Knowledge That Might Save Your Life One Day

This question was asked on reddit and the answers could fill a book with great advice.

• If a canker sore in your mouth or on your tongue isn’t healing in about two weeks, it might not be a canker sore. It could be cancer.

• If you’re ever on a dark highway at night and suddenly an unmarked car behind you flips police lights on but you don’t feel right about the situation, drive slowly and cautiously to a brightly lit and populated area before pulling over. You can also call 911 to find out if there are actually any cops in the area that would be out there to pull you over. If they say no, request for a cop to meet you at a nearby location.

• If you’re outside in a lightning storm and your hair starts floating, seek immediate shelter. You’re about to be struck by lightning.

• When in an emergency situation, tell someone to call 911 by pointing at them and saying, “Hey you, in the [descriptive] shirt…call 911”. Shock is a real thing and some people need to be delegated roles explicitly.

• If you ever get held at gunpoint and asked to get in a vehicle, you fight with everything you’ve got to not do that. Run zig zag, punch and kick, do whatever even if you die in the process. Because 99% of the time, people who get in the car do not come back.

• When someone shouts ‘duck’, don’t question it and duck.

• The human jaw combined with natural adrenaline is powerful enough to sever another human’s jugular.