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Nighttime is for horrors and discovering how frightening the world really is. We aren’t talking about ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. They haven't YET been added to the library of proven scary facts. We are here to take a look at the scientifically proven horrors. The ones that we can’t deny or run away from. And unfortunately (or luckily for all you dark copers out there), there are many creepy facts about humans and the Earth we live on.

Human bodies might work in creepy ways, but they can’t beat the frightening things our minds have done. For example, one of the scariest facts on our list touches upon the horror movie Poltergeist. This might come as a shocker to you, but the corpses you saw in the movie — those were actual human remains. With this scary fact in mind, you might watch the movie from a different perspective. Or never watch it again.

However, to truly make your sleep feel more like a nightmare, you should know the dark facts about Earth and its inhabitants. Crows, for example, can remember and recognize human faces. On the other hand, some scary facts touch upon geography. Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level, is also the world’s highest graveyard. Approximately 150 bodies are resting on this giant of a mountain. All of whom will likely never be recovered.

Ready to get scared? If so, turn off the lights, cozy up in your bed, and delve into the scary and disturbing facts we have compiled below. Also, we advise you to stick till the end because, throughout the post, we explore how scary facts affect sleep and why the ocean might be the most terrifying place on Earth!

#1

Close-up of a raven with glossy black feathers, evoking eerie and scary facts that give you the heebie-jeebies. Crows can recognize and remember human faces.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com , Tom Swinnen Report

Vic
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love this about crows.. brilliant creatures..

B 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I used to live next to an elementary school, had to walk through the school zone to get to my bus to work. I also had a crow family in the backyard trees that I kind of befriended (creatively called Bart, Mrs Bart, and Bart Jr.) They would come hop over and chirp and ask me for food when I was on my patio and I always had seeds and veggies for them (and occasionally treats like scrambled eggs!) After Bart Jr was taught by Bart and Mrs how to come ask for food, he had a short silly period where he would follow me to the bus stop just shrieking 😅 the parents picking up their kids from school probably thought this awkward white girl powerwalking past the school trying to pull up her collar to hide her face while a bouncy baby crow was bobbing after her, trying to goofily dodge strollers and students and all the while hollering like a dork was weird as heck. He was embarrassing but I miss my little Barts :) (definitely named after The Simpsons because I befriended Bart first, but all 3 were experts in shenanigans and mischief)

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Yourname942
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That isn't creepy. They are really intelligent, and will bring you gifts if you are nice to them and feed them regularly

Meike H
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Only creepy when you are a d**k to them. Crows are reasonable.

Duncan Rogers
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That whole family, crows, ravens, magpies...the corvids...are all so much smarter than most folks realize. They are tool users for heavens sake.

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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watched a video of a crow putting pebbles into a container of water. The displaced water then rose enough for the crow to drink. I thought, "Holy Archimedes! I'm dumber than a crow."

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Bat
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was a kid I had crows near my house and fed them. One time a kid a few years older then me and some of his buddies started beating me up, and the crows have been mad at him ever since. He’s 24 now and still will get picked on by the crows.

ASHRFOX
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sorry how is this creepy?

debrina blackmoon
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If someone is mean to them or person/animal they like.

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BusyLizzy
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crows are amazing. They can also read traffic lights. When a light is red they will swoop down and drop a nut at an intersection and wait for it to be run over and cracked. As soon as the light turns red again they'll swoop down and pick it up.

Kenny Kulbiski
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I made the mistake of feeding a crow on my coffee break in the park. Now it's there everyday on the hood of my truck screeching at me until he gets his food. He's not grateful, just demanding. The only present I've received is some occasional crow c**p on my hood. He's brilliant all right, he's figured out a blackmail scheme.

Agent 8433599
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3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to create a crow army

Laura Kelly
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you leave food out for crows they will reward you. They will soon start leaving you trinkets of different sorts. A woman who loved to take pictures always fed the crows in her yard. She was in town one day taking some pictures. She accidentally left her lens cap in the area that she was taking pictures. There was a little box in her back yard. When she got home the lens cap was in the box. While typing this I was trying to remember where I read this. I believe I saw in right here on Bored Panda!!!

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Why Dark Facts Are Scarier at Night?

Horror and darkness mix rather perfectly. Scary facts can evoke terror and horror because that’s simply how our brain works. Creativity plays an important part here because we start to imagine fictitious things. Our minds start imagining things that are simply not there… or are they?

Imagine for a moment a situation. You are in your room, alone in the house. You start reading through some dark facts we have compiled. You brush them off as “goofy” and “not scary.” But your ears pick up noises outside your door. You start thinking, “What was it?”, “Who made those sounds?” and your body trembles. That’s because your brain has been hijacked by fear.

Both horror movies and games work on the same principle. However, scary facts are way more interesting because they’re true to the bone. Thus, if you are looking for a quick pass to a nightmarish night — these facts are the way to go. 

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    #2

    Close-up of a human eye showing detailed texture and reflection, evoking scary facts and eerie feelings. Tooth-in-the-Eye Surgery. Surgeons put a tooth in a blind person’s eye to restore their sight. It was pioneered in the 1960s, and it actually works and it’s still being done today.

    eyewiki.aao.org , Lisa Fotios Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You really need to google this, it's strange and really cool at the same time.

    will bower
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure if do want to 😂. Eye surgery stuff makes me shiver 🤢

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    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "You have heard it said, 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.' But truly I tell you, 'A tooth for an eye.'"

    YinzerGhost
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did they discover this? "I'm just spitballing here, but hear me out. What if...hang on...what if we put...a TOOTH in there?"

    Laugh or not
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The tooth, or rather a section of it, is used to hold optic equipment in the eye. I guess they thought an organic compound would have good chance of being accepted by the eye.

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    ThatBiBookLover
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I SEARCHED FOR PHOTOS AND REGRET IT SO MUCH SOMEONE PASS ME THE EYE BLEACH STAT!!!

    Josh Patterson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Procedure is called: Osteo odonto Keratoprosthesis

    Susan Bosse
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How on earth did he come up with this idea? I mean, congrats, but geez. I'd love to have heard his pitch for the first time: so I'll take a layer of your tooth...or some stranger's...put it in your cheek, remove it and put it in your eye and, viola, you can see!!

    Seabeast
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Huh, it's a real thing. ... . https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2013.383

    Just a boring person
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weird treatments from the past can either be a miracle or a curse.

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    #3

    Child with long hair facing static TV screen, hands pressed against it, creating a creepy and scary facts atmosphere. Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist.

    snopes.com , imdb Report

    MedusaWasBeautiful
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were bought from a medical supply center and were much less expensive than making props.

    Talon
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disney World, Orlando when it was first built they used real skeletons

    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know many Native Americans have a taboo against looking at human remains, but it seems strange for other people to get upset. I've taught in at least three schools that have skeletons in the science classrooms, and many theaters have skulls for props.

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    sinead
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never knew that. That poor cast was cursed.

    Cranky Pants
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The actress who played the mother spent days in the pool with dead bodies during filming. She later had a nervous break down

    K- THULU
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently the bodies hanging in the trees at the end of "Apocalypse now." Were all real too.....

    Slytherin_4_LYF
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The props manager brought in a guy who had real corpses and he ended up being a grave robber and the police had to investigate and that squashed the real corpses for the movie

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    Anthony Nizza
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "You moved the headstones but you left the bodies didn't you?!!?!!!!!"

    Sarah Fite
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    even if they were bought from a medical supply center, still kind of disrespectful, they were there for medical/scientifical reasons and instead ended up in a 1982 film. also, the actors were unaware of the fact that they were real corpses, and were horrified to find out after days of filming in close-contact with the corpses.

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    #4

    Black and white mountain landscape with rugged rocks and lake, evoking a sense of scary facts and spooky atmosphere. There are bodies of over 150 dead hikers on Mount Everest, and they’are used as landmarks.

    smithsonianmag.com , David Waschbüsch Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is just too much visitors and pollution on Mt. Everest these days.

    Featherytoad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but this brings in so much money for the country and the Sherpas. The permits are crazy expensive. I'm thinking there will always be climbing expeditions because of that money.

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    J Rob
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Green Boots being the most famous.

    RedMarbles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently he was moved to a "less conspicuous" location in 2014 by the Chinese. Assuming that means he's no longer used as a landmark.

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    Jen T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They’ll be thawing soon enough, I suppose.

    Leon Bryan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When people die they leave the bodies up there because they are too hard to get down

    Spittnimage
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think everybody knows this by now.

    Seabeast
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mountain climbers, not hikers.

    Alif Zakaria
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “And if you look to your right, you’ll see my friends Bob, Dan, and Carl, who were stupid enough to jump on unstable ground…”

    Emmett Scudder
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yes, this can be beneficial. but it is actually 310 people. but it is also sad because 310 family's have lost one of there family members to a mountain. Green_Boot...13f226.jpg Green_Boots-63fe1b413f226.jpg

    Ayden Brown
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh yeah once you see timmy go 20 steps to the right you should see veronica

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    #5

    Jellyfish floating underwater with long tentacles, an eerie creature featured in scary facts that give heebie-jeebies. The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.

    amnh.org , Pawel Kalisinski Report

    Do i have to?
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I learned this from the octonauts!

    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which is nice and all that, but how do we know? For instance, I'm immortal too. So far, so good.

    Melody Machala
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    IKNOW THIS ONE!!!!!! So once they get old they basically turn back into a young jellyfish and that goes on until they get eaten

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    C C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They've actually been doing studies and experiments to see if the properties of the jellyfish DNA or something can be used to regenerate human cells particularly for Alzheimer's. It's really fascinating stuff.

    Mark Fuller
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I disagree. I suspect Cher is immortal. She's had so much plastic surgery only Cher and cockroaches would likely survive a nuclear war!

    Analyn Lahr
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But can you kill it? And if it can be killed, is it truly immortal? Where does the definition start?

    Francisco Garcia Bustamante
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is not immortal, has "eternal life" could die but not from old age

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    Anthorn
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Key note: it CAN live forever if left to its own biology. They're most likely to die from predators or illness.

    Tim Pierce
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You forgot about Dr Who. No, he IS real!

    Rusty’scate
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    1 week ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s more regenerative then immortal

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    #6

    Close-up of a hairy spider silhouette with sharp legs, evoking scary facts that give you the heebie-jeebies. Climate change is making spiders bigger.

    royalsocietypublishing.org , Anthony Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So they can survive in space and are getting bigger....damn.

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    see people THIS is why we need to save the planet.

    Laurie B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok I'll need a bigger cat then !

    amanda mcintosh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I could have lived the rest of my life withOUT knowing this lil tidbit....thanks.

    Norma Luce
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is just the kind of good news I needed to hear. {=(

    Chihiroo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG I COULD HAVE LIVED WITHOUT THIS INFORMATION!

