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!
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Crows can recognize and remember human faces.
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)
Load More Replies...That isn't creepy. They are really intelligent, and will bring you gifts if you are nice to them and feed them regularly
That whole family, crows, ravens, magpies...the corvids...are all so much smarter than most folks realize. They are tool users for heavens sake.
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."
Load More Replies...If someone is mean to them or person/animal they like.
Load More Replies...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.
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!!!
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.
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.
You really need to google this, it's strange and really cool at the same time.
Not sure if do want to 😂. Eye surgery stuff makes me shiver 🤢
Load More Replies..."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.'"
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?"
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.
Load More Replies...I SEARCHED FOR PHOTOS AND REGRET IT SO MUCH SOMEONE PASS ME THE EYE BLEACH STAT!!!
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!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
Load More Replies...Weird treatments from the past can either be a miracle or a curse.
Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist.
They were bought from a medical supply center and were much less expensive than making props.
And they didn't tell the actress who "swam" with them until afterwards.
Also on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disney World, Orlando when it was first built they used real skeletons
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.
Load More Replies...The actress who played the mother spent days in the pool with dead bodies during filming. She later had a nervous break down
Apparently the bodies hanging in the trees at the end of "Apocalypse now." Were all real too.....
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
Load More Replies..."You moved the headstones but you left the bodies didn't you?!!?!!!!!"
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.
There are bodies of over 150 dead hikers on Mount Everest, and they’are used as landmarks.
There is just too much visitors and pollution on Mt. Everest these days.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
Load More Replies...When people die they leave the bodies up there because they are too hard to get down
“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…”
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
oh yeah once you see timmy go 20 steps to the right you should see veronica
The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.
Which is nice and all that, but how do we know? For instance, I'm immortal too. So far, so good.
IKNOW THIS ONE!!!!!! So once they get old they basically turn back into a young jellyfish and that goes on until they get eaten
Load More Replies...I disagree. I suspect Cher is immortal. She's had so much plastic surgery only Cher and cockroaches would likely survive a nuclear war!
And Keith Richards. I think he’s immortal too. Lol
Load More Replies...But can you kill it? And if it can be killed, is it truly immortal? Where does the definition start?
Is not immortal, has "eternal life" could die but not from old age
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Climate change is making spiders bigger.
I could have lived the rest of my life withOUT knowing this lil tidbit....thanks.
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.
It's not "haunted", it's a relic of the Cold War and was/is used to block outside communications.
It's Alastor the Radio Demon broadcasting other sinners' screams (kudos if you get it)
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.
Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.
This always makes me think my one dog immediately rips out squeekers to silence their screams. He's a good boy though
mine will give me the squeaker when she gets it out. "here' s the heart of my enemy."
Load More Replies...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 🤣
Maybe somebody that was close to him made that sound. Same reasoning, different end of the spectrum.
Load More Replies...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!
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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".
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)
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.
Spiders can survive in space.
There are mf spiders in the mf space.. * you know whose voice *
Load More Replies...I think this needs to be clarified. Do you mean the vacuum of space or just on the space station?
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.
wow that is an amazing fact i hope they would breed spiders there in space
Two Scottish surgeons originally invented the chainsaw to assist childbirth.
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.
Load More Replies...Thinking of how on Earth does it feels like shoving a chainsaw into a woman vagina *aaaaaaaaaahhhh!i
you did not need to put that imagery in my head
Load More Replies...If it were offered to me on the basis of speeding things up I would have considered it.
how much you wanna bet they were charged with murder at least once...
Locked-In Syndrome is a condition in which a patient is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state.
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.
"I cannot live, I cannot die; Trapped in myself; Body, my holding cell"
English title: "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." A fascinating read.
Load More Replies...This needs to be higher because this is absolutely terrifying. Crows recognizing my face is not at all terrifying, it's adorable
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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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.
"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."
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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
While Ted Bundy was a psychology major at the University of Washington, he worked at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.
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.
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.
🎶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🎶
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.
...along with a woman who eventually became a crime novelist: Ann Rule. (She says she didn't suspect Ted of anything, though.)
Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviors when they're bored.
