2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Naamibro</a></p>
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Throw a Rock
<p>I talked to a flat-earther about my job working for a company that tracks ship locations, routes, and speeds by satellite. We also had ways of monitoring carbon emissions based on fuel consumption and known weather conditions. None of this would work at all if the earth was flat. Not a jot of it. I could only explain the most basic concepts, but it was enough for him to understand and realise that I was right and that he'd been convinced by someone who had no practical experience of the spherical nature of the Earth. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_11" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I think that's what really did it - my experience was really tangible. This happens then this happens then we measure this etc etc... no theory, just practice. A bit like showing a child a rock dropping to the ground in order to explain gravity, rather than giving them the whole theoretical shebang. Y'know?</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja2p99?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Administrative-Task9</a><span></span></p>
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Travel Plans
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzUzMS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NzMwMTc5Nn0.XGQMkHwliqQq2DKXFp-U_pVJokAPTL_Cea3ZvMlyA6c/img.gif?width=980" id="b5c83" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="576657b9120d76d131fddf3fbd615e11" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="500" />happy travel GIF by RafahuGiphy<p>Had to travel to Japan, gave up on my beliefs in order to make a shorter trip. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9et5v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">uvzla792</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_13" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>I said the same thing on another post. However someone more familiar with the conspiracy said they believe the earth is actually a circle with the north pole in the middle with the south pole, or Antarctica encircling us. For me it just brought up more questions.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9r8vx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CptBLAMO</a></p>
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The Deniers....
<p>I spent about a year infiltrating the flat Earth community on Instagram. I garnered a decent following with an account dedicated to flat earth travel photos (an intentionally absurd premise). In that time I learned a quite a bit about the community including how to discern the trolls from the real deal. The majority of legit flat earthers are extremely distrustful of anything the government says or does. These same people are 9/11 truthers, Holocaust deniers, and anti-vaxxers and they connect these conspiracies together. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_15" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Many of them have also attached flat Earth theory to religion, magic, or mysticism. Before my infiltration I'd always considered conspiracies fun. Like they were the fan fiction of real life. Now they mostly make me sad. For all the phoney accounts like mine, there are still plenty of people out there willing to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a flat Earth convention. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gja4vsz?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zelph_Onandagus</a></p>
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Why Lie?
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTUwMzUxMS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMDk4MTYxNX0.GZRpOiObajP8j3vrae6GVXJ5yotHg8GY6gLtn7Ihwkg/img.gif?width=980" id="c2131" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d951fc9674113099d3e1b57c3ee4ae52" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />Think Outer Space GIF by NASAGiphy<p>A serious answer here.</p><p>The thing that made me stop was just the question "why would NASA lie to you."</p><p>I will try replying to all of y'all but will go to a study hall so I'll reply later. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kxbzv3/former_flat_earthers_what_made_you_come_round/gj9mo3b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">The_Holy_Fork</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_17" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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When you're in the market for a slew of very specific facts that all fall under the same general theme, the internet really delivers.
Forget streamlined public health capabilities and revolutionized human communication, the true beauty of the internet is all the random, barely useful information you can find when a bunch odd people decide to assemble and swap info.
<p>A recent Reddit thread centered around one theme in particular: the weirdest things about the human body. </p><p>Doctors were asked to weigh in, but unsurprisingly most of the contributors were non-doctors who read something weird one time. </p><p>But that was probably a blessing for the thread. After all, some of these bizarre facts are real doozies. </p><p>bitictac asked, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">"Doctors of reddit, what’s the weirdest/grossest fact about the human body that no one seems to know?"</a></p>
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Homemade Tarantula
<p>"Dental student here. Black hairy tongue is a common condition and it's exactly what it sounds like." </p><p>"It's just caused by buildup of dead skin that becomes hair like because of tobacco use or antibiotic use. Usually combined with lack of frictional forces from brushing"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu9tdq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Alarm-Potential</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Load Em Up
<p>"When a patient gets a kidney transplant, they usually leave the old 2 behind unless there's a significant problem with them."</p><p>"The extra kidney is just tucked in the peritoneum leaving the patient with 3 kidneys."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu6qjd?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">MedicalJargon-itis</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Come On Mutations!
