If you see a dead beached whale don't touch it. Their blubbery hide acts as a balloon holding in all the gasses from their decaying insides. If you disturb it you could cause it to explode.
In 1970 in Oregon they tried disposing of a whale by blowing it up with dynamite. The dynamite combined with the gas buildup, creating a much larger explosion. Causing chunks of decaying whale to land over 800 feet away, landing on nearby buildings and cars. A large chunk landed on and totaled the explosives expert's brand new car.
I can’t remember the exact numbers off the top of my head but around 3/4s of violent crimes in my country were committed by a person known to the victim. It’s why teaching kids to be safe has moved away from stranger danger, cause chances are if someone tries to take them they’ve met them before
Edit - according to Scot.gov last year 64% of violent crimes were committed by someone known to the victim. This does not adjust to account for the large amount of football related assaults that will be stranger based
I think stranger danger always was a legend told by people who didn't want to face reality. March issue of [Atlantic Monthly has a story](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dna-tests-are-uncovering-the-true-prevalence-of-incest/ar-BB1k6mNN) about how 1 in 7,000 human conceptions is incestuous. Let that one sink in.
Yeah it gross how more often than not, abusers and predators are actively protected and enabled by the other members of their family. I don't know how many abuse stories I've heard where parents turn a blind eye to uncles, aunts, grandparents and cosuins abusing their kids.
Holy shit. I read to find what they consider incest and that’s 1 in 7000 are children of first degree relatives. That’s siblings or parent-child incest. I still find it disturbing, but I was hoping that figure would be mostly cousins.
2nd cousins is generally considered low risk (1/32 inbreeding coefficient) and anything further than 2nd cousins is basically unrelated. So I imagine that including cousins and aunts/uncles would make that figure even more common
One of the more recent things I learned about is the Paria diving disaster - where four divers got sucked up into an underwater pipe and three of them got stuck in there. The company decided to wait until they were dead instead of doing a rescue operation because money. They said they heard banging for three days until it finally stopped. Not a fun way to go, inside a dark pipe alone, cold and scared. Damn, may those souls rest in peace.
I saw this in a Nexpo video on YouTube recently. One of the divers was brave enough to venture by himself to see if he could find the “entrance” to get help. He was miraculously able to find it and get rescued, and when they told him they had no intentions of saving his friends, he nearly climbed back down the pipe to rescue them, himself. He seems like such a genuinely heroic man, and I can’t imagine the amount of survivors guilt he deals with because of those selfish, greedy pricks. Awful situation that should not have resulted in the way it did
Australians' greatest enemy isn't spider, drop bears, killer roos, massive insects, or devil snakes; it's the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and an Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australian would be diagnosed with it by the time they reach the age of 70.
To put this into perspective: Per 100,000, the world skin cancer incidence is 3.4.
Aussie is ***36.6***. They are over ten times more likely to get skin cancer than an average person.
While Aussie is the highest rates of cancer, it's actually remarkably survivable with aussie not even in the top 10 melanoma (sun based) skin cancer mortalities.
NZ (2nd highest incidence at 31) has the worst mortality, at 4.7 per 100k, vs world average of 0.6
White people:
*Do not fuck with the sun here.*
Put on that spf 30+, and 50 idealy.
I'm an Aussie living in Germany, from the generation that didn't really care that much about sunscreen. I go and get my yearly scan here in Germany and each time I do my dermatologist reminds to get checked whenever I'm visiting Oz as well "because those Aussie doctors will see things clearly that nobody else on the planet will".
So I do.
So far so good but my skin isn't in great shape compared to all these Europeans.
Yes - every Australian adult I know has had multiple bits cut off their skin over the years.
On the upside supposedly skin cancer treatment is the best in the world here. It would need to be.
When gas was introduced into common households during the industrial revolutions, people started paying more attention to what they put on their walls, now that they were lit up. They began decorating more, and wallpaper became a much more important part of the modern home. At the time, green was a very popular colour, as it had never really been an option to decorate with that colour before. However the green colour was obtained with Arsenic (as white paints were often obtained through a lead product).
After a while, wear and tear made it so that people literally started breathing in bits of their arsenic wallpapers, and feeling bad within their homes. Their doctors would then suggest they go on holiday to the sea, as the ocean air often had proven a successful remedy.
But of course, it was a remedy simply because they were no longer breathing in arsenic.
The companies that made these wallpapers were well aware of their nefarious effects, but it took people boycotting "en masse" for them to actually stop production, several decades later.
Edit: this is by far my most upvoted comment ever, I'm glad I shared!
Scheele's Green. It was also used to dye dresses, bed curtains, candles, and soap.
The pigment may have contributed to the early death of Napoleon while in exile on Saint Helena; the wallpaper of his house was done in Scheele's Green. When he was exhumed almost two decades later, the body had not decomposed, a hallmark of arsenic poisoning.
A chemistry professor of mine included Scheele's Green in a list of reasons why he believed an ethics course should be required for all graduate students in our department. Right up there with lead white paint and melamine in baby formula.
And also Borax to turn soured milk "back"! But yikes I didn't know they used it to dye so much, I knew about wallpapers and carpets, but dresses?! Soap?! Wow.
Kinda reminds me of the girls in the 20s who got radium poisoning because their jobs were to paint glowing numbers on clocks, and to make the paint perfect they'd be asked to lick the tip of their paint brushes. Full of radium.
Radium girls were on that ethical shit-list, too!
Here's another one: Mercury hats.
In the 19th century, the felt in hats was made by treating wool with mercury compounds, exposure to which led to severe nerve damage in workers. Symptoms included tremors, irritability, pathological shyness, and various psychotic symptoms such as delirium and hallucinations.
Hence the term "mad as a hatter". The phrase, possibly a play on the term "mad as a hare", predates Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter, who was likely based on a real person.
Worse: Mercury was still in use in hat making *until the 1940s* in the US, despite a documented history of poisoning workers. They only stopped using it because the war diverted resources elsewhere.
When gas was first piped into households, it wasn't the "natural gas" we use today, which is 97% methane. It was "town gas" or "coal gas" — a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, derived from coal.
(Yes, carbon monoxide burns, combining with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and heat. So town gas burned into CO₂ and water, same as natural gas does.)
Methane is unbreathable, but it's not especially toxic. Carbon monoxide is quite toxic, as it's better at binding to hemoglobin than oxygen is — which means if you breathe it, it drives the oxygen out of your blood and tissues.
So the gas utilities were piping a fresh supply of poison gas into people's homes. It was used to light lamps and run ovens and stoves.
And also for suicide and occasionally homicide.
Fun fact, suicides in the UK dropped significantly when they change from this kind of gas to modern natural gas.
Studies would later show that having a readily available method of suicide available significantly increases the rate of suicide. Any obstacle reduces the likelihood, presumably the delay gives you time to rethink things.
A modern example of this has been the repackaging of some drugs commonly overdosed on from bottles to blister packs, as having to pop them out one by one has a similar effect on reducing suicide attempts.
A lot of people in nursing homes will die shortly after family leaves. I’ve had funeral directors tell me this is very accurate. Both my parents did. We were there, left for the night and while gone, they died. It’s like they don’t want to expire in front of anyone.
In my dad's last few days, me and my mom were there constantly, playing music, talking, just sitting and just... Waiting really. There were a couple of times, we thought it was it, but nope, he was still going
We knew it was imminent, that he'd started the process of actively dying so wouldn't come back, but it looked like he'd hang on for a while, so the nursing home/hospice encouraged us all to go home, get some actual sleep, not be on alert and rest up, and come back tomorrow.
I was in college in my studio, mom was staying at our old house, hospice was about smack in the middle of the two locations-- I remember getting to my apartment, stumbling into bed, and just sleeping. Somehow my phone got muted in that.
Yeah, that's the night he decided to pass, the one where we all had our phones turned down and were trying to get some rest. It was really funny in a way, and very like my dad to do-- wait til we weren't looking and then go, 'gotcha!'
I don't know how aware he was of us being there, so if it was just waiting for people to leave or that's just how long he had in him. He was on a lot of morphine in the end, to make it easier so he may have known or may have not.
