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It’s true that knowledge is power, I think. I enjoy knowing a little about a lot of things (and a lot about a few things), if for no other reason than being really good at Trivial Pursuit.
That said, I think most adults have learned something at least once in their life that they wished they could un-know, right?
If you’re brave enough to know 18 things these people wish they didn’t, read on!
18. To aid in childbirth, no less.
Chainsaws were originally meant to be a surgeons’ instrument.
17. No parent wants to think about that.
Something along the lines of:
“If a child is kidnapped and isn’t recovered within 4 hours there’s an 80% chance they’re already killed”
16. That poor man.
Actor Daniel von Bargen (Super Troopers, Seinfeld) attempted suicide by shooting himself in the temple with a .38 revolver. He was diabetic and didn’t want to go to the hospital for another amputation.
Unfortunately he survived and was severely wounded. He also was permanently blinded from the gun shot. There’s a transcript of the police call that left me shook. He passed away 3 years later from a battle with diabetes.
I remember reading this is why some people duct tape the gun to their hand if they attempt suicide in case the first shot doesn’t complete the job.
15. Always respect the pig.
From personal experience; just how fast pigs… process… a corpse
Had an old goat die in the barn and didn’t find her for a couple hours. At the time we had two pigs that were a few months old. Didn’t realize just how much we had f*cked up by letting them be in with the goats that day.
Come evening, we go to close up and do the evening chores, and find half of a goat spilled all over the floor with our pigs rooting around the guts.
And that’s the story of how fifteen year old me learned to respect pigs.
14. Never fails to give me chills.
The Challenger space shuttle astronauts were most likely alive and awake on the way down.
NASA’s lead investigator, Robert Overmyer concluded most if not all of the crew were alive and possibly conscious during the entire descent until impact with the ocean. After the investigation, Overmyer stated:
“I not only flew with [Commander] Dick Scobee, we owned a plane together, and I know Scob did everything he could to save his crew. Scob fought for any and every edge to survive. He flew that ship without wings all the way down.”
13. Why the water on your nightstand tastes weird in the morning.
The existence of dust mites.
12. That’s a horror movie waiting to happen.
There are some species of butterfly that look for human blood to suck.
11. He never said a word.
My dad and I both took DNA tests for “fun” and I found out we aren’t related. 0% match.
I found out when I was 45. Long story long, I took a test for fun. My mom had taken one years ago so I knew what her general contribution would be. I got my results which were heavy on the indigenous American and Spain…. not in my moms dna.
I told my folks (married as long as I’ve been alive) and my dad wanted to test. He’s older, not tech savvy so I handled it for him. He came back a 0% match to me. I never told either of them about the non match, I just kind of let it go hoping they’d forget about the test
It’s a total mind f*ck when you had zero inkling there was any funny business. I hope you have better luck with the biological fathers family than I did. I was flat out rejected. 😞❤️❤️
I do [have a Mexican] great grandfather. I have found a lot of that part of the family and now keep in touch with several first and second cousins.I had posted on an AncestryDNA sub regarding my NPE (non parental event aka figured out the man who raised me is not my biological father.) A college student took my case on for free and helped me over the course of a couple years to narrow it down to one of two brothers but they are not cooperative at all. 😞
10. I knew there was a reason I didn’t own horses.
that you have to clean lumps out from underneath a horse’s foreskin from time to time.
They’re called beans. They’re an accumulation of smegma that gets trapped right in front/above of the urethra opening. They can cause mild discomfort or extreme pain and urinary problems if not cleaned out.
My horses get them removed during their annual teeth float or some other veterinary act that uses sedation. Some horses have to have them removed more often.
9. I feel like it wasn’t the corn that gave her away.
There was a woman in the 18th century called Mary Toft who stuffed dead rabbits into her vagina and later acted as if she gave birth to them. The doctors believed her till one of them examined found corn in one of the rabbits stomachs (it couldn’t have been in there)
She also did the same with a hogs bladder and a cats legs. (also with about 15 rabbits) Don’t know why I even know this
8. I hope you get consent first.
An octopus pen*s is actually one of their tentacles. So if you would go and pet an octopus at Sea World or some other place you could be groping their pen*s.
7. Don’t click on this unless you’re ready.
Sooner or later we’re going to be hit by another geomagnetic storm like the Carrington Event of 1859.
Only this time, our dependence on technology could make the effects far worse.
6. I wish I hadn’t read this, either.
The youngest recorded person to give birth was 5 years old.
Her mom said the daughter started getting periods at age 3! The dad was arrested under suspicion that he was the rapist, but they couldn’t prove it so they let him go and never found out who it was.
Her son grew up thinking they were brother and sister, but he was told at age 10 that his sister was actually his mom. So wild.
5. Well that’s terribly sad.
Bob Ross actually hated his Afro; when he started out it was the cheapest hairstyle to maintain and once he picked up some traction it was too iconic to get rid of.
4. I have no idea what’s wrong with people.
That people dump their “old” dogs at the shelter in December and get a new puppy for Christmas.
3. One more horrible piece of the puzzle.
More people jumped from the burning World Trade Center on 9/11 than you think.
Do yourself a favor and don’t google it.
Watching 9/11 on tv, I was too young to know what was going on but I remember my dad crying and saying “they’re jumping, they’re jumping” over and over.
2. Was he wrong? Questions!
That my father died believing that i was not his child. When my mother told me, it broke my heart and has forever changed my relationship with my family.
1. You have to put it out of your mind.
The magnitude of how dirty hotel rooms are.
The worst part of this for me is that I worked in housekeeping at a hotel one summer when I was in high school.
Maybe that particular hotel was just really good at keeping the place clean and was an exception, but I do have to wonder how much crap I just never noticed because I was a dumb teenager.
I’m not going to tell you mine, I’m just going to say that when people say you want to be really sure you’re ready before you click a link on the internet, you should take those warnings seriously.
If you’re into sharing your pain, our comments are open for your own terrible truths!