<p>"Every single melanocyte on your skin (you know, the ones that give your hairs color, and your skin its skin color) is connected to your sympathetic nervous system via modified synapses."</p><p>"No-one knows why they're connected that way - but we do know that under stress, those nerves nuke the pool of stem cells that create hair pigment, which is why it makes you go grey."</p><p>"A few mutations and you could theoretically be able to control them and change color like a chameleon."</p><p>"So in many ways, we're basically walking cuttlefish."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giuyo29?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PavlovaPalava</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Play the Long Game, People
<p>"Humans can outpace any animal on the planet."</p><p>"No, we're not the fastest, but if we were chasing the fastest animal (cheetah) we would catch it and be able to keep going."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gisujdr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Bout3Fidy</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Little Helpful Critters
<p>"There are little microscopic organisms living in your eyebrows, eating away at the dead skin."</p><p>"Don't freak out, they are very helpful and completely harmless, just a little gross"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giud33u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Vid-Me-BossCheesburg</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Thankfully That Filter is a Pretty Good One
<p>"Saliva is filtered blood. Your tears are too. And if you're too stressed out you can cry blood."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gitshe5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">mylifeisathrowaway10</a></p>Imagine It All in a Bottle
<p>"I know that the average human churns out between 1 and 2 liters of saliva every day.... oh and we have parasites who are embedded in our hair follicles, and they eat away at our skin, thus causing Dandruff :,)"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gisrxcc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Throwawayyy123451</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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So Hot
<p>"Humans give off so much body heat that in 30 min we can boil a gallon of water" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu1ngt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Financial-Ad-6050</a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giu1ngt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3"></a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Rookie numbers" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giuvqqt?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nopenothappening</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Pshh I can get a gallon of water boiling in like 10 minutes tops" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/giuhji3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ridiculouslygay</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Oh Dear
<p>"Old ladies often have prolapse of their pelvic organs. This means their vaginal walls got so weak that it can no longer support their bladder or uterus."</p><p> -Nurse practitioner"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kum69x/doctors_of_reddit_whats_the_weirdestgrossest_fact/gitopxb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">vespertinas</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
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Of course not. Random tidbits and factoids are like a brain's favorite snack, and putting them to music only made it better.
<p>One Reddit user asked: </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/" target="_blank">What's a totally random, obscure fact that you know?</a></p><p>We know Pop Up Video has been off the air for forever, but as our gift to you we're going to help you recreate that vibe for a moment. Put on your favorite playlist and enjoy these random factoids. </p><p>And can someone check on Australia? Why does everything glow in Australia? Should we be concerned? </p><p>... I'm kind of concerned. Radioactive platypi seems not good. </p>
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Just Another Manic Monday
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzNDA4Ny9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MzE1MTI2NX0.uLIdcpGxmMjO7x1_tRq5onvj_Gt_mbYPHuC9MBe2fbU/img.gif?width=980" id="68e10" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="57b02cc25b32f6542c4649f2bb7a1538" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="363" data-height="220" />monday GIFGiphy<p>It is more likely for anyone to have a stroke on Monday rather any other day, because of the stress that comes with the beginning of a new week.</p><p>in this link it also says that the most common weeks are around holidays too.</p><p><a href="https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen</a></p><p><a href="https://www.pulsara.com/blog/if-youre-going-to-have-a-stroke-or-stemi-heres-when-it-might-happen" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/git1tlp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">nobodyrealyO_o</a></p><p>My father had a heart attack on an early Monday morning. The wonderful people at the hospital told us that they get the most heart attack and stroke victims at - I think - 9 o'clock in the morning. Thankfully it was minor and he is now happy and healthy!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giulcdy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Thatkid11235</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Woah, this is 100% accurate! My father had his stroke on the Monday after the Easter weekend, right when he wanted to get up for work.</p><p>He hasn't been to work since. </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giv0bkx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">anna-gla </a></p><p>Holy crap. I had what I believe was a seizure earlier this morning. It's Monday. </p><p>This scares the sh*t out of me. I live alone with my dog in a house with lots of hardwood stairs as well. Nobody to really check on me. </p><p>Terrible cell reception, you have to go to a specific spot on my property for a good call. My fear is that I'll die, and nobody will find me for weeks or months.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givge89?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">BrownShadow</a></p>
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Lobster Face
<p>Lobsters pee out of their faces. From right under their eyes. </p><p>also you'd be wrong to assume they do it to.. actually pee. In fact they pee into each other's face to communicate, or before a fight, or before some hot sexy time.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/girsaah?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">andreyzudwa</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Before You Dig
