Some things are better left untold, you know. Like the fact that your bed likely has somewhere around 10M dust mites or that humans have enough power to bite off their finger… I mean, if that sounds like a scenario from a science fiction movie, you'd better move your seat closer and tune in to ‘The Facts Guy.’
The TikTok creator Adorian Deck, aka The Facts Guy, has been deliberately ruining people’s days with the viral video series featuring some of the most disturbing facts. The appeal to them is somewhat paradoxical, you don’t wanna know them yet you still can’t look away!
So below we selected some of the most creepy, entertaining, surprising and plain weird ones to get you in the Halloween vibe or simply to understand why some facts often remain untold.
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As of 2019, there are over half a million homeless people in the United States. There are also 17 million vacant homes.
A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you.
Bored Panda reached out to Adorian Deck, the content creator and ‘The Facts Guy’ behind these viral TikTok videos with disturbing facts. It turns out, Adorian is no rookie when it comes to content making on social media, since he has been making YouTube videos for over 10 years and had 100k subscribers before joining TikTok.
“I created a brand called OMGFacts back in 2009 when I was 16 years old that ended up getting 15 million followers across Facebook and Twitter that I later sold and I don't own anymore,” he told us. What’s more, Adorian has always had a love for the most shocking, amazing facts. “I also have been a big TikTok fan for a few years, there's so many creative, talented, authentic people on the platform that I love to watch.”
Nighttime is a natural state of the universe, daytime is only caused by a nearby radiating ball of flame
1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939.
The 80s weren't that long ago...the 80s weren't that long ago...maybe if I say it enough,I'll believe it and not feel so old...
If you live to become the oldest person alive, the entire human population will be replaced in your lifetime, except you.
The content creator said that he stopped making consistent videos in 2016 to focus more on his business, which was building brands similar to OMGFacts and helping other clients go viral. “TikTok inspired me to make videos again, so I went with what I had the most interest in, which was surprising fun facts. I started my account in June of 2021 and now have over 2 million followers!”
If you try to grab the brain in its natural state, it will fall apart. When you see scientists pick up a brain, it's because they've used chemicals to harden it.
Cruise ships are legally required to have morgues for the passengers that inevitably will die on each trip.
A single Tiger in Nepal killed 436 people in its lifetime.
When it comes to the facts Adorian shares on his platform, he said that there is a lot of information out there, but not all of it is real or interesting. “My audience finds it valuable that I make it very easy to learn the most interesting facts out there,” he said and added that he feels like he now has a lot of experience to know what kind of information is really the most interesting out there.
The facts that get popular are “usually based on taking assumptions they thought about the world and turning them upside down with real statistics and timelines. The most interesting facts are the ones that make us feel something the most. Scared, shocked, amazed, inspired, disgusted. Doesn't matter which emotion as long as it's a strong emotion,” Adorian explained.
In a government run experiment TSA did not catch 95% of the guns that went through airports
Toddlers have adult teeth that are right under their eyes.
Moreover, facts about history that alter your perception of time are also super popular among his viewers. “They make you feel like the events did not happen very long ago, or that they happened at the same time, or maybe happened a lot longer ago than you thought,” Adorian said. “We all have assumptions on history based on what we've heard or been taught, but there's a lot we don't know out there,” he added.
The TikToker believes that people find disturbing facts interesting because it creates an emotional trigger that makes us focus more on what's being told. “Mix this with something that's shocking and we just don't want to turn our eyes away. It's similar to driving by a car wreck and everyone slows down... you can't look away.”
Doctors went into surgery to remove what they thought was a tumor. It turned out to be what looks like a pine tree growing in this man's lungs. Experts say it more likely came through aspiration rather than a seed growing inside of his lungs.
Humans have enough bite power to bite off their own finger. The only thing that stops us is our brain's natural protection mechanism.
Dogs like Squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that has been frightened or injured.
