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The National Institute of Mental Health suggests that phobias affect approximately 10% of U.S. adults each year. They typically emerge during childhood or adolescence and continue into adulthood (and impact twice as many women as they do men).

So when Reddit user Aelmnnor asked everyone on the platform to share scientific facts that creep them out, they received plenty of answers, and the post eventually turned into a nightmare fuel tank. From microorganisms living on our bodies to powerful cosmic events, here are the things that people wish were a lie but, sadly, aren't.

#1

Basically the entirety of pregnancy/childbirth. Like, this other living organism embeds itself in the lining of my uterus, feeds off my blood, makes me grow an entirely new organ (the placenta) just to feed/protect it while it grows, then it comes out while basically still gestating (other mammals babies can walk and run within minutes of birth, ours can’t even hold up their giant domes!) just because the hole I have to push it through won’t be big enough for its head if it stays in any longer.

Oh, and once I’ve done all that I get to have the longest and worst period of my life while my uterus sheds out 40 weeks of uterine lining.

I’ve had a kid and it still f***s me up.

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

Thankfully I made a good choice. No kids means none of that drama for me yay!

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The first AI that can successfully pass the Turing test would be able to pretend that it couldn't.

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#3

People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The sudden urge to jump off of a very high height. You can be physically and mentally stable to the greatest degree and still have this feeling when at such a high height.

Sofagirrl79 replied:

I heard it's "the call of the void" and it's a normal human thought

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Honestly nothing is more creepy than how deep sea anglerfish mate.

The deep sea is dark, and the anglerfish are spread very thinly. Therefore, when an anglerfish meets another anglerfish, it’s incredibly important they get the chance to mate over and over again. The evolutionary strategy that deep sea anglerfish devised is extra creepy. The male latches onto the female, biting her and never letting go. That way he can inseminate the eggs she drops. Not that bad so far right? But wait, how does he eat if he’s latched on his mate?

Well, the circulatory systems fuse and the female provides nutrients for the male through this fused circulatory system. The true horror starts here. The organs of male start to wither and atrophy, being absorbed into the female. Eventually, the male is reduced to a lump of testicles the females use to fertilize their eggs. Females are often covered in bumps of several males that have melted into the female, becoming a literal body horror lump of meat on the female.

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

well as the males are born from a female, if you think about it more, isn't it just an organ the female disposes, letting it grow outside of her, and when it joins her she claims it back?

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Your brain literally creates your own reality and your senses and body just go along with it.

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People think the brain sees what the eyes tell it to, but really the eyes pull up an image of blurry colors and dark spots and the brain goes “cool so that’s a tree”

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your brain usually edits out your nose. Until someone points out that fact.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The mantis shrimp can see colors that our eyes aren't capable of perceiving.

Think about that.

What else are we just not capable of sensing?

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

I would like to know how someone found this out. What possible way led to this discovery

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When you go to get something from one room (or upstairs) and suddenly forget why you went in there. It’s called a boundary event. Usually, if you go back to where you started (through the boundary) you’ll remember it again.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts You get and cure cancer in your own body thousands of times a day.....

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#9

The universe is unbelievably infinite, while simultaneously unbelievably infinitesimal.

The universe has ~10^22 stars, a rough guess. This is an unfathomably large number for humans to comprehend, but bear with me. There is roughly 100 thousand million stars in our galaxy alone, and there are roughly 125 billion galaxies.

A single drop of water contains ~10^21 H2O molecules, not too far off from the number of stars in the whole universe. A very similar number, but contained in a single drop of water!

It blows my mind that the universe can contain such mind boggling numbers of things on such wildly different scales. There is so much to reality that the human mind just isn't capable of grasping.

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

Yet the alternative to being truly infinitessimal is more bizarre, yet true: at a certain point, the law of physics break down until there's another certain point at which even space itself is quantumized. Still wilder, this means there's a finite amount of information in the universe.... and that information survives a black hole. Which means if the universe actually IS massive enough to contract back on itself, all of reality can be thought of as a projection of information from a single point in space. (I don't say space and time because time also breaks down with density.)

