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In a world that’s in a constant state of change, you can never stop learning. That’s why many of us are always hungry for tasty knowledge bites and nibbles of information to help us better navigate our surroundings. However, as much as it is easy to be amazed by what humanity and nature are capable of, there’s also a darker side we often overlook.

So quite recently, Redditor RefrigeratorDry495 decided to learn more about it and reached out to AskReddit to start up a thread about simple yet incredibly disturbing and scary facts. People from far and wide rolled up their sleeves and started typing out responses that really are not for the faint of heart.

From creepy stuff about our past to alarmingly unsettling statistics, we at Bored Panda handpicked some of the most popular answers from the thread. So if you’re ready to witness how real life can be far more terrifying than fiction, continue scrolling and share your thoughts with us in the comments! A small note of warning, though, some of these facts can seem a bit overwhelming, so if you’re in great need of something lighter, take a look at our recent post full of wholesome stories right here.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Sharks have been around for at least 420 million years, meaning they have survived four of the “big five” mass extinctions. That makes them older than humanity, older than Mount Everest, older than dinosaurs, older even than trees. Yet we could potentially see them extinct in our lifetime

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before If a biological trait is common in almost every human, then it evolved for a reason. Almost everybody has the same response to the "uncanny valley," or in other words we are made uncomfortable by things that look almost human but not quite. This implies humans once had a reason to fear something that looks human but isn't.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Egyptian mummies wouldn’t be so rare today if the Victorian British hadn’t eaten most of them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also burned them as fuel, especially in Egypt. Short on firewood? Burn the lovingly-preserved bodies of ancient locals. Colonialists were crappy people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since the 12th century, Europeans had been eating Egyptian mummies as medicine. In later centuries unmummified corpses were passed off as mummy medicine, and eventually some Europeans no longer cared whether the bodies they were ingesting had been mummified or not.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Midnight Library podcast have just released an episode about corpse medicine if anyone wants to learn more :)

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Lola
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Victorian age was a weird time in history. Many creepy things came out of it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What blows my mind is how these Victorian weirdos are still mimicked today. Wish folx would emulate the Enlightenment period instead.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, mummies were a fad back then. They even had mummy unwrapping parties.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Definitely not worse then consuming parts of elephants/tigers/lions/rhino's etc etc[like we still do now as humans] for medicinal or artistic purposes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't just Britain. And I think more of them went into paint than people's stomachs. But yeah we destroyed a whole load because humans are assholes.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now I understand why it's so popular to go to brunch on Mummies Day.

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Rodney Bowie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Victorian British's Mom: "Victorian British! Are you in there eating Egyptian mummies again?" Victorian British (with its mouth full): "NO!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

FFS Victorian England recorded that s**t and museum-ed it. Ate it? It was distributed all over North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria. Morocco, Egypt included) and the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, Jordan etc). Archaeologists from all countries worked together and did their best to record their findings and save them. In varying museums that are not getting in silly fights on Bored Panda.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why not the Egyptian daddies, too? Did they taste bad?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We also used them for paint, "Mummy Brown" was a paint colour.

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Juan Ghote
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

16th & 17th Century Europeans - Not just Victorian British. The mummys remains were crumbled and ground into powder, sometimes combined with alcohol or chocolate, to cure a variety of ailments from headaches to internal bleeding. Yep...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'd like to point out that 'basic mummification' was how everyone below 'the 1%' treated their dead, for thousands of years, and buried out in the sands, produced a lot of mummies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Mainly because of humorism. It was like superfood back in the day. "Oh you have bad humors? Here, eat this manky old finger"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They thought it cured all sorts of things including syphilis

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They were also used as paint, and that only stopped when the supplier ran out of mummies!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also mummy brown that was an oil pigment made out off ground up mummies...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Artists also used to grind mummies into powder and make pigments for painting.

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Paul Beebe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or ground them up and used them for house paint....Yeah, Victorian England's walls were painted with mummy color...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and the greeks and romans ate them and used them in their medicines, too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Also ground a lot into fertilizer. Though that was mostly the cats.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I thought that was mostly caused by the British using them to stoke fires. Never heard of them eating them. I suppose they ground them up and used as a supplement or something. Either way just plain macabre and weird.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The victorians believed themselves to be the pinncable of civilisation but they were really just crazy mad bastards.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

16th and 17th century Europeans - Not JUST Victorian British. The mummys remains were crumbled and ground into powder, sometimes combined with alcohol or chocolate, to cure a variety of ailments from headaches to internal bleeding. Yep...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Between the 12th and 17th century and even well into the 18th, powdered mummy or "Mummia" was used as a medical treatment throughout Europe. Swiss physician and "alchemist" Paracelsus believed that drinking human blood was good for the human body and also promoted mummy powder to treat ailments.

