Article created by: Kotryna Br
Facts are supposed to be educational, but if they’re entertaining or unusual, it helps them stick in our minds better. However, the truth doesn’t care about our feelings or making us feel ‘good.’ It can often be uncomfortable, and nuanced, and make us realize how fragile life can be.
The r/AskReddit online community tackled this idea by sharing facts that, on the surface, sound quite comforting. However, once you think about them a little longer, you realize how disturbing they actually are... and how little control we have over some aspects of our lives. Scroll down to see what the internet users shared.
The most peaceful way to die is in your sleep, but you’ll go to sleep not knowing you’ll never see anything ever again.
That there is enough food and water to feed everyone on the planet for free. But a small group of world owners governs it, plays monetary games, and uses it to control the masses.
When you're sick, you're supposed to do drugs and stay out of school.
People think about you far less than you actually believe they do.
I was at a bbq yesterday and my uncle told me “think about it one day you went outside to play with your friends for the last time and didn’t even know it”.
There are hundreds if not thousands of versions of you in the minds of other people.
Depending on how many people you have met in your life.
The average age of empires is 250 years.
You’ve never actually seen your face. Only pictures or reflections.
One day you'll never feel pain again.
There will be a point in time where humans go extinct. We won't experience it but imagine our future generations will see the “end of the world”.
Either alien life exists, or we are totally alone in the universe.
Even if 99% of the population finds you unattractive, around 78 million people still find you attractive. Idk this just really creeps me out.
If you don’t have children you end a several hundred year long bloodline.
While we're losing a lot of forests in the tropics due to climate change, we're actually gaining a lot of forest in the northern latitudes, and into formerly grassland areas as more available CO2 allows them to grow in more arid regions. And everyone loves trees, right?
The problem is the climate crisis is also a biodiversity crisis, and habitat loss - like grasslands or tundra becoming forest - is arguably even harder on species than changes in weather patterns.
The idea that who we are is not who we used to be, nor who we will be. Both literally and figuratively, considering our cells are constantly dying and recycling so every 7ish years you have a "new" body and because our minds are ever expanding and learning new things.
Another one is the fact that who you are is not who others perceive you to be, since no one can ever truly know who you are and how you think, to the point that if you ever lost your memories, no one would be able to describe you fully to you.
You might be just like your parents when you have kids.
"This too shall pass"
My husband has worked in elderly care for over 10 years. He can attest that even without dementia, older people tend to loose their ability to taste. It’s like weakening eye sight but with flavor. He’s always getting complaints that the food is too bland but it’s so full of salt substitute it’s almost inedible to everyone else.
You walk by at least 10 murderers in your life time without even knowing it.
when you get skinned, you (most likely) won’t die of blood loss, but instead hypothermia or infection as they will get you first.
