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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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.
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.
I can imagine this was very traumatic (especially as the patient didn't make it) but CPR has saved many a life, including one I witnessed when a colleague of mine went into cardiac arrest - luckily we have a defib which was on the scene within a couple of minutes and the ambulance arrived shortly after. I guess the comfort for you is that you know you're doing it right if the patient regains consciousness??
Load More Replies...I saw someone die when I was in hospital with Covid. She died in the opposite hospital bed from me. I would comfort her as best that I could. She would look at me when I was talking to her and I told the nurses to just say, "Shhhh, shhhh, shhhh, you're okay, it's okay" in a soothing voice and it helps her" The nurses said that I provided comfort to her and at least she wasn't alone, she knew she wasn't alone when she died. Someone was there. So I do think that she could hear me.
Yeah, talk to your loved ones when they're nearly there. I told my grandma I hoped she got some good sleep that night, but had said some other things too, talking to her, especially when doing stuff around her.
I've passed out from medical crisis' multiple times, and my vision always goes first, and the hearing is always last, freaky to hear that'll be what dying is like.
Think I’d like kin and folks to remain silent or say nice things about me, until I’m all the way gone.
But it is nice to know that you can stil say I LOVE YOU to those who are dying and know they might very well be able to hear you!!! Also, watch what you say at that time that might be unkind and don't do it. just saying...
I think it’s a good thing for hearing to be the last sense to go for people in certain situations. My mom had cancer and when her body started shutting down (we had in home care for her last 3 days) she slipped into a coma like state until her final breath. But it gave us the chance to all be able to say goodbye. We knew she could hear us. My last memory with my mom was her only squeezing my hand everytime I said I. “I love you “. Which I promise gave me so much comfort, knowing that she knew how much I loved her.
I’m okay with that as long as I get to see my loved ones one last time before I go Home.
My Mom went into a full catatonic state a few hours before she died. But it gave some of us a chance to say goodbye. The one comfort I have is telling her that I loved her and that it was okay to let go. The last 2 1/2 years of her life her health declined especially in the last 6 months. She would often say she was ready to go "home" to be with Jesus and several times when she was hurting really bad she would ask God to please end it and take her home. Being her sole caregiver the last years of her life were both rewarding and gut wrenching because I got to know, learn and see Mom in a different way then when I was growing up. 😭
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.
A lot of people get the sudden urge to empty their bowels right before a heart attack.
Elvis Presley is obviously the most famous example of this
Load More Replies...which is also why individual stalls should never have doors opening inwards but outwards...
I've had 3 bowel obstruction operations and was dying before they had to slit my guts from pubic bone to sternum and disemboweled me to find all the scar tissue blocking everything! It's the most extremely painful way to go!
THat, and the fact that if there is pushing and grunting it can cause a stroke or heart attack in some people. A rather large percent of dead people are found in their bathrooms taking a s**t - Elvis was!!!!
This does not make me feel comforted as I am on the toilet rn and shaking uncontrollably (I have anxiety and other stuff where I'm always like this--but today is worse)
I feel so bad thinking back, my papaw loves Elvis and when I was little, I used to laugh bc I thought it was funny Elvis passed on the toilet. RIP Elvis, you are missed deeply
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.
My wife has had 2 transplants. Very often the old kidney left in causes complications, and is removed within a year or 2. But during the surgery, the risk is too high to remove it.
Same with a GBP, they leave the remainder of your stomach. It can actually be reattached if needed.
A bowel movement stimulating the vagus nerve and lowering the heart rate and blood pressure, or causing other cardiovascular effects, and leading to death.
Very lucky person you are! My mom couldn't get one for five years. She has one now. It was almost too late, though. She literally got her dialysis port the day before she got the call that they had a kidney for her.
I believe the donor kidney comes out with a small portion of blood vessels still attached and they use that to create a “join” :)
Load More Replies...Guess it’s more dangerous to remove the failed kidney, then just leave it. Makes little sense.
Pawsitive Vibes Only
Due to human artificial selection, dogs are evolving eyebrows.
My dog definitely has eyebrows!! Taken just after a bath so she's wrapped up in a towel. Just-had-a...86a6f9.jpg
Googling it, came up with this: "Centuries of domestication have radically reshaped a dog's eyebrow anatomy, making their faces—and emotions—easily readable to people. When meeting a person's gaze, dogs often raise their inner eyebrow muscle to make their eyes look larger and more appealing."
Load More Replies...honestly, it’s kinda funny. my toby will raise his eyebrow at me like “what are you doing?” and it’s really funny
In a few thousand years I believe they’ll have perfected a way to verbally communicate or overt telepathy. I’m fascinated by the urges I get to do something or say something to my forever and foster greys.
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?”
I wish my eyes were immune to more things. The Kardashians, for an obvious example.
And ears, I don't wanna hear about them neither.
Load More Replies...This is post #2, and I don't know if I should keep reading. As if I don't already have enough to worry about. I was the kid who used to worry so much my Mom once told me when I was 5 or so, "If you don't stop worrying, you're going to give yourself an ulcer." "What's an 'ulcer' Mom?" "It's a hole in your stomach." So, for the next 6 months, I worried about getting a hole in my stomach.
It’s called immune privilege, and some other body parts like the stomach I believe also has it
Your heart does too. My cardiologist said a virus made my immune system “recognise” my heart and now it keeps attacking it, and my lungs are affected so maybe it doesn’t know them either so that’s why they’re on the hit list now?
Load More Replies...An ex boyfriend of mine lost his vision at 8. He fell over and a stone scratched his eye. The body realised he had eyes and attacked them. Nothing doctors could do for him
The first rule about separate immune systems is, we don't talk about separate immune systems.
Hey the eye on the right looks like mine! Pretty rare eye colour. My kids didn't inherit it :(
Opposites Attract Quacktically
Ducks become cannibals due to boredom, of all f*****g reasons.
I mean what other way is there to make your life more exciting?
(this is a joke btw I'm not a cannibal)
Load More Replies...So glad mine aren’t bored then. Ducks and ducklings are pretty brutal
I've done a bit of research and prefer to spare you the pictures taken by some animal rights activists on several commercial fattening farms......why are Homo sapiens such disgusting creatures???
It's not. That's just what the commercial farms do because it's cheaper and easier than improving their quality of life.
Load More Replies...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.
I assume you could not sweat without skin and die from hyperthermia.
Load More Replies...I read somewhere that it is the most painfully thing in the world
Load More Replies...The burned alive part depends on how, if you’re in the middle of a circle with the fire far enough away, you die slowly by cooking to death
If you had a good friend, they would place a small pouch of gunpowder round your neck, which would explode and kill you before you suffocation. Friendship goals have changed.
I thought the cause of death from being skinned alive would be shock ... ?
When you get skinned alive, you die from the shock of the pain. Hypothermia doesn't set in fast enough.
Either would truly suck. I’d like to go like my FIL, in bed with a h**ker.
