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If you’re anything like me, you enjoy pulling out some interesting fun facts every once
in a while at the dinner table or at the water cooler at work.
They can be disturbing and awful and suddenly you’re that guy who told everyone all male
chicks are killed.
That, uh, happened to a friend of mine.
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10.
Drug Money According to sources such as NationalGeographic,
CNN, NBC, TheGuardian, and Snopes.com, approximately 90% of US bills have traces of cocaine.
People in the US often use the bills to snort the drug and so now many of our bills have
small bits of it going from our hands to our wallets to cash registers and even ATMs.
We’re all just exchanging mostly drug money, it turns out.
According to a study conducted by chemist Yuegang Zuo of the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth, of the bills sampled, the number reached its highest point of 95% in Washington
D.C, Baltimore, Boston, and Detroit.
In the study, the lowest level of contamination were bills found in Salt Lake City, Utah.
9.
Shaking Hands is Gross It’s such a deeply embedded cultural practice
to shake someone’s hand when you meet or say goodbye that we hardly think about it.
The likelihood that you’re shaking hands with people who have... self-pleasured...
and then not washed their hands, is actually quite shocking.
We couldn't find an actual study to quote numbers, but we did find a Reddit thread where
someone posed the question, and the amount of people who said they don't was actually
quite a bit.
After using the bathroom, however, a few studies have been conducted.
One study found that about 70% of men admitted to not washing their hands after using the
restroom, while women were at a much lower rate of about 35%.
It's said that you can prevent 14 different serious diseases just by washing your hands,
including Norovirus, C. Diff, and E. Coli.
Just remember that the next time you go shaking hands with someone!
8.
Male Chicks Here’s that dreaded chick fact.
It’s true, I’m afraid, that male chicks are tossed by the hundreds into a grinder
as babies both on chicken farms for meat and on egg farms because they’re not as profitable.
On the one hand, roosters aren’t very tasty meat.
On the other, egg farms don’t want them because they provide no eggs.
The practice is called chick culling.
In the UK, they usually asphyxiate them, but in the US they tend to macerate or grind them.
We're not THAT cruel to show you clips of this practice being exercised, but there are
plenty of videos on YouTube that you can watch if you are curious enough to watch.
Just take our word on it - we're telling the truth!
7.
Left-handed People Live Shorter Lives Approximately 2500 left-handed people die
every year after using equipment that was designed for right-handed people.
A study done in California showed that while right-handed people lived to be 75 on average,
their left-handed counterparts lived about 9 years less on average regardless of gender.
It’s tough out there for a left-handed person, so next time you’re buying supplies for
your colleagues or employees, remember to get left-handed friendly ones, too.
6.
George Bush And The Cannibalistic Incident In 1944, during WWII, a group of 9 men were
on board a plane that crashed on the Japanese Island Chi Chi Jima.
The locals on the island captured, tortured and killed eight of them, eating them after
the fact.
Four of the Navy pilots were killed and their livers and thigh muscles were fed to Japanese
officers.
Future President George H.W. Bush bailed out of his aircraft after it caught fire, further
from the island than the others, and floated in the surrounding water for 4 hours, protected
from the Japanese boats by American planes before he was rescued by USS Finback, a submarine.
What's more bizarre, is that Bush never heard of the fate of his fellow brothers until 2003.
5.
Ancient Romans Used Toothpaste When they weren’t using urine as a mouthwash,
the Romans often used crushed mouse brains, powdered charcoal, bark, and bicarbonate soda
as toothpaste.
Turns out, raw brains are mildly abrasive and can be used to polish metal.
Since there were plenty of mice around, it was easy to find them and would be very effective
in cleaning teeth.
I don’t know, maybe I’d rather not have white teeth than use urine and mouse brains…
what would you prefer?
4.
Male Lions Change Prides Viciously Though this doesn’t happen incredibly often,
lions kill cubs when they take over a pride to create a new generation of cubs that are
all his.
Female lions won’t be receptive to mating when they’re nursing, so it makes sense
that killing the cubs allows the new lion to procreate sooner.
Pregnant females can often disguise the cubs as his, some even hiding their existing cubs
and not showing them until later.
Male cubs have a higher likelihood of being killed by a new alpha lion when they’re
reaching maturity.
Sometimes they’ll just kick them out and they’ll die.
Not the Lion King story we all want to hear, I’m afraid.
3.
Homeless People vs. Empty Houses Back in 2019, the official Census stat was
that there were over 16 million vacant homes in the United States.
These vacant homes are defined as units where no one is living at the time of the census
interview, not counting homes where the occupants are temporarily absent.
A vacant unit can also be one which is occupied by people who usually live elsewhere.
New units are classified as vacant as well once it’s liveable.
In contrast, there are about 600,000 Americans experiencing homelessness per night, so there
are about 26 empty houses for every homeless person who needs one.
So even if you don’t count all the “not really vacant” homes you still have plenty
to house all those people needing shelter, and yet we don’t and that’s the creepiest
fact of all.
2.
Dust is Human Skin According to a 2008 study from the University
of Colorado, 15% of the air in a New York subway system is flakes of human skin.
This is in addition to the dirt and other organic matter of which I don’t even want
a breakdown.
Basically, our air is trash, especially on the New York subway.
Excuse me while I purchase all the wearable face masks for when I make my way to the Big
Apple.
1.
Hearts Can Squirt Blood 30 Feet Human hearts are really strong pumps.
They’re not just pumping enough to get through your whole body, but then some.
To put this in perspective, the heart squirting blood up to 30 feet is about the length of
a double-decker bus.
Talk about a bloody crime scene!
In fact, the heart is one of the strongest pumps we know, pumping 1-7 gallons of blood
per minute and up to 2000 per day!
If you gathered all the blood your heart will pump during your life, it would equate to
nearly 800 million pints!
That's enough blood to fill an Olympic-sized pool over 151 times!
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