I was most shocked by "bored"....I thought it would have been at least hungry lol
You already ate him the last time you were bored.
Load More Replies...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)
Hewey: What's on tv? Dewey: Ah, reruns. I'm bored. Hewey: Yeah, me too. Let's eat Louie.
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When you die the last sense to leave your body is the ability to hear.
So I can therefore hear if someone says "Yes, he's finally dead!" so I'll know who to haunt. Lol
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.
Load More Replies...No it is not. People have been considered as dead to be later revived through one mean or another.
Load More Replies...no. your brain has already stopped working so you cant process the sound 。_。
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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More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.
it’s a pretty good thing, when you see the condition of the known areas
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.
Load More Replies...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.
And that´s where all the unidentified mysteries live. Who knows? We don´t.
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.
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.
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!
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👍
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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.
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 😢
Horned Lizards can defend themselves by squirting blood out of their eyes.
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.
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
Otton frogs have extractable Wolverine style 'claws' in their thumbs. Hairy frogs can break bones in their toes to achieve similar effect.
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.
Anyone remember the movie "Idle Hands" with Devon Sawa?! I'm old. lol
Yes I came to see if anyone else had mentioned it ! Loved Devon and that movie 😂
Load More Replies...It's sometimes known as "Dr. Strangelove syndrome ".
Load More Replies...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.
Mobile phones are 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat.
Me too! I can't stand the fingerprints and smudges!
Load More Replies...I use disinfectant wipes on mine all the time, so I'd like to see the stats on mine.
You don't want to even know what you can find on a peanut bowl in a bar...
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.
King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.
Well how else are you supposed to consume the strength of your enemies?
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.
That's not what his physician had in mind when he told King Charles II to increase his calcium intake.
Lol I would do this to feel powerful. How else can you devour your enemy's powers
Some ants turn into zombies via parasitic fungus which manipulates their brains.
It’s called Cordyceps fungi, and affects a lot more than just ants
Humans, but its transmitted through unvaccinated people
Load More Replies...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.
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.)
Load More Replies...I held a presantation about parasites and you Codyceps as an example and showed my class a video about it, they completely freaked out.
I'd like to add the presantation but its connected to my personal files so hackers could get them
Load More Replies...There is a terrific video game called “Limbo” in which the main character turns into a zombie due to those mushrooms.
if u look up cordyceps its got a cool easter egg on google
250,000 deaths a year are due to medical errors.
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.
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.
youtube shorts probably isn't the best place for medical advice...
Something similar ig: there was once a surgeon who left an entire pair of scissors inside of one of his patients.
Arrhythmic death syndrome is a sudden condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.
One of the listed signs of acute heart attack is "sudden death".
Thanks. Will remember that I am possibly going through acute heart attack next time I die!
Load More Replies...also wasn't uncommon during the Victorian-era to see an official cause of death noted as “visitation by God“
'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.
then.. THATS the cause of death. but the syndrome is the absence of a cause.. A PARADOX!
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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During the mummification process, Ancient Egyptians remove the brain through one of the nostrils.
Some people I know this will be a relatively simple process. The brain won't even touch the edges on it way out..
Some people I know, this wouldn't even be a necessary process as there's nothing to remove.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...I actually learned that from the 1999 movie The Mummy. Take that, Bembridge scholars!
I learned this in elementary school. So of course I thought you could poke your brain through your nose
We all thought we could poke our brains through our noses in elementary school.
Load More Replies...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.
It was once thought the brain was merely an organ for cooling the body.
Just telling my husband about this the other day. He said he is amazed at what I remember. Lol
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.
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)
Might be a thing of voodoo-dolls... whoever has mine, please stop feeding it!
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.
I worked with a student who had this. He swore he had no legs. Poor guy.
Criminologists estimate that there's a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.
I'd probably say those odds are about the same where I live too.
... and if you're black, there's a one-in-three chance the police did it at a traffic stop.
I don't know; that seems a little low. I my cynical opinion.
Load More Replies...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.
Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months.
I'm going out on a limb here that the word "fatal" is an indicator of that.
Load More Replies...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
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
Load More Replies...And it's a prion disease that is not always inherited. In rare cases it can develop spontaneously.
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.
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.