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts If you believe strongly enough that you have been cursed, your brain can shut itself off entirely in severe cases. The psychological term for it is "Voodoo Death Syndrome." It's just the fact you can literally think yourself to death that unsettles me so.

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

There are a lot of people who are pretty safe from thinking themselves to death.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Caterpillars turn completely into goo in their cocoon, and then become a butterfly.

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And there is evidence they retain memories from their pre-goo days. Memories of strong positive/negative stimuli that they show preference-for/aversion-to, even after metamorphosis.

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

They don't completely turn into goo as some of the nervous and respiratory system remains during the process. They just change structure to adapt to the new physical form of the adult. :)

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#12

That so many vegetables came from the same plant. Broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc. They are, botanically speaking, the same species. Humans have just bred them to emphasize different traits (buds, leaves, tubers...) Imagine if humans were as genetically flexible. Imagine a person walking around with GIANT toes, but otherwise normal.
Actually, plant genetics in general is a weird, weird world.

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

The same is true for dogs. They are all the same species, but look so different. The Chihuahua and New Foundland are the same species.

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Violets secrete a chemical that causes you to forget what they smell like afterwords. You’re essentially getting roofied every time you sniff one.

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

No, incorrect. Violets get their scent from ionone. It's an extremely sweet scent that many people describe as also being dry. "Powdery" is the word that's usually used. Another word is "ethereal," or "ephemeral." After stimulating scent receptors, ionone binds to them and temporarily shuts them off completely. This substance cannot be smelled for more than a few moments at a time. After that, people go anosmic to it. Then, after a few breaths, the scent pops up again. Because the brain hasn't registered it in the preceding few moments, it registers as a new stimulus. Although plenty of people don't like the scent of violets, they don't constantly overpower people, and they don't fade out.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts When the Titanic sank non of the shoes decomposed so there’s tone of shoes at the bottom of the ocean.

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#15

People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts A gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on earth instantly with no warning.

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

Not all life unless it blows the planet apart. There are fungi living miles/kilometers below the surface of the Earth to hat would be unaffected.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts That as the permafrost melts, a lot of locked up methane will be released, and microorganisms there will "wake up" and do their jobs, breaking down organic matter, and release more methane and greenhouse gases.

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

Not to mention any viruses that were long dormant so our bodies won't know how to fight them.

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#17

Your brain is making decisions before you are even aware of the decisions it has made. It also makes decisions based off of learned behavior and you just go along with it.

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

This one shocks most people. Our brains do most of our decision making for us, and then let us know about it once we're already committed. If we "ask" it why we're doing something it will come up with a reason, but this reason is often nonsense that doesn't hold up to close scrutiny. Oliver Sacks covered a lot of this in his excellent and very readable books.

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#18

Humans are bioluminescent (nothing to do with body temperature). We emit visible light that can be photographed in specific conditions. But, this light isn't visible to us. Which makes it a strange thing to have evolved, and begs the question

"what organisms is this light visible to, and why?"


Edit: Adding an edit for all the comments explaining evolution... Please read the thread before commenting. I find this a creepy fact due to implications on interspecific relationships, NOT because I think prehistoric humans went shopping for a bioluminescent hat with a specific motive in mind.

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

I get OP'S point. We breed plants and animals for characteristics that please us (often involving flavor). So shouldn't we wonder if the same has been done...to us?

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The brain can play tricks on you:

When you look at a clock and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory - and your perception of time stretches slightly backward.

This effect is called chronostasis.

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

Is this why that last second on the five second timer before skipping a YouTube ad seems to feel so long?

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Parasites can live anywhere inside of you, for years unnoticed. A simple migraine could be a tapeworm crawling in your brain, causing damage.

Your eyes begin to blur frequently and you don't know why and it's not getting better.

Losing weight and having diarrhea but it's not a stomach bug. Well, I guess it is...

