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25 Unsettling Facts That Will Make You Question Everything

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You aren’t guaranteed old age.

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That right now, this very moment, someone is trapped against their will, probably suffering at the hands of someone else, and wondering if anyone “out there” is thinking about them or remembers them.

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Resistance to antibiotics is growing at such an alarming rate that they risk losing effectiveness entirely meaning medical procedures such as caesarean sections, joint replacements and chemotherapy could soon become too dangerous to perform. Unless urgent action is taken, drug resistant infections will kill 10 million people a year by 2050, more than cancer kills currently, the report’s authors warn.

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Most hands you shake have held a penis before.

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The majority of modern pop hits are created by the same two men. Clever but also quite unsettling. Everything is facade, a lot of the popular pop artists don’t even write their own songs, and artists such as chainsmokers use the same technique for every single song because it’s addicting. Two guys rule mainstream music because they figured out a way to create catchy music and sell it to artists who perform it.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.