“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 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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There is a company that makes urns in profile to cast the shadow of the deceased
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
There are more statues of lions across the world than actual wild lions
A body farm is a place where various corpses are laid on the ground for forensics to study the decomposition process
I would love to donate my body to a body farm after my death. They do so much good work on helping out forensic science. I'd like to contribute to it, even if I can't do the science myself.
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured
Water bottles’ expiration dates are for the bottles, not the water
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
This is the effect that sunscreen has when viewed through an ultraviolet camera
this actually makes me feel safer, shows that sunscreen can really help you :)
Ella Harper was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward and was known as the camel girl
Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane
Though often pleasant to humans, the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant's way of letting out a cry for help
i hate the smell mostly just cuz im allergic to grass adn it makes me sneeze
Pacu is a South American freshwater fish known for its square, straight teeth that eerily resemble those of humans
Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism
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
He was stung 27 times. Would you get stung that much for $27,000???
The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime
Some sources state this number is as low as 4, some go as high as 41. It all depends how many people you interact with per day, in a big city it's likely. If you interact with about 25 people per day for 70 years, you've likely encountered 10 murderers, based on statistics.
This was the day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right
The movie Cannibal Holocaust was so realistic and so gory that the director Mr. Ruggero Deodato was charged with the murder of the actors
Great publicity - maybe the arrest was staged and choreographed to make headlines
This is how a toothbrush looks like under a microscope after the first use
Is this before, or after you've finished cleaning the toothbrush after use?
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
Google hires camels for the desert Street View
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
So what, it's not enough to lock them up, but now we can engage I'm torture? If you want to swat a fly, swat it. Don't pull off its wings. Who the hell wasted their intelligence coming up with something so Draconian? Cure cancer.
High tech version of medieval torture devices :( Prisons have not been a place for rehabilitation at all. It's always been to hurt people.
Load More Replies...I would literally rather die. From the prisoners perspective, that would be literal hell. Depends how bad the crime is, I suppose.
Yes ones who commit thing like rape and torturing deserve a million years or more
Load More Replies...I so wish people would stop using prison as punishment and instead use it as a time of education, therapy and attending to underlying medical needs. Rehabilitation and treatment reduces the rates of further crimes considerably.
Yes, it's been proven in countries with a more forward-thinking approach.
Load More Replies...That means their victims will see the one who raped, assaulted or stole from them back on the streets the day after conviction. Won't that be a heartwarming experience?
“ That means their victims will see the one who raped, assaulted or stole from them back on the streets the day after conviction. Won't that be a heartwarming experience?” Going through 100 years of monotony has causing mental issues on a persons brain. now imagine a person has to suffer something like this for 1k years - the next place the person would end up like would be a mental asylum where it would be the persons final destination
Load More Replies...Can someone please explain to me how this works? This is cruel and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone but I’m a fan of learning interesting facts
It's not real, it's just an idea that is incredibly improbable for lots of reasons.
Load More Replies...And having this technology is more important than curing cancer? Or Parkinson's disease, or MS, ALS, or anyelse?
I feel the same way, actually put this high-tec stuff to good use man, like wtf 🙄 It’s sad how people can have their priorities so mixed up and even sadder who those people are.
Load More Replies...it still does nothing to rehabilitate the person or give them the tools to live a law abiding life outside of prison
Don't believe a human is capable of knowing 1000 years we only reme.ber so much then our brains just start to for get...like trying to remember an entire dream...we. dream in nits and our brain makes us believe we went through a long time...our brains aren't capable of remembering that much time because time doesn't exist...
Must had been a democrat thinking up ways for anyone that disagrees with them in the slightest way to come up with this. Most hateful people in the states.
Future biotechnology? This is purely fictional as far as I know. Someone worked this idea out as an SCP: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2701. Sounds like pure hell to me... For who doesn't know: the SCP Foundation is a collaborative fiction writing project, in the dystopian fantasy genre, but you can Google that. Lots of these stories are in animated form on YouTube, including this one: https://youtu.be/Bq8PQkZKF6w
This was a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode called Hard Time, first broadcast in 1996.
So nice, hey my rapist only got out after 1 hour, now he can start all over, and the victims can se him everywhere yaaay.
Sounds like a movie I watched a couple years ago. At the end it turned out that the main character and all the other characters were actually in a simulator for some sort of prison sentence. I don't remember the details, so it must not have been a great movie lol
What is the point of that? Someone "serves" a term that feels years, decades or centuries long, but is released in 8 hours, to return to a life of crime? More draconian prison terms don't reduce recidivism, and they increase institutionalisation, alienation from society, and emotional trauma. What will happen is you get angry, traumatised criminals who can't sucessfully reintegrate into society, but have a long remaining lifespan to reoffend, and will be released quickly enough that their criminal contacts will still exist. Society isn't being protected, criminals aren't being reformed, criminal networks aren't being broken up. It may reduce the cost of each 'prison term' but if it just means the cycle of offence-imprisonment-release-reoffense is accellerated, the crime rate will increase, cost of policing and trying crimes will soar, and everyone will be worse off.
Why can't they make it so I could learn a skill in an hour instead of 5 years ;) Also and this may just be me, but they sense of justice may not work out the same way for potential victims, that could face the person already the next day again.
Because it doesn't compress time, it only makes you FEEL the same you would as if you'd served 1,000 years. You don't actually LEARN anything.
Load More Replies...Would be good, if they could attend school, learn a trade and visit a psychiatrist in those 1000 years.
Yeah I call b******t. Maybe in a few thousand years. but we aren't anywhere close to being able to control the human experience that precisely or safely to make this something that would ever be done.
Surely they should be made to feel like an 8-hour sentence lasts 1000 years? That would teach them...
F**k yeah ! Sick of criminals getting treated like they were the injured party .
You're forgetting that in many places, people are put in prison for committing what are minor offences in other countries - for example, totalitarian countries that do not want their citizens practising free speech; countries where women or certain races have little or no rights; or even in the US, being jailed for possession of tiny amounts of drugs, or inability to pay fines/taxes. Do you think jail would deter these people when they have not committed a major crime? And the crazed rapists or serial killers are willing to take the chance or they wouldn't commit their crimes. That leaves a very small section of people who might actually be swayed by this.
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There are only two days that do not last 24 hours: the one of your birth and the one of your death
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
Right because of all those plane crash survivors. After a 600 mph uncontrolled impact with the ocean I can see how the lifeboat capacity would be a real issue.
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
The beauty micrometer was a device designed in the early 1930s to help the identification of the areas of a person's face which need to have their appearance reduced or enhanced by makeup
The only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue
Jelly Beans are so shiny because they're coated with shellac, which is made from insect poop
After checking, shellac is a secretion used to make protective tunnels, not an excretion (poo)..
After death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body
So... Bored Panda shortened the article by ONE entry, making us click the link for the rest (one) twice. 🙄
Yup. It's like listening to a bunch of 'edgy' eight-year-olds. Quite a few of them are false or faulty correlations too.
Load More Replies...So... Bored Panda shortened the article by ONE entry, making us click the link for the rest (one) twice. 🙄
Yup. It's like listening to a bunch of 'edgy' eight-year-olds. Quite a few of them are false or faulty correlations too.
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