Hey Pandas, What's The Most Horrifying Fact You Know? (Closed)

That some people genuinely believe that aligning themselves with a would-be dictator will pay dividends of any kind. SMDH.

That Donald Trump has a greater-than-zero chance of getting back into the White House.

The most horrifying fact I know right now is that my 4 daughters have less rights than I did when I was their age. Even more frightening is that I don't know when or if it will change for my grandchildren.

The government is corrupt.

As the permafrost melts due to climate change, billions of viruses are entering the environment. Humanity has no knowledge of a lot of them - or immunity to them.

Humanity will believe anything.

I'm not sure if this is the "most horrifying fact I know, but it was the first disturbing one that came to mind: Crocodiles can gallop. They're practically as fast on land as they can swim.

Chainsaws were invented to help women who were having a difficult time giving birth.

Truck drivers are expected to run over an animal if the choice is slam on the brakes or swerve out of the way. We are also trained that it is acceptable to force another vehicle off the road into the median to avoid a collision if there is no other way.

Homophobia exists.
Racism exists.
Transphobia exists.

We are deeply ignorant about our history. We all realize fairly quickly that what is taught to us in schools - is crazy incomplete, bent, and often enough wrong. We complain about it- but do nothing. Most of us have heard of "cuneiform" clay tablets recovered from Babylon, Sumeria, and the Hittites. What we don't know much is that they have been extensively translated now, and are available for anyone to read. It takes some effort- a lot of what is recorded are long religious prayers or poetry- so some perspective is needed. But some are long records of agreements between countries- and lists of laws. I find it very telling that a great deal of time is spent outlining the penalties for Farmer A cheating and lying about Farmer B, and stealing their crops and land. Ask a farmer- has any neighbor ever tried to move a fence- to their benefit- without telling you? If you dig into truly ancient history - and it is available - you'll find that today's problems - are really identical. That's what's so scary- we haven't changed- have NOT "improved" - and we don't know it.

I'm 54. I have less years ahead of me than I've already lived.

The number one cause of death in pregnant women is homicide.

The last Indian Residential School closed in 1994. The rest of society of kept in the dark of what was going on in those Catholic run schools until survivors started speaking out years later.
It was more than dressing Indigenous kids in school uniforms and making the learn in a school setting.
Boys and girls were sexually assaulted. Students were not allowed to speak their native languages, wear their own traditional clothes and boys hair was cut short, a practice of humiliation and degrading. It would be like cutting off all of a girl's hair, but maybe worse.
If a student spoke in their native language a teacher would stick their tongues with pins.
When the students got to the schools they were harshly scrubbed in baths all over, at every age. It has been described as "trying to erase the Indian out of us."
Students were not allowed to have any contact with their families. Parents and other family member of the children would try to sneak around the school, but if they got caught they were arrested.
During the "60s Scoop "children weren't sent to the schools by their family's own free-will. The kids were taken by force at gun point.
Sometimes a girl will become pregnant. The baby would be taken at birth and killed. Some say the father was one of the male staff, like a priest.
Many children fell ill and died due to lack of care. They were buried around the school in unmarked graves and their families may or may not have been told. Just left to guess what may have happened to their child.
The effects of the abuses and cultural genocide have affected multi-generations of the Indian Residential School students, leading to generations of poverty, mental health problems, lack of belonging and their own understanding of their culture.
There is still a lot of negative attitudes towards the Indigenous. Even with people disregarding and discrediting the abuse and neglect claims.

There are over 12,000 nuclear warheads operational and active around the world, and not all of them are accounted for. And if you live in a major city or close to a large international airport, military facility, industrial complex, infrastructure or communications hub or a large power plant, chances are there is a warhead pointing at you right now.
To cap it all off, there have been several instances of these weapons going off by accident and computer errors falsely alerting an attack.

This will probably be lost at the bottom but

That I have to—like I HAVE to—go to an American college, and it can’t be any college but a really good one. And if I do my entire life will be crushed under student debt, in a place where I (who will be a woman) have to live in constant fear of being assaulted, raped, murdered, stalked, or even just losing my home or not having food (these aren’t all necessarily confined to women tho)because apparently inflation ✨

When I was 11 years old, I went to the zoo and hadn't had the talk yet... I saw giraffes make love and I learned so much... I wish I didn't know the process. I couldn't take my eyes off it it.

cruise ships have morgues

There are certain tumors that can grow teeth and hair. They are called teratomas if I remember correctly.

Pigs are highly efficient at disposing of a human carcass. The only thing they leave behind are the teeth and bones.

Most of the universe will spend its life in darkness while the average temperature drops over time to absolute zero.

The Dutch ate their prime minister. An Aussie prime minister once went missing when he went swimming in the sea and was never seen again

That if you're lost at sea for a few days (and don't get eaten by sharks or succumb to hypothermia), your skin will start to breakdown. *shudder*