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!
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?
Churg-Strauss here. Blood flow restricted to extremeties. No blood flow to nerves, nerves damaged. Now both feet and half of each hand tingle, like when hit your funnybones.
Load More Replies...I just watched a SciShow about this; if you're of European, Middle Eastern or North African descent, you can blame the Black Death. Apparently, people with certain genes that code for a more aggressive immune response were something like 40% more likely to survive the Black Death, which is huge in a mass mortality event on that scale. However, those more aggressive genes are also more likely to overreact and give you an autoimmune disorder.
I’ve got psoriatic arthritis. Took ages to have it diagnosed. Finally it was after nearly two years. I still have trouble walking, my strength in my hands has pretty much gone, and my knees are, well pretty much fūcked to be honest. Luckily I have the psoriasis mostly under control, but if it breaks out, I look like I’ve been helping out Marie Curie. It’s c**p, but it’s my life now! Yay.
I have colitis ulcerosa - my immune system thinks there's something wrong and causes a constant inflammation of my intestines
::hug:: I hope you have good days despite your condition!
Load More Replies...I have psoriatic arthritis. The medications I take are damaging my liver. My arthritis is not stabilized, but we cannot increase the medication, otherwise my liver will lead to death. F**k psoriatic arthritis!
Psoriasis can run in families. My mum had it and my cousin had it so bad that she had to attend a special school for people with physical disabilities. My daughter and my grandson also have it, my daughter's is really bad when it flares up and she's been on the verge of 'unaliving' herself more than once.
Hashimotos is also an interesting one. It's where the autoimmune system attacks the thyroid and causes hypothyroidism among other issues.
I have this. My mom and sister got the opposite problem, Graves disease.
Load More Replies...This is what all autoimmune diseases are-the immune system gets the wrong message and attacks parts of the body. The worst is systematic lupus because it randomly attacks EVERY part of the body. I have it and multiple sclerosis. MS is where the immune system attacks the myelin sheath of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It makes parts of the body controlled by those areas unable to work correctly and is unpredictable. I have a lemon of a body and I want a refund!
Systemic Lupus, affects conmective tissue, organs, joints, the whole system. Loads of fun not knowing what’s next really.
Take good care of your health and try not to get strep. That can bring it on.
Load More Replies...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)
Exactly, not knowing what lies beneath the darkness is a scary concept.
Load More Replies...as Aaron Eckart said in the movie "The Core" (recommended movie while I'm at it) : Space (exploration) is easy, it's empty!
I read once that more people have been on the moon than have been to the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean.
It's also dark in space, and the pressure is different there, too. So why space so much and the ocean so little? Military applications?
The pressure difference between earth's surface and space is approximately 14.5 psi. That is the same pressure difference as being 10m underwater. Engineering something to withstand a 14.5 psi pressure differential is very different to engineering something to withstand a 6500 psi differential.
Load More Replies... 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!!!
umm my baby cousin does that when shes mad and doesn't want u to come near her
I was walking home late at night through the sketch area of town and being followed by some dude. I was pissed, eating a kebab and quite frankly not in the mood to be attacked. I turned around and said, "either you quit following me or I throw up on your shoes, I can puke at will and red wine and doner kebab
...is a gross combination to have to scrub off." The look on his face was priceless. He left me alone.
Load More Replies...Vulture gastric acid is SUPER acidic - TREMENDOUSLY more than humans (since what they eat has a lot more bacteria and parasites in it because it's rotting flesh)
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.
The one in Napels, Italy is waking up.... They're thinking about evacuating part of the city.
Vesuvio isn´t a supervulcano. But there is a supervulcano hidden between Napoli and Palermo (follow the coastlines for the huge crater)
Load More Replies...Lake Yellowstone is the caldera, the center of the volcano.
Load More Replies...There is a process called Liquefaction that happens when the ground is loosely packed, nearly saturated, near ground level and prolonged shaking occurs as in an earthquake; the soil is unable to compress and the whole soil/water mixture behaves like water and dense objects sink. When the shaking stops, the soil becomes solid again - here is look at a car: https://www.britannica.com/video/72944/Earthquakes-fracture-rock-masses-fault-line
Stupid question - can't we just poke them, drill a little hole in there and lower the pressure? Apparently we cannot, but - why?
Not sure, but I think it would explode through that hole, maybe?
Load More Replies...Yes. And if that goes off, the whole country is fd. Most of it. A lot of it.
No, it isn't. That is just some misinformation that has been going around for a very long time.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
I'm not an American, but I'm starting to realise that the "feds" is the biggest criminal organisation in the world.
Load More Replies...I don't think we should have death row...I mean it's kind of hypocritical to kill someone for the crime of killing someone. That's just doing the exact same thing that they were prosecuted for. Not to mention you might be killing the innocent, and how inhumane it is to kill someone when you could easily just put them in jail...
I find it to be inhuman and immoral, too. So many people have attacked me on this. Ig I must be just a very forgiving person.
Load More Replies...1. Blackstone abbreviated..."Best to let ten criminals go than jail one innocent". 2. Death penalties have not been the deterrent society has wished for. 3. Unfortunately money and status still can get a really terrible person who has committed horrific acts more ways to escape the ulimate judgment society demands.
I support the death penalty, but only for either the really extreme evil or for the very evil where the proof is absolutely undeniable, for example, people actually caught on camera brutally murdering or people like Dahmer who was caught with a head in his fridge. The mildly evil or where a bunch of circumstantial evidence that makes it unlikely to be anyone else shouldn't be on death row
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.
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.
And the Japanese are still in denial about those "comfort women".
Load More Replies...Rape isn't about sex, it's about control. Preprators don't do it simply because they wanted sex. They do it to assert control over the victim.
Situations like the one described show that it's nowhere near as simple as that.
Load More Replies...Now, think of all the rapes white men got away with towards Native and Black Americans before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. No wonder white people fought so hard against equal rights, being that whites are the majority of serial killers and serial rapists they were giving up a ready supply of victims.
I always love how everyone is "oh, but Americans did it too". I wish we dropped a third one for what Japan did during that war. Rewrite history all you want. USA, not great. Compared to the history of the rest of the world, paragons of virtue. Learn your history any European country, Asian country, African country, South American country, and you too Canada. We all suck. All of us. We're fancy monkeys with guns. Maybe instead of wagging your fingers, make where you live better. Recognize your own horror show.
I mostly agree with the sentiment - apart from the "dropping a third" comment. A third atomic bomb would (just like No. 1 and 2) hit civilians, the one group that specifically did NOT cross the ocean to be a living nightmare. The atrocities "Japan" (or Germany, the USA, Russia,...) committed were committed by real people, who should have been held accountable for it, no matter what side they were on. Due to a parody of esprit de corps troops and superiors instead unite to fight anyone who dares to try and make Tommy-boy face the music and make raparations.
Load More Replies...Remember this, the next time BP runs its periodic articles about how wonderful Japan is.
