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37 People Share Mildly Disturbing Facts You May Have Never Heard Before
Fun facts are usually meant to entertain or surprise us, but sometimes the truth can be a little unsettling. Whether it’s something bizarre about nature, the human body, or history, certain facts have a way of sticking in your mind and not always in a comfortable way.
So what happens when someone online asks, “What is a mildly disturbing fact?” From creepy discoveries to bizarre tidbits of knowledge, this thread shows that some facts can make you squirm, shiver, or think twice. These unsettling truths reveal how strange and sometimes alarming the world can be. Keep reading to see the most surprising and slightly disturbing facts people have shared!
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#1
30 years ago the average home took up to 30 minutes to become fully involved in fire, now it can be as little as 3 or 4 minutes due to the changes in construction materials and the massive amount of synthetic materials used in furniture etc.
Install smoke alarms and get out early folks.
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#2
The doctors when performing surgery that requires one to remove intestines momentarily put them on a rack because they wriggle around, and after they’re done they just put the intestines vaguely back and then the organ wriggles back the way it’s supposed to.
#3
Worrying about bad things you have no control over drains you of energy, making you less able to change negative things you do have control over.
#4
Schizophrenia can hit randomly from the ages of 15 to 26 if it is in your genetics. Some people are totally fine, then bam, auditory hallucinations and delusions start happening.
#5
You're a brain inside of a skull. You don't have a skeleton inside of you; you are inside of a skeleton.
#6
In France, a pig was dressed in human clothes, tried in court and was sentence to death
... For eating a childs face
#9
If you live to become the oldest person alive, the entire human population has been replaced in your lifetime. Except you.
#13
You know what you call the stupidest graduate from the worst medical school in the country?
Doctor.
#14
The farthest point on the planet you can be from civilization in any direction is a blip in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. If you were stranded there, you'd be thousands of miles away from help and it would be very unlikely you'd be seen or rescued as cargo ship routes don't go near it. To put the distance into perspective, the closest people to you would be the crew on the ISS.
#16
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 a millisecond, but it was enough 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.
Since then I get super paranoid whenever a fly goes anywhere near my face because of the fact that something like this can possibly happen to me.
#17
Prions. When proteins in your body misfold, they create prions, which then infect neighbouring proteins causing them to misfold, creating a chain reaction and eventually eating *holes in your brain*.
All known prion diseases are fatal. They can k**l you in a bunch of fun ways, including taking away your ability to sleep or your ability to chew and swallow. They're also extremely contagious, and since they're not a virus, non-killable.
And to top it all off, symptoms can take years to appear. So you can be infected with prions in your system right now and not know it.
#19
The Dark Forest ~~theory~~ hypothesis for the Fermi paradox. Any civilization that makes itself known is instantly destroyed by a neighbouring civilization due to fear of themselves being destroyed.
#23
If in the right conditions, when some bodies decompose, their fat turns into soap and turns the person into a soap mummy.
#25
Baby boomers had severe retirement issues.
When millennials and younger retire, it's going to be a full blown human crisis.
Invest in that 401k hommies!!
#26
There is a theory in neuroscience that two consciousness entities exist inside your mind but only one has access to speech. I think that is a mildly disturbing idea.
#27
Some people survived the sinking of The Arizona during Pearl Harbor but where's trapped inside. The guards would hear banging form inside for the next week or so but could do nothing to help.
#28
It’s physically possible to die of a broken heart. It was seen in either mice or frogs, after them having a large emotional response to something, their heart valves collapsed.
#29
Have you ever thought about how whales and dolphins die?
When they get too old and weak to swim to the surface to breathe, they start sinking into the cold, dark depths of the ocean, and suffocate.
#31
Most laugh tracks played in sitcoms we recorded around the early 50's. A good amount of the people you hear are dead.
#37
The fact that cheese is basically expired milk with salt.
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