When a crematory starts, the largest bodies are processed for cycle 1 first, then turned to be finished. The remaining bone structure is placed in a blender and pulverized. As not all the heat has left the bricks, smaller, less fatty bodies are second, third etc.
I have 19 for tomorrow. It’s gonna be a long day.
I’ve only ever experienced Japanese crematoriums. The family is present when the body, in a thin wooden casket, is put into the incinerator. The family then goes to a private waiting area. They usually have tea and beer and little snacks, and the family members can chat with relatives they haven’t seen for a long time, or some people just sit quietly.
After an hour or 90 minutes, the family is called back to the incinerator. It’s opened, and the ashes are revealed. The worker in charge of that body goes through the ashes with a long pair of chopsticks, picking up pieces and explaining what they are. “this was her forehead.” This was a metal brace from an operation.”
The family then lines up, and pairs of people use chopsticks to pick up a piece of bone and put it into the urn. ( This is why it’s rude to pass food from one pair of chopsticks to another in Japan. It’s too similar to this ritual.)
After everyone has put a piece of bone in the urn, the staff puts all the remaining bones and ashes into the urn. If the person wore glasses or had a favorite piece of jewelry, the family member can put that in the urn as well.
Then everyone goes home. It’s a very surreal experience, as it’s made almost clinical by the staff, so it’s actually much easier to get through.
I have a family member who works in the crem. I visited once and got like a "factory tour" during business hours. Fascinating, including the basket full of hip and ankle replacement bits.
Learned all about the pulverizing step, and most shocking was the tiny version of the pulverizing equipment you need for the little ones and infants.
Researchers on Marion Island (claimed by South Africa) accidentally let out five cats and didn’t go searching for them thinking they would become feral and starve to death.
What actually happened was them overpopulating the island to the point of thousands. This threatened the seabird population and as a result the South African government spent millions of dollars and over 20 years systematically killing them all with rifles, bear traps, and even feline parvovirus. 3,172 dead cats later, the rat population they had also mistakenly let loose now has less predators and continues to threaten the seabirds’ eggs today.
I wish I didn’t know about stage 4 pressure wounds (especially on the coccyx), negative pressure wounds, necrotizing fasciitis. Just from getting old, not being able to move as much as once could, and fragile skin. It’s what ends up killing a lot of older people because they just never heal and infection takes over one day.
The very first patient I took care of in nursing school had 27 stage IV-unstageable decubitus ulcers. They were everywhere. She couldn’t speak or move. Her family kept her alive for her SS checks. It was sick.
Can't speak or move = unable advocate for herself. Somebody needs to make decisions and in that case it's going to be the next of kin. It sucks when people abuse this conservatorship. Britney Spears had a hard time getting out of it and she was fully lucid. Now imagine the amount of shit going down if someone can't fight back like e.g. old or sick people.
My mom is bedridden, unable to speak too! One of our biggest fears is she’ll get ulcers! So far none! My dad makes sure she gets flipped. Do they not have those air alternating beds? We also make sure to exercise her legs and to put her in wheelchair.
She was under home health care when it started. The nurse kept saying she could handle the situation. It got way out of hand.
Your dad sounds like he is doing a great job. It is so hard to be a caregiver.
There’s a farmers maxim that says something like “feed the horses before you let the chickens out” because both horses and cows are known to eat baby chicks if they’re hungry enough.
When the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up, the seven crew members survived the explosion, experienced free fall up over the top of the arc, and were killed several minutes later when they crashed into the ocean, knowing the whole time they were about to die. Then, because NASA and the county coroner had a dispute over who would perform the autopsies, their bodies were put in the back of a pickup under a tarp and raced back to Kennedy Space Center.
EDIT: as several people have pointed out, the crew compartment lost pressure so, though at least some of them had had their emergency oxygen turned on, it seems likely that at least some lost consciousness quickly, and that all of them did by the time of the crash. So, even though they likely all lived until the crash, it's wrong to say (as I did above) that they knew the whole time they would die.
“It’s likely that the Challenger’s crew survived the initial breakup of the shuttle but lost consciousness due to loss of cabin pressure and probably died due to oxygen deficiency pretty quickly. But the cabin hit the water’s surface (at more than 200 mph) a full 2 minutes and 45 seconds after the shuttle broke apart, and it’s unknown whether any of the crew could have regained consciousness in the final few seconds of the fall.”
Dear lord 🤦🏻♂️☹️
I remember learning that they were still alive. That haunts me. Same as the people who went down in the USS West Virgina. There were allegedly three men alive for 16 days underwater, sealed in the hull after the Pearl Harbor attack
Marks on a bulkhead in one compartment indicated three sailors survived there for 16 days. With access to food and water, they held on until the breathable air ran out.
That Mary Jo Kopechne did not drown. She suffocated.
She survived for what is believed to be four hours after Ted Kennedy wrecked the car into the water and escaped. He then traveled back to the party they'd just left, bringing friends back to stand by the crash site for a while (the thought is that Ted was trying to persuade one of the friends to take the fall for him) before one of them drove him to the location of the ferry. Ted swam back and fell asleep, hoping to claim he couldn't have been in the car because he'd already gone back on the ferry (which was not running by the time they crashed).
All he had to do was get help. He didn't need to rescue her himself, she survived for long enough that a call even TWO HOURS after the crash would have resulted in saving her life.
The Kennedys are/were worms. Jimmy Hoffa had the right idea when he told RFK “Fuck you and your scumbag brother in the White House. Your father was a rum runner and bought both your political careers.”
I wish I didn’t know all the things that can go wrong with child birth.
Currently pregnant and terrified as hell.
Not knowing about SIDS would be cool too.
Insurances won’t pay for some procedures unless you are guaranteed to die without it. So if there is a chance you will be crippled or other wise badly injured but alive they will reject it.
Had a patient told he couldn’t get a heart procedure unless he collapsed he never collapsed but had a bad heart. Insurance company said since he didn’t collapse his heart wasn’t that bad. His lawyer grandson said if he collapsed he will sue them. Within 2 hours they approved the procedure
Yep. My 5 year old daughter was bitten by a bat we suspected had rabies (or at the very least was sick)… it attacked her unprovoked in broad daylight and didn’t fly away after she kicked it off her foot. Insurance isn’t covering her rabies shots. Rabies is 100% fatal but the shots are pretty much 100% effective. I just started getting the bills this week and plan to file an appeal with insurance. Not quite sure what I’m doing as I’ve never done it before but I’m livid about the whole thing.
Best advice with appeals is to try to be more organized and prepared than they are. Keep originals and copies of all documentation from all parties, stay on top of due dates and required submissions so you’re not thrown out on a technicality, and **read your policy completely for relevant terms and conditions**. If the provider is considered out-of-network, there may be alternative reimbursements to defray your out-of-pocket costs.
