“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled
According to ABC News, the most common ‘biggest fears’ people have are social phobias, the fear of open spaces, the fear of heights, the fear of flying, claustrophobia, the fear of insects, and the fear of snakes. And while you might be feeling calm and collected if none of those particular phobias afflict you, just keep reading, because something on this list is bound to freak you out…
Below, you'll find some of the most unsettling and disturbing facts that Reddit users have shared, as well as an interview between Bored Panda and Steffany Strange of the Something Scary Podcast, to remind you pandas that spooky season can be year round if you want it to be. Be sure to upvote the facts that unlock new fears within you, and if you start getting uneasy, just remember that all of these facts were true long before you read them. Oops, did that make you even more scared?
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Why am I reading these I already have crippling anxiety, depression and paranoia
I feel you, Op. It's like looking at a train wreck. You know you don't want to (or shouldn't) look, yet, you keep doing it.
Chiropractors kill more people per year than sharks
I knew a women in a wheel chair from visiting a chiropractor. He made tiny error and she was paralyzed. I won’t see one because of it even though I hear people say how good they are. Just can’t.
Chiropractory is quackery. There's no scientific evidence for most of it, and manipulations of the neck are extremely dangerous, they can lead to strokes, paralysis or death. It's much better to visit a physical therapist or just get a massage for back pain.
Load More Replies...I noticed my husband doesn't turn his head to check his blind spots when he is driving. He has his mirrors adjusted to see down either side to the lanes around him. I asked why he never turns his head? He said a Chiropractor did that. He hates them. The man adjusted his neck somehow now he can't turn his head like he needs to.
You should see if your state (in America) has a Direct Access law for physical therapy. It means you can see a physical therapist without an order from a doctor (although certain insurances still require one). I've seen so many patients get help with this type of issue and no need to live like that if he doesn't have to!!
Load More Replies...Sharks kill less than a dozen people a year, yeah chiropractors kill way more than that and I'm offended on behalf of the sharks that they're even in the same sentence lol
Yeah, can't understand why always use sharks as a kill rate.
Load More Replies...Yeah but a lot more people see chiropractors than people that see sharks. It's like saying your more likely to die in a car crash than a plane crash, well duh I'm in my car every day I've flown maybe 3 times in my entire life
I don't think you understand statistics. Per mile travelled, planes are much, much safer than cars. After 9/11 there were more excess deaths caused by people swapping plane journeys for (more dangerous) car journeys than people killed in the actual attacks.
Load More Replies...Just read about a person being paralyzed by a chiropractor, and got a 27 million dollar settlement. But what good is money if you can no longer move your body?
That money is not for luxury but for the long term care that person will need as a result of the practice.
Load More Replies...To learn more about the topic of frightening facts, we reached out to an expert on all things spooky, Steffany Strange, host of the Something Scary Podcast. Steffany was kind enough to have a chat with us about what she loves most about diving into the world of scary. "I think for most of us we can relate and say scary stories help us tap into the unknown or the supernatural," she told Bored Panda. "But additionally, we as humans have a natural tendency to seek out information in the world/society we live in."
"I love that folklore, scary stories (especially ghost stories) bring in cultural and historical elements to better understand our emotions and the essence of being human," Steffany continued. "This makes me think of my grandfather and aunt telling me Salvadorian ghost stories, and it helped me tap into the unknown elements of the supernatural while understanding my own Salvadorian culture."
**Someone you love will probably get dementia, and it will f*****g suck.**
The human brain is a machine, and like any machine it inevitably breaks down. Imagine a person you love. Imagine their mind starts dying before their body. They cease to be the person you knew, a little bit at a time. They lose their memories - the cherished and the mundane. Then they start looking at their loved ones in terror because nothing makes sense and everyone seems like a stranger. It's nature at its most cruel.
F**k dementia.
My mom had dementia. She started showing signs in her mid Forty's. She still had her personality for the most part. But it took a part of her and she knew it but she didn't know what she lost. It was awful to watch her slowly deteriorated. She died in an accident at 62. I miss her constantly but I'm glad she never forgot who my dad, brother or I was. My grandfather died about a year before and she constantly forgot. I would just talk about him like he was alive. I couldn't stand for see the hurt in her realizing he was gone.
I'm with my mom now...my grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother and probably further back....on my fathers side, his two sisters, my grandfather, my great grandfather.... This dementia is a destroyer of families. I will not subject my beautiful children to this nightmare if I am so afflicted. I will have a big party then I will go to a state that will let a Dr help me go. Then my family can enjoy their lives with good memories.
My grandfather had dementia. He slowly forgets all of his favorite foods and happy memories. Whenever I visit him he asks "And who are you?" in a joking way but I really don't want that question to become a reality. Dementia sucks. :(
Same here. My grandma would always ask "Oh look who's here!", but in reality it was just a polite way of asking who I was, without having to admit that she had forgotten me. It was awful.
Load More Replies...The long goodbye. Slowly the colour fades until only the shape of them remains
I worked in long term care for years. We had the most amazing Director. She said we were to remember that we were guests in THEIR home and to treat them as we would if they were a family member. Three patients really have stayed in my memories because I was given the honor of being somebody special in the life they lived with dementia. One of my nursing instructors said "Don't pull them kicking and screaming into our world, calmly step into their world." First one-gentlemen who was sure I was his sister. When I was working, he would yell out "Stella, Stella", his sister's name. The way we were staffed, there was always an extra staff person on the floor, so they could take over for me and I would go see what "my brother" wanted.
CONTINUED Sorry for the incredibly long post. Patient three was an itty bitty little lady with Alzheimer's. One night towards the end, I was tucking her into bed. She also had been nonverbal for quite some time. But on this night, she was calling for her momma. Knowing telling her that her mom isn't here is not going to help. Instead I sat down on the bed next to her and put my arm around her. I just started rocking her. She leaned down across my lap, content. I put my arms around her and just rocked her. To her, she was in her mother's arms again. She quieted down immediately, completely relaxed, I slowly moved her into bed and tucked her in. She was so content having been rocked to sleep by her "momma"!
Load More Replies...::raising my hand:: It does suck. From the first memory glitch to the realization my brain cells are in open rebellion, it sucks. Fighting that s**t to the very end. Never work with toxins, people.
I'm sorry that you have to go through this. I hope you have someone to help as things get worse for you. I apologize but I am going to make an assumption: From you profile pic, I am going to assume you are a veteran. Also possible exposure to toxins from military. If either of these are true you may qualify for dementia care at one of the larger VA facilities or hospitals. Many care centers are separate from the hospitals so if you are not connected with VA, get ahold of your local Veterans Association/Assistance Office. This is not at a VA medical facility, it is usually in an office in a town. They help you do things like research records, get replacement copies of DD-214, etc. Connect with them or your State Representative or
Load More Replies...My husband's mom had alchohol induced dementia. She sold her house and then got all of the cash out of her bank account. Then she physically lost over 150,000$. Thel crazy part is that once she got help her dementia actually reversed. She is sober now and although she can be a little silly sometimes she is an excellent grandmother to our daughter and a huge help.
My pop. The last day he was alive, it was like a switch flipped. He attacked the nurses and doctors, snarled and tried to bite my dad, and thought my mom was his dead wife.
A good portion of spiders shed their exoskeletons occasionally so when you happen to come across a "dead" spider, there's a good chance that it's just an empty husk and there is another, slightly bigger spider nearby.
I have a shadow box with 8 of my tarantulas many molts from tiny to her last big a*s one a few months ago.
And when are you going to show pictures of her to us? Also explain why did you choose a tarantula as a pet?
Load More Replies...Spiders are good and get a bad rep. They want nothing to do with you, they just want to live.
And they eat things you don't want inside like flies and cockroaches
Load More Replies...Me: Hunny we're going to have to move Wife: To where?? Me: Vacuum of space
Love spiders! Oahu's cane spiders made me rethink life, but the creatures are just amazing. Especially tarantulas.
We were also curious what sorts of scary things freak Steffany out the most. "The darkness!" she shared. "Your imagination runs wild when the lights go out, and the darkness creeps in. We hallucinate in pure darkness because our brains are biologically wired to fear darkness, amongst other things our brain just does for survival, which I guess brings me to exorcist movies and topics. I think it hits close to home not being able to have control of one's own body."
And as far as unsettling facts you pandas are likely to never forget, Steffany has informed us that glitter can cut your eyes. "And we have so much glitter in makeup, so I'm always weary even if it is safe," she added.
With enough stressors you can trigger a psychotic episode and never be mentally healthy again.
Ummm. I'm here to add a voice of hope too. There can and is health after mental health breaks and psychotic breaks. And hopelessness (often a symptom/factor chicken/egg mess) that prevents people from ever returning a state of balance is not to be denied by any stretch. But this statement is too black and white and leaves no room for growth or rehabilitation. If we believe that some bodies can be healed from devastating injuries and equilibrium achieved, why not the mind. With enough of the right supports and treatments? Sadly, mostly inaccessible since (at least for most western culture) we treat health (physical and mental) reactionary instead of preventative. And money drives everything. But as someone who's been suicidal, there can be true mental health after if you live long enough to get there.
Every single human being has a breaking point or threshold. Some are just higher than others.
At 21 I was the captain of a SAR team (+handling all admin), studied medicine in my third language (it's a course not available in other languages where I'm from), and was having a really hard time living with my dad and his new family. Probably to absolutely nobody's surprise I was diagnosed with IBD and burnout. At 33 while doing ok, my mental capacity and attention span are still nowhere near the pre-breakdown level. It's extremely frustrating and makes me feel like a complete failure.
Dear Upupa, I feel you! It increases, yet very slowly. You aint a failure! You acomplished a lot in your life! Now you maybe don't do as much simultaniously as pre breakdown but that's actually a goood thing! *Hugs* if you want some
Load More Replies...Oops… I read that as IKEA breakdown and was starting to nod my head in agreement. 🫤
Load More Replies...Can verify this personally! My ex put me through so much and long story short I take between 7-10 different medications daily. (If I'm in a mental crisis meds may vary)
Yeah, if you feel like you could relate you need to take a break. My sister has recently almost died because of the amount of stress college was giving her. Don’t say, “I’m gonna be fine, if I burn out, I just start fresh!” Because that’s unhealthy thinking. You and your mental and physical health come first. Don’t let anyone or anything tell you otherwise. Be who you are and slay the day 💅
Most laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950's. You are hearing dead people laugh.
Quite. Fail to see how this is a disturbing fact.
Load More Replies...I think this is wholesome. They did such a good job, we are still using the tracks. Whatever they were laughing at must have been really funny. I remember many years ago, Dear Abby or Ann Landers published a letter from the daughter of a man who could be heard on a laugh track used on a popular show. He had a very explosive and distinctive laugh and their family was always comforted by hearing him as he'd passed away.
I wish my Dad had been part of a laugh track. His big, hearty laugh is one of the things I miss the most.
Load More Replies...And most of the shows I enjoy are filled with people no longer here. But just remember celluloid heros never die, as the Kinks once sang.
I kind of like this--it's a way of them being alive. We so rarely have recordings of our relatives laughs....it's kind of beautiful.
Steffany also says it's "very healthy to be able to experience some form of safe scares within a form of horror entertainment because it can release us from our everyday reality of tragedy, fears, and anxieties better yet help us cope."
"I think there's something about watching scary things or listening to ghost stories and coming out of it much braver and reassessing 'what would you do'? Or 'how would you reassess it'? Fear is survival, and that means coming out more courageous and letting go of unnecessary fears," the host added.
Human a******s can stretch out to 7 inches without tearing and a raccoon can fit in a hole as tight as 4 inches.