So do cats like bells and crinkly things for that reason? Like little prey noises and bone crunching 😵 mine loves to play with a toy on a string as i make it dart then hide, then dart and hide again, but inevitably starts taking the string casually in an effort to have a go playing with my hand. Crafty wee devil
There were once sea Scorpions the size of a great white shark.
During World War II, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
Experiments by Unit 731 (See 'Men Behind the Sun' film). The Japanese perpetrators were let go by the USA in exchange for the results of their experiments; experiments that could never be performed in the USA (But they still did the Tuskegee Syphilis Study plus Project MKUltra, et al) But, the Japanese didn't stop there: R ape of Nanking'.
Locked-in syndrome is a medical condition where you can only move your eyes while the rest of your body is paralyzed. Basically, you can be trapped in a coma like state and be aware of it.
Had it for just over one week, was horrible. One of the only good things I felt was when some of the nurses, who were more used to that i guess, would chat to me, and look at my eyes and understand what I was 'pointing' to. My sister had an innate ability to read my eyes and translate. But to be shoved in a corner, ignored, it's mental anguish. People saying 'I know you're still in there' but sounding uncertain was scary, I wanted to scream 'I'm here, don't worry, figure it out and omg I'm thirsty!!'. Getting movement back is like a second chance that I will never take for granted. Even just being with the person can be a great comfort (EDIT: thank you everyone for your kind words)
Genghis Khan significantly reduced carbon in the atmosphere because he killed so many farmers where all their farms just turned back into forest.
In the Victorian era, people used to take photos of their dead relatives in lifelike positions in order to keep them as momentos. Photography was so new and expensive that this was usually the only time someone had their picture taken.
Sure this happened but it wasn't nearly as common as people keep saying, and all of those "posed corpse" photos you see online are just living people. The stands were there to help them stay upright and in place long enough for the picture to take, since it took bloody forever to take a picture. The only "lifelike" positions actual corpses were photographed in were sleeping/lying down positions.
There are over 200 bodies on Mount Everest and they are used as waypoints for climbers.
Thanks to pregnancy, the average number of skeletons in a human body is greater than one.
And because of amputees, the average number of arms/legs per human is less than 2.
In the 1930s, it was common for parents to hang their children in cages outside of their windows.
The picture for your funeral may have already been taken.
In the 1800s If you had dentures, they normally were made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
Common after Waterloo but rapidly left behind - During the 18th century, typical denture materials in Europe and the U.S. included human, animal teeth, and ivory. Hardened rubber became a popular base for porcelain teeth when it was developed in the mid-1800s, and early plastics such as celluloid and Bakelite replaced it soon after.
Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane.
Nearly everything that we can measure on Earth is contaminated with particles of microplastic.
Just imagine that hundreds of thousands of years in the future, when we are long gone, aliens will visit earth and discover there was once an intelligent species on the planet, as evidenced by the microplastic in everything. Nothing else will have survived, no buildings, nothing, just microplastic. And since that can't form naturally, there must have been a species who made them. What a wonderful legacy... :(
Anthrax can be buried for hundreds of years and then reinfect people when the soil is disturbed.
The survival rate of someone who experiences cardiac arrest outside of a hospital is 1 in 10.
Cannibalism is common in Hamsters.
During Gladiator Games of the Colosseum, members of the audience would rush into the field to ravage off the blood of the Fallen Gladiators. They believed that in drinking the blood of the fallen warriors, that they would absorb their powers and skills.
If you live a full life, you're going to have shed over a hundred pounds of your skin.
People's general happiness peaks at age 21, and it does not come back to that level until they retire.
I'm 45. The last 4 years have been the happiest ever and I'm on a great adventure. I expect many more happy years.
I have heard this from others in their 40s and even 50s. I'm currently in my 30s and it gives me hope about things taking a new perspective down the track 😅
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I call bullshit on this one. I was pretty happy at 21, but nowhere near as happy as I am today, at 38. Also, most research in psychology points to both the 30s and 40s as being the happiest time in your life. In addition, the very point where your kids move out is (no kidding) the happiest point in a parent's life, according to research. I very much doubt that point is when you are 21 yourself.