Now, give the stats of the "Rape of Nanking" women by the Japanese soildiers.....
That is terrible. Other solutions could have happened or do soldiers away from home just like to rape and so on?
If rape is indeed just about control, I would suppose, that when a soldier has been fighting he feels a certain urge to revenge and it is usually safer to take it out on civilian women than on soldiers from the other side.
Load More Replies...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.
This happened in London. They charged between £25 and £30 for each baby they supposedly adopted & subsequently poisoned. The exact number they murdered is unknown but it was at least 12. Sach & Walters were hanged in 1903
Ok, I'm sorry, but BP...that's a horrible picture to post for this particular one. A double hanging of women represented by a woman and a child? Really?
These guys were terrible, and what's even worse is that it was common back them! A woman called Amelia Dyer did the same thing and killed up to 400!
If you like morbid real life stories its an interesting one,i think you can listen on spotify podcasts
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.
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.
So you’re telling me that, when my husband starts acting weird and I discover the pods in the garage, no one’s going to believe me and I’ll just get sent to the loony bin, diagnosed with Capgras Delusions, while the world is surreptitiously taken over? Great. Swell. She-it.
Load More Replies...I get spurs of derealization every now and then. I had it for a few months before I figured out what was wrong and found some grounding techniques. It still happens sometimes. It’s weird
Same, though I more commonlly depersonalize. Pretty funky
Load More Replies...I depersonalize sometimes, and while I do know it's different from Coratd's I can talk about it a bit. If you're familiar with cicadas or even other molting bugs, it's kinda like that. Like your brain is the actual bug but you're in a shell. Like you are an outside source controlling your body. Freaky feeling to be honest, and very frustrating. Doesn't hurt per se, but it's like an out of body experience and feels like your words aren't your own.
If I thought I was dead and figured out that I could still eat, I would.
I had bouts of this when I was in high-school. I remember it so specifically that it almost scares me to remember it back.
Cotards will mess with you. I thought I was on the game show...."Is she actually an angel?" When I met my girlfriend.
Well... I didn't know that was weird because I have derealization all the time. Never thought I'd end up on a bored panda list. I assure you... it's unsettling but it ends
This is not quite how people experience depersonalisation disorder. I would see and hear things I knew weren't real. It was terrifying.
Small Feet, Big Dreams
Youngest "woman" (I use that term loosely) to give birth was 5 years old.
She apparently never has revealed who it was, but there was one pretty suss suspect that thinkdid it
Load More Replies...I am not a violent or malicious person, but I genuinely hope with all my heart that the male part of this equation was killed or improsoned for life.
The person who most likely did it aparently has lived a full-ish life, they think it was Lina (Medinas) father :( . When I got set on fire and couldn’t walk I went through everything available in every language for this story and also to see if the crazy doctor of poveglia island was real (which he was not,’ no names or records for such a ‘prolific’ doctor). But every other story checks out on that island.
Load More Replies...The man who did this deserves to be tortured for the rest of his life
Think she was from india. Read the story a while back. Crazy s**t. Kid raised as her brother and what not
Peru for this one, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina#:~:text=Six%20weeks%20after%20the%20diagnosis,necessitated%20by%20her%20small%20pelvis.
Load More Replies...Neither do I but, its reality..sickeningly and unfortunately.
Load More Replies...Fingers Grasping Freedom
Today there are more slaves in the world that at any other time in history.
The population of the Earth have increased since then.
Load More Replies...Most people think of American style chattel slavery as the only “real” kind of slavery but it’s a pretty common practice around the world and looks more like indentured servitude (which is what American slavery would have turned into had the Confeds won).
What made the American/colonial style somewhat special, was the idea of a slave vs. superior race. Before and after it was a matter of money and good or bad luck in war and such
Load More Replies...The US government also contributes to these numbers, I imagine. You don't really have rights if you are in prison for a felony. The 13th ammendment to the US constitution explicitly says slavery may be used as a punishment for crime. I know it's common knowledge for those not in the US, but to my fellow US citizens, we aren't all that 'free'.
Numbers, I'm sure. The percentage might be the lowest in recorded history, but that isn't much comfort to any modern slave.
Load More Replies...And this is why I get annoyed at people protesting about statues. Protest and do something about the modern slavery problems!
And they arent kust talking about labor either, think about the *other* forms
Oh, just knock down another statue of Stonewall Jackson. I'm sure that'll fix it.
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.
Zombie fish! After they spawn they have no urge to do anything else. They just kinda swim around for a couple days/weeks until they die. Then there’s mounds of huge, decaying fish everywhere for a couple weeks until they decompose. It’s pretty gruesome.
Pacific salmon. Atlantic salmon don't do this they continue living and going through more yearly cycles.
Load More Replies...search up "salmon during spawning season", some types of salmon pretty much "mutate" into these godless abominations! download-3...b8e57.jpeg
Normal cycle of life for salmon. They only spawn once unlike most fish that spawn 1 or more time a year. But as an avid fisherman I hate that our tributaries aren't closed during the spawn because it brings out the worst in most fisherman, they'll stand in ankle deep water casting into a school of hundreds and snag them
Totally normal! But people from anywhere other than the Pacific Northwest are unlikely to know this, and are often shocked or grossed out by it. It’s pretty amazing to think about how those fish are the ones who made it through the whole cycle out of millions of eggs!
Load More Replies...You probably don't want to know the sort of things that happen to farmed salmon either
Many won't eat farmed fish but those fighters need to make it to their spawning grounds for the next generation to live. Females can lay between 1,000 to 17,000 eggs and only 15% will survive long enough to hatch. So that's 150 to 2,250 offspring only. :( 🐟
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.
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
Pretty pointless telling us though I’d think.
Load More Replies...There are currently no stars close enough our solar system to do damage that will go supernova any time soon
That's a bit dramatic. As Susie said, the star would be dying for some time before this occurs. Additionally, not all stars go supernova and such a burst would have to be directed toward earth.
Are you sure you're talking about supernovae and not about the last time I got heavily released from a really devastating constipation? 💣💥💩
Define “near”. The closest start to us that is not our sun, Proxima Centauri, is over 4 light years away. We know that star is will last another 4 TRILLION years. Ultimately, it isn’t worth worrying about and there is nothing we could do anyhow.
A beam of gamma rays from a supernova from 1.9 billion ly away destroyed part of our ozone layer in 2022. There are many stars much closer that will go supernova (one in our galaxy about every 100 years).
Wouldn't happen instantly. Gamma burst would travel at the speed of light. Wouldn't be warning for the burst through, because Anthony you might see would get here at the same time.
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.
There are also many books in the world that are bound with human skin.
Many is a bit of a myth, but it absolutely does exist that books are bound in human leather. I wouldn't mind being a book when I die.