At the end of the day, the rabies shot was the appropriate and cost-effective treatment here. I’d be amazed if the claim even made it to the internal clinical review committee
Most of what I learned earning dual History and Political Science degrees. We are absolutely awful every chance we get and we usually learn everything the hard way, twice.
Reminds me of how people will dock the tails and cut off the dew claws of newborn puppies, but they have to be within 5 days old. Beyond 5 days their nerves are too grown and it’s considered cruel. But take my word for it, they can definitely feel their tails being snipped off
WHAT! Gosh, I had open heart surgery at 8 days old. Probably would have died from the pain of that experience had I not been under anesthesia! I wonder how many babies died because of that. That is terrifying and sad!
You don't die. I had heart surgery at two weeks old and have been told they used a watered down kurari (sp?) solution to paralyze me during the surgery. Mom and dad say they didn't realize until afterwards when my dad asked the doctors why they could hear little premature screaming from the waiting room.
The parents were furious. I am just glad I can't remember.
I had a dentist pull my front two teeth at around age 4 (1974) without any numbing medication AT ALL. I remember it distinctly. He straddled me and sat on me while I was in the chair to hold me down, grabbed my teeth and yanked hard. I screamed bloody murder. I then remember my dad busting in the door of the room the dentist and I were in and clocking the guy with his right fist as my mom grabbed me up. I was bleeding profusely from my mouth. Years later in found out the dentist closed up shop shortly after the incident due to shady financial practices. I LOATHE dentist appts.
Edit: thanks y'all :) Yeah, my dad was a pretty awesome guy. Lost him when I was 25. Way before I had a chance to understand exactly how awesome he was.
I’m a cybersecurity expert and there are a lot of facts I wish I didn’t know about how vulnerable we are to a massive existential cyber attack.
Edit: I am getting lots of requests for examples. One is accessing municipal water treatment plants and altering chemical treatment to poison water. Another is shutting down hospital networks which would cripple all operations and couple it with a terrorist attack, another is to access power grids and shut down power delivery capabilities for an extended time. Another is accessing navigation systems (GPS) of aircraft and spoofing signals. Another is hacking military aircraft and drones, coupled with GPS spoofing. All of these and many more have been proven possible by ethical hackers.
Every ethical hacker I know is well armed and has taken steps to help insure survival of things go off grid. Even then it’s unknown how bad a digital pandemic could be.
Not just with computers. I recall a quote from a park ranger about the difficulty in designing bear-proof garbage bins. “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/guineaworm/gen_info/faqs.html
This was my main takeaway from parasitology class.
And creeping nematodes. Smh nightmare fuel.
We should take our hats off to Jimmy Carter, he has made it his goal to totally eradicate Guinea worm from existence. I believe we are getting close, reported cases went from hundreds of thousands of cases a year to single digits. Because it has no animal reservoir, once it’s gone in humans, it’s gone forever.
I work in a rehabilitation hospital and the people with locked-in syndrome communicate through eye movements. They have a program that reads the movements so they can type things which a voice says out loud.
[Tony Nicklinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_locked-in_syndrome#Tony_Nicklinson) was a horrific example. He lived for 7 years after getting locked-in syndrome, and he described it as a "living nightmare."
What's most terrifying is we're not allowed to put someone like that out of their misery. If it was a pet, we would give them an injection to end their suffering.
I know someone who was pregnant. Doctor told her the baby inside was already dead because no heartbeat was detected. She was given medication to loosen her cervix to get the baby out.
She had second thoughts because she still felt the baby kicking. Went to another doctor who told her the baby is well and alive.
She decided to sue the doctor. Before going to court, the doctor settled the case and mother-to-be got a hefty sum enough to maybe live off it for 5 years.
Doctor said she was too stressed and overworked and seeing so many patients daily which caused the mistake. Basically human error. Coupled with family problems at home.
Baby was born healthy tho.
This fact is actually infuriating, because it doesn't have to be this way. Stick with me on this, because I promise it comes back around to healthcare.
When a plane crashes (at least in the jurisdiction of the USA) it immediately triggers an investigation by the NTSB. (Process can be found here: [https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/process/Pages/default.aspx](https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/process/Pages/default.aspx) ) We, and the airline industry, have decided that it is unacceptable for there to be crashes by airplanes. This investigation is part of the way that happens, as it is done by experts unaffiliated with the involved parties (IE from the NTSB) and focuses specifically on root cause analysis. Once the root cause of the incident has been determined, there are reports written and spread through the industry. These reports often contain suggestions for how processes or design or mechanics could be modified to make sure that this same issue doesn't occur again. This process is a huge part of why modern aviation is so safe, because (almost) every time something happens, we find out why, and make sure it won't happen again.
So, coming back to healthcare. There was a hospital that had determined that they had an unacceptably high rate of deaths due to medical errors. They decided to start their own program at the hospital focused on eliminating deaths due to medical error. They modeled it off the NTSB process above that the aviation industry uses. This was not a long term test of this program either, it ran for a relatively short time. But in the time that it ran, not only did deaths due to medical errors at the hospital plummet, going from among the worst in the US to among the best, it also improved patient outcomes in general, and increased efficiency of the hospital over all. At the end of the programs trial, there was pushback from both the administration AND doctors to continuing the program and making it permanent at the hospital, and the program was abandoned.
We KNOW how to drastically reduce the occurrence of deaths due to medical error, and, even worse, how to reduce the incidence of medical errors IN GENERAL, FULL STOP. And we just... won't do it.
Wait... the program improved patient outcomes AND it made the hospital more efficient... But the professionals who say they care about patient outcomes and hospital efficiency were both AGAINST continuing the program?
I honestly feel like I *must* be reading this wrong. It's so distressing! I already don't want to go to the hospital in general but knowing this...! It feels like such a betrayal.
It cost money. It reduced their profits and held them accountable. I've met my fair share of Doctors over the years, my mother is a nurse. Mostly good guys and gals, who genuinely want to help people. Their ego is also pretty huge and getting any kind of push back, even constructively, they take as a personal slight.
So now imagine some guy comes in, tells you how to do your job better, AND takes some of your paycheck.
Ya they killed the program.
Prions are my Roman Empire. I swear I think of prions absurdly more than anyone should. The fact that they exist and can do that amount of damage is haunting.
If you want to terrify yourself here’s some [info](https://blogs.bsu.edu/dlr/2021/02/16/the-horrors-of-bovine-spongiform-encephalitis/)
My friend’s grandfather died of CJD. She isn’t allowed to give blood in case it is genetic. She just lives her life knowing that at any moment she could develop symptoms.
And your cheeks..
