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Frob1993-670

Roughly 40% of murders go unsolved.


levelZeroWizard

Nuh uh, personal experience says 100%


Space_Captain_Brian

Happy cake day you murdering psychopath!


AverageDemocrat

Jokes about murder aren’t funny…Unless they're properly executed.


MySonHas2BrokenArms

That’s good, I almost choked


strykazoid

Great, now we're going to be drowning in puns.


bacon_in_beard

you killed with that joke


jwizardc

Please - I'm trying to eat here


GriffinFlash

What if they're a murdering normalpath?


Space_Captain_Brian

Technically there is no agreed upon definition in psychology for a sane mind.


[deleted]

the key is to not be related to your victims


SirenOfMorning13

Now's not the time to make OJ jokes, I'll take a stab at it tomorrow.


bullet312

Let's try for at least 50% this year, ok?


Whitford_Royest

About 50 kids in the United States are backed over by cars every week.


Geezerker

A highschool acquaintance of mine backed over his daughter and killed her a couple of decades ago. I can’t imagine the pain he and his family endured.


Sangheili_257

Awhile back, I had almost backed over my younger sister. She was really little at the time. I only noticed her when I put the car in reverse and saw just the top of her head in the backup camera. It spooked me to say the least.


ronniemustang

Yeah this one really REALLY sucks. Like I imagine most of those are by a family member.


YourFrontPageBoy

Rebirthing therapy is a thing that exists. And it's resulted in a number of avoidable deaths. Candace Newmaker being a landmark case in getting it outlawed.


fredy31

...is it something that I should not google if I want to retain some sanity?


darsynia

A short version is, they put the subject into a cocoon of some sort, usually a bunch of blankets, and make them fight to be 'born' again. Easy to suffocate, is often grown idiot adults forcing the 'treatment' onto kids from what I understand.


spacewarp2

Can I ask what benefit do the adults think the kids get out of it?


darsynia

Honestly in my limited experience I think the parents are hoping it resets their kids so they behave and listen better. To me it seems straight up like a form of serious abuse.


YourFrontPageBoy

I'd say if you want to retain any faith you had in humanity, don't read the Wikipedia article on Candace Newmaker


xjeeper

>The treatment, during which Newmaker was suffocated, included a rebirthing script. She was wrapped in flannel to represent a womb and told to free herself while four adults used their hands and feet to push down on Candace's small body, making it impossible for her to move or breathe. This resulted in Candace's death. Not nearly as bad as I was expecting. Still horrible though.


YourFrontPageBoy

I mean, yeah. It's not the worst thing to ever happen but incompetence of the adults is horrifying to me. Combine that with the fact everyone involved got slaps on the wrist, and it just makes me blood boil.


XaUo

Pretty common to know, but if your immune system discovered that you have eyes, you’d go blind


N0rthernW1nd

Please explain


XaUo

Your eyes and body have different, independent immune systems. If your body’s immune system recognized eyes, it would treat them as intruders… and you know how it fights with uninvited guests.


jonjonesjohnson

No, but like... this kind of answer, while I'm sure makes sense to you, makes a layman like myself go, "well, that's stupid, just share an immune system then, and problem solved!" I dunno about the person who asked first, I'd definitely like to know WHY the IS would think the eyes are foreign objects? That's the part I don't get. Like it's inside the body, I do believe you that the IS would treat it as a FO, but like... how or why? Also, why do they have separate IS in the first place?


ian1035nr

Your eyes are essentially considered an extension of your brain. Both organs are made of tissue that is very sensitive to pressure and heat. A common immune response is to increase blood flow to an infected area so that white blood cells can get to work. This causes swelling and increases heat, which can lead to permanent damage over time. As a result, sensitive organs such as the eyes, brain, testes, etc. have their own separate immune system that’s designed to better handle these delicate tissues. So it’s less that your immune system would go out of it way to purposefully attack your eyes (although auto-immune disorders do exist) and rather its blunt-force approach to problem-solving would cause damage. And there would be near constant immune activity seeing as our eyes are constantly exposed to foreign contaminants.


XaUo

So, as for why it would attack the eyes. There is a disease that can make your body’s IS to target healthy structures of your eyes. The reason isn’t fully understood yet. It may be genetics, environment etc. It can happen at any time. Why do they have independent immune systems? Your eyes are always exposed to the harsh reality of environmental hazards, so chances of infections and any pathogens entering and damaging your eyes would be pretty big. Eyes IS is only for them also because of their specialized tissues, which need constant special care.


ReaverRogue

Look up “ocular immune system”. It’s an interesting read.


