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Though the sensation has probably been around since our ancestors developed emotions, it wasn't until the middle of the 19th century that we started describing the uncanny as something that gives us "the creeps." Charles Dickens, who enriched the English language with plenty of new words and expressions, is credited with the first use of the phrase in his 1849 novel 'David Copperfield,' to mean an unpleasant, tingly chill up the spine.
A few days ago, Reddit user Mimiqttt set out to find out what the definition means to different people, and posted a question on the platform, asking, "What are some creepy facts you know?" From natural phenomena to the biological workings of our bodies, here are some of the most popular answers they've received.
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#1
Listening Mode: Activated
Hearing is the last sense you lose before dying.
d**konajunebug:
My dad is a retired EMT/Paramedic/fire-fighter. Years ago he told be about a guy in cardiac arrest that they brought back to life. The guy ended up coming by the station a few weeks later to thank my dad personally because he had heard - while dead - someone say it was time to call it but my dad said to keep trying.
That story has terrified me. To know you’re dead, but not quite dead, and hear other people call it before you’re fully gone. Geesus, no thank yo.
Realm Ship 2 years ago
One of the most horrific things I have ever experienced as a paramedic was the phenomenon of “CPR induced consciousness.” It’s where in some individuals who are in full cardiac arrest will regain consciousness during active CPR and beg you to stop due to the agonizing pain of the chest compressions in progress. The first time I ever had that happen to my patient it almost completely broke me. Unfortunately, they could not be resuscitated in the end despite us using every ACLS tool available. I’m considering a DNR for myself due to witnessing it.
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#2
Unseen Door Drama
One of the most common places to find a dead body is on the toilet. Cause when they're alive and not feeling well, the first thing they do is go to the toilet thinking it could be a bowel issue.
#3
Inside Out Insights
When you have a kidney transplant, they don’t remove your original organs, and the Transplant does not go in the place of your old organ.
Source: have had three kidney transplants in my lifetime. I have a total of five kidneys in my body.
#4
Pawsitive Vibes Only
Due to human artificial selection, dogs are evolving eyebrows.
Laugh Fan 2 years ago
My dog definitely has eyebrows!! Taken just after a bath so she's wrapped up in a towel. Just-had-a...86a6f9.jpg 
#5
Close Enough to See
Your eyes have their own immune system that works separately from your body’s immune system. If your body’s immune system found out it would attack your eyes. I read this here and at my last eye appointment I asked if it was true. The eye doctor said “Yeah, it’s kinda weird” and I was like “Kinda?”
#6
Opposites Attract Quacktically
Ducks become cannibals due to boredom, of all f*****g reasons.
UndertaleLover (She/Her) 2 years ago (edited)
I mean what other way is there to make your life more exciting?
#7
Invisible Battles Won
If you get skinned alive, you'll die from hypothermia, not blood loss.
gamedev_9998:
If you were burned alive, you'll die from suffocation, not from the fire itself.
#8
Your immune system can just decide that the rest of your body is offensive and goes on the attack. I have this with psoriasis which started as flaky skin and now has become psoriatic arthritis where my fingers, hands and feet are unreliable because my body decided that my body is a foreign object. F**k you my body!
Steve W. 2 years ago
Also, Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Parsonage-Turner Syndrome where your nerve sheathes are attacked. I lost use of a lung, much tactile feeling in my upper body, and much muscle usage. Most people it will return, some, like mine, is permanent. Just woke up one morning with my skin burning and difficulty breathing. Fun times, eh?
#9
Deep Dive Thoughts
I believe around 5-10% of the ocean has been explored. We have the technology to study space but it’s not advanced enough to see what’s down there (due to water pressure and darkness and stuff)
#10
Some species of Vultures can projectile vomit if they feel threatened.
Missing-Digits:
It is called defensive vomiting and I was an unwitting victim of it once. It is HORRENDOUS!!!