You’re welcome
I want to know who the person was that was sitting there and said, "Y'know what? Let's see how big of a hole a raccoon can get into. Wait! Even better! Let's see how big of a hole ..."
You mean I shouldn't bring up the vagina, the ferrets & the book American Psycho? Yeah it's not in the film.
Load More Replies...I watch a YouTube video on such surgeries. It's amazing what people shove there.
There are YouTube video's on that? What's the search I have to de to see those
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You have walked past someone who was spending their last day alive.
And you're probably walking next to someone pregnant who will add another living person that wasn't here when you walked by them
you also walk past 32 murderers in your lifetime, and drive by 12 cars with dead bodies in them. just lettin you know
Oh but I drive in my car every day… and I go to work five days a week… /j
Load More Replies...Yep. My neighbor. She was so kind and only 32 but struggled with depressive episodes that made it hard to function. She came out of one episode and seemed so calm and happy. One morning, her last day, I saw her sitting on her porch so we had coffee and talked. She didn't seem upset or depressed; we talked and laughed and there was no indication at all what was coming. She gave me a big hug and thanked me for being a good neighbor and friend, then a few hours later, she took her life. This was 14 years ago and I think about it every single day.
Often times people seem at their most calm and happy. They’ve already decided and are at peace with their decision. That may sound strange, but as one with a mental health diagnosis, when you can’t get away from your own mind, the prospect of peace from it, even though it be to take your own life, can make you calm. You didn’t know she was saying goodbye to you. That happened to me involving a good friend. I think about it too.
Load More Replies...Oh jeez let me tell you a story. My mom and I went to a p**n shop to p**n some things, cause money was tight. Anyway a week after I get news stories on my phone saying in a robbery, the p**n shop owner was shot and killed. That was really crazy to hear. I mean, I could've been scarred for life if money had been tight just a week later. And that poor man, he didn't deserve it. Even the right robbers, they didn't deserve the cards they were dealt. Honestly it's terrible, I hope the owners family is okay.
Goodness grief BP, why is p a w n censored
Load More Replies...What if humans had a meter on their forehead counting down the days until departure…
The was an episode of Medium where that happened
Load More Replies...So be kind to those you pass, you never know what is happening in their life.
"There's always something about horror and ghost stories that bring us together through culture and I'm so excited to see what this generation brings as I continue to see more diversity and different voices that bring in new perspectives," Steffany says. "Including myself, being able to be part of something where we can share each other's cultures and bond over our fears is beautiful underneath the facade of just horror."
If you'd like to hear more from Steffany about all things horrific and spooky, be sure to check out the Something Scary Podcast. You can listen to the show right here and find their YouTube channel where they release weekly animated videos, alongside the podcast, right here!
Some of your friends might just pretend to like you because you are useful to them and you don't realize it because they're just great at hiding it!
this has happened to me way too many times. i suck at making friends. the friends I have now are nice though :)
me too. glad you've also found your people :)
Load More Replies...Aristotle categorized three different types of friendship: friendships of utility, friendships of pleasure, and friendships of the good (a. k. a. virtuous friendships). Briefly, friendships of utility are where people are on cordial terms because each person benefits in some way: business partnerships, relationships among co-workers, and classmate connections are examples. Friendships of pleasure are where individuals seek out each other’s company because of the joy it brings them. Love affairs, people belonging to the same cultural or social organization, and fishing buddies fall into this category. Friendships of the good are based upon mutual respect, admiration for each other’s virtues, and a strong desire to aid and assist the other person because one recognizes an essential goodness in them. There’s nothing sinister about friendship for utility; it’s human nature.
Wow. So smart. Admiral gives his cheek rub ❤️
Load More Replies...Not all friendships are life long ones, sometimes people are friends out of convience and when they're ready they move on. nothing to get upset about just accept not all friendships are deep, life long friendships
I thi k it becomes a problem when one person is using the other and the idea of friendship is skewed. Meaning one person sees the friendship as someone to use while the other thinks they have a genuine friend because they put in the bare minimum effort.
Load More Replies...I've taught my kids this fact early so they can recognize it early on, I always said judge someone on their character more than what they say, what do their actions tell you those actions will speak louder than their words
Also, if someone tells you what they are - believe them. If someone says "I'm a nutter", expect childish pranks and immature, rude behavior. If someone says "I say it as I see it", they're rude. If he says he's not a "relationship kind of guy" there's no point crying that he won't settle down with you. Often people "out" themselves within the first few moments of us meeting them, getting into the habit of noting these seemingly jokey comments can save you a lot of disappointment and heartbreak.
Load More Replies...omg one of my friends is sorta rich and people are always asking her to buy food and stuff for them and i know thats the only reason they hang around her and im so sad about it bc shes just too kind
For some reason it doesn't happen to me even though I'd be like the easiest person to manipulate... literally spemy 9.96 dollars on my friends birthday (one day after mine) when she gave me 2 packages of nerd clusters. I freaking love rainbow nerds so I liked it
My friends come and go, but it’s mainly because I’m always busy on weekends performing cello so I never go to their house to hang out so I’m not fun :(
When I was young. My friends and I called them users. Friends only because you could supply them with something they wanted.
Lake Superior has dead bodies from the 1920s.
With freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen, bodies don't decompose at the rate they would under normal conditions. Sure, they don't look as "fresh" as the day they died (in fact they're covered in bodily fat from saponification), but they can be recognized as human remains.
In fact, there's been this ongoing debate because of the ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald that sank in the 70s, because scuba divers wanted to explore it but the families of the deceased were upset because this is basically a mass grave.
There's a YouTube channel called Ask a Mortician that just did an episode on this, and I really recommend it. She goes a lot more in-depth about the facts, and even went out there to talk with a surviving Fitzgerald relative.
The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy...
Silly photo for this story. I live on Lake Superior and there are no snow-capped mountains or fjords lol.
I only know the jargon in terms of making soap from oil. Not sure what it means in this context...
Load More Replies...There are ship wrecks from at least the Byzantine era perfectly preserved at the bottom of the Black Sea because of the lack of oxygen down there.
Pretty sure there were dead bodies in there way before the 1920s.
I assumed the implication was that bodies that old would be finally unrecognizable as human.
Load More Replies...But don't the bodies also rapidly decompose once brought to the surface? I heard that but not sure how to query
Ask A Mortician is a brilliant channel for the morbidly curious! It's her that inspired me to become a Mortician too. x3
An aneurysm can happen at any time to anyone for any reason
My husband had one when he was 32. He fell asleep watching TV and I woke him up to say it was bedtime. He said he had a headache and that he'd rest there for a while. I didn't think anything of it and went to bed. Our kids found him when they got up early to watch TV before school and they woke me up saying daddy was sleeping on the floor. People rarely survive aneurysms and they usually do so by getting immediate medical care. It's a miracle that he survived and is with us today.
Oh wow, I was prepared to read that he was dead. He was very lucky. And your kids too. That would have been scary to find him …. not alive. I‘m glad for you all.
Load More Replies...I had an aneurysm and subarachnoid haemorrhage in February last year. Thank goodness for the NHS. I'm still here, with a tiny platinum coil in my head to keep it from bursting again. I'm very lucky to have had no lasting effects.
I had a severe Migraine and a droopy eyelid, and went to my Doctor who sent me for an MRI. I was told the results were a 'tiny dilated Artery' and it was nothing to worry about. I then received a letter from the Neurology Surgery team with an appointment. I had only just sat down when the Neurology Surgeon told me they had found a large Aneurysm which needed Surgery. I was in shock and terrified, he told me it needed metal clips due to its size. I underwent the Surgery several months later, and it was extremely unpleasant to say the least. Within a few weeks I was getting back to normal. I have a large scar (not really that visible) and a dent on the side of my temple. I have recovered well but have a lot of bad headaches. I am also hyper sensitive to noise. However that Surgery saved my life, and I am very grateful to the Surgical team and Nurses and wrote many thank you cards. Anyone with any questions, please feel free to leave a comment.
Dear Samantha, happy to hear your survived your surprise aneurism! Do you still get migraine? Are there painkillers that help with your "new" head-ache? And, does it impact your everyday life much?
Load More Replies...A girl I worked with lost her mum to this. Her sister was on the phone chatting with the mum and mum suddenly said "I have such terrible pain in my head", phone went quiet and the sister rushed over to the house and found her.
Libstak, that is sad to hear, Aneurysms are terrifying.
Load More Replies...In high school my best friends boyfriends dad was standing against a wall and out of nowhere started snoring..... Everyone thought he was playing around until he hit the floor and didn't get up....... He unfortunately didn't make it🥺🥺🥺
So sorry for all that were affected. Life is so sad sometimes!
Load More Replies...I had a ruptured cerebral aneurysm 18 years ago and after surgery to insert titanium clips walked away (after 2 weeks in the ICU) with no problem except for the 60 staples hold the incision closed and dent in my head. Had a great surgeon and he told me 50% of the people he operates on (for repairing aneurysms) do not leave the operating table alive. Good news - he said I was no more likely to have another problem than the population at large. Hooray for neurosurgeons!
Youve probably walked past a murderer
Walked past? The guy was our waiter at the local Italian restaurant and went to school with my sister. She hated him, which felt very justified indeed some years later when he abducted and killed a local man and dumped his body in a national park.
According to fact check you probably walk by 35 in a life time
Load More Replies...I slept with one. He killed his next girlfriend and the guy she cheated on him with
Walked past? Pfffft. One of my former in-laws was just not good person. Worsened with age. Had to visit him in prison... he was so much scarier than Tex Watson, his cellie.
I attend 12 step meetings and a person I was quite friendly with was the nicest guy. Always polite and courteous. One day, he relapsed and caused a minor traffic accident and because he was on parole, was put in jail. While awaiting sentencing, the powers in charge decided to perform a random DNA screening and he was a match for a very horrific murder committed years before. I never heard from him again.
Depends on which country you live in and the homicide rate. In my country it's quite rare.
Also where in the country you are. If you live in a city you walk past a lot more people than someone who lives in the middle of nowhere.
Load More Replies...I used to know a murderer. Google 'Mitchell Quy' if you're interested. Killed his wife and cut up her body with the help of his brother, then got rid of the wrapped-up parts by dumping them in garbage bins around town. They never found her head.
There was a manager who used to work at my old job before I did. He got transferred to another city working at the same company. He ended up killing his wife. No one was allowed to talk about it. One of the team leaders shushed my friend when she was telling me about it, saying we were not allowed to talk about it.
Sleep helps your immune system fight off those cancer cells, just think of that when you're up at 4AM.
yeah i see you all.. GO TO SLEEP!!! STAY HEALTHY!!! (i know its hard but u can do this!)
But if we are the first to comment when the story is first posted, we are more likely to get those sweet Panda points we can use on the gift shop!
Load More Replies...It's 3:22 a.m. as I read this and cancer cells are eating me alive. ' -)
This only applies if you already have cancer cells. At that point, your already sick. Sleeping isn't going to prevent cancer.
I know sleep helps your immunity. I'm frustrated because I have a hard time sleeping. Also, I already have cancer, Basel Cell Carcinoma, on my face. Surgery is Thursday.
Fingers crossed!! Hugs to you from a random internet stranger <3 May you make a full and speedy recovery.
Load More Replies...Not exactly useless, but there have been quite a few men who have died at the Grand Canyon because they thought it would be cool to take p**s over a ledge, only to lose their balance.
Darwin Award candidates. Selfies are also a common cause of cliff falls. I'd like to see the look of surprise in those photos.
Fascinating Book: https://www.amazon.com/Over-Edge-Canyon-Expanded-Anniversary/dp/0984785809/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=over+the+edge+death+in+grand+canyon&qid=1679143934&sprefix=Over+the+Ed%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1
Your body produces a cancerous cell about once every thirty minutes.
