The world around us is as scary and mysterious as it is beautiful and intricate. Many people would rather look away from the dark side of life, which is understandable. Because once you start opening that can of worms, there is no going back.
You’re about to read some of the scariest facts shared by some people on TikTok. You probably know many of these already, but you’re also likely reading some for the first time.
For those that flew under your radar, you will likely be tempted to do some Googling. But if you must, prepare yourself as you go down that rabbit hole.
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History major here, we are already in WWIII. We just don’t know it yet.
I feel it. I'm noticing. There's at least 2 or 4 countries that are instigating and one is located in North America.
I’m a teacher and it’s actually frightening the percentage of children that cannot read… We are trying to teach them in schools, but a lot of the learning happens from practicing reading at home
I am eternally grateful that both my parents were Literature People. They were both comfortable in many languages. We had wall-to-wall books in the apartment. I loved reading from an early age.
The fact that there are people imprisoned in basements, secret rooms, and homes all over the world. Some are rescued, most are not.
I actually do think about this more than is healthy. I just imagine riding along a street and wondering what dark secrets people are hiding in their homes. It pains me to think there could be someone in need of help right now, within meters from me, and I just go along my way without a clue.
We are in the silent depression… the income to cost of living ratio is worse than it was during the Great Depression, but it’s not being talked about
I've always struggled drinking water, but then I learned that the headache you get when you're dehydrated is - and I'mma scream when I say this - YOUR BRAIN SHRIVELING AND PULLING AWAY FROM YOUR SKULL
the fact that 2 people can grow up in the exact same in environment same set of parents experience the exact same traumas, yet can describe entirely different memories and have exact opposite trauma
Siblings aren’t raised by the same parents—not really. Parents evolve with time, shaped by their own experiences and by each child they raise. The firstborn meets a different version of them than the youngest does. One gets the trial run, another gets the burnout, and another might get the calm after the storm. Parenting isn’t static—it’s a moving target, and every child walks into a different moment of it. Oftentimes, the parents and children may not realize that's happening in the moment.
That man has been interpreting the Bible as literal history, when it's psychological symbolism that reveals that the reader has the creative power. The harm that literal interpretation has caused
THIS 👆👆👆 SO FRACKING MUCH! Our lives revolve around Bronze Age principles and concepts that were (occasionally) novel for the time, but are today so completely outmoded and regressive that they're actually holding back our development. The bible (and koran and Torah) belong in the mythology section alongside all the other man-made tales of gods and monsters.
studying aviation, "all the rules made in aviation are written in blood" bcs they are only made after a tragedy
A disproportionate number of CEOs fit the clinical definition of a psychopath.
Psychopathic traits are not always a negative in some fields. Psychopaths can have awareness of what's right and wrong, and be able to understand, not necessarily feel, what empathy is. However, without empathy, they are able to make difficult decisions quicker, void of emotional reactions getting in the way. They are able to think with clearer logic and rationality in a calmer manner, and be able to function well under pressure. Of course, there are psychopaths who use their capabilities for nefarious objectives, and they are often the leaders of organized crime, controversial companies ( think tobacco companies), and crooked politicians.
Prions exist. Knowing that is pretty awful. I should have specified prion diseases exist. CWD in deer, Mad Cow, incurable in humans. Can’t even autopsy without a hazmat room, then burn all equipment it touched. Scary stuff
"a cured patient is a lost customer"
Men have frontal lobes not as developed as women and we live in a world dictated by their thoughts.
We have the "advantage" of an extra "little brain" hanging around about ½ way down our bodies that many men rely on to do a lot of their thinking for them
Studying wildlife biology. Everything is dying. Species are going extinct at rates that are getting harder and harder to stop. This will eventually affect human food resources.
psych major: if you stare into a mirror in the dark for a while, your reflection will grow disfigured and turn monstrous/something that’s not your face. it’s called the caputo effect.
when they have to remove your digestive tract during surgery, they don't meticulously put it back in the order it's supposed to be, not only because it would take AGES, they don't even have to. They kinda shove it all back into the general area and just make sure nothing is twisted up, and our digestive tract moves back into place on it's own!