You are having a difficult time catching your breath and your chest doesn't feel right.

It could just be some parasite hanging out, using you.

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

As someone who suffers from migraines often, I am choosing to pretend this is false information lol

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#21

People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts That 99% of all life that has ever existed has gone extinct.

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#22

People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts When a president declares a national state of emergency the law prohibiting medical experiments on unwilling human subjects is suspended.

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

This will totally depend on the country and individual national laws.

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your digestive tract is an unbroken tube from mouth to a**s...your lips are basically the other end of your b******e.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our a**s and lips are made out of the same tissue, too

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You also have spongiform erectile tissue in your nose. And the same capsaicin (spicy stuff in peppers) receptors in your a*s as your mouth, so it really does burn in both ends!

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

And if you think about it, talking out of your a$$ and having s**t come out of your mouth mean the same thing.

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

Mine stops three quarters of the way through my small bowel. I have no b******e, my daughter likes telling people that I can't fart, obviously i can but just not from the same place as most other people.

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

that's why many people (especially politicians) talk out their arses!!

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

The inside of our digestive tract is on the outside of our body.

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

Also, we are Deuterostome creatures, meaning that when the little ball of cells creates a cleft to start differentiating left from right (bilateralism) that cleft is your b******e. We are part of the "b******e first" group. The "mouth first" group is called protostome.

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

Thats why people are always talking out their- . . Actually im just as guilty what am i saying

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the digestive process starts with saliva and chewing, in fact the reason we taste things is our saliva begining to break down the nutrients in our food. And if you cannot taste something it's because you cannot digest it, which is why gum tastes like nothing once all the flavor is chewed out of it. Your stomach acid will melt it, but it does not get digested truly

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Can someone please explain to me why so many people find the various parts of their own bodies offensive and disgusting? If we didn't have an exit point for the waste material left over from the food we ingest, we would be in serious trouble! Relates to the previous subject on extinction levels...

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

I believe that in some science or other, human beings and donuts have the same shape: a mass with a hole all the way through the middle.

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

Yep, and the tube has a few sphincters in it to keep everything compartmentalized.

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

I guess that's why they say opinions are like a-holes because everyone's got one.

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

And humans start off cell devision as just a mouth and an arsch, ( or a*s) and the arsch is the First to develop... ..and some people don’t develop from that point any further.

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

“You” are a tube. Everything else is there to fill the tube and reproduce the tube. This is literally all there is to the meaning of life as far as your ego is concerned.

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

I have UC and get canker sores after every flare. I'm acutely aware of this, especially as I've had a dime size canker sore at the tip of my tongue for a week. Misery.

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11 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so sorry to hear that, dear! Ulcerative Colitis (UC) is a nasty condition to have to live with and extremely painful. My sister had it for decades until she finally was given a Stoma operation (which bypasses the infected/affected parts of the digestive tract and provides an alternative conduit and exit point for bodily wastes, through the stomach wall, where waste material is collected in special disposable sanitary bags). Anyway, I do hope that one day someone will find a cure for this awful condition.

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

Totally brings the phrase “never go a*s to mouth” to mind… Aaaaaaand now I am thinking about that movie Human Centipede and throwing up in my mouth a little bit

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

What the hëll has 4 letters, starts with "a" and ends in "s" but is NOT "ÅSS?" Censors: it was apparently already spelled wrong, so why did you fùck it up?

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Not exactly scientific or creepy but, it's close enough and I want to contribute.

Mouth pipetting was a thing in labs in the 1980s. A pipette is, for simplicity sake, a glass straw that lab staff would use to transfer liquids. Now a days we use special bulbs, that when squeezed, would suck up the liquid for us. Kinda like a turkey baster or eye dropper.

Before we had these bulbs lab workers had to use their mouths to suck up the liquid. Which meant if they weren't careful they'd get whatever they were sucking up in their mouth. I'm currently training to be MLAT and those fluids would usually be urine, liquid stool, sputum and so on.