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    #7

    Vintage wooden radio with knobs and antenna on a lace-covered surface, evoking scary facts atmosphere. A haunted radio station from Russia has been broadcasting a dull monotonous tone for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn.

    bbc.com , Zeynep M Report

    Ruby Munson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I listened to it it's scary

    Ray Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not "haunted", it's a relic of the Cold War and was/is used to block outside communications.

    Dave Lear
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The inclusion of the word "haunted" means that this is not a fact. And the word isn't used in the BBC source, which instead says "ghostly" - which can also just mean "spooky", as in this case.

    Duncan Rogers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It sounds like an out of use numbers station.

    Sue From Michigan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought it was decided that these were military signals?

    Auryn Shadowfaerie
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    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's Alastor the Radio Demon broadcasting other sinners' screams (kudos if you get it)

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    How Do Disturbing Facts Impact Our Sleep?

    Knowing why disturbing facts are scary, you might want to understand how they impact your sleep schedule. It’s not a myth that horror genre-related stuff (scary facts included) worsens sleep. However, to prove the myth practically, watch a horror movie or read some terrifying facts before sleep. The likely outcome is that fear will kick your fight-or-flight response into overdrive, signaling the body to release adrenaline (if you get scared, of course).

    If you missed a few biology classes, adrenaline is a hormone our bodies produce. It’s usually released in dangerous or stressful situations. It activates our “fight or flight” response and keeps the body on high alert. Truly horrific facts, when read at night, will quickly trigger the production of this hormone.

    High alert mode can heavily disturb your sleep because adrenaline keeps you up and makes you feel moody and slightly annoyed. So, the next time you decide to read a scary collection of facts, don’t expect to fall asleep early. Just make sure to get around 8 hours of sleep the next day.

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    #8

    Dog wearing black collar holds a small orange ball in mouth on a green grass background scary facts Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.

    sciencedirect.com Report

    Benita Valdez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This always makes me think my one dog immediately rips out squeekers to silence their screams. He's a good boy though

    Candi Cabaniss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    mine will give me the squeaker when she gets it out. "here' s the heart of my enemy."

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    Bec
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our cats love the crinkly/crunchy toys, they sound like the bones of their victims.

    Stephanee Ansell
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oddly enough, we found out that our rescue, Oakley, absolutely DOES NOT care for those sqeaker boxes in ANY toy.. He avoids that spot on the toy if it's in there and will slowly chew it as to NOT make it squeak lol and when it does, he immediately doesn't want any part of it.. Hes a special guy 🤣

    Tim Pierce
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe somebody that was close to him made that sound. Same reasoning, different end of the spectrum.

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    wowbagger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer to think of it as similar to children liking dolls that cry. They enjoy the sound of "help me!" and the way it calls on them to respond and nurture the baby. Once when my dog caught a baby bunny, it screamed, and he immediately stopped and let me take it from his mouth. He was very concerned about the bunny, and he never bit down hard on it. So maybe his squeaky toys are like baby dolls he can care for. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!

    wowbagger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um...never mind. Literally one hour after I wrote that comment, my dog found a way into the bunny nest under the porch. My yard looks like a horror movie now.

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    just me
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I figured that out when my dog caught a bunny.

    Debora Shuger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have Bolognese. They have zero prey instinct. Do not react when encounter mice, rats, squirrels caught in a humane trap in kitchen. Also, have no interest in squeeky toys. Now I know why.

    TCW Sam Vimes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are also not a good "toy", because they reward attacking prey and biting it until it stops squeeking. Dogs do not play, that is a human view superimposed over behaviour that has nothing to do with "play".

    Thaddeus Escobar-kirsch
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    that makes sense cuz my dog Quinn rips up toys in 2 seconds (if they're supposed to be hard he takes a day or so)

    Emma Sahagun
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dog doesn't chew his toys he licks them and doesn't like squeaker toys. My other one tears it apart and destroyer the squeaker. My dogs don't scare me at all.

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    #9

    Close-up of a hairy spider with multiple eyes, evoking scary facts that will give you the heebie-jeebies. Spiders can survive in space.

    nasa.gov , Pixabay Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Good idea for a movie, Tarantulas in Space.

    Vic
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are mf spiders in the mf space.. * you know whose voice *

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    Jen T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a space suit, or just naked?

    John Trainer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think this needs to be clarified. Do you mean the vacuum of space or just on the space station?

    Stephanie Barr
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now I have to find out the. When I first started working at JSC (in a lab with many vacuum chambers), they said they experimented with spiders and bugs. They told me the spider exploded but the cockroach, even after being at a hard vacuum for the days, just got up and adjusted away. Maybe it depends on the species of spider.

    Seedy Vine
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There go my plans for entering space...

    Jurajohtu Narjola
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    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wow that is an amazing fact i hope they would breed spiders there in space

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    #10

    Chainsaw blade close-up resting on mossy wood, evoking scary facts that will give you the heebie-jeebies atmosphere. Two Scottish surgeons originally invented the chainsaw to assist childbirth.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Karolina Gabrowska Report

    Benita Valdez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok don't freak too badly. It's not the giant motorized one we know today. It was a much smaller hand crank saw to cut the pelvic bone; still very disturbing though.

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    Queen fhk
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thinking of how on Earth does it feels like shoving a chainsaw into a woman vagina *aaaaaaaaaahhhh!i

    Audra Sisler
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What the damn hell did i just read???!!!!😮😮😮😮😮

    Laura Kelly
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it were offered to me on the basis of speeding things up I would have considered it.

    Angelina Aiello
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    how much you wanna bet they were charged with murder at least once...

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    #11

    Young woman in hospital bed with IV, a visitor holding her hand, capturing a scene with scary facts causing heebie-jeebies. Locked-In Syndrome is a condition in which a patient is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state.

    rarediseases.info.nih.gov , RDNE Stock Project Report

    Jen T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just read that the 10-year survival rate is 80%. Unimaginable.

    Kirsten Kerkhof
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My father had this after he had a brain bleed. He could do nothing but blink, and because he couldn't cough his lungs had to be sucked out several times a day. You could see the terror in his eyes when they came with the equipment. It was necessary because if they didn't do this he would get pneumonia and die. I detested the doctors for putting him through this. He suffered 5 months of this before a second bleed mercifully killed him (the doctors desperately tried to revive him though. Sadists). I am still bitter about how the doctors just would not let this man die in peace when there was no chance of recovery.

    Tim Pierce
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I cannot live, I cannot die; Trapped in myself; Body, my holding cell"

    Fabian Bernard
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read ''Le scaphandre et le papillon '', it's overwhelming

    Demongrrrrl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    English title: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." A fascinating read.

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    Chintan Shah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This needs to be higher because this is absolutely terrifying. Crows recognizing my face is not at all terrifying, it's adorable

    Yourname942
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Simeone underwent surgery like this.. he felt everything

    RedMarbles
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was likely a case of anesthesia awareness, which is estimated to occur in .1 to .2% of surgeries and is more likely when a paralytic is used. I can't find any cases of this happening to a locked-in person at any rate.

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    WalkieTaco
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream.

    Sarah Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kinda reminds me of sleep paralysis

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    #12

    Shadow of a hand with long sharp blades casting eerie shapes on a textured surface for scary facts theme. The film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is based on a real story reported in the LA Times. A boy was terrified to go to sleep, and when he did, he died while screaming about a nightmare.

    latimes.com , imdb Report

    SilverRain
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Somniphobia is the extreme fear of sleep. People with somniphobia may worry or obsess throughout the day about how they can avoid sleep. They may be afraid of what happens when they do fall asleep, such as having a nightmare or sleepwalking."

    Tinykame
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have this. It's real and it is the worst. I feel like if I sleep my heart will stop. I spend most nights on the couch reading with something streaming in the background. When I do fall asleep I wake up with panic attacks like every hour. Medication doesn't work. Meditation, however, helps me breathe at least.

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    Łukasz Mirosław
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also in the original script Freddy was a child abuser not a killer. There was a series of pedophile attacks in California during film production and studio decided to make a change to avoid accusations of exploiting the situation commercialy. It was changed back in 2010 remake.

    Jeremiah Reedy-Sherrer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If your not careful and you noclip out of reality, you’ll end up in the Backrooms, where it’s nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, and approximately six hundred million miles of randomly segmented empty rooms to be trapped in. God save you if you hear something wandering around nearby, because it sure as hell heard you

    BetterBitterButter
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    3 years ago

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    chuckanders81
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These movies almost ruined my childhood🥶🥶

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    #13

    Old brick building with overcast sky and reflective pool in front, evoking a setting for scary facts and heebie-jeebies. While Ted Bundy was a psychology major at the University of Washington, he worked at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.

    distractify.com , bryce carithers Report

    Laura Kelly
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True crime author, Ann Rule wrote a book called "The Stranger Beside Me." Ms. Rule volunteered at the same center and she and Bundy became very close. She said he became very emotional and empathetic while he desperately tried to get through to callers. It's a great book if you're into true crime. I am into it but I avoid serial killers. The only reason I read this one is because Ann Rule wrote it and I trust her.

    Enlee Jones
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He also chased down a purse snatcher and saved a toddler from drowning. And he killed 30+ women and girls. His last victim was 12 years old.

    Jenny Ann
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh wow! Imagine being able to say “Ted bundy talked me out of kunalivong myself” 😮

    Em
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶I hope this doesn’t sound impolite🎶but ted bundy was just never that f*cking bright🎶he was just sorta charismatic and white all right🎶and he was so f*cking sure he had the right🎶but he's ugly 🎶and I’m glad he’s dead🎶cause there was no f*cking candle in his pumpkin head🎶your not special🎶for winning a game🎶with someone who you know was never playing🎶she could’ve killed you🎶she had every right🎶you just caught her off guard tonight🎶but it’s ok🎶she’ll be fine🎶I listen to a lotta true crime🎶

    Leon Bryan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He was a serial killer too. How many jobs did this guy have

    Shelby Moonheart
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When he was about to be executed there was an interview with him. My boyfriend at the time didn't understand why, he hadn't been following the news. For those living in Seattle, it was justice for him to be punished for his crimes. Another reason to trust someone just because they look nice.

    Daffodil
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always forget that he started here in my state, and so I was very confused at first when I recognized the names of those places

    Cindy Brick
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...along with a woman who eventually became a crime novelist: Ann Rule. (She says she didn't suspect Ted of anything, though.)

    Lil be lil
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    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many psychologists are psychpathic.

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    #14

    A group of ducklings resting on green grass, unrelated to scary facts or heebie-jeebies themes. Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviors when they're bored.

    dpi.nsw.gov.au , Pixabay Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I was most shocked by "bored"....I thought it would have been at least hungry lol

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've seen a goose eat a duckling before. It was genuinely traumatising. :I (and this comes from a mortuary student who's seen plenty of bodies at this point)

    Shary Bobbings
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What? The lovely, sweet and cute ducklings are cannibals?