Your immune system is usually very, very efficient at finding and immediately neutralizing them.
But it's very possible that thirty minutes from now will be the time your immune system slips up and allows it to reproduce.
Technically your body produces cells that can then mutate into cancerous cells. Literally any cell can become cancer, but it doesn't start out as cancerous, it starts out normal than mutated due to either genetics, external factors, radiation exposure, etc. Cancer Survivor here.
Mine is pretty efficient at producing them, thanks to military toxins. Avoid lead and any other toxin related to batteries, wiring, machinery, and weapons of mass destruction.
"Very possible"? Well, it's possible, yes, but actually very, very unlikely; even if we assume that this will happen at some point, the odds of it being any given thirty-minute interval are ni excess of a million to one.
I was only scared prior to waiting for the diagnosis. After that I because like a warrior and remained positive that I would beat it. Six months ago I went into remission.
The immune system is nothing to do with many types of cancer. Cell mutations happen all the time-cells divide and grow, and mistakes happen during that. You have genes specifically to switch off cells that have mistakes-the genes basically tell the cell "you've done it wrong, kill yourself" and the cell does that through a process of apoptosis. But if you have a mutation occurring in the switch-off gene (properly called tumour suppressor genes), then the abnormal cell doesn't die like it should, and continues to create abnormal copies of itself eventually forming a tumour. There are thousands of different types of cancer, and multiple different mechanisms about how the various types occur. We are nowhere near curing cancer-we can cure specific types, like we're generally very good at treating childhood kidney nephroblastoma (94% 5 year survival rate), but on the whole, cancer still has us beat.
Cancer is pretty rare. These cancer posts keep making it seem like it's a game of chance. Trust me - your body has a wonderfully built cell system that knows to terminate cancer and other mutated cells. It doesn't "slip up" when cancer is developed, your regulatory proteins simply aren't functioning properly. If this freaked you out - it's VERY exaggerated.
You may already be dying, many fatal diseases have no symptoms until it's too late. You're welcome.
I've requested BP to remove that expression. You're welcome! EDIT: it was a joke, hence the "You're welcome!"
Load More Replies...At the risk of scaring everybody: EVERYONE IS DYING. I don't know if you've been deluded into thinking you're immortal, but you're not. We're all gonna die. These "ooh you might already be dying" things are nonsense.
"Life is a sexually transmitted condition which always ends in death."
Load More Replies...This is kind of semantics because of course you are already dying from the very second that you are born. No one has gotten out of this yet.
My dad had oesophageal cancer. Once he noticed symptoms it was too late. He lived a year post diagnosis.
My pseudo-Siamese Aida was very healthy until her final two days. She took a sudden downturn, and despite the veterinarians' best efforts she crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. I don't know if she caught a virus, or if she had some time bomb ticking away in her body.
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By you winning the lottery you increase your chances of being murdered by a family member or any other person close to you.
they gotta get to my bond villain island first. good luck fam...
can you like.. give me the coordinates of that there island?
Load More Replies...Only tell them once you've hired a body guard or a hitman
Load More Replies...Coming into wealth or getting into serious trouble is when your friends and relatives will show themselves for who they truly are.
If I even win even a reasonable amount I won't tell anyone, I wouldn't spend on mansions or fast cars anyway so would be hard to spot. Decent house for me, education/travel for my nieces and nephews and donations to animal shelters, that'd be it
If you live in the USA, most states don't allow you to collect your winning anonymously. Lottery winners have horrible rates of suicide, being victims of homicide, depression, anxiety, etc. because their anonymity is not protected.
Load More Replies...I only have a silly crush on it. What am I in for?
Load More Replies...And that's why you get your will, trusts, etc aligned before claiming the money and never, ever tell anyone you won the lottery.
Most states in the USA do not allow lottery winners to collect their wimmings anonymously. It's a huge problem.
Load More Replies...Zero multiplied by any number is still zero. And I'm not talking about the chances of being murdered, I'm talking about the chances of winning the lottery
you know nobody fully. you only see the sides they choose to show you. the only person you really, truly know is you, and even then, there's your subconscious.
Yes I can confirm this, as I do this. I'm not even the same on different social medias- Here I'm a bat, somewhere else I might be a tree or a loaf of meat. My parents Don't know i'm a furry and my Friends Don't know that I actually hate one of them. Nobody knows me whole, maybe I don't even know myself.
Online I seem like a nice person. With my parents I’m an annoying brat. With my friends and classmates I appear smart and funny. The real me is someone who’s depressed and wants to live a different life than the one I’m living now
I see that. I understand that too. I've lived a few different lives, and I'll tell you a secret. The depression isn't something you leave behind. It follows you. It compels you to reinvent yourself to run away from it, and so you do. But eventually, it catches you up again. There's only one way to win, you'll have to face it. Speak to a doctor, or your school councilor, or whomever you can to find help. You cannot do this alone. Trust me, you're worth it.
Load More Replies...Not that creepy. There are parts of me that I purposefully hide from others and i assume they do the same for good reasons
Maybe that is why we love our babies so much, because they are so pure and guileless before they've learned anything of the world.
Seems so ... but, being nice only because the ability to be an AH isn't developed yet isn't THAT much of an accomplishment...
Load More Replies...Human like beings have been on this planet for about 150,000 years. I find it curious as to why we have not evolved more telepathic abilities since our brain is so superior to the other lifeforms.
Not human like. Homo sapiens, humans, us. Humans have been on this planet for anywhere from 100,000-300,000 years. Hominids are closer to 6 million years.
Load More Replies...even my best friends don't know I'm asexual. I've known that.
How much do you know about your great grandparents?
Because in 50-100 years, that will be how much the world knows about you.
Edit: for those of you stating that information storage and accessibility will allow everyone to easily look back into the past, I challenge you to run a game designed for Windows 95.
Point being, information storage is not a ubiquitous system and as the architecture of software and hardware changes there is certainly a possibility that some systems will require specialised tools and equipment to acess.
Furthermore, social media is the highlight reel of history, not the story. Very few people show their true selves in their twitter or Facebook feed.
Also a number
My great-grandfather died in 2017:( Though I was only 7, I remember he told stories about how he fought in WWII and how he shared the chocolates he got for christmas with my sister and I :)
I know as much as I can about my great-grandparents- they were murdered along with their 2 youngest children in Auschwitz in August 1944. I try to keep them alive by looking at their photo every single day and also by talking about them as much as I can when the situation arises.
In my country, we have a saying “All is forgotten 100 years from now”, which basically means, ‘if you screw up, never mind, the world goes on and so do we’.
Genealogist here... know all sorts of cool things about my family going back to William of Orange. Some were consulting when America's Freedom Documents were being drafted. Others were Old West outlaws (my great-grandmother used to stitch their wounds when they returned from raids. She was a joy to sit with, and her stories still amaze me.). Some are POW/MIA, others decorated for valor in combat. Dad was among great Swing Era musicians. Sit with your elders, people. Record their stories. They lived history.
My great-grandparents? Quite a lot really. I'm wearing my great-grandfather's wedding ring right now and I have a bench hammer of his that I use all the time. My writing desk came up the Mississippi in the 1830's. That was owned by my great-great-great-great grandparents. I have their Bible in my library among other books of theirs. My great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather owned more remarkable buckets (in his estate) then seems appropriate to name in an estate. On my dad's side, the family trees die off in the early 1700's. The whole culture of Donauswabian people moved down the Danube to the Balkans and the old records were lost it would seem. My family on both sides are/were full of genealogists. Will I be remembered? Doubtful, but we'll see.
I mean I found out my great grandpa isn't even my great grandpa. He wasn't my grandma's dad and my great grandma took that secret to her grave. Literally. My dad, grandma and I found out that we have a little bit of Irish in us along with Mexican but we already knew about the Mexican. And to the Irish people of BP, no I'm not another boring Americans calling her self Irish because 3 percent of me is Irish.
So historical figures dont count? What if my Great grandfather was a famous author, artist , leader or some s**t. Do something meaningful and you will be remembered
My children have been extremely lucky and have met 3 of their great grandparents. (All on their father's side). Unfortunately, there is only one left now, but they have a great relationship with him now.
Nope. Not a heck of a lot more, but let's face it: when I was a kid, it was unthinkable to voluntarily listen to 30-years-old music. There were TWO movies that were older than ten years old that any given kid had likely seen (the Sound of Music and the Wizard of Oz). Most movies came out in the theaters, were shown on TV a couple of years later a few times, and then disappeared never to be seen again. (One other exception: movies that had lapsed copyrights so were shown during baseball game rain delays.) Today my son knows the Star Wars movies by heart, listens to almost exclusively 70s rock, and likes watching TV shows from across six different decades.
Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong. Ever since then I get super paranoid whenever a fly goes anywhere near my face because of the scary fact that something like this could possibly happen to me.
Doctor here: fly larvae can only feed on necrotic (dead) tissue. Therefore, these parasites only arise in already injured structures (previously infected by bacteria). If a fly oviposits on healthy tissue, said larvae will starve to death.
That's why premodern medicine used larvae in order to clanse infected wounds, because the insect only ate necrotic tissue (respecting the healthy one).
Load More Replies...That's why you should always have guardian spiders on your face. Just kidding.... sorry, Arachnophobics.
Yeah no way in freaking ever am I doing that. Apology accepted.
Load More Replies...I knew there was a legitimate reason I have a phobia of flying insects!
That show used to give me nightmares. I think the one with the little girl who had contracted the bubonic plague during a trip to the Grand Canyon. Apparently, it's been found in some of the squirrels there.
Got me the most since it's something most who studied European history knows about and like many assumed it had been eradicated.
Load More Replies...Um… one year for the Fourth of July, a fly flew in my eye, got stuck, and smushed in my eye. Thanks for the horrible flashbacks
[Komodo Dragons](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) poison their victims and then follow them for hours on end. Then once the victim is throughly exhausted and poisoned, it tears it to shreds and eats it alive.
They aren't actually poisonous, it's their saliva has deadly bacteria and the dragons can then follow the scent of your flesh being destroyed by that bacteria. It's in order to not waste energy chasing prey.
No. She's a cat. When a cat is playing with a mouse it's just waiting for the venom to take effect. Well, when I say venom, I mean toxic saliva in both cases.
Load More Replies...Not quite right. Dragons don't follow their 'victims' around. They bite, and let the victim go. Their hunting style is that they eventually come upon the remains of their victim, or that of another dragon's victim which has died from the effects of the bite. It's an island, their victims aren't going anywhere, one dragon or another will find the remains sooner or later. While they're not 'aware' of this, their hunting style has evolved to suit their environment.
Toss a squirrel in the mix and you'd create just enough distraction to get away. SQUIRREL!
Load More Replies...If you bite it, and you die, then it's poison. If it bites YOU and you die, then it's venomous.
Humans are fascinated with the gruesome details of predators devouring their prey. Yet, it's never done with hatred or maliciousness, only for survival. Whereas humans...
There are some parts of the Universe that we’ll never, ever be able to see. No matter what we do. They’ll always remain just out of reach Edit:I never had this much upvotes, Thanks to everyone
Most of the universe is out of our reach. We can only go till the Local Group (the group of galaxies which our galaxy is also part of). It’s impossible to go past the local group into the next group because of how the universe is expanding. There will come a time when the light from other groups beyond ours will be shifted to such long wavelengths that it would be impossible to detect them. Our galaxy will be lonely and any future species won’t be able to figure out how the universe started or how it will end. Our galaxy will slowly grow darker and darker as the last of its stars slowly start dying and fading away
and then the contraction will start and stars will be flying into view!
