The world is full of incredible wonders and little-known secrets. Below, we'll reveal 12 surprising facts that sound suspicious but true, and that will turn your perception upside down and make you re-examine a world full of surprises.
1.A cartel in Switzerland made the decision to have all the top bulb manufacturers limit their lamp life to 1,000 hours, with the aim of increasing sales to make a bigger profit.
2.In the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, a large number of Native American women were sterilized without consent in order to improve their economic situation and the quality of life of their families and to prevent unintended pregnancies in poor communities.
Some have been sterilized without knowing it, while others have been threatened with being denied health care if they do not agree. It is estimated that in the 70s of the twentieth century, 25-50% of Native American women were sterilized, representing thousands of victims. This can be seen as a genocide in modern America.
3.From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention deliberately concealed syphilis infection among hundreds of black Americans, in order to study the effects of untreated syphilis on them, resulting in the death of many patients due to unshaven syphilis.
4.De Beers, a diamond company with a reserve of jewelry-quality diamonds worth about 50 years, keeps the market high by artificially creating scarcity**, even though the rarity of the gemstones is not enough to sustain such a thing**.
5.In the United States in 1919, despite the ban on the manufacture, sale and transportation of liquor, its sales soared, speakeasies abounded, and some people drank even more than before. ** The party was also involved, stealing large quantities of industrial alcohol.
Authorities began requiring manufacturers to add toxic substances, such as methanol, to alcohol in 1926 to curb alcohol consumption. This policy resulted in the poisoning of about 1,200 drinkers and 400 deaths. This is called"Poisoning policy"It was not abolished until December 1933.
6.Kennedy's brain was removed during the autopsy and stored in an archive, but its whereabouts are still unknown.
7.After World War II, the United States conducted a crazy experiment in which they tried to teach a dolphin to speak. To achieve this, they built a house filled with water for the researchers to live with the dolphins.
This dolphin is a young male dolphin who will not react to anything unless a female researcher helps him with a handjob. However, when the higher-ups found out about this, they stopped the experiment and never tried again. Overall, a lot of money was spent, but it turned out to be a woman obsessed with a dolphin.
8.Almost all of the eyeglass frames are made by the same three major companies, and since they are mostly plastic molded, they are very high.
9.The concept of a "carbon footprint" is a PR strategy created by BP to shirk their responsibilities in the climate crisis. To do this, they hired the same advertising agency that had succeeded decades ago in convincing people that tobacco does not cause cancer.
10.The sugar industry pays nutrition researchers to blame fat for causing health problems, when in fact health problems are often related to sugar consumption. That's all we hear about the nonsense of "good fats" and "bad fats".
11.In 1951, a doctor at Johns Hopkins University collected cells from the body of a poor black woman, Herietta Lux, without consent. These cells proved to be a scientific miracle and were widely used in the development of medical science. However, her family and descendants were never informed of these breakthroughs and did not benefit from them, and despite the frequent use of HeLa cells and the huge profits from Johns Hopkins University, her family still fights with the university to this day for financial compensation and recognition of their desecration of Herietta Lux's body.
12.There is a psychological phenomenon known as the "backfire effect", in which people become more determined to believe their misconceptions or misinformation when they are shown to be false.