Load More Replies...Most French paintings containing the "best brown pigments" were made during the French Revolution...People profaned kings and queens tombs in cathedral Saint Denis and used the remains to make said pigments :-(
Maybe im morbid, but id rather be recycled then thrown in a box underground
One artist actually held a small funeral in his backyard for his tube of paint when he found out it was made from actual mummies
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.
*throws bedsheets in the trash* Thanks but I don't want to be strangled
What this claim fails to mention is that the overwhelming majority of these deaths are of infants under the age of one. Which seems kinda like an important detail...
Ah yeah, that makes sense. Infants shouldn’t have sheets, I’ve always heard
Load More Replies...I have waist-length hair and have almost strangled myself with it on more than one occasion.
Hundreds of people? We are billions of people on earth so it's still pretty rare.
Not everyone uses the same kinds of blankets, so I'm not sure how many of these billions are relevant - I doubt my duvet is about to go on a muder spree
Load More Replies......and a picture of those sheets. Both my fitted sheets and my duvet seem unlikely culprits.
Load More Replies...Why would you let it get to that point? Even with this economy you can get a set of sheets for 10 bucks online. For the price of a pack of smokes you could not choke on garbage. Or buy the smokes and do it anyway
Statistically the person who is most likely to kill you at any given time is living with you right now.
As a wife and mom of three kids, two dogs and two kittens all at home my immediate thought was "My Kittens??!!" lol
Load More Replies...I live alone so the person most likely to kill me is... Me? That checks out.
Thus why I live alone. No - seriously. My most recent ex is a narcissistic monster.
Is this statistic valid for men and women or just women? I seem to remember that the majority of male murder victims were not killed by their live-in female partner.
They’re talking about yourself. You are seven times to commit suicide then to be murdered.
Load More Replies...Yeah, they are the ones you annoy the most and they are close enough to do it. I'm not very concerned that some guy I've never met in Uganda will try to get me.
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.
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
It’s been estimated that she drank about two gallons of water. It’s also possible to die from drinking less than that if you drink it all at once/within a short period of time. The tl;dr is it causes your brain to swell due to an electrolyte imbalance.
Load More Replies...It's more common that people think. Some people have died from water intoxication after taking ecstasy tablets. There was a famous case of that in the UK in the 1990's. Some mental health conditions can also cause psychogenic thirst so the person drinks excessive amounts of water because they feel constantly thirsty.
"Sodium ph". Sorry, that's not a thing. Don't you just hate it when otherwise interesting and informative posts get little details like this so wrong?
Not really because people are human & I can usually figure it out from context.
Load More Replies...For anyone in medical school, please learn this fact… hyponatremia and hypernatremia are NOT sodium problems, they are water problems. We give sodium to hyponatremic patients because water follows salt in the kidneys. Therefore, we give excess sodium in order to saturate the receptors and allow water to follow the excess sodium that goes into the urine. It’s such an important concept and it makes me cringe when residents don’t know this.
How much water is a problem though? I know that I get dizzy after 4 liters but the thirst stays.
Load More Replies...There was a girl many years ago who did lots of ecstasy and drank so much water she drowned in her own body. It sounds made up but was on the news
Not so simple. If you correct hyponatremia too fast you can cause permanent brain damage.
If it is chronic, then yes. Acute hyponatremia, however, can and should be corrected faster.
Load More Replies...Does the salt thingie apply if the almost drowning happened in salty water?
Sewer treatment plants have lifesaver rings around the treatment tanks, in case someone falls in.
The power of my revulsion would simply levitate me above the surface
The ironic part is that many sewer plants only have one Operator on duty, especially in the evenings, nights and weekends. So if you did fall in, no one would be there to throw you the life ring. I've been a licensed Operator for 15 years and we laugh at the futility of the rings.
My friend drowned in a Beer Vat last Year, and that was after they had already pulled him out five times!
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Red Alert Ready
Carmine, a red food dye commonly used in food and makeup, is made of COCHINEAL INSECTS.
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.
I don't know why you capitalized COCHINEAL INSECTS, but know that all colored pigments originally came from *gasp* NATURE!
Right 😂 it genuinely doesn’t gross me out at all. We use other animals’ actual skin for leather, some people can handle eating head cheese, some people eat raw fish sperm or eggs - why would using ground insect shells for pigment gross anyone out? Seems like one of the tamer things we tend to consume!
Load More Replies...I think it's that people may feel more squeamish about insects
Load More Replies...This changed for a while and artificial colours were used. However, it was found that the natural dye caused less allergic reaction and was a lower risk as a carcinogen.
Well, you surely don't want to know where vanilla flavour comes from...
Yeah. This really makes me want to smell beaver asses.
Load More Replies...Yeees? It was always labelled as Cochineal when I was growing up, none of this whitewashing with names that conceal the true origins. Probably need to tell you that gelatine is made from boiled animal hooves, as well!
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.
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.
Edwin Booth actually supported Lincoln. The Booth brothers would get into beg fights about the former president.
I just think because of the coincidence that John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, and then his brother saved one of Abe's last descendants.
Load More Replies...Nature’s Surprise Split
When you eat figs you are quite likely to be also eating the mummified carcass of a wasp.
I already didn't eat them, and now I don't eat them more
Load More Replies...My grandpa always said "it's just extra protein" 😂 My other grandpa said "the worst thing is not to find a worm in your apple, it is to find half a worm!" 😂
Think about it this way: the wasp inside the fig is being processed the same way as decaying bugs in the ground. It’s no different than eating a carrot or a potato. It is processed the same way, just comes from a different place. It sounds gross but it’s no worse than eating any other plant.
Load More Replies...Gosh it’s not a ‘mummified carcass’, the wasps are ‘digested’ by the fig, broken down by enzymes. >.<
Okay, I am now very glad that I don't like figs...
This actually gives rise to considerable discussion about whether figs are technically vegan or not. Personally, I just love them and don't care about the details.
wasps do not stay in the fig: https://www.bing.com/search?pglt=41&q=do+wasps+stay+in+figs&cvid=bb98cd96f08e49a89067c92b7c160279&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQkxMzUwNGowajGoAgCwAgA&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531
Well, by eating the figs, you're supporting the wasps 😄 Those particular species of wasp rely on the figs for their life cycle, just like the figs depend on the wasp to mature. It's a symbiotic relationship.
Load More Replies...Crime Scene Vibes
At any given time, there are 40-50 active serial killers in the United States.
depends on who you ask. some experts have estimates as high as 200
Reminds me of the guy who used to live in walking distance of where I lived in my youth: killed several prostitutes (some of which had not even been reported missing) , whose remains we're found by his relatives in his garage. I wonder how often people find things like murder trophys or other prove at deceased or demented relatives and decide to rather just throw it away than cope with the fall out.
Load More Replies...The FBI has developed tremendous expertise in catching them, and DNA and genetic evidence is making serial murder much harder to get away with. With all this being so, I imagine that the numbers have decreased since that estimate was conceived of
That estimate is low, though. There are estimates as high as 250 I'm aware of.