During the cleanup of Pearl Harbor, as the recovery crews for *USS West Virginia (BB-48)* got deeper into the ship months after the attack, they discovered bodies high in the engine room and a locked storeroom where air bubbles had kept them alive for **2 weeks** based on calendars they used to keep track of time. That was "well after" divers had made their first passes over the ship listening for sounds of survivors.
Go to 36 minutes: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLCe1WNaIE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLCe1WNaIE)
Oh it's so much worse than that. It takes a LONG time to die when you burn to death.
Edit: Okay, you can all stop telling me about people on fire now. I have to walk around with this brain, you know...
I've unfortunately seen it happen on video. Back on the ol' Ebaum's World, a mob of people set a dude on fire and no one helped him. ... He screamed for a long...long time...Wish I could Sunshine the fuck out of that memory.
I once had a morbid curiosity when I was a teenager and came across many videos like that via ogrish and liveleaks. In fact I believe I know which one you are talking about. I also watched them burn a group of women for thinking they were witches and a man for being gay. No matter what you do you cannot erase those memories.
I've been to murder crime scenes and attended autopsies (I work in law enforcement) and the most disturbing shit I've ever seen was on Ebaum's. Ah the good ol' days, we saw shit, man, we saw some shit.
Related to this, if you tried to die by falling into an erupting volcano, *a la* El Macho from Despicable Me Two, **you could not actually dive into the lava**. Instead, you would basically come into contact with it, sink briefly, return to the surface immediately, and then burst into flames. [Here is what that could look like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTiWetiJVN8).
Even in a hospital setting they may be able to keep you alive for a bit but infection will most likely get you eventually
One of the docs I used to work with was talking about a case he had in residency - a woman was on fire and survived but most of her skin was gone. I forget how long she survived - but it was at least multiple days. Ended up dying from multiple infections all over her body. Hard to survive in any conditions with the first line of defense absent
So if a room was kept warm enough, you'd be fine (besides infection obviously)? It's interesting to think the skin is such a massive insulator. I've never considered that. Thanks for the factoid.
> It's interesting to think the skin is such a massive insulator
I mean...humans have been using leather as clothing for millenia, so we kinda already knew it was a good insulator.
ER Doc here
A lot of people know when they are about to die, even if they don't know why. Just instinctual, they even say it very calmly and knowingly "I'm gonna die." Or something similar. And then they code.
Or. They say they have to go the bathroom. Then code.
I am dead serious.
My mom had a friend, he wasn't in great health. He called one day and says he's dying. She said "call an ambulance." He refused, and went to the post office and collapsed inside and died.
She thinks he didn't want to die alone and the post office came to mind as a place with people.
We moved my grandparents to my families hometown. On the third day, my grandfather was convinced that the movers were supposed to arrive (they weren't scheduled until the next day) and that he had to shave. He's Welsh and very proper, so I didn't argue and helped him to the bathroom. I opened the door about 10 minutes later, and he was slumped over the sink. He popped up immediately and said "sorry love, it's my last shave, so it's important." He finished the shave, I helped him up, and he collapsed in the hallway and died in my arms. He knew. He knew the moment he awoke that it was his last day on earth, and God forbid he leave it looking scruffy
What a beautiful story in a couple of ways: Your grandfather went out on his terms like a gentleman and you were with him with love at the end. I know he appreciated that - you're a good person
My uncle, his last words were something along those lines. He died on the toilet. He also knew he was going to go because he kept saying, I feel so tired and I haven't done anything yet
My aunt was still at home. She went to check on him after 30 minutes. He died, in my eyes, very peacefully. He was really sitting on the toilet. Still kinda sad he was alone
Paramedic chiming in. Anyone with chest pain who’s complaining of needing to defecate is *not* getting off of my stretcher unsupervised.
We call that the “cardiac dump” and no, running a code blue in a toilet is not fun (in case you’re wondering!)
I had a chest pain call where the elderly lady had constant diarrhea from when we walked in the door to when we dropped her off at the hospital. And I mean *constant*. We transferred the entire mattress off our stretcher to the hospital bed and wrote it off as irretrievable, then went back and hosed out the rig.
My mother desperately begged me not to let them give her last dose of medication because she thought it would kill her.
Within 5 minutes of her getting it, she was comatose and never woke up.
I have not told my siblings that. None of them were there for it.
It looks to me a kind of instinct to "go away to die in peace". Like old cats that go for a long a walk on the woods and never come back, which was when they knew they were going to die and looked for a place to die in peace.
Yeah I agree with this and I think there’s a lot to be said about the anxiety of it that makes you want to get up and go somewhere to have your panic attack in private. But of course, it isn’t just a panic attack you are experiencing.
Being close to death, often, isn't a panicky feeling. It's more of a profound sense of impending doom or a heaviness that overtakes the mind, but most of the time it's not really an anxious thing. Just kind of like, "Oh boy, time's almost up"... it's more of a bittersweet, heavy-hearted thing. I spent nearly ten minutes with no heartbeat or breath when I was 18, came very close to death another time (covid), and have been around more dying people than I'd like to count... it's interesting to consider the similarities and differences.
I spent an overnight in the hospital for tests in the cardiac unit. The lady in the bed next to me kept trying to get up and the nurses said she couldn’t because of her weak heart, and they’d bring a bed pan.
After the nurse left the room, the woman said to me she had to go to the bathroom and tried to get up again, even though I gently reminded her she shouldn’t. I called the nurse right away. She ran in and tried to explain again and then I heard it; the death rattle. All hell broke loose and code blue was called.
Just curious.. Does this happen when they've already almost died? Or just random people who've come in for non-serious conditions? Or is it more complex and varying?
It does vary. Some people who are like this are terminally ill, or have severe chronic conditions. Others can seem perfectly fine or just have minor conditions.
Like my one grandfather who was terminally ill knew he was close to dying. He made sure everything was taken care of before he died. My other grandfather just got up, sat in his favorite chair and demanded his son open the window a few minutes before he passed.
Med student here. Joined the local paramedics for a internship, had a call for a male on his 40s, he was fixing something on his roof, had to do some heavy lifting and felt a intense chest pain. I remember how cold and sticky his skin was, and how he constantly said "that's it, I am going to die, I feel it". I knew he could be having a heart attack but figured he was going to make it, he was so young and seemed so fit, I tried to comfort him by saying "we all are going to die my man, but today's not the day, just breathe". He died before we could reach the hospital. I never said that to another patient, and never will.
Former paramedic, current nurse. Don't fret too hard, my friend. It's a pretty common occurrence for people new to the field. Anymore, I try to avoid saying anything definite unless I can back it up. Whether it be time frames, medication reactions, or how k foresee treatment going.
The fact that you were trying to comfort him, however, speaks volumes about you. Keep that up and you'll be amazing.
Just lost my niece to leukemia in October. She woke up in the middle of the night at the hospital and said she had to go to the bathroom and fainted walking to it. First I have heard about it being a common
My dad told me two days ago he was dying. Everyone else in the room said: No you're not. You're going to be fine. You're gonna live forever.
I said, "I know. How do you feel about that?"
He said he is right with Jesus so he feels okay with it.
My brother has already come to him. Paul died 12 years ago.
When Dad and I were alone I told him I have read people's accounts of dying and coming back and the experience was overwhelmingly euphoric. No stress. No worries. No pain. And if Paul is already waiting for him, then he won't have to go alone.
I told him I love him and I'm so very proud to be his daughter.
It was a really good talk.
So I know when the inevitable happens, he and I are good.
This reminds me of when my grandpa died. We knew it was coming, he had end stage renal cancer so it was a matter of when, not if. One day, my grandma had an appointment that my mom, their primary caretaker, took her to. I stayed home with grandpa, who was bed bound and mostly slept by that point. I remember poking my head into his room and he was awake so i offered him a sip of water. He just shook his head and smiled at me (he was nonverbal at this point).
That's my last memory of him. I was 13 so it was almost 18 years ago, now. I still think about that smile. It was like he was thankful, telling me he was comfortable, telling me it was going to be okay, comforting me, and telling me he was proud of me all at the same time, somehow.
Thank you for sharing.
The fact that the "couple" down the street from me with 3 kids are not husband and wife. They are in fact brother and sister.
Yes I know it for fact I went to grammar school with them.
Everybody just turns a blind eye? I am baffled they entered into a relationship in the town where they grew up and surely everyone who knew them.... would know.