Load More Replies...This refers to the observable universe. Due to the nature of universal expansion, there is the unobservable universe - expansion so fast that the light from these distant regions will never reach us. Before you ask, gravity/mass prevents that expansion from being a perceivable/real problem for us.
Unless we get transported through a wormhole to the Delta Quadrant.
As more and more information about the universe is being disseminated to people, we have groups around the world trying their damndest to drag us back a couple thousand years.
I'm all right with this notion. The ocean is also not entirely explored... And what I know of it right now is freaking terrifying.
As a science fiction fan (a Trekker since 1968), it saddens me to know we will not make contact with another lifeform in my lifetime.
According to some research a human head may remain conscious for up to 30 seconds after decapitation. Most notably, a man named Dr. Beaurieux did a series of experiments in the early 1900’s where he yelled at recently decapitated criminal’s heads and saw a response.
The response was probably pain from having their head cut off and smash onto the floor
*Head hits floor* "Dang it, you gave me a concussion!"
Load More Replies...Not mentioned is the decapitated head that started singing "I ain't got nobody..."
But how’s that possible? You’d need your larynx to produce sound, but it would be detached at that point.
Load More Replies...How long does a person remain conscious once their heart stops beating? Yeah. Once the blood pressure is zero, they're out. Same with losing blood flow to the head. Those twitches and things are just neurons firing and reflexes. The brain might be technically alive for awhile, but they're not conscious.
Yeah, it can't be more than momentary residual consciousness considering the sudden and massive blood loss.
Load More Replies...Imagine being at a family dinner and the nosy aunt asks what you're doing for a living...
There's a documentary in YouTube about him. A lot of eyewitnesses claim he exaggerated his results.
This myth has long since been dismissed. In fact no-one has ever really claimed it's true. Within a second or two, at the absolute most, your blood pressure is zero and unconsciousness is complete. If you were beheaded there is some theories you may not die instantly. But the delay is so brief you certainly wouldn't have time to form the conscious thought "Argg! I've been beheaded!". Most reports of facial sensations after beheading will he involuntary nerve twitches and such like.
The sun could have exploded 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know about it.
No, the Sun can’t explode (unless it somehow annihilates with an antimatter version of itself). The Sun will expand in 5 billion years and its outer layers will cool off because of the expansion leaving a white dwarf behind that will slowly grow colder and colder
I suppose it could be blown up by a sinister race of extraterrestrials!
Load More Replies...No, if it exploded 8 mins ago we'd know. If it exploded 5 mins ago, we'd have to wait another 3 mins before we noticed
Nah, at 8 minutes we'd have to wait another 20 seconds or so. Depending on where the earth is in it's orbit. A little longer in mid July, a little shorter in late December.
Load More Replies...I love how people fear monger about this 😍/sarcasm. As Stardust said, the sun can't explode unless it becomes an antimatter version. It will expand in 5 billion years and will most likely swallow us. And in 5 billion years I don't know if humanity is still going to be alive. And if they are we will just slowly die like the dinosaurs did from the cold. Please don't downvote for disagreement!
Sorry but imo Nobody truly knows if the sun can or can't explode or even if or when it will supposedly expand. That is just an educated guess and 1 of those things that probably will never be known to mankind of what did/didn't happen or the cause. I'm not down voting, I'm stating my opinion, there are some things that can probably never be proven unless it actually happens
Load More Replies...Our sun will never explode. It will expand into a Red Giant, possibly engulfing the Earth, but it won't matter by then. There will be no supernova or resulting black hole.
The bubonic plague is still alive and well and thrives in such places as Africa and the western United states.
Guess we shouldn't let them up our butts then
Load More Replies...It's a flea-borne bacterial disease and easily cured. Don't worry about this one. Usually about 1000-3000 cases a year globally with a few hundred deaths from lack of treatment.
don’t worry about this one guys! it’s easily cured by antibiotics nowadays. :)
OTOH, since it's a bacteria, it's now treatable with antibodies... for now. (And it's still pretty serious, and potentially deadly.)
Back in 2001 or 2 I was working in near Trinidad, Colorado and bought an AK47 at a gun store. Guy asked me if I was going to shoot prairie dogs with it. I told I hadn’t planned to. Then he told me that there was a bounty on every prairie dog you killed cause some kids had caught the bubonic plague from them. From playing outside a preschool where a bunch of prairie dogs were at. Think it’s the fleas that spread it. I never killed any.
Kiwis and pineapples eat your mouth...
Workers in pineapple canneries can over time lose their fingerprints due to extended physical contact with the enzyme bromelain.
But they're so tasty! I can't eat much at a time though because yeah, those enzymes are no joke
I mean Im also allergic to them. Lol. It’s not normal if you can’t breathe when you eat stuff. Don’t be like me and eat stuff you’re allergic to
Eating fresh pineapple just shreds my throat. Next morning, look at the back of my mouth in a mirror, blisters lining entire back of my throat. But...........I still eat it every so often, knowing I will have to face the pain the next day!
Papayas too. Its the enzymes in these fresh fruits that can dissolve meat proteins. My question is, why does a fruit need meat-dissolving enzymes in it in the first place, from an evolutionary point of view
Plants: If our poisons (capsaicin, nicotine etc.) don't kill the humans, eat them instead.
Load More Replies...Put a bit of salt n pineapple or kiwi and they taste sweeter and won't eat your tongue.
If you begin to display [severe] symptoms of rabies you will go crazy and die. There's no cure.
There has only ever been one person to survive the rabies virus without having received immediate medical attention and the vaccine. She was bitten by a bat when she was 15 and doctors put her into a medically induced coma to allow her immune system to fight it off. She does a lot of stuff now to educate people. https://www.wbay.com/2022/09/28/rabies-survivor-shares-story-educate-others/
She also got a tattoo of a bat and said she doesn't blame them at all.
Load More Replies...My brother and I saw a rabid dog outside. We told our dad, he went out with his gun and wouldn't let us follow him. A bit later he buried in the yard. Before I get downvoted my dad is a rancher. He knows how to tell a rabid dog from something else.
"Severe"?!? As if there's such a thing as a mild case of rabies! No, if you begin to exhibit symptoms, you're done for. Oh, and there have been instances of rabies being transmitted by organ transplants. It's not something they generally test for.
I just posted about this happening back in 2004 in my hometown.
Load More Replies...My finger was grazed by a bat on a Friday the 13th. Animal Control killed it and tested it for rabies, it took a few days to be told the results were positive. Off to the ER I went for rabies shots. Its a very, very painful process as they need to aim the needle as close to the nerve as possible over the area several times, injecting whatever the hell they inject and continue upward. So for me, six shots in my finger, several more up my forearm arm then a few more in my upper arm. He hit the nerve a couple of times and Kelllly Clarkson that HURT!
Yep. I got the shots in my leg, but for me they didn't wait to test the rat. Nobody has the rat to get tested anyways. My boss just got rabies shots a month ago after being attacked by a dog. I didn't ask if they tested the dog or not. His was pretty bad though, the dog tore him up
Load More Replies...F**k! That's exactly where I'm itchy on my left wrist at this very moment!!! Is it rabies??? 🤪
Calm down, it's probably just bubonic plague. /j
Load More Replies...The new mRNA technology may soon be giving us a better rabies vaccine. ___ https://www.news-medical.net/news/20221114/A-novel-mRNA-based-vaccine-candidate-against-the-rabies-virus.aspx#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20developed%20a%20novel,published%20in%20the%20Virology%20Journal.
I have a habit of petting/feeding wild/feral animals when I travel the world....got a small bite in 2021 from a coati when I was feeding one after climbing Mt Baru in Panama and lucked out....learned my lesson and got my vaccinations last year before my adventures to Vietnam and Cambodia.
People still die every year from rabies because they don’t think they need to get treatment after a bite. It’s not a pleasant death.
When people are crucified, they rarely die from bleeding out; instead, they die from asphyxiation, or suffocation. The way their bodies are hung makes it almost impossible to breathe unless they physically hold themselves up instead of just hanging there, and after some many hours it gets to be to much, resulting in oxygen deprivation, unconsciousness, and death.
There is no particular reason to bleed out. In the Bible, Jesus was nailed to the cross. But my understanding is the normal practice was to tie people to the cross. So you were stuck there, but not bleeding.
You say "when people are crucified" as if it's still a regular legal punishment.
Church near my home has a sign "Jesus Chose the Cross for us" after reading this I don't think he did.
Also, why would you use a cross?? What if Jesus did come back? It wouldn't be.....welcoming.
Load More Replies...I agree with YaMaOn Toast. That Jesus died on a tree or a upright pole or stake with his hands and arm above him and nailed to the object, not tied with ropes. When the Roman soldier jab Jesus with a spear. It was to make sure that Jesus was dead, not to make him bleed out for him to die.
Most of the time they couldn’t hold themselves up due to people breaking ankles or heels
It probably wasn't a cross, but a pole. Having your arms above your body makes it really hard to breath.
You're right, Annymoose. It was referred to as a tree or stake. A torture stake.
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If you’re murdered theres a very high chance you knew your killer.
I got a pretty big shock when I watched a True Crime story and it turned out the victim's boyfriend who was acting super suspicious WASN'T the killer. She was killed by a total stranger and the boyfriend was acting shifty because he was involved in a major drug deal and therefore didn't want cops looking at the contents of his phone.
3/4 of all women murdered were killed by someone who "loved" them... husband, boyfriend, or ex-husband/boyfriend.
If a child is murdered, it's more likely that it was the parents, a family member or friend of the family. Stranger murders of children are rare.
That statistic changing every year with increased incidents of trafficking.
Load More Replies...Statistically, stalking is a femicide method. According to NCADV, "76% of women murdered by an intimate partner were stalked first, while 85% of women who survived murder attempts were stalked." Jan 30, 2017
Plot twist you and your killer existed in a previous life as lifetime rival's and now they've gotten vengeance!
Utterly unsurprising. What reason does a complete stranger have to murder you?
In the commission of a robbery ... escalation of a fight ... drug deal gone bad... There's a reason people stay out of bad neighborhoods
Load More Replies...Most likely to murder you? A live-in lover. Perversely, these are usually reported in stats as if they occurred between married couples.
The possibility of conscious anaesthesia paralysis
This happened to me when I was intubated 3 years ago. It is indeed as utterly horrific as it sounds.
Oh god, please tell me at least you couldn’t feel it??
Load More Replies...I read of a case where an anesthesiologist had become addicted to the drugs they use to put people under, and had started stealing it from the hospital supply. In order to hide the addiction, they would steal a certain amount from a number of bottles, and then dilute the rest to make the bottles seem full. They had a few patients report being awake, aware and in pain during surgery and eventually tracked it down. Just the idea of it frightens me.
I had a family member who was a nurse and this person was taking patients pain meds and replacing it with water.
Load More Replies...i'm having surgery friday. cheers ! hopefully we make it.
Load More Replies...Also: apparently you can wake from anaesthesia completely insane ("emergence agitation"), and need to be "reset." I woke up one time urgently needing to tell people something I realized. It took 8 people to hold me down. They told me this isn't that rare. I don't remember any of it. But there is a little part of me that's pissed nobody heard me out. I mean... what if I was right?
And then there's the red heads. Seriously. Look it up. Redheads need more anesthesia than usual! Fun fact
I woke up during surgery on a broken ankle ten years ago. Not my favorite thing ever, but the anaesthesiologist caught it because of the rise in heart rate and blood pressure. It was about ten to fifteen seconds. The skank orthopedic surgeon tried to deny it but I told him I already knew I came through the surgery with one leg longer because of it.
I came up during wisdom teeth surgery. All I remember is a lot of painful pressure in my jaw (my wisies were all impacted) and trying to raise my hand like my dentist had taught me to do if I ever felt pain during an operation, and then nothing.