    Jan Eivroc
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no...that's an ugly duckling behavior...

    Sue Denham
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hewey: What's on tv? Dewey: Ah, reruns. I'm bored. Hewey: Yeah, me too. Let's eat Louie.

    Angelina Aiello
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so that's why i have fewer ducklings than yesterday.... huh

    Kenneth McCartney
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I doubt animals (especially babies) have a concept of ' bored'

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    #15

    Black and white image of hands resting near wilted flowers, evoking eerie and scary facts atmosphere for heebie-jeebies. When you die the last sense to leave your body is the ability to hear.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Pavel Danilyuk Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I can therefore hear if someone says "Yes, he's finally dead!" so I'll know who to haunt. Lol

    Anyone-for-tea?
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think enough people have had near-death experiences to feel this, and also I know when I had myocarditis and kept fainting (didn’t know it at the time so tried to get up, hence the fainting) and I could hear everything around me, but couldn’t move at all, it was really scary! It’s another reason why they teach you in first aid to speak into both ears and then talk to the patient even if they’re not responding.

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    Emma Dakin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So my tinnitus will outlive my heart beating? Great!!

    Ray Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is literally impossible to know.

    Shane Clark
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No it is not. People have been considered as dead to be later revived through one mean or another.

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    𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕤
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no. your brain has already stopped working so you cant process the sound 。_。

    who stole my bamboo
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    3 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ur brain remains alive after death from stored oxygen and the fact that cells dont f*****g combust if they dont have a constant oxygen supply

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    kit kat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably learned this during those evil experiments by nazis

    Draperdorf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they know this because...?

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    #16

    Underwater scene with coral reefs and a sea turtle swimming, evoking mysterious scary facts about ocean life. More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.

    oceanservice.noaa.gov , Francesco Ungaro Report

    Mimi La Souris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it’s a pretty good thing, when you see the condition of the known areas

    Little Wonder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Agreed. Map the deepest bits and 20 minutes later Elon will be sending nets down to harvest the creatures and probes to build an underwater city.

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    Jessica Mae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yup learned that from watching the Meg

    Emily Barnes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There could be aliens in the ocean instead of in outer space

    Leon Bryan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wanna know how deep the ocean is

    Sabs
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mainly because until very recently we did not have the ability or materials strong enough to shield against the absolutely insane pressures of the deep ocean, and even robotic subs still can’t survive the full depths, there is a point in which even camera equipment cannot survive.

    Deth Invictus
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This factoid is a little out of date

    Silvia John
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And that´s where all the unidentified mysteries live. Who knows? We don´t.

    d bradley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i thought the whole thing was full of plastic straws anyway

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    How Many Creepy Things Are in the Ocean?

    Humans are natural explorers. Thus, something we can’t explore gets shrouded in mystery. The more mysterious the place — the creepier it is. You might not know it, but only 20% of the ocean has been explored. Thus, it’s no wonder why so many creepy things and facts come from this place.

    While we might label space as the most mysterious thing, that title goes to the oceans. With 80% of the ocean still unexplored, what we know now is already creepy. For more creepiness, check out creatures found in the deep seas. It’s a guaranteed way to get a mild case of insomnia.

    So, regarding how many scary things are in the ocean, the answer is simple — a lot already, and much more hidden. Someday, we might explore 100% of the ocean. By that time, we will be indeed frightened to our cores.

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    #17

    Woman lying in bed appearing sick and using tissue, illustrating scary facts about sickness that give you the heebie-jeebies. Technically it’s not impossible to die from holding in a sneeze. Some injuries from holding in a sneeze can be very serious, such as ruptured brain aneurysms, ruptured throat, and collapsed lungs.

    healthline.com , Andrea Piacquadio Report

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I put my back out trying to contain a sneeze. It was so painful that I had to crawl very slowly into my bed. Thankfully, I was ok after a few days, but I won't be doing that again!

    Laura Jackson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had pneumonia really bad about a year after having a spinal fusion and bone graft. I went into a violent gasping and coughing fit (I also have asthma) and felt tremendous pain in my lower back. Waited nearly a week before having it checked. Went in for surgery after that because the force of the coughing caused hardware failure. The titanium screwheads basically sheared off the post of the screws on 4 out of 8 which caused the rods to collapse. Good times👍

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    FRAN6IX
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to do this all the time until one day my ear drum almost popped out of my ear, 🙁 most agonizing month of my life

    Alyssa C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My grandmother dislocated her eyeball that way. She legit had to have surgery!!

    Trisha Howson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Okay no more holding sneezes for me

    Vanessa Richardson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can confirm—brother in law punctured both lungs by sneezing. He is a VERY thin person naturally, so that probably had something to do with it.

    Anna
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, never underestimate how powerful sneeze can be! I was once blowing my nose and somehow managed to sneeze at the exact same time and that sneeze tore through my soft palate. Like there was a visible rupture right next to my uvula! 😯 And damn that was painful for the next few weeks.

    Miss Frankfurter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After ear surgery you are cautioned to not hold in a sneeze, just open your mouth and let it go, otherwise you could do damage after the surgery. After 5 ear surgeries I don’t care where I am, I cover my face with my arm and sneeze. It’s pretty loud when I do, so sometimes I get dirty looks. Oh well.

    Beautifullybroken
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After brain surgery they told me no sneezing it could rupture the patch they put in replacing the bone they took out of the back of my skull... I couldnt stop myself in recovery and had to, didnt rupture but caused a fluid leak 😢

    Carden Blackthorne
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a hard time sometimes because sneezing hurts my back.

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    #18

    Horned lizard blending into dirt terrain with textured skin, illustrating one of the scary facts that give you the heebie-jeebies. Horned Lizards can defend themselves by squirting blood out of their eyes.

    asknature.org , Room237 CC AS-A A 3.0 U Report

    Kassiopeia
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And Horny Lizards squi- (joke)

    Christopher Elkins
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Horny Toads is what they were called in North Texas when I was a kid. You used to see them often during the warm season. Now they are gone.

    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to see them all the time, now they are becoming endangered.

    Oddly Me
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We had them where I grew up. I enjoyed catching them. I always heard of this , but guess I wasn't considered a threat as I never seen one do that.

    Wintermute
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had this happen once before I knew about it. Hiking in the desert and bam, blood all over my leg. Wasn't cut, no one else was. I thought I'd stepped on some poor critter and it exploded until someone in the group explained it to me. So weird. XD

    Łukasz Mirosław
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Otton frogs have extractable Wolverine style 'claws' in their thumbs. Hairy frogs can break bones in their toes to achieve similar effect.

    Isabella O'Brien
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    slayyyyyyyyy b***h thats realy intresting

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    #19

    Hands reaching out from water with eerie lighting, illustrating scary facts that create a chilling and unsettling feeling. Alien hand syndrome is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , hansskuy Report

    Stephanee Ansell
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone remember the movie "Idle Hands" with Devon Sawa?! I'm old. lol

    Nicole
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes I came to see if anyone else had mentioned it ! Loved Devon and that movie 😂

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    smugdruggler
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's sometimes known as "Dr. Strangelove syndrome ".

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    Greta Kolding
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing?

    Tim Pierce
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should be called Idle Hands Syndrome.

    Kyle
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Alien hand syndrome: Parkinson’s patients’ arms (one at a time) just rise into the air sometimes. It’s a sign of the disease.

    Mere Cat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one's going to see this by now, but anyway. In the syndrome, the right and left hemispheres of the brain are not able to properly communicate with each other. And the hemispheres control different sides of the body, while talking and rational thinking are mostly on the left side. So maybe there's a "person" trapped in the non-controlling hemisphere, not being able to communicate, just controlling a hand? People with this syndrome often even name this "alien" and talk about it as a person.

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    #20

    Young woman sitting on couch, nervously browsing scary facts on her phone, giving off heebie-jeebies vibe. Mobile phones are 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Teddy Yang Report

    Vic
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the sites you open on them.. 😆😆

    Frank Kilmore
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ya not supposed to s**t on them..

    Jenny Ann
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I use alcohol wipes on my phone multiple times a day

    Jennifer Gray
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me too! I can't stand the fingerprints and smudges!

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    Karma Black
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I use disinfectant wipes on mine all the time, so I'd like to see the stats on mine.

    Yourname942
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And paper money is even worse and more disgusting dirty

    TCW Sam Vimes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You don't want to even know what you can find on a peanut bowl in a bar...

    Carden Blackthorne
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, everybody needs to stop comparing things to toilet seats. We compulsively clean toilet seats to the point where they are one of the cleanest things in our homes.

    Dario Tijerino
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Public bathroom: lemme stop u there

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    #21

    Spilled red wine from a tipped glass creating a dark stain on a white surface evoking scary facts and eerie vibes. King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.

    smithsonianmag.com , Polina Tankilevitch Report

    Nomen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Known as "The King's Drops", they were considered to be medicinal.

    Kar Red Roses
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unsurprising. He was into alchemy and messed around nights with trying to distill mercury and sulphur and other elements. Huffed a lot of fumes. Turned him rather eccentric.

    Mama Penguin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not what his physician had in mind when he told King Charles II to increase his calcium intake.

    Safiyyah Adams
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    Emma Sahagun
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol I would do this to feel powerful. How else can you devour your enemy's powers

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    #22

    Close-up of an ant on a green leaf, illustrating one of the scary facts that will give you the heebie-jeebies. Some ants turn into zombies via parasitic fungus which manipulates their brains.

    livescience.com , Egor Kamelev Report

    Grudge-holding Treefrog
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s called Cordyceps fungi, and affects a lot more than just ants

    Asexual nope rope
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans, but its transmitted through unvaccinated people

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    Joybug
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And then there is toxoplasmosis. People can catch it from undercooked meat of cat poop. If you catch it, you probably won't realize it. If you have it, you become more friendly and sociable. Also more likely to take risks. In other words, it can happen to humans on a small scale.

    January Tempis
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can catch it from "undercooked meat of cat poop." What kind of meat are you eating?? (Just kidding, obviously "of" was intended to be "or". But the sentence the resulted from that one letter change was hilarious.)

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    csnakey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I held a presantation about parasites and you Codyceps as an example and showed my class a video about it, they completely freaked out.

    csnakey
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd like to add the presantation but its connected to my personal files so hackers could get them

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    Falcon dimi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was the inspiration for the game the last of us.

    Fenchurch
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can get ants to mimic death by putting the scent of dead ants on them. They take themselves off to the dead ant area of the nest and hang about there all confused until it wears off and they then go back to being alive ants again.