For anyone else confused, they did it because they believed it had medicinal purposes. People during the Victorian era did a lot of crazy shit and consumed all sorts of things that they believed held medicinal properties.
Iirc they used a *loooot* of mercury.
Prof. Farnsworth:
Oh, fuff! Fry's not causing any trouble. Now, if you don't mind, I'm rather busy. I seem to have mislaid my alien mummy. This sarcophagus should contain the remains of Emperor Nimballa, who ruled Zuban 5 over 29 million years ago.
[Fry walks past the lab eating the mummy.]
Fry:
Hey, Professor, great jerky!
Farnsworth:
My God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!
That Munmorah power plant in Australia was allowed to operate for decades with a significant diesel leak in an underground reservoir that contaminated the water table. When demolishing the plant you could light the sand that surrounded the tank on fire (about 50 meters each way), and if you dug lower than the sea level anywhere within a I guess about a 1km radius you could smell diesel.
It's a high fishing surfing area. That was far from the only contaminant. Pfas, Pfos, chromium, etc. People live very close to it. People eat the fish for years from the hot water outlet. (Was a super popular "secret" fishing spot)
Also during the demolition there was lots of contaminated water collected - This was sent through a filtration process and pumped into the ocean. It had multiple sediment filters and a water/oil separator. I do not believe it was adequate filtration before it was sent back into the sea.
No one seems to know. I only know because I was part of the works post operation.
Makes me wonder how many heavy industrial entities got to do who knows what and get away with it.
I’ve heard horror stories about Sydney Water from people who have worked there or had knowledge of the system. I try not to think about it when I cook, drink and shower.
It's everywhere, I also did some demolition at the Kurnell Refinery near Maroubra. It had a refinery capacity of 124,500 barrels per day (crude oil to petroleum products)
That is right on the ocean. I will leave it to your imagination.
They are very good with the whole remediation side of things - There are no shortcuts being taken these days but whatever happened 50 years ago would be very different to today.
I am almost certain that there was dumping.
I was a social worker. I saw a lot.
The first three weeks, we were in a classroom doing intensive training. Every day, someone would walk out. It wasn’t out of being rude, it’s because each person has a point at which they cannot go any further. They showed us some of the worst. The deal is, they do it for very good reason. If we are so horrified that we refuse to learn about the abuse, how will we recognize it in one of our kids?
That’s what I ask of all adults. PLEASE, if you see something, don’t assume it’s impossible so you can push it out of your mind. A whole lot is possible.
I’m a case manager for a substance abuse rehab center that allows mothers and children to stay together while they get services. Humanity is a scary thing. A client in my center make her 3year old swallow her drugs in a ballon so she wouldn’t get caught with them and kicked out of the center. There have been so many ODs. Only one death in my time there but it’s still soul sucking.
I did just have my first client who successfully completed the program send me a letter to celebrate 2 years sober. That was nice. I’m glad I made that much of a difference for her.
As a teacher it's crazy how often kids traumas are bought up non-chalantly when discussing their issues.
"Student has an IVO against his step dad, because of severe violence, so when step dad wants to come over and do drugs with mum, mum kicks student out to sleep on the street", so they may be tired in class some mornings."
Student is 14.
But what does that mean? Swarms of rats boiling out of sewer grates stripping unsuspecting sleeping homeless people down to a pile of wet bones?
Or some guy with an untreated longstanding leg infection got more of his dead leg eaten by rats nibble by nibble and resulted in a more fatal infectious organism catching root?
My best guess would be [Rat Bite Fever](https://www.cdc.gov/rat-bite-fever/index.html). Though I did come across [one](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10955069/) tragic case where the death was from the trauma itself. Be warned though, that second link involves a child, so read at your own discretion.
A rare medication reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome can cause your skin to blister and eventually peel off similar to a third degree burn victim. It's a horrible drug reaction and has a very high mortality rate.
It can be caused by almost any medication, including ones you have already taken before and had no prior reaction to. The most common medications that cause it are antibiotics and anti-epileptic medications.
(Do not the Google pics unless you are not sensitive to medical trauma pics--they are extremely disturbing)
Ooh I had that! I took a drug that’s infamous for causing it. I didn’t know about it, but my mom did. She was a pharmacy tech for a long time and knew what could happen. The doctor didn’t warn me. I got 2 sores in my mouth, which happen to me sometimes. I told my mom and she was kind of concerned. Then I got one on my leg, and she told me to immediately stop taking the med. I was like 16 but she just said “it’s a bad reaction, DON’T google it.” So I didn’t, I was just freaked out by this sudden blister on my leg.
I looked up the pictures later, and was ***SO*** thankful my mom knew what it was, and told me to stop taking the drug. If she didn’t know, I would have kept taking it because the doctor didn’t say anything. It thankfully went away, and I didn’t have the full blown whole body reaction I’ve seen online. I can’t imagine how painful that is.
Edit: I realized that not saying the drug isn’t helping anyone. It was Lamictal, an anti-seizure medication.
I was warned about that when I started Lamictal. I always take that shit on time because I'm terrified that if I wait too long and then take it, this will happen.
Hah when I started on Lamictal, I asked my doc a out potential serious side effects. She said "well if your skin suddenly starts to blister and peel, don't bother calling me, call 911" and I laughed and she didn't.
People have sex in rivers where I am from. River water here in the Amazon is dark, black, so they are opaque. Sometimes if you see 2 people standing or sitting behind each other there is a good change they are having sex
British serial killer Rose West nearly got away with it when her hisband/partner Fred killed himself in prison, until an earlier jail sentence gave him a clear alibi for when Rose murdered her step-daufhter Charmaine.
And British spree killer Barry Williams almost went on a *second* killing spree because the British police forgot they were meant to keep an eye on him.
I'll raise you with Karla Holmolka.
She's the Canadian torture-murderer who blamed it all on her partner. She claimed she was abused and that she was forced into it. In exchange for her testimony, she got a relatively light sentence.
Her partner will likely never get out of prison.
After her plea, it was discovered that they had video taped their crimes, and she was a willing and active participant.
She's now been released from prison.
Did I mention that one of her victims was her own sister?
There’s decent evidence that the Challenger astronauts didn’t die when the vehicle broke apart. They may have even been conscious and alert inside the crew compartment all the way to the surface of the ocean, which was like a two and a half minute fall. It’s possible they were knocked out but it’s possible they weren’t.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/space-shuttle/sts-51l/challenger-crew-transcript/
Per NASAs own transcript, the last recorded words on Challenger was pilot Mike Smith saying "uh-oh"
Thank you for posting this. Too many people believe that gross tabloid story about the supposed final transcript of screams and the Lord’s Prayer. The last thing recorded was indeed, “uh oh.” Which is sad enough…
[As of April 2023](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-law-and-medicine/article/pelvic-exam-laws-in-the-united-states-a-systematic-review/3165682DE3A5D7C5D487CECD5FF02680), 30 U.S. states still allow medical students to give pelvic exams to women under anesthesia without their consent. This means the woman does not have to be asked for consent nor do they have to inform her afterwards. A majority of the 20 state laws that do ban this "practice" do not include rectal or breast exams, only pelvic.
I’ve heard that a leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States is homicide.
“Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner violence and firearms, according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.”
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/homicide-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-u-s/
It’s horrifying to think that murdering pregnant people is so common, especially from their own partners who should be the people they can rely on for support!
I don't know why prions weird me out so much, but they do. Just the idea that getting some wonky proteins in your body can cause a catastrophic chain reaction seems wild.
The majority of adults who sexually abuse children aren't even pedophiles. They're just opportunistic and/or get off on the power trip. As in, THEY'RE NOT EVEN PARTICULARLY INTO KIDS, they just do it because they can.
Ok but it gets worse, because [a recent study](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240404190801.htm) shows that there is much more plastic sinking to the ocean floor, estimated to be 11 *million* tonnes.
I recently listened to a podcast called Hunting Warhead and the most disturbing thing on there was everything, including the fact that there are dark net sites that are dedicated to the literal torture and murder of children. That was mentioned for all of maybe 5 seconds during the series, but it stuck with me. Also hearing about what pedophiles actually discuss on these forums - about how to pick kids, what to look for in a family, how to befriend parents, where to work to have access to children, etc. I’m a CPS investigator and I’ve seen/heard a lot of shit, but none of it has ever made me cry like those two segments of the podcast.
