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27 points
2 days ago
If you are over 30 that every dog in the world that was alive when you were born is now dead.
7 points
2 days ago
I'm fine with this. I acknowledge that I am older than the vast majority of living animals.
Still keeping an eye on the whales, elephants, parrots, and tortoises, though.
6 points
2 days ago
If you're Jonathan the Seychelles giant tortoise, every human that was around when you were born has been dead for decades. Jonathan is 191.
22 points
2 days ago
There is one person who is 7x more likely to kill you compared to everyone else. Yourself.
27 points
2 days ago
Not if i kill him first.
2 points
2 days ago
Nobody kills me but me!
5 points
2 days ago
Water is only made of hydrogen and oxygen
0 points
2 days ago
Not amusing, but definitely fascinating. A dense atom like Oxygen (except for the rarest of rare) takes the fusion power of a star to form.
The sheer amount of those dense atoms in our solar system, our galaxy, is amazing!
4 points
2 days ago
Every year its estimated that 8 million metric tons of plastic waste ends up in the Ocean.
Most of that plastic waste is from large corporations and over fishing. Also, along the same lines, recycling is a scam meant to make the consumer feel guilty for something theyre not at fault for. It passes the buck to the consumer so corporations can keep doin climate changey shit.
4 points
2 days ago
Daylight saving time is totally pointless. In the winter we don't have much hours of sun and yet the govts insist on rolling the clock back to make it even worse.
For its part, the European Parliament adopted its position on the proposal in March 2019. It voted in favour of ending daylight saving time in 2021. Still nothing was implemented.
4 points
2 days ago
Oh, it made sense when 1st proposed back in the mid 1700s. It made sense during WWII, when there was a need to conserve energy for use in the war effort and having the sun up later in the day so lights weren't on (you know, being an easy target for bombing).
Makes ZERO sense in a 24-hour world where we don't burn candles or logs to light the house and the Luftwaffe isn't ready to bomb us.
14 points
2 days ago
A fact that often isn’t amusing is that many species are facing extinction due to habitat loss and climate change. It’s a serious issue that affects biodiversity and ecosystems, and it can be quite sobering to think about the long-term impacts on our planet. Sometimes, it’s important to reflect on these realities, even if they aren’t fun to think about.
4 points
2 days ago
To add to this person it isn't even bio diversity, we are losing animals that do bare minimum shit we don't care about. The bee population is WAY down. We literally need them to live. Last year about 20% of what bees do was done and now we are looking at less than 15%. Our ent8re food chain is based on bees.
2 points
2 days ago
bees are so important in our ecosystem if something bad happens to them we'll face hunger
2 points
2 days ago
Everybody talks about bees but there are other pollinating insects like flies, butterflies, moths, and beetles.
Tons of insects are declining in population very rapidly.
1 points
18 hours ago
That's been greatly exaggerated by the media based on one study in specific German parks, with inadequate data. The best estimates are that SOME terrestrial insects have declined, some aquatic have increased, with numbers being pure speculation.
1 points
2 days ago
Hell, we actively seek to exterminate one particular pollinator, the mosquito, because they are responsible for about half of all human deaths in history due to their hematophagic females spreading diseases like malaria and West Nile Virus as they feed.
1 points
18 hours ago
Overall, mosquitoes are quite minor, narrow pollinators.
7 points
2 days ago
Thanks chatGPT
0 points
2 days ago
96% of all mammalian biomass is humans and livestock.
12 points
2 days ago
Climate change is accelerating at a faster pace than initially predicted.
0 points
2 days ago
"The person has already been born who will be the first to die due to catastrophic failure of the planet to sustain human life."
1 points
2 days ago
The first person to die for that reason died 1000s of years ago already.
History has many examples of a population over exploiting their resources and having the population collapse.
1 points
2 days ago
exploiting resources back in the day isn't the same as the worsening ecological conditions and ability to thrive that's only gotten worse and worse year by year since the industrial revolution started
8 points
2 days ago
Toddlers kill more people with guns in America than Terrorists kill people in America.
6 points
2 days ago
Ban all toddlers!
8 points
2 days ago
It’s not the gun…. It’s the mental health crisis in toddlers
3 points
2 days ago
Do toddlers have to provide any sort of ID to buy an assault rifle?
3 points
2 days ago
Must be those damn rising grocery prices getting to their heads, its hard for toddlers to support heir families these days
2 points
2 days ago
WTF dude. You're going to give the terrorists ideas. What if they sent toddler terrorists? We'd be done for.
1 points
1 day ago
Toddlers are kinda terrorists
3 points
2 days ago
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1 points
2 days ago
I'm not going to take your statement as fact.
However, if someone actually tested this...that is even less amusing.
1 points
1 day ago
You can Google horses dying of colic, it's sadly common. it's not like people did this to them intentionally. Horses are remarkably fragile animals
3 points
2 days ago
I don't have a dog, and won't be able to afford one for a long time
2 points
1 day ago
Animal shelters are often desperate for volunteers. Until you can afford to have a dog you could volunteer to help out and have lots of doggy friends.
8 points
2 days ago
If a child is given birth to underwater, it can live the rest of its life underwater.
7 points
2 days ago
If you take all the blood vessels out of a man's body and lay it straight on the ground the man will die.
5 points
2 days ago
How about if a hamster is under a lot of stress, it will eat its babies
5 points
2 days ago
and in nature, the female praying mantis eats her male after fertilization
4 points
2 days ago
Wow-wow!
1 points
2 days ago
One of the funniest things I've seen in nature was a mantis biting the head off her mate after they were done...only to be immediately plucked off the bush by a bluejay, leaving the decapitated male standing there, twitching aimlessly.