I concur. Much happier once I was financially secure and in a long term loving relationship than at 21.
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I call BS on this one. I was in an abusive marriage at 21 and I know I didn't feel happiness until my late 30's when I met my current husband and my children were thriving and doing well despite what they been through.
I'm glad to hear you're out of the abusive relationship, and are now in a better place.
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Bullshit. I spent my 21st birthday in a psychiatrist hospital because I wanted to kill myself. I'm 43 now, sober, and every new day is better. I'm not anecdotal evidence, either. Most addicts can attest. Year 21 is not a good year.
I am 43 and am still unsure of what it feels like to be truly be happy. While, for others I try to look the part of a happy person, one the inside, I am bleeding from depression and anxiety that I have suffered since I was around 13. I try to think positively and live life in the moment, depression and the anxiety always creeps in and ruins the mood.
It should state 'on average'. Mine has been going along in an up and down state for the least 25 years. Some great times, some that were less fun. You could say, in fact, a bit like life...
exactly, a lot of these responses are "well not true for me because"... that's just an anecdote. Anecdotes aren't data. We also need to know if this claim is international or just USA or what. I am pretty sure the figure is too low for the first world, it strikes me as more likely an international figure, because the average age of people is lower in the 'global south'
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I am retired for close to 20 years. This is life I always wanted. Naps, eat what I want, watch tv until I fall asleep, sleep late...etc. Heaven!
Not so sure about this, especially with the angst and horror most young people are facing between social media and our collapsing environment. And, not everyone enjoys retirement because it means your productivity is over.
I'm 70 and life is not wonderful or even tolerable some days. If this is as happy as I was at age 21, 21 wasn't all that great either.
At 21 I was sure that nothing could be worse than living with my parents. Hence, my first marriage. However, after that, it's been pretty good.
Retirement is not something to wait- health issues, no money, visitations of apothekas.
My happiest years were when I returned to my hometown and had my only child. I was 30 when he was born and the next four years were my happiest.
Retire with enough money to stay healthy I believe. for most it is not a golden time at all.
Maybe that's true on average, but I'm sure there are many exceptions. I was happier in my mid-20s than at 21, and I'm at least as happy now in my early 60s (not retired yet) than I was then.
I will say that my 20's were the most stressful and depressing. It got better over 30.
I was miserable with 21. Have been my happiest in my early 30s as of now. So... I am not scared.
Complete BS for me too - my parents were ugly divorcing, my mother went crazy, I had to pay for my flat because she wasn't able to, also studying at the same time, and working. Yep, I wasn't able to so we had then some period of homelessness... My father was harassing me ( I was his only daughter - what a father of the year). I was in poor shape, Dickensian almost. Still have PTSD, depression but I am definitely happier now than those years...
Thank God mine didn't. I'd hate for that to have been my peak happiness year. Yuck.
I'm 58 - every year has been the best so far. I know I'm a lucky guy - no question!
You have the potential to be happy any time and any where. So what's holding you back?
You mean the years they’re trapped in the hamster wheel of 9 to 5 or worse, a 12 hour, minimum wage job?
That's strange. At 21 you don't have money. At retirement age you do, but can't remember where you put it
Definitely case-by-case at best. My happiest year of life has actually been this one, and I'm very nearly twice the age of 21!
This is rubbish. I was unhappiest at 21-23. I'm 45 now and have been the happiest in the last 10 years. Never I've had such an excellent physical and mental health but now.
We peak in happiness at the (United States) legal drinking age. Coincidence?
At 21 I was miserable, i had to go to therapy and now i'm happier every day
In ancient England, people used hollowed skulls as bowls and cups.
More than 80 million bacteria can be exchanged during a 10 second kiss
People tend to think of 'bacteria' as poison, when it's everywhere and on everything and if we tried to eliminate all of it in our life, our immune system would be useless. Think about it, we touch things all the time and we rub our eyes or pick something out of our teeth, but we don't end up in hospital for it.
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But here's a happy fact: Did you know Vikings gave kittens as a wedding gift?