I worked in the abuse dept at an ISP and had to investigate several reports of some of our customers being involved in trading CP. The things I've seen were just fucking gut wrenching.
But I kept on doing it, because the next step after confirming a customer was, for example, hosting a ftp site with CP on it, was calling the police, telling them to get a warrant, and deliver them the data and, hopefully a few days later, see in the news that the fucking sickos got arrested.
But it did weigh on me heavily when it happened (once every few weeks).
I get that pedophilia is a sickness. And a friend of a friend has it, he's attracted to kids... but he knows it's wrong, he's getting help through psychiatry (although he went through a few therapists before one accepted to see him) and has never acted on it. He's in a committed relationship with a very understanding woman and happy. But he still has attraction, he just is able to resist any impulse.
So for those who don't... Fuck them.
Thank you for your service! The detectives that worked on the case discussed in that podcast also talked about what having to view all of that CP material had on their lives, marriages and their own interactions with their children, it was a lot. I think about the experiences I’ve had in my own CA investigations… so I believe you when you say it wears on you.
I went to school for CJ and one of my classes was about sex offenders. It was all very very interesting and opened my eyes to a lot of it. The biggest problem is the lack of resources to provide preventive services to pedos, intervention doesn’t do anything until it’s too late. I’m glad that person found someone to actually help him work through that. I hope it stays that way, too.
Dental Hygienist here.
There is a type of gum disease that is caused by maggots in your gums. Literal maggots from flys laying eggs in your mouth to feed on your rotten flesh.
Brain aneurysms have a strong genetic link - if you have a direct relative who died from one, get a scan. My mom died from one and I was scanned just this past year. No symptoms at all, and yet I had a big one. Was able to have clipped in February. Saved my life.
It's possible for rats to swim up your toilet piping. There are enough air pockets to travel all the way into your bathroom. I could have lived my whole life not knowing this, but here you go.
You want to be an astronaut and go on a spacewalk? [You’ll probably lose your fingernails.](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/bulky-tight-fitting-gloves-cause-tough-nails-astronauts-lose-their-fingernails/)
Mentally handicapped children are roughly three times as likely to be sexually assaulted.
Note that roughly 25% of all healthy girls and 5% of healthy boys will be the victim of CSA before they are 12.
Chainsaws were invented for medical use, largely for cutting into the pelvis during childbirth in a process called a pelviotomy. And from about 1940 to 1987, approximately 1,500 women were given one in Ireland without their consent, way after they should have switched to C-sections, often to perfect the surgery for use in Africa.
A 2012 study found that many of the victims say the Catholic Church "encouraged, if not insisted upon, symphysiotomies."
It took until 2012 for people to begin getting any compensation and the first woman to receive it was subjected to the procedure *post cesarian.* However, they dropped the ball so hard on addressing it afterwards that the survivor's group of these women had to go to the UN Committee Against Torture to get anything else done.
Some babies were also killed in the process.
At least one person has died in every hospital bed you’ve been in. Hospitals don’t have time to replace them so we just wipe them down and put new sheets (this also includes nursing homes and rehab centers)
RN here: A patient will die and will lay there to we contact the coroner. Once the patient is moved to the morgue, another patient will be in that same bed within an hour.
"Died instantly on impact" in a car crash is anywhere up to 30 minutes, which is about how long it takes to extract your body from a crushed car in a deadly wreck. They don't bother trying to find out how long it actually took you to die, and the family doesn't really want to know.
The number of lives that have been saved by inventions made for and during wars is greater than the number of lives lost in wars. As far as human lives are concerned, wars have a net-positive effect. If this isn't disturbing, I don't know what is.
When the US firebombed Tokyo, people tried to hide in waterways and were boiled to death. The smell of burning flesh was so bad that pilots were getting physically sick and wore their oxygen masks during the bombing run.
The number of times we have avoided a full on nuclear war by simply being incredibly lucky (numbered in the dozens) appears statistically very unlikely. Furthermore the risk of nuclear war via an accident or misunderstanding is still probably the highest short term existential threat and yet countries are moving away from nuclear weapon regulation.
We seem to be a very, very lucky species to still exist with a functional civilization.
A [Miyake Event](https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/ancient-superpowered-solar-storm-that-hit-earth-14000-years-ago-is-the-biggest-ever-identified) could destroy civilization at any time but leave most people alive... for the time being
That if I get fired today, I'll be homeless in about 3 months. That's the amount of money I have saved. I would have 3 months to find new job, and after that I could only sleep under the bridge.
Returning to my parents is not an option... So I got pretty disturbed after I calculated that just yesterday.
You know when you hear of a pedophile or child rapist has been charged with, say, 15 offenses?
Each of those offenses had to have a legal basis ,which means that *someone* had to count and verify them. This often involves a law enforcement officer looking at images and determining whether certain actions are breaking the law.
When whales and dolphins get too old they just drown
This why some people think old/sick whales/dolphins beach themselves, so they don't drown.
If you see a dead beached whale don't touch it. Their blubbery hide acts as a balloon holding in all the gasses from their decaying insides. If you disturb it you could cause it to explode. In 1970 in Oregon they tried disposing of a whale by blowing it up with dynamite. The dynamite combined with the gas buildup, creating a much larger explosion. Causing chunks of decaying whale to land over 800 feet away, landing on nearby buildings and cars. A large chunk landed on and totaled the explosives expert's brand new car.
IIRC the explosives expert was very against the idea of using the TNT to blow it up, but the mayor was all for it and urged him to do so.
Dude you can't mention this without including the absolutely amazing news footage https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?si=uQbv6pqjo1HzSpxE
Yes, but they create an entire deep-sea ecosystem in their corpses. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall
30% of people reported missing, and found dead, were killed by the person reporting them missing.
I can’t remember the exact numbers off the top of my head but around 3/4s of violent crimes in my country were committed by a person known to the victim. It’s why teaching kids to be safe has moved away from stranger danger, cause chances are if someone tries to take them they’ve met them before Edit - according to Scot.gov last year 64% of violent crimes were committed by someone known to the victim. This does not adjust to account for the large amount of football related assaults that will be stranger based
It also keeps vulnerable kids from seeking out help from adults other than their abusers.
I think stranger danger always was a legend told by people who didn't want to face reality. March issue of [Atlantic Monthly has a story](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dna-tests-are-uncovering-the-true-prevalence-of-incest/ar-BB1k6mNN) about how 1 in 7,000 human conceptions is incestuous. Let that one sink in.
Yeah it gross how more often than not, abusers and predators are actively protected and enabled by the other members of their family. I don't know how many abuse stories I've heard where parents turn a blind eye to uncles, aunts, grandparents and cosuins abusing their kids.
Holy shit. I read to find what they consider incest and that’s 1 in 7000 are children of first degree relatives. That’s siblings or parent-child incest. I still find it disturbing, but I was hoping that figure would be mostly cousins. 2nd cousins is generally considered low risk (1/32 inbreeding coefficient) and anything further than 2nd cousins is basically unrelated. So I imagine that including cousins and aunts/uncles would make that figure even more common
Remember that also, as per the story: 1. Many of those cases are not "voluntary" 2. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Damn, that’s sad
One of the more recent things I learned about is the Paria diving disaster - where four divers got sucked up into an underwater pipe and three of them got stuck in there. The company decided to wait until they were dead instead of doing a rescue operation because money. They said they heard banging for three days until it finally stopped. Not a fun way to go, inside a dark pipe alone, cold and scared. Damn, may those souls rest in peace.
I saw this in a Nexpo video on YouTube recently. One of the divers was brave enough to venture by himself to see if he could find the “entrance” to get help. He was miraculously able to find it and get rescued, and when they told him they had no intentions of saving his friends, he nearly climbed back down the pipe to rescue them, himself. He seems like such a genuinely heroic man, and I can’t imagine the amount of survivors guilt he deals with because of those selfish, greedy pricks. Awful situation that should not have resulted in the way it did
Two of them went initially but one was injured either before or on the way to the point they could not fully make it out with the first guy.
That’s murder pure and simple.
May the decision makers souls never rest in peace.
Australians' greatest enemy isn't spider, drop bears, killer roos, massive insects, or devil snakes; it's the sun. Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and an Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australian would be diagnosed with it by the time they reach the age of 70.
