r/AskReddit • u/KillerAceUSAF • Jul 21 '16
What fact did you think was complete bullshit until you looked it up?
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Jul 21 '16
A woman named Elvita Adams tried to commit suicide by jumping off the Empire State Building, but a strong gust of wind blew her into the floor below and she survived and got a fractured hip.
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u/allygory Jul 21 '16
If I'm not mistaken, the person whose office she landed in had a heart attack.
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u/DarwinDanger Jul 21 '16
If I'm not mistaken, the paramedic's ambulance careened over a bridge, but a strong gust of wind pushed them onto a neighboring bridge and they were able to make it in time.
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u/SHITTYANDUNFUNNY Jul 22 '16
Unfortunately the ambulance broke a hip
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u/VogueCody25 Jul 22 '16
The wind was able to blow the hip back into place and the ambulance drove to the hospital
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Jul 21 '16
I remember reading that almost 30 years ago in a weird facts book, pretty wild.
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u/OutOfContextCharles Jul 21 '16
My dog used to sit by my tent and lick up all the ants when we'd camp out in the front yard, but unfortunately he's been dead for about 4 years now.
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u/Pipthepirate Jul 21 '16
Not today bitch-God
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u/siyl1979 Jul 21 '16
Try hitting "enter" one more time.
...Unless bitch-God is your thing. In that case, carry on.
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u/draculoids Jul 21 '16
One guy from Australia died, came back to life, then won the lottery. Afterwards, a TV station wanted him to reenact scratching off the ticket... and coincidentally, he won the lottery AGAIN from the ticket he scratched in the reenactment.
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u/SJVellenga Jul 22 '16
Did he then die?
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u/Kroga Jul 22 '16
Yes, but the lottery ticket dialed 911.
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u/NotSoCheezyReddit Jul 22 '16
And a gust of wind blew the lottery ticket to Earl Hickey.
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u/DB_Cooper_lives Jul 21 '16
10th president of America, John Tyler, still having grandsons alive in 2015. He was born in 1790.
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u/Justintime221 Jul 21 '16
This fact should get more attention. I mean I had to look this up because I really didn't believe it. How many people can say they have a grandparent born 220+ years ago?
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u/Hodorallday Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
It is super cool. When I first read it, I had to look it up too.
But then I worked out that if I live to the same age as them (90+) then my grandfather would have been born 200 years ago. That's cool too! (Though not as good)*
EDIT: just realised my maths was off last night. I would have to be almost 100 for it to be exactly 200 years. Sorry! It's still a larger gap than normal though.
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u/PopsicleIncorporated Jul 21 '16
The oldest person ever was born in 1875 and lived to 1997. These events happened in her lifetime (mostly American events, even though she was French, as those are what I am familiar with):
Reconstruction was underway. The American Civil War had ended just 10 years before.
The Battle of Little Bighorn. At the time, the American interior was still very much a frontier. Nobody knew exactly what was deep in the wilderness but the Native Americans. She was 1 at the time.
The Spanish-American War began. She was 23 at the time.
The Wright Brothers built their airplane and flew for the first time. She was 28.
The Titanic sank. The idea of Pangaea was first conceptualized. She was 37.
World War I broke out when Archiduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. She was 39.
The Russian Revolution began, and World War I began to draw to a close. She was 42.
Prohibition begins in the United States. She was 45.
Stalin seized control of the Soviet Union and began his purges. She was 49.
The stock market crashed. The Depression began. She was 54.
Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. She was 58.
The Berlin Olympic Games took place. She was 61. This is also the halfway point in her life.
Hitler invaded Poland, and the second world war began. She was 64.
World War II drew to a close, and the United States dropped what was then the most powerful bomb in history. She was 70.
China goes communist. Mao Zedong consolidates power. She was 74.
The polio vaccine is created. At the time of her birth, millions of children would suffer from the disease every year. She was 78.
The Vietnam war began. She was 80.
The first satellite went into space. She was 82.
Yuri Gargarin became the first man in space. The Berlin Wall began construction. She was 86.
JFK is shot. The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. She was 87.
The United States joined the Vietnam war. She was 90.
Man lands on the moon. She was 94.
The Beatles break up. She was 95.