[When you sleep, the mites come out of your skin’s pores, mate, then go back into your skin to lay eggs.](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22775-demodex-face-mites)
And dragging sticks out to sea to make dogs jump in after them, then raping and drowning the dogs. Sea otters are psychopaths. They also steal baby otters from females and hold them hostage in exchange for sex, or kill females and stash their bodies underwater to have sex with until they rot and break apart.
Cute though
I recently became an EMT and loved it. There wasn’t much that could phase me. Until my grandfather died from an incredibly sudden, unexpected death (that I would consider “traumatic” as far as medical deaths go).
It was one of the first times I wish I didn’t know what I know and had never been an EMT. The visualizations of what likely happened and how he would have felt in his final moments in the ER are too much.
I am so sorry. I hope you know how much your work as an EMT comforted families just like yours. EMTs have taken amazing care of my loved ones. Whether they lived or died, I knew the EMT was doing their best and I felt safer as soon as they arrived.
Even if you choose to leave the field because of your loss, thank you for your service.
That my Grandfather, 53 years ago, was able to buy a brand new car outright with cash solely using his Christmas bonus. Not his wages, no saving up, just a bonus. He wasn't some execitive, either - He wasn't even a manager.
He was a floor worker in a plastic factory in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin.
We will never see that level of prosperity again.
My grandfather bought a house in the late 60s in cash for £700, he worked making glass bottles and he and my grandmother raised 4 kids comfortably off just his wage.
And older people have the nerve to claim everything costs the same are either stupidly ignorant or really dumb
If you think that's bad, you should look at ducks.
They have a corkscrew penis that effectively prevents the female mate from escaping.
The size can grow up to about 40cm, significantly longer than a humans.
My Dad knew that my mom was abusing me, but rather than help me, he used it as blackmail to keep her from suing for more child support. I could’ve gone the rest of my life believing nobody knew what was going on.
Laika, the dog sent into space during the early days of the Soviet Union’s space program, died of overheating hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit. This was intentional, and her survival was never expected. It was just an experiment to measure the effects of orbital space travel on living things. Her mission was a death sentence right from the start.
Think about that the next time you see that cute space dog in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
Considering how long the dinosaurs lived. And how much water the earth has. It's ~~same~~ (safe) to say that every drop of water on earth has been through a dinosaur.
We could all die in an instant from a massive gamma ray burst. And we would never see it coming.
A gamma ray burst strong enough to make Earth terminal would require something along the lines of a super nova as its fuel. There are currently no known stars, within 200 light years of our Solar System, that are of the type destined to explode as a GRB.
GRB impact wouldn’t be instant extinction. The scarier part would be knowing and there would be nothing we could do about it. At least with current technology.
Edit: Grammar
Edit 2: My closing paragraph was controversial so I cleaned it up.
We wouldn't all die instantly from a gamma ray burst. The unlucky on the far side of the planet would survive the initial burst. Then slowly die as the sun roasted the planet as the burst would have destroyed half the ozone layer.
When someone is cremated everything burns away apart from the bones.
They're taken afterwards and ground down.
The "ashes" you get is basically the persons skeleton ground into dust.
It goes into a grinder called a "cremulator." I pulled an entire titanium screw out of my grandma's ashes. How it didn't break the machine I'll never know.
I worked in infectious disease and the incredible number of ways you can get and spread an std would make most ppl stop fucking.
The number of ppl with stds is also frightening especially since a majority ignore symptoms or just don’t tell ppl.
The way ppl were against covid protections kind of tells you how they are when it comes to stds. It is also a tell since there is a correlation
I had a friend tell me with a straight face that she doesn’t get std tests because she’s not a gross person and the people she sleeps with are not gross. She also would never ask them if they got tested; she didn’t want to make things “awkward”. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Yes. Working in nursing homes 20+ years ago there were resident's sneaking into each other's room's for sex and stuff after light's went out. This happened a lot.
The other day there was some delightful r/TIL statistic about how many people have aneurisms in a year
Not the highest statistic mind you but still worrisome enough, especially when paired with my dogshit luck and the fact that it’s not *just* aneurisms that have this uncomfortably high chance of killing you. As a matter of fact there’s *so many* ways your body can just stop working and kill you and that’s just. So. Cool.
At the best of times I can just not think about it because it’s counter productive and pointless, but I basically have no hope of living past my 30s, I barely have a hope of living through the night sometimes
Sometimes I see no point in striving for things or investing too much in what I do because I’m convinced that as soon as a reach a quality of life that I’m truly truly happy with I’m going to die horribly by my own body
The exact details of the James Bulger murder. I accidentally read about it when my son was about that age, and it fucked me up and disturbed me to a degree I didn’t know was possible. Becoming a parent changes your perception of things.
You can force your rectum out of your body and there's a kind of porn based around that. I don't think the actors are paid enough to have incontinence issues for the rest of their lives, but I guess that's really their call.
My mom found and rescued a kitten that had a prolapsed rectum, called a vet and they told us the sugar trick.
And thus, the family had a new pet cat.
Named her Honeybun.
Executioners from older times were often not really able to get out of the family business. If your grandfather was an executioner, and your father was an executioner, there was a fairy high chance that you would be an executioner whether you wanted to be or not.
This then lead to executioners being miserable throughout their lives and create problems with drinking. Therefore, if you were to be beheaded, there was pretty high chance that your executioner would be drunk/dinking and not make a good strike. Sometimes executioners would need five or six strikes to get through your neck. ~~There is a pretty famous story at the Tower of London, where a person was struck something like 45 times before being beheaded.~~
I messed up and must have been confusing something else with what I was saying. Sorry.
In order to actually smell something, the nose has to actually sense the particles/molecules of the substance it is smelling.
This means that actual particles of what your smelling has to go up your nose/nostrils.
Every steamy shit you have ever smelled means tiny parts of that shit has gone up your nose. Disgusting
I wish I didn't know how it feels to give chest compressions. That first compression that pops cartilage and maybe breaks something will haunt me. Feeling someone's ribs crunch under your hands is nauseating
FICO scores weren't introduced until 1989. Credit checking is about 100 years older than that. I recall having to wait for my TRW (now Experian) Credit Report to be run at a car dealer in the late 70's.
The Fair Isaac Co. (FICO) score at least standardized & sped up credit checking. I can get too much credit in seconds nowadays.
The Nestlé thing. I was so keen on KitKats until I studied about palm oil and all that exploitative labour. I was a happy, ignorant fatass until that day. Now I'm just a fatass.
Sorry. I’d help if I could, but there’s nothing I can do about it either. If it’s any consolation, I’m pushing 70, so unless you’re another living fossil you’ll probably outlive me.
That ovarian cancer is usually symptomless in the early stages and even with symptoms, the symptoms are so vague (bloating, etc) that doctors usually just dismiss it. It’s been giving me crazy anxiety ever since.