OMG, another tiktoker with known things which are rotating on the internet for years.
Disturbing facts? Ruin my day? The only thing this did was prove further that tiktfuck is the worst "social" media channel ever in existence. Can we please start a petition to have BP stop regurgitating this crap?
Oh and by the way, here's an interesting read how tikfuck is suppressing freedom of speech in general and anything "controversial" concerning China in particular: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing
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Well, that was a big batch of underwhelm... from the plain wrong to the simply ordinary. Can we stop treating people who gather errors into a bunch and calling it relevant a soapbox? Seriously, nothing in there ruined my day, only the few minutes it took to read them.
Did you know that 37.52 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot?
I'll give you a fun fact. Which African animal kills more people than any other? You're thinking lion, crocodile, buffalo, leopard, elephant. Nope, it's the hippo. They are incredibly territorial and aggressive and while they are vegan, they have massive mouths and really big peg like teeth that can be really long. So when they are very cross, it's easy for them to kill you, even though they won't eat you. They can also run up to 20mph/32kph on land. (I lived in Africa and worked as a safari guide. I know lots of random things about African animals!) I've also been attacked by a hippo while I was on a pedalo boat. Luckily for me, it chomped the boat and I got away.
I thought it was a mosquito, because they give diseases
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If you ever work security at a Samsung store, you can put on your resume that you were once a Guardian of the Galaxy.
Didn't we see many of these "facts" in a different post not that long ago?
A lot of these facts need corroboration. I don't love lists like this, when the source isn't clear or it's just a bunch of random people on reddit typing random words. Some of these are real facts (like the fact that we are born with all of our teeth), but some of them are probably misinformation, or "I heard this from my friend's brother's boyfriend's aunt", or they are just kind of information that is twisted and distorted to sound weird.
Based on the comments, 🤔… are these posts deigned to point out who the millennials are? Just a thought. Because tiktok is ridiculous and bored panda seems to be using it as a trigger.
But here's a happy fact: Did you know Vikings gave kittens as a wedding gift?
OMG, another tiktoker with known things which are rotating on the internet for years.
Disturbing facts? Ruin my day? The only thing this did was prove further that tiktfuck is the worst "social" media channel ever in existence. Can we please start a petition to have BP stop regurgitating this crap?
Oh and by the way, here's an interesting read how tikfuck is suppressing freedom of speech in general and anything "controversial" concerning China in particular: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing
Load More Replies... Well, that was a big batch of underwhelm... from the plain wrong to the simply ordinary. Can we stop treating people who gather errors into a bunch and calling it relevant a soapbox? Seriously, nothing in there ruined my day, only the few minutes it took to read them.
Did you know that 37.52 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot?
I'll give you a fun fact. Which African animal kills more people than any other? You're thinking lion, crocodile, buffalo, leopard, elephant. Nope, it's the hippo. They are incredibly territorial and aggressive and while they are vegan, they have massive mouths and really big peg like teeth that can be really long. So when they are very cross, it's easy for them to kill you, even though they won't eat you. They can also run up to 20mph/32kph on land. (I lived in Africa and worked as a safari guide. I know lots of random things about African animals!) I've also been attacked by a hippo while I was on a pedalo boat. Luckily for me, it chomped the boat and I got away.
I thought it was a mosquito, because they give diseases
Load More Replies... If you ever work security at a Samsung store, you can put on your resume that you were once a Guardian of the Galaxy.
Didn't we see many of these "facts" in a different post not that long ago?
A lot of these facts need corroboration. I don't love lists like this, when the source isn't clear or it's just a bunch of random people on reddit typing random words. Some of these are real facts (like the fact that we are born with all of our teeth), but some of them are probably misinformation, or "I heard this from my friend's brother's boyfriend's aunt", or they are just kind of information that is twisted and distorted to sound weird.
Based on the comments, 🤔… are these posts deigned to point out who the millennials are? Just a thought. Because tiktok is ridiculous and bored panda seems to be using it as a trigger.
