I think it's much the same purpose that underwear serves for the testicles (and penis). As a man, I honestly can't remember any time I walked around without underwear, but I'm pretty sure it would be worse than with. Things would just flail everywhere.
Other answers about bras are great but I thought the male flip side ought to be mentioned.
All true, but it's even worse: sometimes some of the cited facts are plainly wrong. Taking your example, it could be that the midwest actually has the same heart disease statistics as anywhere else. Just because someone told you something confidently doesn't mean it's true. "95% of statistics is made up on the spot".
So maybe "dogs have a much shorter digestive tract" is already wrong? Maybe they have roughly the same length as us? And maybe "[things with parasites] have a much smaller chance of making a dog sick than they do humans" is also wrong? If you care about the truthfulness, you'd have to look that up too. And then you'd have to find that there's causation between the two.
But all that said, I agree with another reply: "It’s a really low-risk bit of information, whether true or false. [...] there’s no harm in taking in low-stakes stuff". So no need to be paranoid about every little tidbit of info, just the things that matter to you.
I was gonna include that in my reply but didn't want to make it into an essay.
Okay but have you actually looked it up to make sure it's true? Never trust facts from random comments, no matter how reasonable they seem to be.
Happy to hear you solved it for now. For a more long-term solution, consider investing in an air conditioner. And make sure it also has a heating mode (a.k.a a heat pump), it should cost pretty much the same and is the most efficient way to heat a home in winter.
I wish this was readable besides the first 6
Windows' might be complex, but it is NOT graceful. If you have notepad open with unsaved text, then shutdown will never shut down - but nothing on the screen will make this obvious to a non-technical person.
I'm assuming you already know AVGN, who pretty much invented it, but on the off-chance you don't - his oldest videos are worth trying. I haven't watched too much of his newer stuff, but I hear it devolved into pointlessness. Still, the backlog of good ones is massive.
AVGN is Angry Video Game Nerd, in case there's any doubt.
No /s, we all know it's true!
I don't know the answer but I can tell you two things:
QI (the British panel show) discussed this in an episode during social distancing where they had to perform with no audience: https://youtu.be/EKVD3n6Atl0 (it's the first topic of conversation, not the whole episode of course)
My favourite bit is:
Alan: "I had a radio show in the late 90's, and we were so funny that the people at the BBC comedy said we could use those laughs on nearly every other program we make. [...] That was the best compliment I've ever had in my whole career. 'We've kept your laughs, and we're using them on other shows'."
Damn that actress has range!!