"We all have mites in our eyelashes"
"Cockroaches can fly."
"By the year 2050, superbugs (a new form of infection that results from microbes becoming resistant to antibiotics, making them, and the infections they cause, borderline impossible to treat) will kill more people than cancer."
"Human trafficking makes 150 billion a year"
"Sperm whales can produce sound waves so powerful it can kill you."
"Virtually everybody has the capacity to kill, they just haven’t been put under the circumstances where it would be a preferable option."
"Around 9 million people die every year of hunger and hunger-related diseases."
"On average a human contains slightly more than one full skeleton in them."
"We don’t even know what we don’t know about space"
"Cameras are getting so advanced that you’re not even safe in your own house"
"Angler Fish are not small. They’re actually about 6 feet (1.83 m) long."
"Testicular torsion can happen at any time, while standing, sleeping, exercising, or sitting, and with no apparent trigger."
"There are many countries in the world where you can be put in prison or killed by the state for non-violent speech."
"Cotard’s syndrome, also called “walking corpse syndrome,” is a condition wherein the patient believes they are dead, dying, missing parts of their bodies, or don’t exist."
"Sharks have been around for at least 420 million years, meaning they have survived four of the “big five” mass extinctions. That makes them older than humanity, older than Mount Everest, older than dinosaurs, older even than trees. Yet we could potentially see them extinct in our lifetime."
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"Most however are significantly smaller, often less than a foot." nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/facts/anglerfish
I mean seriously- #24 "We don't even know what we don't know..." Gimme a f@#kin' break, man.
Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are considered enemies of the state.
#13 Uh, thanks brain. Apparently my brain is a dumb dumb, because I bite it all the time.
#24 It’s a humbling statement, but it’s probably true.
#27 This scares me more than anything else. I know what my b@lls feel like when they’re injured. It doesn’t run in my family, so I’m pretty sure my torsion risks are low.
yes, but have you bitten it off yet? I guess not.