“You are more likely to be bitten by a new yorker than a shark”

“The Taylor oil spill. So far it’s leaked over a million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. It started leaking in 2004, before Deepwater Horizon, and is still leaking oil into the gulf today. Next to nothing being done about it.”

“The X Ray machine is largely responsible for the Child Protective Movement. In the 40’s and 50’s cases for Shaken Baby Syndrome were noticed causing a large push in child protection.”

“In many countries in the world cannibalism is actually legal,the only illegal thing is the way you obtain it. It’s made that way so that planecrash survivors won’t be prosecuted for,you know,surviving.”

“JFK’s convertible wasn’t scrapped after he got shot in 1963. A roof was welded on and it was used by Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter – right through to 1977.”

“I guess not really a fucked up fact for most people, but Harold Shipman was my father’s family doctor, so when I was a baby I was held by a serial killer who murdered hundreds of people.”

“The second most expensive house and one of the biggest slums of the world are in the same city. ‘Antilia’ ($1 Billion) is owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and Dharavi, one of the biggest slums, both in the city of Mumbai.”

“In some countries children inherit debts of their deceased parents.”

“The #1 cause of death for pregnant woman is murder.”

“A meteor exploded over Earth in December 2018 with the force of 10 atomic bombs and everyone missed it. This wasn’t discovered by NASA scientists until after the fact. The reason it went largely undetected is because it took place over the Bering Sea in an area that was close but not directly on the path of commercial planes flying between North America and Asia.”

“Elephants can control their dick like a second trunk.”

“The Vatican Archives are something like 50 miles of information that almost nobody can see unless they know it’s there and put in a formal request to see a specific thing. My understanding is that nobody can enter just to browse.”

“During World War 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.”

“In the beginning, Dupont fucked up their non-stick Teflon pans. They knew high exposure to tge stuff was bad but they never did anything about it. As a result, traces of “forever chemicals” can be found in 98% of the American population (and probably beyond).”

“Dolphins will bite the heads off of smaller fish and use the corpses as a makeshift flesh light to get off.”