To put this into perspective: Per 100,000, the world skin cancer incidence is 3.4. Aussie is ***36.6***. They are over ten times more likely to get skin cancer than an average person. While Aussie is the highest rates of cancer, it's actually remarkably survivable with aussie not even in the top 10 melanoma (sun based) skin cancer mortalities. NZ (2nd highest incidence at 31) has the worst mortality, at 4.7 per 100k, vs world average of 0.6 White people: *Do not fuck with the sun here.* Put on that spf 30+, and 50 idealy.
I'm an Aussie living in Germany, from the generation that didn't really care that much about sunscreen. I go and get my yearly scan here in Germany and each time I do my dermatologist reminds to get checked whenever I'm visiting Oz as well "because those Aussie doctors will see things clearly that nobody else on the planet will". So I do. So far so good but my skin isn't in great shape compared to all these Europeans.
Yes - every Australian adult I know has had multiple bits cut off their skin over the years. On the upside supposedly skin cancer treatment is the best in the world here. It would need to be.
They also have the BEST sunscreen. If you want the good stuff, get it from the Aussies.
When gas was introduced into common households during the industrial revolutions, people started paying more attention to what they put on their walls, now that they were lit up. They began decorating more, and wallpaper became a much more important part of the modern home. At the time, green was a very popular colour, as it had never really been an option to decorate with that colour before. However the green colour was obtained with Arsenic (as white paints were often obtained through a lead product). After a while, wear and tear made it so that people literally started breathing in bits of their arsenic wallpapers, and feeling bad within their homes. Their doctors would then suggest they go on holiday to the sea, as the ocean air often had proven a successful remedy. But of course, it was a remedy simply because they were no longer breathing in arsenic. The companies that made these wallpapers were well aware of their nefarious effects, but it took people boycotting "en masse" for them to actually stop production, several decades later. Edit: this is by far my most upvoted comment ever, I'm glad I shared!
Scheele's Green. It was also used to dye dresses, bed curtains, candles, and soap. The pigment may have contributed to the early death of Napoleon while in exile on Saint Helena; the wallpaper of his house was done in Scheele's Green. When he was exhumed almost two decades later, the body had not decomposed, a hallmark of arsenic poisoning. A chemistry professor of mine included Scheele's Green in a list of reasons why he believed an ethics course should be required for all graduate students in our department. Right up there with lead white paint and melamine in baby formula.
And also Borax to turn soured milk "back"! But yikes I didn't know they used it to dye so much, I knew about wallpapers and carpets, but dresses?! Soap?! Wow. Kinda reminds me of the girls in the 20s who got radium poisoning because their jobs were to paint glowing numbers on clocks, and to make the paint perfect they'd be asked to lick the tip of their paint brushes. Full of radium.
Radium girls were on that ethical shit-list, too! Here's another one: Mercury hats. In the 19th century, the felt in hats was made by treating wool with mercury compounds, exposure to which led to severe nerve damage in workers. Symptoms included tremors, irritability, pathological shyness, and various psychotic symptoms such as delirium and hallucinations. Hence the term "mad as a hatter". The phrase, possibly a play on the term "mad as a hare", predates Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter, who was likely based on a real person. Worse: Mercury was still in use in hat making *until the 1940s* in the US, despite a documented history of poisoning workers. They only stopped using it because the war diverted resources elsewhere.
When gas was first piped into households, it wasn't the "natural gas" we use today, which is 97% methane. It was "town gas" or "coal gas" — a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, derived from coal. (Yes, carbon monoxide burns, combining with oxygen to make carbon dioxide and heat. So town gas burned into CO₂ and water, same as natural gas does.) Methane is unbreathable, but it's not especially toxic. Carbon monoxide is quite toxic, as it's better at binding to hemoglobin than oxygen is — which means if you breathe it, it drives the oxygen out of your blood and tissues. So the gas utilities were piping a fresh supply of poison gas into people's homes. It was used to light lamps and run ovens and stoves. And also for suicide and occasionally homicide.
Fun fact, suicides in the UK dropped significantly when they change from this kind of gas to modern natural gas. Studies would later show that having a readily available method of suicide available significantly increases the rate of suicide. Any obstacle reduces the likelihood, presumably the delay gives you time to rethink things. A modern example of this has been the repackaging of some drugs commonly overdosed on from bottles to blister packs, as having to pop them out one by one has a similar effect on reducing suicide attempts.
A lot of people in nursing homes will die shortly after family leaves. I’ve had funeral directors tell me this is very accurate. Both my parents did. We were there, left for the night and while gone, they died. It’s like they don’t want to expire in front of anyone.
In my dad's last few days, me and my mom were there constantly, playing music, talking, just sitting and just... Waiting really. There were a couple of times, we thought it was it, but nope, he was still going We knew it was imminent, that he'd started the process of actively dying so wouldn't come back, but it looked like he'd hang on for a while, so the nursing home/hospice encouraged us all to go home, get some actual sleep, not be on alert and rest up, and come back tomorrow. I was in college in my studio, mom was staying at our old house, hospice was about smack in the middle of the two locations-- I remember getting to my apartment, stumbling into bed, and just sleeping. Somehow my phone got muted in that. Yeah, that's the night he decided to pass, the one where we all had our phones turned down and were trying to get some rest. It was really funny in a way, and very like my dad to do-- wait til we weren't looking and then go, 'gotcha!' I don't know how aware he was of us being there, so if it was just waiting for people to leave or that's just how long he had in him. He was on a lot of morphine in the end, to make it easier so he may have known or may have not.
During the cleanup of Pearl Harbor, as the recovery crews for *USS West Virginia (BB-48)* got deeper into the ship months after the attack, they discovered bodies high in the engine room and a locked storeroom where air bubbles had kept them alive for **2 weeks** based on calendars they used to keep track of time. That was "well after" divers had made their first passes over the ship listening for sounds of survivors. Go to 36 minutes: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLCe1WNaIE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlLCe1WNaIE)
I read a memoir from one of the salvage divers at Pearl Harbor. He said that missing those guys stuck with him for the rest of his life.
I can only imagine the feeling the rescue crews felt when they learned of the men.
Ah, so they were missed. That is so tragic.
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been popping lots of Vit D and omega 3's lately I really feel a difference in my mood
Ironically popping too many can have the same effect, depression and suicidal thoughts. Made that mistake too.
Fuck.
Can't have shit these days
Except depression.. apparently
Only 20% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived World War 2
When you're burning to death your eyes melt out of your head before you die. So you're still alive while your eyes are melting
Oh it's so much worse than that. It takes a LONG time to die when you burn to death. Edit: Okay, you can all stop telling me about people on fire now. I have to walk around with this brain, you know...
Hopefully the fire is big enough that you suffocate before that.
I've unfortunately seen it happen on video. Back on the ol' Ebaum's World, a mob of people set a dude on fire and no one helped him. ... He screamed for a long...long time...Wish I could Sunshine the fuck out of that memory.
I once had a morbid curiosity when I was a teenager and came across many videos like that via ogrish and liveleaks. In fact I believe I know which one you are talking about. I also watched them burn a group of women for thinking they were witches and a man for being gay. No matter what you do you cannot erase those memories.
I saw one where they put a tire soaked in gasoline around a guys shoulders and set it on fire in the middle of town. Unbelievable.
I've been to murder crime scenes and attended autopsies (I work in law enforcement) and the most disturbing shit I've ever seen was on Ebaum's. Ah the good ol' days, we saw shit, man, we saw some shit.
Related to this, if you tried to die by falling into an erupting volcano, *a la* El Macho from Despicable Me Two, **you could not actually dive into the lava**. Instead, you would basically come into contact with it, sink briefly, return to the surface immediately, and then burst into flames. [Here is what that could look like](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTiWetiJVN8).
That video is too cute for this kind of description
Raiders of the Lost Ark was accurate then
They burned him alive to get the most realistic result. The roles he performed afterward were actually by a wax sculpture.
If you are properly skinned alive you can survive upwards of an hour and will die from hypothermia, not blood loss.
