"In ancient Egypt, the deceased bodies of beautiful and high ranking women were left to decay for several days before mummification to discuourage necrophilia by the embalmers."
"A woodpecker retracts its tongue and wraps it around its brain to prevent injury when drilling into trees in search of insects"
"Humans, being mostly Carbon, can be made into diamonds."
"Snow is so sound deadening, that your kid could be building a snowfort, have it collapse, and you wouldn’t hear their cries for help."
“That reports of child abuse dropped precipitously during the COVID-19 pandemic not because less children were abused but because teachers were unable to see the typical evidence of abuse because most teaching was conducted online.”
"Humans can live without their stomachs (and no you don’t necessarily need any ostomy bags either)."
“I was told by a very senior police officer (a parent of a kid I taught) that it is estimated that 30% of all missing persons reported to police who are never located have been murdered and more often than not they have been murdered by the person reporting them missing in the first place. The police know this, but lack evidence to proceed with prosecutions.”
“I remember hearing some dude (retired military) on a podcast talk about how fragile our electric grid really is, and if it ever went down some 60%-ish of the population would die in about 2-3 months because nobody knows how to gather food or water anymore.“
"Big corporations always calculate wether its cheaper to pay a fine/settlement rather than obey the law."
"When you have a headache because you’re extremely hungover, it’s because your dehydrated brain is shriveling and pulling on the membranes that connect it to your skull."
"One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure."
"“If you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you” doesnt mean the attorney is free."
"Doctors removed the eyes of Jack The Rippers last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the killer."
"If you skin a person alive and they somehow don’t die of shock, they’ll actually die due to hypothermia as without skin, they become unable to regulate their core body temperature."
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And a lot of those "fines" as so small compared to the profits that it's basically just a fee...
how was it? punishable by fine just means legal for a price.
Then you haven’t been reading the news.
- Fight Club
#26 It was an oven, not a cauldron. Although we don't know what heat she had the oven on, but it was big enough to fit her in it so it had to be Pizza oven size.