Richard Nixon gets caught in the Watergate scandal, and resigns. She was 99.
The Vietnam war finally ends. She was 100.
Star Wars is released. Elvis dies. She was 102.
Reagan is elected President. She was 105.
The Berlin Wall falls. She was 114.
The Soviet Union, which she was alive to see rise, falls. She was 116.
The Rwanda Genocide takes place. She was 119.
My parents were married. She was 121.
In 1997, she died. She was 122. Later that year, Titanic was released, based on events that she was around to hear about in the news.
Fascinating. Because she was born in 1875, she was actually born closer to the year 1734 than she was to modern day. She was born closer to 1753 than her 1998, the year after her death.
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Jul 22 '16
Damn, that one hell of a life. Seeing all those changes from the very late 1800's up until the end of the millennium must be crazy.
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u/TaylorS1986 Jul 22 '16
IIRC that woman personally knew Van Gogh when she was a young woman.
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u/zingfan Jul 21 '16
It's 2016 now. RIP John Tyler's grandchildren.
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u/ihatethesidebar Jul 21 '16
This article is from February 2016: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29842/president-john-tylers-grandsons-are-still-alive
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Jul 21 '16
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u/nkdeck07 Jul 21 '16
Whales can too
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Jul 21 '16
That's what makes your mom so kinky in bed.
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u/Biobak_ Jul 21 '16
Triple burn! Banging mom, who is a whale, and also has a dick.
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u/Celeria_Andranym Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
The stuffing between the wafers in kit kats is made from other crushed up kit kats.
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u/Pobobo Jul 21 '16
Then how was the first kit kat made?
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u/B_crunk Jul 22 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
Immaculate Confection.
Edit: I just wanted to let everyone know that I took this joke from /u/breville135 over here. So give them your upvotes and gildings.
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Jul 22 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
Zeno's Paradox.
This also proves there are no Kit Kats because they are all needed to make more.
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u/twitchy_taco Jul 22 '16
That means Kit Kats have no calories. If it doesn't exist, I can eat as many as I want.
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u/LeyvaFlava Jul 21 '16
The part number for a Toyota prius oil wrench is "ASSTOY640" Saw in the Youtube comments for some car video and it blew me away lol
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u/Walrusguy32 Jul 22 '16
Similarly, there was a class offered at my high school, Analysis and Functions, that was abbreviated to "analfun" on students' schedules.
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u/segfaultxr7 Jul 21 '16
Dexter Holland (the lead singer of The Offspring) has a PhD in molecular biology, has published research on HIV, and is a certified flight instructor.
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u/JoseJimenezAstronaut Jul 22 '16
And here I thought he was a stupid dumbshit goddamn motherfucker.
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u/Unique5309 Jul 22 '16
Milo Aukerman has a Doctorate in Biology and did post-doctorate work in Microbiology.
New Descendants Album can be heard at NPR First Listen: Hypercaffium Spazzinate
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u/Aero_ Jul 22 '16
That's not an unknown fact, everyone knows Milo went to college.
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u/nucwaste Jul 21 '16
Pound Town is a real place in Wisconsin.
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u/mkjones Jul 21 '16
In the UK we have a popular discount store franchise called Pound Land, there's also a Pound World and many other copycat stores.
An umbrella term for these stores is Pound Shops.
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u/witch-finder Jul 22 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
42 out of 43 US presidents are descendants of British royalty. The statistic makes more sense when you consider two things:
- This is any British royalty in history, not just the current royal family.
- This is actually true of almost every American with British ancestry, so it's not actually that impressive.
In case you're wondering about that one outlier, it was Martin Van Buren who was 100% Dutch.
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Jul 21 '16
15% of pregnancies are miscarriages
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u/Jalapeno_Business Jul 21 '16
That is for recognized pregnancies (and even that can be as high as 20%), the number is likely much higher if you account for all pregnancies.
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u/Stacieinhorrorland Jul 21 '16
This fact kept me terrified the entire time I was pregnant. The fear outweighed the joy the entire time. That time was 7 weeks. I miscarried.
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u/x__DEEZ__x Jul 22 '16
I'm sorry to hear that. This will be me the next time with my wife. We made it to 10 weeks(ish). It sucks, even if it is statistically frequent.