Wisdom teeth removal surgery. I made eye contact with a nurse who had her hands on my shoulders, holding me down. It's a flash of a memory.
Load More Replies...there's a procedure that has the patient fully conscious while having a procedure done. supposedly, you are supposed to be giddy up to the gills due to medication but my experience was that i was just a happy camper and kept chatting away at the doctor while he worked away in my abdomen. he kept asking me if i could feel anything and i didn't. i remember being really scared and nervous when they told me i would be awake during it but once they got the meds on board i didn't feel anything. and, it was not a spinal either as all meds were through an IV. afterwards, the doctor came in to my room and told me that it was very unusual to have a person awake enough to have a coherent conversation but that he was not comfortable giving me any more of the meds he was using as long as i was comfortable and not in pain.
Alright I collected some of my favourite scary facts from an app I really like called Thunder Dungeon.
They have all types of memes and facts and stuff so it was all written in pictures I had to manually write them down.
1. There's an episode of sesame street that had to be pulled off the air in 76' cause it was so scary, parents complained their children are screaming in horror at the TV.
2. There's a disease nicknamed Ondine's Curse, which causes suffers to die if they fall asleep.
3. On August 26th 1968, every TV in America shut down for 25 seconds, there was a murmuring sound coming from the TV and people reported hearing a demon.
4. In 1994 a man was arrested for dressing as the grim reaper and standing outside old people's homes.
5. It only takes about 7 pounds of pressure to rip off an ear.
6. There is an island in Italy that is supposedly so haunted that the government forbids the public from visiting it.
7. There's a syndrome called Charles Bonnet Syndrome that have been called "a window into a parallel universe". People who has it are prone to seeing bright lights, weird shapes and scary faces. The thing about this syndrome is that all those who suffer from it are almost exclusively blind or vision impaired.
8. When a bear attacks you, he will most likely start eating you alive rather than killing you first.
9. At any possible moment, Earth could be hit be a Gamma Ray Burst which will extinguish most if not all life on the planet.
10. A woman in St.Louis was watching a TV documentary about a serial killer who tortured and killed women, when she realized she was living in his former apartment.
11. There's a Caterpillar so poisonous, just brushing your finger on to it can cause internal bleeding in your brain.
12. In 1942, a man known as the phantom barber would break into people's house while they were sleeping to steal a lock from their hair. He was never identified.
13. There's a fish called a Stone Fish, it's so venomous that if you step on it you could die in 20 minutes.
14. According to a recent study, 1 in 5 CEOs demonstrated psychopathic traits. Another population with similar proportions of psychopaths is the prison population.
15. There was a guy from New York who owned a car with the license plate 5V 1732. He died on May 17, 1932.
That's all folks!
Edit: fact number three, the time of the shut down was 25 seconds, not minutes.
The Sesame Street episode was a totally innocent episode. It just starred the actress who played the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, in full costume. Kids got scared of her. That's all. Nothing sinister here.
Charles Bonnet syndrome is about hallucinations. Not about parallel universes. The “scary” Sesame Street episode was when Margaret Hamilton was the guest star, and was there in all of her green make up as the wicked witch. I could go on.
Load More Replies...Number six is definitely some covert government project they're trying to keep hidden from the public and it is not, in fact, haunted, because ghosts don't exist.
I think it is referring to an island in the Venetian lagoon which formerly had an insane asylum with a truly wicked reputation.
Load More Replies...Psychopathic traits is not the same as being diagnosed with psychopathy and I suspect in the prison population the traits are more due to previous trauma, disability, mental illness and substance use disorder than a diagnosable psychopathy. Not sure I could say the same for very rich CEOs though.
Charles Bonnet syndrome isn't known as 'window into a parallel universe.' Its a condition describing visual hallucinations that occur during vision loss. People losing their vision are more likely to be elderly and suffer from degenerative conditions such as macular degeneration. As your vision worsens, the neural connections and pathways in the brain become disorganised-the hallucinations are part of the visual cortex of the brain trying to make sense of the signals. The hallucinations tend to go away with time as the brain adjusts. It's not some wierd paranormal activity, or a multidimensional timeslip or any of the other ridiculous theories, it's a side effect of illness.
The two scariest things on Sesame Street were Don Music, who shouted and banged his head on the piano, and some horrific singing orange - it screamed out opera lyrics and lost its eyebrows or hair
You never stop watching with your eyes, even when you close them.
Another one: This topic will be dead in few days O.O
You can see someone's eyes move behind their eyelids. Watch someone sleep when they're going through REM sleep. (Rapid Eye Movement)
Instructions unclear, now being charged for stalking
Load More Replies...When I'm reading a really good book on my kindle, I can go off to sleep and in my sleep I'm.still turning the pages and reading the story. Makes me tired the next morning.
It's easy to notice when you close your eyes and face a bright light like the sun. If you then move your hand in front of your eyes, you can see your hand moving.
You can still see it's just black, it's like turning off TV and saying you're not watching TV, you're still watching it just not any films
There’s such a thing as “hair splinters.” Hairdressers deal with it all the time after cutting particularly coarse hair, the small pieces can stick in you like a splinter and pose risk of mega infections if you’re unable to get them out.
I’ve seen a stylist friend of mine lose a whole finger due to one tiny sliver of hair.
I get hairs stuck in the soles of my feet all the time, just today, as a matter of fact.
Yes! At least 3 times I have had a dog hair stuck in my foot. I wear slippers most of the time. So weird that Spocks's hair is so dangerous and painful.
Load More Replies...I used to work as a Podiatry Nurse, I finally made the department order me a pair of high magnification lenses so I could see the hair splinters. It is very difficult to see pure white or grey hair splinters. But the relief when they are out is amazing. They hurt like you can't imagine. Who would think that something that grew out of our own bodies could be so problematic when it enters into a different part of our bodies.
My ex-wife used to be a dog groomer and she often complained about dog hairs stuck into her hands & arms. Sort of like playing with fiberglass insulation. This is why many dog groomers today wear long sleeves and gloves.
Well, there goes my hair appointment. My hair itexture is fine but I don't want to take a chance.
I have had this happen several times, in the soles of my feet, after a home hair cut. The first time freaked me out; after that, I quickly recognized the problem and started searching.
A hairdresser cuts a blind man's hair while his guide dog fixes the hairdresser with his eyes during each step of the work. The blind man senses the hairdresser's discomfort and says, "If he growls, you can put down the scissors!"
Bed bugs can survive for up to a year without feeding under the correct temperatures. As adults the females can lay 300 eggs in their lifetimes. You could be spending thousands of dollars and eventually just get infested again. And bed bugs are making a comeback after almost being eradicated.
In addition whenever they become ‘stressed’ by spraying they go dormant. Bedbug eggs are also sticky, so are notorious hitchhikers. Places like behind baseboards, electrical outlets, electronics, inside furniture, crevices in the floors, the places that they can fit into and multiply at an astonishing rate are endless. They are becoming immune to insecticides. A combination of pyrethroids, diatomaceous earth, bagging every and storing outside after laundering, keeping bed legs in containers with baby oil, vacuuming 2/3 hours per day for months might, might with diligence eradicate them. Frying anything that can be fried in the dryer. Beware of scavenging, seal second hand clothes tightly in plastic bags until you can dry them in high heat for 30/35 minutes. Secondhand purchases need to be sealed with clear varnish, steam cleaned or put I to the dryer to kill the eggs, nymphs and adults is critical.
I work at a thrift store and never heard of any workers having problems with bedbugs. However, when I buy something it goes straight into the hamper, washed with a good laundry detergent, vinegar and borax. Then in the dryer for a good 60 minutes. But I'm going to be more wary, now.
Load More Replies...There is a great video on youtube testing methods. Summary of best: 1. Heat 120F for a few minutes (dryer). 2. Freeze several days. 3 diatomaceous earth 'poofed' (light dusting not clumped). 4. Starve for 300 days. Such as if you put a plastic case over mattress, wait 300 days. (a lot of commercial chemical / electronic didn't work any better than placebo )
I've read that if you travel and the weather cooperates, store your luggage in your car for an hour or two to either freeze it or heat it.
Load More Replies...I had them 5 years ago. They were coming in from my neighbor's condo. He had a super heavy infestation and left it go on too long so they started spreading to surrounding condos. It was a nightmare. So much prep as far as having to remove items that would get damaged from heat treatment. Forgot a few things that ended up getting ruined.
Friends almost rented a house that apparently had infestation. Landlord apparently tried to eradicate them by painting every surface. He chose 1 color: a flat brown. Sprayed ceilings, walls, wooden floors, cabinets, bathtub, toilet... house was a poop-brown nightmare.
Load More Replies...Read somewhere that one of the main ways bedbugs spread is from staying in hotel rooms. Previous people may have brought them in on luggage, clothing, etc. Then next hotel guest gets to take some extra passengers home in their suitcase. And this can go on and on until hotel clears them out. But the very next guest could bring a bunch in with them. It's a gamble every time.
Are they worse than fleas? I had a kitty once who got infested and it took forever to get her flealess and my apartment cleaned. And I didn't want to use chemicals on her so I used a flea comb and that took multiple sessions.
Load More Replies...Steam cleaners were a game changer for us. Had an infestation that was small and fortunately limited to our bedroom. After battling these godforsaken things for 3 years we finally managed to eradicate them with a steam cleaner applied to every seam and crevice in the bed frame. Haven’t seen one in six months. Hopefully it stays that way
Same for us. Got a clothes steamer and that helped a lot with getting them manageable before calling Orkin.
Load More Replies...I've had the misfortune of briefly living with cockroaches, but never bed bugs. I want to keep it that way.
Neighbor had them. She got rid of everything! Couches, beds, soft headboards, blankets, curtains, rugs, anything that was fabric and lastly all the carpet. She stayed with her son during all this and had the exterminator bring in the bedbug smelling dog for the final inspection before getting the new carpet installed. It was a long expensive process
You can have a heart attack and die at any second because of a heart problem you never knew about. There's one called Brugada syndrome which has no physical evidence and most people aren't diagnosed with it until they drop down dead and testing is done on immediate family members (it's genetic) and one of THEM is diagnosed with it. Happened to my father. We found out because I'm the one tested who has it, my uncle and brother got the all clear, chances are my grandad has it too (4 heart attacks since he was in his mid 40s)
Your grandad has survived 4 heart attacks after his mid 40s? I feel like he's both unlucky (for having so many) and extremely lucky (for surviving)
I worked with a man who had had 8 heart attacks in his life and was pronounced dead twice in his 50’s. He always came back to work, and as far as I know is still alive a few years later, crazy stuff.
Load More Replies...I have Lupus & it attacked my brain. First indication was me lying in bed at night, waiting for sleep, when I felt all the blood in my body stop moving. There was also the sudden absence of sound of my heart beating, although I had never been consciously aware of the sound before. We all hear our hearts beating but are so used to it that we don't notice until it's gone. I had experienced a minor heart attack which was caused by the Lupus messing with the part of the brain that sends electrical signals to the heart so that it beats. Scariest experience of my life. I'm on beta-blockers for life now.
My sister's boyfriend dropped dead 3 days after his 26th birthday from a heart defect that they had no idea about. I'm just now wondering if their kids should be tested?
Pedant here, but a heart attack is a myocardial infarction (a blockage in the cardiac arteries). Brugada syndrome is an electrical fault in the heart. A heart attack can cause cardiac arrest if bad enough, but they're not the same thing. What people die from is cardiac arrest, not a heart attack.
So true! Because I have Brugada Syndrome & died a few years back Not from a heart attack, it's from sudden cardiac arrest
Load More Replies...How does the person in the picture expect the defibrillator to work when the patient still has their shirt on?
