Freaky Facts To Feel Weird About

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Eric Lund
Jan 3, 2022 10:00 PM EST

They say what you don't know can't hurt you, but we've all been hit in the face with enough frisbees to know that's demonstrably false. That said, what you do know can leave you with a creeping sense of existential dread and a lasting mark on your psyche. Because man, we live in a vastly unexplored and wildly unpredictable world full of flesh-eating wiener parasites and damning statistics about reading comprehension. Here are some strange science facts to ponder.

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    Rectangle - Assorted_Education_ · 5 days ago 23 S If bees were paid minimum wage for their labor, a jar of honey would cost $182,000.
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    Vertebrate - Delta40 - 5 days ago 9 In the beginning, Dupont ft ked up their non-stick Teflon pans. They knew high exposure to tge stuff was bad but they never did anything about it. As a result, traces of "forever chemicals" can be found in 98% of the American population (and probably beyond).
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    Human body - Shawn_NYC - 5 days ago 2 S You're statistically more likely to randomly die during a USA Powerball lottery drawing than win it.
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    Rectangle - bafulationPrematuree · 5 days ago 2 2 e S Humans are pretty slow runners compared to other races, but we are the best throwers on the planet. No other specie can throw stuff like we do. This is why in case of danger, throwing things in the direction of an hostile animal may scare the shit out of it
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    Plant - twowayrorrim - 5 days ago S JEK's convertible wasn't scrapped after he got shot in 1963. A roof was welded on and it was used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter - right through to 1977.
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    Rectangle - Raiyjinn - 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the Itteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and Isat Itteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey Iteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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    Human body - adam_avdiu - 5 days ago 2050 is closer than 1990
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    Smile - thisisprince 5 days ago During World War 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
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    Human body - Maleficent_Gene_7232 · 5 days ago Dogs like squeaky toys because it remind them of a small animal being killed."
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    Organism - Halicarnassis · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago I grew up Africa. (Edit: Zambia) When we were 5 we were told not to swim in dirty water because of Bilharzia (schistosomiasis) Microscopic worms that burrow into your skin or enter up your urinary tract and then lays eggs inside your body.
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    Organism - SirTaxalot - 5 days ago 2 2 O Some random dude in Soviet Russia saved the entire world from nuclear annihilation on a hunch the incoming missile warning was wrong. Edit: his name was Stanislav Petrov -
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    Smile - Technolite123 - 5 days ago You are more likely to be bitten by a new yorker than a shark
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    Eye - Millepedee · 5 days ago Chainsaws were invented to cut through the pelvic bone to help women give birth
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    Font - Aggravating-Cry6451 · 5 days ago The second most expensive house and one of the biggest slums of the world are in the same city. 'Antilia' ($1 Billion) is owned by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and Dharavi, one of the biggest slums, both in the city of Mumbai. Oh and 'Antilia' is second to Buckingham Palace ($2.9 billion).
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    Mammal - djtills · 5 days ago The Vatican Archives are something like 50 miles of information that almost nobody can see unless they know it's there and put in a formal request to see a specific thing. My understanding is that nobody can enter just to browse.
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    Font - MDWaverleyy · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago Humans are faster than horses over marathon distance For those questioning this, the post says over a marathon distance. This means over 26.2 miles. A horse is obviously faster than a human and this post does not mean every human can run faster than a horse.
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    Smile - pauliep13 · 5 days ago 2 2 3 3 The Taylor oil spill. So far it's leaked over a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It started leaking in 2004, before Deepwater Horizon, and is still leaking oil into the gulf today. Next to nothing being done about it.
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    Human body - Mister_Trashman - 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago As recently as 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed newborns and fetuses couldn't feel pain, so some were operated on without anesthesia.
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    Font - ubercorey · 5 days ago - edited 5 days ago 54% of adults in the USA read below a 6th grade level. Bonus, 1 in every 30 children in the USA is homeless.
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    Human body - themddoc - 5 days ago France executed their last person by guillotine the same year Star Wars: A New Hope came out.
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    Font - hononononoh - 5 days ago Fungi are much closer related to animals than either one are to plants, and specifically to protostomes: bugs and worms of all sorts. Fungus cell walls are made of the same polymer that arthropods' exoskeletons are made of, and are coded for by the same gene. There have been proposals to reclassify fungi in the animal kingdom.
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    Font - Klunderful - 5 days ago Mr. Krabs sold SpongeBob's soul for 62 cents.
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    Dress - Multiverse-Nic-Cage · 5 days ago The T-Rex is closer in time to the iPad than it is to the Stegosaurus.
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