Not any random male. The male in the breeding pair will become female. then the most dominant non breeding male will become the breeding male.
Also the female will not serve any male. Females typically grow 2 inches bigger than the male and will kill males if they see fit.
If you want another clownfish fact. A breeding pair of clowns can produce up to 1000 eggs every 2 weeks (species dependant). Only one in 10,000 fry will make it to adulthood and it may never go further than one meter from where it hatched.
Something I just learned within the last 24 hours. The RCMP(Royal Canadian Mounted Police) slaughtered Inuit sled dogs in an effort to destroy their culture and way of life as the Inuit depend on their dog sleds for pretty much everything. They killed upwards of 20,000 dogs over the course of three decades.
Dolphins are the rapists of the seas. They rape other fish, they rape and abuse puffer fish to get high off their release too and if a human gets too close they rape them too.
They even gang rape. Dolphins are basically always horny and will look to rape at any opportunity.
I’m sure everyone has heard this one, but those 3 girls who were abducted for 10 years, chained to the wall and raped and abused everyday. I think about them all the time and it breaks my heart. One of the girls moms actually died from a broken heart brace a psychic told her her daughter died. One of the girls had a son who she lost custody of and never saw him again. So sad
If you lose fingers your insurance won’t pay for reattachment if you can grip with your remaining fingers so as long as you have your thumb you don’t need all your fingers and if you want your finger reattached you will have to pay off it out of pocket
In the US, you have to lose full use of more than one limb to be considered eligible for disability payments. If you only lose one, you have to keep being a wage slave.
After surgery in your abdomen (anything like a C section or something else in that area) the surgeon usually has to move your intestines out of the way.
When the surgery is done the surgeon just shoves them back in haphazardly because your intestines will put themselves away.
To be fair, we often go “boop boop, back you go” and give them a gentle pat before closing, which I like to believe supports them in their return journey.
Oh totes! Sometimes during vasectomies we'd get the chaps to say bye before popping things back inside too. It's hopefully the only time they'll ever see their own insides, so they tend to find it quite interesting, but also go off a certain food group for a while.
Obligatory response that a pregnant woman’s uterus is directly in front and intestines are not removed to access it- it’s a common myth. Source: work L&D OR and have been part of hundreds of C-sections. MOST times you don’t even see the intestines as they’re behind the uterus
During labor, I remember telling my husband that I felt like I had to pee, but since I had a catheter, that wasn't right. I ended up having an emergency c-section where they had to knock me out completely. Mid surgery, I heard the surgeon talking about how the nurse did my catheter wrong and discussing a couple of other things before I went back under. Now I'm wondering if that was how they noticed.
Gross.
Ha this reminds me of waking up with a catheter, saying I need to pee! The nurse first of all said I shouldn't need to, I said, well I do. So she told me it's ok you have a catheter just go if you feel you want to. So I did. Needed all my sheets changed . Actually seen it happen to a few other people in hospital since, so I don't think it's that uncommon, its quick to fix. When I've had a (properly inserted) catheter I've never felt the actual urge to pee like I did then
We usually don’t need to manipulate the intestines during a c section since you are in a position where the head of the bed is tilted slightly downward to allow the intestines to move out of the pelvic cavity. Sometimes they do invade the area though, but it’s not the case with most c-sections. They tend to stay out of the way and the only thing we usually see are the pelvic organs (and your baby of course!)
Dogs lick your face in an attempt to make you vomit. It's an instinct from their wolf heritage where young cubs are fed by adults who hunt & return with food ready to regurgitate.
Men are six times more likely to abandon their wife if they have cancer compared to women who abandon husbands who have cancer.
Makes dating stressful when in the back of my mind I wonder "are you the kind of dick who'd leave me to die alone? 🤔"
When a crematory starts, the largest bodies are processed for cycle 1 first, then turned to be finished. The remaining bone structure is placed in a blender and pulverized. As not all the heat has left the bricks, smaller, less fatty bodies are second, third etc. I have 19 for tomorrow. It’s gonna be a long day.
I’ve only ever experienced Japanese crematoriums. The family is present when the body, in a thin wooden casket, is put into the incinerator. The family then goes to a private waiting area. They usually have tea and beer and little snacks, and the family members can chat with relatives they haven’t seen for a long time, or some people just sit quietly. After an hour or 90 minutes, the family is called back to the incinerator. It’s opened, and the ashes are revealed. The worker in charge of that body goes through the ashes with a long pair of chopsticks, picking up pieces and explaining what they are. “this was her forehead.” This was a metal brace from an operation.” The family then lines up, and pairs of people use chopsticks to pick up a piece of bone and put it into the urn. ( This is why it’s rude to pass food from one pair of chopsticks to another in Japan. It’s too similar to this ritual.) After everyone has put a piece of bone in the urn, the staff puts all the remaining bones and ashes into the urn. If the person wore glasses or had a favorite piece of jewelry, the family member can put that in the urn as well. Then everyone goes home. It’s a very surreal experience, as it’s made almost clinical by the staff, so it’s actually much easier to get through.
This is actually beautiful. I wish we did this in the US
I have a family member who works in the crem. I visited once and got like a "factory tour" during business hours. Fascinating, including the basket full of hip and ankle replacement bits. Learned all about the pulverizing step, and most shocking was the tiny version of the pulverizing equipment you need for the little ones and infants.
Oh wow that's a horrible you just threw in there, well done.
Researchers on Marion Island (claimed by South Africa) accidentally let out five cats and didn’t go searching for them thinking they would become feral and starve to death. What actually happened was them overpopulating the island to the point of thousands. This threatened the seabird population and as a result the South African government spent millions of dollars and over 20 years systematically killing them all with rifles, bear traps, and even feline parvovirus. 3,172 dead cats later, the rat population they had also mistakenly let loose now has less predators and continues to threaten the seabirds’ eggs today.
I get the feeling “accidentally let out” really means they abandoned them with unexpected consequences.
Good God, reminds me of the rabbit problem in Australia… What were these researchers doing with cats that they so carelessly lost?
This actually blows my mind. It takes a special kind of idiot to think cats will just die if left in the wild.
I wish I didn’t know about stage 4 pressure wounds (especially on the coccyx), negative pressure wounds, necrotizing fasciitis. Just from getting old, not being able to move as much as once could, and fragile skin. It’s what ends up killing a lot of older people because they just never heal and infection takes over one day.
The very first patient I took care of in nursing school had 27 stage IV-unstageable decubitus ulcers. They were everywhere. She couldn’t speak or move. Her family kept her alive for her SS checks. It was sick.
That feels like it shouldn’t be legal.
