ITT: Things people don't usually think about

[dopefish]

Not a single one of your ancestors has ever failed in getting laid (To all those who are forever alone, YOU MUST NOT BREAK THE CHAIN)


If you are 80 years old, you have lived through over 1/3 of America's history


At one point, you were the youngest person in the world.

When you receive a birthday card in the mail, it often has a chip that sings "Happy Birthday" to you. Remarkably, that chip has more computer power than all the Allied forces of 1945. Hitler, Churchill, or Roosevelt might have killed to get that chip. But what do we do with it? After the birthday, we throw the card and chip away. Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.


Dinosaurs were alive for longer than they have been extinct.

The "food pyramid" that most of us grew up with was published by the US dept of agriculture. Their job is to promote agriculture, not to promote healthy eating.

[ronpaul3046]

A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards.

That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others. 'Other' means the thou. He becomes aware of the mother first. Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body.

the ego must be destroyed
http://deoxy.org/egofalse.htm

[dopefish]

The sky is underneath you.

Many of the most profound thinkers in history were put to death for spreading the very same messages that we now consider to be cornerstones of our understanding of the universe.


Brakes were put in cars to allow people to go faster.

[dopefish]

The iron in our blood was created in the final stages of a massive star's collapse and supernova.
We are quite literally all made of stars.

If a woman who is an only child has all boys (or no children at all), they are ending a chain of women that has been going since we were single-celled organisms.

The average human is a 28 year old Chinese man.


Psychology is the brain trying to understand itself.

Every time you breathe oxygen you are, at the same time, killing yourself and giving yourself life. Oxygen is highly toxic to our bodies and is the main culprit to aging and eventual death, but without it we die within minutes.

There is almost certainly a species of aliens somewhere wondering if they're alone or not.

You breathe using just one nostril, then switch to the other 30 minutes later. Repeats for life.

[BobbyGz]

hmmmm

[J-Cubed]

Thread has potential.

[Weakone327]

You breathe using just one nostril, then switch to the other 30 minutes later. Repeats for life.

You mad I'm breathing with 2 right now?

[dopefish]

Your genitals were in direct contact with your mothers vagina when you were born.


In 30 or 40 years, people will be having 2000s parties. Just like now people throw "dress like the 70s" parties.

Many of the stars you see in the night sky could have died hundreds of thousands, millions, even billions of years ago, the universe being that vast.

the Earth is spinning at 1000mph on its axis, we're orbiting the sun at 67,000 mph, our solar system is orbiting a fixed point in the Milky way at 490,000mph, and our local cluster of galaxies is also rotating at 2,500,000mph.

Your eyes limit you to seeing only a small part of the light spectrum. There is a whole range of light that is completely incomprehensible to you.

[da2ricky]

op is blowing my fking mind, repped.

[CezTec]

inb4 ten thousand pages

[AlliWantisLulz]

You breathe using just one nostril, then switch to the other 30 minutes later. Repeats for life.

is this cereal?

[Hamzzza]

Brakes were put in cars to allow people to go faster.

i like this one

[dopefish]

Confusion is you being on the border of your current maximum knowledge. (strong learning motivation)

This is the oldest you have ever been and the youngest you will ever be.

http://www.worldometers.info/ (Crazy statistics on this site)

John Lennon is part of a group that has sold more CD's than anyone else in the history of human life, and he never knew what a CD even was.


Grossness and morals define each other. For example, you won't spit in the mouth of your girlfriend, yet you will kiss her.

[dopefish]

is this cereal?

The nasal vascular beds alternate every 30-45 minutes in a well person. (true for most people) you still breathe through both but most of the air goes into 1.

[WIscuba]

inb4 ten thousand pages

i hope so this stuff is great

[PatrickDurden]

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

[dopefish]

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

The average human has around 1 testicle

[emerica2394]

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John Lennon is part of a group that has sold more CD's than anyone else in the history of human life, and he never knew what a CD even was.
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mind= ****ing blown

[Just4Misc]

I like this thread very much.

[dopefish]

Every time you expel semen or menstrual fluid, it contains the genesis of a child you could have loved for the rest of your life. (brb fapping)

The only reason that the night sky appears black is because of interstellar dust and gas. Otherwise you would be able to see the light from every star within approximately fourteen billion light years, and the sky would glow white.

The universe is expanding. Due to this fact, visible light has been redshifted into the infrared. The sky IS bright in every direction in infrared.

A change of plans has probably saved your life before. (Opposite also applies)

[BaguetteFO]

Grossness and morals define each other. For example, you won't spit in the mouth of your girlfriend, yet you will kiss her.

I've heard a similar. People find spitting in a glass and drinking it disgusting, yet they swallow their spit everytime in their mouth.

[Deathstriker666]

Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina.

Wisdom.

[aceraps]

I dont believe that one about breathing in oxygen

[dopefish]

You are probably allergic to some food that's not commonly consumed in your country.

There's a really hot person who you are compatible with out there and you'll die without meeting them.

Also, you spend years seeing the same people often and you'll never exchange words with them.


You were unconsciously breathing just now... and blinking.

[Hey_Jay]

[dopefish]

I dont believe that one about breathing in oxygen

It happens to everything, its part of why we seal food.

[ImClappinCheeks]

When you receive a birthday card in the mail, it often has a chip that sings "Happy Birthday" to you. Remarkably, that chip has more computer power than all the Allied forces of 1945. Hitler, Churchill, or Roosevelt might have killed to get that chip.

lol'd, awesome fukking thread though, subbed.

[sammy21]

Every time you breathe oxygen you are, at the same time, killing yourself and giving yourself life. Oxygen is highly toxic to our bodies and is the main culprit to aging and eventual death, but without it we die within minutes.

brb only breathing every few minutes so I can age better

[Stompin_Tom]

did you walk, talk, hear, eat or drink today? Did you sleep in a bed last night?




thousands of people in the world didn't. thousands more never will.

[Deathstriker666]

It happens to everything, its part of why we seal food.

lol dude thats oxidation. Its different when were breathing it. Oxygen is fine when we breath, but at higher levels its poisonous. Its the same with everything else, if you drink too much water you can die.