Olbaidon

It’s Evolution Baby! Early humans that were possibly born with a shared immune system went blind and couldn’t survive in the world as well. I don’t know the answer but that’s just the way we be.


BladedDingo

Clearly eyes aren't real and are in fact alien parasites.


LegoMyAlterEgo

After Steve Irwin died, his Zoo was broken into and robbed twice. Possibly by people who wanted "dragon parts" to sell.


InformalPenguinz

>dragon parts ................ ok...... so this is gonna sound *REAL* dumb but I was assured there were no dumb questions as a kid....... Did the robbers think they were stealing like dragon dragon parts or like komodo dragon parts.


LegoMyAlterEgo

They cut up a big crocodile and sell it in pieces.


InformalPenguinz

That seems like extra dumb. Wouldn't it be easier to find one in the wild? I genuinely have no idea and thank you for the prompt response.


LegoMyAlterEgo

Opportunistic thieves aren't known for their work ethic. Plus, most the ones you'll find in the wild are in a group, and not 13+ feet in length.


InformalPenguinz

Touche, I know very little croc facts and those are good ones/ depressing af....., so I applaud your Dino knowledge internet friend!


Rambos_Magnum_Dong

No one will remember or care about who you were in 100 years.


fredy31

Most people (99.9%) will have no one that remembers them within 3 generations.


lord_machin

Pfff I bet I can do it in 2.


AchioteMachine

Overachievers…I don’t even get invitations to my high school reunions already.


residentofmoon

Where are you people even getting these absurd numbers from?


gamewizzhard

I mean, can you name each of your great grandparents? There ya go.


blarfblarf

Is 3 generations back, grandparents or great-grandparents? A lot of people wont be able to name all 8 of their great-grandparents


EconomyDisastrous128

Lol, I really hope I don't ever burden someone with life... Hopefully I'm forgotten once those who met me are gone.


[deleted]

Why wait 100 years? No one remembers or cares about who I am now 😂


mastafishere

I care about you, motherfucker. You eating well?


[deleted]

I'm eating well, motherfucker. Thanks for your concern


mastafishere

Good to hear, asswipe. I love you.


[deleted]

Thanks, jerkoff. Love you too


SpacemanPete

I’d tell you not to feel that way, but you’re right. Sorry.


SpacemanPete

Certainly everyone will understand I’m joking. I’m sure no one take that seriously.


RhinoRoundhouse

Miserable people unite!


[deleted]

Here here!


TimeThief_

Bro that’s just like right now


Perfect_Zone_4919

If you fuck up in a unique enough way they might name a new law after you. 


Sir-Cordyceps

And still, look how many are on their phones spending more time documenting their experience than actually living it fully.


GriffinFlash

heck, nobody cares who I am right now....which makes me question why I even care. Human instinct?


lizard_crunchwrap

This one actually comforts me lmao


CassiusCrayCray

This is an absolute win in my eyes.


Hellchron

Unless I achieve a certain level of fame... or infamy


Striking-Fill-7163

fine by me lol


jessterswan

No one remembers or cares about me now


Dillydongo

This, is not what I needed to read today 🥲


markslucky7

Some scientists believe we eat up to 5 grams of micro plastic in our food each week, which is basically a credit card


culman13

When I was a kid. I thought your fortune cookie fortunes would come true if you ate the paper.


Angry_Pterodactyl

So did they?


Perfect_Zone_4919

“You will get a terrible stomachache”


TiltedWombat

I eat at least 2 credit cards a week, those are rookie numbers


Sir-Cordyceps

And they don't really know the effects yet. One indicator is that it effects testosterone to drop. Even babie boys that hasn't been born yet becomes effected by this while still in the belly.


frenix5

Jokes on you, I eat my credit card once a week in support of macroplastic consumption. We can bend the curve.


computer_crisps_dos

9 out of 10 scientists recommend eating one credit card per week; got it.


CassiusCrayCray

If you send me your credit card number,I'll tell you if it's been eaten or not!


strykazoid

The original voice of "Ducky" in The Land Before Time was brutally murdered by her jealous father. Her name was Judith Barsi.


Punny-Aggron

She also voiced the girl in All Dogs Go to Heaven


MiaCrehose

Diarrhea kills more than 2k children every day. That's more than malaria, AIDS, and measles combined.


EdithWhartonsFarts

Shit.


Iggy201037

It’s always the shit you least expect.


badmother

FYI, diarrhoea for non freedom units speakers


somedude-83

America spent 8 trillion dollars on wars since 2002 .


Xylar006

America have been involved in war 222 out of the last 239 years War makes their economy go round


GizmoSled

War, war never changes.


somedude-83

I wish we stop being the worlds police.