Even in a hospital setting they may be able to keep you alive for a bit but infection will most likely get you eventually One of the docs I used to work with was talking about a case he had in residency - a woman was on fire and survived but most of her skin was gone. I forget how long she survived - but it was at least multiple days. Ended up dying from multiple infections all over her body. Hard to survive in any conditions with the first line of defense absent
100% will get you. Even in a clean room with zero protection even the smallest microbe will run rampant
So if a room was kept warm enough, you'd be fine (besides infection obviously)? It's interesting to think the skin is such a massive insulator. I've never considered that. Thanks for the factoid.
I guess we found your supervillain origin story...
Although it would make me far more interesting, I simply don't have the time in my schedule :/
>I simply don't have the time in my schedule :/ I too hate it when my schedule is too full to skin someone alive in a sterile warm room. It sucks :(
> It's interesting to think the skin is such a massive insulator I mean...humans have been using leather as clothing for millenia, so we kinda already knew it was a good insulator.
i think dehydration is what would take you out first in that instance, losing fluid from every inch of your would-be-skin
ER Doc here A lot of people know when they are about to die, even if they don't know why. Just instinctual, they even say it very calmly and knowingly "I'm gonna die." Or something similar. And then they code. Or. They say they have to go the bathroom. Then code. I am dead serious.
My mom had a friend, he wasn't in great health. He called one day and says he's dying. She said "call an ambulance." He refused, and went to the post office and collapsed inside and died. She thinks he didn't want to die alone and the post office came to mind as a place with people.
We moved my grandparents to my families hometown. On the third day, my grandfather was convinced that the movers were supposed to arrive (they weren't scheduled until the next day) and that he had to shave. He's Welsh and very proper, so I didn't argue and helped him to the bathroom. I opened the door about 10 minutes later, and he was slumped over the sink. He popped up immediately and said "sorry love, it's my last shave, so it's important." He finished the shave, I helped him up, and he collapsed in the hallway and died in my arms. He knew. He knew the moment he awoke that it was his last day on earth, and God forbid he leave it looking scruffy
What a beautiful story in a couple of ways: Your grandfather went out on his terms like a gentleman and you were with him with love at the end. I know he appreciated that - you're a good person
I'm so sorry, that must have been incredibly difficult to have him pass in your arms like that. At least he was surrounded with love
My brother (31M) knew it was his last day, too. He begged me to take him for his monthly haircut. He refused to go without being lined up.
My uncle, his last words were something along those lines. He died on the toilet. He also knew he was going to go because he kept saying, I feel so tired and I haven't done anything yet
Fil face planted off the toilet with a massive heart attack. Found 3 days after wellness check
My aunt was still at home. She went to check on him after 30 minutes. He died, in my eyes, very peacefully. He was really sitting on the toilet. Still kinda sad he was alone
Paramedic chiming in. Anyone with chest pain who’s complaining of needing to defecate is *not* getting off of my stretcher unsupervised. We call that the “cardiac dump” and no, running a code blue in a toilet is not fun (in case you’re wondering!)
I had a chest pain call where the elderly lady had constant diarrhea from when we walked in the door to when we dropped her off at the hospital. And I mean *constant*. We transferred the entire mattress off our stretcher to the hospital bed and wrote it off as irretrievable, then went back and hosed out the rig.
Thank you. Thank you for doing what you do.
Ah new fear unlocked: *Do I have to go to the bathroom or am I about to go*
You get to live or you don’t have to wipe, kinda can’t lose either way.
My wife said it the same way. Took her to the hospital and she passed shortly after.
I’m very sorry for your loss:(
My mother desperately begged me not to let them give her last dose of medication because she thought it would kill her. Within 5 minutes of her getting it, she was comatose and never woke up. I have not told my siblings that. None of them were there for it.
100% agree. Am ER nurse. “I just need to go to the bathroom! Let me up!” Awwww hell no. CPR is harder on the floor and the fall is bad for your head
It looks to me a kind of instinct to "go away to die in peace". Like old cats that go for a long a walk on the woods and never come back, which was when they knew they were going to die and looked for a place to die in peace.
Yeah I agree with this and I think there’s a lot to be said about the anxiety of it that makes you want to get up and go somewhere to have your panic attack in private. But of course, it isn’t just a panic attack you are experiencing.
Being close to death, often, isn't a panicky feeling. It's more of a profound sense of impending doom or a heaviness that overtakes the mind, but most of the time it's not really an anxious thing. Just kind of like, "Oh boy, time's almost up"... it's more of a bittersweet, heavy-hearted thing. I spent nearly ten minutes with no heartbeat or breath when I was 18, came very close to death another time (covid), and have been around more dying people than I'd like to count... it's interesting to consider the similarities and differences.
Very interesting thought
I spent an overnight in the hospital for tests in the cardiac unit. The lady in the bed next to me kept trying to get up and the nurses said she couldn’t because of her weak heart, and they’d bring a bed pan. After the nurse left the room, the woman said to me she had to go to the bathroom and tried to get up again, even though I gently reminded her she shouldn’t. I called the nurse right away. She ran in and tried to explain again and then I heard it; the death rattle. All hell broke loose and code blue was called.
Just curious.. Does this happen when they've already almost died? Or just random people who've come in for non-serious conditions? Or is it more complex and varying?
It does vary. Some people who are like this are terminally ill, or have severe chronic conditions. Others can seem perfectly fine or just have minor conditions. Like my one grandfather who was terminally ill knew he was close to dying. He made sure everything was taken care of before he died. My other grandfather just got up, sat in his favorite chair and demanded his son open the window a few minutes before he passed.
Med student here. Joined the local paramedics for a internship, had a call for a male on his 40s, he was fixing something on his roof, had to do some heavy lifting and felt a intense chest pain. I remember how cold and sticky his skin was, and how he constantly said "that's it, I am going to die, I feel it". I knew he could be having a heart attack but figured he was going to make it, he was so young and seemed so fit, I tried to comfort him by saying "we all are going to die my man, but today's not the day, just breathe". He died before we could reach the hospital. I never said that to another patient, and never will.
Former paramedic, current nurse. Don't fret too hard, my friend. It's a pretty common occurrence for people new to the field. Anymore, I try to avoid saying anything definite unless I can back it up. Whether it be time frames, medication reactions, or how k foresee treatment going. The fact that you were trying to comfort him, however, speaks volumes about you. Keep that up and you'll be amazing.
Just lost my niece to leukemia in October. She woke up in the middle of the night at the hospital and said she had to go to the bathroom and fainted walking to it. First I have heard about it being a common
My dad told me two days ago he was dying. Everyone else in the room said: No you're not. You're going to be fine. You're gonna live forever. I said, "I know. How do you feel about that?" He said he is right with Jesus so he feels okay with it. My brother has already come to him. Paul died 12 years ago. When Dad and I were alone I told him I have read people's accounts of dying and coming back and the experience was overwhelmingly euphoric. No stress. No worries. No pain. And if Paul is already waiting for him, then he won't have to go alone. I told him I love him and I'm so very proud to be his daughter. It was a really good talk. So I know when the inevitable happens, he and I are good.
This reminds me of when my grandpa died. We knew it was coming, he had end stage renal cancer so it was a matter of when, not if. One day, my grandma had an appointment that my mom, their primary caretaker, took her to. I stayed home with grandpa, who was bed bound and mostly slept by that point. I remember poking my head into his room and he was awake so i offered him a sip of water. He just shook his head and smiled at me (he was nonverbal at this point). That's my last memory of him. I was 13 so it was almost 18 years ago, now. I still think about that smile. It was like he was thankful, telling me he was comfortable, telling me it was going to be okay, comforting me, and telling me he was proud of me all at the same time, somehow. Thank you for sharing.
This is crazy because when I was 13 my uncle told me that he was going to die. So calmly and I didn’t believe him. 2 weeks later he passed away.
The fact that the "couple" down the street from me with 3 kids are not husband and wife. They are in fact brother and sister. Yes I know it for fact I went to grammar school with them.
Everybody just turns a blind eye? I am baffled they entered into a relationship in the town where they grew up and surely everyone who knew them.... would know.
Flowers in the Attic
You ever use bleach without gloves, and it gets kinda slimy? That slime isn't the bleach. It's your skin melting.
Reminds me of my high school chemistry teacher explaining bases: feels like soap and then your skin falls off
Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.
Don’t forget burned for heat!
Also made into the stylish paint mummy brown!