    Jason Marin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if the zombie apocalypse starts, we know who to blame.

    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I just saw one of these in the rainforest!!

    Teacher's Resources
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a terrific video game called “Limbo” in which the main character turns into a zombie due to those mushrooms.

    Thaddeus Escobar-kirsch
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    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    if u look up cordyceps its got a cool easter egg on google

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    #23

    Medical monitor displaying vital signs on a black cart, illustrating scary facts about health risks and emergencies. 250,000 deaths a year are due to medical errors.

    npr.org , Dalila Dalprat Report

    Kate
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't trust Facebook for medical advice.

    Jan Eivroc
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, and don't just Google your symptoms...

    charles waugh
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Estimates vary, based on research methodology. __________ https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/28/estimates-preventable-hospital-deaths-are-too-high-new-study-shows#:~:text=Other%20frequently%20cited%20studies%20have,behind%20cancer%20and%20cardiovascular%20disease. ________ And, they are HOSPITALIZED patient deaths, so they are not from FB-info. _________ I suggest 'Patient Aider' a terribly named, but VERY helpful app that will assist you in staying safe in the hospital. __________ Put together by Marty Makary of John Hopkins (if memory serves) and his patient safety group.

    Joy Hunter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Two important things to remember: You will never know your doctor is incompetent until it's too late. The most caring, dedicated doctor on the planet doesn't care about your health as much as you do.

    Isabella O'Brien
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    go to a flipping docter if its that bad !!!!!!!!

    Angelina Aiello
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    youtube shorts probably isn't the best place for medical advice...

    Alliana Beatty
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something similar ig: there was once a surgeon who left an entire pair of scissors inside of one of his patients.

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    #24

    Weathered old gravestone with a cross in a dark, eerie cemetery setting evoking scary facts and creepy vibes Arrhythmic death syndrome is a sudden condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.

    sads.org.uk , Brett Sayles Report

    Theoretical Empiricist
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the listed signs of acute heart attack is "sudden death".

    ThatBiBookLover
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks. Will remember that I am possibly going through acute heart attack next time I die!

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    Kar Red Roses
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also wasn't uncommon during the Victorian-era to see an official cause of death noted as “visitation by God“

    Łukasz Mirosław
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Seemingly' is the key in this case. Undiagnosed doesn't mean healthy. There can be many reasons and autopsy reveals the cause of death in most cases.

    𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕠𝕤
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    then.. THATS the cause of death. but the syndrome is the absence of a cause.. A PARADOX!

    Dave Lear
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, anything called a "syndrome" was named that because we don't know what the actual mechanism is. It's a word that basically means "a bunch of symptoms that tend to happen together for some reason".

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    #25

    Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus with detailed hieroglyphs and painted designs, evoking scary facts and eerie history. During the mummification process, Ancient Egyptians remove the brain through one of the nostrils.

    science.howstuffworks.com , Miguel Á. Padriñán Report

    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people I know this will be a relatively simple process. The brain won't even touch the edges on it way out..

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people I know, this wouldn't even be a necessary process as there's nothing to remove.

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    Anne S.
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They didn't pull it out through the nose. Impossible for their tools to grab the matter. First they scrambled the brain. Then, flipped the person over. The brain would come out of the nose because it was nearly liquid.

    Jef Bateman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anne S - This is partially true. During the New Kingdom (and later), a chisel was used to break through the ethmoid bone and a hook was used to draw out the parts of the brain that would twist around it (think of using a snake on your drain lines). Then chemicals were put in to liquify the remnants. Before the New Kingdom, the brain was usually removed through the back of the skull. I used to have a video of the process actually being carried out, but I can't find it online.

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    Dimitar Bobatinov
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually learned that from the 1999 movie The Mummy. Take that, Bembridge scholars!

    Benita Valdez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I learned this in elementary school. So of course I thought you could poke your brain through your nose

    Carden Blackthorne
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We all thought we could poke our brains through our noses in elementary school.

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    Rick Seiden
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They forgot to mention, "in pieces".

    Eat Dirt Crow
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also didn't think the brain did anything useful.

    Ann Pattinson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is so well known to kids in the UK who are taught it in Junior school. I use to teach it in Year 4.

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was once thought the brain was merely an organ for cooling the body.

    Trisha Howson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just telling my husband about this the other day. He said he is amazed at what I remember. Lol

    Isabella O'Brien
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i know but they use a needle and pick it out pice by pice

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    #26

    A pensive man lying on a couch, appearing unsettled, capturing the vibe of scary facts that give heebie-jeebies. People with Cotard's syndrome believe that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don’t exist. They may think nothing exists.

    webmd.com , cottonbro Report

    KM
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what's really weird about Cotard's is that it can seemingly appear out of nowhere and then go away on it's own. That it to say, there is obviously a medical reason, it's not witches, but we just don't know)

    Voodoolady Ink
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like something a witch would say 👀

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    Nurichwersonst
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Might be a thing of voodoo-dolls... whoever has mine, please stop feeding it!

    K- THULU
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I get that ..my sense of self worth has been missing for years ...

    Synsepalum
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Serial murderer Richard Chase had Cotard's syndrome. He thought his blood was turning to powder, and he had to drink the blood from others to restore his reserves.

    Karen Tape
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I worked with a student who had this. He swore he had no legs. Poor guy.

    Mackenzie Alameda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WITCHES ARE EVERYWHERE THATS THE ONLY EXPLANATION

    Isabella O'Brien
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    omg i know some one who is like this its sooooo sad

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    #27

    Close-up of hands in handcuffs, illustrating one of the scary facts that will give you the heebie-jeebies. Criminologists estimate that there's a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.

    npr.org , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

    Ray Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ... and if you're black, there's a one-in-three chance the police did it at a traffic stop.

    AFord 42
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know; that seems a little low. I my cynical opinion.

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    Dave Lear
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on whether your wife stabs you eighty-nine times in a frenzy or if a random shoots you and drives off. Some killings are easier to solve than others.

    Andrew Harlick
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless you were murdered in Joe Kenda's county.

    C C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read only 50% of murders get solved

    Susan Bosse
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have two friends who were murdered, separately, years apart, didn't know each other. Neither has been solved. Both in Texarkana. One in Texas and one in Arkansas. Makes me both mad and sad still. Both were several years ago. They both deserve better. Both left children behind.

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    #28

    Person with worried expression holding face, reflecting fear and anxiety related to scary facts and heebie-jeebies. Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months.

    rarediseases.org Report

    Ray Martin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm going out on a limb here that the word "fatal" is an indicator of that.

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    Laura Kelly
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems like they could knock the patient out with medication. Even if it's the kind of meds they use for surgery. Sleep and they get to get high. Win win :-p

    Rhea
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately sedatives don't work. I heard of a case like this where a man was given a large amount of sedatives but they didn't knock him out. He eventually died

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    Synsepalum
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it's a prion disease that is not always inherited. In rare cases it can develop spontaneously.

    Scarlett Fox
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's caused by a prion disease that tends to run in families. Prions are terrifying because they aren't even alive; they're not parasites or bacteria or viruses... they're proteins that just go bad. And there's no stopping them.

    Nguyen Minh
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sleeping pills: always here for you=)

    Rat Jesus
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My friend has this! He takes meds that knock him out! He's also my crush :^

    Zoie Overcast
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well you still get sleep right? I mean dead = eternal sleep

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    #29

    Close-up of a cake with strawberries and sparklers creating scary facts-themed heebie-jeebies visual effect at night. You’re more likely to die on your birthday. The chance someone will die on their birthday is 6.7 percent, which is higher than any other day.

    sciencedirect.com , Marina Utrabo Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that somehow tied to risk, maybe they do more risky activities on their birthday.

    Kate
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just risky behaviors; people are more likely to go out -- to dinner, to events, etc. Driving is a dangerous activity, after all. Now add alcohol to that.

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    UpQuarkDownQuark
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe I’ll skip my family’s gun juggling and alligator wrestling on my birthday this year.

    pink_panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please tell me you're at least coming to the bottle rockets in every orifice party! It wouldn't be the same without you!

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    ChocolateFan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did some research, and this study was made with 2 million people on a swiss university. It happens because of poor mental health, or ill people who try to hold on till they birthday, among stress and cardiovascular factors

    Xenon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A lot of people die after major holidays too. Like they were just hanging on for one last Xmas, etc.

    Scott Kelly
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've always noticed that a lot of people die somewhat close to their birthday.

    Hobby Hopper
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are we talking *actual* birthday, as in the one day in history you were born, or the *anniversary* of your birthday? Because, if you mean my actual birthday, I'm 0% likely to die on that day.

    Mourlie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can technically already be dead on your actual birthday if you're stillborn.

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    Chintan Shah
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I should actually start celebrating the day after my birthday to celebrate the fact that I made it through my birthday alive!

    Samuel Kionka
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    great. tomorrow is my birthday...

    Misstaken138
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup... Mine too! Hopefully we survive the day.

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    #30

    Close-up of a spider in its web with blurred background, illustrating scary facts that will give you the heebie-jeebies. Some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive.

    sciencedirect.com , Pixabay Report

    Ansi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Motherhood can be so hard sometimes...

    Jan Eivroc
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your way of summarizing the whole concept is phenomenal. I might as well use it in the future! Thanks!

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    Alyssa C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Feel like mine would do that at times… 3 under 6 is tough☠️

    Kar Red Roses
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are octopus like this 🐙 after laying her eggs she’s all dedicated to her babies, she doesn’t even hunt anymore, she just egg sits until she dies. Then the kids hatch and eat her.

    Frank Kilmore
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your not going out until you eat your meals

    Toad Nugget
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being a mother is hard, but you learn a lot from it. Especially the importance of making sacrifices!

    Jessica Cifelli
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sustenance for when they go to space

    Shelby Minchew
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same for octopi. A female is so exhausted and she ends up dying so her little octopi sacks just eat her entire body.

    Ziomarie Martinez Figueroa
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you, I was about to go to sleep but now I can’t. 😀

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    #31

    Indian followers of the Zoroastrianism don't bury or burn their dead. Instead, they leave the bodies exposed to the rays of the sun, and the corpse is consumed or devoured by birds of prey — vultures, kites, crows.

    npr.org Report

    K- THULU
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Buddhist monks also practice this... It's called "sky burial" , i think?

    Hannah Edwards
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sky burials are practiced in Tibet and Mongolia because they don’t have wood to use for cremation and the soil is too shallow and frozen for burials. I think it probably sounds more romantic than it is.

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    Jen T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I’d do it. I don’t need to take up eternal real estate or add to my carbon footprint with cremation. I don’t want anyone to have to pay thousands of dollars to wrap up my life, or have it taken out of their life insurance payment. AND someone can use my skull as a bowl (as mentioned before).