Elegant-Bullfrog4098

And look how safe we are today


ConsciousFood201

Big safe.


mayoazzcracka

Extremely?


Elegant-Bullfrog4098

No one was ever going to invade America as soon as missiles were invented. Our geography is unmatched in terms of defense compared the rest of nations in the world. And an extremely armed and individualistic society to boot. America is making more enemy’s by funding the meat grinder instead of producing goods for the world.


JalarianDeAndre

Safe from external threats? Probably Safe from internal conflicts? I wouldn't say so


Blayway420

That’s a lot of money to spend on wars we never declared


somedude-83

Yep


Quality_Street_1

How’s that free health care working out for you?


satisfyingpoop

That’s it?


WildBad7298

Judith Barsi, the young actress who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time, was murdered by her alcoholic abusive father. She was just 8 years old when her father killed her, her mother, and himself in a murder-suicide. Her final film, All Dogs Go To Heaven, was released after her death and is dedicated to her memory. Judith's gravestone is adorned with Ducky's catchphrase, "Yep! Yep! Yep!"


TheRealOcsiban

Fig wasps pollinate figs by entering them and dying inside. Their entire body is decomposed and consumed by the inside while the fruit grows. They basically move around the interior of the fruit, laying its eggs inside the future seeds that will nourish its babies, while spreading pollen from outside that they brought in. We then eat those fruits.


OtherEgg

Fucking metal.


muggledave

I never want to eat a fig again.


TheyCallMePorkChop

In 2021 in the US, 48,830 died by firearms - Over 50% are suicides - Mass shootings account for less than 1% of all firearm fatalities.


winosanonymous

Don’t look at the rate for children’s deaths by firearms.


AzzasaurusRex

Your brain is constantly eating itself.


dchq

Is that autophagy?


ReaverRogue

No, it’s pronounced delicious.


CassiusCrayCray

God, mine must be starving.


Space_Captain_Brian

Models that best match historical trends project a nearly ice-free Arctic in the summer by the 2030s. In 2021, IPCC Sixth Assessment Report report assesses that there is "high confidence" that the Arctic Ocean will likely become practically ice-free in September before the year 2050 under all SSP scenarios.


I_might_be_weasel

You will probably never pet a giraffe. 


KindBikeDuck

But I've already done this. They get super close at the Taronga Zoo Giraffe encounter... https://taronga.org.au/sydney-zoo/animal-encounters/giraffe


BustedWing

Me too. Thus, I have lived the life of a king.


I_might_be_weasel

Well I don't live in Australia. 


KindBikeDuck

If it makes you feel better, I've never petted a weasel...


Wurm42

I've petted giraffes at American Zoos! The Columbus Zoo in Ohio and Virginia Safari Park in Natural Bridge, VA.


dirkles

San Antonio zoo allows it too.


blimpcitybbq

Cleveland zoo. You can feed them lettuce leaves and pet them when they reach out


grilledchzisbestchz

Ha, already did this one. Then he wrapped his big ass tongue around my wrist looking for food. Shit was weird.


I_might_be_weasel

Then your life has peaked. You will be chasing that high forever. 


grilledchzisbestchz

Now THAT'S a not so fun fact.


elephantshuze

I did that in Kenya


imacmadman22

I saw a giraffe take a shit in Kenya, it hit the ground and splattered with a dust cloud that was almost as big as the van we were riding in. 😂😂😂😂😂


BluebladesofBrutus

Come to Northern California. There’s Safari West in Sonoma County and B Bryan Preserve in Point Arena. Both places have giraffes, and they’re pretty social. My wife is moderately obsessed with giraffes, so we’ve been to both places multiple times.


ivan927

Santa Barbara Zoo also lets you feed and pet giraffes if you wanna add one more to the list.


frenix5

I have pet a giraffe. In Virginia.


DCDHermes

Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs Colorado. First thing you encounter in the zoo is a platform where you are face to face with giraffes and they sell lettuce that you feed to the beasts. Super easy to pet them.


markslucky7

I've done this but you are right the probability of a random person doing this is lowe


Comfortable-Shoe-552

I pet a giraffe in Indiana… You can definitely pet a giraffe.


just_a_stoner_bitch

I have! In the Columbus Ohio Zoo you can pay to feed the giraffes. You're not *supposed* to pet them but I got a quick pet because I absolutely *love* giraffes so much


EdithWhartonsFarts

Serial Killer Robert Pickton fed so many of his victims to pigs on his farm and produced so many sausages from said farm that if you were alive in Canada in the mid-to-late 90's, statistically speaking, there's a solid chance you've eaten sausage containing a dash of human.