<p>I located utility lines for awhile. You honestly have no idea how much infrastructure is underneath you. Get your lines marked before you dig. There is a decent chance that there is a major electrical or fiber optic line running through your back yard, not just the lines to YOUR house.</p><p>when they are marked:</p><p>Red-electric</p><p>Green-sewer</p><p>Blue-water</p><p>Yellow-Gas</p><p>Orange-communication</p><p>orange with a dot on either side- fiber optic</p><p>any color in a diamond with parallel lines- duct run, lots of lines in one trench.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gispbew?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ekolanderia</a></p><p>It's funny because my dad and I went to put a fence up and had the lines marked. Put a auger right through a communication line because they marked it like 4' off lol</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gitb8oi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SPYK3O</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_4" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Can't Vomit
<p>Horses can't throw up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giryqp1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">keelyshobbrook</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giryqp1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Neither can rabbits or rats.</p><p>That's why most modern rat poisons are emetic. Other creatures (cats, dogs, human children, etc.) that find and eat the poison very quickly become violently sick and vomit up most or all of the poisonous material, significantly reducing the risk that they will be harmed by it. </p><p>Rats, however, cannot be sick, and so the poison stays in them and kills them off.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gisrrl7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">McChes</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_5" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>Wait, what do horses do if they eat something bad? Do they just have strong stomachs?</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gitzggh?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">DirtySoapFlakes</a></p><p>Lol no. They die. </p><p>Horses can be pretty ridiculous about randomly dying, especially with colic, which is basically a horrible horse tummy ache. I knew one horse that would colic if you didn't feed him his special food at the exact same time every day 3 times a day.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giulwu1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">aveindha25</a></p><p>My Aunt's horse died from eating moldy bread because you are right, horses cant throw up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu1ver?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">the_obmj</a></p>
Um ... Australia? Things OK Down There?
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTQzNDA3OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNTU3NTY1M30.Ab8Yf_cnjZ2hO_lNNCtwPON-DnH4F0h-OIzyCwV5qKw/img.gif?width=980" id="c9248" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="da2b9a500fc90c168674c39b69df2cef" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="175" data-height="170" />platypus GIFGiphy<p>Platypuses glow when they're exposed to UV lights.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giseiw1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">False-improvement-56 </a></p><p>Bioflorescent... they are steadily found more and more examples that do the same thing. I think Tasmanian Devils and Wombats were both captured recently.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givkn2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">InanimateCarboRodAU</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/givkn2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Tassie Devils do... kind of.</p><p>It seems to only happen to those animals in captivity?</p><p>The belief is that these (primarily) nocturnal creatures are expected to be seen by daylight in zoos and as a result they absorb too much UV radiation from the sun and when in the dark they re-emit and it shows up better under UV light.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giukvxp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">FiligreesDaddy</a></p><p>Wombats glow on their noses! </p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giut67i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">so_it_goes17</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Netflix
<p>Netflix was founded before Google</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gis14po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ItzBlossom05</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gis14po?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>Even better: In 2000, Netflix offered itself for sale to Blockbuster for something like $50 million. Blockbuster, convinced that Netflix was a flash in the pan and that people would always want to rent disks, declined.</p><p>This was before streaming was even an idea in the mind of Reed Hastings; streaming was still a very, very new technology at the time and most people were still on dial-up modems, so it just wasn't feasible. Still, things would be certainly different today.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giumvt8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SpaceForceAwakens</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_7" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Default Mode
<p>Your brain prefers to default your mood back to one that you've made comfortable for yourself. So you can literally train yourself to default back to being sad, or being happy, or being anxious etc.</p><p>Unfortunately I don't have expertise in exactly how to do that. </p><p>Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) would be helpful and maybe a type of therapy called Gestalt therapy? But I'm no expert on any of this stuff. </p><p>I have 2 friends who are counsellors and a sister as well. So maybe I could ask them.</p><p><span></span>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gispttf?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Stevieeer</a></p><div data-conversation-spotlight style="min-height:90px"></div>
A Man-child Changes History