    Seedy Vine
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cool having a skull bowl. I want a drum made of mine.

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    Nathaniel
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tower's of silence. Cool name. Creepy though.

    KM
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not creepier than any other cemetery I guess)

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    Hiram's Friend
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    American plains Indians would sometimes place their dead on a platform in a tree. Sioux, Ute and Navajo. https://www.joincake.com/blog/native-american-death-rituals/

    Uncle Schmickle
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It may be related to Buddhist belief that even in death you are able to benefit other creatures, i.e. providing food for them to live. The ultimate compassionate act.

    Ada Hunter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i did a report on this for school lmao. it’s actually very very interesting. i’m not totally sure but i think they do it because decay is like festering evil and this way the animals get fed and it happens before the body can decay

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    #32

    In some European cultures it was customary to place the dried or desiccated body of a cat inside the walls of a newly built home to ward off evil spirits or as a good luck charm.

    jstor.org Report

    Leekun
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just makes me think of ''the black cat'' by Edgar Allan Poe

    Jessica Cain
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love Edgar Allen Poe books. Have you ever read The Tell - Tale Heart???

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    Elwood Schwartz (it/that)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They did a "Grace and Favour" episode about this in the 90's.

    KM
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dead bodies (animal or human) inside the walls or under the floor were a lot more widespread than we imagine

    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone remember James Acaster bringing one of these on Taskmaster?

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    #33

    Despite making up close to 5% of the global population, the U.S. has more than 20% of the world’s prison population.

    aclu.org Report

    Nathaniel
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Prisons for profit. That system only works for the owners.

    Stephanie A Mutti
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's not forget it's also used as an illegitimate means to handle poverty AND mental health.

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    Jen T
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We also have exponentially more mass shootings than the rest of the planet. Would be lovely if, at some point, the government would realize we’re doing something wrong.

    Ray Martin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It used to be called slavery until that got a bad rap.

    Kenneth McCartney
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to mention parole and probation terms practically gaurantee going back in. Incredibly unfair and for profit.

    Paul Werner
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they joke about Florida saying you come for vacation, leave on probation, come back on violation! There was a guy who got a citation for catching some fish and went home to Wash. State and got extradited back in a van which took almost 3weeks!

    Rain WhiteBuffalo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    With this statistic,I would suggest watching The Survivor's Guide to Prison on Netflix or Prime. Very interesting.

    Jo Johannsen
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    3 years ago

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    Cindy M
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not sure why you were down voted for asking a related question, but the U.S. ranks 6th for executions as of 2020 (most recent I could find.) This is just based on pure numbers, which of course are subject to manipulation. Link if you're interested: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/international/executions-around-the-world

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    Amanda Reinstatler
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    1 week ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You didnt think slavery ended for REAL...... did you....???

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    #34

    Decorations made from human bones adorn the interior of the Sedlec Ossuary. The “Bone Church” contains the bones of around 40,000 different people. These bones are all arranged in different forms, such as garlands, altars, and even a chandelier.

    unesco.org Report

    Signe Manat Hansen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been in one in Rome under a capuchin monastery

    Ravioli
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    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The church of bones! My husband's favorite! The story goes that they had s bunch of capuchin monks' skeletons accumulated in a crypt and they figured the logical thing to do was to arrange them to decorate the crypt under the church. Then they started addiy more, like nobles too. The creepiest is the skeleton of a child arranged like an angel. The candelabra made of pelvic bones dangling over your head close enough you could touch them are also great

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    Remi (He/Him)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hella cool place, btw. If you're ever in Prague, it's an easy day trip to visit Kutná Hora and see the church. The town has other interesting sights too.

    Uncle Schmickle
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've visited the one in Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic. Quite bizarre, whereas St. Barbara's Cathedral in the same city is beautiful and inspiring.

    Laura Jackson
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it's amazing! Only seen pics, though, would love to visit it!

    just cruising
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also have a look at Kaplica Czaszek in Kudowa-Zdrój in Poland.

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are plenty of places similar, where walls will be covered in skulls etc, but the Cedlec Ossuary is definitely the most.. well, "Ornate" in its decoration. Other places do include: Evora Capela Dos Ossos in Portugal, Santa Maria della Concezione in Italy and Kaplica Czazek in Poland. I'd love to visit them all.

    K- THULU
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Look for photos of this place....it is the fkn coolest...OK I'm an old goth but it is cool...

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    #35

    Humans produce about 1.5 quarts of mucus every day.

    health.ucsd.edu Report

    Benita Valdez
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if you get seriously sick, you can produce a disgusting amount more. Several years ago, my dad got hit with pneumonia and tuberculosis and in one day they removed over a gallon of fluid from his lungs. It was disturbing but not as much as the fact that the hospital missed that he had TB during that stay. Eventually it was figured out and we met some very lovely people from the board of health

    Beth L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am definitely raising that average during allergy season...

    Powerful Katrinka
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it wasn't for mucus, our stomachs would digest themselves.

    Synsepalum
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ugh, I have horrible year-round allergies. I produce far more than my fair share.

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    #36

    Based on a 2006 report by the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine, in the U.S. alone poor handwriting on prescription notes leads to over 7,000 deaths and 1.5 million medical errors.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At least in New York, they are electronically submitted to pharmacies. The doctor inputs all the information into the computer and directly sends it; this reduces errors, eliminates script pad theft and reduces patients ability to illegally obtain drugs.

    Nikki Sevven
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't even remember the last time I was handed a handwritten prescription. Most are transmitted directly to the pharmacy, while the rest are printed.

    Jessica Mae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most states dont allow digitally sent prescriptions for narcotic mediciation - they require the originally hand written script from the doc - at least here in AR where I live

    Alyssa C
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    3 years ago

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    Katie Lutesinger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have notoriously terrible handwriting, and someone summed it up the best when they told me "Your handwriting is so bad you could be a doctor!"

    #37

    Over 20% of children report hearing voices.

    rte.ie Report

    Mimi La Souris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they are not yet deaf, that's all :D

    Shyla Clay
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm hearing voices right now. Of course, I do have the TV on.

    Nurichwersonst
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dear parents, there is a chance that your kids can hear you!

    Stephanie A Mutti
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because my kid ignores us 80% of the time.

    Christof Irran
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am hearing voices right now; that's because I am on a zoom call where I am not really needed.

    Beautifullybroken
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My daughter talks to my husbands aunt who passed in January, she was also my daughter's godmother. But she will sit on her bed and talk then be quiet and talk some more after a min or 2... I asked if she talks back and got well I wouldn't talk to her if she didnt mommy... I said okay kid well u tell her we all love and miss her okay and she just went back to showing her the new stuffed animal she got

    Mackenzie Alameda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am 9 so i can confirm all night there is whispering around the room

    #38

    An estimated 6.5 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people.

    bafound.org Report

    Persephone
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A bulging blood vessel in your brain that could rupture at any time... the survival rate is very low without instant medical intervention.

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    rustyscate
    Community Member
    Premium
    2 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The number/ratio of women is much greater I have recently been told 1 in 10 women

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    #39

    The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons.

    nationalinterest.org Report

    Marvelor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, now that’s really disturbing 😳

    TCW Sam Vimes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They know where they are, they are just not retrievable because it's deep underwater. Quite a few russian ones as well....

    M O'Connell
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And one is in a very deep hole in North Carolina: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash&params=35_29_34_N_77_51_31.2_W_US-NC_type:event

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    Vinay Pai
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oops, I didn't think they'd notice...

    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Missing you say....as in "Hmmm...where are these darn missiles?" It's okay, I didn't need peace of mind today.

    Hiram's Friend
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are less "missing" and more "unretrievable".

    Kelly Radcliffe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One is off the coast of Savannah, GA… somewhere.

    YinzerGhost
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And by "missing" you mean "sold"

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    #40

    A homicide archivist Thomas Hargrove estimates that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large right now.

    newyorker.com Report

    Grudge-holding Treefrog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read that as a homicidal archivist. 😂

    niki.bordeaux
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better than reading it as homicide activist. 😳

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    Greta Kolding
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All of them living in the good old US of A

    der sebbl
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Worldwide? Only US? Context won't kill....

    #41

    In the early-to-mid 1980s, years after AIDS was known to be in Canada (1982), the Canadian Red Cross wasn’t screening donated blood for HIV. About 2,000 Canadians were infected with HIV from tainted blood products.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Fabian Bernard
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same in France...A friend of us died from being transfused, infected her husband, their daughter became an orphan. Pure tragedy

    Minath
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm the UK we imported blood products from the US which came from the prison population. Lots of people died because of infected blood.

    KatWitch57
    Community Member
    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haemophillia patients in the UK are still waiting for compensation after being given tainted USA blood products. Many of these were young children at the time.

    albernistuff 4sale
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    3 years ago

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    At least partially due to the overzealous "political correctness" of not asking donors about any sexual history.

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, to save money, obviously. If you screen the blood you don't need a donor history, because you've screened the blood. You only need a history if you AREN'T going to screen.

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    #42

    The Pirates of The Caribbean ride at Disneyland used to have real skeletons as props. When it was first built in the 1960s, designers asked UCLA’s anatomy department for authentic materials. The real skeletons have since been given a proper burial.

    atlasobscura.com Report

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently one of them is still real, one of the skulls iirc. I could be wrong as this may just be an urban legend ofc. xP

    Beautifullybroken
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Former Disney employee and yes 1 there and 1 in Disney world are still real, both sets of relatives stated it was okay for them to stay

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    -Mellohi-
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I die I am going to give my organs to those in need and use my skeleton to scare the f**k outta kids

    Synsepalum
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would love for my skeleton to be part of something like a haunted house or Disney ride.

    Uncle Schmickle
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Real human skeletons used to be inexpensive and readily obtainable from India, etc. for use in Medical schools, etc.

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing odd about it. Productions of Hamlet often use real human skulls - if I recall correctly, often those of old actors who have donated them for that very purpose.

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    #43

    'A Sense Of Impending Doom' is frequently reported by patients as an early sign of mismatched blood type transfusion.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But I have not had a blood transfusion?

    Fenchurch
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No you just live in the 21st century ... It's normal

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    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe they needed a little "be positive" blood.. I'll see myself out..

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah that seems to be a symptom of a few things

    #44

    Many crocodile species can gallop, and they are fast.

    sciencealert.com Report

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just imagining the ancient egyptians riding the nile crocodiles into war now.

    Lil be lil
    Community Member
    6 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wearing Crocs on your feet make you walk faster.

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The reason crocs do not rule the planet is because they... can't be arsed. They're like 'we had our turn it's cool' and go back to sleep. Every day I think about that.

