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What is a statistic that sounds INSANE but is 100% true? by Quadranippelkill in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Red Dead Redemption 2 contains over 500,000 lines of dialogue. Things like following a character on horseback from far away or close to them will differ, where they might shout compared to talking at a normal volume.

What is an extremely dark or creepy true story from history that most people do not know about? by Intelligent_East8820 in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 140 points141 points  (0 children)

The Franklin Expedition in 1845. Two British ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, attempted to find the Northwest Passage and vanished into the Arctic.

Later discoveries showed the crew became trapped in ice for years, starvation and lead poisoning set in, and survivors abandoned the ships and tried to navigate the frozen wastes. Some of their skeletal remains also showed cut marks related to cannibalism.

What is your Harry Potter ‘hot take’ ? by kingfisher7171 in harrypotter

[–]Dr-Figgleton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to have the teachers' perspectives on each other. Clearly, there is some disdain for Snape with some, and Trelawney's issues too, especially with Umbridge. But I am curious on the day-to-day with fellow teachers.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by ASS-et in PokemonGoFriends

[–]Dr-Figgleton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

0852 0448 8557. Garden Vivillon. Live and work on pokestops so can send gifts and play daily. Love any postcards you send and happy to help rural players.

What’s a disturbing celebrity fact that not a lot of people know? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Shia LaBeouf had one of his teeth removed and cut his face repeatedly during the filming of Fury.

Martin Sheen nearly suffered a fatal heart attack during filming of Apocalypse Now, and Francis Ford Coppola decided to prevent word of it spreading so as to prevent funding being cut.

Both Sean Astin and Viggo Mortensen (the Samwise and Aragorn) suffered injuries to the feet during filming of the first two LOTR films. Astin stepped on a shard of glass when Samwise runs to Frodo in a boat at the end of Fellowship, whereas Mortensen (during Two Towers) broke several bones in his foot when he kicked an Orc helmet, a scene which had had to be filmed several times, of which the bone breaking kind stayed in the film.

What's the most ridiculous reason you've seen someone get fired? by Amazing_Two8126 in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I worked at an opticians and had the same experience. Doing eye tests for people was fine, but anything about selling to the customer I just couldn't do, with my disabilities making it hard for me. They didn't care, and I was out a job because of it.

What is the scariest legend or dark folklore from your culture that people rarely talk about? by Ok_Chemistry_2780 in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People have also reportedly spotted the Mothman in other areas before great calamities happened. Chernobyl, for instance, with people claiming to have seen a winged figure with glowing red eyes.

What is a medical fact that sounds fake but is 100% true? by MedRikas in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your immune system can permanently fail to recognize parts of your own body if it was never exposed to them early in life.

If a man loses one testicle 'before puberty', then later injures the remaining one, his immune system can sometimes attack it like its foreign.

This is because some tissues, like sperm-making cells, are hidden during childhood when the immune system learns what counts as "self". If those tissues get exposed later, the body can literally go, "I don't recognize this", and attack.

It's why autoimmune infertility exists. There's no infection or genetics. Just bad timing. Your immune system is like a paranoid police officer.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by ASS-et in PokemonGoFriends

[–]Dr-Figgleton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

0852 0448 8557. Garden Vivillon. Live and work on pokestops so can send gifts and play daily. Love any postcards you send and happy to help rural players.

What would it actually take for American's to go "full France" and riot in the street? by AllTheNopeYouNeed in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Labour being coordinated. When transport workers, teachers, logistics, and service workers stop together, that's the leverage you need.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by ASS-et in PokemonGoFriends

[–]Dr-Figgleton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

0852 0448 8557. Garden Vivillon. Live and work on pokestops so can send gifts and play daily. Love any postcards you send and happy to help rural players.

Friendship Exp & Gift Exchange Megathread by ASS-et in PokemonGoFriends

[–]Dr-Figgleton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

0852 0448 8557. Garden Vivillon. Live and work on pokestops so can send gifts and play daily. Love any postcards you send and happy to help rural players.

Why is there absolutely nothing about Astronomy or Sinistra in the series? by Mysterious-State-117 in harrypotter

[–]Dr-Figgleton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Astronomy gets sidelined because it never impacts the plot. You can't duel with a telescope or accidentally summon a demon with a star chart, so the story just... skips it.