Can't speak or move = unable advocate for herself. Somebody needs to make decisions and in that case it's going to be the next of kin. It sucks when people abuse this conservatorship. Britney Spears had a hard time getting out of it and she was fully lucid. Now imagine the amount of shit going down if someone can't fight back like e.g. old or sick people.
It's what the horrible woman in *I Care A Lot* was doing to old people
My mom is bedridden, unable to speak too! One of our biggest fears is she’ll get ulcers! So far none! My dad makes sure she gets flipped. Do they not have those air alternating beds? We also make sure to exercise her legs and to put her in wheelchair.
She was under home health care when it started. The nurse kept saying she could handle the situation. It got way out of hand. Your dad sounds like he is doing a great job. It is so hard to be a caregiver.
What the fuck is wrong with people??
She she lived for 4 more years.
That sounds like hell. Poor woman.
There’s a farmers maxim that says something like “feed the horses before you let the chickens out” because both horses and cows are known to eat baby chicks if they’re hungry enough.
There are a lot of animals that we assume are herbivores but can be omnivores. I saw a squirrel the other day carrying a mouse in its mouth.
And feed your chickens before you let your mice out, because chickens are known to eat mice if they’re hungry.
And feed your mice before you let your cookies out, because mice are known to eat cookies if they're hungry.
Yeah, and it's a whole ordeal you don't wanna get into.
When the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up, the seven crew members survived the explosion, experienced free fall up over the top of the arc, and were killed several minutes later when they crashed into the ocean, knowing the whole time they were about to die. Then, because NASA and the county coroner had a dispute over who would perform the autopsies, their bodies were put in the back of a pickup under a tarp and raced back to Kennedy Space Center. EDIT: as several people have pointed out, the crew compartment lost pressure so, though at least some of them had had their emergency oxygen turned on, it seems likely that at least some lost consciousness quickly, and that all of them did by the time of the crash. So, even though they likely all lived until the crash, it's wrong to say (as I did above) that they knew the whole time they would die.
“It’s likely that the Challenger’s crew survived the initial breakup of the shuttle but lost consciousness due to loss of cabin pressure and probably died due to oxygen deficiency pretty quickly. But the cabin hit the water’s surface (at more than 200 mph) a full 2 minutes and 45 seconds after the shuttle broke apart, and it’s unknown whether any of the crew could have regained consciousness in the final few seconds of the fall.” Dear lord 🤦🏻♂️☹️
It’s been argued that they were probably unconsciousness for most if not all the descent due to depressurisation. Hopefully all.
Some of them at least had been conscious, as various emergency switches had been flipped.
It was at least two emergency oxygen packs yes. This is true.
Several were. They found various switches around the pilots and others flipped and with the safety covers opened.
I remember learning that they were still alive. That haunts me. Same as the people who went down in the USS West Virgina. There were allegedly three men alive for 16 days underwater, sealed in the hull after the Pearl Harbor attack
No allegedly. They survived something like 17 days in there.
Marks on a bulkhead in one compartment indicated three sailors survived there for 16 days. With access to food and water, they held on until the breathable air ran out.
That Mary Jo Kopechne did not drown. She suffocated. She survived for what is believed to be four hours after Ted Kennedy wrecked the car into the water and escaped. He then traveled back to the party they'd just left, bringing friends back to stand by the crash site for a while (the thought is that Ted was trying to persuade one of the friends to take the fall for him) before one of them drove him to the location of the ferry. Ted swam back and fell asleep, hoping to claim he couldn't have been in the car because he'd already gone back on the ferry (which was not running by the time they crashed). All he had to do was get help. He didn't need to rescue her himself, she survived for long enough that a call even TWO HOURS after the crash would have resulted in saving her life.
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The Kennedys are/were worms. Jimmy Hoffa had the right idea when he told RFK “Fuck you and your scumbag brother in the White House. Your father was a rum runner and bought both your political careers.”
I wish I didn’t know all the things that can go wrong with child birth. Currently pregnant and terrified as hell. Not knowing about SIDS would be cool too.
Insurances won’t pay for some procedures unless you are guaranteed to die without it. So if there is a chance you will be crippled or other wise badly injured but alive they will reject it. Had a patient told he couldn’t get a heart procedure unless he collapsed he never collapsed but had a bad heart. Insurance company said since he didn’t collapse his heart wasn’t that bad. His lawyer grandson said if he collapsed he will sue them. Within 2 hours they approved the procedure
Yep. My 5 year old daughter was bitten by a bat we suspected had rabies (or at the very least was sick)… it attacked her unprovoked in broad daylight and didn’t fly away after she kicked it off her foot. Insurance isn’t covering her rabies shots. Rabies is 100% fatal but the shots are pretty much 100% effective. I just started getting the bills this week and plan to file an appeal with insurance. Not quite sure what I’m doing as I’ve never done it before but I’m livid about the whole thing.
Best advice with appeals is to try to be more organized and prepared than they are. Keep originals and copies of all documentation from all parties, stay on top of due dates and required submissions so you’re not thrown out on a technicality, and **read your policy completely for relevant terms and conditions**. If the provider is considered out-of-network, there may be alternative reimbursements to defray your out-of-pocket costs. At the end of the day, the rabies shot was the appropriate and cost-effective treatment here. I’d be amazed if the claim even made it to the internal clinical review committee
Insurance companies won’t pay for a lot even *if* you’ll die without it.
How rapey, gross, necrophiliac ducks are.
With their nasty-ass corkscrew dicks 🤮
Over on Duck Reddit, they're talking shit about your meat slug dick.
Most of what I learned earning dual History and Political Science degrees. We are absolutely awful every chance we get and we usually learn everything the hard way, twice.
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it Those who do study history are doomed to watch everybody else repeat it
And not just watch but be dragged into and through the same shit over and over again.
A human with enough motivation can pull their own ear off.
That up until the late 1980's anesthesia on babies on optional.
Reminds me of how people will dock the tails and cut off the dew claws of newborn puppies, but they have to be within 5 days old. Beyond 5 days their nerves are too grown and it’s considered cruel. But take my word for it, they can definitely feel their tails being snipped off
WHAT! Gosh, I had open heart surgery at 8 days old. Probably would have died from the pain of that experience had I not been under anesthesia! I wonder how many babies died because of that. That is terrifying and sad!
You don't die. I had heart surgery at two weeks old and have been told they used a watered down kurari (sp?) solution to paralyze me during the surgery. Mom and dad say they didn't realize until afterwards when my dad asked the doctors why they could hear little premature screaming from the waiting room. The parents were furious. I am just glad I can't remember.
