20 Positive Facts That Are Also Disturbing

Toonacious Published 07/10/2022 in feels

Who knew that there could be this many optimistic facts that are truly sad. Here's a list right from the depths of AskReddit.

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1. "A chicken lived without his head for 18 months."
2. "You did your best."
3. "One day you'll never feel pain again."
4. "The most peaceful way to die is in your sleep, but you’ll go to sleep not knowing you’ll never see anything ever again."
5. "Either alien life exists, or we are totally alone in the universe."
6. People who are dying very often just have a sudden burst of energy."
7. "While we're losing a lot of forests in the tropics due to climate change, we're actually gaining a lot of forest in the northern latitudes, and into formerly grassland areas, as more available CO2 allows them to grow in more arid regions. But habitat loss - like grasslands or tundra becoming forest - is arguably even harder on species than changes in weather patterns."
8. "There are hundreds if not thousands of versions of you in the minds of other people, depending on how many people you have met in your life."
9. "There will be a point in time where humans go extinct. We wont experience it but our future generations will see the “end of the world.”
10. "Most people don't die of old age."
11. "This too shall pass."
12. "You’re statistically more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than you are in a plane crash."
13. "You never truly know what anyone really thinks about you."
14. "When you're sick, you're supposed to do drugs and stay out of school."
15. "You might be just like your parents when you have kids."
16. "CPS is returning a child to their family. And it’s often by far the worst thing that could happen to that child"
17. "Death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you."
18. "Who you are is not who others perceive you to be, since no one can ever truly know who you are and how you think, to the point that if you ever lost your memories, no one would be able to describe you fully to you."
19. "I was at a bbq yesterday and my uncle told me, “think about it, one day you went outside to play with your friends for the last time and didn’t even know it.”
20. "The idea that who we are is not who we used to be, nor who we will be. Both literally and figuratively, considering our cells are constantly dying and recycling. Every 7ish years you have a "new" body and because our minds are ever expanding and learning new things."

1. "A chicken lived without his head for 18 months."
2. "You did your best."
3. "One day you'll never feel pain again."
4. "The most peaceful way to die is in your sleep, but you’ll go to sleep not knowing you’ll never see anything ever again."
5. "Either alien life exists, or we are totally alone in the universe."
6. People who are dying very often just have a sudden burst of energy."
7. "While we're losing a lot of forests in the tropics due to climate change, we're actually gaining a lot of forest in the northern latitudes, and into formerly grassland areas, as more available CO2 allows them to grow in more arid regions. But habitat loss - like grasslands or tundra becoming forest - is arguably even harder on species than changes in weather patterns."
8. "There are hundreds if not thousands of versions of you in the minds of other people, depending on how many people you have met in your life."
9. "There will be a point in time where humans go extinct. We wont experience it but our future generations will see the “end of the world.”
10. "Most people don't die of old age."
11. "This too shall pass."
12. "You’re statistically more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than you are in a plane crash."
13. "You never truly know what anyone really thinks about you."
14. "When you're sick, you're supposed to do drugs and stay out of school."
15. "You might be just like your parents when you have kids."
16. "CPS is returning a child to their family. And it’s often by far the worst thing that could happen to that child"
17. "Death isn't the worst thing that can happen to you."
18. "Who you are is not who others perceive you to be, since no one can ever truly know who you are and how you think, to the point that if you ever lost your memories, no one would be able to describe you fully to you."
19. "I was at a bbq yesterday and my uncle told me, “think about it, one day you went outside to play with your friends for the last time and didn’t even know it.”
20. "The idea that who we are is not who we used to be, nor who we will be. Both literally and figuratively, considering our cells are constantly dying and recycling. Every 7ish years you have a "new" body and because our minds are ever expanding and learning new things."