46 Facts About Life That Might Change How You See Everything

If you develop dementia one day, there will be a day that will be the last day that you don’t have it, but you won’t know it, ever.

The moon is moving AWAY from the earth at around the same speed that fingernails grow.

As the air quality decreases so will cognitive function. This is already observable in poorly vented offices.

We’re much closer to running out of drinkable water than anyone seems to act like.

The human body replaces its skin monthly. You have about 1,000 new sets of skin in your lifetime.

Where I live, you might die a horrible death after being tortured just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, and your body would just disappear, your family would not see you ever again, and the government would do nothing about it, but take your death just for the statistics and blame it to past administrations.

And to make things worse, if your family try to push your case, even if it's just to find your body for proper burial, they might get k****d too.

It's a horrible thing.

Babies cry in the womb. We have observed through ultrasound all the classic signs of crying like heaving chests, quivering lips, opening mouths. All the movements made when a baby cries, but it cant because their lungs are full of fluid.

Also babies are covered in a fine hair called Lanugo that is shed before and sometimes after birth. At the same time, the digestive system starts working some time around 7 months. Know what the baby eats and drinks? That's right, amniotic fluid and it's own body hair. Where does all that go? It pisses and s***s back into the amniotic sack, only to drink and eat all that again.

Also it's *Loud* in the womb. Not only does sound transfer way better in fluid than it does air, but the late-term uterus is pretty close to the heart.

So for a couple months before you were born you were trapped in a pitch black fluid prison, screaming silently, drinking your own p**s, eating your own s**t, and the entire time it sounded like someone was trying to beat down the door 24/7.

The miracle of life yall.

There’s nuance to this, so I’m just going to post what I was told.

Your eyes and your body have two separate immune systems. They both have no idea the other exists. If your body finds out you have eyes, it will attack them as if they are foreign objects.

That, and a solar flare could cook us at nearly every moment.

One day you Will wake up and get dressed not knowing was the clothes you're going to die in that day.

Money is just a series of text files exchanged between financial institutions a few times a day through ftp style gets and pushes.

There is an unbroken chain of evolution and successful reproduction extending from the very first form of life right up to you.

If you don't have kids, that chain ends with you.

I'm 35 and no kids. I'm letting the Saccorhytus down.

Due to electromagnetic repulsion nothing ever touches anything else.

Nobody experiences true reality. We experience a story that our brain has invented a split second after true reality happens.

If those signals were produced some other way - dream, simulation, hallucinations, or misfiring neurons - you would have no method to detect it.

What collapsed lungs are and how they can happen at total random.

You are never 100% safe. Even if the danger is an extreme one, it could still happen. You're not safe in you're bed, in your house, at your work, nowhere. You will never be 100% safe.

That time doesn't slow down. So the moments we waste, we never get back.

My dog will die before I do :-(.

There are millions of tiny microscopic bugs that are crawling over your skin. They're always there so you leave a lot on the pillow while sleeping. That means you put your face on a graveyard of dead bugs and your skin bits. Since I know this I change my sheets way more regular than before.

Herons eat ducks. I learned that in a kids’ movie last year, and for some reason it traumatized me—a supposedly full-grown adult on paper.

If I live as long as my Dad did, I've only 19 years left to live.