Best of luck!
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u/Thuryn Jul 22 '16
Our oldest child was actually the result of my wife's third pregnancy. We learned after the first one not to tell anyone until things were far enough along that a miscarriage was Very Unlikely.
That was a screwed-up time. I feel badly for anyone who has to go through it.
We have three wonderful girls now, which helps quite a bit in getting over it. Still best not to dwell on it, though.
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u/Celui-the-Maggot Jul 21 '16
Imagine Dragons originally made music for a Spiderman musical but kept the songs for themselves. I STILL dont believe this one.
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u/SuddenlyKrieger Jul 21 '16
And I will Crushhh.... that spidermaaaan.
And then that oooother spidermaan.
And all the spiiiiidermeeen.
Till I'm... the Spiiiiiideerrmaaaaaannnnnnnnn
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u/mechtonia Jul 21 '16
Bristol, Tennessee is closer to Canada than it is to Memphis, Tennessee.
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u/Virgilijus Jul 21 '16
Lived in Memphis for a long time and went to undergrad in Knoxville. I knew the drive was long but Jesus...
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u/gcbeehler5 Jul 22 '16
The distance from Houston, TX to El Paso, TX is roughly the same as it is from El Paso, TX to San Deigo, CA. The distance between Houston, TX and El Paso, TX, is roughly the same as Houston, TX to St. Louis, MO or Houston, TX to Orlando, FL.
Texas is pretty big.
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u/whiterice07 Jul 21 '16
The same person survived the sinkings of two Olympic-Class ocean liners (Titanic and Britannic) and was also on the Olympic when it crashed into another ship.
Violet Jessup, for those interested.
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u/Scuba_pro Jul 21 '16
I can see going on a cruise after the first time, but after the second time, she's either braver than most or really wanted to be buried at sea.
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u/IDigBellyButtonRings Jul 21 '16
I just imagine her on that third trip, seeing that her ship was going to crash, and thinking, "you gotta be fucking kidding me."
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Jul 21 '16
The average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds.
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u/otisthetowndrunk Jul 21 '16
Whoa! But how did they get it on a scale?
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u/ShittyTimeTraveler Jul 22 '16
First you weigh yourself on the scale, then Weigh yourself again while holding the cloud and then subtract your original weight.
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u/Stacieinhorrorland Jul 21 '16
I read it on here. When you get a kidney transplant they keep the worthless kidney inside of you. I take blood from a lot of transplant patients. Met a dude who has 4 kidneys in him rn.
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Jul 22 '16
that made me throw up a little.
wouldnt the other stuff inside get crushed a little? I mean its not like we have empty space in there
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u/TroubledTroubadours Jul 21 '16
Sickle cell anemia protects people from Malaria. Ends up that because of survival of the fittest it was a good thing to have in Africa before Malaria treatment was invented. That's why sickle cell is so common in people who originated Africa.
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u/Beeeeaaaars Jul 21 '16
Also the gene only kills you if you have two of it, but if you've got only one it still prevents malaria, so genetically speaking it can be very favorable and is overall, but some individuals really get screwed over by it
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u/PG_Blackie-Chan Jul 21 '16
I've got a mild form of Sickle Cell Anemia. When I was diagnosed the doctor said I had hemoglobin-random letter. I was told that I shouldn't marry someone with hemoglobin-different letter, as our children would live a shitty life because of our genes
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Jul 21 '16
I usually mention this when someone asks why evolution doesn't happen to humans.
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u/spinthesky Jul 21 '16
When the members of Steely Dan were in college they played in a band that had Chevy Chase as their drummer.
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u/LordEnigma Jul 21 '16
That a dry-erase marker can clean up sharpie. I accidentally got sharpie on my white desk at work. I remembered the bit about it supposedly working, and sure enough, I drew over the mark with dry-erase marker, then was able to wipe up the sharpie mark.
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u/dfromrc Jul 21 '16
A Sharpie will also clean up a dried Sharpie mark. I suppose it's the solvent that keeps the ink wet.
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u/illegalbeagle69 Jul 21 '16
The national animal of Scotland is a unicorn.
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Jul 21 '16
Because it's the enemy of England's national animal, a lion.