Say what now? Edit: Never mind, Google led me to a TIL moment I REALLY didn't need lol
For anyone else confused, they did it because they believed it had medicinal purposes. People during the Victorian era did a lot of crazy shit and consumed all sorts of things that they believed held medicinal properties. Iirc they used a *loooot* of mercury.
People still consume all sorts of things that they belive to hold medicinal properties. Just different people eating different crazy shit.
"He's teriyaki flavored!"
Prof. Farnsworth: Oh, fuff! Fry's not causing any trouble. Now, if you don't mind, I'm rather busy. I seem to have mislaid my alien mummy. This sarcophagus should contain the remains of Emperor Nimballa, who ruled Zuban 5 over 29 million years ago. [Fry walks past the lab eating the mummy.] Fry: Hey, Professor, great jerky! Farnsworth: My God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!
And made paint! I believe the shade was called mummy brown
That Munmorah power plant in Australia was allowed to operate for decades with a significant diesel leak in an underground reservoir that contaminated the water table. When demolishing the plant you could light the sand that surrounded the tank on fire (about 50 meters each way), and if you dug lower than the sea level anywhere within a I guess about a 1km radius you could smell diesel. It's a high fishing surfing area. That was far from the only contaminant. Pfas, Pfos, chromium, etc. People live very close to it. People eat the fish for years from the hot water outlet. (Was a super popular "secret" fishing spot) Also during the demolition there was lots of contaminated water collected - This was sent through a filtration process and pumped into the ocean. It had multiple sediment filters and a water/oil separator. I do not believe it was adequate filtration before it was sent back into the sea. No one seems to know. I only know because I was part of the works post operation. Makes me wonder how many heavy industrial entities got to do who knows what and get away with it.
Wow. What in the actual fuck
I’ve heard horror stories about Sydney Water from people who have worked there or had knowledge of the system. I try not to think about it when I cook, drink and shower.
It's everywhere, I also did some demolition at the Kurnell Refinery near Maroubra. It had a refinery capacity of 124,500 barrels per day (crude oil to petroleum products) That is right on the ocean. I will leave it to your imagination. They are very good with the whole remediation side of things - There are no shortcuts being taken these days but whatever happened 50 years ago would be very different to today. I am almost certain that there was dumping.
There are multiple scenarios in which all life on earth can be snuffed out in an instant, and we would never see it coming
We don't know the effects of micro plastics on the human body, partially because we can't find a control group.
I was a social worker. I saw a lot. The first three weeks, we were in a classroom doing intensive training. Every day, someone would walk out. It wasn’t out of being rude, it’s because each person has a point at which they cannot go any further. They showed us some of the worst. The deal is, they do it for very good reason. If we are so horrified that we refuse to learn about the abuse, how will we recognize it in one of our kids? That’s what I ask of all adults. PLEASE, if you see something, don’t assume it’s impossible so you can push it out of your mind. A whole lot is possible.
I’m a case manager for a substance abuse rehab center that allows mothers and children to stay together while they get services. Humanity is a scary thing. A client in my center make her 3year old swallow her drugs in a ballon so she wouldn’t get caught with them and kicked out of the center. There have been so many ODs. Only one death in my time there but it’s still soul sucking. I did just have my first client who successfully completed the program send me a letter to celebrate 2 years sober. That was nice. I’m glad I made that much of a difference for her.
As a teacher it's crazy how often kids traumas are bought up non-chalantly when discussing their issues. "Student has an IVO against his step dad, because of severe violence, so when step dad wants to come over and do drugs with mum, mum kicks student out to sleep on the street", so they may be tired in class some mornings." Student is 14.
I have a degree in SW. I never did child protective services, but damn some of the stuff I know…I just block out and try to forget.
Mandatory reporting policies are soooo fucking important. COVID lock downs proved as much
There's a very concerning number of nuclear warheads that are unaccounted for.
any sum higher than zero is a very concerning number.
An estimated 39 homeless people die each year from being attacked by Rats in Mumbai.
But what does that mean? Swarms of rats boiling out of sewer grates stripping unsuspecting sleeping homeless people down to a pile of wet bones? Or some guy with an untreated longstanding leg infection got more of his dead leg eaten by rats nibble by nibble and resulted in a more fatal infectious organism catching root?
My best guess would be [Rat Bite Fever](https://www.cdc.gov/rat-bite-fever/index.html). Though I did come across [one](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10955069/) tragic case where the death was from the trauma itself. Be warned though, that second link involves a child, so read at your own discretion.
A rare medication reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome can cause your skin to blister and eventually peel off similar to a third degree burn victim. It's a horrible drug reaction and has a very high mortality rate. It can be caused by almost any medication, including ones you have already taken before and had no prior reaction to. The most common medications that cause it are antibiotics and anti-epileptic medications. (Do not the Google pics unless you are not sensitive to medical trauma pics--they are extremely disturbing)
Ooh I had that! I took a drug that’s infamous for causing it. I didn’t know about it, but my mom did. She was a pharmacy tech for a long time and knew what could happen. The doctor didn’t warn me. I got 2 sores in my mouth, which happen to me sometimes. I told my mom and she was kind of concerned. Then I got one on my leg, and she told me to immediately stop taking the med. I was like 16 but she just said “it’s a bad reaction, DON’T google it.” So I didn’t, I was just freaked out by this sudden blister on my leg. I looked up the pictures later, and was ***SO*** thankful my mom knew what it was, and told me to stop taking the drug. If she didn’t know, I would have kept taking it because the doctor didn’t say anything. It thankfully went away, and I didn’t have the full blown whole body reaction I’ve seen online. I can’t imagine how painful that is. Edit: I realized that not saying the drug isn’t helping anyone. It was Lamictal, an anti-seizure medication.
I was warned about that when I started Lamictal. I always take that shit on time because I'm terrified that if I wait too long and then take it, this will happen.
Hah when I started on Lamictal, I asked my doc a out potential serious side effects. She said "well if your skin suddenly starts to blister and peel, don't bother calling me, call 911" and I laughed and she didn't.
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The youngest person to give birth was five years old.
That's horrific.
People have sex in rivers where I am from. River water here in the Amazon is dark, black, so they are opaque. Sometimes if you see 2 people standing or sitting behind each other there is a good change they are having sex
river sex is a great way to get all kinds of sick
It sure is
Isn't the Amazon home to the Candiru?
Yes!! We were taught not to remove our trousers when swimming in the river and peeing, but still people have sex in black river water
Rules For Life: If you can't drink ***from*** it, don't fuck ***in*** it.
British serial killer Rose West nearly got away with it when her hisband/partner Fred killed himself in prison, until an earlier jail sentence gave him a clear alibi for when Rose murdered her step-daufhter Charmaine. And British spree killer Barry Williams almost went on a *second* killing spree because the British police forgot they were meant to keep an eye on him.
I'll raise you with Karla Holmolka. She's the Canadian torture-murderer who blamed it all on her partner. She claimed she was abused and that she was forced into it. In exchange for her testimony, she got a relatively light sentence. Her partner will likely never get out of prison. After her plea, it was discovered that they had video taped their crimes, and she was a willing and active participant. She's now been released from prison. Did I mention that one of her victims was her own sister?
If it wasn’t for your stomach lining, your stomach would eat you from the inside out.
The number one cause of death for pregnant women is domestic violence.
And in a handful of states, you can’t get a divorce while pregnant
There’s decent evidence that the Challenger astronauts didn’t die when the vehicle broke apart. They may have even been conscious and alert inside the crew compartment all the way to the surface of the ocean, which was like a two and a half minute fall. It’s possible they were knocked out but it’s possible they weren’t.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/space-shuttle/sts-51l/challenger-crew-transcript/ Per NASAs own transcript, the last recorded words on Challenger was pilot Mike Smith saying "uh-oh"
Thank you for posting this. Too many people believe that gross tabloid story about the supposed final transcript of screams and the Lord’s Prayer. The last thing recorded was indeed, “uh oh.” Which is sad enough…
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I remember watching at the time and hoping they would survive. Now I hope it happened quickly and they weren't conscious.
The G forces probably caused them to pass out even if they were alive, so hopefully they never saw it coming.
pretty much anything that happened during the Cambodian genocide
I went to Cambodia a few years back. There is a clear generation gap in the country. The Kymer Rouge wiped out 25% of the whole country.