Load More Replies...To be fair, that's only about one serial kiler per state, and considering the population of the u.s. that's not really all that many people.
Think about it. Dahmer, Gacy, BTK..those are the 'stupid' ones that got caught. Bone chilling.
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.
This is true, horses will do same. There's no such thing as a "true herbivore".
Cows will exhibit similar behavior, IIRC. And chickens will become cannibalistic in a heartbeat XD (though at least they’re ostensibly omnivores to begin with…)
Load More Replies...The Vulture Bee's meat honey thing needs some fact checking, Wikipedia suggests it is misinformation and that at the very least it is not a wise idea to attempt to consume it.
What does the meat honey taste like, I wonder? Smokey, salty, really sweet...hm.
I wonder if that's the source of the archaic belief that bees germinated in decaying corpses.
Silent But Expressive
You have millions of mites, known as demodex, living on your face.
They listen to their names. They love playing fetch. They do the laundry and stuff...
also inside you you have more living cells that are not you, than actually you (gut bacteria)
Don’t read about the lil fellows in your eyebrows and eyelashes, then, if THIS factoid disturbs you XD
They don't have an a**s and so eat until they explode on your face! That's why you should always clean your face regularly. They are nocturnal and can also be found on your nipples.
Sunlight and Silent Specks
The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells.
No, it's mostly lint. Some dead skin cells. Some pollen. Even some mites. This is a great example of bad coverage of science in the pop media. You can find 1000 articles about how it's 40-80% dead skin. Or you can take a cheap light microscope and actually LOOK at it. Of course in my house, it's nearly all cat hair.
Load More Replies...Everyone is born with "floaters" in their eyeballs. It is detritus left over from the formation of the eyeballs during fetal growth. They never go away. That same little squiggly line has been floating around in your eye fluid since before you were born.
However if you get a new squiggly line, go to the optician
Load More Replies...One day when using the facilities at the auto plant I worked at, I casually mentioned that the smells coming from the stalls were actually tiny molecules of fecal matter. Aside from the methane that is. My friends couldn't get out of the crapper fast enough.
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.
I didn't need another reason not to ever visit Australia, with all its glory and spiders, thanks
Load More Replies..."Their eyes are bundled into four structures called rhopalia, which sit around the bottom of its bell. Two of the eye types have the capability to form images, while the other two types help with swimming navigation, avoiding obstacles, and responding to light."
Found all over, had one in the med on Malta. There is agony and then there is real agony and then there is the box jelly sting. The bit ticket issue is that they can target and swim to you if you p**s them off
Once while swimming off the Cove in La Jolla California, I was surrounded by a herd of stinging jellyfish. As I swam to shore, it was not possible to avoid them. Hurt bad for a few days.
I've never been to a water body with Boxes in them but I got stung by a tiny one and it hurt (not as much as as stepping on a giant purple sea urchin, but it was unpleasant.)
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
We could feed it the Kardashian’s, that would work.
Load More Replies...The way we see them is generally by their effect on other things, so in this context, by "open space" our OP is referring to truly Empty open space with no light around it to distort.
Load More Replies...I will never understand why anyone would consider this to be “creepy.” It is a phenomenon you literally have no reason to be concerned about. It’s like when people worry about what’s going to happen billions of years from now when the sun expands and engulfs the earth; what possible difference could it make to any of us? Do you have any idea how long a million years is, let alone a billion? This is just nonsensical navel-gazing.
Dear David, my mom used to tell me something when I was a kid,which proved to be true,when I grew up: silence is golden. I'm no astrophysicist either,but before you understand how some things work, do some research and do not scare the c**p out of people with such nonsense. You can thank my mom later.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Thanks, very comforting as sitting on a porcupine, with a skunk for a head rest.
Still Searching for Clues
Last year in the US alone over half a million people were reported missing. About 1% are found.
No, about 1% stay missing. The majority are found within the first 24 hours.
How many people go missing and are not found in the US? Hundreds of thousands of people go missing in the United States each year. Most are eventually found, but sadly, a large group remain unaccounted for. According to the US Department of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, there are 22,740 missing people in the United States.Feb 21, 2023
Load More Replies...That can’t possibly be true. By that logic 5 million people go missing (and stay missing) in a 10 year period. That’s the equivalent of the entire population of Ireland going missing!
Generally in the hands of the non-custodial parent.
Load More Replies...Unrelated but the kid in the picture looks like a kid I know and who has the same name
Master of Chill
Many victims who survive bear attacks report the sound of the bear’s teeth scraping against their skulls.
So they floss with your hair? No, that’s not funny. Sorry.
Load More Replies...The victim of a attack by guard dogs reported hearing and feeling much more gruesome things than that. He's now an amputee.
Loyalty on Duty
Cadaver dogs can smell bodies through waters (lakes, etc).
My neighbor used to walk her dog through a cemetery near us and didn't realize that they changed their policy concerning dogs in the cemetery until a worker told her. She was really bummed about it because her dog was old and the flat terrain and paved roads made it easier for him to walk. Not thinking, I said that she should try again and if stopped, just tell them he's training to be a cadaver dog. I was being perfectly serious about this until her laugh/snort brought me back to reality. I played along like I was God's gift to stand up and never revealed that I was being sincere.
I read this about dogs' sense of smell: A human can smell one tablespoon of bleach in a gallon of water. A dog can smell one tablespoon of bleach in an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
With the way bleach makes me nauseous, I might be able to smell it in swimming pool too lol
Load More Replies...We had a case in Denmark a few years ago. Peter Madsen and the Kim Wall murder. Dogs found some of her remains out at sea.
After decapitation you would still be conscious for about 10 seconds and technically would still be alive for 3-6 minutes.
There was a chicken with its head cut off lived several weeks. The farmer fed it by putting grain into its esophagus.
There is a legend about a German knight, who was to be executed for rebelling against the Emperor. He made a deal that his men would be spared the same fate, if he could run a certain distance after being beheaded. Allegedly, he did
Catastrophic blood pressure loss leads to instant unconsciousness. I give it .5 seconds
A Russian scientist, Sergei Brukhonenko, kept a severed/decapitated dog head alive for quite some time (this was a while ago; 1940ish IIRC.) The scientist pumped oxygenated blood into the head (simulating normal blood flow.) The dog’s head reacted to stimuli as if it were still attached to a body - it sniffed, licked, reacted to a feather tickling its nose, and even lapped at food. The severed dog head “lived” this way for 6 months. And before pedants bring it up - yes, it reacted to stimuli immediately after its surgical removal from its body, BEFORE it was connected to the “autojektor”. So yes, someone could know this.
Load More Replies...The mosquito is the deadliest animal.
Technically, it's the malaria parasite the infected mosquito carries and infects humans with.
Mosquitoes carry a lot of other parasites too, and cause diseases like Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue etc. Not just malaria. That's why it's the deadliest.