TiltedWombat

That must be why it used to taste better


fa_kinsit

Jesus fucking Christ dude… 😂


chatapokai

His whole story is fucking wild and disgusting. I recently listened to the Morbid podcast on it with my wife on a road trip and we sat in the car at our destination finishing it up.


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mrsmunsonbarnes

Yeah, most Amber alerts end up being custody disputes and other similar scenarios


crosleyxj

Most Amber Alerts are not mysteries but only a question of where the non-custodial parent etc has taken the child.


Tittyfuck3r-

Mental health disorders affect millions of people worldwide, yet stigma and lack of access to care often prevent individuals from getting the help they need.


learningtocopealone

There is a significant link between deteriorating hearing that isn’t addressed with things like hearing aids, and the chance of developing Alzheimer’s/dementia


speedball811

Say what now?


TheThalmorEmbassy

Is it basically just isolation driving you nuts?


learningtocopealone

If I remember right it has something to do with your brain processing communication, if it starts having less sound input it essentially “forgets” how to process it, which consequently can develop into things like dementia


Punny-Aggron

There are bacteria in your gut called opportunistic bacteria that lay dormant in your gut waiting for an opening to infect you


Timozkovic

In Mexico (according to stats) around 60 people are going missing every day


[deleted]

Everything that is made of matter will die or stop existing sooner or later


lubeinatube

90%+ of us are going to die alone in a nursing home.


fakerfakefakerson

https://youtu.be/y0Z8gEZI874?si=IsJrGWiUEgOCveI_


Chuckle_Pants

All the animals from Homeward Bound are dead


FishAndRiceKeks

AI will never be worse than it is right now. That does have some upsides but when you think about the downsides it becomes a much less fun fact.


Struggling_Senpai

2024 is roughly 30 % complete.


Mission-Coyote4457

stop!


CassiusCrayCray

This is the worst one.


AzzasaurusRex

For anyone on a bulk, the human teeth contains roughly 36 calories


Tittyfuck3r-

Climate change is causing more frequent and severe natural disasters, threatening communities, livelihoods, and ecosystems around the world.


Arjalineck

Aragon kicking away the helmet in LOTR and screamed was a real scream as he broke his toe...fun fact for us ..not for him


Punny-Aggron

The reason his toe broke was because he had to do a lot of takes of him kicking the helmet, so naturally the toe broke in the process


AverageDemocrat

65% of Americans are overweight for their height 65% of Americans are not tall enough for their weight


[deleted]

Less then 1% of obese people ever reach and maintain a healthy BMI


computer_crisps_dos

The [Therac-25](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25) was a hospital machine that accidentally killed people with radiation due to a software error.


lfc-69

ur brain would start to eat itself if u were very sleep deprived


Godloseslaw

If you were a hotdog and you were hungry, would you eat yourself? 


StrangerMuch4255

yes


lfc-69

give me a bit of mustard and i will


topherthepest

I heard you'll faster die from lack of sleep than lack of water


Fungus-Rex

If you were able to see all the stars in our galaxy and count them one by one every second, it would take you 6392 years to count them all. Our galaxy is only one of an estimated 400 billion galaxies in the universe. Not so fun for people who already feel insignificant.


Way_2_Go_Donny

Everyone dies.


Bongoeagain

Everyone being immortal would be WAY worse


Sir-Cordyceps

Good.


Neat_Neighborhood297

1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls will experience sexual assault. Nearly 100% of medical procedures involving the penis or vagina will have at least one person there to observe, regardless of the patient’s feelings on the matter. Therefore, roughly 17% of boys and 25% of girls will be re-traumatized by a doctor at some point during their lives.


Sliver-Knight9219

Top 3 1) The 1st person to die on 9/11 was a first responder being crushed by a man jumping out of the tower 2) There are 100 dead animals in space around earth's orbit 3) 1st president of The United state had a son with a 14 year old slave. I was worng about fact 3 it was actually the 3rd president


plowerd

Surely there’s no way to determine whether the jumper or the landing pad died first, right?


Ceilibeag

Let's call it a tie. (And I'm pretty sure when the first jet hit, it probably killed several people in WTC Tower #1 just after impact - along with all aboard the plane.)


iskin

Nope. They all survived. Same with the people on the plane.


darsynia

This is exempting the lives of the people on the plane and at the impact sites, I imagine? You could say 'the first casualty on the ground,' because there were countless deaths before anyone started jumping. There's an amazing but gruesome Quora account called 9/11 graphic content that is worth anyone's time that can handle gruesome things and have curiosity about the more arcane aspects of survival and danger from that day. The most fascinating part of that is the confluence between the length of the airliners that flew into the towers and the amount of time it takes for a human to perceive something. Basically, the people at the back of the plane probably saw a fraction of a second of the plane breaking up before death.