Is that somehow tied to risk, maybe they do more risky activities on their birthday.
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.
Load More Replies...Maybe I’ll skip my family’s gun juggling and alligator wrestling on my birthday this year.
Please tell me you're at least coming to the bottle rockets in every orifice party! It wouldn't be the same without you!
Load More Replies...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
I've always noticed that a lot of people die somewhat close to their birthday.
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.
You can technically already be dead on your actual birthday if you're stillborn.
Load More Replies...So I should actually start celebrating the day after my birthday to celebrate the fact that I made it through my birthday alive!
Some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive.
Your way of summarizing the whole concept is phenomenal. I might as well use it in the future! Thanks!
Load More Replies...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.
Being a mother is hard, but you learn a lot from it. Especially the importance of making sacrifices!
Same for octopi. A female is so exhausted and she ends up dying so her little octopi sacks just eat her entire body.
Thank you, I was about to go to sleep but now I can’t. 😀
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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).
Cool having a skull bowl. I want a drum made of mine.
Load More Replies...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/
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.
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
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.
I love Edgar Allen Poe books. Have you ever read The Tell - Tale Heart???
Load More Replies...They did a "Grace and Favour" episode about this in the 90's.
Anyone remember James Acaster bringing one of these on Taskmaster?
Despite making up close to 5% of the global population, the U.S. has more than 20% of the world’s prison population.
Let's not forget it's also used as an illegitimate means to handle poverty AND mental health.
Load More Replies...Not to mention parole and probation terms practically gaurantee going back in. Incredibly unfair and for profit.
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!
With this statistic,I would suggest watching The Survivor's Guide to Prison on Netflix or Prime. Very interesting.
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
Load More Replies...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.
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
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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.
Humans produce about 1.5 quarts of mucus every day.
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
Ugh, I have horrible year-round allergies. I produce far more than my fair share.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!"
Over 20% of children report hearing voices.
I am hearing voices right now; that's because I am on a zoom call where I am not really needed.
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
I am 9 so i can confirm all night there is whispering around the room
An estimated 6.5 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people.
A bulging blood vessel in your brain that could rupture at any time... the survival rate is very low without instant medical intervention.
Load More Replies...The number/ratio of women is much greater I have recently been told 1 in 10 women
The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons.
They know where they are, they are just not retrievable because it's deep underwater. Quite a few russian ones as well....
And one is in a very deep hole in North Carolina: https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash¶ms=35_29_34_N_77_51_31.2_W_US-NC_type:event
Load More Replies...Missing you say....as in "Hmmm...where are these darn missiles?" It's okay, I didn't need peace of mind today.
A homicide archivist Thomas Hargrove estimates that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large right now.
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.
Same in France...A friend of us died from being transfused, infected her husband, their daughter became an orphan. Pure tragedy
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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
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
Load More Replies...I would love for my skeleton to be part of something like a haunted house or Disney ride.
Real human skeletons used to be inexpensive and readily obtainable from India, etc. for use in Medical schools, etc.
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.
Load More Replies...'A Sense Of Impending Doom' is frequently reported by patients as an early sign of mismatched blood type transfusion.
No you just live in the 21st century ... It's normal
Load More Replies...Many crocodile species can gallop, and they are fast.
I'm just imagining the ancient egyptians riding the nile crocodiles into war now.
That is one of the most epic things I’ve ever heard.
Load More Replies...At least 20 detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the Salish Sea since 2007.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...Typically bc the shoes float, and decomposing bodies come apart at joints.
In the 1920’s, the American domestic terror group the Ku Klux Klan had a youth chapter called the “Ku Klux Kiddies.”
Bunch of punk b!tch cowards who dont even have the b@lls to show their faces.
A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.
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'.
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.
Load More Replies...When we die, the enzymes and bacteria that were so useful to us digest us from the inside out.
A chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off.
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.)
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
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.
On average, a person can secrete 26 gallons of sweat into a bed per year.
Harvard owns a book that's bound in human skin.
Don't do that to me mate, I thought for a minute you meant he'd died.
Load More Replies..."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.
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.
And this is just moving North, at least in the US. A case has been reported in Iowa recently.