Severe childhood trauma can make people into psychopaths and take away their ability to feel empathy
It can also do the opposite and make them almost too empathetic. Most of the kindest, most helpful and selfless people I've ever met had awful childhoods and a lot of them now do everything they can to help others. A lot of people like this can easily get taken advantage of because they struggle to say no to people in need. I've done this throughout my life and will literally burn myself out and let my life fall apart because I'm too busy helping others with their problems.
That you can be in a relationship with someone and they can fool you for years, well into marriage. Can’t comprehend pathological liars, cheaters, abusers.
It could even be someone who's been just leading you on so they have someone, anyone, as a companion, but they haven't been into you as you have been into them.
The climate crisis is FAR worse than they tell you.
I think we know that. Cooling the planet is tough enough, but we also have to fight the lies from climate change deniers.
i probably wont be able to buy a house in my lifetime
Only way I am getting a house is through inheritance. So not looking forward to it.
I am an art teacher and I share all the time that humans can only see 0.0035% of the light spectrum! What else is out there?!
This is a very, very interesting topic for me. We have just 3 colour cones, 4 in rarer cases. Shrimp have 12. Seeing other colours part of the light spectrum, the likes we have never seen before, unfortunately it's near impossible for us to even imagine. We do come across them, but these are considered "impossible colours" and they appear muddy or bouncing between the mixed colours. Try mixing green and orange. Or purple and teal. If we had more colour cones those colours could possible make another vibrant colour we cannot imagine.
That a majority of human history is not recorded and therefore the narrative of humans was created by those in charge at the time
Reproductive adaptation like menopause. Humans, Elephants, Orcas all evolved to value experience over just reproduction, which is rare in the animal kingdom. Women should be valued more among our own.
every financially successful man that I've interviewed fits the full definition of a malignant narcissist
I read once that for men, money is power, while for women, money is freedom and I think it proves the point
Bonobos are literally one wildfire away from becoming extinct and there’s not much we can do about it because they live in the DRC
Mortician here. You could be living your last moments right now and have no idea.
The #1 cause of death for pregnant women in the USA is domestic homicide .
Slavery is still happening after all these years, and there are places where it is legal. It breaks my heart that we can only save so few.
IFyou take the time to read the 13 th amendment, you will find there are about 1.9million leagal slaves in the United States. They are all in prison.I am Canadian and am curious why you refer to your country as the land of the free?
It’s a very well known fact but knowing that NASA gave up on doing research on our oceans and we know more about space than our own waters. 5% of the ocean’s creatures have been discovered. That’s it.
Why would the National *Aeronautics* and *Space* Administration research the oceans?
The fact the civilisation and society would immediately fracture in the event of a major disaster is frightening, take the toilet paper shortage in 2019. Imagine if that was food or water
I don't know what's more disturbing. Selfish people hogging essentials, or that people just let them get away with it.
You can form false memories—vivid, detailed memories of events that never happened. the brain can create entirely fictional experiences that feel 100% real.
Suck for some people. Fortunately, I'm 100% certain that my memory about kissing Saoirse Ronan is absolutely real. /j
geologist here, Florida is almost entirely limestone which is rapidly dissolving due to sea level rise. the entire state will likely be underwater in the next 50 years
unit 731, and how we know the human body is 70% water.
Until Japan has its own Warsaw Genuflection moment ( for younger folks not from Germany: it was a spontaneous gesture by then Chancellor of Germany W***y Brandt, who upon visiting a memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising spontaneously kneeled down in respect for the victims and acceptance of Germany's guilt. It was possible because Germany faced what it had done and refused to look the other way.) Japan still needs to gain the strength to do the same, and until it does, the weakness and sickness will fester in the heart of its society.
