Some say you learn something new every day, and in the age of the internet it has never been easier. With content on basically anything and everything at the ends of one’s fingertips, a person can look up whatever it is that interests them the most, be itrecipesor the world’s weirdest records in a matter of seconds.
Seeking to learn more about how such unsettling facts can affect us,Bored Pandaturned toDr. Noam Shpancer, a psychology professor at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions. You will find his thoughts in the text below.
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Over 46% of ocean waste is fishing nets. And commercial fishing kills more animals in the ocean than any plastic does. Idk why this isn’t talked about more.
People with dementia just… forget how to eat one day. They forget how to swallow.We don’t know if they feel starvation or pain, because they’re too far gone.My brother works in a dementia care facility, and they know that a patient is gonna die soon when they eventually refuse food.And we don’t euthanise them. They just… starve. To death. And they never tell the families that.Edit: I’m so sorry to those that have lost loved ones to dementia. It’s a really cruel and heartless way to die.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, psychology professor Dr. Noam Shpancer of Otterbein University in Ohio suggested that thinking about the unsettling aspects of life can be somewhat beneficial, as it helps us understand ourselves and the world better and learn to solve problems. However, according to the expert, wallowing in our miserable experiences is usually unhelpful.“The quality of your life depends heavily on where you direct your attention, so you’d want to be intentional about that,” he suggested, adding that ruminating overtroublesome factscan result in lower mood and higher anxiety.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, psychology professor Dr. Noam Shpancer of Otterbein University in Ohio suggested that thinking about the unsettling aspects of life can be somewhat beneficial, as it helps us understand ourselves and the world better and learn to solve problems. However, according to the expert, wallowing in our miserable experiences is usually unhelpful.
“The quality of your life depends heavily on where you direct your attention, so you’d want to be intentional about that,” he suggested, adding that ruminating overtroublesome factscan result in lower mood and higher anxiety.
In 2018 my sister was murdered. We know who did it. We keep track of where he lives, he has moved 4 times since my sister disappeared. The police also know he did it. There’s not enough evidence to bring him in or charge him. Her body has still never been found. If I go after him he becomes the victim and I won’t be able to be a father to my children.He gets to be alive every day. He’s a serial rapist. We suspect my sister was not his first murder. From our interactions with state police and FBI my impression is that our situation, while a nightmare, is perhaps not as rare as you would normally assume or hope.
Terminal lucidity is the return of mental clarity or memory or consciousness shortly before death. This happens to around 10% of people with dementia. :[.
Youtubers who ‘find’ animals in distress with the camera running usually put animals in distress to look like heroes.Sourcehttps://youtu.be/p7nVntZpJLMOther videos are it there.
“Contemplating losses and mistakes can help us understand ourselves and our situation better,” Dr. Shpancer suggested, adding that knowledge is power, so such knowledge can lead to self-empowerment.“Periodically contemplating scary or negative experiences can also provide perspective and help us appreciate the good in our lives as well as our own resilience. As a rule, a habit of avoidance is not healthy, because avoidance only teaches you to avoid more, rather than teaching you about yourself and the world.“All this is true not only about difficult events that have already happened, but also about troubling eventualities that will happen in the future. Periodically stopping to contemplate our mortality, for example, can help us appreciate and savor more fully the gift of life,” Dr. Shpancer pointed out.
“Contemplating losses and mistakes can help us understand ourselves and our situation better,” Dr. Shpancer suggested, adding that knowledge is power, so such knowledge can lead to self-empowerment.
“Periodically contemplating scary or negative experiences can also provide perspective and help us appreciate the good in our lives as well as our own resilience. As a rule, a habit of avoidance is not healthy, because avoidance only teaches you to avoid more, rather than teaching you about yourself and the world.
“All this is true not only about difficult events that have already happened, but also about troubling eventualities that will happen in the future. Periodically stopping to contemplate our mortality, for example, can help us appreciate and savor more fully the gift of life,” Dr. Shpancer pointed out.