A friend of mine died that way, after swimming in a New Zealand hot pool. It was horrible, and frighteningly fast.
Is there any way to avoid it short of never swimming in any lake or river?
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.
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"
Load More Replies...He also sold the skeletons to different universities or medical facilities, I believe
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)
Load More Replies...the Hotel Cortez in American Horror Story, and the Hotel Oblivian in Umbrella Academy
Wasn't there speculation that H. H. Holmes could also have been Jack the Ripper?
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.
Load More Replies...People used hollowed human skulls as bowls and cups back in ancient England.
That was a tradition for after a battle to celebrate the win. Not for everyday use.
More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone.
If the sun blew up right now, you wouldn't know about it for another eight minutes.
Light is inextricably linked to gravity. When the light goes out, only then will we understand the gravity of the situation.
1 - You deserve more votes than the original post 2 - Swhoosh!
Load More Replies...The last use of a guillotine in France was the same year the first Star Wars movie premiered. 1977
The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.
Tarantulas have been found to "swim" in both the wild and in captivity.
After hearing about those brain amoebas? I'm not so sure...
Load More Replies...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.
& evidence aka bodies being found & MOs being consistent actually points more to that number being double actually
there is a post earlier that suggests it is 2500. who is right and do i want to know.
The previous post says 2000 serial killers at large, not "active" or "in the USA".
Load More Replies...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 ?
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.
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....
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.
Load More Replies...Fifteen percent of the air you breathe in a metro station is human skin.
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. - : - )
Thank you for your clarification. I gagged reading the original, but felt better after reading your clarification.
Load More Replies...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.
I think you’d notice the dust cloud if the concentration was that high.
Emperor Nero profited off of human urine. Emperor Nero imposed a urine tax, charging merchants who sold urine.
And it's used in the leather tanning process too, if I'm not mistaken.
Load More Replies...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 Asian giant hornets have a bite that can leave craters in the skin or even cause death.
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...?
They also shoot venom from a distance that acts like acid. They aim for the eyes.
Vampire moths feed on the blood of mammals, including humans. They can suck blood for up to 50 minutes.
Your pets might eat you when you die, and perhaps a bit sooner than is comfortable.
They still need to eat. If I can't feed my boys then they can help themselves
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
What if you have that syndrome where your in a comatose state but fully aware!
My dog's a very picky eater. He'd only eat me if someone sprinkled me with parmesan.
Your jaw is strong enough to crush your own teeth with its pressure.
I need a mouth guard at night to keep from gnashing my teeth together. I chipped quite a few teeth over the years.
Load More Replies...Yep, and strong enough to bite your finger off (but our brain tells us thats a bad idea)
Ancient Romans believed that drinking blood would let them absorb power.
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
Rodents' teeth grow continuously throughout their lives.
Your skeleton is always wet.
Right now there is poop touching you on the inside. More disturbed, now?
Load More Replies...Well, isn't a bulk of our bodies WATER? What is the point of this post?
NASA astronaut will consume about 730 liters of recycled urine and sweat during his yearlong mission.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
Just like the girls that would put the radium in their mouth to paint clocks
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'.
Load More Replies...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
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.
It also contained arsenic and a number of other heavy metals, but I'm sure the manufacturer 'said' it was safe!
The “sleepwalking defense” has been used in order to have defendants acquitted for murder.
Aztec priests believed that human sacrifices could stop droughts and famine.
We still have people using shark fins and rhino horns so I wouldn't be so quick to judge.
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
Start with yourself? I'm just razzing you, RoanTheMad. 😀
Load More Replies...We still have people who believe depriving the disadvantaged will hold economic collapse at bay.
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.
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.”
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.
Load More Replies...So close! But we were looking for 'stem cells.' Thank you for playing.
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/
Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.
I got one in Belize! 2/10, would not recommend but it makes an interesting story.
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.
It’s very possible your office coffee mug has fecal matter on it.
As well as your keyboard, mouse, mobile phone, kitchen bench, and your face.
That's why after using mine, which I brought from home, I would clean it and bring back to my desk.
No wonder that b***h Sharon is walking around with a smirk on her face....