Edit: So mouth pipetting is still a thing. I'm Canadian and I've been told that it is rare or none existent in our labs.

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

It's still a thing in my School. I hated it. Thankfully I just passed out from School.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Sea stars eject their stomachs to cover edible parts of their prey, begin digesting it externally, and then pull the partially digested prey into digestive glands to finish the job.

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

We call them starfish where I come from but I think Sea Stars sounds much cuter

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Obligate siblicide. In some species of animals, multiple offspring are born but only one is actually raised by the mother. The others are born only as backup in case the first-born doesn't survive. When the first-born is fine, which is the typical case, it kills the others.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts We know more about the moon than we do our own oceans.

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

The moon was easier to get to. And with no life, there's not many surprises up there.

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Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong.

Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.

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#29

With a lethal dose of radiation, victims of acute radiation sickness will, after hours of vomiting and feeling horrible, start to feel much better. Then, they will descend into a hell of a painful death.

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#30

People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts It’s rare, but you can die at any moment for literally no reason at all. Your body just stops working.

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#31

People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts I could be drinking the same water that my extremely far relative drank back in like the 1800s

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

I drank some water out of a bottle with the sticker: „passed by the water authorities“ I really, really hope not.

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- Out of all our DNA, only 2% codes for our genes.

The 98% leftover is called "junk DNA". I'm not specialised in genetic, but it was long thought to be useless but it's apparently essential for DNA expression regulation and protein formation.

- There are familial forms of alzheimer's disease. They are very rare but they exist, it doesn't skip a generation and one of the form makes you have the disease as early as your late 20's/early 30's.

- In Auschwitz, Joseph Mengele, a nazi doctor who conducted experiment on twins, sewed up 2 twins together for sh**s and giggles and let them die after the surgery of infections. They apparently screamed of pain for days until dying.

- You can live "normaly" with half your brain removed. It's usually done on young children suffering from terrifying epilepsy and the surgery is the last resort. It works quite well and if done early enough, with reeducation, the children develop normally without cognitive deficit, they "just" are blind from one eye, have one very weak arm/leg but they are not cognitively affected : some go to college, get married, have children and live completely normal lives.

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

A family friend’s younger brother had to have half his brain removed as a kid because he had strokes. He’s a teenager now and doing well!

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts After being decapitated there’s still few seconds of brain activity that happen before you snuff out.

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

Poor Sean Bean, often gets killed off early, it's a shame as he is a great actor.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts There is more microorganisms on your body than people on earth.

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

And there I was thinking how nice it is to have the house to myself today

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Literally everything that you know or feel or experience in total is just a series of electric impulses and nothing else.

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

That’s not scary to me at all. My world doesn’t change because I’m aware my soul consists of biochemistry and electrical impulses, I’m all good.

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#36

There is something called "the squeeze," where when people had old scuba suits with tubes, you could actually get sucked into that tube if the pressure was off. You are literally shredded through your own breathing tube.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts If you rub garlic on your feet you can taste it.

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#38

In the United States, approximately 1 in every 50 people have an unruptured aneurysm. Most will never rupture, but will just sit there in your brain, silently waiting...

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#39

Here's a good one: your eyes are an exposed extension of your brain.

In other words, and apologies if it sounds a little sociopathic, but if you take apart your head piece by piece with just the brain in tact your eyes would be dangling from the brain. Or, you can just google "eyes and the brain" to see what I mean.

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

Oh, it's worse than that! You know that headache behind the eyes that you get when you get a fever? That's the brain having expanded too much to fit into your skull, so it's pushing out your eyesockets.

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Rogue black holes. There are black holes that just are floating around in space and potentially f*****g up solar system just by passing through it.

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

Rogue stars also exist, travelling at ridiculous speeds. Scientists think they were part of a binary star-system where the other star went supernova, and instead of "eating" the smaller star, it sent it off hurtling through space. Saw it on "How the Universe Works" just this morning!

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