21 Facts That Are Like Slipping Into a Nice Warm Bath

Too often these days, the world can seem like a cruel, uncaring place. The rich keep getting richer off the backs of the poor, who keep getting poorer. There are wars, like, everywhere. There’s a guy on Twitter who keeps replying to all of your tweets with increasingly crude puns on your name. It feels like you can’t look outside or open your phone without being dick-slapped in the face by the apathy-industrial complex.

At times like that, you just need someone, anyone to tell you something, anything to suggest that the world is good, or at least getting better. There’s probably some species we’ve saved from extinction recently, right? Childhood mortality rates, those have to be getting better. That was probably what user subornion was thinking when they asked r/AskReddit, “What are some VERY comforting facts?” And you know what? Reddit actually found a bunch of them.