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50 Creepy Facts That Might Make You Wish You Never Read Them
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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#2
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
#3
The fact that there are people imprisoned in basements, secret rooms, and homes all over the world. Some are rescued, most are not.
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
#7
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
#8
studying aviation, "all the rules made in aviation are written in blood" bcs they are only made after a tragedy
#10
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
#14
Men have frontal lobes not as developed as women and we live in a world dictated by their thoughts.
#15
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.
#16
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.
#17
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!
#18
Severe childhood trauma can make people into psychopaths and take away their ability to feel empathy
#19
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.
#22
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?!
#23
That a majority of human history is not recorded and therefore the narrative of humans was created by those in charge at the time
#24
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.
#25
every financially successful man that I've interviewed fits the full definition of a malignant narcissist
#26
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
#29
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.
#30
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.
#31
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
#32
You can form false memories—vivid, detailed memories of events that never happened. the brain can create entirely fictional experiences that feel 100% real.
#34
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
#36
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.
#37
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.
#39
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
#40
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
#42
the universe is expanding, which is scary but I think the scariest part is that nobody knows what it’s expanding into
#43
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.
#44
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
#45
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
#46
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
#48
The U.S military is the biggest buyer of glitter. It’s insane the amount they buy. But what for?? No one knows.
#49
Most people have vitamin deficiencies, not mental health issues. This does not include people with true trauma.
#50
A good chance Uncanny valley exists is because there was something else that hunted us and looked like us
#51
no information is safe in the digital age. anything you think is secret is almost certainly not. coming from a digital crime detective.
#52
one that sticks with me is that you can literally die from a broken heart…the heart strings and muscles deteriorate over time
#53
Microplastics are in everything, we have no control group to test the effects or impact that it is making. We made plastics, We made microplastics, We cant take that back.
#54
the more stuff we store digitally the more we risk losing it all if technology stops being accessible
#55
The slippery slope between social groups, political groups, religious groups, communities and cults is VERY SLIPPERY. We crave belongingness more than we thought.
#56
How many serial ki**ers could have been possibly stopped if their parents had noticed the signs.
#57
Trauma is so common now that behaviors we think are normal are actually severe trauma responses to abuse that we didn’t register as such
#58
Psychosis is terrifying having experienced lower levels of it. The fact that your reality doesn’t match up with everyone else’s version of it. Snapping out of it is worse you can’t remember the truth.
#60
The blue eye gene came from one common ancestor so everyone w blue eyes is distantly related.
#61
The transatlantic slave trade caused shark migration patterns to change bc of the amount of dead bodies being thrown off those ships
#62
Trees can communicate. So during a forest fire the can hear the trees around them screaming but can’t run away…
#64
there is a correlation btw contracting a virus (flu, covid, etc) your second trimester of pregnancy and that child being diagnosed w schizophrenia later in life
#65
When given a transfusion of blood that isn’t your type, one of the symptoms is “sense of impending doom”
#66
1 in 200 miscarried fetuses have cyclopia, that's like over 1,000,000 a year. do not Google cyclopia unless you want to ruin your whole day. I'm still upset about reading the wiki page.
#68
history person here: there's actually a fairly large amount of items made from leather made fr human skin. books, shoes, coin purses, etc. we have a pair of shoes at our local museum. really sad story
#69
From an abnormal psych perspective; you’ll brush paths with serial unalivers more than you will ever think.
#70
The fact that, at this right time, people and animals are suffering, getting beaten, makes me ultimately sad. I feel not worthy for this world.
#71
People who really study consciousness and free will largely agree that "free will" is mostly us justifying our actions after the fact. we have some free will sure but not nearly as much as we like to pretend
#72
about half the water used in concrete is lost forever. chemically bonded with no efficient way to get it back. makes me think each time i see a skyscraper
#73
the more things i learn about slavery and the "aftermath" if you could even call it that revolts me. theres always something i didn't know and it always shakes me to my core
#74
the brain doesn’t have pain receptors. If someone was literally poking your brain (surgery) your brain wouldn't feel it.
#78
Career paramedic. A ridiculous amount of people die on the toilet and then proceed to become wedged between the toilet and wall or bathtub.
#80
Not scary but quantum physics and neuroscience. The trajectory of your life 1000% depends on your beliefs and mindset about yourself our mind is more powerful then we give credit
#81
Morticians know if you were a hairstylist because you’ll have a bunch of hair behind your eyes
#83
If you want to, you can easily take a picture of someone’s keys and 3d print them. You can also reverse engineer locks to find which key should open it. I’m in cybersecurity.
#86
The scary fact that human flesh is similar to pigs. That's why when a body is being cremated, most people think they smell a BBQ
#89
The more you discover about life the less you want to live it, it's better for mental health to experience than research
#90
Humanity once came so close to extinction it's estimated that there were less than a hundred remaining. Every modern day human is descended from those survivors.
#92
we don't actually perceive the world as it actually is. it's technically upside down but our brain processes everything a fraction of a second. we experience everything at a delay we cannot detect
#93
Elementary school students reading level determines our prison system. Kids who can’t read have a higher odds of going to jail.
#94
Harlequin syndrome babies. My sister would show me those pictures when i was a child to make me literally terrified when i disobeyed
#95
That your brain is lowkey your worst enemy if you fall asleep too fast your brain thinks you died so it jerks the body to make sure you still alive
#96
P****n Ivy grows in areas where soil has been disturbed and is only poisonous to humans. It acts like the Earth’s immune system to repel humans from the wounded areas.
#97
some triceratops ended up having to eat other animals because there was no plant life during the extinction event for them to eat. they ended up dying from meat poisoning
#98
when you die, you see all your memories flash before your inner eye. it's because the brain tries to rapidly find a solution, fast forwarding every situation in life in hopes of finding how to stay
#99
As a CJ major- most cops end up ki**ing people. It’s a lot of people who get ki**ed by cops and it goes “unsolved”
#100
There’s a certain depth at sea where you wouldn't be able to swim back up… the water would just start to pull you down
#101
Male mummies are found to be way better preserved because female bodies were not sent immediately for embalming right after death due to fear of necrophila.
#102
Human life could have literally come from extraterrestrial origins via asteroids, etc. we are the aliens
What do you think ?
Katie The Bug 10 months ago
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."
Papa 10 months ago
I'm not so sure about the first part, but I am about the second.
Load More Replies... Katie The Bug 10 months ago
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."
Papa 10 months ago
I'm not so sure about the first part, but I am about the second.
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