    Jessica Mae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O78CxqRl7NE

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    #45

    At least 20 detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the Salish Sea since 2007.

    nationalgeographic.com Report

    Frances M
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People (mostly sailors) falling over board and fish and other animals eating bits. The feet are protected within the shoes and left till last. Which is why they sometimes have time to wash up on shore. Where they wash up has more to do with tides and wind then anything else.

    tmw
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    yeah, but! non of these feet in shoes ever match anyone. there are no reported missing fishers. they are all diff't ages. however, I do believe they are mostly male feet.

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    Persephone
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Typically bc the shoes float, and decomposing bodies come apart at joints.

    Jan Eivroc
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never ever pick a shoe from the beach

    #46

    In the 1920’s, the American domestic terror group the Ku Klux Klan had a youth chapter called the “Ku Klux Kiddies.”

    history.com Report

    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wtf!! that's just messed up!

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the Hitler Youth. Fascists know to start the brainwashing early.

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THIS is truly the most horrifying thing on this list.

    Amanda Reinstatler
    Community Member
    1 week ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bunch of punk b!tch cowards who dont even have the b@lls to show their faces.

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    #47

    A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.

    sciencealert.com Report

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just enough time to sing, "I...ain't got no body!"

    Kate
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you, France, for this information.

    Kyle
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    During the French Revolution they studied severed heads and found they could get reactions like eyes opening in response to loud screams for up to 7 minutes. Fact source: “Stiff”, a book about the weird parts of the death process, by Mary Roach.

    Duncan Rogers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This has been debunked, I'm pretty sure. If I recall the experiment that led to this 'fact' was performed solely on rats as a means to tell if decapitation was the most humane method of death. And consciousness is intangible. It is merely defined as electrical activity in the neurotransmitters. In the study conducted with the rats, there was post-mortem electrical activity measured in the separated head for just under 4 seconds. Certainly NOT 20 seconds. And the tale of Anne Boylan allegedly trying to talk after her execution has been corrected by modern science as nothing more than the 'death rattle'.

    RedMarbles
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe you are correct. And apparently the sudden massive loss of blood pressure makes it extremely unlikely that consciousness could even theoretically last more than a few seconds.

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    #48

    When we die, the enzymes and bacteria that were so useful to us digest us from the inside out.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

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    #49

    A chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off.

    miketheheadlesschicken.org Report

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes this is true. I read this some time ago. What needs to be understood is the brain stem was intact, allowing primitive functions to resume. ('Mike' the chicken finally died when it's owner couldn't find the eyedropper to feed it down it's throat.)

    Grudge-holding Treefrog
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had a hen survive for a week or so after she had the majority of her neck bitten off by coyote.her head was still attached, so that was freaky

    MiriPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Jesus christ, I need to stop googeling images for such topics...

    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Politicians: pfft amateur!

    #50

    Depression-era craze of Dance Marathons in which couples would compete to see who could dance the longest, often for cash prizes, unfortunately led to some people dropping dead from exhaustion on the dance floor.

    jstor.org Report

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    #51

    On average, a person can secrete 26 gallons of sweat into a bed per year.

    researchgate.net Report

    Mimi La Souris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and that’s why I always have a bed pad, on the pillows too

    Hobby Hopper
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's over 9oz per day! (edit: more than a cup)

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    #52

    Harvard owns a book that's bound in human skin.

    bbc.com , blogs.law.harvard.edu Report

    KM
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not just Harvard, there are numerous books

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did they steal it from the Miskatonic?

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It used to be custom to bind the knowledge you learned from the corpse in its skin as a final way of honouring and showing gratitude for what it taught you.

    Louise B
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm sure that a book bound in human skin was found abandoned in Leeds UK a few years ago. Apparently the documents relevant to murder cases were sometimes bound in the skin of the executed perpetrator. If I'm wrong I'm sure I'll be corrected 🙂 xxx

    MsGendered
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And no Bruce Campbell to stop the Evil, anymore.

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't do that to me mate, I thought for a minute you meant he'd died.

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    Minath
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A museum I know of has several items made of human skin, apparently there were nazis who were good at making them.

    Sabs
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Vatican has some too I believe.

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    #53

    "Brain-eating" amoeba has infected at least 40 people in the U.S. over the past decade. The single-celled organisms go by the scientific name Naegleria folweri, and may infect people who swim in lakes or rivers.

    cdc.gov Report

    Elena Doyle
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the chances of you recovering from it are slim. Of course, that also depends on when you go to the doctor and they diagnose you. There are three stages of Naegleria fowleri: cyst (1), trophozoite (2), and flagellate (3). If they catch it in one of the later stages… sorry. The amoeba causes an infection that causes swelling in the brain, then death. There are no known treatment that are 100% effective, but according to the CDC, “Recently, two people with Naegleria infection survived after being treated with a new drug called miltefosine that was given along with other drugs and aggressive management of brain swelling.” It’s also really important to be careful what water your swimming in, because the amoeba enters your body through the nose or an open wound I’m pretty sure. A lot of the times it’s lake or pond water. Believe me, this isn’t something you want. Between 1962 and 2019, 4 out of 128 people survived. Please be careful.

    WildHoneyPie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And this is just moving North, at least in the US. A case has been reported in Iowa recently.

    Ray Martin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend of mine died that way, after swimming in a New Zealand hot pool. It was horrible, and frighteningly fast.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just another reason for me to stay out of open water.

    -Mellohi-
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then there is the kuru virus! That one is very interesting to learn about

    Fxnglhl
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OPg-ksxZ4Y&t=447s here's kurzgesagt's video about Naegleria folweri

    Darla Taylor
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Note to self: don’t travel and stay out of lakes and rivers

    pink_panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is there any way to avoid it short of never swimming in any lake or river?

    #54

    H. H. Holms, America’s first serial killer, constructed a “Murder Castle,” a hotel with secret compartments and gas chambers to murder unsuspecting visitors of the Chicago World Fair. He confessed to 27 murders.

    crimemuseum.org Report

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    American Horror Story: Hotel

    Nomen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which also garnered inspiration from John George Haigh, "the acid bath murderer". They use his infamous logic in one of their lines - "No body, no crime"

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    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'unsuspecting visitors' they were mostly women that he tortured sometimes for a really long time; he was a craven b$*&%d of a man. $%&^ him.

    LoneTomato
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He also sold the skeletons to different universities or medical facilities, I believe

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He wouldn't be the only one. There's even a specific term for murderers who sell the bodies on - "resurrection men". Burke and Hare are probably the most famous (in the UK at least)

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    Mimi La Souris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the Hotel Cortez in American Horror Story, and the Hotel Oblivian in Umbrella Academy

    Jessica Cifelli
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wasn't there speculation that H. H. Holmes could also have been Jack the Ripper?

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems unlikely. The Ripper was very hands-on - and, indeed, hands in right up to the elbows. Planning the murder hotel wasn't his style at all.

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    Michael Parsons
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    3 years ago

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    HarriMissesScotland
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Watch Ghost Adventures: Serial Killers, episode 1.

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    #55

    People used hollowed human skulls as bowls and cups back in ancient England.

    journals.plos.org Report

    Tiger Pearl
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well they weren’t being used any more…

    KatWitch57
    Community Member
    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And in many many other places around the globe.

    Lynn Morello
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was a tradition for after a battle to celebrate the win. Not for everyday use.

    #56

    More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone.

    ourworldindata.org Report

    Jen T
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently humans are causing the 6th great extinction. We should pull a Wall-E and let the world heal.

    Navindu Wijewardena
    Community Member
    3 years ago

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    We have to be thankful for some...

    #57

    If the sun blew up right now, you wouldn't know about it for another eight minutes.

    scienceline.ucsb.edu Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Light is inextricably linked to gravity. When the light goes out, only then will we understand the gravity of the situation.

    albernistuff 4sale
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1 - You deserve more votes than the original post 2 - Swhoosh!

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    ami
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that's a thing to think about

    Paul Werner
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not according to flat earthers!

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    #58

    The last use of a guillotine in France was the same year the first Star Wars movie premiered. 1977

    history.com Report

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bastard deserved it, mind you.

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    #59

    The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.

    mayoclinic.org Report

    Nurichwersonst
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm worried when i'm not hungry when i wake up.... 🤭

    Python
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just the thing to keep me up at night...

    #60

    Tarantulas have been found to "swim" in both the wild and in captivity.

    animalhype.com Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.

    pink_panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After hearing about those brain amoebas? I'm not so sure...

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    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    most animals can swim if pressed??? Why y'all so much more afraid of spiders than racists. Racists are actually dangerous.

    KM
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why... why is "swim" in quotes?

    MiriPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have seen a video, they look like those wind-up bath toys for kids, really funny.

    TCW Sam Vimes
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are spiders that build diving bells and hunt underwater...

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    #61

    John Douglas, a former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of Mind Hunter notes that “A very conservative estimate is that there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the United States” at any given time.

    books.google.com Report

    Creature Cargeaux
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    & evidence aka bodies being found & MOs being consistent actually points more to that number being double actually

    gma
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    there is a post earlier that suggests it is 2500. who is right and do i want to know.

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The previous post says 2000 serial killers at large, not "active" or "in the USA".

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    Uncle Schmickle
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The US seems to spawn more nutters than most countries. A medical friend told me about historical research that showed when abortions were permitted in the US, the following generations had fewer criminal psychopaths. I don't know what will happen in the future ?

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Although that number has declined in popularity because spree killing gets the same amount of publicity for much leas effort.

    #62

    Babies can grow mustaches in the womb that then spread to cover their entire body in hair called Lanugo. The body hair keeps them warm and helps regulate body temperature. Don’t worry, they shed it before birth.

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Cody
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also end up digesting it, after it is shed, and that's what makes up a baby's first bowel movement, called meconium.

    Ravioli
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My baby was born with a hairy a*s back, it took months to shed

    Lizzie Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I was a nursing student I helped deliver a premature baby that was covered in long white hairs. Terrifying. On a not unrelated note, I don't have any kids....

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless they are Morticia and Gomez's child.

    Ravioli
    Community Member
    2 months ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meconium is actually tarry and black. Then they start with their real p**p and usually their intestine still are acclimating so their first real p**p come in late and it's a torrent, I had the"luck" to witnessing it live as I was changing what was a pee diaper. Fun fact formula fed babies don't p**p yellow and green like breastfed babies but brown harder p**p similar to adults.

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    ami
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I used to have a moustache? That's cool

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    #63

    Fifteen percent of the air you breathe in a metro station is human skin.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Re
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you even read the source? Fifteen percent of the bacteria species cultivated from the metro air is similar to human skin bacteria...

    charles waugh
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clarification: 15% of the MATERIAL that is IN the air is human skin. If the AIR was 15% human skin, you'd have to almost EAT the air. - : - )

    Joybug
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you for your clarification. I gagged reading the original, but felt better after reading your clarification.

