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[–] 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Catching on fire is weirdly absent here

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Black holes and the sun dying in five billion years are missing here.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Along with falling anvils and actual sticks of dynamite.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I've seen quicksand happen at the beach now twice. It's crazier when you realize it's not a thing, and then it's a thing again. The one person called the park people because they thought it should be cordoned off, but conditions have to be just right.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Learning about buoyancy in relation to quicksand is a helluva thing. You panic thinking you're going to sink and drown but then you stop not even half way and realize it's just more annoying mud but at the beach.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago

    Learning about the Bermuda Triangle when I should have been learning about the Strait of Hormuz 😭

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    I never realized how close the triangle was to the US

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago*

    I was never able to figure out what “made” the triangle! I just knew that Bermuda was part of it. Internet didn’t exist back then, so you just kinda moved on when you couldnt find your answer; or pick 2 other places that look good enough and call it a day! Today, seeing this post, finally solved a question from my childhood! 😆

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    I wish these were the biggest problems we had to deal with

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Pool drain is also missing here.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    Replace the Loch Ness Monster with whirlpools and 6 year old me would be in shambles lol

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    My mom once told me we have pull the roots of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonatum Out because it's a pest plant that grows everywhere.

    Naturally I concluded that humanity is involved in an global war against this plant, over who owns this planet and all our lives are at long term risk of losing that war

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    Being on fire.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I know it's the loch Ness monster but at first glance I thought it was a swan, told they would break your arm so dont piss them off

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    [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    killer bees and the ozone layer

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    the ozone layer could be a problem again in the future if old appliances that contain cfcs aren't handled carefully when disposed of...

    https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/11469/2025/

    or if people start emitting cfcs again...

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/487308/these-five-ozone-depleting-cfcs-have-been-increasing-in-the-atmosphere

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And cliffs! Sheer cliffs seem to be much less geologically common than my childhood led me to believe.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)