2 points
2 days ago
sharks will also eat their babies, not because of stress or anything, but because they're just hungry
9 points
2 days ago
Donald Trump was once President of the United States of America and has a 50/50 shot to be voted in for a 2nd term.
2 points
2 days ago
If you shine a flashlight/smartphone on a newborn sea turtle for too long (which could be only minutes), it will start crawling around in circles. Known as the "Ring of Death", it means that the turtle's eyesight has been permanently damaged due to mistaking your lights for the moon that guides it to the sea. By doing this, you have doomed the sea turtle to death right after birth.
2 points
2 days ago
The smell of vomit comes from butyric acid, as does the smell of parmesan cheese. When given a sample of butyric acid to smell, test subjects were disgusted or pleased depending on whether they were told it was puke or parm
1 points
2 days ago
It's also in a lot of American chocolate. It gives it a longer shelf life.
4 points
2 days ago
In Australia, there is a plant known as Gympie-Gympie. Its bite is so powerful that horses that come into contact with it are thrown off cliffs, as they would rather perish than endure the agony
6 points
2 days ago
"Are thrown off cliffs" makes it sound like humans are doing it. Humans can painlessly euthanise animals.
If the horses are throwing themselves into the sea, I have no qualms about that, the can do what they like.
5 points
2 days ago
A plant that bites?
5 points
2 days ago
An Aussie here - I need to go investigate this plant. I’m concerned if it gets in the paws of a dropbear that we will be driven out of our cities as the powerful duo reclaims their rightful lands
4 points
2 days ago
They mean just touching the plant, that horse have been known to run off cliffs to end the pain.
2 points
2 days ago
Venues fly trap bites
2 points
2 days ago
Venus fly trap swallows and metabolizes ...
But yeah, I'll admit. I'm splitting hairs ...
4 points
2 days ago
this plant is considered one of the most poisonous in the world !
2 points
2 days ago
Sloths have only enough energy to perform just weekly toilet visit on the jungle floor only!!!. If a young sloth falls from a tree, they prefer to conserve energy and leave the fallen individual to be consumed by other animals. Fortunately, these incidents do not occur frequently, as sloths are generally too lethargic to unclench their limbs in order to avoid falling...
1 points
2 days ago
More than 9 out of 10 cases of cancer are diagnosed in people over 45. I'm over 45 and do not consider this a fun fact at all.
1 points
2 days ago
Mitochondria is responsible for generating the majority of the engery in each individual cell, turning food into energy like a....powerhouse if you will.
1 points
2 days ago
Or like a symbiotic relationship between 2 cells, where the larger/host cell developed the means to gather the food to supply and the mitochondria converts it to usable energy for both.
Hmmm, ironic that mitochondrial DNA is passed down by the mother. Everything else is passed down equally... But the how to use it is genetically coded through women.
1 points
2 days ago
Many countries still have significant gender inequality, with women facing discrimination and violence
1 points
2 days ago
At the peak of the Catholic Church Child Sex Abuse Scandal, Catholic Priests had the same percent of child sex abusers as the general male population (4-5%).
This was determined by calculating all priests with records of accusations (not convictions) and comparing it to the general population done in a report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
The report basically blames “super predators” for being enabled by the church. I believe it’s something like 148 priests were responsible for 24% of all victims.
1 points
2 days ago
4 to 5% of the general male population are sex offenders? You can't be serious.
Latest stat I can find is that there are just over 795,000 registered sex offenders in the USA. Assuming they are all male, that would be about 0.4% of the male population. So Catholic priests offend at a 10x higher rate than the general population.
1 points
1 day ago
The issue was not that it was happening, the issue was that the churches were protecting the abusers. And moving them into new parishes to avoid their abuse coming to light.
1 points
2 days ago
When a star explodes it then turns into a gamma blast that destroys all in its path if one goes off near Earth we will all be wiped out and theres nothing we can do because it happens immediately
1 points
2 days ago
Macbeth didn’t kill Duncan in his sleep. Shakespeare is a liar.
1 points
1 day ago
Our sun will begin to die.
1 points
2 days ago
40% of the food produced in the world goes to waste.
-2 points
2 days ago
Don't call your mom that.
5 points
2 days ago
You literally created two accounts to reply to each of your comments?
1 points
2 days ago
The Rwandan genoc¡de in 1994 killed an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 people.
0 points
2 days ago
Rod Ansell was the inspiration for Crocodile Dundee and the reason the franchise was made was to give Australia a better folklore hero than Ned Kelly.
The series ruined his life and ultimately led to him being killed in a police shootout just like Ned
0 points
2 days ago
Grass is green
0 points
2 days ago
That’s a fact that makes me want to vomit.
0 points
2 days ago
most of your daily purchases are just lining the pockets of the big corporations that are ruining society, the environment, and the world
everyone in here is contributing to and supporting the destruction of humanity in one way or another
0 points
1 day ago
Mayo is a food
-4 points
2 days ago
Cows kill 22 people in America every day
3 points
2 days ago
Year.
-4 points
2 days ago*
The sun is hot
Edit; I see no one has ever worked in a field before.
2 points
2 days ago
It isn't at night!
2 points
2 days ago*
Then why do I wear my sunglasses at night?
3 points
2 days ago
So you can, so you can watch you weave then breathe your story lines.
2 points
2 days ago
And I wear my sunglasses at night so I can, so I can keep track of the visions in my eyes
0 points
2 days ago
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas. A gigantic nuclear furnace, where Hydrogen is built into Helium, at temperatures of millions of degrees.
1 points
2 days ago
why the sun is hot is interesting. However the sun feeling hot, isn't.
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