Load More Replies...There are currently 1.5 times as many deaths from road deaths than from malaria. Even suicide has more deaths than malaria. And as a carrier of deadly disease, many more people die from diseases carried by humans than from mosquito borne diseases. Deaths from bronchitis, pneumonia, diarrhoeal diseases and tubulculosis carried by humans all exceed deaths from mosquito-borne diseases. AIDS is up there, too.
Load More Replies...Malaria is horrible. My dad contracted it and still experiences the fallout from it ( just super thankful that he survived it).
:) Insects are animals. Animals are generally any multicellular organism who's cells have a nuclei and which generally rely on other organisms for food. Some definitions also specify that they have distinct organs and the ability to respond rapidly to stimuli.
Load More Replies...People are still dying from the radioactive fallout generated by the Chernobyl disaster.
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.
That was because of the difference between the bombs used - Hiroshima was a gun-type uranium bomb - simple but inefficient. It used about 50Kg of highly enriched uranium, only a small proportion of which was involved in the actual explosion - the rest was just dumped into the environment. Nagasaki was a plutonium implosion type bomb which yielded a similar yield but with about a tenth of the material.
Load More Replies...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.
Most of the koala population has rampant chlamydia.
In some parts of Australia, up to 90 percent of the koala population is infected. The disease strikes koalas living in the wild as well as in zoos. Some wild populations have 100% infection. From just 6 months ago we have "In 2008, 10% of animals tested there were infected with chlamydia. Today that rate is 80%." Biologists have begun vaccinating koalas against Chlamydia.
That's Australian wild life. If a species isn't dangerous, it will manage to become so.
Load More Replies...And John Oliver has a koala chlamydia wing named for him, courtesy of Russell Crowe.
That armadillos are natural carriers of leprosy.
I think it's only actually one species that carries leprosy but there is also only one species that can roll into a ball. That's what I was told at least
I just learned that the leprosy bacteria us carried in their liver, so you have to come in contact with a 9 Banded Armidillo's liver to contract leprosy from one.
Load More Replies...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.
Used for tanning leather and preparing wool for spinning. It was the second largest export from Newcastle in the victorian era. Households would collect it and sell it on for a bit of cash unless you were so poor you "didn't have a pot to p*** in"
It was done until the end of 18 century, before same chemicals began to be synthesized.
More recently, the British went around collecting human urine, to get enough phosphorus to make phosgene and other deadly chemicals.
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
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.
that's not even as hot as a lightbulb can get (correct me if i'm wrong)
Load More Replies...That last time I was in Pompeii, I learned at least 25% has not been excavated and there are no plans to do so because what has been uncovered is rapidly deteriorating.
Pompeii is now an Inner suburb of Naples. Seaside resorts push up close on both sides of Herculaneum. The only evacuation route is Towards Vesuvius and skirts around the base of the mountain. Expect the next major eruption to kill in excess of 10% of the entire population of Naples.
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.
Along with the rest of your body. Scientists still have yet to make a container that can safely hold stomach acid.
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.
The speakers. Loudspeakers. Audio system? Or are you being sarcastic...
Load More Replies...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.....
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!
What about people who's experienced horrible things and want to forget? Could they get them replaced for nice things or nice memories?
The false memories thing is true when not hypnotized too, and professionals in both hypnotism and psychology are uncertain if hypnosis affects the process at all. This is more of a possibility than a fact.
I have a many false memories, I figured it out because of our yearly blog books
Well someone's read 'False Memory' by Dean Koontz. I recommend it if you like a cheesy knock-off Stephen King - not that that's a bad thing, just not exactly high culture ;-)
I've been wanting to try some of his books so I'll add that one to my list 😁 thnaks!
Load More Replies...Meany types of Gas don’t smell naturally it is added later for safety, so by theory there can happen a mistake…
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!)
Ethyl mercaptin is the smell of death. It's what vultures fly around smelling for
Load More Replies...I learned this from the Friends episode "The One Where Ross Can't Flirt" lol hilarious
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
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.
I have a curl from my daughters first hair cut in a little glass bottle. My mum has my first hair cut curl in a little pouch in my baby book.
Load More Replies...Mourning jewelry made from intricately braiding the hair of a dead lived one, and usually worn by their widow/widower. Memento mori photographs taken to remember the dead person if there were no other pictures of them..
Load More Replies...You can marry a dead person in France.
I have questions... would that make you a newlywed and a widow in the same day?... do you need to be engaged first or is marrying strangers allowed?? And if it's to a deceased person could you do so while simultaneously married to a living person?
No, it's actually true. French law does indeed allow posthumous marriages. There have been recent situations in which people have become married to a dead loved one. Here's just one example; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/17/french-woman-marries-dead-partner
Load More Replies...Hepatitis ranges from A-E, with A being the most transmissible in contaminated water sources.
Goosebumps and Giggles
Dead bodies can get goosebumps.
Imagine the scary stories they need to tell each other to manage that.
When I find out my fate in the hereafter, I'll probably get a lot more than goosebumps.
Prawns are cannibals. They eat their babies.
Lizards, most carnivorous insects, many fish....
Load More Replies...Infant flesh is like fish when cooked. White and falls right off the bone. Thank you, Last Podcast On The Left.
What the hey did I just read? This is really disgusting, horrible and disturbing.
Some Australian aboriginal people have admitted to eating human babies, because they taste better.
Load More Replies...Literally everything that people in Western society eat is either a baby or baby food. Beef, lamb, pork, chicken, farmed fish is killed for consumption as a baby. Fruits, nuts, cereals, carrots, potatoes, sprouts, all babies. Dairy is all baby food. Apart from salt, there is no product that Western humans eat that isn't either a baby or baby food.
In the US, Most missing persons cases that take place in the wilderness happen around places with large cave networks.
I’ve seen a map of the US cave network overlaid with a map of where people go missing and guess what…?
From Snopes, this is only partly true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/missing-persons-cave-maps/. They say, "However, this is not a map of all people who have gone missing in the U.S. It focuses on so-called "strange" disappearances that occurred near national parks. Data from the bottom map was overlaid on the top to make the "coincidence" seem stronger. And lastly, correlation does not imply causation."
Load More Replies...So many ways to “mysteriously” go missing. Caves, cliffs, dense forests, deep bodies of water, wild animals, human predators, human trafficking, a handful of people in Witness Protection, and of course people who WANT to go missing for various reasons, including fleeing domestic violence and never wanting their abuser to find them.
My take away - if I'm gonna go hide in a cave to avoid a blizzard or something, make sure I can tether myself to something where I can see the entrance from the tether point so I can't get turned around - and make sure I'm not sharing it with a grumpy bear or from this thread - cannibals...
The human body has roughly 200 grams of bacteria.
There’s about 1.5kg of microorganisms, the balance is made up of viruses, fungi & archæa.