#11
Peak Drama Unfolding
There are about 40 supervolcanoes in the world that have yet to erupt. One supervolcano is in Yellowstone National Park and has a magma chamber that is large enough to fit the entire city of Tokyo inside it.
There's no indication we're due for a super eruption in our life time, but the thought it could happen still creeps me out.
#12
Clues and Alibis
For every 9 people on death row 1 is found to be innocent. Sometimes after death and sometimes after the innocent was on death row for 30 years.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There are many innocent people in prison. Mind you, I wasn't one of them. I deserved what I got. Several of the women I hung around, though, had not committed the crime of which they were accused. The feds use scare tactics to get people to plead out. Several of the women were told to sign the plea, or the feds would go after their kids. The government can ALWAYS afford a better lawyer.
#13
Just after their WWII surrender, the Japanese government created a system of brothels in case American soldiers thought of taking out frustrations on Japanese women. After the rate of STI's shot up among American GI's the Army made the Japanese government shut them down, the number of *reported* r*pes went up by 800%. Take note that Japan is a very traditional society with plenty of stigma about reporting rape so the actual numbers were probably even more horrific.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
And let’s not forget the huge numbers of Korean and Chinese women that the Japanese kidnapped and forced into séx work in their brothels during the WWII era! And the number of rápes perpetrated by Japanese soldiers during their invasion of China! The Japanese aren’t innocent victims here, but their WOMEN were.
#14
Quiet Moments Matter
The only double-hanging of women to be carried out in modern times was the execution of the Finchley baby farmers. Amelia Sach and Annie Walters would "adopt" unwanted babies for a fee. Then, supposedly, find homes for them. They did not find homes for the babies.
#15
Alone in Plain Sight
Cotard’s syndrome is a condition where you just think you’re dead or don’t exist. People who have it sometimes stop eating because they think they’re dead.
PurdueJohn:
Similarly there are high anxiety conditions of depersonalization and derealization, where someone doesn't believe the world around or them exists or are real at all, or that they don't exist themselves. My daughter had this when she was young. Quite unsettling.
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Capgras delusions are interesting to learn about as well. It's where you believe that a loved one has been replaced with an identical double.
#16
Small Feet, Big Dreams
Youngest "woman" (I use that term loosely) to give birth was 5 years old.
#17
Fingers Grasping Freedom
Today there are more slaves in the world that at any other time in history.
#18
When salmon begin their famous spawning run, they shut down unnecessary systems so they can channel all of their energy into swimming upstream to mate. That includes the immune system, so spawning salmon are highly susceptible to disease and infection. They basically start to rot before they die. You can see many discolored salmon during their run, and there are even some missing pieces of their bodies. I read about this last year. We are recent transplants to the PNW, so this is all new to me. My daughter and I went to a nearby creek this week to see if the salmon were still doing their thing. Sure enough, we saw one swimming upstream with a big, gaping hole in its back, complete with visible flesh and stringy white things protruding from it. It was awful, but we couldn't look away, either. She asked me not to cook salmon for dinner this week. It's one of my favorite meals, but...yeah, I'm good for now.
#19
Cosmic Quiet Moments
When a star dies it explodes and releases a gamma burst and it destroys all in its path, if one goes off near Earth it’ll lead to extinction and there's no warning because it happens immediately.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
Well, there will be a warning, and that's the fact that a star is close to dying, which NASA and other space programs can quite accurately predict
#20
Mixing Colors, Crafting Stories
mummy brown--or Egyptian Brown--is an old pigment that the pre-Raphaelites used for paintings. it's a rich color that was made from myrrh, pitch, and the decayed flesh of humans (yup, mummies). artists, for a very long time, did not know the contents of said pigment and we're turned off by it by 1915 because they found it gross and despicable.
still, a plenty of famous works feature a paint that is essentially dried-up human tissue.
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
There are also many books in the world that are bound with human skin.
