Ignorance Is Bliss: 50 People Share The Most Bizarre Facts They Now Regret Learning

Slavery was legal


Colonialism was legal


Jim Crow was legal


Apartheid was legal


Legality is a matter of power, not justice


Human rights are never given by those in power. They are fought for by the oppressed.

Almost all politicians regardless of party are funded by the same few hundred/ thousand sociopaths at the very top, and we are slowly losing our rights and freedoms in plain sight and we are are sleep walking into a dystopian nightmare.

S*x abuse in the church is 10X worse then they are letting on. 

In my parish there was one priest that was convicted and they are saying the number of boys he molested could be as high as 1000. What is generally not known well talked about is there were 6 others were accused and settled out of court. 

Now the really smart pedophiles are selective on their victim. And the victim suffers in silence.

In non-catholic churches I have gone to it is common to hear of a father that is molesting their daughters. 

I have met many victims and even with therapy it still puts zing in their brain. 

I have come to the point in my life that I want nothing to do with any church. .

How two ten-year-olds abducted and then tortured a two-year-old boy in the UK. My youngest was two at the time and I developed this fear of losing him in a store, worse than the usual kind. I also included children in my stranger danger talks with my children; don’t go with people you don’t know, not even kids.

That women are more likely to be r***d by their family(husband/brother/father) in their own bed at home than a stranger on the street.

The number one cause of death for pregnant women in the USA (possibly worldwide?) is m***er by the father of the baby.

That fact should be on billboards outside every school, hospital, and stadium in the country. Then, perhaps, men would finally start looking at each other and saying, “What the f**k, man? Cut it the f**k out.”

Probably not, though. They’ll probably still be busy trying to figure out why smart women choose the bear.

During the transatlantic slave trade, sharks developed migratory patterns following slave ships.

If a woman dies while pregnant she can give birth 😭.

Damita-Ho:

Yep! It’s called a “coffin birth,” where the body will expel the infant. Thats what happened to Lacy Peterson after she died. May Scott Peterson rot in hell.

We live within a few miles of gas, atop floating rocks, being dragged by a star through the great and unforgiving vacuum of space, quite literally a stone's throw away from complete and total annihilation.



And people want to deny others healthcare for no other reason than struggling to pay scamming private health insurance. They're already pooling money for it; that's the thing that gets me, _they're already pooling money for it,_ and could be paying net less for access to anything they need, but are so petty they're willing to pay more for less coverage, just so Random Joe Citizen doesn't get healthcare at all. People making themselves sick, just to make others sick. How sad and small is that?

That 1/5 men have admitted to a desire for engaging in p********a if it weren't a crime, but researchers believe the true statistic is more like 1/3. Which is sad because the statistics of girls who have experienced SA is believed to be 1/4 - researchers believe it's actually 1/2 and for boys, the stat is 1/5, believed to be 1/3...and that s**t infuriates the f**k out of me.

What the f**k is wrong with people? Does anyone care that research, even centuries old, states that this type of treatment to children actually causes irreparable psychological harm? The sexualization of children should be considered a crime above murder, IMO, and result in the death penalty within a swift timeline. IDGAF about saving someone - man or woman- whose brain tells them that it's okay to harm children in such an egregious way, even statistics prove they can NEVER be "rehabilitated" and have one of the highest recidivism rates among all types of criminals.

Beagles are very often used in animal testing because it has been found that they forgive better than other breeds and are able to be adopted more often after their traumatic experiences.

How prevalent incest is. It happens within every social and economic class, race, political and religious affiliation, country, region, etc.

And then just how many incidents go unreported. Throughout my life so many childhood friends, former classmates, family members, and coworkers opened up about their experiences.

The southwest isn’t going through a drought, it’s getting permanently hotter and drier due to climate change. It’s going to get browner and the aquifers lower as time marches on.

2/3s of people will most likely follow orders from a perceived authority, no matter how heinous.

Everything there is to know about Teflon. Not just because it's a "forever chemical" that has already insinuated itself throughout the ecology of the planet, but because of the recklessness with which we caused it to happen. It's emblematic of how far over our skis we are with technology.

That so many advances in the medical field came from using, k**ling and torturing people. Tuskegee, R**e of Nanjing, Henrietta Lacks, the H*******t.

Edit- misspelled Lacks.

Many doctors don’t want to live beyond the age of 75. My Dad worked in hospitals as a respiratory therapist and always said so too. A doctor wrote an article on the subject many years ago. 75 is the ideal age to go, apparently, based on what they see in their professional day to day.

They have a locked caged area for infants and young children at large morgues. That horrible place your mind went? yup that’s why. Learned when filming an indie movie in very large and active county morgue with 500 bodies.

peppers_ghost:

I’ve heard that’s why so many women are employed in morgues. They are less likely ti violate bodies than certain kinds of men are.

You could be walking around with an undiagnosed intracranial aneurysm and not know it, until it pops at which point its basically a death sentence.

You can develop schizophrenia very late in age. I’m not talking BPSD, Lewy body dementia, or delirium. I mean you can have a full blown psychotic episode that develops into schizophrenia for no apparent reason at any age. It’s rare after age 40 but not impossible. There’s a whole specialty field in psychiatry (psychogeriatrics) that see this regularly. I’ve seen many patients who had very late onset schizophrenia (and late onset bipolar too) in their 80s and 90s. Not cognitively impaired, not delirious, no Lewy body disease, no head trauma, no psychoactive d**g use.