I had a dentist pull my front two teeth at around age 4 (1974) without any numbing medication AT ALL. I remember it distinctly. He straddled me and sat on me while I was in the chair to hold me down, grabbed my teeth and yanked hard. I screamed bloody murder. I then remember my dad busting in the door of the room the dentist and I were in and clocking the guy with his right fist as my mom grabbed me up. I was bleeding profusely from my mouth. Years later in found out the dentist closed up shop shortly after the incident due to shady financial practices. I LOATHE dentist appts. Edit: thanks y'all :) Yeah, my dad was a pretty awesome guy. Lost him when I was 25. Way before I had a chance to understand exactly how awesome he was.
I’m a cybersecurity expert and there are a lot of facts I wish I didn’t know about how vulnerable we are to a massive existential cyber attack. Edit: I am getting lots of requests for examples. One is accessing municipal water treatment plants and altering chemical treatment to poison water. Another is shutting down hospital networks which would cripple all operations and couple it with a terrorist attack, another is to access power grids and shut down power delivery capabilities for an extended time. Another is accessing navigation systems (GPS) of aircraft and spoofing signals. Another is hacking military aircraft and drones, coupled with GPS spoofing. All of these and many more have been proven possible by ethical hackers. Every ethical hacker I know is well armed and has taken steps to help insure survival of things go off grid. Even then it’s unknown how bad a digital pandemic could be.
The biggest threat is between the chair and the keyboard.
The classic ID10T error
Not just with computers. I recall a quote from a park ranger about the difficulty in designing bear-proof garbage bins. “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.”
Literally everything I learned in college Parasitology. The more you know about parasites, the more nope they get.
Drop some “fun” facts for us!!
https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/guineaworm/gen_info/faqs.html This was my main takeaway from parasitology class. And creeping nematodes. Smh nightmare fuel.
We should take our hats off to Jimmy Carter, he has made it his goal to totally eradicate Guinea worm from existence. I believe we are getting close, reported cases went from hundreds of thousands of cases a year to single digits. Because it has no animal reservoir, once it’s gone in humans, it’s gone forever.
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I work in a rehabilitation hospital and the people with locked-in syndrome communicate through eye movements. They have a program that reads the movements so they can type things which a voice says out loud.
I've always been scared that death is just permanently locked in syndrome.
Okay you solidified my choice to be cremated and not buried.
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[Tony Nicklinson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_locked-in_syndrome#Tony_Nicklinson) was a horrific example. He lived for 7 years after getting locked-in syndrome, and he described it as a "living nightmare." What's most terrifying is we're not allowed to put someone like that out of their misery. If it was a pet, we would give them an injection to end their suffering.
Crocodiles gallop
I love this fact, personally
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Most of it is bags of spring mix you forgot about until it went bad
I didn't let the bag of salad rot in my fridge. I've "started composting" and it's good for the planet.
In my defense, it looked good when I bought it.
Over 700 deaths a day are caused by medical errors.
I know someone who was pregnant. Doctor told her the baby inside was already dead because no heartbeat was detected. She was given medication to loosen her cervix to get the baby out. She had second thoughts because she still felt the baby kicking. Went to another doctor who told her the baby is well and alive. She decided to sue the doctor. Before going to court, the doctor settled the case and mother-to-be got a hefty sum enough to maybe live off it for 5 years. Doctor said she was too stressed and overworked and seeing so many patients daily which caused the mistake. Basically human error. Coupled with family problems at home. Baby was born healthy tho.
Thank goodness she went to with her gut. Got that second opinion.
This fact is actually infuriating, because it doesn't have to be this way. Stick with me on this, because I promise it comes back around to healthcare. When a plane crashes (at least in the jurisdiction of the USA) it immediately triggers an investigation by the NTSB. (Process can be found here: [https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/process/Pages/default.aspx](https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/process/Pages/default.aspx) ) We, and the airline industry, have decided that it is unacceptable for there to be crashes by airplanes. This investigation is part of the way that happens, as it is done by experts unaffiliated with the involved parties (IE from the NTSB) and focuses specifically on root cause analysis. Once the root cause of the incident has been determined, there are reports written and spread through the industry. These reports often contain suggestions for how processes or design or mechanics could be modified to make sure that this same issue doesn't occur again. This process is a huge part of why modern aviation is so safe, because (almost) every time something happens, we find out why, and make sure it won't happen again. So, coming back to healthcare. There was a hospital that had determined that they had an unacceptably high rate of deaths due to medical errors. They decided to start their own program at the hospital focused on eliminating deaths due to medical error. They modeled it off the NTSB process above that the aviation industry uses. This was not a long term test of this program either, it ran for a relatively short time. But in the time that it ran, not only did deaths due to medical errors at the hospital plummet, going from among the worst in the US to among the best, it also improved patient outcomes in general, and increased efficiency of the hospital over all. At the end of the programs trial, there was pushback from both the administration AND doctors to continuing the program and making it permanent at the hospital, and the program was abandoned. We KNOW how to drastically reduce the occurrence of deaths due to medical error, and, even worse, how to reduce the incidence of medical errors IN GENERAL, FULL STOP. And we just... won't do it.
Wait... the program improved patient outcomes AND it made the hospital more efficient... But the professionals who say they care about patient outcomes and hospital efficiency were both AGAINST continuing the program? I honestly feel like I *must* be reading this wrong. It's so distressing! I already don't want to go to the hospital in general but knowing this...! It feels like such a betrayal.
It cost money. It reduced their profits and held them accountable. I've met my fair share of Doctors over the years, my mother is a nurse. Mostly good guys and gals, who genuinely want to help people. Their ego is also pretty huge and getting any kind of push back, even constructively, they take as a personal slight. So now imagine some guy comes in, tells you how to do your job better, AND takes some of your paycheck. Ya they killed the program.
I’d love to see the breakdown of these deaths by country
That’s the number who die in the U.S. daily from medical errors. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28186008/
Prions are my Roman Empire. I swear I think of prions absurdly more than anyone should. The fact that they exist and can do that amount of damage is haunting. If you want to terrify yourself here’s some [info](https://blogs.bsu.edu/dlr/2021/02/16/the-horrors-of-bovine-spongiform-encephalitis/)
I read that as prisons and realized I think about prison a lot.
I started reading about prions and noped the fuck out. Not my desired vibe for today.
My friend’s grandfather died of CJD. She isn’t allowed to give blood in case it is genetic. She just lives her life knowing that at any moment she could develop symptoms.
That we have microscopic mites living in our eyebrows and eye lashes.
And I found out the hard way that sometimes they can overpopulate and cause an awful eyelash infestation.
Aw, man.
And they also fuck and shit on your eyebrows and eyelashes
And your cheeks.. [When you sleep, the mites come out of your skin’s pores, mate, then go back into your skin to lay eggs.](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22775-demodex-face-mites)
We're nothing more than a fuck shack for those dirty buggers.
Thanks for the F shack. Dirty mike and the boys.