About 40 supervolcanoes are dotted across the globe and we're about 24,000 years overdue for an eruption.
"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
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.”
Load More Replies...The Pacific Ring of Fire contains 452 volcanoes. I want to know if 40 supervolcanoes are among them.
“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.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...In a month, we ingest the weight of a 4x2 Lego brick in microplastic.
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.
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.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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)
Load More Replies...I had to google, it was a single tiger - not a tiger species *hides face* TIL
It was a tigress who hunted humans because she could no longer hunt her usual prey since a gunshot had damaged her teeth...
Load More Replies...In the 1800s, dentures were made out of the real teeth of deceased people.
Poor people often had their healthy teeth removed to make dentures for the rich.
Load More Replies...It's 2025, and not being able to afford dentures, should I visit a graveyard?
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.
U.S. censors would go insane because if all the naked skin lying around.
Load More Replies...Chill. That’s me! I’m 14 and TINY for my age. I’m sure you are a perfectly healthy and beautiful size.
Load More Replies...More than 80 million bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss.
And the vast majority of bacteria are utterly harmless, with some small amount being beneficial, and some being harmful.
I can choose who I kiss, but please use a hankie when you cough or sneeze!
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
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.
Only in the wild as they get their toxin from their diet. In captivity, if fed a non toxic diet they are harmless.
Some species of fish have human-like teeth.
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.
Load More Replies...4,400 Unidentified bodies are recovered each year with approximately 1,000 of those bodies remaining unidentified after one year.
Please be specific with your statistics. Where is this ? Worldwide / USA / Europe, etc.
'Foot binding' practice in China only started to decline in the 20th century.
The FDA allows up to 4% of a can of cherries to have maggots (and 5% if they are brined or Maraschino).
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.
Having actually tried roasted crickets I agree. We could all do with a bit of insect protein, better for the planet too.
Load More Replies...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.. 🤣
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.
Load More Replies...18th-century doctors believed that bloodletting was mandatory to “balance” patients' health.
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.
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".
Load More Replies...Research has shown that after decapitation there is still activity in the brain for 4 to 30 seconds.
The peanut butter contains an average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams.
I'm 99% sure in my house that it contains way more than an average of 1 cat hair though. xD
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...
Brilliant....now I can't eat peanut butter until I forget this. I guess it's similar to the FDA's tolerable levels.
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.
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.
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".
Load More Replies...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.
Cosmologists theorize the constant expansion of the universe could cause it to tear apart. This theory is called The Big Rip.
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.
Load More Replies...I read cosmetologist and was wondering why a beauty person would theorize about the ever-expanding universe… then again… ya never know
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.
Load More Replies...The Big Rip is what happens to me around the 3rd quarter of the Super Bowl.
Scientists say 'black holes' exist in the ocean.
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.
Are you questioning Bored Panda's reliability as a scientific resource?
Load More Replies...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."
A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.
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.
Here’s a silly one: male parrots regurgitate on females they are attracted to. It’s like saying “I’M SO HOT FOR YOU BABE, WHENEVER I SEE YOUR FACE I WANNA TOSS MY COOKIES!!” 🦜💘🤮. . . The science at work here is the bird is demonstrating his ability to be a good provider. He is willingly bringing up food from a storage pouch in his throat (called a ‘crop’) to feed his would-be girlfriend. Regurgitation and vomit are not the same thing in the avian world. A mother parrot can similarly feed babies with food from her own crop. Birds appreciate a free meal even if it’s been pre-chewed for them!
The majority of these have been used numerous times in different posts.
Here’s a silly one: male parrots regurgitate on females they are attracted to. It’s like saying “I’M SO HOT FOR YOU BABE, WHENEVER I SEE YOUR FACE I WANNA TOSS MY COOKIES!!” 🦜💘🤮. . . The science at work here is the bird is demonstrating his ability to be a good provider. He is willingly bringing up food from a storage pouch in his throat (called a ‘crop’) to feed his would-be girlfriend. Regurgitation and vomit are not the same thing in the avian world. A mother parrot can similarly feed babies with food from her own crop. Birds appreciate a free meal even if it’s been pre-chewed for them!
The majority of these have been used numerous times in different posts.
