Healthcare in the US doesn't actually cost as much as we, the citizens, are led to believe.

How a lot of places just let you and a friend in if you wear a construction vest and helmet and carry a ladder.

If you google pizza hut, you get an ad for 30% off domino's pizza (where I live anyway).

The reason they don’t put good pockets on girls pants is so they can sell you a purse.

The little “i” in a circle on YouTube ads is clickable and if it’s an unskipable ad you just click it and click stop seeing this ad and your back to your video.

Dollar store pregnancy tests are just as effective as their more expensive counterparts.

You can just take ducks from a park, the police won’t stop you.

Jeff Bezos works on the 6th floor of his building Day 1 in Seattle. He has his own private security on that floor (different from building security). A silent alarm goes off when you press the elevator button and you're not Jeff Bezos and his security will be waiting to arrest you when the elevator opens.

Most adults have no idea what they're doing, they just make it up along the way and go with it.

Statistics are super easy to manipulate to say whatever you want. I see so many commercials and other companies that try to claim their product is the best according to these statistics, but really, they fail to meet basic rules and ethics in statistics. Still, even if they were to follow all the rules of statistics, there are many ways to manipulate it to your advantage.

That there is no federal law preventing a private citizen from owning a flamethrower.

Social media tracks you to the point that it records every message you write and stores it in a database, every call, message,voice message,image and posts are recorded. You are being monitored to the point that the computer even times the amount of time you spend looking at each post and the longer the time is on topic the more of those types of videos you get, just to keep you engaged in the app and entertained. Over time the computer learns everything about you and knows you better than you know yourself

Nutmeg, when eaten in large quantities, is a psychedelic drug that can cause hallucinations, coma, or even death.

The fact that whales have a 42 inch anus and that their fart bubbles can hold a horse

In America, you can A. Own a pet bear B. Own a tank C. Own an RPG launcher D. Own a pet bear which is riding a tank while practicing firing an RPG

We can all easily find out what people paid for their house. Seems kind of personal, but it’s very public. Same with divorce records.

I know how to make meth, anthrax, homemade claymore, among other explosives and poisons

Jury nullification. In the US at least, even if all of the members of a jury are convinced that the defendant is guilty, if they don't like the law, they're allowed to vote not guilty.

Even though the joke is 'tastes like chicken', humans actually taste like pork according to cannibals e.g. Arthur Shawcross. Which made perfect sense to me when I found out. In med school we dissected cadavers including human muscle and fat, and xenografts (tissue transplants from one animal to another) are generally pig (or cow) e.g. porcine heart valves are still used for heart surgery in humans.

The chemical formula for nitroglycerin

Swimming pools don’t release a blue chemical when you pee in it

I play tabletop RPGs and googled a lot about making bombs, security and guerilla warfare.

You’re allowed to rip the tag off your mattress.

The casino has a mathematical advantage

It takes minimal negotiation and paperwork to set up a vending machine. You can probs stock it up for 100 bucks buying bulk and then you'll make like twice that back. Edit since this has a decent amount of upvotes, a bonus fact! The Ford F-150 is the smallest vehicle that can be used as a tax write-off up to iirc a $1.2 million return, but it only applies if you use it for commerce. (I'm no tax expert so I may have gotten something wrong)

Really (before 1997/98 or so) old microsoft product keys relied on a REALLY simple validity check. They were numbers in the form XXXX-YYYYYYY. The first 4 digits were specific to the software (I think Office 97 was 0402?) and fixed. The last 7 .. the check was just that the sum of all digits has to be able to be divided by 7 without rest. So 1111111 worked all the time. 1234567 worked all the time, 7777777 did.

In my town, there are some mountain paths that have a big "ENTRY BANNED - LETHAL DANGER" sign. The truth is that: Entry is not banned, it's just that you can't count on public services if you get hurt The danger exists only from Monday to Saturday from 9 AM to 5 PM - it's caused by the construction of avalanche barrier. Outside of that hours, it's safe to enter.

That restaurants often do really disgusting things and have disgusting issues. I used to waitress and then later manage a pizza place — mosquitos in the drain, nests of mice, stink bug infestations, flies feasting on food that falls behind the appliances that isn’t cleaned up frequently like it’s supposed to be, mold in the soda machine, expired ingredients still being used, etc. It’s just.. a lot. I was very, very surprised. I knew that most restaurants naturally deal with these things from time to time, but I didn’t expect it to be this often. I also didn’t expect for management to be so nonchalant about going against inspections and regulations. Other restaurants that friends of mine have managed/otherwise worked at have also had similar issues and it’s pretty wild. I’ve never eaten at the restaurant that I worked at since quitting. I wouldn’t trust it.

I know where the one man who does water testing for my hometown lives. Lot of responsibility for one person.

i've spent the past 18 months at home, in my neighborhood walking two dogs 3x a day (sometimes separately) at all hours of the day, so: the layout, egresses, and security patterns of many local establishments, locations of cameras and places where the cops hang out eating snacks, and how to get through various alleys from point A to point in my house with the lights off

Get 64 hexadecimal characters in order and you might become a billionaire just like that. Conversely, if you are a billionaire and someone guesses your 64character sequence, you might just lose all the wealth in there. Talking about crypto private keys here. Also, it's tooooooooooo improbable. But yeah.

What my friend's close friend looks like naked. We hooked up but he doesn't know that, so I feel like I have illegal knowledge.