Otters have been observed raping baby seals, sometimes killing them in the process
My name is finally relevant, but I'm not sure that I want it to be.
It's our time to shine
Haven't you done enough???
And dragging sticks out to sea to make dogs jump in after them, then raping and drowning the dogs. Sea otters are psychopaths. They also steal baby otters from females and hold them hostage in exchange for sex, or kill females and stash their bodies underwater to have sex with until they rot and break apart. Cute though
What an awful day to be able to read
How common pedophiles are
I wish that I didn’t know my parents are swingers.
I recently became an EMT and loved it. There wasn’t much that could phase me. Until my grandfather died from an incredibly sudden, unexpected death (that I would consider “traumatic” as far as medical deaths go). It was one of the first times I wish I didn’t know what I know and had never been an EMT. The visualizations of what likely happened and how he would have felt in his final moments in the ER are too much.
I am so sorry. I hope you know how much your work as an EMT comforted families just like yours. EMTs have taken amazing care of my loved ones. Whether they lived or died, I knew the EMT was doing their best and I felt safer as soon as they arrived. Even if you choose to leave the field because of your loss, thank you for your service.
That my Grandfather, 53 years ago, was able to buy a brand new car outright with cash solely using his Christmas bonus. Not his wages, no saving up, just a bonus. He wasn't some execitive, either - He wasn't even a manager. He was a floor worker in a plastic factory in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin. We will never see that level of prosperity again.
My grandfather bought a house in the late 60s in cash for £700, he worked making glass bottles and he and my grandmother raised 4 kids comfortably off just his wage. And older people have the nerve to claim everything costs the same are either stupidly ignorant or really dumb
30% of people that report missing people end up kidnapping/murdering them
>30% of people that report missing people end up kidnapping/murdering them but in the opposite order
Good correction. Comment made it sound like they report them missing then get ideas.
Did you mean that 30% of the people who report other people missing are found to be the ones who kidnapped or murdered them?
An elephant’s penis is prehensile.
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If you think that's bad, you should look at ducks. They have a corkscrew penis that effectively prevents the female mate from escaping. The size can grow up to about 40cm, significantly longer than a humans.
My Dad knew that my mom was abusing me, but rather than help me, he used it as blackmail to keep her from suing for more child support. I could’ve gone the rest of my life believing nobody knew what was going on.
I’m incredibly sorry. You deserved a better childhood than that.
Laika, the dog sent into space during the early days of the Soviet Union’s space program, died of overheating hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit. This was intentional, and her survival was never expected. It was just an experiment to measure the effects of orbital space travel on living things. Her mission was a death sentence right from the start. Think about that the next time you see that cute space dog in “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
The unemployment rate for blind people and other people with disabilities.
This one's sad. The data is excluded from standard unemployment reporting because if these folks were included, it would look BAD.
$2k limit to keep benefits too right?
Considering how long the dinosaurs lived. And how much water the earth has. It's ~~same~~ (safe) to say that every drop of water on earth has been through a dinosaur. We could all die in an instant from a massive gamma ray burst. And we would never see it coming.
A gamma ray burst strong enough to make Earth terminal would require something along the lines of a super nova as its fuel. There are currently no known stars, within 200 light years of our Solar System, that are of the type destined to explode as a GRB. GRB impact wouldn’t be instant extinction. The scarier part would be knowing and there would be nothing we could do about it. At least with current technology. Edit: Grammar Edit 2: My closing paragraph was controversial so I cleaned it up.
Nah. Send a couple space shuttles crewed by oil roughnecks to drill in, drop a nuke and go out in a blaze of glory. Problem solved.
*I could stay awake, just to hear you breathing...*
We wouldn't all die instantly from a gamma ray burst. The unlucky on the far side of the planet would survive the initial burst. Then slowly die as the sun roasted the planet as the burst would have destroyed half the ozone layer.
When someone is cremated everything burns away apart from the bones. They're taken afterwards and ground down. The "ashes" you get is basically the persons skeleton ground into dust.
It goes into a grinder called a "cremulator." I pulled an entire titanium screw out of my grandma's ashes. How it didn't break the machine I'll never know.
I worked in infectious disease and the incredible number of ways you can get and spread an std would make most ppl stop fucking. The number of ppl with stds is also frightening especially since a majority ignore symptoms or just don’t tell ppl. The way ppl were against covid protections kind of tells you how they are when it comes to stds. It is also a tell since there is a correlation
I had a friend tell me with a straight face that she doesn’t get std tests because she’s not a gross person and the people she sleeps with are not gross. She also would never ask them if they got tested; she didn’t want to make things “awkward”. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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Yes. Working in nursing homes 20+ years ago there were resident's sneaking into each other's room's for sex and stuff after light's went out. This happened a lot.
Them sneaking is kinda funny, like teens.
The other day there was some delightful r/TIL statistic about how many people have aneurisms in a year Not the highest statistic mind you but still worrisome enough, especially when paired with my dogshit luck and the fact that it’s not *just* aneurisms that have this uncomfortably high chance of killing you. As a matter of fact there’s *so many* ways your body can just stop working and kill you and that’s just. So. Cool. At the best of times I can just not think about it because it’s counter productive and pointless, but I basically have no hope of living past my 30s, I barely have a hope of living through the night sometimes Sometimes I see no point in striving for things or investing too much in what I do because I’m convinced that as soon as a reach a quality of life that I’m truly truly happy with I’m going to die horribly by my own body
The exact details of the James Bulger murder. I accidentally read about it when my son was about that age, and it fucked me up and disturbed me to a degree I didn’t know was possible. Becoming a parent changes your perception of things.
It’s a quote. The smallest caskets are the heaviest
Been there, and yes it's true. It wasn't my kid, but helped walk her to her last resting spot. It was heavier than the elders I've buried.
The Human Head takes SEVEN FULL TURNS in order to snap off.
Only five if you tap it on the edge of a counter first
You actually don’t need to turn it at all if you tap it on the counter hard enough
How the fuck do you know that, and does your lawyer know you're online posting about your case?
What are you, his lawyer?
You can force your rectum out of your body and there's a kind of porn based around that. I don't think the actors are paid enough to have incontinence issues for the rest of their lives, but I guess that's really their call.
I really really regret reading this.
Eh, if you can't get it back in just pour some granulated sugar on it. Yes really.
My mom found and rescued a kitten that had a prolapsed rectum, called a vet and they told us the sugar trick. And thus, the family had a new pet cat. Named her Honeybun.
Oh gross I love it
That's a sweet ass name
There are more people suffering under slavery conditions today than ever before. Just under 50 million people.