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1 week ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Egyptians burned them to power locomotives, Americans had unwrapping parties.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Since the 12th century, Europeans had been eating Egyptian mummies as medicine. In later centuries unmummified corpses were passed off as mummy medicine, and eventually some Europeans no longer cared whether the bodies they were ingesting had been mummified or not.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we know there are diseases of the brain passed on by eating the dead, so if Victorian British ate mummies maybe that is why we are all nuts

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Apparently, animal mummies were also chopped up and used as fertilizer by the British.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I also heard in quite a few documentaries that a lot of animal mummies were turned into fertilizer

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually knew about this one. I remember when I learned of it. I don't have a weak stomach but I did feel a bit nauseous.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wasn't that debunked? I know I've read something (here I think) where they said, that they used something with the same name but that wasn't actually mummies, or something similar. I will google it and come back.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Eaten, burned as firewood, turned into paint, used for medicine...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I remember Ernest doing something like that in one of his movies. 7 year old me wanted to barf when I first watched it! 🤢 He was eating off one in a museum for some reason.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*finds a sarcophagus with mummy inside* "Mmmm yum, human jerky!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"This is an outrage! *I* was going to eat that mummy!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure this is correct. I know they had parties and unwrapped a mummy and that is why numbers were drastically reduced beside tomb robbing. Eating then? first I have ever heard

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And their progeny shall be cursed forever with teeth that they look like they came from a mummy! Haha sorry, but I couldn't prevent it!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, Britain is rated fifth in the world for dental health, four places ABOVE the USA.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Rubbish. Total exaggeration. This post is wrong. SOME people tried it (Elite with nothing better to do, maybe 6) lol.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The British are the worst. There isn't another group of people I can think of who pillaged more of the world.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Mongols? And while the British Empire was the most extensive empire, it was far from the most populous. Consider the Persian Empire, which at its height dominated 1/4 of all humans. Also consider that eating mummies had ceased by the time the British came to power in Egypt, so this factoid is conflating two things (it is true many mummies were eaten in Europe and that the British purchased many mummies from the Egyptians, but the two things did not occur at the same time).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah - they are into things people wouldn’t understand. Why you think the queen is alive at 200 years old😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because she has all the best nutrition and medical attention. Never jump to a conspiracy when there's a bloody obvious explanation staring you in the face.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't believe for a moment that this is true. Sounds more like a myth.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Consuming Mummia or powdered mummy bones was considered a treatment for many medical ailments throughout the 12 to 17th century and even well into the 18th. The Smithsonian has a wonderful article on it: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

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British teeth are ranked 5th healthiest in the world. US comes 9th, just below Mexico.

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If there’s one thing that never ceases to amaze us, it's the amount of knowledge in the world. We can spend a lifetime trying to make sense of our surroundings by gathering new information every chance we get. One additional perk is that we get to spice up dull conversations and come up with new brilliant ideas to make this planet just a tad better.

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More often than not, however, we applaud and celebrate the technological breakthroughs that we humans manage to create and also the mesmerizing beauty of the natural world. Let’s be honest, the disturbing and scary facts about real life may catch our attention, but they’re bound to send shivers down our spines. Sure, it’s better to be safe than sorry, but who really wants to know about massive super volcanos or missing nuclear weapons that have never been recovered? That's nightmare material right there.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before You have no way of really knowing if everyone experiences reality and consciousness the same way you do.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Statistically speaking, if you are a woman and get murdered, it was most likely by a family member, partner or ex-partner, in your own home.

If you are a man and get murdered, it was most likely by an acquaintance or stranger, in a public place.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I watch a lot of true crime, and when a woman gets murdered it's actually surprising when it turns out NOT to be the boyfriend/husband.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Maximum part of oxygen came from sea/oceans. But people always talks about protecting trees not sea/oceans.

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If i am not mistaken (correct me if i am) algae and corrals do most of the work converting Carbon dioxide to oxygen

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But it looks like turning a blind eye to the uneasy side of life is not that easy. You see, there’s one thing we humans are wired to do — seek out the gloom. As daunting as that may sound, we have this tendency to give more significance to negative thoughts than positive or neutral ones, something the experts call the negativity bias.

Rick Hanson, Ph.D., psychologist and author of Hardwiring Happiness, explained that humans evolved to be fearful, and it helped keep us alive. "This vulnerability to feeling threatened has effects at many levels, ranging from individuals, couples, and families, to schoolyards, organizations and nations," he wrote and stressed how important it is to be aware of how our brains become wary if we want to regain some amount control in the way we perceive the world.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before the world invests more money in viagra and botox than in the study of Alzheimer

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are you suggesting that the world is hard and expressionless when it comes to Alzheimer's research?

