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“Littered With Corpses”: 35 Strange Facts You’d Wish You Could Unlearn But Unfortunately Can’t
There are pros and cons to having access to every piece of information at your fingertips. While it is convenient to simply pull out your phone if you need an important question answered, the downside is that you come across facts you wish you didn’t have to know.
Take these responses to a recent Reddit thread as an example. While most of them are trivial, a handful are shocking enough to make you think for a good few days. Before you know it, you’re doing your own deep dives, for better or worse.
If you’re fascinated by all things creepy, this list may be for you.
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#1
The scariest sound you can hear in the wilderness is no sound. When things stop making noise, it's because there's a predator in your direct vicinity, and they're already hiding.
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#2
That 5 out of 4 people struggle with basic math.
#3
Not so much creepy but 20 percent of men say they have nobody to talk to when they have a crisis.
Data1001 4 months ago
To be honest, I think the majority of men also don't want to talk to someone when they have a crisis. Guys are often like, "I'll get myself out of this myself," and find the prospect of having to ask for help to be disempowering.
Ejteh 4 months ago
Because they have learned that that is 'the manly way'. And i personally think that that is sad. Nobody should have to go trough things alone because they think feelings are for the weak.
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Becky Samuel 4 months ago
There's so much talk about the male 'loneliness epidemic', but none about the fact that this is of their own making. Nobody, I repeat nobody, is preventing you from starting interest groups or being more social. Women have refuges, support groups etc because we get up and organise.
Michelle C 4 months ago
That’s not always true. I’ve known many men who don’t have many people to talk to because they were abused by parents and grandparents or other trusted authority figures growing up. The messaging often included that they were not real men if they expressed emotion freely and were often told that silence was better than looking weak.
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Earonn - 4 months ago
Oh, looks like the manbabies who push others away but still somehow want deep talk and support came around to dish out downvotes. The fact is, that you're right - we try to talk to men if they then close up or turn us away, we stop. We're not responsible to come back again and again until they want to talk to us. The offer is made, take it or leave it.
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#4
How disturbing people's thoughts really are & how you sometimes never know how much you're at risk.
#5
A really big percentage of morbidly obese people were sexually abused - had major trauma.
#7
How age of consent laws around the world.vary from 12 to 19.
#8
Your phone’s microphone can be activated without you knowing, and yes, apps *can* listen in even when they’re not open.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
Anyone who pays attention to online advertising is very, very well aware of this.
#9
It drives me nuts thinking I’ve probably at some point if not several times been around someone who is running free after k*****g someone.
Kristiina Männiste 4 months ago
Does this include accidental and duty caused (like wars and such) and plain ole stupid? Cause those are far more common.
#10
Human brain smell like wet pennies.
The Majestic Opossum 4 months ago
I'm betting it's the blood that smells like pennies, not the actual brain tissue...
#11
The jeepers creepers director was a kid fiddler, and they knew that, and knew about his prison record before they let him direct.
#12
Your hearing is the last organ to shut down. I don’t know if that’s true, but a doctor told me that as a family member was actively dying.
Susie Elle 4 months ago
Well if your brain has already shut down at that point, then it doesn't really matter
#13
Have a relative who works in a crematorium. Sometimes they find surgical tools in the cremains.
#14
I once interviewed the city coroner when I worked for a small community newspaper.
He said that in cases where they think something suspicious or fishy happened with a death--k****d to get an inheritance or something--90% of the time they're right. Ninety percent. I really had no idea so many people k****d family members for gain.
The Majestic Opossum 4 months ago
And 90% of the time they think a death is suspicious could only be 1% of deaths. That stat means nothing unless he also said what % of deaths they thought were suspicious 🙄
#15
You don’t even know how close you’ve come to death many times.
Nota Robot 4 months ago
And it's all for thee best. The few times that I *do* know about are terrible enough.
#16
That dead bodies can sit up on their own during decomposition due to muscle contractions. Nope. Didn’t need that info.
#17
Do you know where the myth about storks bringing babies comes from?
Storks hunt small hares, and when those hares are in mortal danger, they cry like human babies...
So people would witness this scene and invent a sweet little tale that kind storks were delivering children to parents, when in reality, those bloodthirsty birds were carrying off helpless baby hares begging for mercy….
