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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 34 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing
Not all facts are fun. But that shouldn’t keep us from learning, because they can still be fascinating! Below, we’ve gathered a list of disturbing and unsettling information that you might not want to know from Unpopular Notes.
From creepy facts about animals to obvious things you may be glad you’ve never previously considered, you’ll find a variety of information on this list. So be sure to upvote the facts you wish you hadn’t read, and try not to become too freaked out by any of these spooky truths!
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Professional musician Dagmar Turner played her violin while a tumor was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music
Greenland sharks live at least 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they are 150 years old
A body farm is a place where various corpses are laid on the ground for forensics to study the decomposition process
This is a bigfin squid, a type of rarely seen cephalopod with arms and tentacles that can reach up to 26 feet long
When whales become so old and weak that they can no longer reach the surface, they go deeper and deeper until they touch the seabed and then slowly die
Ella Harper was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward and was known as the camel girl
Though often pleasant to humans, the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant's way of letting out a cry for help
Real bees were used during the making of the ‘90s horror trilogy Candyman, and actor Tony Todd was paid an extra $1,000 for every sting
This was the day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right
The average person will spend five months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green
The Diomede islands have a distance of only three miles but due to locally defined time zones, they have a time difference of 21 hours from each other
If you have died around your cat, it is likely to start eating you in less than 24 hours, starting from the cheeks and eyes
Future biotechnology can be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1000-year sentence in a matter of eight hours
In the event of a plane crash at sea, the cabin crew must prohibit passengers from carrying the bodies of relatives or friends who died during the impact on the lifeboats
This bizarre helmet from 1925 was designed to improve work productivity and studying sessions
Theoretically, if you fold paper 51 times, you will find its end on the sun, and if you fold it 103 times, you would go beyond the observable universe
Jelly Beans are so shiny because they're coated with shellac, which is made from insect poop
