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    These 17 Totally True Facts Will Shock You

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    It is a fact of life that everything around us changes. While we want everything to be perfect all of the time, looking at the bigger picture there is a lot wrong with the world right now. Of course it’s not all doom and gloom as life can be and is amazing for many of us. However, we have collected together 17 true facts about the world today which you will probably wish weren’t true. Some are sobering whereas others are just yucky but there are things you can do to help, take a look!

     

    Throughout this past century, 97% of wild tigers have been lost.

    wild tiger
    WWF

    Crazily, the herpes virus blasts its DNA into the human body by holding an internal pressure equivalent to eight times that of a car tire!

    herpes virus infographic
    euroClinix

    Around 98% of the world’s hungriest people live in developing countries.

    developing countries map
    InspirationGreen

    Even in this day and age, 1 in 8 people are still going to sleep hungry each night.

    one in eight
    West

    In America the figures are somewhat different with more than 30,000 people dying from obesity each year.

    hospital
    Medypal

    This is shocking!

    oil barrels water bottles
    Facebook

    Incredibly, Nike makes more than $3,000 every 5 seconds!

    nike logo
    NikeNews

     

    However, a Nike factory worker in Vietnam only makes $0.00014 every 5 seconds.

    factory workers
    GlobalPeaceAndConflict

     

    In 2014, U.S. graduates had each amassed a student loan debt of approximately $33,000.

    money in bag
    AndroidSPIN

    This is slightly worrying.

    japanese hornet hand
    Facebook

    It is a desperately sad reality that almost half of animals arriving in U.S. shelters need to be euthanized due to lack of space and no one wanting to adopt them. This works out at 80,000 animals each week!

    dogs cage
    Petbucket

     

    There are more elephants killed annually in Africa, than are born.

    elephant
    BBCNews/SciencePhotoLibrary

    The soles of your shoes harbor more bacteria than what’s on your toilet seat, yuk!

    shoes
    Taichung

    This is incredibly frightening.

    penguins climate change
    Facebook

    It is thought that around 82% of the fish in California will be made extinct due to climate change.

    man with large fish
    UniversityofCalifornia-Davis

     

    Just by not closing the toilet seat when flushing, sickness-causing bacteria are sent 25 centimeters into the air!

    toilet bowl flushing
    ITPro

     

    And finally, the eating of live octopus or squid named ‘odori-don’ is considered as a delicacy in Korea and Japan.

    man eating live octopus
    DiscoveryNews/FuelTV

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