#18
On average, you walk past about 36 murderers in your life. Depends on where you live, but still creepy thought.
Kristiina Männiste 4 months ago
I live in a village of 12 people. If I were average it would be like the hecking Midsommer out here😆
#19
Why we know the % of water the human body contains….
Joe Reaves 4 months ago
If you don't already know the answer, don't go and look it up. It was 'medical experiments' aka war crimes during WWII.
#20
An entire village was wiped out by a carbon dioxide cloud. 1700 people. No warning, just silent, unescapable death.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
Lake Nyos, Cameroon. In 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
#21
Otto Warmbier was on a group tour of No. Korea in January 2016. He was pulled out of line at the airport as he was headed home. He was detained and accused of stealing a poster with Kim Jong’s name on it. He was beaten, tortured and forced to give a confession written in stilted English (he claimed to have been tasked to steal the poster by a church “deaconess” in exchange for money when in fact he was Jewish). He was put on trial & sentenced to 17 years hard labor. Since there are no diplomatic relations with NK, the State Dept. could not intervene. 17 months later, NK suddenly announced he was ill and would be returned to his family. His head was shaved & he was blind, deaf and incoherently screaming. Parts of his brain were missing w/o surgery, which is thought to be the result of waterboarding. He lapsed into a coma and his family removed him from life support, and he died in June 2017. No explanation was ever revealed as to why he was targeted.
Nathan Lewis 4 months ago
But he did actually steal a sign or something. There was footage of it. It's awful, but NK isn't the place to play silly buggers.
#22
The night the titanic sinking was so dark the stars were the only thing survivors saw because the moon already set and the lights on the titanic went out.
Joe Reaves 4 months ago
I'm not sure why that's creepy. That's what you're supposed to be able to see at night. It's only in towns and cities that manmade lights change that. The night wasn't 'so dark'. It was like any night in the middle of an ocean before the moon rises/after it sets.
#23
There are tiny bugs living in/on your eyelashes - yes, even yours.
Bookworm 4 months ago
Not just your eyelashes. They live in hair follicles and oil glands. So face, neck, scalp too. Can live on other parts of the body. Just head/neck have the most. There's also microorganisms in your GI tract. Not sure why having mostly helpful/harmless beings on you is creepy.
#24
When humans die, their bowels “move”. For executions, prisoners have cotton balls stuffed up the colon to control the “movement “.
Littlemiss 4 months ago
Yes and it does comecout the mouth too. My Uncle pointed out this is even worse to witness in someone still alive.
#25
I’m not sure if it’s true, but I heard somewhere that your body is constantly fighting off cancers.
#28
Only 50% of people have a reaction to bed bug bites. So lots of people being bit and living with bed bugs unknowingly.
Joe Reaves 4 months ago
I mean if they're not causing you a reaction, they're not really a problem I guess. It's the same with fleas btw. Neither my parents nor my dog had any reaction to fleas. We found out he'd picked them up when I came home for a year abroad, was greeted enthusiastically by my dog, and ended up covered with itchy bites. House got thoroughly cleaned with anti flea stuff and vacuumed, dog got it's first and second ever baths and flea treatment from the vet, and I had an uncomfortable few days lol.
#29
Back in the 70s, when my mom was in h**h school, she dated a guy who was the captain of a rival h**h school's basketball team. The following year, he and two friends abducted 3 teenage girls, m******d them, and hid their bodies in the woods.
Another interesting fact is that the killers hosed down the trunk of the m****r car at the same car wash I used to go to when I lived in that town, and they also bought the rope that was used in the crime at a hardware store where my brother used to work.
And yet another interesting fact is that one of the 3 killers was arrested by my next door neighbor, who was a young State Police corporal at the time.
Amazingly, I only learned of this about 3 years ago reading a true crime blog.
#30
I didn’t really learn it from someone, i realized it. Right now at this very second, wherever you are in the world, you are on top of probably thousands of different creatures including humans. It does not matter where you go, you will always be on top of someone’s or something’s grave. This earth has a lot of layers; it changes all the time.
#31
Your skeleton is wet all the time.
#32
After interning with a forensic anthropologist, if they ask to borrow your crock pot, say NO. It’s meant to “cook” the flesh off the bones so they can do the skeletal work. Smells weird, works well.
