50 Creepy Facts That Might Make You Wish You Never Read Them

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 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.

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.

Exactly. And why is that? Head in the sand syndrome? Or ??

The headache that comes with hangovers is also caused by a dehydrated brain

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.

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.

More generally, safety regulations are written in blood.

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 are the scariest thing I've ever learned about medically.

The Earth will fix itself, but only after it gets rid of us.

Only in America.

But iTs sUcH a bEauTifUl tImE! Biggest lie told to women.

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

Kids won't believe this but about 45 years ago to see dozens of butterflies over a normal strip of grass in Central Europe wasn't anything unusual. This year I've seen 3 so far. And my garden is very pollinator friendly.

Want it creepier? Smile to your reflection.

So it self-corrects. I find this more comforting than trusting humans who can make mistakes.

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.

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.

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I think we know that. Cooling the planet is tough enough, but we also have to fight the lies from climate change deniers.

Only way I am getting a house is through inheritance. So not looking forward to it.

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.

War history is written by the winners

Women should.

I read once that for men, money is power, while for women, money is freedom and I think it proves the point

If you want to know, DRC = Democratic Republic of the Congo. I had to look that up because I am not familiar with the abbreviation.

It doesn't take a mortician to know this.

Bear, bear, bear!

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?

Why would the National *Aeronautics* and *Space* Administration research the oceans?

I don't know what's more disturbing. Selfish people hogging essentials, or that people just let them get away with it.

Suck for some people. Fortunately, I'm 100% certain that my memory about kissing Saoirse Ronan is absolutely real. /j

It is very important to not say 'Call an ambulance' but to command someone like 'You! Call an ambulance!' Point to another and say 'You! Support help me get this guy into recovery position' (epileptic here).

Glad to hear it's not all doom and gloom.

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.

That explains a lot about how screwed we are as a species.

I believe that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young covered this in their song "Woodstock."

Meh, whatever

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.

Yeah, eyes have their entirely own immune systems. The day the body’s immunity system finds out about eyes and the second immunity system, that day you’re doomed.

you'd have to be a massive loser to be stalking me

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.

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.

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.)

If it's alive it's quarantined and they wait to see if it develops symptoms. If so it's euthanized and then tested as above. I think it's euthanized and tested if people are bit also without waiting for symptoms. Edit: TIL BP hasn't censored euthanized. Yet.

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.

Even if they get hit by a bus? This is very generalised. surely it depends what they're dying of.

Hey! What the General and the General's Wife do in private is their business.

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.