My dad's family have all died fairly young, aged 48-62, from massive heart attacks. Dad was 51. I had an attack this past November at age 46. All tests I've had since have been normal. Dad had no preexisting heart problems. I have hypertension, tachycardia, PVCs, and mitral valve prolapse diagnosed in 1999. I also smoked for around 23+ years, dad never did. I've lost over 100 pounds in the last 3 years, dad was always very fit. This makes me wonder...
Ohh I know a family who have this.. they found out by accident and it explained some deaths in their fam. Had their daughter checked to be sure and yup
People massively over estimate their chance of survival after cardiac arrest. On TV shows, you see them clutch their chest and collapse, a nurse yells 'Clear!' gives them one shock and 20 minutes later they are sitting up in bed with a cup of tea. In fact, even if you arrest in a hospital with a cardiac arrest response team and you get immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation, your chance of survival is less than 20%. Survival without neurological deficit is less than 10%. If you have a cardiac arrest in a public area but not a hospital, its about 5%. You have to 'die' in a very specific way for cardiopulmonary resuscitation to work-ventricular fibrillation responds to electric shocks, asystole (when your heart stops beating completely) doesn't.
There are several species of mushroom that implant their spores into insects, creating a kind of zombie that will lose their mind, wander off, die and their corpse will be used as fuel for the next generation of mushroom.
Ding ding ding. Cordyceps, the zombie fungus in The Last Of Us. One type is a highly valued medication in traditional Chinese medicine. Ophiocordyceps Sinensis parasitizes the larvae of the ghost moth and it is incredibly expensive. It's season is very short in the high steppes of Mongolia, but if you find enough it can make you enough money to support your family for a year to the next season.
Load More Replies...Fungi are truly amazing and very underrated and not very well understood or studied
And with cicadas the fungus becomes an StD: males will have their genitals eaten off by the fungus, then mimic the females so they attract another male to mate with them, and pass it on! A transgender cicada fungus.
Makes mushrooms suddenly less likeable.. I might just have some for dinner tomorrow.
Reminds me of Toxoplasma gondii, which infects a mouse's brain, removing its fear of cats. When the infected mouse smells cat urine, it goes towards it and gets eaten. And that's how cats wind up with T. gondii.
They all travel to a higher point so that when the fungi bursts from the body, the spores can catch wind better and spread far out
When someone dies, the last thing the dying person senses is the sense of hearing, then touch, smell, and taste.
The first sense that is usually gone is sight.
Ask the guy who was yelling at decapitated heads.
Load More Replies...I had an internal rupture and was hemorrhaging in the ER. The triage team tried to sit me up on the gurney and I passed out, my head dropped forward. I heard a nurse say, "Put her down, she's gone" and inside my head I was screaming "I'm not dead!" TL;dr I didn't die.
When my aunt was dying (at home) and not really conscious anymore, the nurse warned us to be careful what we were saying while sitting in the next room. She said dying people could still hear, and not only that, they often heard very well because the other senses were not distracting their perception.
I was under anaesthesia and when I started to wake up, I could only hear but couldn't move. I thought I was paralysed and in a coma and got a massive panic attack. Took an hour to stop crying and shaking uncontrollably. It's scary as f*ck when your only working sense is hearing.
"The last thing... then..." So do they lose hearing then taste, or taste then hearing?
Just as our bodies are made to be born (think of the fontanelles of a baby's head, which can slide over each other to fit more easily through the birth canal), the body is also made to die. Don't worry, you won't feel it, it's just a vehicle that you can just get out of later.
Sure. And even with all of the innovative technologies we have now, it’s truly all hypothesis. We’ll never really know. Until we know. 😉
If some philosophical leeway is allowed, then, Your Honor, it results from this that, insofar as the assertion, which was able to trigger my optical affinity, was to mean at the top, that deaf, deafened and also non-hearing people are either IMMORTAL or in a rather cynical-macabre way of thinking in the fatalistic-New Caledonian approach can only lead to the assumption that these respective target group participants must ALREADY BE DEAD. Therefore, I plead for acquittal in affect, since it could not be proven that a negligent suicide could be or was committed.
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Your body can kill itself just to get rid of a foreign organism.
A baby..? It came from another body so that explains many woman's death after birth
You have almost a 90% chance of breaking a rib by giving effective CPR
And that is completely fine. Effective CPR requires very forceful compressions, much more forceful than what you generally see on TV. The compressions also need to be a lot faster. The advice from the NHS (National Health Service in the UK): Place the heel of your hand on the centre of the person's chest, then place the palm of your other hand on top and press down by 5 to 6cm (2 to 2.5 inches) at a steady rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute. After every 30 chest compressions, give 2 rescue breaths. Remember, it is better to be alive with some broken ribs than to be dead with perfect ribs.
All to the beat of ‘another one bites the dust’ or ‘staying alive’. Nurse here 👋
Load More Replies...Broken rib pain for a couple of weeks or being dead 24/7. Decisions decisions
Load More Replies...If you don't break ribs, you're doing it wrong. Also, the chances of someone surviving after having to have CPR done in a non hospital setting are almost none
It's actually higher than you think. Giving CPR until an ambulance arrives increases a person's survival chances to around 7%. If you have access to a public defibrilator and use it within 5 minutes along with effective CPR can increase survival chances to over 25%.
Load More Replies...And CPR is also not so much about getting the heart going again, but more to keep the blood flowing through the body, which the heart cannot do at that moment, because it is stationary or arhythmic.
Keep the oxygenated blood circulating to the brain
Load More Replies...The last time I took a CPR class, the instructor repeatedly told us what to do if the person vomits during it. About halfway through the class he said something along the lines of, "OK, let's be honest here, it's not a case of 'if' they vomit, but 'when.'"
Only ever performed in on pets not persons, saved baby goats and a dog
Pooping can kill you because of a major nerve that is involved in the heart
Ya. God, in his wisdom connected your r€c+um to your heart. What a concept! Note, I had to go back and figure out a creative way to type out the name of an area of human anatomy because BP censored the actual word. Come on folks! It’s anatomy.
Load More Replies...King George II of Great Britain was said to have died while "straining at stool" [from Wikipedia: On the morning of 25 October (1760) he rose as usual at 6:00 am, drank a cup of hot chocolate, and went to his close stool alone. After a few minutes, his valet heard a loud crash and entered the room to find the king on the floor; his physician, Frank Nicholls, recorded that he "appeared to have just come from his necessary-stool, and as if going to open his escritoire". The King was lifted into his bed, and Princess Amelia was sent for; before she reached him, he was dead. At the age of nearly 77 he had lived longer than any of his English or British predecessors. A post-mortem revealed that the King had died as the result of a thoracic aortic dissection.]
Some people have a vasovagal response from straining and pass out while pooping. Pretty embarrassing and potentially messy 😅
I have this. Never passed out completely yet but come close. And I get nauseous as well
Load More Replies...There have been 32 reported "broken arrow" incidents in the USA since 1950 (many more in former Soviet countries and other nuclear powers). A broken arrow incident is basically an accident where they lost a nuclear weapon. Edit: Apparently losing a weapon is called an "empty quiver" incident
Thrasher was lost when I was a little girl. We were at a Navy base and the lady we visited husband was on it when it disappeared. I was around 6 but remember that evening of comforting her. We thought it got stuck on and underwater ledge and couldn't get free causing all the men to starve to death. A few years ago it was learned it imploded for going too deep. They died instantly. It was a nuclear submarine I believe.
USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark. On 10 April 1963, Thresher sank during deep-diving tests about 350 km (220 mi) east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, killing all 129 crew and shipyard personnel aboard. Deep-sea photography, recovered artifacts, and an evaluation of Thresher's design and operational history permitted a court of inquiry to conclude that the submarine had probably suffered the failure of a salt-water piping system joint that relied heavily on silver brazing instead of welding. High-pressure water spraying from a broken pipe joint may have shorted out one of the many electrical panels, causing a shutdown ("scram") of the reactor, which in turn caused loss of propulsion.
Load More Replies...A broken arrow is also an incident when you’ve been overrun by the enemy and call an air strike on yourselves.
I live within fifty miles of the last known locations of TWO! ( Same crash) one they think buried itself so deep in the ground it can't be recovered the other they recovered. I wonder if this farmer ever has any prize winning pumpkins at the state fair? https://www.businessinsider.com/nuclear-bomb-accident-goldsboro-nc-swamp-2017-5?amp
Broken arrow is an unexpected incident involving a nuclear weapon including accidental launch, theft or loss of weapon.
I watched Broken Arrow the other night. John Travolta was very good at acting the evil antagonist.
every year you pass your death day but you don’t know when it is
Why? Sometimes I think about this. "Maybe this day will my my death anniversary in the future?" Its like a future birthday, but super sad and awful.
Load More Replies...that's unsettling...for all i know it could very well be today
I to have always planned on shuffling loose this mortal coil at 83.
Load More Replies...how do you pass a death day? you're death day is literally the day you die . I mean you can pass your birthday day lol
Coconuts kill more people than sharks kill people every year.
Again lots more people walking under coconut trees than people swimming with sharks
Fact: my math teacher yelled at me and kept giving me zeros for using the crocodile thing on comparing nunbers
So do cows, bees, falling trees etc Sharks are responsible for less than 5 deaths a year globally
There is a theory in quantum cosmology. It is the hypothesis that our universe is actually a 'false vacuum', meaning that it isn't in its most stable possible configuration. Think of a ball rolling on a surface having several local minima (dents in the surface) but there is only one global minima (the dent which is the deepest). The ball may be in one of the dents which is not the deepest one. So, it is stable for now, but, given the chance it will slide to the deepest dent, which is the lowest energy configuration possible, the so-called 'true vacuum'.
Now the interesting part. If our universe is, indeed, in a false vacuum, due to something called 'quantum tunneling', it may 'tunnel' into the true vacuum, creating a bubble of lower energy. Once this lower energy bubble is formed, it expands, engulfing the entire universe, destroying everything we know as is, and creating new laws of physics. The speed of expanding is the speed of light, so we would have no information whatsoever about it before it hits us. We will literally never see it coming.
The really scary and really useless part? There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
This just feels like a hypothesis rather than an actual fact/stat? If the premise that our universe is in a false vacuum is just a hypothesis and not a fact, everything else is just a conjecture.
blah blah blah - there is a very slim chance of something happening and if it does happen you will never know about it. Okay then. There is also a slim chance a jet will suddenly crash through the roof of my house and kill me but I'd never know it. Not going to worry about either.
it's almost like this article is about USELESS scary facts
Load More Replies...Actually, all those "we have no means of seeing it coming" don't frighten me at all. Why? Because, certainly, THAT time, nobody will see it as my fault. I just wish I knew a few weeks in advance, so I could stop caring about stuff that takes longer than that to fall apart... If I knew the world is to end in 3 weeks, I'd ralk my a ss off to gather some mafia-issued credit that is to be returned in 4 weeks.
It's called vacuum decay, and kurzgesagt has a great video on their youtube channel where this is pictured nicely.
Scary? A hypothetical scenario, when we already know our Sun will go Red Giant, and that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies have been on a collision course this entire time. However, a wicked cool plot for a sci-fi movie.
For me, it's the fact that you can go crazy at any point, and even worse, you could have already lost it and you'd have a great chance of never finding out, making it virtually impossible to stop the trip downwards.
This. So much this. I sometimes wonder if my husband and kids are real. Or if I’ve lost my mind and made it all up.
I've been in psychosis after traumatic experiences mixed with iv drug use. I was in psychosis for about 2 years. This was 7 years ago. I didn't know how to decipher reality and it was really scary.
