Hey, life can't be a 24/7 party, you know? It comes at you fast, and it hits you with all of uncomfortable truths it can muster. Sorry if that's a bit depressing, but again, that's life for you.
You might not want to believe these facts, and frankly, we can't blame you. But there they are, true all the same. Go ahead, google them. We dare you.
Her last known in-flight signal was sent on July 2, 1937. Hours later, distress calls started going out and a search and rescue mission ensued. But when the search failed, the signals were thought to have been bogus. A later study of 120 signals received between the time of her disappearance and the end of the search determined that 57 of those signals were credible.
According to the American Psychological Association, loneliness and social isolation are on the rise, bringing greater risks of premature mortality with it. "Being connected to others socially is widely considered a fundamental human need — crucial to both well-being and survival," says Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology at Brigham Young University.
Although there's no official tally of deaths caused by medical error, and it's never included in the CDC's rankings, a study into "how communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors, poor judgment, and inadequate skill can directly result in patient harm and death" found medical error ranked right behind heart disease and cancer for causes of death in America.
It's named after Sam German, who worked for the Baker's chocolate company. While there, he created a sweet baking chocolate that had his name attached to it. When a Texas homemaker sent her recipe for a cake made with German's chocolate, it took off — but the apostrophe "-s" was lost along the way.
Nobody knows the exact numbers involved, but conservationists estimate that there are about 3,200 tigers living in the wild around the globe, while at least 5,000 live in the U.S. — maybe as many as 10,000 — with only about 350 of them living in accredited zoos.
Of course, people didn't stop drinking the new liquor, which now had such wonderful ingredients as benzene, mercury, and higher amounts of methanol. Estimates suggest the government ended up killing about 10,000 people.
Yup, if you're a murder victim in America, there's a 33% chance your killer will get away with it, despite the advances in technologies and the prevalence of DNA evidence.
In the 1950s and '60s, at least eight warheads went missing in a few incidents. One warhead is somewhere in a North Carolina swamp, in a piece of land since purchased by the government. An H-Bomb was lost 80 miles off the coast of Japan when a plane rolled off an aircraft carrier's deck. And perhaps most worrying, a B-47 carrying two warheads completely disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea in 1956.
Purple Hearts from that WWII batch were still being awarded in the field during the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, little typically happens beyond a bright flash and some flickering of the lights, thanks to modern protection engineering. The last confirmed crash due to lightning in the U.S. happened in 1967.
A study of macaque monkeys showed that they, and other primates by extension, have all the anatomy required to speak, but their brains can't control their voice boxes the way a human's can.
Makers of deodorant and antiperspirant had to convince people that B.O. was bad enough to require its own solution beyond merely washing and perfuming.
Experts still can't agree on why food allergies have become so much more prevalent recently.
Researchers at the University of Florida determined that those with confirmed early stage Alzheimer's had trouble smelling peanut butter, and that they specifically had a harder time smelling it with their left nostrils. Because the sense of smell is often lost before memory in cases of cognitive decline, the peanut butter smell test could be an early indicator of Alzheimer's.