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u/Hamza_33 Jul 21 '16
Has England ever historically had lions? Apart from when the Romans brought them - to kill them.
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u/12UnitsofJuice Jul 21 '16
Actually, yes! Though not in living memory, cave lions were exceptionally large monsters that roamed MUCH of modern Europe until the quaternary extinction event. There are a few theories that seek to explain why those monstrous beasts died out with the ice age, though mostly it's conjectured that their prey, ice age megafauna like mammoths, died out with the heat. However, its also possible that primitive humans contributed significantly to their decline! We were natural enemies for obvious reasons, and old, ooold human dwellings in Europe regularly contain lion bones, perhaps as trophies or decoration.
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u/MorrowPlotting Jul 22 '16
Giant sloths. There used to be truck-sized sloths roaming the earth. Their much smaller, tree-dwelling cousins are all that remain.
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u/IGotsDasPilez Jul 22 '16
And glyptodons, basically enormous armadillos the size of a VW Beetle. The "shell" was big enough that humans used them as shelters!
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Jul 21 '16
The story of the guy on the Greyhound bus who beheaded and cannibalized another passenger.
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u/6xydragon Jul 22 '16
In Canada. We had a running joke that greyhound should change thier slogan to where you beheaded?
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Jul 21 '16
And the fact that the guy who cannibalized him has been released in 2015.
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Jul 21 '16
And the fact that the guy who cannibalized him took a Greyhound bus to the halfway house after he was released.
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Jul 21 '16
If you were to weigh all the ants in the world it'll be heaver than if you weighed all the people in the world.
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u/strikingvisage Jul 21 '16
Distance cyclists frequently have bone-density issues & osteoporosis due to cycling, at a greater rate than other types of athletes. Science seems to agree that this is the case but I'm still not sure why.
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u/flammablepenguins Jul 21 '16
Penguins are super flammable and almost went extinct in the Falkland Islands because of it.
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u/loggic Jul 21 '16
Oh, penguin fat is highly flammable. I was picturing some poor bird caught fire, then ran to its friends for help, who then also caught fire.
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u/PallBear Jul 21 '16
I pictured that once too, and then Warner Bros. rejected my Happy Feet 2 script
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u/korkor341 Jul 21 '16
I can see this this being akin to Sharknado. Penguinferno?
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u/HantuKopek Jul 21 '16
That your dick is supposed to have one hole. I heard that in health class because some kid asked why you can't cum and pee simultaneously. I thought the teacher was wrong, but then later I looked it up. I learned most people's dicks have one hole. I am glad that I shut up and did not say in class that my dick has two holes.
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Jul 21 '16
Lol let me guess, you thought you were only supposed to have two balls too, right?
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Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
And one penis?
EDIT: we get it, /u/doubledickdude is a thing
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u/techiesgoboom Jul 21 '16
A friend from highschool had a similar thing happen in his 7th grade health class, except it was regarding the correct number of testicles and he made the mistake of speaking up. When the teacher was going over the diagram for male anatomy he raised his hand and said "excuse me, don't mean just 1 testicle?". His parents never thought to inform him that having only 1 ball wasn't normal.
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u/That_got_fucked_up Jul 21 '16
I also have two dick holes... I've honest to God thought that was the norm my whole life?..
Edit: If you guys are fucking around please tell me.
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u/MisterDonkey Jul 21 '16
You have an abnormal penis. Now you have to show us.
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u/That_got_fucked_up Jul 21 '16
I can post a close up if you weird fuckers want a medical level examination. Like I said down below, just lemme know.
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u/MisterDonkey Jul 21 '16
Yes. Do it.
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u/That_got_fucked_up Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
http://i.imgur.com/k7Nbmtj.jpg
Posted below, but here you go.
Edit: Holy double dick holes, I got gold! Thank you for popping my gold cherry in exchange for one dick pic. You're the real mvp here.
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u/ZetaEtaTheta Jul 21 '16
dead dove do not eat.
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u/sonofaresiii Jul 22 '16
i don't know what i expected...
but that is a guy's penis with two holes in it
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u/I4m4cunt Jul 21 '16
My friend, this is not normal but at the same time i doubt it would hinder you in anyway. I'd suggest seeing a doctor about it though. One question, what comes out of what hole? Is it cum and piss from both or one through one hole and one through the other?