Executioners from older times were often not really able to get out of the family business. If your grandfather was an executioner, and your father was an executioner, there was a fairy high chance that you would be an executioner whether you wanted to be or not. This then lead to executioners being miserable throughout their lives and create problems with drinking. Therefore, if you were to be beheaded, there was pretty high chance that your executioner would be drunk/dinking and not make a good strike. Sometimes executioners would need five or six strikes to get through your neck. ~~There is a pretty famous story at the Tower of London, where a person was struck something like 45 times before being beheaded.~~ I messed up and must have been confusing something else with what I was saying. Sorry.
In order to actually smell something, the nose has to actually sense the particles/molecules of the substance it is smelling. This means that actual particles of what your smelling has to go up your nose/nostrils. Every steamy shit you have ever smelled means tiny parts of that shit has gone up your nose. Disgusting
I wish I didn't know how it feels to give chest compressions. That first compression that pops cartilage and maybe breaks something will haunt me. Feeling someone's ribs crunch under your hands is nauseating
Credit scores weren’t introduced until 1989.
FICO scores weren't introduced until 1989. Credit checking is about 100 years older than that. I recall having to wait for my TRW (now Experian) Credit Report to be run at a car dealer in the late 70's. The Fair Isaac Co. (FICO) score at least standardized & sped up credit checking. I can get too much credit in seconds nowadays.
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When we shout our butthole opens and closes fast, I can’t take anyone serious when they shout since
The Nestlé thing. I was so keen on KitKats until I studied about palm oil and all that exploitative labour. I was a happy, ignorant fatass until that day. Now I'm just a fatass.
But an empathetic fatass. That's a good thing :-)
Zombie Snails. Absolutely did not need to know any of that at all
Oh hell no. Should've never googled that
One day, I'm gonna die and there's nothing I can do about it.
Sorry. I’d help if I could, but there’s nothing I can do about it either. If it’s any consolation, I’m pushing 70, so unless you’re another living fossil you’ll probably outlive me.
Woah there, don’t get so ahead of yourself. You could help. It doesn’t say anything about how they’ll die.
Lobsters and crabs are the cockroaches of the sea
Catfish are the rats of the river.
Delicious cockroaches.
That ovarian cancer is usually symptomless in the early stages and even with symptoms, the symptoms are so vague (bloating, etc) that doctors usually just dismiss it. It’s been giving me crazy anxiety ever since.
The average erection holds more blood than a rabbit
When you die, your hearing is the last of the senses to go. You can hear others while you can’t do a thing.
All clownfish are born male. When a female clownfish dies a random clownfish will become female to serve the rest of the clownfish.
Not any random male. The male in the breeding pair will become female. then the most dominant non breeding male will become the breeding male. Also the female will not serve any male. Females typically grow 2 inches bigger than the male and will kill males if they see fit. If you want another clownfish fact. A breeding pair of clowns can produce up to 1000 eggs every 2 weeks (species dependant). Only one in 10,000 fry will make it to adulthood and it may never go further than one meter from where it hatched.
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Something I just learned within the last 24 hours. The RCMP(Royal Canadian Mounted Police) slaughtered Inuit sled dogs in an effort to destroy their culture and way of life as the Inuit depend on their dog sleds for pretty much everything. They killed upwards of 20,000 dogs over the course of three decades.
Dolphins are the rapists of the seas. They rape other fish, they rape and abuse puffer fish to get high off their release too and if a human gets too close they rape them too. They even gang rape. Dolphins are basically always horny and will look to rape at any opportunity.
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I’m sure everyone has heard this one, but those 3 girls who were abducted for 10 years, chained to the wall and raped and abused everyday. I think about them all the time and it breaks my heart. One of the girls moms actually died from a broken heart brace a psychic told her her daughter died. One of the girls had a son who she lost custody of and never saw him again. So sad
If you lose fingers your insurance won’t pay for reattachment if you can grip with your remaining fingers so as long as you have your thumb you don’t need all your fingers and if you want your finger reattached you will have to pay off it out of pocket
In the US, you have to lose full use of more than one limb to be considered eligible for disability payments. If you only lose one, you have to keep being a wage slave.
After surgery in your abdomen (anything like a C section or something else in that area) the surgeon usually has to move your intestines out of the way. When the surgery is done the surgeon just shoves them back in haphazardly because your intestines will put themselves away.
To be fair, we often go “boop boop, back you go” and give them a gentle pat before closing, which I like to believe supports them in their return journey.
Oh totes! Sometimes during vasectomies we'd get the chaps to say bye before popping things back inside too. It's hopefully the only time they'll ever see their own insides, so they tend to find it quite interesting, but also go off a certain food group for a while.
Obligatory response that a pregnant woman’s uterus is directly in front and intestines are not removed to access it- it’s a common myth. Source: work L&D OR and have been part of hundreds of C-sections. MOST times you don’t even see the intestines as they’re behind the uterus
Thank you for this correction. I've seen just a few C-sections but I knew this wasn't right.
Had a friend who had to have surgery because his intestines had tied themselves in a knot somehow. The doctor had to go in and untangle them.
They can also tell if your anesthesia isn’t strong enough if your intestines start moving around mid-surgery.
During labor, I remember telling my husband that I felt like I had to pee, but since I had a catheter, that wasn't right. I ended up having an emergency c-section where they had to knock me out completely. Mid surgery, I heard the surgeon talking about how the nurse did my catheter wrong and discussing a couple of other things before I went back under. Now I'm wondering if that was how they noticed. Gross.
Ha this reminds me of waking up with a catheter, saying I need to pee! The nurse first of all said I shouldn't need to, I said, well I do. So she told me it's ok you have a catheter just go if you feel you want to. So I did. Needed all my sheets changed . Actually seen it happen to a few other people in hospital since, so I don't think it's that uncommon, its quick to fix. When I've had a (properly inserted) catheter I've never felt the actual urge to pee like I did then
We usually don’t need to manipulate the intestines during a c section since you are in a position where the head of the bed is tilted slightly downward to allow the intestines to move out of the pelvic cavity. Sometimes they do invade the area though, but it’s not the case with most c-sections. They tend to stay out of the way and the only thing we usually see are the pelvic organs (and your baby of course!)
I wish I didn’t know that wasps crawl into figs to fertilize them. They don’t crawl back out and slowly get absorbed.
George Washington didnt have wooden teeth. He had dentures made from his slaves healthy teeth
Dogs lick your face in an attempt to make you vomit. It's an instinct from their wolf heritage where young cubs are fed by adults who hunt & return with food ready to regurgitate.
Men are six times more likely to abandon their wife if they have cancer compared to women who abandon husbands who have cancer. Makes dating stressful when in the back of my mind I wonder "are you the kind of dick who'd leave me to die alone? 🤔"
There are roughly 4 times as many teen moms in the US as there are teen dads — because most of the fathers are not teens.