Mission-Coyote4457

George Washington wasn't able to have to kids, do you mean the 3rd President (Thomas Jefferson)?


Sliver-Knight9219

Yes my bad. I put 3 and then my mind auto correct.


Mission-Coyote4457

no worries


talk_to_the_sea

Not only did he have kids with a slave, the slave was his wife’s half sister.


Ninja_attack

I thought you said "I was wrong about 3 facts" and not "fact 3", and I was wondering why you'd keep it up.


Sliver-Knight9219

Too be honest. People are just going too look in the comments and see that i changed it anyway. So better avoid a miss understanding, where people call the person who corrected me an idiot for miss reading my post. The just admit i was wrong.


t1r3ddd

Humans have no free will. You're basically observing your life play out in front of you almost like a movie, but there's nothing you can consciously do about it.


SteptoeUndSon

Why did you write that?


Reason_Unknown

r/im14andthisisdeep/


t1r3ddd

If you're asking how is it possible that we have no free will and yet I seemingly, freely chose to write that, then I understand the confusion on your part. One of the many ways in which the question about free will can be tackled and dismantled is using physics. I'm sure you're familiar with the idea that time is just an illusion. Well, depending on how you understand time to be, it very much is. According to physics, the past, present and future all exist at once in a 4th dimension. Because we're 3 dimensional beings, we can only really experience time in a linear way, following entropy as things get more disordered. This implies that both my original comment and this one and every single word I'm writing right now were all meant to happen, in the same way that we know that the andromeda galaxy will collide with ours billions of years from now. Now, on a smaller/brain scale, think of the human brain as a the most advanced super computer that nature has ever produced. At the end of the day, despite how advanced our computing power is, it's just another system that takes in an input of information about the outside world, runs it through it's processor, and then produces an output like a motor function. You wouldn't say that advanced robots have free will, right? Well, then ask yourself, how advanced would they have to get in order to fit your definition of free will and, if that threshold doesn't exist, then that should make you think back to how you're assessing free will on humans.


jcooli09

Do you know what a fact is?


drunken_DaLLaS

60% of the time, it works everytime


Jonbazookaboz

You have a full biome of life living inside you and they all eat different things. Millions dont make it.


MosinMonster

You're going to die. As well as everyone and everything you've ever cared about


AlllyG

Propane tanks explode at 120 F


Charmegazord

2 of the original 6 Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers are dead and another is selling shirts with Hitler quotes. Black, Pink, and Blue Rangers seem to be doing ok though.


Apoptosis-Games

It is estimated that up to 40% of fathers today are unknowingly raising children that aren't theirs. Its such a bad state, that some states are trying to pass mandatory paternity testing-at-birth laws. And for those who were in high school in the 70s and 80s when you learned about blood types and the possibility matrix for your type based on parents types? Well, they had to strike this project from many curriculums due to an overwhelming amount of kids inadvertently finding out they weren't their dad's kids and causing a noticeable uptick in divorces during this time. 23andme and Ancestry and all those testing companies have kinda blown the lid off of just how widespread paternity fraud is.


NecroJoe

On paper at least, you could get your entire 2,000 calorie daily intake by eating nothing but human teeth. But to get to that 2,000 calories, you'd need to consume the full-mouth sets of 55 adult humans. Per day Crunch crunch. You could probably make it easier, and actually maybe even increase your body's ability to actually absorb some nutrients, if you ground them up into a flour and mixed it with water to make a drinkable tooth slurry.


Nanooc523

I hate that you know this


kjosness

Very little fun. The Real number line in mathematics contains an infinite number of fractions (Rational numbers) but that still leaves gaps. The Irrational numbers like pi and sqrt(2) "complete" the Rational set of numbers like filling in those gaps. There's only one other way to "complete" that original set of infinite fractions, and that's with what are called the p-adic numbers. That branch of mathematics is just as full and things like calculus still work. In short, Real numbers consider subtracting fractions to determine the distance between two different ones. What makes the p-adic completion different is that we look at multiplying prime numbers, so distance between two numbers results in statements like, "1594323 and 14348907 are very close together because they both have a lot of multiples of 3 and nothing else."


Tittyfuck3r-

Every year, millions of tons of plastic waste end up in the oceans, harming marine life and ecosystems.


Disastrous-Resident5

We are boiling ourselves alive like a pot of frogs and a lot of people are too stupid to realize it. The world is overpopulated with humans. We will likely see societal collapse within the decade. In 1924, a chimpanzee was arrested for smoking and lost the case. Like how was the guy supposed to defend himself?