Load More Replies...We have more foreign than own DNA in our bodies, due to the sheer amount of bacteria in our digestion system
Surely our chromosomes are way bigger than a plasmid. And we have quite a few per cell, not counting mitochondrial dna. We have 10x more microorganisms than our own cells, but still.
Load More Replies...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.
Bacteria aren't 'produced' by dirt and sweat, they're already there but just enjoy the environment and reproduce rapidly in those ideal conditions.
I thought it was the bacteria from the dirt and sweat decaying that causes the odor. What I learned is that, unless you’re regularly taking a medication that does have an odor that is detectable when you sweat, in most cases, fresh sweat doesn’t really smell right away, until the bacteria in it start to die and decay, and that decay is what smells.
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
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.
How fortunate your Dad was to have a daughter as dedicated as you.
Load More Replies...This is why if you feel dizzy, lightheaded, or something similar, LAY DOWN! If you pass out you won't fall and hit your head on something
Yeah, pushing people can be more dangerous than hitting them in the face. The back of the head is very sensitive.
I had a friend who was leaning against the trunk of a car. Some one put the car in neutral, she fell, hit her head on the bumper and died from a broken neck.
My sister did from a brain bleed following a fall. Or it could have been the other way around. We never found out.
Or, more likely, you break a leg and die from starvation or blood loss.
OP spelled everything correctly, unlike you.
Load More Replies...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.
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Agreed. But never expect self-proclaimed animal lovers to be anything else than pet likers.
Load More Replies...Not with some lab animals. In particular, never with chimpanzees. Blame the Food and Drug administration, it insists on testing cosmetics and everything on animals before humans are allowed to use them. The tests should be done on human Guinea pigs.
Keep in mind that those human volunteering guinea pigs won't be volunteers but poor people that have no choice but selling themselves for that c**p
Load More Replies...A huge number of current and future medical treatments would be impossible without some level of animal experimentation. I'm not sure what else the OP had in mind for these animals, individual little funerals?
A large number of potential treatments and drugs get discarded because they're poisonous towards rats or mice, while the target organism is human and might react differently. Animal experimentation is, in the vast majority, pointless, and in the cases just stated, it's to our own disadvantage - but has a strong lobby. Some day in the not so far future, if it not already happened anyway, the loss of human lives caused by animal experimentation will exceed the number of additional lives to be saved - we shouldn't discard the knowledge we got from there, but continuing needs justification, and in the vast majority, it should lead nowhere else than into jail because it's useless torture. Examining which berries make mice obese the fastest and such - really? That's important for WHAT? Stem cell research is ethically flawless. We could shift over most medical experiments already within a short timeframe, and have every reason to expect more useful - more life saving - results. Why don't we? Cells' rights activists, or how those antiscientific morons are called.
Load More Replies...Yeah, and how else would they handle biomaterials? Testing is needed and unless people volunteer, animals are the only way to go. The animals are potentially infected with stuff and burning the carcasses is an effective way to prevent it from spreading.
This is probably true of most veterinarian services too. We were given an option of paying extra to get the cremains back or they would be part of a mass cremation and placed at a local pet cemetery.
Load More Replies...That seems reasonable. What do you want them to do? Sell them to McDonalds?
Pelicans will just Eat smaller birds sometimes. they snatch them up in their bill and just keep chewing till the bird stops moving.
Birds are as different as any other big group of animals. They aren't cannibalising. Not more than we do when we eat pork. Fish eat other fish too.
I remember being in Regents Park (North Central London, next door to London Zoo) where a Pelican one minute was perched on a park bench, a pigeon was near it on the arm of the bench, and BOSH! no more pigeon and the pelican’s beak pouch is bulging at the sides!
Saw a video once of a pelican scooping up a pigeon and trying to swallow it down for several minutes. Video didn't show if it was successful.
If it’s the one in St James park: an unabridged video shows the pelican washing his meal down with a drink of water at the end, then looking around calmly as if he didn’t just spend 6 minutes having a pigeon thrash about in his beak/throat. *shudder*
Load More Replies...Many people have a parasitic infection and don’t even know it…
If there's no negative influence to the host, then it's commensalism, not parasitism.
and if they are both benefited, then it's called mutualism.
Load More Replies...I didn't know I'd had a parasitic infection until I came home and her stuff was all gone.
Toxoplasma Gondii - A parasite that infects mice and makes them get eaten by cats to reach their intestines to reproduce. Can also infect humans and makes them take more risks
All mammals have belly buttons.
And all female mammals have clitori (I ended up in a ADHD induced hyperfocus tunnel, okay, don't judge)
It's highly likely that in any male animal that has a penis, the female counterpart has a clitoris (study on certain snakes found hemiclitores, as a person with crested geckos I'm pretty certain my gals have hemiclitores too).
Load More Replies...Aaah, no. Marsupials & monotremes are non-placental mammals (no placenta=no umbilical cord=no belly button). That’s kangaroos, possums etc - they have pouches instead. Echidnas & platypuses are mammals that lay eggs.
Buuuuttt they are attached via umbilicalcorb befor the crawl to the pouch,no? They have to be a certain size to do sk
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A female mantis eats her mating partner after having “sex” with him.
not after, DURING. She starts with the head which the male does not need to finish the act... :D
This is much, much rarer than we originally believed. It is uncommon in most species and is usually only seen in captive environments or where the female is malnourished. Most males make it out just fine.
Yes, sometimes it happens, sometimes not. And it depends on how hungry the female mantis is. Much the same with some spider species, the female eats the male.
Load More Replies...If you breed them and still need the male, you have to prevent this by, for example, putting a credit card between the head of the female and male mantis and hold it there for a while so she can't turn around to bite the male.
Also make sure to change your Amazon password so neither of them use the credit card to buy a bunch of useless stuff.
Load More Replies...Regardless of that, the Mantis has been my all-time favorite insect (followed by a tie between dragonflies and big fat bumblebees) since childhood. I think they’re beautiful—-and some of the more exotics ones are spectacular. Every Mantis I have encountered seems to be both intelligent and self-aware. They’re also very much aware of you, as opposed to other insects who don’t seem to acknowledge you. You can look at a Mantis and they will look back. They’ll also move their heads to keep and eye on you if you move around them. I know not everyone likes them, and will kill every Mantis they see, so if I see a Mantis in a place where they’re not safe, I will move them to someplace that is safe.
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.
We know the US health system is fskd up, but it's nowhere near as simple a 'scam' as you make it sound, and no way is it illegal to tell people, just that it may (I don't know if it actually does) breach terms and conditions of contract.
If it was illegal, that never stopped us at the pharmacy I worked. It was nice to see people's faces when we would spill da beans. We also made people's pets, that needed a medication, senior citizens in our records, so they could be given a 10% discount. It was against company policy but that didn't stop us either (until it did - the a******s in corporate made it so that only a pharmacist could give senior discounts and very few were willing to go up against corporate).
Load More Replies...There's a different scam in Australia. Supplying old people with medicine, equipment and services they neither want nor need. And reaping payments off the government for all.