Climate change. It’s a bit hard to grasp without context. And context is key because no one can understand, respect, or appreciate anything without context.The earth is about 4.6 Billion years old. Arguing about climate change is difficult since 4.6 Billion seems like a very long time and we has humans have been alive for such a short time. “Why do I care? I won’t be alive to deal with it?”So… let’s add context and say that the planet is 46 years old. That means that humans have been around for about 4 hours (4 hours ago I was making dinner). 1 minute ago the industrial revolution began (the mid to late 1800s - and I began typing this). In that time we have destroyed (removed, burned, chopped down) over 50% of the worlds forests.This is not sustainable. For anyone’s generation.To understand problems you must have context.Edit: spelling, missing words, etc. (I’m getting drunk).
In 1933, a doctor named Carl Tanzler raided the tomb of a female patient with whom he’d become obsessed and stole her body. He lived with the corpse for seven years. As the body fell apart, he attached the corpse’s bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. He was only caught when someone saw him dancing with the corpse in front of an open window.
The Astronauts aboard the Challenger shuttle were still alive after the explosion. It took them a few minutes to fall to Earth, but they knew they were going to die.
Most serial killers won’t ever even be noticed, never mind captured.
Despitepositive thingsbeing arguably better for one’s well-being than negative, people often tend to focus more on the latter, likely due to the phenomenon known as negative bias.According to Verywell Mind, such bias is the reason why it’s so difficult to shake a bad first impression, break yourself free from the shackles of traumatic events in the past, or focus more on the good rather than the bad things that happen throughout the day.It is believed that such bias formed as a result of evolution, as earlier in history, focusing on bad or dangerous things increased an individual’s chances of survival; that became something they passed down to the subsequent generations. That might also be the reason we tend to be interested in unsettling facts such as the ones on this list or drawn to similarcreepy content.
Despitepositive thingsbeing arguably better for one’s well-being than negative, people often tend to focus more on the latter, likely due to the phenomenon known as negative bias.
According to Verywell Mind, such bias is the reason why it’s so difficult to shake a bad first impression, break yourself free from the shackles of traumatic events in the past, or focus more on the good rather than the bad things that happen throughout the day.
It is believed that such bias formed as a result of evolution, as earlier in history, focusing on bad or dangerous things increased an individual’s chances of survival; that became something they passed down to the subsequent generations. That might also be the reason we tend to be interested in unsettling facts such as the ones on this list or drawn to similarcreepy content.
In extreme cases of scurvy, your scars break down and old wounds re-open.Collagen keeps scars together and that collagen maintains itself throughout our lives. But without vitamin C, that process begins to halt and the collagen breaks down.Eat your fruits and veggies folks.
That talent and skill isn’t enough to follow your dreams. You need appeal and people skills.
Seemingly 100% healthy people with literally no reason to believe they would have any reason to, can still spontaneously drop dead.Cherish every day!Edit: just thanking for the upvotes. The topic is just a bit grim but, glad it gets people thinking about making their time here count, perhaps. Love y’all. ♥️.
Cows don’t convert grass directly into protein. They have enormous colonies of bacteria in their stomachs that have population explosions when they eat grass, live, breed, die, and then the cows digest them into protein.
The mathews and the hart bridges in jacksonville are about to fail, the pilings in the river do not touch bottom. I’m a commercial diver and I refuse to drive on these bridges.Edit: https://www.fdot.gov/maintenance/bridgeinfo.shtmHere you can read terminology and bridge ratings for every bridge in Florida, on the latest report Mathews has a “health index” of 96 but a “sufficiency rating” of 44, while the Hart is 90 and 30.
Russia sank a number of nuclear submarines, with the reactors intact, in shallow water. Once the submarine rusts enough, high level nuclear waste will start contaminating fairly crowded shipping lanes.One of the submarines they sunk used a liquid metal cooled fast reactor. When water finally rusts its way into that reactor, instead of the reactor rusting, it may explode.
All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they basically just sink and drown.
In 2019, there was a document about internet predators. The filmmakers hired three young-looking actresses and let them pose as 12yo girls on social media for 10 days. They received 2458 messages. Only one of them actually wanted to chat, the rest were sexual predators.
The number of people older than you never increases.
There are dogs and cats on YouTube that made more money than you and your parents working your whole life.
Paradoxical undressing. it happens during the last stages of hypothermia. as your nerves are damaged, the person removes all of their clothing in freezing temperatures because they feel irrationally hot.
In the 1800s a LOT of dentures were made using the teeth of dead soldiers.