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    TCW Sam Vimes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I call b******t. 15% of anything in the air that isn't air will seriously f**k you up, be it dust, smoke (the particles, not the CO/CO2) or anything else. Even if the concentration of the air gases changes this much it could be bad.

    Purplescales
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think you’d notice the dust cloud if the concentration was that high.

    Dav Carro-Ripalda
    Community Member
    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No is cosmic dust, the material stars are made of.

    #64

    Emperor Nero profited off of human urine. Emperor Nero imposed a urine tax, charging merchants who sold urine.

    gutenberg.org Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nero was taking the p!ss.

    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure the merchant ls were pissed off!

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    Ray Heap
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That wasn´t Nero that was Titus Flavius Vespasianus who imposed a urine tax to pay for the Flavian theater aka. the Collosseum in Rome. Because money doesn´t stink.

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And it's used in the leather tanning process too, if I'm not mistaken.

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    Persephone
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is where the saying "p**s poor" comes from.

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably for use in processing indigo into dye! And other uses for ammonia. Urine was where we got ammonia before industrialised processes, and the easiest way to collect it was by putting a barrel out back of a tavern. There were knock-down drag out fights between dyers and publicans during the medieval period in europe over this!! The publicans wanted to start charging and the dyers were like 'we take these barrels as a service we're not paying; besides, who the heck else would even WANT this?? lol good luck' it was crazy. history is crazy. XD

    The Scout
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The proverb "pecunia non olet" (money does not stink) stems from this practice. Urine was a multiple-use household chemical, used for washing laundry, bleaching clothes and skin, tanning leathers, mixing paint, and sometimes even as a mouthwash to combat halitosis.

    Stacey Rae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't give the billionaires more ideas

    #65

    The Asian giant hornets have a bite that can leave craters in the skin or even cause death.

    psu.edu Report

    Xenon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah, murder hornets.

    SheamusFan1987
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's the fun part I just learnt: In the Chubu region of Japan, these buggers are fried or even added to drinks. Nourishment and vengeance, I guess...?

    Inigo Montoya
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also shoot venom from a distance that acts like acid. They aim for the eyes.

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    #66

    Vampire moths feed on the blood of mammals, including humans. They can suck blood for up to 50 minutes.

    entomologytoday.org Report

    Alyssa C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um, I think I would notice after one minute of blood sucking🤔

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    #67

    Your pets might eat you when you die, and perhaps a bit sooner than is comfortable.

    journals.lww.com Report

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They still need to eat. If I can't feed my boys then they can help themselves

    Agent 8433599
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to deny that my cat would do this, but I guess I'm cool with it. If I can't feed him, he still needs to eat

    Kel WNC
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am completely cool with my cats eating me. Then I will become one with the cats. Lol

    Minath
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As long as they wait until I'm dead my cats can have as much of me as they like. I feel sorry for the person who eventually finds what's left though.

    Paul Werner
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if you have that syndrome where your in a comatose state but fully aware!

    Troy Puyear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is fine as long as I don't have Locked-In Syndrome.

    Michael Parsons
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dog's a very picky eater. He'd only eat me if someone sprinkled me with parmesan.

    Hannah Edwards
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be an honour and a privilege

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    #68

    Your jaw is strong enough to crush your own teeth with its pressure.

    royalsocietypublishing.org Report

    Frances M
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, did that and have the dentist receipt to remember it by…. 😭

    Rosie Red
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I need a mouth guard at night to keep from gnashing my teeth together. I chipped quite a few teeth over the years.

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    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, and strong enough to bite your finger off (but our brain tells us thats a bad idea)

    Luisa Madrigal
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me clenching my teeth reading this.

    KatWitch57
    Community Member
    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which is why m*rd*r may be better than gritting your teeth.

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why you need nerves in your teeth! Also, teeth are not bones, they're skin! :D

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    #69

    Ancient Romans believed that drinking blood would let them absorb power.

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well how else could you obtain their power? I mean I guess you can eat their flesh but then you may not gain all their power

    #70

    Rodents' teeth grow continuously throughout their lives.

    sciencedirect.com Report

    Beth
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rodent. “Dent” as in “Dentition” Dent is Latin for tooth, I believe!

    Hiram's Friend
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lagomorphs like bunnies have the same situation.

    Jo Johannsen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rats can chew through concrete.

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    #71

    Your skeleton is always wet.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Mimi La Souris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t understand why it’s disturbing

    MsGendered
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right now there is poop touching you on the inside. More disturbed, now?

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    YinzerGhost
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I prefer to think of it as "moist"

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, isn't a bulk of our bodies WATER? What is the point of this post?

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    #72

    NASA astronaut will consume about 730 liters of recycled urine and sweat during his yearlong mission.

    nasa.gov Report

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you think about it, this is exactly how the water cycle on earth works. There will be none or the urea or anything more than water left after the cycle. "Ewwww" said the teenage cheerleader.

    Hannah Edwards
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Couldn’t they send him with water?

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Enough water for a year would be so heavy you'd need a huge quantity of extra fuel to lift it. I doubt it's considered economically feasible.

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    #73

    Women in the 18th century used lead as makeup. This makeup contains vinegar, water, and white lead, which was the pigment that gave the mixture its color.

    theconversation.com Report

    Sydney-Kate
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like the girls that would put the radium in their mouth to paint clocks

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh wow that's a bit of a reach. They put their paintbrushes in their mouth to make the tip precise, and were specifically told the radium was fine and safe, and had to fight for years, while dying mind you, to even get an apology or acknowledgement from the factory that they had put these women in danger. 'Capitalism doesn't care about workers' is not really a comparison to 'people just didn't know lead was toxic for centuries'.

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    Jessica Mae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like in jail when we used kool aid packets with a tiny smidge of water for lipstick and eye makeup...just saying...also since they leave the lights on at night we learned to make night masks and ear plugs out of maxie pads

    Dani M
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Women and men and a starting a lot earlier than the 18th century. And they did kind of know what they were doing and still continued....

    Lizzie Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Japan Geisha ( & presumably kabuki actors as well) were still using lead based face paint in the early 20th century. It left the skin tinged yellow, I suspect from jaundice caused by liver damage.

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And in the 17th, and in the 16th, and in the 15th, and the 19th... also lead was traditionally in kohl, and is why there's a belief that kohl protects against infection.

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Elizabeth I did that in the 16th century.

    KatWitch57
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    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It also contained arsenic and a number of other heavy metals, but I'm sure the manufacturer 'said' it was safe!

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    #74

    The “sleepwalking defense” has been used in order to have defendants acquitted for murder.

    apa.org Report

    Katie Lutesinger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rape, too. It's called "sexsomnia".

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a British case where a guy hit his wife with a VCR player while asleep. Owing to a quirk of the British legal system, he had to plead insanity.

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    #75

    Aztec priests believed that human sacrifices could stop droughts and famine.

    history.com Report

    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We still have people using shark fins and rhino horns so I wouldn't be so quick to judge.

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean... technically, It could theoretically. I mean, droughts and famine are happening due to climate change, climate change is partly because there's too many people on the planet and we can't sustain this amount of life, so if we sacrifice a good portion of the population and depopulate, things could slowly improve. xP

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Start with yourself? I'm just razzing you, RoanTheMad. 😀

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    Kate
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They had nothing on the Chimú. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49495167

    Vinay Pai
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...and still, they were smarter than most of us are today.

    Theoretical Empiricist
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We still have people who believe depriving the disadvantaged will hold economic collapse at bay.

    Duncan Rogers
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know why but I read the word droughts as doughnuts at first and thought well if you stop the doughnuts of course you will have famine.

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    #76

    For centuries, doctors thought that medicines made with human flesh, blood, or bone could be effective in curing all kinds of ailments, from epilepsy to headaches. This practice was called “corpse medicine.”

    historyextra.com Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Powdered mummies from Egypt sold as medicine.

    The Scout
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sometimes those will even have had an effect - not because of the body itself, but because, due to the mummification process, they often contained bitumen, camphor, incense and lavender, all of which are slightly antiseptic.

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    Dani M
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lot´s of "medical" ingredients could be obtained after executions....

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So close! But we were looking for 'stem cells.' Thank you for playing.

    Tessb90
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's use this person who is clearly not healthy, as they are actually dead, to make medicine for this other individual who is clearly unwell, in the hopes that a double negative cancels out?

    Jan Eivroc
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've read a similar article but about Pre-Meiji period Japan. An executioner named Asaemon Yamada used to make medicines from human organs. Here is the link of the JP article for those who are interested: https://intojapanwaraku.com/culture/118430/

    #77

    Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.

    sciencedirect.com Report

    Isa Trip
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And they are currently a huge issue for the FL key west miniature deer population. :(

    pink_panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I got one in Belize! 2/10, would not recommend but it makes an interesting story.

    DONUT monster
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🄸 🄳🄸🄳 🄽🄾🅃 🄽🄴🄴🄳 🅃🄸 🄺🄽🄾🅆 🄰🄱🄾🅄🅃 🅃🄷🄸🅂

    SheamusFan1987
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like the Asian Giant Hornet, these buggers were also once consumed by people. Sounds seriously like an eye-for-an-eye against insects to me now.

    Cuzvito
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had one of these. Awful

    #78

    It’s very possible your office coffee mug has fecal matter on it.

    agris.fao.org Report

    Ray Martin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As well as your keyboard, mouse, mobile phone, kitchen bench, and your face.

    Benita Valdez
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why after using mine, which I brought from home, I would clean it and bring back to my desk.

    Duckbadger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “I wonder how, I wonder why”

    Persephone
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No wonder that b***h Sharon is walking around with a smirk on her face....

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    #79

    About 40 supervolcanoes are dotted across the globe and we're about 24,000 years overdue for an eruption.

    bbc.co.uk Report

    KM
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "overdue for an eruption" volcano is an overly dramatic expression and not really how those things work. Watch SciShow on Youtube "You Don’t Need to Worry About Yellowstone" for example

    UpQuarkDownQuark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s how averages work. If a volcano’s eruptions were 7,000, 20,000, 15,000 and 30,000 years apart, that’s an average of 18,000 years. At 20,000 years you could say you’re “2,000 years overdue.”

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    Jan Eivroc
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Pacific Ring of Fire contains 452 volcanoes. I want to know if 40 supervolcanoes are among them.

    #80

    “The Devil’s Bible” is a real thing, and it’s a contract between a monk and Satan. Codex Gigas, “The Devil’s Bible” is the largest Latin manuscript known to the world. It contains a full-page portrait of Satan. People believe the manuscript contains the contract of a monk who sold his soul to Satan in the 13th century in order to escape execution.

    loc.gov Report

    UpQuarkDownQuark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s a large manuscript, all in Latin, containing several books, including the Bible, a medical text, works by Josephus and common prayers. It’s estimated that the minimum amount of time it would have taken to complete it is 20 years. A legend later arose that a monk who broke his vows was sentenced to death, and in order to avoid his penalty he promised to write a book containing all human knowledge in one night, ultimately selling his soul to Devil to help him.