<p>This one potentially changed the course of history.</p><p>Kaiser Wilhelm II of the German Empire was the ruler of Germany during WWI. Though technically a constitutional monarchy at the time Germany, and its military especially, operated more like an autocratic monarchic state. The top ranks of the German military relied on the personal patronage the kaiser for career advancement. </p><p>Thing is, he was a bit of a man-child. So instead of a jump, "how high," situation, it was more like "here's a dress, it'd be funny if you marched around."</p><p>In 1908, <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_von_H%C3%BClsen-Haeseler" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Field Marshal Dietrich von Hulsen-Haeseler</a> was the top ranking German officer and was only 56 years old. He died that year of a heart attack while marching around for kaiser dressed in a tutu and a feathered hat. Presumably because of the stress and embarrassment of the situation. </p><p>Had he lived, <em>he</em> would've commanded the German military in WWI. Instead, they entered the war led by Generals who had risen to the rank without ever actually commanding an army in the field. They were untested jesters in war. It didn't go well. </p><p>And that is my useless fact of the day!</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/girwjt2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">PurveyorOfUselessFacts</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Spirit Carbon
<p>Ancient Europeans believed that if they ground up the bones of their greatest warriors or sacred animals and mixed them in with the iron when forging a sword, the sword would contain their spirits, making it stronger. </p><p>Little did they know that by adding in the ground up bones they were introducing carbon to the mix and creating carbon steel, which <em>is</em> much stronger than simple iron. </p><p>So they <em>were</em> making their swords stronger by adding the sacred bones, just not in the way they thought they were.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu00bx?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Equivalent-Floor-607</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Brain Bag
<p>I just learned this yesterday. After an autopsy the brain is put in to the body instead of back in the skull. </p><p>It's very hard to fit the cap back on the skull with brain put back in place. The better fit without the brain makes the head look better after the autopsy for sake of the family.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/gisx5j0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">itsyourgirlbobby</a></p><p>All innards removed are put into a bag, in the abdominal cavity, and then the corpse is stitched up.</p><p>- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kug389/whats_a_totally_random_obscure_fact_that_you_know/giu1xxw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">elegantpun</a></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-1x1" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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People Who've Worked On Dating Apps Share The Most Insane Stats They Learned
December 28 | 2020
What every happened to the good ole days when we met one another, searching for love, at a bar? Now everything is on an app. And these apps are proving more and more dangerous and faulty. Wouldn't you just love to know who runs these sites though and how their love lives are working out? Also, knowing the statistics of how we're all connecting (i.e... swiping) could help out with saving so much time. Let's see whose willing to spill the tea on the behind the scenes on the search for romance.
Redditor u/brunetteht3 wanted everyone to know exactly what they're getting when signing up for love with these "apps" by asking staff to divulge.... Redditors that worked with a dating company (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, etc.), what's the most insane user stat or behind-the-scenes fact you found out about?<div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_1"></div>
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Can't Look Away
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTAwOTQ2Mi9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzOTA1ODA5MX0.86lFU-MdUzcz6ENrb6T13gWfjiYQxC_37XgWNNNGewo/img.gif?width=980" id="53fd5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="dcfeb1569d2545909e85ade705152645" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="270" />social media smile GIF by Robert E BlackmonGiphy<p>I have a friend who works for... I wanna say Tinder. Anyway, the company isn't important; what is important is that her ENTIRE job is to remove inappropriate images. Her JOB is to look at penis pics all day. Five days a week. That's all. No stat. Just a weird freaking job. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggw06zv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lettuce-b-lovely</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_36" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Renewals....
<p>My ex bf worked for the Yahoo Italy dating site back in the early-ish 2000s. His job was to pretend to be a woman, and message male customers just as their accounts were going to expire. This would encourage them to pay to renew their subscriptions. Once they renewed, he would ghost them.</p><p>He only lasted for a few months due to how unethical it was. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggw88wi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">visualisewhirledpeas</a></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_2" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Analytics...
<p>I ran operations for an online dating company (notably not affiliated with Match). From database analytics I can tell you a few things. Men initiate contact around 80% of the time in straight matchmaking, and if you are a woman looking to date other women and you simply initiate contact with another woman you have a good chance of success simply because it's very very very common for women to match but then neither initiates contact. IIRC we were able to determine that it takes on average about 3 dates before sex happens (I don't recall how we worked that out, I'm not a data analyst, but presumably it was some keyword based algorithm looking at chat messages).</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_3" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>We got so many requests for information from the police that we had an informal system with them, to save them from wasting time getting warrants for information about people who we didn't have data on, they would ask about a particular name/email/whatever other identifier and we would just say yes we have data about them or no we don't, and if we did they'd then go get the warrant to get a copy of it.</p>
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<p>The other thing I can tell you from our analytics, that really shouldn't be at all surprising, is to <span style="background-color: initial;">get some decent profile photos.</span> Go get your talented friend or just hire a photographer to take some really nicely-lit well-composed photos of yourself and watch your match rate soar.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggw6i3o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">jamesinc</a></p>
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Phonies....