#21
Couch Potato Reimagined
Hundreds of people die every year… from being strangled by their bedsheets.
GlitzBlitz:
I had a heavy blanket that was pretty much coming apart at the seams. The lining was detaching from the blanket itself.
I woke up one morning and found my son’s head/neck completely entangled in the detached lining. I shook him in a panic and he woke up confused but fine.
It looked like if someone had actually taken the thing and tried to strangle him with it. I threw that thing straight in the garbage.
UndertaleLover (She/Her) 2 years ago (edited)
*throws bedsheets in the trash* Thanks but I don't want to be strangled
#22
Statistically the person who is most likely to kill you at any given time is living with you right now.
#23
Hydration Flex
Drinking too much water can kill you. some people who have survived drowning later die because of water intoxication. solution is simple, give them salt or electrolyte fluids to balance their sodium ph in the body.
Agfox 2 years ago (edited)
That reminds of this, from Wikipedia: "A US jury has awarded $US16.5 million (NZ$22.8J million) to the family of a 28-year-old woman who died after participating in a radio station's water-drinking contest. [I've redacted her name], a mother of three, died of acute water intoxication in January 2007 after the challenge to see which contestant could drink the most water without going to the bathroom." The winner's prize was a new Wii
#24
Sewer treatment plants have lifesaver rings around the treatment tanks, in case someone falls in.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
The power of my revulsion would simply levitate me above the surface
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#25
Red Alert Ready
Carmine, a red food dye commonly used in food and makeup, is made of COCHINEAL INSECTS.
Amanda Rose 2 years ago
Also used in clothing dye as well. My dad spent a summer when he lived in Tucson gathering them in coffee cans to mail back to Virginia for my great grandmother to use in dyeing her hand spun wool.
#26
In a strange and semi creepy coincidence, Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln, was saved from falling off a train platform and being run over by Edwin Boothe, brother of John Wilkes Boothe.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
All tolled, Robert Lincoln was at or near three presidential assassinations. After William McKinley's murder, Lincoln vowed never to come near a president again. And he didn't.
#27
Nature’s Surprise Split
When you eat figs you are quite likely to be also eating the mummified carcass of a wasp.
#28
Crime Scene Vibes
At any given time, there are 40-50 active serial killers in the United States.
Ponyo (they/them) 2 years ago
depends on who you ask. some experts have estimates as high as 200
#29
Sometimes if their diet is lacking protein deer will actually search out birds nests on forest floors, stamp the chicks, and then eat them. There's a type of be called a vulture Bee that feeds on decomposing flesh, they have wild looking hives, and they will in fact make honey from the dead flesh. Honey that is referred to as "meat honey". The honey is in fact edible according to researchers.
#30
Silent But Expressive
You have millions of mites, known as demodex, living on your face.
#31
Sunlight and Silent Specks
The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells.
#32
Box Jellyfish are not only the most venomous jellies to humans, but they also possess at least 24 functional eyes (of various degree) on its body despite having no centralized brain. Four of its eyes always peer up out of the water regardless of the animal's body position; some eyes can make out images, others are more primitive.
#33
Cosmic Humor Ahead
During the merger of two black holes,a black holes can occasionally get ejected from the system and get shot out into open space and become a wandering black hole, the creepy part for me is that because a large part of the way in which we see black holes is through their interactions with their surroundings we wouldn’t really be able to see it coming towards us
#34
Rush Hour Haze
Really just the fact that we can die or have our lives unimaginably ruined at any moment from a basically endless number of ways and that eventually within a handful of decades (or maybe seconds or any time in between) or so it IS going to happen.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
My life was destroyed on Thanksgiving Day, year 2000. My dad was putting up Xmas lights after we ate our meal. He fell off of the ladder, crushed his skull, and sustained a catastrophic brain injury. His body lived, but I lost my beloved father that day. Not only did it destroy his life (he was only 58) but it destroyed mine as well, as my mother decided selfishly to ignore my father’s well-known wishes not to be kept alive in a near-vegetative state. We took care of my dad at home. I loved him, but I lost my 20s and 30s to caring for him. I never moved out, never married, never got a normal job. He died in 2021. I held his hand as he died. My mother refused to even be present. I have never forgiven her for any of this. And I miss my dad terribly. My mother’s a toxic narcissist; my dad was a wonderful dad. Hug your loved ones, everyone. Regret is a bítch, I should know.