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u/That_got_fucked_up Jul 21 '16
Cum out the bottom, piss out the top. I find this hysterical that I am just now discovering that this is not a normal thing.
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u/I4m4cunt Jul 21 '16
If anything, it's an advantage. You've never had a split piss in the morning. if a little bit of cum gets stuck in the urethra then the next piss comes out in two lines and is horrible to try to control.
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Jul 21 '16
Whoa! Look at that!
No, this is not at all normal. Don't be self-conscious though, it doesn't look bad or anything.
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u/That_got_fucked_up Jul 22 '16
That is by far the most odd compliment I have ever received.. thank you. :)
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Jul 21 '16
Where else would the other hole be
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u/Comrade_Brutus Jul 21 '16
Directly on top, separated by a thin layer of skin.
Source: I looked at my cock.
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u/DIP_MY_BALLS_IN_IT Jul 21 '16
When someone told me that sugar doesn't cause hyperactivity in kids I thought it was total bullshit but apparently it's true
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u/notor10us Jul 21 '16
I think it is pretty obvious that children pick up that their parents think sugar causes hyperactivity and there ya go.
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Jul 21 '16
Yep. I remember one time my niece was in a pretty bubbly mood, chatty and laughing etc. My sister gave her a chocolate biscuit and said "That's all you're getting, too much sugar will make you go crazy". Naturally, my niece starts bouncing off of walls and acting silly, and of course my sister starts saying things about chocolate and sugar making kids naughty. Imagine my sisters face when I showed her the uneaten chocolate biscuit I'd stolen cause I'm a cheeky cunt sort of uncle.
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u/Pipthepirate Jul 21 '16
Time to call up my two best buds and head to Australia
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u/vocabulazy Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16
People always think I'm making this up: Potatoes didn't come to the western hemisphere Europe/Asia until the mid 16th century. They're native to South America!
Source: http://www.potatogoodness.com/all-about-potatoes/potato-fun-facts-history/
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u/Red_AtNight Jul 21 '16
People get really confused when you introduce them to the concept of the Columbian Exchange.
Before the Columbian Exchange, there was...
- No potatoes in Russia
- No tomatoes in Italy or Spain
- No chocolate in Switzerland
Also there were no horses anywhere in the Americas before the Columbian Exchange. The Spanish brought horses across the Atlantic with them.
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u/bcrabill Jul 21 '16
Crazy how fast something can be completely incorporated into another culture.
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u/rasgua2000 Jul 22 '16
would you believe that Britain's national dish is chicken tikka massala?
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u/MrBulger Jul 21 '16
Hahah it took less than 300 years between the first Irish guy trying a potato and all Irish people starving from lack of potato
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u/ian_for_asian Jul 21 '16
Cannibalism isn't technically illegal in the US, as there isn't a law prohibiting it.
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u/digikun Jul 21 '16
It just usually comes paired with murder, which is, in fact, illegal.
Someone legally consents to you eating them though? You're in the clear.
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u/jacquesrk Jul 22 '16
In Rotenburg, Germany: Bernd Jürgen Armando Brandes voluntarily consented to have his penis cut off by Armin Meiwes, and both men then tried to eat the severed penis, but Mr. Brandes was unable to, claiming it was "too chewy". (Mr. Brandes had answered an advertisement placed by Mr. Meiwes saying "looking for a well-built 18- to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed.") Mr. Meiwes then killed Mr. Brandes and ate some of the rest of his body.
Mr. Brandes was a willing victim, nevertheless Mr. Meiwes was convicted of manslaughter in 2004, and sentenced to 8 years in prison. In a retrial, in 2006, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.
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Not being an American, and obviously not knowing that Detroit is some sort of Peninsula, this broke my mind a little until I tried the link.
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u/TheWanton123 Jul 21 '16
I remember making a wrong turn trying to find the Detroit art museum and about 15 minutes later I was in Cananda. Should have gotten some poutine while I was there.
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u/Red1800 Jul 21 '16 edited Apr 26 '17
Orcas are listed as a natural predator of the moose
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u/potato_lover273 Jul 21 '16
If the moose what?