Using the term “go crazy” is archaic and insulting. Symptoms of a mental illness will be seen the more people educate themselves about mental illness and diagnoses with similar symptoms.
the paris climate accord relies on technologies that do not yet exist, and might never exist, to pull carbon dioxide from the air by future generations. if we reach the paris climate accord goals, including using technologies that do not exist yet, there is at least an 50% chance of staying under the predicted catastrophic temperature rise. Literally coinflipping humanity.
why is this a useless scary fact? because there literally is jack s**t you can do about it in our current societies, beyond voting.
We don't need to invent carbon capturing machines, because we already have them. Plants. The plants that capture the most carbon are planktonic algae that live in the ocean. Every year, humans inadvertently dump more nitrogen into the ocean than it's naturally supposed to have. The algae love this, actually, because plants love nitrogen. Unfortunately, plants also love iron, which we don't dump into the ocean. Only a little bit naturally trickles in from the land. The nitrogen causes the algae to bloom in abundance, and they use up all the iron. Then they get stressed out and some species start producing toxins at that point. Then they die and begin to decompose, killing fish. So, all we need to do is start putting iron dust into the ocean where we know these blooms occur. The algae won't get stressed, and they'll capture more carbon then ever. If and when we ever stop needing the algae, we can taper the iron off slowly so it doesn't die all at once. We're already adding too much nitrogen, anyway, so we might as well use it. It might buy us the time we need to fix the other things that are contributing to the problem. The idea was cooked up by John Martin who is quoted as saying, "Give me a half tanker of iron, and I will give you an ice age.” Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization#:~:text=Iron%20fertilization%20is%20the%20intentional,2)%20sequestration%20from%20the%20atmosphere.
Believe it or not, you can also vote with your dollars....but NOT supporting single use plastic, unfair trade policies, unsustainable products, etc. Convincing people they have no power isn't actually helpful. Yes, voting helps, but who benefits from brainwashing everyone into believing their choices don't matter? the companies convincing you to buy their bad choices.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin's latest data: There has been no global warming over the past decade. Instead, global cooling continues for the 8th consecutive year. The NASA satellite data finds a 0.11 degree decade drop in avg. global temps over the last 8 years, 5 months. Also, inc. global temps mean more rain which can chemically weather certain rocks, leading to dec CO2, which leads to lower global temps, simply put. Does earth have a thermostat?
John Kerry disagrees & said it doesn't matter because they already made a New Green Deal and that deal means everybody suffer w/out AC, a reliable car, a stove to cook dinner on all while we continue to make his pockets greener so he can enjoy flying around comfortably
Load More Replies...I would say that they "don't exist" but they are in brilliant minds that don't have money or investment and would "take the benefits " of big corporations for example why we use gas instead of nitrogen as rockets do? well that's something that cames to my mind a lot =_=
There is something you can do about it. It's called proletariat revolution and reforming our society to be eco-friendly by principle (green anarchism) rather than focusing around an infinite drive for growth at the cost of the earth (modern capitalism).
If only we had been warned anytime in the last century. Oh woe is us. With any luck, the next apex species will be comprised of less a-holes.
I dunno how useless this is but; You are never 100% safe.
Think about it, no matter what scenario you put yourself in, there will always be some sort of counter measure. Let's say you built a concrete room that is 10 inches wide with no doors and windows underground, an earthquake could happen, a sinkhole could open up, a ravine could open up, etc.
No matter how safe a situation sounds, it can NEVER be 100% safe.
Edit: However, it is good at making people paranoid tho.
This sounds like some teenage logic trying to scare someone. They have been doing probability in maths and learnt nothing is 100% certain
If it's truly certain that nothing is 100% certain, then it would be 100% certain that nothing is 100% certain, which would be impossible, because then at least one thing IS 100% certain. So somewhere must be something that's 100% certain. I'm pretty sure as of now it's 100% certain that every human being was born at some point. I'd also argue it's 100% certain that everyone dies at one point in life.
Load More Replies...Ehm . . . If you're in a concrete room with no doors or windows You're already in a bad place without the earthquake.
Yup, I'm pretty sure that's called "buried alive." Definitely not a situation you want to find yourself in.
Load More Replies...I have a security system, two large dogs and a gun. I don't intend to be the low-hanging fruit, but someone who really knows how to break into a house could certainly break into mine.
You will never be safe as long as your heart is beating. It could stop at any moment.
A 10 inch-wide room would be VERY claustrophobic. Worrying about the rest would be the last thing on your mind.
Ah, hell. I live alone. Every meal or snack could be my last. Can't self-Heimlich.
Sounds like this was written by the goth teenagers who hang out behind our graveyard.
You can have a heart muscle disease and never know it, and possibly die. True story, my dad had a cardiac arrest last November (he's 49yo) because apparently he has a heart muscle disease. Never showed any signs, works out regularly, relatively young - and he almost died out of nothing.
I searched I up….worst idea ever. I was better not knowing this
Load More Replies...My brother had his heart valve replaced at age 43. He had no idea he was even sick.
No. Most heart attacks are caused by a blockage of a cardiac vessel, which causes the heart muscle to be starved of oxygen and stop beating. Other causes can be electrical i.e. arrhythmias that have nothing to do with the muscle that is the heart, but conduction problems in the nerves that operative the heart muscle.
Load More Replies...Yes, a consultant at a place I used to work was walking along the beach with his family, when he began to have a heart attack. Was on the phone to 000 while he was dying. Was 26 years old; never smoked, never drank and left behind a wife who couldn't speak English and two young children. He was from Iraq, though that is just an aside and not anything to do with his heart attack
Goblin sharks. That's it.
"The goblin shark is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old." - Wikipedia. I couldn't work out how to put a picture in but have a google, they look very cool/terrifying.
Don't forget the fact that the second largest macropredatory fish alive today ( the Greenland Shark) has been filmed being extremely aggressive and fast when in danger, and it's a fish you can literally swim next to in the wild without any worries.
They certainly are scary looking, but why worry about a deep-sea creature that you'll never, ever come face-to-face with when there are such terrors right here in the neighborhood?
In a couple of billion years the sun will expand rapidly and consume the earth. There is nothing we can do to stop this
Biillion years into the future, humanity (or more correctly, species that replace us) may have the technological capability to move earth into a safer orbit.
Billions of years into the future man will probably be as extinct as the dinosaurs.
Load More Replies...We’ll be wiped out before that either because of ourselves or because the sun will cause a huge global warming and turn earth into Venus. Whichever comes first
My vote is on ourselves as the most likely way we go out.
Load More Replies...In 5 billion years (because it is 5 billion, not a couple billion), what we consider life would probably be unrecognizable anyway. There has been life on Earth for only 3.7 billion years, so less than the time between now and when the sun burns out, and those earliest lifeforms were microbes. It took at least another 2 billion years before we see multicellular organisms.
Yeah, as if the human race in it's present form will last 5 billion years. I give us another century or two, tops before we start mutating into something that can survive what we've done to the planet.
Dogs love squeaky toys because the sound mimics small animal's cries of agony after being bitten.
If it's true, then you must know that it's instinctual for them to enjoy that sound.
My pup loves his squeaky toys so much. And I love to watch him play with them
Babies are actually obligate carnivores and opportunistic ambush predators /j
Load More Replies...My dog, a husky bear, goes NUTS for a squeaky toy. Like legit putting on whole concerts and making Beyonce look like an amateur. And I admit, I'm disturbed as much as I think it's adorable.
I came here to say: beware of squeaker toys. They can be incredibly dangerous. One of my cattle dogs swallowed a squeaker and it caused a small bowel obstruction. We didn't know what his "mystery illness" was because the squeaker was hard to identify with normal imaging. Our vet threw everything she could think of at the problem. "Maybe it's Cushings Disease, let's try this. Maybe it's Addisons, try this. Maybe it's Ehrlichia, etc." Finally, we took him to a veterinary hospital with better equipment and they were able to identify it and perform a small bowel resection. The whole ordeal caused him a lot of unnecessary suffering and cost $10,000. He lived happily for one more year, but that was the beginning of the end. RIP, Dooders. You were my best friend.
I'm so sorry you lost Dooders. Thank you for sharing his story with us <3 we'll remember him too now.
Load More Replies...After owning a duck for the past year, can confirm, all the sounds they make are like the toys my mums dogs goes nuts over, especially baby duck sounds
Not necessarily. My greyhounds would lose interest in the toy once the squeak was gone
Load More Replies...People used to rip out the teeth of dead soldiers on battlefields to sell for dentures.
And in later wars gold teeth were pried out of dead bodies by gold-hunting soldiers to be melted down for profit.
The Nazis did this to their victims in the death camps. 😢
Load More Replies...A church in the czech republic knows as the sedlec ossuary or church of bones has decoration of skulls and other human bones. It is know for this church to hold remains of up to 40,000 humans.
Little bit about that... the people wanted to be burned on holy ground (so in the churches property) so instead they ended up with there remain in the church as decorations
When I see the pictures I always imagine flesh still attached to the bones and then it's suddenly a lot less beautiful
There is a planet in the solar system populated entirely by robots.
Yup true. And to that planent, these robots are aliens from outer space.
Poor Oppy at least got to say goodbye though 😭
Load More Replies...Mars, it’s got rovers like Curiousity, Insight etc
Load More Replies...Just because you’re dead, doesn’t mean you immediately stop perceiving stimulations around you. It takes a bit for your brain to die of oxygen deprivation and shut down. So there’s a good chance that when you die that you’re trapped in your body realizing you’re dead with no way to stop it. This fact has been semi-confirmed by people who experience temporary death in hospitals, and recall nurses and doctors rushing around them trying to revive them.
So those people are not dead, they're dying. Dead people don't feel anything. But it's a fact that things that will definitely kill you will take some time to do so, during wich you can still sense what's happening around you. Sad and horrifying fact: you can't donate organs when you're truly biologically dead. As soon as a body is fully dead, all the organs immediately start to break down and cannot be transplanted anymore. That's why the legal definition of 'clinically death' actually means you are dying but not yet fully dead, but it's extremely unlikely to impossible to save your life. And now comes the really scary part: the test they do to find out if you are truly brain dead could kill you if you're not. That's why the doctor's diagnosis must be made beforehand to say that you're brain dead, if the doctor isn't sure, the test cannot be made.
Can I just say thank you doctors. You have the worst jobs, most stressful, and playing with lives, a single mistake probably killing someone and people are angry at you all the time, and people ignore the advice you give. I just want to say, I see you, and thank you so so much
Load More Replies...When the Spartacus Revolt was put down, the legions placed 6,000 crucified slaves alongside the Appian Way, the main road leading to Rome. Imagine walking for miles into Washington, DC, with the screams of men accompanying you every step of the way, hundreds upon hundreds of people being nailed to wood and left to rot.
It wasn't just that one time it was like that all the time. Crucifixion was common corporal punishment back then. So when Christ was put on the cross he was not there with two other fellas. It was a huge long line of crosses down the road. Source- college art history class. Maybe that is why the exact spot he died has not been identified as far as I know.
I'd rather be crucified than impaled! I read an eye witness account of what implement really involves. Eesh.
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Cannibalism isn’t illegal in the UK.
Does it matter? I mean the real problem is the method(s) of obtaining the meat and they do have laws about that.
Laws are only out in place when they are needed, the British tribes stopped practicing cannibalism long before laws were recorded. It's when there is an actively enforced law where you need to worry, like in Papua New Guinea where it was outlawed in the 1970's, but is still known to be practiced by rural tribes in the impenetrable highlands. They had a serious outbreak of mad coa disease in the 1980's which was spread through eating the brains of infected humans. Sadly it was mostly the women and children who are the brains...