#35
Still Searching for Clues
Last year in the US alone over half a million people were reported missing. About 1% are found.
Felonius Gru 2 years ago
No, about 1% stay missing. The majority are found within the first 24 hours.
#36
Master of Chill
Many victims who survive bear attacks report the sound of the bear’s teeth scraping against their skulls.
#37
Loyalty on Duty
Cadaver dogs can smell bodies through waters (lakes, etc).
#38
After decapitation you would still be conscious for about 10 seconds and technically would still be alive for 3-6 minutes.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
There was a chicken with its head cut off lived several weeks. The farmer fed it by putting grain into its esophagus.
#40
People are still dying from the radioactive fallout generated by the Chernobyl disaster.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
31 people died at Chernobyl, and all of them died from direct exposure to radiation, not fallout. If you want to hear something rather interesting, there are fundamental differences in the number of people who died from fallout in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nagasaki had a much lower death rate from fallout than Hiroshima.
#41
There is a website called The Marshall Project, which, from 2015 to 2021, recorded and counted down the time until execution of every death row inmate in the United States, categorized by state. It was accurate up to the second, and had real-time updates about appeals, stays of execution, time of death, method of execution, etc. It was fascinating and gave me major creeps at the same time. The site is still up, and the records can still be read.
#43
That armadillos are natural carriers of leprosy.
#44
Not sure if considered creepy but the ancient Romans went around collecting urine. It was big business. They used it to clean clothes as well as for mouthwash.
#45
Herculaneum is better preserved than Pompeii it just hasn't been excavated as much. Pompeii was essentially destroyed by falling volcanic rock, its dead later being buried by ash after rigor had set in. Herculaneum was destroyed by pyroclastic flows so hot that the liquids in people's bodies turned to vapor and exploded instantly. Brain matter turned into glass. Bone and metal were welded together. All that happened before Pompeii. Currently, the population in the area is so large that the Italian government is having a hard time deciding whether or not it's worth it to warn or evacuate them or not
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
Only one victim has been found to have brains that turned into a glassy, vitrified material. This post kind of makes it sound that ALL victims’ brains turned to glass, which isn’t true. Nearby charred wood showed that the heat was probably as high as 520C/928F.
#46
The only thing preventing you from dissolving your own stomach is a layer of mucus that pores in your stomach lining constantly secrete. If something happens to prevent them from working completely, your stomach will be dissolved within a couple of days.
#47
If we could hear the sound that the Sun emits, it would be the equivalent of standing next to a speaker at a rock concert.
#48
Most of us are highly succeptible to suggestion when hypnotized, including attempts to instill false memories. Our brains *cannot* tell the difference between real and false memories. Imagine the possibilities.....
Sky Render 2 years ago (edited)
Hardly need hypnosis to do that. All you need is an imagination and a lack of awareness during a flight of fancy. Lots of kids get fake memories of things that saw in movies really happening to them, and if their parents never correct them, they can go on believing those things for a very long time indeed!
#49
Meany types of Gas don’t smell naturally it is added later for safety, so by theory there can happen a mistake…
Realm Ship 2 years ago
Isopropyl mercaptan and ethyl mercaptan are the most common odorants for natural and LP gas. If you smell sour cabbage or a skunk, you might have a gas leak. (Or like cabbage!)