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTAwOTcxMC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTkxNTA2M30.TcHV6EFdd650Qjuo71hJ6XZMFxh2wUczktrXgkDs9rA/img.gif?width=980" id="e689c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="25e6ccdfdbad959747f38b676a18f8f2" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="320" />Gigi Hadid Kiss GIF by Clint SpauldingGiphy<p>My old boss was the financial controller of a big dating site. He kept on seeing these big invoices for modelling agencies and initially thought it was because of the big parties they used to host. When he asked about it it turned out it was just content for the fake profiles they created to lure in users. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggvza2l?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jimpez86</a><span></span></p>Ownership....
<p>Most dating sites and apps are owned by one company The Match Group. They have a near monopoly. I think bumble is one of the few not owned by them. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggvv200?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HueJass84</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggvv200?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Those morons bought OkCupid and turned it from something awesome into a steaming pile of that sucks even more than Tinder.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_6" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>For those that don't know how it was 7-8 years ago:</p><ul><li>Usernames (could be your first name or something else like a nickname)</li><li>Various Free text fields to describe you; also searchable</li><li>Structured metadata (age, smoking, drugs, looking-for, offspring...) that could be filtered by</li><li>"Match questions" that were actually fun to answer and check how others answered on stuff interesting/important to you</li><li>"Quizzes" from personality type over nerdiness to kinkiness (and much more) and you could see the results in someone's profile</li><li>No swiping, you just messaged people (actual messages or chat, and you could switch from one to the other if you were online at the same time) if you wanted to</li><li>Premium accounts were very affordable and only had some small gimmicks but nothing seriously important (search by more superficial details like body type, not showing up in someone's visitor list unless you want to reveal yourself, etc.)</li></ul>
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<p>So basically it was an awesome site regardless if you were looking for friends, dates, fucks or were just curious to find out more about strangers.</p><p>And now? Real names only, swiping, no search, sh!tty UI (clearly not interested in desktop users), much more expensive premium accounts. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggw5h8e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">mouth_with_a_merc</a></p>
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Following the rhythm....
<p>I would love to know how openly cynical the algorithm really is. My feed on Hinge shows absolutely no one I am interested in. And suddenly, the 'roses' feature pops up. I am interested in all the people in the Roses section. But - oh - it's £4 to buy ONE rose. Which is no guarantee of a match, much less a date.</p><p>They want to keep you using the app and spending money for as long as possible and their slogan 'designed to be deleted' is such bs it's comical. And you can't turn to other apps because they're all owned by the same corporation. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggvwt3m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Spicyatom</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_8" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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The 99%
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNTAxMDUyNy9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MDMzNjU0OX0.wuJ5W6dXM7UjN-xFfc0d30mbnIwifF9Bpda8iynqirM/img.gif?width=980" id="f460e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="cc03cc97e4e35b8678269051cacb7ae4" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="500" />Disappointed Talk To Me GIF by Dark IglooGiphy<p>This was years ago now, but I used to work with a guy who had been an engineer for Match.com. </p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_9" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p>He said 99% of the profiles were inactive, and that 80% of the active profiles were men.</p><p>He didn't provide numbers but also said the was a huge disparity between the average number of messages sent to women versus those sent to men. According to him, all told the site was mostly men reaching out to dead profiles and never getting responses.</p><p>As I said however, this was years ago, so it's entirely possible that they've cleaned the site up since then.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggvy4j3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CastSeven</a></p>
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Right ain't right for all....
<p>Not been working but a friend wrote her master thesis about the different criteria in online dating and real life. Almost half (43%) the female participants who were in a relationship told they'd never have swiped right on their current partner. Other interesting results were that over 60% of men they wrote with on apps and agreed to go on a date, would have no chance, if they asked in real life.</p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_10" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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<p><strong><em>Edit: </em></strong>Since many asked about the thesis, I'll ask her if she can share it here but be prepared, it's in German. As to the second point: I don't know exactly how she worded the question in the survey but iirc she was referring to clubs and the like.</p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggvxi89?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">AmlSeb</a></p>
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Bugged
<p>A couple met on the dating app I worked on. Unfortunately, the man passed away and the lady returned to the app where they met for remembrance.</p><p>One day, a bug in the system made some profile likes to be sent again after months and she received one from her deceased boyfriend.</p><p>Her bug report was heartbreaking. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/kj93lm/redditors_that_worked_with_a_dating_company/ggw1gpi?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Sighne</a><span></span></p><div class="ad-tag" data-ad-name="In_Content_Responsive_12" style="min-height:280px"></div>
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Oh Mary Jane
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