Delta4Embassy
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Are many lists of "things you were happier not knowing about" so here's some highlights from a few.
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FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz. of raisins
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They also allow 1 pound of peanut butter to contain 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs
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Your desk, kitchen sink, grocery cart, cellphone, restaurant menu, and ATM all have more bacteria than your toilet bowl
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20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter (University of Arizona study)
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16% of cell phones have poop on them (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
(both the fecal matter ones are due to fecal matter particles travelling through the air (from flushing the toilet and the water rushing in knocking some of the waste up into the air.) If you have a bathroom in your home, there's particles of poop everywhere, on everything, and in everything.)
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If you smell something, molecules from that object are sticking to the inside of your nose
(as above, if you smell poop, you're inhaling poop, or if you wanna think of it another way, eating it.)
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More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss
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Male chicks are often tossed into a grinder as babies because roosters aren't as tasty as hens
(have seen videos of this I wish I hadn't)
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Ice machines in restaurants are usually not cleaned. They even have a part called a slime guard and if you saw it on a bad day you would never get ice again
5
The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop
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15% of the air you breathe in an average metro station is human skin
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There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers
25 Extremely Disturbing Facts You Wish You Didn t Know
"23
FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz. of raisins
22
They also allow 1 pound of peanut butter to contain 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs
20
Your desk, kitchen sink, grocery cart, cellphone, restaurant menu, and ATM all have more bacteria than your toilet bowl
19
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter (University of Arizona study)
18
16% of cell phones have poop on them (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
(both the fecal matter ones are due to fecal matter particles travelling through the air (from flushing the toilet and the water rushing in knocking some of the waste up into the air.) If you have a bathroom in your home, there's particles of poop everywhere, on everything, and in everything.)
13
If you smell something, molecules from that object are sticking to the inside of your nose
(as above, if you smell poop, you're inhaling poop, or if you wanna think of it another way, eating it.)
11
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss
9
Male chicks are often tossed into a grinder as babies because roosters aren't as tasty as hens
(have seen videos of this I wish I hadn't)
7
Ice machines in restaurants are usually not cleaned. They even have a part called a slime guard and if you saw it on a bad day you would never get ice again
5
The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop
2
15% of the air you breathe in an average metro station is human skin
1
There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers
25 Extremely Disturbing Facts You Wish You Didn t Know