#50
Victorians collected and made art and jewelry from the hair of their loved ones: https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-curious-victorian-tradition-making-art-human-hair
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
I don’t know if it counts as “art” or jewelry, but I have a lock of my late father’s hair in a glass-tube pendant. I also have two bracelets with small glass cylinders in them that hold tiny amounts of my heart-dog’s cremains and my beloved gray cat’s cremains.
#52
Hepatitis ranges from A-E, with A being the most transmissible in contaminated water sources.
#54
Prawns are cannibals. They eat their babies.
#55
Infant flesh is like fish when cooked. White and falls right off the bone. Thank you, Last Podcast On The Left.
#56
In the US, Most missing persons cases that take place in the wilderness happen around places with large cave networks.
#57
The human body has roughly 200 grams of bacteria.
#58
Body odor isn’t caused by dirt or sweat on one’s body. It’s the bacteria that’s produced by dirt and sweat that emits the BO.
#59
Falling down can kill you, legit. If you hit ur head on something sharp most likely ure dead in the next second. Is not very creepy but it makes me rethink life time to time lol
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago
Or it can cause a catastrophic brain injury that could render you near-vegetative, or worse - aware, but unable to communicate, move, etc. My dad fell off of a ladder in 2000 and was bedridden in diapers, with a feeding tube, for the next 21 years. He did NOT want to live “that way” (as his mom had had a similar brain injury and he had seen how horribly she died), but my mom ignored his wishes and told the doctors to “do everything to keep him alive”. It was horrible. He lived 21 years in a near-vegetative state. I can only hope that he was not “aware” of how bad his condition/situation was.
#60
That in pharmaceutical labs, once they are done with the animals with whatever they were testing, the ones that are still alive are put down and thrown in a freezer. When the freezer is full they are dumped in a furnace.
#61
Pelicans will just Eat smaller birds sometimes. they snatch them up in their bill and just keep chewing till the bird stops moving.
#62
Many people have a parasitic infection and don’t even know it…
Susie Elle 2 years ago
If there's no negative influence to the host, then it's commensalism, not parasitism.
#63
All mammals have belly buttons.
#64
The Grass Is Listening
A female mantis eats her mating partner after having “sex” with him.
Themostgod 2 years ago
not after, DURING. She starts with the head which the male does not need to finish the act... :D
#65
Its against the law for a pharmacist to tell seniors on part D they are paying 2.5 times the cost for lets say metformin than someone off the street w/ no insurance. In my hypethetical trans action , The drug costs the pharmacy $2 ,HE charges $4. if grandma comes in w/ her medicare card she is charged $10 copay.. The drug maker then takes $7 leaving $3 instead of $4 as the profit margin to the pharmacy. He is bound by law to say nothing about the scam.
#66
Minor warning for those who have functional eyes. If you are sensitive just scroll by. . . Some women cook and eat their placenta after birth, has got to be the most horrific thing i know. There are even f*****g recipies online.
Jan Rosier 2 years ago
Heard of this before... Better alternative would be planting a tree, with the placenta placed underneath the roots.
#67
There is a fish ( the sounderfish) that likes to swim up penis holes that needs surgery to remove and sometimes amputation is the only form of removal.
Susie Elle 2 years ago (edited)
It's the Candiru, and the fish that swam up the pee stream of a man peeing in a river is the only documented case of a candiru entering a human urethra, and is suspected to be a myth due to impossible fluid physics and the physiology of the fish. There has been, however, reported cases of the fish entering the vaginal canal of a few women.
