What's the one thing you wish you never learned?

1. I was in a lecture on child abuse and they showed a video from a nanny cam of an 18 month old getting punched repeatedly by babysitters boyfriend. Most of it was off camera but the camera was jostled and you could hear everything. It seemed to last forever. I will randomly think of the clip and the parents when they saw the video. It’s been over 15 years since that lecture but it still makes me queasy
   — picklestew


2. The group of mothers of autistic children that try to “cure” their children’s autism by giving them bleach enemas.
   — kingmalgroar


3. When I was 20, I learned that my grandpa raped my aunt and my mother was forced to watch. I suddenly understood why she didn’t cry at his funeral.
   — bendovahkin






4. I believed for years that my parents moved from California to Colorado because houses were cheaper. I was told that for years. In my early 20s I learned that was about 5% of the reason. 95% of the reason was my dad had a cocaine problem and they were moving away from his dealer to help him get clean.
   — gothiclg


5. OSHA stuff at bars and nightclubs. Most are waiting to burn up with people inside.
   — gride9000


6. The 200 dead bodies used as landmarks on Mount Everest.
   — Kafkaesque92






7. For me it was Jonestown. Seeing the video of all the corpses and the guys audio is still playing. Or that the cyanide to sedative ratio was not meant for kids so they were screaming in agony after their own parents gave them the koolaid. I can't fathom what their parents must have felt after it struck them how brainwashed they were and what it had tricked them to do.
   — shellwe


8. That the Challenger crew was alive and possibly aware all the way down. At least two activated oxygen.
   — PanickedPoodle


9. I could've died happy having never listened to the various "last call" tapes from 9/11.
   — jacplindyy