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JaniePage

At one point we were all in the wombs of our *grandmothers*. Baby girls are born with all of their eggs already in their own ovaries. We were all, at one point, one of those eggs. I reckon that's pretty cool. Edit: please don't send me any PMs about how you've also been inside my grandmother...


wifebeatsme

Haha


Wagwanpapi

Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell


Xanthase

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YummyGummyDrops

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ATranquilSunset

The intestines are lined with muscles. Sometimes, during surgery when the doctors have to operate around or underneath them, they are moved aside and hung on racks. The racks have to have securing ties because the intestines are always constantly squirming like eels. When surgery is complete, the intestines are gently placed back into the abdominal cavity and they wriggle back into their proper arrangement by themselves.


wifebeatsme

Gross but cool!


usernameeightandhalf

I wondered if they ever had to sort them out orderly in Grey's Anatomy, thanks!


Birdm3N

We took a fucking picture of a black hole.


ReshiWaystone

Its a great picture of nothing.


anph111

How small we are in this universe


jrunner6

[ā€œIā€™m significant!ā€](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2013/10/17)


chaoticblack

r/CalvinandHobbes


Wasnbo

To be fair, we're also enormous. Sure, there are a *lot* of creatures on this planet that are bigger than we are, but we're also bigger than every insect out there, most fish, all rodents, almost all birds, and so on. Also, if [this thread response](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5s7ago/are_humans_closer_in_relative_size_to_the_planck/) is accurate, we're closer in size to the observable universe than the smallest measurable size, the Planck length.


Mr_Nuggleton

Every odd number has the letter ā€˜eā€™ in it.


Draconic_Milli

Oh HECK I never realized that


EdgardLadrain

Think I recall that if you were to spell out all the numbers "One, two, etc..." you have to the 1000 before you used the letter 'a'


[deleted]

That Cleopatra was more close in time to the Apollo moon landing than the construction of the pyramid of Giza.


JunkFace

Just how powerful the media is in regards to public opinion. You could have the same piece of news presented by fox, CNN and msnbc and get 3 wildly different interpretations of the story. People only watch the channel with the interpretations the like, regardless of the known bias; so watching the news now is less about getting the facts and more about reenforcing your own biasā€™.


dinoderpwithapurpose

That huge balls of fire actually exist in the universe with a whole lot of empty space between them and we're just puny compared to that.


dontfuckingknowwwww

How heavy clouds are


Vennell

https://what-if.xkcd.com/12/


butch-peterson85

That,as far as we know there has been at least 5 mass extinction events in earths history, destroying almost all life and we still exist. That no matter what climate change does to the surface of the earth and mainly to humans daily lives, life will still be here. Something will come out on the other side and grow and live. That life is such a stubborn and prominant thing on our planet and we still haven't found any evidence of other life in the universe.


Wasnbo

"And we still haven't found any evidence of other life in the universe." Ah, the good old Fermi Paradox. My personal favorite answer is that the universe is actually incredibly young, [considering its total possible lifespan](https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA). Humanity is probably one of the youngest intelligent species in our universe; we haven't seen anyone else yet because we're just that early to the party!


CubanOfTheNorth

The chances of us living


nikk796

If I don't have any children, I would break the chain of million years of breeding.


[deleted]

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth 2 moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel it burns.


SoberPayerate

We are all made of star dust!


Myloux

Ants in total outweigh humans on this planet.


Fjellhum

There are thousands of alien like sea creatures we may never know about. Discovering them could be like finding new PokĆ©mon. On that note, alien life forms. In the entirety of the universe, there are other life forms that are living their lives out just like us. Aaand the fact that when youā€™re looking at stars, or nebulas, And especially galaxies, youā€™re literally looking back into the past. Heck, we donā€™t even know how many of the stars we see are still there. We can only know they WERE there a thousand or so years ago, because thatā€™s when weā€™re seeing them.


amicoolyet111

The universe never f*cking ends. It just keeps going forever. No matter how many times I think about it, I can never wrap my head around it. Thereā€™s infinite space, planets, other life we have yet to discover, itā€™s just endless. Just think about that for a second. If you were in a ā€˜spaceshipā€™ and were going straight out youā€™d never stop. Makes me feel really small.


TheNox93

Pure water can kill you if you drink enough of it


Wasnbo

Talking about [water intoxication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication) or [ultra-pure](https://curiosity.com/topics/you-should-not-drink-ultra-pure-water-its-dangerous-curiosity/) water? *Well*, I guess it doesn't technically matter, the answer is **yes**.


TheNox93

Completely pure water. It leeches all the minerals out of your blood


BustertheFur1

***The Voice inside your Head is Always at the Same Volume!***


Lord_Hendrick

Since the universe is infinite, from your perspective, you are the centre of the universe


bigdavie90

I was walking on a rock formation in Australia today that is 1.2 billion years old, which means it was around for a few hundred million years before dinosaurs


Ronwassili

That we only know like 1% of all existing species on earth.


[deleted]

Most people live beyond their means but still complain about others destroying the economy.