    Shyla Clay
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welp, he's dead, so it might not have been his best idea.

    Synsepalum
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Codex Gigas" translates in English to the Big Book.

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...is it still in print? like can I get one? I am curious to read it.

    Hiram's Friend
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's unique. Don't know if there are print translations. Amazon has books with the same title, but I doubt that it was copyrighted.

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    #81

    In a month, we ingest the weight of a 4x2 Lego brick in microplastic.

    news.trust.org Report

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been hearing this for a while now. So...what is so harmful? Is it because a microplastic particle can obstruct a capillary? Plastics are not harmful unless burnt, therefore releasing toxic gasses.

    GettingCereal
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Current studies have not yet linked the ingestion of microplastics to an harmful effects (afaik). But they have found microplastics in human blood too, also currently no harmful effects known.

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    Alyssa C
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bottled water. That contains a lot of plastic that you are drinking!

    Stacey Rae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We never hear about microplastics leaving the body...

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    #82

    Lady Bugs larvae use cannibalism as a survival tactic. Lady Bugs are known to eat their own larvae to ensure the survival of the other larvae. Think of it as population control on a smaller scale.

    biomedcentral.com Report

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    #83

    The Champawat Tiger was responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon division of India, during the last years of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

    bbc.com Report

    Fenchurch
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How many tigers were killed in the same region over the same period?

    Great Pyrenees
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As this is suggested to be within a 10-20 year span 200 tigers or less in that area.(ik imma get downvoted for this but preindepence tiger populations were pretty stable)

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    Shazz Winchester
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to google, it was a single tiger - not a tiger species *hides face* TIL

    Yoga Kitty
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was a tigress who hunted humans because she could no longer hunt her usual prey since a gunshot had damaged her teeth...

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    Xenon
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some cultures where tigers are indigenous to people where masks on e back of their heads so it looks to the tigers that the person is looking at them. Cuts way down on attacks. Same with painting eyes on e hind quarters of livestock.

    #84

    In the 1800s, dentures were made out of the real teeth of deceased people.

    bda.org , bda.org Report

    Minath
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For the rich. The poor managed without.

    Lizzie Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Poor people often had their healthy teeth removed to make dentures for the rich.

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    KatWitch57
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    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's 2025, and not being able to afford dentures, should I visit a graveyard?

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    #85

    A person will shed around 40 pounds of skin in a single lifetime. Just like snakes, humans shed their skin too, but at a much slower pace. Accumulated, however, your shed skin will amount to almost half the average body weight.

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Nathaniel
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What if we shed our skin all in one go like a snake?

    Cactus McCoy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    U.S. censors would go insane because if all the naked skin lying around.

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    Dave Lear
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't even REMEMBER when 40lbs was half my body weight.

    Not Telling you
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Chill. That’s me! I’m 14 and TINY for my age. I’m sure you are a perfectly healthy and beautiful size.

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    Kel WNC
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Watch Malcom in the Middle. Reese gets sunburnt and then peels. He peels it off in one full piece - another Reese.

    #86

    More than 80 million bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss.

    microbiomejournal Report

    UpQuarkDownQuark
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And the vast majority of bacteria are utterly harmless, with some small amount being beneficial, and some being harmful.

    KatWitch57
    Community Member
    5 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can choose who I kiss, but please use a hankie when you cough or sneeze!

    Hiram's Friend
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a "French" kiss, you are sticking your tongue into the open end of a twenty foot tube, the other end of which is full of feces

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    food-sharing (i.e. chewing your baby's food for them) is thought to be how humans share critical bacteria with offspring, and iirc is kind of thought to be why mouth-to-mouth kissing arose as a behaviour in humans.

    Shyla Clay
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm keeping my own bacteria, thank you!

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    #87

    The golden poison frog has enough poison to kill 10 to 15 people. Its skin is coated in a deadly poison called alkaloid toxin. One milligram of this poison can kill around 10 to 15 humans.

    nationalgeographic.com Report

    Jude Corrigan
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only in the wild as they get their toxin from their diet. In captivity, if fed a non toxic diet they are harmless.

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    #88

    Some species of fish have human-like teeth.

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    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Finding Captain Nemo!

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    it's for eating nuts and seeds! Teeth just need to be shaped in particular ways to eat particular things that's all.

    Beth
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You beat me to the punch! Did you watch the River Monsters episode about it? I find the effects of introduced species on ecosystems really fascinating. Really bad, obviously, but just super crazy to learn about.

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    #89

    Microscopic mites can be found in bunches at the base of your eyelashes.

    webmd.com Report

    #90

    4,400 Unidentified bodies are recovered each year with approximately 1,000 of those bodies remaining unidentified after one year.

    namus.nij.ojp.gov Report

    Uncle Schmickle
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Please be specific with your statistics. Where is this ? Worldwide / USA / Europe, etc.

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    #91

    'Foot binding' practice in China only started to decline in the 20th century.

    historyofyesterday.com Report

    Lizzie Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Read the Binding Chair by Kathryne Harrison for a good account.

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    #92

    The FDA allows up to 4% of a can of cherries to have maggots (and 5% if they are brined or Maraschino).

    fda.gov Report

    Inigo Montoya
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maggots are perfectly fine to consume, just insect protein. And if that isn't enough for you, the canning process involves very high temperatures that kill anything you need to worry about. And if that still isn't enough for you, insects are actually healthier for you than most livestock. Provided it's cooked properly. Just like livestock.

    Piper L
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Having actually tried roasted crickets I agree. We could all do with a bit of insect protein, better for the planet too.

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    Maggie Belter
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard that people who have allergies to cockroaches usually can't consume coffee because there is inevitably going to be roaches ground in with the coffee. I'll admit, I was horrified for 2 seconds until I realized I can't live without my coffee. I'll take the L.. 🤣

    Biofish23
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The FDA has all kinds of maximum allowable amounts of contaminates in food that make you think WTF shouldn't it be 0. But the fact is 0 bugs in food is actually a near impossibility. However without standards like these cheep processed foods would be much much more contaminated.

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    #93

    18th-century doctors believed that bloodletting was mandatory to “balance” patients' health.

    medicalnewstoday.com Report

    Dani M
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    again: starting a whooooole lot before the 18th century, as bloodletting was based on the theory of the four humours that need to be balanced...

    SkekVi
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It does make a logical sense if you think about it esp in regard to flushes, swelling, etc. people were not stupid they were doing their best observing the world around them and acting based on logic.

    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly the logic was often faulty - for instance, Prince Leopold, one of Queen Victoria's sons, was treated with bloodletting...for his haemophilia. I believe the word is "d'oh".

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    #94

    Research has shown that after decapitation there is still activity in the brain for 4 to 30 seconds.

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    Melody Machala
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is one that say 20 seconds on this list

    Vic
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hey! Thats like me at work..

    Vinay Pai
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Always look on the bright...."

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    #95

    The peanut butter contains an average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams.

    fda.gov Report

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm 99% sure in my house that it contains way more than an average of 1 cat hair though. xD

    Re
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not true! That's the FDA criterion for getting in trouble for bad peanut butter. BP, there's no point in putting sources on your posts if you're not going to read them...

    DennyS (denzoren)
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brilliant....now I can't eat peanut butter until I forget this. I guess it's similar to the FDA's tolerable levels.

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    #96

    Being buried alive accidentally occurred so often that people invented “safety coffins.” Doctors often misdiagnosed ill patients, and this was common in 17th century England.

    smithsonianmag.com Report

    KM
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uhm, no, it did not often occur. There was definitely a mass panic and superstition though. Despite the common belief dead people actually do look dead not just sleeping.

    The Scout
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    While real premature burial itself was extremely rare, the the hysteria because of it was very real. So were the multiple more or less exotic contraptions that were meant to prevent people from being buried alive. Some took the other route, though: 19th century medical kits often contained a "heart knife" the doctor used to stab the deceased through the heart to make sure he was indeed dead before interring him. The topic also played a certain role in literature, one of the most famous being Edgar Allan Poe's "Buried Alive", also appearing in "The Cask of Amonillado" and "The Fall of the House of Usher".

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    Dave Lear
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that's rubbish. How would you even know without digging everyone up? Truth is that the Victorians had a big panic about being buried alive that was based on nothing, like many Victorian crazes. Someone did *patent* a safety coffin but there is no evidence that any were ever built, let alone popular.

    CD King
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you have ever seen a dead person you know they are dead. This was like the satanic panic in the 80's.... over hyped, over blown

    #97

    Cosmologists theorize the constant expansion of the universe could cause it to tear apart. This theory is called The Big Rip.

    americanscientist.org Report

    MedusaWasBeautiful
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That theory was rendered obsolete years ago

    Slmd
    Community Member
    4 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Big Rip can only occur if the universe's expansion is exponential, as it starts to accelerate to the point everything is just ripped apart by the speed of it. What's most likely to happen is a big freeze/heat death, where the universe expands and never stops but it isn't exponential. This ending does give us the most time, though.

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    St34mpunk_Pirate
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read cosmetologist and was wondering why a beauty person would theorize about the ever-expanding universe… then again… ya never know

    MiriPanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the universe is constantly expanding, what is it expandong into? 🤔

    Christof Irran
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It isn't, per se, the Universe that is expanding, and the observed universe doesn't and cannot therefore expand *into* anything. It is the space that the observed universe occupies that is expanding. There can, by definition, be no space outside the observed universe.

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    Michael Parsons
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Big Rip is what happens to me around the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl.

    #98

    Scientists say 'black holes' exist in the ocean.

    cambridge.org Report

    Nikki Sevven
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, they don't. The study uses the term 'black holes' as a clickbait analogy to note that mathematical similarities obviously exist among all vortices, whether in vacuum, atmosphere, or water.

    Michael Parsons
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are you questioning Bored Panda's reliability as a scientific resource?

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    Mimi La Souris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    clickbaity, " Scientists from ETH Zurich and the University of Miami have discovered that many large ocean eddies on Earth are mathematically equivalent to the black holes of space, meaning nothing trapped by them can escape, according to Phys.org."

    Kenneth McCartney
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wish posters would quit using 'facts' as facts.

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    #99

    A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    False false FALSE. The process is actually slower, mostly due to lack of oxygen (which helps break down remains) in the water as opposed to on land. Though once removed from water, the bodies decomposition will likely accelerate.

    Re
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The typical decomposition changes proceed more slowly in the water, primarily due to cooler temperatures and the anaerobic environment" You already found a source, why can't you read the first paragraph? You're spreading bs