25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About

In spite (and many times because of) all the social media and internet news, we tend to have a skewed view of the world around us. Quite often we think it is actually worse than it really is or we are focused on only a few historically insignificant events like a presidential election. There are other, arguably more important things happening in the world. These are 25 things happening in the world today that many people don't know about!

25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About | List25

Desertification - That's DESERT, not "dessert"

Flynn Effect - We are smarter, but why?

Cancer rates are down - By 20%!

Palm oil deforestation - For something that isn't even healthy for us

Rise of Africa - It's not as bad as you're lead to believe.

Mexican Cartel Wars - This MAY be worse than you think.

Deadly construction of FIFA World Cup stadium in Qatar - OSHA anyone?

Facebook's influence on elections - Getting the word out helps.

Blood farming - No, not on a legitimate farm.

Bees - NOT THE BEES!

Antibiotics are failing - They're getting used to it.

Internet shills - Paid comments?

Machine learning - Hope this doesn't come back to bite us in the butts one day.

Designer babies - Like The Sims.

Refugees - There are more today than in history.

Big banks - Do we not learn from our mistakes?

Military suicides - This is unfortunately more frequent than you'd think.

Slavery - How is this still a thing?

Coltan mining - Do you know what goes into making your cellphone?

America's infrastructure is "greater" than you think - It's not all bad!

Detroit - Visit Detroit! Please?

Self driving cars - Just kick your feet up and let it do the driving.

Toddlers with guns - This is a bad combination

Nuclear energy - It's safer than you think.

Cow farts - Cows! STAHP!

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