#68
If all bacteria in a cheese decided to move in the same direction the cheese would move quite a distance in a day
#69
So, for various grim reasons, Australia has a quite advanced, very knowledgable specialist law enforcement unit dealing with online child SA imagery. They showed once this mummy blogger who considers herself a ‘safe’ mommy blogger; She never ever shows her kids faces, she never shows like…any part of their bare bodies, not even their backs, she never shows them at the beach or in the pool, unless they’re in those short/t-shirt surf/swim suit thingies that cover them up from shoulder to knee, and don’t show their shape or body, she never shows them in bedclothes or anything you’d consider revealing or private moments. Most of her photos of her kids are just their hands, or taken from behind, or neck down, while the kids are fully dressed, like in jeans and coats, for safety and privacy. This unit approached her to show something, and they placed a tracking code in some of these photos, and within hours had tracked those photos, one of them was her three kids in heavy coats and woolly hats, on an autumn day, like these kids could be dolls, you can’t see faces, body, shape, skin, you can barely see their hair under their hats… Those photos still ended up on Paedo websites, with creepy comments by child abusers about how they like seeing kids dressed like that. Because they’re not just turned on by revealing or inappropriate images of kids, they’re attracted to children and that means having these specific preferences, a covered up child is just as attractive to them as a kid at the beach. Basically. There’s no safe way to have images of your child online. But wait, it’s worse… If you go to a lot of family bloggers pages, they’ll have ‘Parent run’ pages for their underage children, sometimes as young as toddlers, where post solely content of the kids. Its just s way to have multiple pages as distinct revenue streams but…it’s also something else. If you look at the follower stats of a lot of these pages, very often a majority of the followers, sometimes more than half, are adult men between 18 and 55. These pages will be like, this 3 year old girl going to water parks, with lots of shots taken from the bottom of a slide as she slides down it, in her bathing costume, or playing in the pool, like these kids LIVE in the pool… So yeah.
#71
A sloth's claws aren't actually made of creatine, they're their finger bones protruding from their flesh.
#73
I was thoroughly disturbed when I read that tornadoes can happen in the middle of the night. It's not that I ever doubted that, but just the thought of a tornado at 3am terrifies me.
#74
Back in the day, poor families would collect their urine so they could sell it to tanners. Hence, “p**s poor.” If you were poorer than that, well, you didn’t even have a pot to p**s in.
#75
An ally of Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais, was a serial killer, who raped and murdered hundreds of children.
#76
I can't wait to hear these replies read to me while someone jumps around in minecraft on tiktok.
#77
We're currently living through an age of extinction similar to that which killed the dinosaurs, but it's largely our own fault.
#80
Not so much creepy but , If your Wife or GF had a nut allergy and if the Male had eaten Brazil nuts before ejaculation it’s the only Nut Brazil Nut that can cause an allergic reaction through sex
#81
Cats always land on their feet, and buttered bread always lands butter-side down if you drop it. So if you strapped a piece of buttered bread to a cat's back and dropped the cat, you would have a perpetual-motion machine that would be powerful enough to run a small monorail. Follow me for other inventions.
#82
There are translucent microscopic spiders that live in the pores of your skin, usually on your face. They come out at night to feed on dead skin then crawl back into your pores.
#84
If you build something in your yard against HOA rules, then it’s called an unwanted erection.
#86
I was in a creative writing workshop in college and was critiquing a medieval torture section in someone else’s piece. My professor was like: what the f**k? Why do you know that? I told him I wrote a paper on it, but it actually came up in a few historical fiction books. I was curious if it was accurate and fell down a rabbit hole and know just a ton about medieval torture. I did the same a few months ago. It started with one false imprisonment case ages ago in France, but then sites suggest related articles, so I spent 4 hours reading about women being falsely imprisoned.
#87
Everyone who has ever owned the HOPE DIAMOND has met some sort of gruesome, untimely death.
#88
I had an ancestor in 1663 [ a high posted bureaucrat] who paid a doctor called Ruben [ Ruby] under the pseudonyme *Oswald* to get some toxin to assassinate a relative of the Radziwill princes... Exacty 300 ys before the assassination of a Radziwill inlaw [- Prez. Kenedy]
#90
Your name is Mimi, you’re 18 and live in the Philippines along with your sister who is 8. Your best friend Jeal was having trouble with their boyfriend and you tried to help but it wasn’t working. All that from 2 minutes of work. Don’t over share online.
