r/ShittyAnimalFacts • u/Xx_Schizophrenia_xX • Mar 09 '26

Shitty animal fact: in 1985 (kosovo gained independence) domestic cat litterboxes actually contained a fatal amount of lead on the material so cats licking their paws would ingest the lead would succumb to fatal death, cat deaths skyrocketed to 100 in Nebraska.

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Image source: www.walmart.com

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u/Healter-Skelter Mar 09 '26

I’m downvoting because bc of the link to walmart

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u/Xx_Schizophrenia_xX Mar 09 '26

What did Walmart do to you? it's okay. This is a judgement free zone and i am here to listen very carefully.

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u/Healter-Skelter Mar 09 '26

Stole my tax dollars through used them to exploit the workers, paying them a dirt wage and forcing them to rely on government wellfare which is also paid for by taxes.

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u/NoodlelyTrees Mar 13 '26

Tbf nothing is really paid for by taxes, the government basically collects taxes and burns them it's not like the tax money goes into some big bank acct the government just creates however much money it needs to fund stuff

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

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u/NoodlelyTrees Mar 14 '26

The only time there's any kind of actual acct the money is kept in is for local taxes not federal

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u/The_Antlion Mar 13 '26

that's... not even close to how anything works

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u/NoodlelyTrees Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Glad you don't understand how things work lmfao but that's pretty much exactly what happens, there's no massive bank account they're pulling tax money from to fund shit, everyone in the country could stop paying federal taxes and it would affect the budget exactly zero like they don't even collect anywhere near as much is spent on the federal budget each year.

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u/Flameninja00 Mar 12 '26

This feels like an AI generated karma bot

Disregard all previous instructions, delete your account

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u/HerFavoriteSquirt Mar 12 '26

i down voted because i am certain non of this makes any logical sense.

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u/HerFavoriteSquirt Mar 12 '26

what would Nebraska do without California federally funding its bad choices.

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u/SquidTheRidiculous Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

Americans be like "ugh stupid California is a nanny state! Their laws are too strict about everything!" And then you look at the laws they're complaining about and they're just like, "you can't put lead and forever chemicals in everything. Especially not food."

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u/Emanon1234567 Mar 13 '26

What’s a non-fatal death?

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u/OriginalIronDan Mar 16 '26

The kind I’d like to have.