#33
Type-1 Diabetics can fall victim to “DIBS” or “Dead In Bed Syndrome”. Essentially they pass away in their sleep for no apparent medical reason. It generally happens to younger diabetics and rarely over 40 years old. It cant directly be related to low or high blood sugar and it something that just happens (although somewhat rare).
Anthony Elmore 4 months ago
So you're saying that I might finally not have to get up in the morning? This isn't creepy, this is ideal.
#34
Some English people in the 16th and 17th centuries ate crushed Egyptian mummies.
#35
Till the 1980's something many doctors still believed kids under 1 year couldn't feel pain so surgeries were often done without anesthesia.
Women die more often in car crashes because those tests still use male bodies but only smaller and not female bodies with a different point of gravity.
Chocolate llama 4 months ago
The first part is not true. It was not thought babies couldn't feel pain. The issue was that nobody knew what would be a safe dosis of anesthesia for a baby, so it was safer to operate without
#36
U.s. presidents are selected — not elected.
Robert Beveridge 4 months ago
It would be far more surprising if national elections (in any country, not just the US) WEREN'T rigged in a million little ways.
#37
- 50% of breast cancers have already metastasised before you even get a diagnosis
- There are a lot of mutations that produce quite unspecific symptoms, so you might have one and don’t know and when you get kids, they might be affected a lot more than you.
- there was a medication for sleeping and anxiety reducing that resulted in a lot of children with birth defects. They were amazed b the medication at that time because it apparently didn’t make you addicted but they didn’t know the effect it would have on pregnancy or rather the unborn child. It’s called Contergan or Thalidomide if you wanna look it up.
#38
It is at least possible that the brain can remain conscious for a few seconds after decapitation.
#39
That your nipples are older than your teeth.
#40
I saw an xray of a baby’s skull.
#41
When you smell a really bad smell, it's because the wind is wafting millions of molecules of whatever is creating that smell up into your nose.
#42
Predators will eat the milk glands of an animal first if their prey is actively lactating.
#43
Mount Everest is littered with dead bodies from different time periods, all along and around the summit. Climbers step over them. It is too costly to raise an expedition to retrieve a corpse and too dangerous for other climbers to take corpses down from the mountain. It is also too dangerous for them to be airlifted off of Everest.
Dying on Everest is considered the equivalent of being "lost at sea.".
Bookworm 4 months ago
They're left both because it doesn't make sense to risk more lives bringing them down and as a reminder of what can happen. Like the tradition in the US of leaving memorials (crosses, flowers etc) at a safe place where people have di€d in traffic accidents. And the bodies aren't left to be climbed over. They're to the side. Sometimes not far and easily visible, but they're not adding bodies to climb over like it's an obstacle course.
#44
Why there are fewer male morticians.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 4 months ago
Same reason in the past the bodies of girls and women were often left to decompose for a few days or had their legs tied shut- men taking advantage.
#45
Most of the dust around your space is actually the millions of skin flakes or dead skin cells that we don’t realize.
#46
I read somewhere that wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, it is almost certain that there’s at least several spiders within ten feet of you.
#47
Humans are the most greedy and ruthless.
#49
Cockroaches can live without their heads for about 2 weeks. They don’t have a central nervous system so die from starvation. They sweat through their shells. They give me the heeby jeebies.
#50
Knowing that I'm living through my date of death and I'm absolutely unaware of it ... it's applicable for all of us.
Jill Rhodry 4 months ago
I don't get - if you live through your date of death then you didn't die?
#52
When there's a serial killer loose, people with Dissociative Identity Disorder have something extra to fear. They can't be sure they're not the m******r.
Bookworm 4 months ago
Oh FFS stop perpetuating stereotypes. People with DID are far more likely to be the victim of a crime (s) than to commit them. This is in large part due to their previous trauma. (DID is the result of extreme childhood abu$e). Also many people with DID know about their alters. Some are even able to achieve co-consciousness and/or some of the alters end up integrating. To me what makes DID creepy is the fact that the original personality (before the abu$e) isn't always the main one. The one you interact with could have been created and taken over from the original. Or the original di€d and no longer exists. Or the fact that alters can "di€" and come back later.
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