#92
A lot of indigenous 'creepypastas' or folklore have some sort of real life tie to them, and the uncanny effect is so off putting because we have been evolving to be afraid of anything that looks human and will hurt us
#97
Adolf Hitler's grandma served as a cleaning lady in a Jewish household, which implies that his mom might have been a half Jewish illegitimate child. The uncertainty in this family secret Hitler could never get over, plus his dad beat him regularly for no reason. These two things left him so scarred that according to a psychoanalyst he projected his fear and hatred towards his dad on the Jews and his empathy towards his mother on Germany.
#100
I find it pretty creepy that I've found this exact question three times over the last three days
#101
Google and Facebook and formerly Twitter until a year ago sell your data to everyone, attempt to curb and control your speech and behavior and knowledge, and then act like Apple is some sort of evil company that protects privacy, individual autonomy and agency, and right to a fantastic product for money spent.
#104
1 in 4 girls are sexually abused. 1 in 5 boys are sexually abused. 70% of all caretakers over the age of 70 will die before the one they are caretaking. Not sure if these are creepy, but they are stats I remember when I'm in a group of 4 women or 5 men. Also when I see an older person taking care of the aged spouse.
#109
When you’re decapitated, it takes ~30 seconds for your brain to fully catch up and check out
#113
John Wilks Booth, the man who killed President Lincoln was secretly having an affair with Lincoln’s sons Ol’ Lady…. True fact
#121
You are more likely to get trampled to death by a cow than die in a accident involving any type of vehicle.
#123
Microscopic mites, called Demodex, live in the pores of your face. Most specifically your cheeks
#125
If you removed all of the organic matter from a forest except the nematodes, you would still be able to see the shapes of the trees and everything else from the leftover nematodes that live on them. They are everywhere.
#130
**I know two creepy facts that I have come across:** * Cotard Delusion - сotard's Syndrome is a rare psychological disorder where people believe they are dead, do not exist, or have lost their internal organs. * Sleep Paralysis - sleep paralysis can cause people to wake up temporarily unable to move, often accompanied by hallucinations and a sense of dread.
#132
chickens can still run after you snap its neck like just full of speed after it is supposed to be dead same thing if you chop off it's head
#135
When a week old corpse is run over by a tank it really does look exactly like on the cartoons, maybe just a little wetter
#137
Too many and I won't share. They'd keep you up at night and you probably wouldn't look at the world the same way any more
#138
there is such a thing as a necrophiliac homosexual duck. theres even a video you can watch
#139
Elvis Presley had a "super colon" that was exacerbated by heroin use and died with 30lbs of s**t inside him.
#140
During his life, a person eats from 3 to 7 spiders in a dream, they simply climb into his mouth when he sleeps.
#141
How cow feels in side when you put string on the calf to pull it out when she is having trouble delivering her breached (butt first) calf.
#142
Media uses fear to push political agendas on both sides of the political spectrum, this fear is often used to demonize things that are not inherently dangerous simply by creating fear. for example more people are killed by cows in a few weeks than sharks do in over 20 years and toilets kill more people in a month than AR-15s do in years. this is not about what is being turned into fear but rather what it can be used for. movies, TV and social media are extremely powerful tools as the human mind can be easily manipulated from enough exposure. Furthermore history and even simple logic can be rewritten just by changing a few google search results and changing the contents of textbooks, hell, even just removing a scene from a movie can wipe all knowledge of it from existence, simply by changing a source of information and not saying anything about it to anyone can rewrite everyone's knowledge TLDR: the human mind is extremely manipulatable, anything you know could be a lie and you wouldn't know it
#144
The thought as a child thinking that an old man was always watching me (santa) to all of us now it seems really messed up
#146
Easiest way to pull someones head off is to slit the neck, twist it and listen to it crack☺
#147
It only takes twenty minutes to die from a black mamba snake bite, and it hurts the entire time.