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that’s frightened or injured.
With the permafrost and tundra thawing out bacteria and other microorganisms that we know nothing about are becoming active again.
Veteran criminals in the gulags would recruit naïve prisoners for their escape attempts called “cows” for the sole purpose of eating them when they ran out of food in the Siberian wilderness.
Cats know when they are going to die, they go and find a small secluded place and pass away.
The USA has lost 6 nuclear weapons that were never found.
Once symptoms start, rabies has a 100% mortality rate. Fortunately, the incubation period is several months, so get that shot ASAP.
If you fall from a high enough point and hit water, your insides are liquefied on impact.When my dad was in the Navy, someone jumped from a bridge near the base his ship was about to leave. Since his ship had the only available rescue divers on it, they got sent out to check to see if they were military. My dad asked the divers what it was like and they said it was like trying to get a bag of Jell-O out of the water. This happened at Coronado Naval BaseEdit: turns out your insides don’t liquefy, everything just ruptures and it feels like it. My bad.
Japan did some horrible experiments on people during WW2 (Unit 731). Vivisection, shattering people’s frost bitten limbs, biological warfare, etc. It’s all quite horrific and don’t recommend anyone without a stomach for horror to read about it.Also, after the war, the people who ran it were never tried as war criminals because the US decided to keep them and their research under wraps so that they could get a hand up on the Soviets.
Though unlikely, it is entirely possible that the universe has already collapsed and the end of reality as we know it is propagating towards us at the speed of light. We’ll never get any warning that it’s coming and it could hit us at any time, annihilating the entire planet in less than a tenth of a second.
There was a man who got really bad radiation poisoning. The Japanese government kept him alive for months just to study how the body reacts.He daily begged for death, and unless you have a strong stomach don’t look up the pictures.
You cant join the US army if your IQ is lower than 83.This is 10 % of the population.
Years ago I remember watching an episode of the show Monsters Inside Me where this 16-year-old kid was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor finally figured out what was wrong.Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly very briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.
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In the Battle Of Verdun, over a million artillery shells were fired onto a 19 mile wide stretch of land in the first 12 hours. If you were lucky enough to survive until then, the sound alone was enough to drive you insane.
The one that still disturbs me is that the sun could randomly eject something that could kill us all. Someone else probably knows the details better than me, but I read about it a bit a while back.
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Tumors can grow teeth.
Genocides are far more common than we like to admit. It’s actually downright criminal how little we address it.
Everyone loves to comment about Prions and Mad Cow. So this is another Prion story, but much more unsettling.Basically, a company called Lyodura sold dura mater grafts. Dura mater is a layer of the meninges of the brain, and if you suffer traumatic brain injuries a dura mater graft is needed. Nowadays, a synthetic is available, in the 70s this was not the case. Instead the dura mater needed to be harvested from corpses who would willingly donate to Lyodura. However, to produce more dura mater, they began paying doctors to remove dura mater without consent, and because it was harvested illegally, this meant there was no record of the individuals it was collected from. Lyodura sterilised all dura mater together, and this lead to the perfect storm. All it took was one individual to die of Creuzfeldt Jakob disease and to have their dura mater harvested, before being collected and mass sterilised. Because Prions are quite indestructible, it is believed that nearly all Lyodura’s dura mater became contaminated with the disease. It is unknown how many individuals developed Creuzfeldt Jakob disease because of this, but the number was certainly high.
The youngest person to ever give birth was a 5-year-old girl.Edit: For those that have delved a bit too deeply into this one, just a reminder that while sometimes people can be unimaginably cruel and vile…the world isn’t such a bad place./r/aww/r/eyebleach/r/tippytaps/r/mademesmile.
My mother saw no end of disturbing things when she was a nurse (circa late 1950s-1960s). She worked on psych wards where people got disturbing treatments (lobotomies, “sleep” therapy, etc,). She also worked on a paediatrics ward in an area where there was pretty wild poverty and the kids were in rough shape. Awful era and living conditions way back when.
Beagles are the most popular breed of dogs used in testing because they are the most forgiving to humans.
Cadmium poisoning is so horrible the name in Japanese (イタイイタイ病) literally translates to it hurt it hurts. Cadmium poisoning can cause your bones to literally soften; also it can cause kidney/lung disease, chills, muscle aches, hair loss, and fever.
