Whats the least fun fact you know?

You're so wrong!

Only 70% of the Earth is flat.

Banned for being too fun

Good news, ocean acidification is literally the result of the ocean absorbing more CO2, and thus becoming less flat. Bad news, it's kinda causing a shit ton of animals to die, especially coral.

Don't worry. The water might be flat, but we've been working on carbonating the air for some time now.

There are natural mineral springs that make water fizzy. Just saying

There's no such thing as dying of old age. Just dying of something where you're old enough where people go "yeah that tracks" instead of "oh no! so young!".

Movies lied to me.

That's why I don't trust family members that would abuse my kids.

The number of transgender people that have been credibly accused of molesting children is minuscule. There are nearly 10,000 Catholic priests and church employees that have been credibly accused of child molestation. Catholic priests and Catholic church employees are more likely to assault children than school teachers (more priests etc. have been credibly accused than school teachers, and there are fa, far more school teachers than priests et al.)

And that's not even getting into the "youth pastor that rapes teen girls" trope.

Additional unfun fact, in case the implication goes by anyone; some few folks have discovered exactly how much it sucks when your immune system discovers your eyes and have, indeed, gone blind because of it :(

Meaning, if you ever get a cut in your eye, go to the doctor, or else you'll lose the eye.

What makes your immune system hate your eyes

The same applies to the testicles.

Yet we can't runaway from that problem

There's also tons of carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater. As the planet warms up, the warmer sea can hold less carbon dioxide, dumping even more CO² into the atmosphere and accelerating the runaway effect.

Just in case anyone was looking for a slickly-animated, duck-filled video with soothing narration that they could watch to learn more, here:

https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI

Correction, it should be the entire observable universe not the entire universe since light outside the observable universe cannot reach us due to expansion thus anything that travels at speed of light can also not reach us.

Either way, unless we can prove that our current understanding of physics is wrong, devastation at a universal scale could happen any time, anywhere.

This is a disingenuous way to phrase this. Our current understanding of physics leads us to hypothesize that our universe could be metastable, there is no proof that we actually exist in such a state.

Of all the big scary things in the universe, this one scares me the least. Even if it does happen and is the worst-case scenario you just cease to exist at the speed of light before you even know something is happening. No pain, no dread at your inevitable demise, you just are living your life normally and in a nanosecond you are gone. Not a bad way to go, imo.

Once the expansion of the universe has accelerated enough we should be safe from this, right? My thinking is that if some galaxy starts collapsing as you described, but all surrounding galaxies are moving away at FTL speeds, it would never reach them.

There's also a woman that will replace my will to live. I call her my ex-wife.

You should read the John Dies at the End series

Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don't tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you've forgotten!

“There are a group of people who believe that each day, when they sleep, they die,” the old man continued. “They believe that consciousness doesn’t continue—that if it is interrupted, a new soul is born when the body awakes.” The old man continued....

“The thing about this philosophy is how difficult it is to disprove,” the old man said. “How do you know that you are the same you as yesterday? You would never know if a new soul came to inhabit your body, so long as it had the same memories. But then … if it acts the same, and thinks it is you, why would it matter? What is it to be you?"

We forget things but we remember people. As long as you take one life lesson from every person you meet you’ll never forget the important stuff.

Kissinger received a fucking Nobel Peace Prize.

It was one of the defining moments of my childhood that turned me into a radical.

Kissinger was on the board of Theranos, which feels a little anachronistic to me.

Coca-Cola never gave up thier german subsidiary Coca-Cola GmbH and they never willingly stopped sending syrup.

Syrup was stopped by the allied blockades. They ran out of stockpiles in 1943 and so the owner created Fanta with apple cider scraps.

The Dutch Coca-Cola plant had similar supply issues and they sent the Fanta branding up there as well but used elderberry.

After the war Coca-Cola regained their subsidiaries and the Fanta branding.

Fanta would be discontinued in 1949.

The current Fanta we know today was created in Italy in 1955 to complete with an unknown Italian PepsiCo product.

This makes me want to drink Fanta more than Cola though.

I don't blame the workers for wanting to continue earning their money. I wonder whether they provided the new drink freely to Coke once the contact came back, or if Coke just took it...