LakotaWolf (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
Untrue. If untreated, black mamba bites cause death anywhere from 7 to 15 hours, not 20 minutes. Even the most venomous snake on the planet, the inland taipan, can only cause death ~45 minutes after being bitten. No snakebite causes death in 20 minutes. (A person might collapse ~45 minutes after a bite from a black mamba, but it takes hours for the symptoms to progress to respiratory failure and death.)
#148
I don't know why I find this creepy, but our brain cannot create a new face. Every single person we see in our dreams, is someone we have seen in real life before.
Pasej 2 years ago (edited)
This is ridiculous and is a stupid urban myth. OF COURSE our brains can imagine a face it hasn't seen before, just as it can imagine a tree or mountain or building it's never seen before. Also the dream thing is so stupid - what, are we to believe that scientists have gone into people's dreams with some magical technology then matched the face of every dream person with the face of one of the billions of people on the earth?
#149
Dark Humor Alert
Lobotomy and the guillotine were both used in France through the 1980's.
Rob Chapman 2 years ago
That's flat out incorrect. The last execution by guillotine occurred in France on September 10, 1977.
#150
During the embalming process in a funeral home, internal organs are sucked out and replaced with embalming fluid. The organs that are sucked out go right into the sewer system. So not only are dead people's organ bits in the sewers but so too are any medications they were on, diseases they had, etc. Kind of a head scratcher when you go to a hospital or doctor's office and see the bio hazard waste bins - yet a funeral home, which process a higher volume of bio hazard waste, has no such disposal protocols
Susie Elle 2 years ago
I don't believe this. First of all, you can't just 'suck out' an organ nor will they fit down a drain, and second, if they replace it with fluid, to what purpose? How is this better? How do you keep the body from making sloshing noises? What will that do to the weight of the body, since it has to be dressed after embalming? Why would you want to remove the organs anyway? To my knowledge, they rinse out the bodily fluids and replace it with embalming fluid, but the organs are left in place.
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The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
Take a lot of these with a grain of salt. Most of them don’t even qualify as factoids; they’re misleading at best and misinformation at worst.
Dariusz M. D. 2 years ago
I cannot agree more. This is what happens when one is unable or unwilling to create an original content, but instead just mindlessly copy and paste from random platforms without verification. It says that the author is a writer with a BA in Communication with significant experience. He really should have known better.
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Rick Seiden 2 years ago
The amount of time it takes for pain to make it from your skin to your brain (so you actually sense the pain) is more than the time it took for the Oceangate sub to implode. Which means that one moment in time these folks were there, thinking, breathing, hearing the creaking, scared out of their minds. Then, they just weren't there at all. They didn't know that the sub had imploded because it took less time for the hull of the sub to reach their brains than the nerve impulses did.
Linda Lee 2 years ago
Really? I have wondered about that. Might have the captain heard it first, freaked out, but it was already too late? Or what if they all did know it was coming and knew they only had minutes or seconds to live?
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The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
Take a lot of these with a grain of salt. Most of them don’t even qualify as factoids; they’re misleading at best and misinformation at worst.
Dariusz M. D. 2 years ago
I cannot agree more. This is what happens when one is unable or unwilling to create an original content, but instead just mindlessly copy and paste from random platforms without verification. It says that the author is a writer with a BA in Communication with significant experience. He really should have known better.
Load More Replies... Rick Seiden 2 years ago
The amount of time it takes for pain to make it from your skin to your brain (so you actually sense the pain) is more than the time it took for the Oceangate sub to implode. Which means that one moment in time these folks were there, thinking, breathing, hearing the creaking, scared out of their minds. Then, they just weren't there at all. They didn't know that the sub had imploded because it took less time for the hull of the sub to reach their brains than the nerve impulses did.
Linda Lee 2 years ago
Really? I have wondered about that. Might have the captain heard it first, freaked out, but it was already too late? Or what if they all did know it was coming and knew they only had minutes or seconds to live?
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