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that I have a very limited ability to reassure or comfort other people.

That humanity will never change.

That there are still some people whom continue to believe in myths & fables despite what scientific evidence shows.

Each year in the US, about 2,600 people get injured by air fresheners while only 13 people get injured by shark attacks.

That was actually on the episode of Untold Stories From The ER I had just watched, where an oceanology student had been bitten in the leg by a nurse shark, the shark still alive and hanging onto his leg, but he wants them to save the shark and seems more concerned about it than himself. The doctors ended up saving them both. That show is really a guilty pleasure of mine.

That house flies were once used as germ welfare to spread cholera.

In the summer at my parents' house we used to get tons of flies even though our home wasn't filthy or anything. They were annoying and gross, but it's a wonder we didn't all become severely ill from whatever germs they were carrying and die a long time ago.

that, at long last, my [lack of] performance intelligence is what has been holding me back all these years.

That selling sex (i.e. prostitution) in Canada is legal but buying it is not.

That makes no sense. How can something be legal to sell but not buy? It's like some drug dealer saying to people on the street "I got pounds and pounds of cocaine here but you can only look, don't touch it please!" Or they do sell it but only the drug users get arrested while the dealer walks away scot-free.

What a weird world.

that learning to play a bass flute is a soporific.

That when some people "fall into a hole" (depression, addiction etc) they need to get out of, they don't mind staying in it. They make themselves comfortable, put up decorations in the hole and call it a home. They refuse any help from the outside and eventually people stop caring that they fell into said hole and leave them there.

I have reached out too many times, and now someone can crawl out of his own hole by himself.

Do not drink coffee with supper

That I’d never thought I’d still be single and way behind on life at age 36.

I was looking at google images of warning symbols and signs just for the fun of it, and there was a sign telling you what to do if you see a dead body.

But it told you to stay at least five meters from the body. So how can I be certain the person is actually dead?

Someone also created symbols to put on pill bottles to give instructions on taking them without words to people in places where they aren't very literate, like in Africa. I had a mild attack of immaturity when I saw the symbol for suppositories that shows a human butt.

I wonder why the symbol for suppositories couldn't be a giant *? I saw my first stiff when I was about 7. he was lying on the floor of the Kmart store I was in, he was motionless, as gray and lifeless as could be. he was a smoker, his lit cigarette was on the floor next to him. he had gray hair, very skinny, dressed in dark gray dress slacks and charcoal cardigan sweater, pressed white shirt.

AuntBlabby that's terrible.

That I don't mean as much to someone as I thought I did. They mean a lot to me.