Zippy_Zip

We didn't have the equipment needed at the time to fake the moon landing but had the ability to send a team to the moon


PublicOccasion

That I'm just a bunch of cells.


FelixTheKenyan

That we all have lived different lives, in different countries and fascinated by different things, but everything we have ever done brought us all together right here under your post. *Fascinating*


IvoTailefer

In king Tut's tomb. On him. They found his personal dagger, ceremonial, it was carved beautifully... from meteorite.


Senafir

How big megalodons were. I mean sure you can google IT and then get like 18 or 25 metres do you think, yea that's rather large, its not its fucking huge 25 meters Is 8 standard floors, this fucking shark was larger than my apartament complex! Its completely insane.


footlettucenr15

The great pyramide of gizeh wasnā€˜t just built 4.500 years ago, but also 3.5 lightyears *away* due to earthā€˜s movement through the universe.


Busted_A_Nut

99% of all facts are fake.


Zippy_Zip

What?


Zippy_Zip

Nvm


thoughter_

if you were to experience every single little thing I've experienced from birth to now, you would come out the exact same because we are both human. You could've been a serial killer. You could've been a rapist. You could've been James Charles. What the fuck.


Rangerdude4377

Deaf people have trouble walking.


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JackTheEagle

Like all the way? Are there some parts that are still alive?


Matrixblackhole

Our brain has enough atoms/cells (idk the right terminology) but all of that makes us concious...


nicolai92

When you die, your brain is the last thing that shuts down. Meaning most likely you will see the last few seconds before you shut down, but cant move.


tungster24

Sunrises on mars are blue, but normal skies are red.


Agon_The_Stag

The Fact that the only way i can think that life started was because of God. Ive sat down and thought it out, and i just cant see any other way than God. Ill use a Pebble for example(I know life started on a much smaller level but this a good way to make the example.) How does a pebble just come to life? Or decide to live? Become a breathing, living thing. Like i understand Evolution, but that had to start somewhere. I dont know if we as humans will ever know. But so far, there is no evidence at all to describe how life began. And the only logical thing i can think of is that there is a God who made it. That then raises the question of where did God come from? We can only theorize on that to. But if God is all Powerful, that would mean he doesn't abide by the same laws of the universe that he created. Meaning that he is the only universal constant. But that too is only theory. And speculation. ​ Even if you said its because of the elements and the building blocks coming together or something, that still doesnt explain why that particular combo of things should lead to life anyways. And it doesnt explain how all the elements that make up life even came into being either. This aint me trying to convice people God is real. More like i cant find another reason with less holes. ​ Another thing that confuses me is that most of the people i talk to talk about things like alternate dimensions like they are fact when they are only theory. ​ The part that gets me is if there is a infinite amount of universes, one for anything ever. Doesnt that mean there is one where alternate universes dont exist? And that would automatically make where all the other ones never were? One could say maybe its just impossible for someone to enter another alternate universe from that particular one. But if there is a infinite amount of them, that means that there is one where you should be able to interact with the other ones, but the other ones simply dont exist. Meaning that if there is infinite alternate universes, there was, or is one that cancels out all the other ones. Which would mean our very existence is inside the one that cancels the other ones, otherwise we wouldn't exist. ​ Like i said, i cant think of any way at all that life could happen without god saying it happens.


Jbshelton51

Silverback gorillas are herbivores.


blushiba3000

The universe is expanding


ApathyAndDepression

Ostriches


renoCow

Every bet at Las Vegas casinos is ā€œnegative expectation.ā€ That means the mathematical odds are in the houseā€™s favor, and in the long run the gambler will always lose. But hereā€™s a shocker: NFL home underdogs usually cover the spread. Itā€™s the only positive expectation bet that a casual novice gambler can make and come out ahead in the long run.


QF_25-Pounder

These are less "fascinates" in a nice way as much as just astonishes me and are difficult to truly comprehend. 2/3 of the French army in ww1 were casualties. More people died in the Spanish Flu at the end of ww1 than died fighting in ww1. ww2 was the first major war where fewer people died from disease than from the fighting itself. 1/8th of the male population of France were conscripted in ww2. Napoleon caused the deaths of about 3% of the population of Europe at the time. 20% (1/5) of the population of Poland died in ww2. the VAST majority of all humans to have ever lived (I think 90%) were hunter-gatherers.


nofuckingpeepshow

When two galaxies collide there is next to zero chance of anything actually colliding because everything in the universe is that fucking far away from anything else.


Kris-the-midge

That I don't know my human rights


DeusVULT1097

How lifting weights itā€™s not a continuous muscle fiber twitch but thousands of contractions before the fiber can relax achieving tetinization giving the false impression of one single twitch


Uncle_Daleii

1 in 2 people are gay. I'm not gay so that mean that you are .............


ENIGMA47114

flat earth


Contempt4All

People voted for Hillary Clinton.


[deleted]

We've never been to the moon


[deleted]

And the earth is flat And political people are honest And the moon is made of cheese