I'm confused. British tribes??? Do you mean the Celts? As far as I'm aware, we don't have tribes...
Load More Replies...Not remotely funny. Savage murder is NEVER funny!
Load More Replies...While it is not outright illegal, in instances where the bodies of those who have died aren’t treated with dignity and respect the “criminal law can intervene and there are a number of offenses that may apply: preventing the lawful burial of a body, outraging public decency, public nuisance, perverting the course of justice, removing human tissue without consent and so on.”
Only “Frowned?” And only in“Certain circles?” Welp I’m never going to uk now
Load More Replies...Not necessary. Murder is illegal. Bodily harm is illegal.
Load More Replies...There are some times some creep could watch you sleep or shower and you may not know
Yeah…there was a guy in the DFW area breaking into apartments in the night and watching women sleep. One night I had a nightmare that someone was in my apartment. When I woke up, my keys were in the wrong place and the front door was unlocked.
I got filmed in the shower once by my dad's nighttime caregiver. My SISTER is the one who found the camera and videotape. He also would walk around the house when he was supposed to be watching my dad and he would sometimes come into my bedroom and stare at me before I replaced my doorknob with one that locked. My mom brushed it off and told me "Well, who is going to watch your dad at night if we fire the caregiver? YOU???" The caregiver had worked for our family business before we hired him to take care of my dad, and my mom viewed the guy as a family friend. So, my mom chose the creep who filmed her daughter in the shower over the daughter herself. Yep, I'm still upset about it, and she still refuses to hear about it.
Load More Replies...Yep, he's called Orion and he's my cat... damn cute and lovely creep!!
I stayed in a hotel in Auckland as a teen with other teen girls, there was a hole carved into the floor of the bathroom. One of the others was getting out of the shower and looked down when she stepped out and saw an eyeball. She screamed, we ran downstairs to find the hole outside, and yep, peephole to our bathroom, of course the perv was gone, but the hotel and police were notified.
Every time I close my bedroom door and turn around, I always expect some weird person to be standing right there holding a knife. I’m getting more and more paranoid about it and I don’t know if I should tell my parents or not
Me, who lives in the second story: *scared for life*
Your kitchen sink has more bacteria per square inch than your toilet seat.
It's the bacterial specie that's important and trust me they are not the same as what is on the toilet lol
Scientists don’t know what matter is like inside neutron stars, but some theorize it’s a kind of “strange matter” that, if it exists, may turn everything it touches into strange matter. If two neutron stars collide (which does happen) microscopic strange matter particles could fly through space until they eventually reach Earth, at which point the planet and everything on it would turn into strange matter and be destroyed.
Strange matter is made out of strange quarks instead of the regular up and down quarks that make up regular matter. Also fun fact: the matter on the crust of neutron stars is called nuclear pasta
Strange quarks decay into up/down quarks pretty quickly outside neutron star conditions, this isn't one I'm going to worry about.
There is a kid in my class who is strange matter. Maybe he is an alien.
There's a skeleton inside of you right now, and it's wet!
no,you are inside a skeleton. You are a brain controlling a bone mech with meat armor
Every time I read something about skeletons I picture them dancing to xylophone music, something wrong with my brain
Oh, yeah? A lot of us have had more than one wet skeleton in us at the same time! I'm talking about pregnancy, you pervs!!!!😉🤣
And because of your intestines, you're full of ... (Well, this thread has gone far enough, hasn't it?)
Whenever you walk near a mountain, there is a small chance that a falling boulder instantly crushes you to death.
Happened to a guy my dad knows. He was lucky though - it only crushed his leg. When doctors told him he wouldn't be able to go hiking any more, he made the best of it by buying a really nice bike and taking up cycling instead. The man is a complete badass.
Face it. There are more things trying to kill you than to save you. And in the end you're going to die anyways
Well you know what they say "falling rocks do not stop". They certainly don't stop, well, not until they land on you lol
My uncle was driving on a mountain road when a very old tree suddenly fell on his truck cab and crushed him to death.
The stronger the gravitational field, the longer time is. This said, blackholes have the strongest gravitational pull in existence and as it pulls you apart atom-by-atom time will slow down the closer you get. Because of this, near the center your pain will be limitless and time will practically stop around you as you feel this pain. Just FYI.
Time will pass normally for you. An observer from outside would see you freeze in time and slowly redshift before fading away
if there's no increase in entropy, aka time, you won't feel anything
The past does not exist.
People seem to be unaware that we're human beings who experience the world. The past is not happening, bit ot exists because of our collective memories
The Andromeda galaxy getting closer at 430 000km/h but it will hit the milky way in 4 billon years and anyway, the stars are so distant from each other that just a few of them will be destroyed.
The new galaxy shall be called Milkomeda. It sounds like a ship name and I like it
Most galaxies have halos surrounding them. They are often many times larger than the size of the visible parts. If taking these halos into consideration, Milky Way and Andromeda are already colliding right now.
Imagine it's 3.99 billion years from now & people are still around & aware of this. It's not going to be a great time to be alive!
Maybe galaxies fall in love and that's why they are attracted to each other
The probability dying due to accident while riding a bike is more than while flying in a plane
And you're more likely to choke on something at home than at restaurant............we'll just gloss over where your more likely to eat food just like these "facts" gloss over you're more likely to have riden a bike more times than you have flown in a plane
That one day the planet Mercury will get eaten by the sun. But in the 1% chance it actually flings out of orbit, (it’s useless to us because we won’t be around), it could potentially (mind you it’s a low chance for this to happen) hit Venus or maybe even Earth and send flying particles all over the system. The reason why it would get thrown out is because Jupiter is actually tugging on it and making its orbit more elliptical and may eventually get thrown out entirely.
Every website that you had visited is recorded in someone's computer.
That's why I go to all the porn sites. They may know I'm a pervert, but they'll never know what kind!
a) then why are you reading this article? And b) can't we leave some very unpleasant politics out of just one thing please?
Load More Replies...You can jump without a parachute only once.
You can jump thousands of times, safely. Airplanes were never mentioned in the statement.
But there have been people who have survived hitting the ground without a parachute, but it's not normally advised to do so
Excuse you? I could go out on a log in the woods and jump off it as many times as I want.
ha! i knew you were secretly a yellow parkour highlighter bean irl
Load More Replies...You are slowly dying upon reading this comment.
The moment you were born, you were kicked off a cliff. The ground is coming and everybody knows it. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is falling alongside you. Sometimes you cling to The Rock for comfort, but he can't help you. It's only making you more anxious.
Load More Replies...Just the ocean. I love seafood but DAMN wtf is with the s**t in there?!?! And also whatever sickness happens when you rise to the surface too fast or when equipment fails when you're really far down AaAAAAAAAAAA
The Bends is an illness that arises from the rapid release of nitrogen gas from the bloodstream and is caused by bubbles forming in the blood and other tissues when a diver ascends to the surface of the ocean too rapidly. It is also referred to as Caisson sickness, decompression sickness (DCS), and Divers' Disease. Blood Bubbles O.o
Load More Replies...Everything is Alien if never seen before but yes there's probably Space Aliens there too
Load More Replies...The amount of force used to bite a baby carrot in half is as much force as you need to bite your finger in half. Edit: (Or at least partially sever it, for those of you getting super worked up about this, jeez)
I know I could override my brain easily in this, which is terrifying XD
Load More Replies...Bacteria will eat you after you die. Alternative you will be lit on fire.
A standard uranium fission reactor loses a significant portion of its energy of fission as neutrino (not to be confused with neutron) radiation that is not stopped by shielding. In fact the entire Earth is unlikely to stop a neutrino. But that's nothing. You are being bombarded with even more neutrino radiation from the sun, day AND night. Night too because, again, the entire thickness of the Earth does not effectively stop neutrinos. However, the thing is, neutrinos are insubstantial "ghost" particles. They pass through anything without having any effect whatsoever except in VERY rare cases. They are phenomenally difficult to detect, because they almost never interact with a detector, even the best designs we can think of.
Neutrinos are tiny little particles that don’t interact with our particles because they aren’t affected by the forces that our particles are affected by. It’s like speaking a different language and not understanding someone who speaks a different one. The neutrino doesn’t speak the language our particles speak so it doesn’t interact with it
Every breath you've ever taken has particles of blood in it albeit incredibly small and they won't effect you in anyway but still there
I sniffed my dog's feet. I have dog pee, poo, and who knows what else in my nose now.
[Bigfin squids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDW4IYVlbbw) also 95% of the ocean hasn't been properly explored so who knows what could be down there.
Pumpkins = Berries I’m sorry redditors but it had to come to this.. Edit: for anyone who doesn’t believe me, here is a the link to the Wikipedia page which has a larger list of botanic berries. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)) Stay strong if your known world is unraveling.
Wikipedia is wrote by anybody it’s not accepted as a source in essays
Wikipedia is being written by anyone yeah, but it is very much written by experts and revised over and over again. It used to be, years and years ago, not so reliable. Also there's sources linked in there for the facts. You're remembering Wiki as it used to be long time ago.
Load More Replies...You are more likely to find a dead body under your bed than in your garage
Semantics but does it still count as "finding" if you put it there? I mean, it's not like I'm expecting it to not stay where I put it.
Clearly some people haven’t “hidden” bodies, amiright?
Load More Replies...why the hell would there be a body under my bed? who's sneaking into my room at night and hiding bodies there?
*hides body* not me, that would be...crazy! We need to find whoever did this and...kill them! Eheheheheehhehehehehehehehehhhh......./j
Load More Replies...my bed sits on the floor buts its above the basement. we fouud a dead mouse in the nasement. i also dont have a garage
Then you have the body built into the floor like a glitch in the matrix
Load More Replies...Too much under my bed - use it as storage for books rather than bodies!
I notice they don't clarify the species; I found numerous rat carcasses cleaning out my family's garage, but I've never found any remains of any kind under the many air mattresses I've used.
There is a guy in the world who died from the most minor injury. ...And somehow, this half-bothered comment is the one that turns out to have thousands of upvotes.
Papercit...no antibiotics. Rose thorns, prickles, small cuts and punctures...all can kill you if they get infected and antibiotics don't work
These aren’t facts for the most part. These are just things everyone thinks about when they are bored and need something to entertain themselves with.
Some of them are, others sound suspiciously like urban legends.
Load More Replies...Not a scary fact but fun fact: the dwarf planet Pluto has a small chance of being able to host life under its surface as there is an underground ocean and all the organic compounds necessary for life are present there
Even more exciting than that. The size of Pluto's underground ocean is an exact match +-20% for the size of Earth's ocean. It's the only other object in the solar System with an ocean the same size as Earth's.
Load More Replies...I have this gif too but cant get it to post. How do you do it ?
Load More Replies...Amazing how fast negative information, false info and depressing thoughts are disseminated and yet it takes so much to lift your spirits. Get a sense of priority -- change what you can, set a good example and do what you need to do. That's about it, people.
These aren’t facts for the most part. These are just things everyone thinks about when they are bored and need something to entertain themselves with.
Some of them are, others sound suspiciously like urban legends.
Load More Replies...Not a scary fact but fun fact: the dwarf planet Pluto has a small chance of being able to host life under its surface as there is an underground ocean and all the organic compounds necessary for life are present there
Even more exciting than that. The size of Pluto's underground ocean is an exact match +-20% for the size of Earth's ocean. It's the only other object in the solar System with an ocean the same size as Earth's.
Load More Replies...I have this gif too but cant get it to post. How do you do it ?
Load More Replies...Amazing how fast negative information, false info and depressing thoughts are disseminated and yet it takes so much to lift your spirits. Get a sense of priority -- change what you can, set a good example and do what you need to do. That's about it, people.