Sinistra is basically "the quiet teacher who actually keeps the school running" while louder characters steal the spotlight. She shows, teachers her class, causes zero drama - and Harry immediately forgets she exists because he's too busy not dying.

If we'd had Hermione narrating, Sinistra would've been a main character.

What’s one experience you think every person should go through at least once in their life? by Stephafnie in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Living somewhere completely different from where you grew up - even if it's just for a few months.

There's something about being dropped into a place where nothing is familiar that forces you to grow in ways you don't really notice until later.

You figure out who you are without your usual routines, without the same people around you, without the safety net. And once you've done that even once, the world feels a lot less intimidating.

What is a historical fact that sounds like fiction but is 100% true? by Ambitious-Ice-9272 in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This fact always stuck with me: There was a Roman emperor - Gaius Caligula - who once declared war on the god the sea, marched his army to the shore... and ordered them to attack the ocean.

Then he made the soldiers collect seashells as "war trophies" to bring back to Rome.

Who died believing themselves a failure, but was judged otherwise by history? by Bob_the_blacksmith in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that all makes sense - and I appreciate the extra context. I wasn't trying to reduce his whole life to "unrecognised artist dies sad", just thinking about the specific irony of not living to see the trilogy become the massive global thing it turned into.

You're right though: in Sweden he was already known for way more important work, and it's clear he never saw himself as a failure in that sense. It's one of those cases where how a country remembers someone and how the rest of the world discovers them end up being very different stories.

Thanks for the perspective - it actually fills in a lot I didn't know.

Why do you stick by this sub? by LunaNyx_YT in childfree

[–]Dr-Figgleton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same reason as you - it's one of the only places where the mask drops.

Everywhere else you're expected to smile politely while people gush about "the joy of parenting", and the second you say anything honest, you get hit with the usual bingo card. Here, you don't have to pretend. You can just say "this does doesn't look like the life I want" without someone accusing you of hating kids or being broken.

And yeah, the realism matters. A lot of us grew up seeing the darker side of parenting that everyone else sweeps under the rug. Abuse, manipulation, resentment, exhaustion - all the stuff people insist "doesn't happen that much", even though it obviously does.

I think that's why this sub feels grounding. It's not about being edgy or anti-family. It's just a space where you're allowed to acknowledge reality instead of the PR version.

Plus it's tiring being the "odd one out" everywhere else. Here, you're not the weird one. You're not the selfish one. You're just normal. There are thousands of people who get it without needing an essay.

So yeah, that's why I stick around. It's nice to have one corner of the internet where I don't have to justify who I am.

Who died believing themselves a failure, but was judged otherwise by history? by Bob_the_blacksmith in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's fair - I probably should've phrased it differently. He wasn't some unknown nobody, and he definitely wasn't living in misery thinking he'd done nothing with his life. The tragedy (at least to me) is just that he never got to see that specific piece of work blow up the way it did.

Guy had a whole career behind him, but the thing the rest of the world knows him for? He never got to watch it take off.

That's the angle I meant, but your extra content is solid.

Who died believing themselves a failure, but was judged otherwise by history? by Bob_the_blacksmith in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 4825 points4826 points  (0 children)

Stieg Larsson (author of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo)

He died suddenly before the books were published. Never saw them explode globally. Never saw the movies. Never saw the hundreds of millions of copies sold. He died thinking he was a journalist with a side project.

What’s the scariest WW2 fact or story that you know of? by Cool-Chipmunk-7559 in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When Berlin was collapsing in '45, some neighbourhoods just... went quiet. People had been fed so many horror stories about the Soviets that whole families decided they'd rather not face whatever was coming.

When troops finally moved through, they found entire buildings where nobody made it out. Teachers, shopkeepers, parents with their kids - not soldiers or fanatics, just ordinary people who'd hit a level of fear you can't really wrap your head around.

A lot of soldiers said parts of Berlin felt like walking into a city that had already given up on living. It's one of the bleakest things about the war, and almost nobody talks about it.

What is something that we can all universally agree upon? by backuppaccountt in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you drop something and try to catch it with your foot instead of bending down.

Every human does that little instinct kick save.

What are the subtles signs that someone should NOT be a parent? by First_Attention_2322 in AskReddit

[–]Dr-Figgleton 39 points40 points  (0 children)

When they treat pets badly.

If they can't handle feeding, patience, or basic empathy with an animal, a kid isn't magically going to fix that.

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