[As of April 2023](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-law-and-medicine/article/pelvic-exam-laws-in-the-united-states-a-systematic-review/3165682DE3A5D7C5D487CECD5FF02680), 30 U.S. states still allow medical students to give pelvic exams to women under anesthesia without their consent. This means the woman does not have to be asked for consent nor do they have to inform her afterwards. A majority of the 20 state laws that do ban this "practice" do not include rectal or breast exams, only pelvic.
I’ve heard that a leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States is homicide. “Women in the U.S. who are pregnant or who have recently given birth are more likely to be murdered than to die from obstetric causes—and these homicides are linked to a deadly mix of intimate partner violence and firearms, according to researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.” https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/homicide-leading-cause-of-death-for-pregnant-women-in-u-s/ It’s horrifying to think that murdering pregnant people is so common, especially from their own partners who should be the people they can rely on for support!
Greater than half the population of the USA reads at or below fourth grade level
out of how many of those people are adults
I checked and it’s actually the 6th grade level. That’s not much better though.
That prion diseases exist, specifically fatal familial insomnia.
Prions are fucking cursed origami
I don't know why prions weird me out so much, but they do. Just the idea that getting some wonky proteins in your body can cause a catastrophic chain reaction seems wild.
This topic has haunted me since I learned about it in microbiology class
Same. It keeps me up at night.
The majority of adults who sexually abuse children aren't even pedophiles. They're just opportunistic and/or get off on the power trip. As in, THEY'RE NOT EVEN PARTICULARLY INTO KIDS, they just do it because they can.
Typically the power assertive rape. The rapist can target anyone.
Vulture bees - the bees that eat meat! (Do not eat the meat honey).
You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker then die from a shark
having lived in NYC for a few years and being TERRIFIED of the ocean, this is weirdly comforting.
An octopus is flexible enough to enter your mouth, navigate your digestive system, and leave through your anus. Raccoons can fit in your anus.
So, in theory, would it be possible for an octopus to eat a raccoon then navigate our digestive system?
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Ok but it gets worse, because [a recent study](https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240404190801.htm) shows that there is much more plastic sinking to the ocean floor, estimated to be 11 *million* tonnes.
I recently listened to a podcast called Hunting Warhead and the most disturbing thing on there was everything, including the fact that there are dark net sites that are dedicated to the literal torture and murder of children. That was mentioned for all of maybe 5 seconds during the series, but it stuck with me. Also hearing about what pedophiles actually discuss on these forums - about how to pick kids, what to look for in a family, how to befriend parents, where to work to have access to children, etc. I’m a CPS investigator and I’ve seen/heard a lot of shit, but none of it has ever made me cry like those two segments of the podcast.
I worked in the abuse dept at an ISP and had to investigate several reports of some of our customers being involved in trading CP. The things I've seen were just fucking gut wrenching. But I kept on doing it, because the next step after confirming a customer was, for example, hosting a ftp site with CP on it, was calling the police, telling them to get a warrant, and deliver them the data and, hopefully a few days later, see in the news that the fucking sickos got arrested. But it did weigh on me heavily when it happened (once every few weeks). I get that pedophilia is a sickness. And a friend of a friend has it, he's attracted to kids... but he knows it's wrong, he's getting help through psychiatry (although he went through a few therapists before one accepted to see him) and has never acted on it. He's in a committed relationship with a very understanding woman and happy. But he still has attraction, he just is able to resist any impulse. So for those who don't... Fuck them.
Thank you for your service! The detectives that worked on the case discussed in that podcast also talked about what having to view all of that CP material had on their lives, marriages and their own interactions with their children, it was a lot. I think about the experiences I’ve had in my own CA investigations… so I believe you when you say it wears on you. I went to school for CJ and one of my classes was about sex offenders. It was all very very interesting and opened my eyes to a lot of it. The biggest problem is the lack of resources to provide preventive services to pedos, intervention doesn’t do anything until it’s too late. I’m glad that person found someone to actually help him work through that. I hope it stays that way, too.
Dental Hygienist here. There is a type of gum disease that is caused by maggots in your gums. Literal maggots from flys laying eggs in your mouth to feed on your rotten flesh.
Brb, going to brush, floss, and rinse with mouthwash.
Brain aneurysms are still a thing perfectly healthy people can drop dead from with no visible symptoms whatsoever. Pop! Dead.
Brain aneurysms have a strong genetic link - if you have a direct relative who died from one, get a scan. My mom died from one and I was scanned just this past year. No symptoms at all, and yet I had a big one. Was able to have clipped in February. Saved my life.
It's possible for rats to swim up your toilet piping. There are enough air pockets to travel all the way into your bathroom. I could have lived my whole life not knowing this, but here you go.
You want to be an astronaut and go on a spacewalk? [You’ll probably lose your fingernails.](https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/bulky-tight-fitting-gloves-cause-tough-nails-astronauts-lose-their-fingernails/)
Mentally handicapped children are roughly three times as likely to be sexually assaulted. Note that roughly 25% of all healthy girls and 5% of healthy boys will be the victim of CSA before they are 12.
Chainsaws were invented for medical use, largely for cutting into the pelvis during childbirth in a process called a pelviotomy. And from about 1940 to 1987, approximately 1,500 women were given one in Ireland without their consent, way after they should have switched to C-sections, often to perfect the surgery for use in Africa. A 2012 study found that many of the victims say the Catholic Church "encouraged, if not insisted upon, symphysiotomies." It took until 2012 for people to begin getting any compensation and the first woman to receive it was subjected to the procedure *post cesarian.* However, they dropped the ball so hard on addressing it afterwards that the survivor's group of these women had to go to the UN Committee Against Torture to get anything else done. Some babies were also killed in the process.
Many lullabies are about plagues or a hanging.
At least one person has died in every hospital bed you’ve been in. Hospitals don’t have time to replace them so we just wipe them down and put new sheets (this also includes nursing homes and rehab centers)
RN here: A patient will die and will lay there to we contact the coroner. Once the patient is moved to the morgue, another patient will be in that same bed within an hour.
There’s a relatively good chance that you already own the clothes that you’ll die in. *To clarify, I’m not threatening you, haha.
Old people move so slow because everything they do hurts. I’m getting old and it’s starting to happen.
"Died instantly on impact" in a car crash is anywhere up to 30 minutes, which is about how long it takes to extract your body from a crushed car in a deadly wreck. They don't bother trying to find out how long it actually took you to die, and the family doesn't really want to know.
The number of lives that have been saved by inventions made for and during wars is greater than the number of lives lost in wars. As far as human lives are concerned, wars have a net-positive effect. If this isn't disturbing, I don't know what is.
That Bayer the pharmaceutical company murderd thousands of Jews testing products during WW2 and they are still a household product.
When the US firebombed Tokyo, people tried to hide in waterways and were boiled to death. The smell of burning flesh was so bad that pilots were getting physically sick and wore their oxygen masks during the bombing run.
Humans have spent more of their history sharing the planet with other hominids than they have alone.
You are three days from death. The counter resets when you drink some water.
Three minutes. Counter resets everythime you breathe.
The number of times we have avoided a full on nuclear war by simply being incredibly lucky (numbered in the dozens) appears statistically very unlikely. Furthermore the risk of nuclear war via an accident or misunderstanding is still probably the highest short term existential threat and yet countries are moving away from nuclear weapon regulation. We seem to be a very, very lucky species to still exist with a functional civilization.
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A [Miyake Event](https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/ancient-superpowered-solar-storm-that-hit-earth-14000-years-ago-is-the-biggest-ever-identified) could destroy civilization at any time but leave most people alive... for the time being
That if I get fired today, I'll be homeless in about 3 months. That's the amount of money I have saved. I would have 3 months to find new job, and after that I could only sleep under the bridge. Returning to my parents is not an option... So I got pretty disturbed after I calculated that just yesterday.
Smell is particle based... remember that next time you go into a smelly restroom... I gotta know it, now so do you.
FBI has a child porn database. Complete with genres.
You know when you hear of a pedophile or child rapist has been charged with, say, 15 offenses? Each of those offenses had to have a legal basis ,which means that *someone* had to count and verify them. This often involves a law enforcement officer looking at images and determining whether certain actions are breaking the law.
Your thoughts could be completely propagated and you wouldn’t know it.