The stress a woman’s mother goes through affects her DNA and her eggs. Meaning we are the product of the trauma our mother’s, grand mother’s, great grandmother’s and so on endured.
we are 97.7% the same atoms as a combusted star, so when we die we just return to star dust and travel the universe for eternity.
I believe that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young covered this in their song "Woodstock."
the fact that u can just die or the world could end at really any time without any warning
They didn’t use any numbness or anesthesia on babies and infants until 1985-1990s. Back then they believed that babies didn’t feel pain so they would perform their work without anesthesia
To this day, there's medical professionals that still believe "babies just cry for no reason." But that is just a front. They knew all along babies do feel pain. They just said babies don't to put worried parents mind's at ease, and so the staff could tuck their empathy aside so they could do their jobs. It was considered dangerous to use anesthesia on babies.
The human immune system doesn’t recognize the eyes as an organ so if you get an eye infection, your immune system could attack them and you can go blind
the universe is expanding, which is scary but I think the scariest part is that nobody knows what it’s expanding into
The universe is so unimaginatively huge, we just can't comprehend how big it is. It goes beyond the observable limits. It will be many millennias before our galaxy reaches anything we should be concerned with. Even then, it's not like we can stop it from happening. I don't find it scary. Just interesting.
Hospice nurse here. Do not choose your husband or any of your daughters as your POA. 9/10 times they are the ones most who will allow you to suffer and die a painful death bc they cant let go.
People do this with pets. If you know someone who's left a pet to suffer because they think bringing it to the vet to be put down humanely is cruel, don't think they wouldn't do the same for you.
Most humans can only tolerate an unstable food source for one week before they start to consider cannibalism. Just one week with unstable food sources and people go on the menu
Unpopular opinion, but I don't think cannibalism is all that terrible. Humans are animals, after all. No, I wouldn't eat my relatives, but I also wouldn't eat my pet chicken unless I have no other choice. It doesn't mean that I have any issue with eating chicken in general. (Now, even if cannibalism was morally accepted, it wouldn't be a popular thing: the human body isn't designed to digest human flesh, very few people would put themselves through the pain of digestive issues when they can eat a cow instead.)
not too crazy but i work in vet med, and when i started i found out how rabies tests were done... The animal’s head is cut off because doctors find evidence of rabies in the spinal cord
Every time you recall a memory it's not a perfect recall, some information will be slightly altered each time you recall the moment, your happiest memory may be true to you, but it really been distort
I still recall the feeling of falling and landing on the floor as a baby. It stung my entired body and my head hurt. I still have a flat indent in the back of my skull. My mom says I fell from the change table. I remember my mom just dropping me from her arms, her shouting then picking me up going "awwww" with a slight grin. I've seen her give me that similar grin whenever she sees me upset about something she's done unfairly to me. There's been an emotional, affectionate disconnect for a very long time between us. She went a very long time without cuddling and hugging me when I was around 5 and 6. Sometimes I wonder if the fall was so traumatic it caused a nightmare I was able to retain in my head. Some nightmares I had when I was 2 and 3, and later have been stuck in my head to this day, but I know them as nightmares. The brain is weird.
When someone dies, you can smell it on them days before.
Even if they get hit by a bus? This is very generalised. surely it depends what they're dying of.
The U.S military is the biggest buyer of glitter. It’s insane the amount they buy. But what for?? No one knows.
Most people have vitamin deficiencies, not mental health issues. This does not include people with true trauma.
Since I started taking more supplements, I've noticed a change in my energy and moods. However, I still get irritable, flashbacks and invasive thoughts. I'm just more chill about it on the outside.
A good chance Uncanny valley exists is because there was something else that hunted us and looked like us
Once again BP knocks it out of the park with a collection of badly summarized urban legends copy-pasted from a TikTok comments section and mislabeled as "facts."
I'm not so sure about the first part, but I am about the second.
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I'm not so sure about the first part, but I am about the second.
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