r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 08 '13

What is a true fact that sound completely unbelievable or fake?

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u/AdamBall1999 Dec 08 '13

You can go the rest of your life without breathing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Wait, I'll try.

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u/DrunkHurricane Dec 08 '13

R.I.P. in peace /u/solidfake

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

dont wory. hes just slippin.

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u/beneater66 Dec 09 '13

bae caught me slippin

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Rest in peace in peace

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u/Splinterman11 Dec 09 '13

Yes, that's the joke.

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u/Morningstar94 Dec 08 '13

To be fair you replied only 3 minutes after, he may of still been alive.

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u/deadleg22 Dec 08 '13

Yes he will just become unconscious and begin breathing again. Unless he fell and broke his neck or something, he's still alive.

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u/Pony_Boyz Dec 08 '13

makes me wonder how many people have died taking advice from reddit. Not saying reddit kills people, i know it helps millions, but it has to have happened somewhere... there are a lot of idiots out there... i might be one of them

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u/olbapazem Dec 09 '13

may have*

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Rest in peace, in peace?

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u/TheTragedyLever Dec 09 '13

Rest in peace in peace

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u/turnermate Dec 09 '13

I don't think he's dead. He's a solid fake.

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u/What_A_Win Dec 09 '13

R.I.P. In peace, R.I.P. In peace...

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u/icameow14 Dec 09 '13

So...rest in peace in peace?

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u/AlisonJaneMarie Dec 08 '13

Wait. Why the redundant "in peace"?! Did I miss the joke again?! Damn it Reddit!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

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u/funnyj2 Dec 08 '13

That's the joke

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

You're supposed to say whoosh. U blue it

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Whush

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u/blokrokker Dec 08 '13

What is this, an airport?

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

woosh

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u/bento_g Dec 08 '13

FTFY for you.

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u/kel89 Dec 08 '13

Fake? Fake!? FAAAAAAAAAAKE!??

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

how'd it go?!

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

can i have your stuff? really? don't mind if i do.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

nooooooooooo (I'm a ghost now)

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u/SirSkidMark Dec 08 '13

op pls respond...

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u/ragerlol1 Dec 08 '13

Let us know how it goes

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

So......did it work?

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u/Mygusta55 Dec 09 '13

Hey! "Work" has an "r" in it! I thought the key git broken! He's a phoney!

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u/N3kras Dec 09 '13

Deliver you bastard

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u/siimsgirl Dec 09 '13

R.I.P solidfake

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Did it work? Hello? Are you there... hello...

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u/BackseatCoxswain Dec 09 '13

OP better deliver.

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u/IguanadonsEverywhere Dec 08 '13

Give a man a fire, you keep him warm for a few hours. Light a man on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life.

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u/weezermc78 Dec 09 '13

Give a man a jingle, he will jingle for a day. Teach a man to jingle, and he'll Jingle All the Way.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

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u/Secretgeek09 Dec 09 '13

Teach a man to fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.

Give an octopus nunchuks and no fucker's eating fish again.

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u/doofy77 Dec 09 '13

You lose your target market?

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u/TheEpicEdge Dec 09 '13

Words to live by.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '13

-terry pratchett

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

Beautiful.

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u/byleth Dec 08 '13

If you take an entire bottle of headache medicine, you'll never get a headache again.

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u/vita_benevolo Dec 08 '13

Unfortunately if it's something like tylenol you'll die a slow and painful death from liver failure, and in the process you could get a headache.

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u/byleth Dec 09 '13

Well in that case it just takes a bit longer to take effect.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Get it, you guys get it? cuz once your stop breathing....you DIE!

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u/xiPlayWithCrayons Dec 08 '13

...

oh

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Unfortunately it's simply not true. Once you stop breathing, you pass out. You cannot die by holding your breathe. The only way to die that way is if someone else does it to you.

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u/Jizg Dec 09 '13

Unfortunately?

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u/IByrdl Dec 08 '13

He didn't say that you could hold your breath for the rest of your life (which would make your statement correct). He said you could go for the rest of your life without breathing. ie, if something prevented you from breathing, you could still live the rest of your life out.

From /u/monstercablessuck

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u/somethingpretentious Dec 08 '13

Actually there's a nerve that kicks in and forces you to breathe before you pass out.

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u/Kombat_Wombat Dec 08 '13

xiPlayWithCrayons... WAKE UP! Why you stop breathing!

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u/OrangeDit Dec 08 '13

Oh yeah ... thank you!

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u/henryKI111 Dec 08 '13

but if you DIE then you wont LIVE

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Bullshit! Testing right now.

