• From bacteria in your food that has evolved to sugar soaking every one of your favourite
drinks, we count 15 facts you would actually rather not know about
15 - The Lake of Drowned Bodies, • Lake Tahoe is found in the Sierra Nevada
mountains and it's actually quite popular when it comes to tourism
• Lurking beneath the depths is a graveyard, since the lake is so cold, people who drown
here don't float to the surface - they simply sink to the very bottom
• And because of the lake's deep elevation, divers can't go down to find those bodies
without special equipment, but it's been said to harbour thousands of bodies all perfectly
preserved in the waters depths 14 - Antibiotics Aren't Working Anymore,
• I found it scary when I went to the doctors to get some additional antibiotics for my
throat, only for him to refuse because the entire world is starting to run out of antibiotics
• Viruses are evolving so fast that we can barely keep up - last years vaccination for
influenza is usually ineffective against this years bug
• New diseases pop up daily transferred from apes, rodents, birds and swine - at the
rate we're going, people might start dying of polio, mumps or even smallpox within the
next 20 years 13 - Jelly Beans Are Covered in Bug Feces,
• There's a reason the outer surface of a jelly bean is so hard, crunchy and shiny,
and that's because it's covered in a material known as Shellac
• Shellac is often made from the excretions of the female lac insect
• An interesting little bit of knowledge to share next time you're putting out a bowl
of these things for your kids 7th birthday party
12 - Julius Caesar, • He was only 22 years old when some pirates
came along to kidnap him with the intent on getting a ransom paid
• But Julius was so charismatic that the pirates actually became friends with him,
even insisting they double his ransom • He said he would crucify them when he
was free, which the pirates laughed off, but sure enough when he was released, he raised
a fleet, returned and crucified them all 11 - We're in the middle of another Mass Extinction,
• The 6th one to be exact - biologists have identified the traits needed to classify a
period in Earth's history as an extinction, and we're causing it
• Ever since humans began moving from continent to continent, large animals that survived
for millions of years have disappeared • By hunting, destroying habitat, introducing
new species and spreading disease, you could call us the biggest scumbag species in the
history of the planet • Another relevant bit of knowledge to share
at the 7 year olds party 10 - You Eat 12 Pubic Hairs Per Year,
• Nobody has a source for this one, but most point to fast food as the major culprit,
but even certain restaurants are guilty • And not just this, but occasionally the
glob of spit and even urine somehow makes it from the chef to the food
• One Texas Roadhouse cook intentionally cut off his pubes and lined a burger with
them because he didn't like the customer 9 - 2006 DNA Maternity test, (DR)
• In 2006, this one woman filed for public assistance in Washington but couldn't prove
she was the mother of her own children • In fact, she failed 4 maternity tests
even though she could clearly remember giving birth to them
• Later, she discovered the horrifying truth that she had a twin sister in her mothers
womb who got absorbed into this woman's reproductive organs, letting her carry different DNA parts
in her body 8 - We Are Slaves to Our Own Subconscious,
• Although humans are highly developed and intelligent, it's shocking how primitive our
brain works sometimes • You might be happy because it's sunny
outside, you'll decide to sleep with someone based partly on smell, we hear information
and use it to fuel our preconceptions and we're easily swayed by irrelevant details
that don't matter but sound convincing • The more often you see someone or something,
the more you'll like it, and memories are simply stories we tell ourselves over and
over again each time we recall an event, not a true depiction of the facts
7 - Coca Cola, (DR from here) • It's amazing how much sugar is in all
drinks sold in stores and supermarkets - but did you know that 1 can of coca cola actually
contains 10 entire teaspoons of sugar • Imagine adding that to every glass of
water you drink - 1 can of this stuff alone equates to more than an entire days recommend
daily sugar intake, not counting meals or any other drinks
• If you get older and diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, you may regret buying all those
slabs of coke instead of just drinking water - lots of it - free - from the tap
6 - Gympie Gympie, • There is a stinging shrub found in Australia
known as Gympie Gympie that will inject you with a neurotoxin so powerful that it will
actually make you want to commit suicide • The pain is likened to hot acid and electrocution
at the same time - so intense that even animals try to kill themselves
• One man used this shrub for toilet paper, only to get the most painful burning of his
life, to the point where he pulled out a gun and shot himself rather than go through it
5 - Mysteries of the Universe, • We hardly know anything about the universe
- all the things we can see, galaxies, stars and planets, all of it only makes up less
than 5% of everything • Over 20% is made up of dark matter and
over 70% of dark energy - currently we suspect dark matter to be made up of unidentified
particles • Dark energy is a complete mystery, called
by some cosmologists as the most profound mystery in all of science, the answer to which
might reveal what the universe actually is and why it's expanding faster and faster
4 - Children Farm Work, • There is a loophole in US labor laws that
allow parents to exploit children in working on a farm
• Because the work is strenuous and filled with dangerous particles like pesticide, big
agriculture farms simply reproduce heaps of children to do the work for them
• They don't even have time to go to school - and over 100 children are killed each year
from farm-related incidents 3 - Climate Change,
• We've only just recently begun to discover the side-effects of fossil fuels - and sadly
humans have changed the world's climate for the rest of this century at least
• All the carbon dioxide gasses swirling around our planet are trapping the sun's heat
inside our atmosphere, warming the planet • This gas will linger for hundreds of years,
and predictions for the future are starting to look bleak without imminent action
2 - Human Sacrifice, • Our species would like to think they've
evolved to become more civilised, but the history of a huge number of human cultures
throughout history engaged in human sacrifice • The Egyptians would murder their servants
and have them buried near their tomb, Aztecs would slaughter tens of thousands to celebrate
the construction of a pyramid • Even with the Mayans, just losing a ballgame
would get a whole group sacrificed just because some guys on your team suck
1 - Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Food • For the same reason the world is running
out of anti-biotics, farmers feed their animals tons of it just to keep them alive
• Because of this, livestock have developed drug-resistant bacteria inside their bodies
- and it gets passed on to the meat we eat from supermarket shelves
• The last statistic shows that 1 out of 4 of your pork chops have drug-resistant bacteria
that'll soon end up passing through your stomach