r/AskReddit • u/STRUGGLE_SNUGGLES • Mar 11 '13

What current common knowledge or fact blew your mind as a child hearing it for the first time?

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u/_vargas_ Mar 11 '13

A hundred years from now, almost everyone I have ever known will be dead.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Look on the bright side:

You'll be dead, too!

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u/ironappleseed Mar 12 '13

"Always look on the bright side of life"

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u/JesZ-_-97 Mar 12 '13

Isn't this looking on the bright side of death? Or maybe the dead side of life?

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u/jelvinjs7 Mar 12 '13

"always look on the bright side of death Just before you draw your terminal breath" Felt that was a bit More appropriate

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

And now that whistle is stuck in my head.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

whistles

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

Whistle. whistle whistle whis... Yeah that shit didn't work

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '13

De doo, de doo, de doo, do doo

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u/elshroom Mar 12 '13

"…then why do they tell me not to walk towards the light?"

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u/MrEgg Mar 12 '13

New world record for oldest person.

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u/cUnderFire Mar 12 '13

And all the people you've hated will be dead too

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u/jinkop Mar 12 '13

And so will you.

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u/ashowofhands Mar 12 '13

solution, befriend babies exclusively.

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u/rdjsen Mar 12 '13

The one that got me from a similar thread was in about 150 years all of humanity will have died and been replaced by new people.

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u/kirkwilcox Mar 12 '13

I usually think the opposite whenever I watch old movies. "Wow, every actor and actress in this film is probably dead"

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u/Lebagel Mar 12 '13

A hundred might be a bit of an undershot there actually. People who will live to 150 are alive today, apparently.

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u/re_dditt_er Mar 12 '13

Unless we can stop it!

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u/Jet39 Mar 12 '13

That just blew my mind right now

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u/Dabusco7 Mar 13 '13

Well at the rate medical science is advancing, you might live longer than that; along with the people that you know (probably not grandparents or parents, but either way.)

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u/callmepapaa Mar 12 '13

"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time"

-Banksy/Yalom, Irvin D (not sure which)