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Moving back the start time for school in an area resulted in 70% less car accidents.

Similarly at each daylight saving, heart attacks and accidents decrease with an hour of extra sleep and increase with an hour less of sleep.

Sleep is crazy important.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Moving back the start time would mean less sleep though right? ..I'm just confused on that part because it resulted in less accidents when school was earlier but similarly the extra hours sleep meant less heart attacks and accidents..sleep is important but wouldn't you be losing sleep if the school run was earlier ?

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Cotard's syndrome, also called "walking corpse syndrome," is a condition wherein the patient believes they are dead, dying, missing parts of their bodies, or don't exist.

Some people with Cotard's syndrome may stop speaking or eating since they believe they're dead.

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Hanson stated that the nervous system has been evolving for 600 million years. "Our ancestors had to make a critical decision many times a day: approach a reward or avoid a hazard,” he wrote. People had to find food, have children, and hide from predators to survive and avoid threats.

However, if our ancestors missed out on food one day, they could easily find some more the next. But if they failed to dodge potential dangers, they didn't get the chance to pass on their genes to future generations. "Consequently, your body generally reacts more intensely to negative stimuli than to equally strong positive ones," Hanson explained.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before You can condition someone with zero personal/family history of mental illness into having some very severe mental illnesses within about a week.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before The entire planet could be immediately destroyed by any one of a number of cosmic events that we have no way of seeing or stopping like rogue black holes.

Worse...there are some events we can very much see coming, but do absolutely nothing about.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before I read somewhere ( don’t remember where) that you are more likely to be bitten by someone in New York than to be bitten by a shark.

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"The alarm bell of your brain — the amygdala (you’ve got two of these little almond-shaped regions, one on either side of your head) — uses many of its neurons to look for bad news: it’s primed to go negative in most people," the psychologist continued. "Once it sounds the alarm, negative events and experiences get quickly stored in memory — in contrast to positive events and experiences, which are not prioritized in the same way."

But while this is a great way to pass on gene copies, our quality of life has been improving significantly and proving we don’t actually need to feel afraid or anxious all of the time. To lead a healthy and fulfilling life, we need to better grasp this tendency to focus on the negativities and understand that things are usually not as bad. So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the discomforting things around you, try to pay attention to what’s in front of you.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Yellowstone is a giant super volcano. If it blows, things on this planet will go really bad really fast.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is there any geologist here? How many super volcanoes do exist on the Earth?

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Every time you move your eyes from one spot to another, you go blind for the instant your eyes are moving. It’s called “Saccadic masking”, it’s an evolutionary trait to stop us from getting motion sick.

Your brain fills in the blank spot with whatever you end up looking at and context clues. It’s why when you first look at a clock, the second hand seems to take longer to click the first time

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Chimps don't attack to kill. Instead they aim for the genitals, face, and fingers and will leave the opponent alive.

There have been many people who have owned chimps who have turned on their owners and left them incredibly disfigured. One case, the chimp ripped a man's junk off. In all cases, faces were mutilated and fingers were chewed off. It's pretty much how they instinctively fight in the wild.

So if you think that chimp is going to be a cute pet, better think twice. Even if you raised it since it was born, they'll turn on you at any second. A disfigurement roulette waiting to happen.

Vile creatures.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think anyone who keeps a chimp as a pet is rather asking for problems. They aren't meant to be pets!

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"Focusing on the things we can control alleviates some of the fear. Change is a part of life. It is in acknowledging this fact that we can live a healthier, less stressful life from day to day," Shari Botwin, LCSW and author of Thriving After Trauma, explained to Bored Panda in an earlier interview

"It is natural for us to go into flight or fight mode when we feel scared or in danger," she said and added that it’s best to take a minute and assess the situation you are facing. "Ask yourselves, 'Is the fear I am experiencing in my mind and body matching the current situation, or am I also reacting to other events that left me feeling traumatized or stranded in the past?'"

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before If given access to it, butterflies will happily drink blood.

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Despite literally all war propaganda from every country saying otherwise, you are not going to make an individual impact in glorious battle and die valiantly in a hail of bullets. Statistically, you are overwhelmingly more likely to be killed by an explosive device launched miles away by a vehicle you will never see, long before you ever get a chance to pull the trigger.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And literally EVERY country runs its own propaganda in all wars. That includes OUR side in the Ukraine war. Some things are not reported, some things that are reported are not true and some is exaggeration. Some of it isn't even news but is designed to make you support the war itself. Keep your eyes peeled for it. Harder to do when the propaganda involves limiting the outlets for news to their own side only. You have nothing to compare it to..