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.
Heard of this before... Better alternative would be planting a tree, with the placenta placed underneath the roots.
I didn't cook or keep my placenta, but I asked to have a good look at it. It's marvelous. My body grew an entire new organ (as well as a human being). I was absolutely fascinated by the size of it. And the only time I would ever be comfortable seeing one of my own organs outside of my body..
Something something “regaining lost nutrients”? I imagine that’s (maybe) one of the reasons why primitive cultures practiced it. Here’s what I read about modern placentophagy: “People who support eating the placenta say that it can raise your energy and breast milk quantity. They also say it can level off your hormones, lowering your chances of postpartum depression and insomnia.” Of course, NONE of that is scientifically proven or even scientifically tested. So, basically, it’s a lot of woo-woo.
Load More Replies...remember that one time when some dude made a teddy bear out of placentas
Saturday Night Live had a hilarious fake ad for Placenta Helper.
A cow will eat the placenta shortly after giving birth, and I assume other animals do also. I always assumed it was to not attract predators to the newborn calf, but I don't have any scientific research to back up that theory.
Yes, I grew up on a cattle farm. My father said, yes it does help eliminate the draw of predators, but he also believed it boosted nutrition after giving birth. Probably just assumed, but it made sense to me.
Load More Replies...Well, some animals do this. Humans are animals as well. Why do people find this more horrifying or disgusting than drinking other species' milk or eating meat? (I'm not a vegan, but just from a rational point of view - it's no less weird)
“A vegan”? Something like “I’m not vegan”would sound better
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Amputation? Come on, how hard could it be to cut it open lengthwise, extract the fish and sew the little Richard back together?
There was an episode of Grey's Anatomy in season 1 or 2 where this happened to one of the hospital board members.
If all bacteria in a cheese decided to move in the same direction the cheese would move quite a distance in a day
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.
A sloth's claws aren't actually made of creatine, they're their finger bones protruding from their flesh.
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.
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.
An ally of Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais, was a serial killer, who raped and murdered hundreds of children.
I can't wait to hear these replies read to me while someone jumps around in minecraft on tiktok.
We're currently living through an age of extinction similar to that which killed the dinosaurs, but it's largely our own fault.
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
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.
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.
If you build something in your yard against HOA rules, then it’s called an unwanted erection.
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.
Everyone who has ever owned the HOPE DIAMOND has met some sort of gruesome, untimely death.
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]
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.
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
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.
I find it pretty creepy that I've found this exact question three times over the last three days
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.
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.
When you’re decapitated, it takes ~30 seconds for your brain to fully catch up and check out
John Wilks Booth, the man who killed President Lincoln was secretly having an affair with Lincoln’s sons Ol’ Lady…. True fact
You are more likely to get trampled to death by a cow than die in a accident involving any type of vehicle.
Microscopic mites, called Demodex, live in the pores of your face. Most specifically your cheeks
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.
**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.
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
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
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
there is such a thing as a necrophiliac homosexual duck. theres even a video you can watch
Elvis Presley had a "super colon" that was exacerbated by heroin use and died with 30lbs of s**t inside him.
During his life, a person eats from 3 to 7 spiders in a dream, they simply climb into his mouth when he sleeps.
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.
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
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
Easiest way to pull someones head off is to slit the neck, twist it and listen to it crack☺
It only takes twenty minutes to die from a black mamba snake bite, and it hurts the entire time.
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.)
Nope. Deaths from untreated cape cobra bites take anywhere from one to ten hours to cause respiratory failure and death. Not 20 minutes. No snake venom kills that fast.
Load More Replies...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.
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?
Not disagreeing with you, just trying to break it down and thin’ it through. So please bear with me as my brain starts just spitballing ideas. Wouldn’t one have had to seen actual faces in order to know what a face looks like, in order to create one on a canvas or in their mind’s eye from knowledge of how faces are constructed? Now, someone blind from birth may only “see” faces by touch, but then they’d still be familiar with the construction of a face, just in a different way, and could possibly sculpt a face from touch memory, even make up a new face by combining the way different faces feel.
Load More Replies...My brain cannot create a face at all. I can remember what people look like but no details and I can't picture their face in my head. Consequently i can't remember very much about what even my own parents look like
Dark Humor Alert
Lobotomy and the guillotine were both used in France through the 1980's.
That's flat out incorrect. The last execution by guillotine occurred in France on September 10, 1977.
1977. It's a well known fact at this point, and google is a thing. You have to work extra hard to be this kind of wrong.
Bored Panda, I enjoy the many things you post online. However, many things you claim as fact simply aren't true. You need better fact checkers.
France is known for their cuisine and haute couture not science and the justice system.
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
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.
It’s definitely not true. My friend is a mortician who embalms bodies. I’ve witnessed the process firsthand (with the permission of the deceased’s family.) No organs were sucked out XD And besides, as you say, removing all internal organs and replacing it with fluid would cause the body to become incredibly heavy. The blood and other fluids are drained (woohoo for trocars!) and then embalming fluid is perfused into the corpse.
Load More Replies...Not only is the sucking out of organs not true, the biohazard/bio waste claim is misleading. The bio waste of funeral homes compared to hospitals and dr offices is minimal and they do follow bio waste regulations. Further, anybody using a toilet is flushing bio waste down the drain, including any fluid-borne communicable diseases. This is why we have wastewater treatment plants.
I was studying to become an embalmer & the professor said that the drained blood simply goes down the drain. When some male students were horrified, she shrugged and said menstruating women do the exact same thing. No women in the class were fazed, of course.
Load More Replies...This sounds like it's been written by a 16 year old with too vivid an imagination who's been pranked by his Mum or Grandma ...
Looked up the source on Reddit and this is not true. The fluid from the organs is removed, not the organs themselves.
No. You can’t “suck out” organs, full stop. Laparoscopic surgery would be a lot easier if you could! You definitely can’t do it via a cannula inserted into a blood vessel, no matter how big it is. That’s just laughable.
In the US, IF your organs are removed, it would be for an autopsy. They will soak the removed organs in formaldehyde & place them back in the body cavity when done with the autopsy. If no autopsy is performed, they DO NOT remove the organs, just drain the fluids & replace with formaldehyde.
I'm also thinking this isn't accurate. Only your blood gets removed and replaced.
This is just stupid. Blood is drained from the body, and THAT is replaced with embalming fluid, the body is opened, organs are removed and stored for proper disposal. The body cavity is then stuffed, eyes are sewn shut, mouth, r****m (and vagina opening when applicable) are plugged to prevent "seepage"
And yet people won't let their relatives donate their organs because "they need them in the afterlife" or "I don't want them cut up" yet have no idea likely that their organs are just going to be dumped out anyway and go to waste.
The organs aren’t dumped out. This post is a myth. But they DO go to waste when the corpse is perfused with embalming fluid.
Load More Replies...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.
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...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.
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?
Load More Replies...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.
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...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.
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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