The universally accepted meaning is:

a brief or trivial item of news or information

Narrows eyes

The word "bed" looks like a bed

In graduate school I swabbed a public toilet seat and wiped the specimen in a Petri dish. My cohort swabbed the bottom of their shoe and did the same. The public toilet specimen grew virtually nothing. The shoe specimen grew the equivalent of a rainforest in bacteria.

That can also mean we're doing pretty damn well just with toilets.

Damn, that's depressing. But considering the pandas sense of self preservation, it makes total sense.

They still come for your sweets because they smell the fat in them, typically from butter in baked goods or chocolate.

Khajiit in shambles

Wife says this is a fun fact.

They can taste protein in a different way than we can though.

It went to magadan on the kamchatka peninsula. Theres a volcano there. And an international airport.

I was thinking about this recently. You know the MLK quote about the universe bending toward justice? The eventual heat death of the universe is the only way everything will be equal.

The universal definition of "fair" is "everything is bent very slightly in my favor".

Also called values if I'm not mistaken

Did you know that arachnids' legs are hydraulicly controlled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnid_locomotion

8 feet = 2,438 meter

What about if you're on an aircraft or boat? If there are no spiders aboard, you'd be more than 8 feet away.

I was on the Internet in the wild west period when you could just as easily stumble upon the kind of stuff you can only find on the dark web just making a Yahoo search.

There are some useful websites out there if by darknet you mean the Tor network. BBC, Debian, Reddit, and Z-Library (an eBook download site that had its content availability reduced after legal pressure) for example have onion domains.

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LMAO what a bullshit, why does this dumb answer has 20 upvotes?

I highly doubt it, my mind was s very strong and I have seen many thing in my life, gruesome death, abuse you name it. Nothing disturbs me. In comparison, the average person is too sensitive

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I highly doubt that for every 10 000 rape cases reported only one is actually successfully pursued by law enforcement.

Age of consent in Germany is a staggered system. With 14 you're able to consent under specific conditions (them being there's no exploitative element to the relationship), but still could file charge against the older person if they're over 16. With 16 the first rule still applies; from 18 on you're able to consent, period.

So for example when I was 14 I had a boyfriend, also 14, and neither of us committed any crime under this ruling. The law acknowledges that teenagers are allowed to have relationships with each other while putting every borderline case through a case-by-case hearing at court.

It's actually a really good idea, so it kinda is a fun fact.

Here's a map: http://cdn3.chartsbin.com/chartimages/l_543_a574b96ef9274c2a10b8eea7dade8a0d

Only for kids in the same age range. And quite frankly, I think that's the right way to do it. As if a law would make horny teenagers not have sex.

Setting the age of consent to 18 years just technically makes them pedophiles if you actually enforce it. And I'm of the opinion that laws should be enforced or removed entirely. Having a law and usually not enforcing it gives rise to a dangerous middle ground where persecution depends on other arbitrary factors. Like income, race or how well the cop likes you.

(If you are interested in German law, just reply and I can explain/translate the relevant parts of the law for you)

Edit: translation is also available here: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html relevant are sections 176 and 182, which combine to give the often cited 14 years. Even though it never says anything about being above 14 years makes something legal! It is phrased in such a way that kids can have sex legally, while also preventing exploitation of minors.

And yet Europe seemingly has less child predators than the US.

The Europeans must be asleep seeing that this is still upvoted and the US hasn't been mentioned yet.

edit: nvm they've arrived

And you can start drinking beer at 15 if at least one parent is around and agrees.

And your pets are most likely to die before you do.

That's only an unfun fact if you make it one.

At the rate of advancement of tech it’s conceivable that there is life alive now that may never die.

My daughter used to say "that's not fair" all the time. I would tell her "Life isn't fair. If you expect it to be, you will only set yourself up for failure and disappointment."

She never listened to me, though.

for the third one because it stumped me a bit, there are 2 posibilites:

• Am -> Bu -> Cu
• Am -> Bm -> Cu

Either way there is a married person talking to a non-married person.

You must be fun at parties 😄

The Paradox of Tolerance in a nutshell...

Does anyone remember Voat? Man, that place went downhill real fast.

The good news is that from any given person's POV, it would be over in an instant, and nobody would suffer or even have a chance to be terrified by the knowledge of the void consuming them.

Little do they know it's actually a synonym for Amazon Web Services