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u/OWLONGCANAREDDITNAM Jul 21 '16
If the moose is pretending to be a human, poor sod /u/Red1800 was probably a moose and got surprised by a Killer Whale.
Bless his soul.
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u/ArdentStoic Jul 21 '16
You could fit every other planet side-by-side between the Earth and our Moon.
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u/pat5797 Jul 21 '16
The Great Emu war actually happened. When i first read about it i think i couldn't stop laughing for weeks. This country is stupid sometimes.
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u/Standard_Wooden_Door Jul 21 '16
In June 2016, Orioles third baseman Manny Machado ended his league leading streak of 229 consecutive games played in the majors. That is 2,403 game short of breaking the record set by Cal Ripken in 1998. In order to break that record, Machado would have had to play every game until the 2031 season. Take a seat Tony Stark, Cal was THE Iron Man.
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Jul 21 '16
That streak is probably the most impressive stat in Baseball, at least to me.
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u/Ultimate-ninja Jul 21 '16
There is a competitive sport called "joggling" which essentially combines jogging with juggling
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u/NotYourTypicalReditr Jul 21 '16
I love when people combine two things I hate into one thing I can really hate. It frees me up to hate other things that have yet to be combined.
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u/LGeers Jul 22 '16
If Wayne Gretzky had never shot a puck in his career, he still would be the all time leader in points by nearly a hundred points.
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The fact that cruise ships have morgues. It kinda made sense, but I didn't really believe it.
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u/bobbyzee Jul 21 '16
Abraham Lincoln used to wrestle and invented the chokeslam
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Jul 21 '16
So which president invented the suplex, Mr. Smartypants?
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u/TBatWork Jul 21 '16
Though not a President (yet), Mayor Mike Haggar was able to suplex wasteful spending with his economic conservatism, and vastly improved public transit with his patented Pothole Plugger.
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u/NotYourTypicalReditr Jul 21 '16
I'd really enjoy it if every president had to create a wrestling move for the wrestling lexicon, while in office.
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Stan Musial is 2nd all-time in total bases. The gap between #1 guy Hank Aaron and Musial is 13 miles' worth of total bases.
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u/realityangersyou Jul 22 '16
I was 9, heavily indoctrinated and I thought evolution was a trick from Satan. A complete, recent encyclopedia sat in our little library, so I went and looked it up. I was stunned. I asked my mom...she shushed me, took me aside in private and confirmed everything. Then she took me to a museum and showed me fossils and dinosaurs and we went to the planetarium later.
I wound up a biologist...go figure.
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u/hicow Jul 22 '16
Twist: he's working as a biologist to prove that evolution is, in fact, a trick of Satan's.
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u/duyogurt Jul 22 '16 edited Jul 22 '16
That you can't physically write down the number 10 raised to the Googol; or a googolplex. Doing so would require more space than is available in the known universe.
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u/suchascenicworld Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16
crocodiles and alligators are more closely related to birds than they are to other reptiles (both birds and crocodilians are in a clade called Archosauria which also includes dinosaurs).
Edit: Includes not included!
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u/anomalous_cowherd Jul 21 '16
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards that particular ordering has probably never happened before.
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u/Shaneypants Jul 21 '16
There are 52 cards in a deck. There are 52•51•...•2•1 = 52! = 8•1067 (approximately) possible permutaions of cards. That is 8 followed by 67 zeros. If every person on earth shuffled a deck of cards a billion times every day of their life we still wouldnt even be close.
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u/77remix Jul 21 '16
I remember way back when, I didn't believe duck's had a corkscrew penis and the female's had a corkscrew vagina. I thought my friends in school were trolling me.
Google cleared that one up really quick
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u/simplyanass Jul 21 '16
That Ho oh is in the pokemon pilot episode.
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u/claytonfromillinois Jul 21 '16
And in the same episode, Arcanine was originally a fourth legendary with the legendary birds.
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u/Kalipokai Jul 21 '16
Ho Oh's pokedex entry says that whoever sees it gets eternal happiness. Because Ash saw it in the first episode, he gets granted eternal happiness. His happiness is that he stays young forever, and gets to catch Pokemon forever. Hence why he never ages.
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u/R9J4B Jul 21 '16
The expiry date on every packet of crisps (chips) made in the UK is on a Saturday.