When someone is dying the last sense they lose is their hearing so people can hear everything going on around them but can’t do anything else except listen and wait.
Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brownMummy brown is a paint hue partially made up of ground up Egyptian mummies. There are paintings made of dead people.
There will be a last person, a last living organism, to see the end of all life in the universe. The rest of time will never be experienced, and will just… happen.
From 1928 to 1972 my province would sterilize people who they found to be mentally handicapped. They figured this was the ideal way to stop the spread of mental disease.
One of the few things keeping us from better pharmaceutical products is human ethics.
That we understand basically nothing about consciousness. It’s all we fundamentally are and we have no idea on how it’s “produced” or what causes experiences to arise.
The worlds largest super volcano sits underneath Yellowstone Park, in North-West Wyoming - it’s called the Yellowstone Caldera and could erupt any time within now and the next “few” 1000 years.If it were to fully erupt it would wipe out the entire west-coast of America and Canada. The aftermath would kill off the majority of people living in North America and would have catastrophic effects on human life across the entire planetIt would cause ash-fall across North America and drastically impact global climate.
The real-world process of human fertilization (i.e., not in a lab) is so random that just about anything that happened differently during and after your parents having sex would have resulted in someone else (or no one) being born instead of you.
If a hamster manages to get it’s hands on your body if you are dead, it will use chunks of your skin, hair and other stuff to make a nest. Leaving a very bloody and messy scene behind.
They used to not use anesthesia on babies when they would do surgery.
After the bombing of Hiroshima, “black rain” that contained radioactive material fell, and many didn’t realize it until it was too late.Also, according to my Japanese professor, they didn’t even have a word for the atomic bomb at the time. I unfortunately can’t remember what she said they called it instead.
Asked a hearse driver one of the things he was surprised to see first time on the job, he said sometimes you hear knocking from the caskets, this happens more often than you’d think.
When you blush so does your stomach :)Edit: A lot of people keep asking its the stomach lining that starts to blush it happens when you are nervous or embarrassed.
Our lips and a**s are made of the same skin type or material idk how to say without it being weird.
Almost all the water molecules you drink have been inside someone’s or some animals body and has been pissed out.
That the Fermi Paradox exsist. We could be the only high intelligent beings in the universe, the only planet that has life, or we are currently way behind other civilizations that are centuries or even millennia ahead of us in technology and we dont know if they are friendly. Not to mention everything in between and that being civilizations that are equal with us somewhat or an alien bacterium or virus that is impossible to cure or stop with our current tech and understanding.
The stimulant effect of coffee at a given regularly consumed dose only lasts a few weeks.After that, your body becomes addicted to coffee and most of the “boost” you get is actually the relief of withdrawal symptoms from the caffeine.Edit: to clarify given pushback below, I am not saying that there are no benefits to caffine consumption to long term health. I am also just a random lay person on the internet. I learned this as a fact and see some support for it in the literature, but as looking more deeply into it in response to questions below has shown, it’s clear that it’s a pretty complex question and many studies do find net benefits to caffine use, even if the withdrawal model persists in thr literatureIf you plan to make any major life decisions based on this factoid, please investigate further or ask someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
One day, you’ll be thought about for the last time, and everyone will forget you.(That’s my biggest fear, that everyone will forget me and every trace of my existence will be gone forever).
If the sun were to suddenly dissapear, we would only know 8 minutes later. Imagine being outside with your kids and suddenly it’s almost completely black and the sun is gone.
The human eye sees everything upside down. Our brain just corrects the image.Up the same alley, your nose is in your field of vision. Your brain just edits it out.
Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
The human male ejaculates at approximately 45km/hedit: the actual number is 44.06km/h.
There was a very last time both your mom and your dad hold you on their laps or carried you on their arms before they never did it again.
Jason Earles who played Hannah Montanas brother Jackson, John Cena, Ludacris, and Psy, are all the same age.Also your bones are wet.
There are more slaves now then before the civil war.
In the summer of 1968, Charles Manson lived with Dennis Wilson.
The way you were raised will influence the way you will raise somebody else.
An ear of corn will always have an even number of grains.
Bananas are berries but strawberries are not. . .
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