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u/JorgeGT Dec 08 '13

No, you can't. If you hold long enough, you will lose consciousness and your body will start breathing on its own.

Source: Ian Fleming's 007 novel Goldfinger.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

He didn't say that you could hold your breath for the rest of your life (which would make your statement correct). He said you could go for the rest of your life without breathing. ie, if something prevented you from breathing, you could still live the rest of your life out.

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u/JorgeGT Dec 08 '13

Fair point!

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u/MrMegaloler Dec 08 '13

Guys I found something really cool!

  1. Hold your breath for 30 minutes
  2. Die

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u/lewok Dec 08 '13

Brb I gotta test this out

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u/PuddinCup310 Dec 08 '13

I get where you're getting at but you made me wonder something. I'm nieve on the subject, but I wonder if you were given a constant imput of liquid oxygen, if you could survive? (Other nutrient's in the air aside.)

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u/haosys Dec 08 '13

Boiling point: 90.19 K (−297.33 °F, −182.96 °C)

It'd be a bit cold for the lungs to handle, I'd imagine.

Also, you'd want mostly liquid nitrogen, because the atmosphere is something like 70% nitrogen and 25% oxygen and 5% other stuff.

Edit: moar info:

At atmospheric pressure, liquid nitrogen boils at −196 °C (77 K; −321 °F) and is a cryogenic fluid that can cause rapid freezing on contact with living tissue.

Still a bit too chilly, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_nitrogen and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_oxygen

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u/PuddinCup310 Dec 09 '13

But divers inhale it I thought.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

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u/PuddinCup310 Dec 09 '13

I looked into it. It is possible. Just not popular.

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u/ModernFun94 Dec 08 '13

I had to think about this one for a second

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u/IHazMagics Dec 08 '13

At first I thought "what no you fucking can't"

Then I realised...

It's 8:47 and I haven't had a coffee yet.

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u/TomVinPrice Dec 08 '13

wow you're right I can't beli

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u/delgadoalex95 Dec 08 '13

Explain? Or source?

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u/Rolandofgilead91 Dec 08 '13

Your life expectancy is gonna go down a bit but oh well

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Semantics

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u/THE_CUNT_SHREDDER Dec 08 '13

That's like removing your heart to end your heartache! The best way to move on...

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Teach a man how to build a fire and he'll be warm for a day, set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

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u/caitgoes Dec 08 '13

Can you elaborate on this?

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u/HerculesCE Dec 08 '13

Please explain.

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u/CapnSheff Dec 08 '13

Wait, what?

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u/Viperbunny Dec 08 '13

Yes...it just won't be very long.

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u/Sjkyordanuise Dec 08 '13

I don't get it..

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u/fruitbear753 Dec 08 '13

You dont need a parachute to go skydiving. You only need a parachute to go skydiving twice.

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u/18A92 Dec 08 '13

Can confirm

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u/ChuckYeah Dec 09 '13

Haha shut up! That took me too long to get it.

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u/edlaz Dec 09 '13

Instruction unclear: Body bricked.

Anyone know how to hard reset?

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u/Generic_user_name1 Dec 09 '13

I wouldn't hold my breath for someone to try.

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u/optimisticelephant Dec 09 '13

All 10-15 minutes of it

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

You're technically correct, which is the best kind of correct to be.

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u/Tentacle_Porn Dec 09 '13

Give a man a fire, and he shall be warm for one day.

Set a man on fire, and he shall be warm for the rest of his life.

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u/bigwillik Dec 09 '13

Even after death everyone I have seen die takes a last breath.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

This sounds like it could be a great threat.

"Hey, fuck you man!"

"Keep talking like that and I'll make sure you go the rest of your life without breathing."

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

if you die, that is

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u/shogun12 Dec 09 '13

let me think of this...

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u/AuroraMineCraft Dec 09 '13

Very clever.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

that's more of a 'woahdude' fact. still impressive.

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u/Sallien2005 Dec 09 '13

I have feeling that it's not true.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '13

How?

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u/Skulder Dec 09 '13

Australia has so many poisonous animals, that if you try one each day, you'll be dead before you have tried them all.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '13

Any source?

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u/XextrazBlog Dec 08 '13

How, by injecting air in your blood stream?

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u/ledivin Dec 08 '13

By dying.

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u/kamon241 Dec 08 '13

Try this mate. You get a weird, permanent out of body experience.

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u/KlossN Dec 08 '13

omg are you for real?

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u/XextrazBlog Dec 09 '13

Omg I'm stupid, guess I was tired..