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before idk why this freaks some ppl out, but gelatin is made out of bones. That's right - your melted marshmallow in your hot chocolate is melted animal bone. It's good stuff.

That's why the traditional marshmallows aren't vegan or halal...

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The trauma specialist suggested that it is best to respond to your fear with words of reassurance and compassion. "Try and put the fear in perspective. Don't go through these feelings alone. Call a friend or talk to a family member. Process what you are feeling so you can sort through where the fear is coming from. Remind yourselves it is perfectly normal to feel afraid at times. It is an emotion that comes and goes, especially if you have experienced anything that left you feeling afraid," Botwin advised.

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If it's sufficiently dark, you will hallucinate your reflection as a different entity and it will appear to start moving on it's own.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I will never find out if this is true because I REFUSE to look in a mirror in a semi-dark room. I've just seen too many horror movies to fall for that! LOL!

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A male honey bee's ejaculation is so strong it makes his d**k explode, killing him.

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I’m friends with a professor of soil ecology here in the Midwest. She says that if we don’t change our current farming practices, much of the Midwest’s soil will be infertile with one to two generations.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Capgras Syndrome is a mental delusion where you believe that the people closest to you have been replaced by impostors

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Squirrels carry all the same diseases as rats but humans don’t mind because their cute.

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Your phone is likely spying on you right now as you're reading this

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The leap in technological advancement from us to a race that could *actually* traverse the galaxy/universe is astronomically ludicrous. We are absolutely nothing in comparison to any race that has created ways to reach us.

Meaning any race capable of finding us would be so advanced and so much more knowledgeable than us that they could observe us without us ever knowing. They would have technologies, weapons, etc outside our realm of understanding and would be able to annihilate us with ease, just given the fact that their ability to generate/harness power would be unparalleled.

If any alien ever came to earth with hostile tendencies, short of a miracle, we’d be doomed.

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Alligators can climb trees

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank goodness there are no alligators here in Australia! *crocodile the size of a van appears* D'OH!

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before 6 nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered since the 1950s.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the time someone thinks to check out the mysterious object stashed under my house, it will be too late to stop me. MWAHAHAHAH!

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40 Haunting Real-Life Facts You've Probably Never Heard Before Your eyes have a seperate immune-system from the rest of your body. Once your body's immune system discovers you have eyes, it will attack and inflame the blood vessels in the back of your eyes. This can lead to your vision decreasing or even going blind.

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#29

The odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 107.

Not only that you can die in a car only going 40mph and something like 30-percent of the people driving after 10pm are driving drunk.

Driving is super dangerous and most people take it for granted.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I recently learned of 'floppy' physics which explains the phenomena of drunk drivers escaping from fatal accidents with minimal injuries because the alcohol is a relaxant and stops them reacting and tensing during the crash. Other non-intoxicated occupants/pedestrians are not so lucky

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Dell computers were so bad that there was a website where you could click a button and it would show someone's random webcam without them knowing.

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If you live in a major city there is a nuke aimed at you

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I spent much of my life living near a nuclear base. The advantage is that, if nuclear war breaks out, you will be killed instantaneously rather than the lingering death from radiation poisoning..

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If you have a parasite in your body, there's only a slim chance you'll know about it before it pops out of your skin or leaves through the back door.

Also, some parasites pop out of skin.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a nightmare about a worm coming out of my leg when I was like 6 or 7. Still remember it

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You can be seriously Injured from a sneeze

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was washing up and had plates in both hands when a sneeze came at me. I didn't want to drop the plates so I braced myself for an uncontrolled sneeze. It put my back out. I thought I had slipped a disc and was bedridden for two weeks! The pain was tremendous and I couldn't walk. I had to crawl to my bed. Beware of sneezes, yes they spread diseases but nobody ever talks about the injuries they cause. Beware.

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We have trace amounts of iron, gold, nickel, and silver within our bloodstream which means with enough people you could drain them of their blood, dilute it down to separate it, and eventually be able to make a full ingot of iron, gold, nickel, and silver.

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#36

Bored ducklings can become cannibals!

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#37

If chronic wasting disease jumps to humans, the Zombie Apocalypse may become a real thing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Masses of dumb people unable to think for themselves and going after people with brains ... Yeah, think it's already here lol...

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#38

Hippos can't swim. (I was disturbed)

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#39

If a panda finds a fresh carcass, they'll eat it

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