91 Creepy Facts About The World That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing
Over 46% of ocean waste is fishing nets. And commercial fishing kills more animals in the ocean than any plastic does. Idk why this isn’t talked about more.
People with dementia just… forget how to eat one day. They forget how to swallow.
We don’t know if they feel starvation or pain, because they’re too far gone.
My brother works in a dementia care facility, and they know that a patient is gonna die soon when they eventually refuse food.
And we don’t euthanise them. They just… starve. To death. And they never tell the families that.
Edit: I’m *so* sorry to those that have lost loved ones to dementia. It’s a really cruel and heartless way to die.
There were Holocaust survivors that died shortly after being liberated because their body couldn’t handle the increased calories when they were fed by the soldiers that freed them.
All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they basically just sink and drown.
In 1933, a doctor named Carl Tanzler raided the tomb of a female patient with whom he’d become obsessed and stole her body. He lived with the corpse for seven years. As the body fell apart, he attached the corpse’s bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. He was only caught when someone saw him dancing with the corpse in front of an open window.
Purebred dogs are basically just walking Frankensteins. They were created by rich Victorians in the 1800s for aspects such as speed and strength. However, this circle of a bloodline recession made it worse for the animals. It explains why many modern animals have very wrinkly faces and many golden retrievers don’t live past the age of 12 due to cancer. I did a project on this awhile back and it’s really interesting to read about.
Also the reason we don’t have a lot of mummies is because rich people also ate them in the Victorian era.
To make it short: Purebred dogs are the equal of the Charles II of Spain and mummies were the snack that smiles back in the 1800s.
Terminal lucidity is the return of mental clarity or memory or consciousness shortly before death. This happens to around 10% of people with dementia. :[.
The symptoms for a heart attack can be a lot milder than what is shown in movies or TV shows.
I have seen people coming in with some discomfort and then passing due to a massive infarction when we did the angiogram.
-Edit-
This blew up over the past couple days. I didn’t have time to really look through all the comments, but to all those that have lost a loved one, I’m really sorry for your lost.
I guess the one piece of advise I would like to give is to really look after yourselves, keep your cholesterol levels and blood pressure in check. Lastly, quit smoking if you already haven’t done so!
Cows don’t convert grass directly into protein. They have enormous colonies of bacteria in their stomachs that have population explosions when they eat grass, live, breed, die, and then the cows digest *them* into protein.
Rainbow Valley at Mount Everest is named so because of the colorful coats of dead people
The Blue Mustang statue at the Denver Airport, Named Blucifer by the locals, killed its creator when a piece fell and severed an artery in his leg.
If weird “ghost” stuff is happening, make sure your carbon monoxide detector is working.
Veteran criminals in the gulags would recruit naïve prisoners for their escape attempts called “cows” for the sole purpose of eating them when they ran out of food in the Siberian wilderness.
The Astronauts aboard the Challenger shuttle were still alive after the explosion. It took them a few minutes to fall to Earth, but they knew they were going to die.
Multiple genetic diseases, and this is extremely over simplified so I don’t give people nightmares:
Glass bones/brittle bone disease (sneezing can break a bone, or bumping a counter. Basically the body can’t grow strong bones at all. CPS has been called on MANY a parent for this disease before diagnosis )
Harlequin syndrome (very very cracked and “broken” skin due to what doctor’s believe is the body being unable to shed old skin easily)
Stone man syndrome (body overreacts to injury and instead of a bruise or sore muscle, will turn the injured area into bone. After a certain point people with this have to decide what position to be frozen in for the rest of their existence)
Tree Man syndrome (condition where the HPV to grow uncontrollably to the point that the skin starts looking like tree bark)
Butterfly Skin (you know how delicate a butterfly’s wings are and how easily they can lose their wing scales? That’s the skin of someone who has this. It just comes off at the slightest touch, leaving many patients to look like walking mummys and needing to be under insane amounts of sun protection.)
Vampire disease (basically if someone goes out in sunlight without enough protection, their skin reacts horribly. Worse than a sunburn by at least 20x)
Edit: thank you for the awards lovely strangers!
And to people who might wonder how the heck I came up with this list, well, when you do research for your own medical problems, are fascinated by ER stories, and are still wondering why some of the human body glitches exist, you come across a lot. Definitely gives you a hard slap to the face and more sympathy. Especially if you meet people like these in the wild. Makes it easier to look at them as people instead of wtf their genetic lottery decided to do.
Climate change. It’s a bit hard to grasp without context. And context is key because no one can understand, respect, or appreciate anything without context.
The earth is about 4.6 Billion years old. Arguing about climate change is difficult since 4.6 Billion seems like a very long time and we has humans have been alive for such a short time. “Why do I care? I won’t be alive to deal with it?”
So… let’s add context and say that the planet is 46 years old. That means that humans have been around for about 4 hours (4 hours ago I was making dinner). 1 minute ago the industrial revolution began (the mid to late 1800s – and I began typing this). In that time we have destroyed (removed, burned, chopped down) over 50% of the worlds forests.
This is not sustainable. For anyone’s generation.
To understand problems you must have context.
Edit: spelling, missing words, etc. (I’m getting drunk).
Youtubers who ‘find’ animals in distress with the camera running usually put animals in distress to look like heroes.
Source
https://youtu.be/p7nVntZpJLM
Other videos are it there.
There was a medical manufacturing lab in the UK that kept having reports of headaches and weird visions. People would see something at the edge of their vision, but couldn’t figure out what it was. It wasn’t just one person either, and was causing some serious panic. When they entered a room, they felt a “presence,” like someone else was in the room with them, and something would appear at the corner of their eye, then disappear when they tried to look.
Turns out, it was caused by a newly installed fan that was vibrating, causing a sound that was too low-frequency for humans to hear it. Hilariously, the guy who discovered it found it using a fencing sword. He had brought it to work and put it in a vice to polish it, but then the sword started vibrating. Me, I would have nope’d out of there, considering the room was haunted, and now a sword is moving, but he was apparently much braver.
The frequency is known as the “fear” or “ghost” frequency. It’s around 19hz. [Here](https://youtu.be/h-zM3qAzBaw) is a YouTube video of 18.98hz. Mileage may vary, for some people it causes just mild discomfort, others it causes total panic, and still others it does nothing. For me, it caused my eyes to feel weird, and after a good minute or so, I noticed weirdness at the edge of my vision, and was definitely creeped out. I shut it off then, definitely an unnerving experience.
It’s not entirely known why it triggers such a response. The optical illusions and eye discomfort are likely due to the frequency resonating with your eyeballs, causing them to vibrate. But the actual fear response is unknown. Some theories are that our bodies are able to detect low frequencies, such as that of earthquakes or predator roars, but we just can’t hear it. A bit like how deaf people can still “feel” certain sounds. So we become alert and nervous around these “infrasounds,” since they usually indicated danger. This, combined with the optical illusions, leads to some pretty uncomfortable experiences.
Oh, and don’t worry, “vibrate your eyeballs” sounds way worse than it is. It’s like super tiny vibrations, and your eyeballs are nice and squishy. It’s not harmful in the slightest. At least, not mentally. Certainly feels like you are doing some eldritch ritual though.
(Edited due to me being a doorknob and mixing up Hz with kHz).
In the Battle Of Verdun, over a million artillery shells were fired onto a 19 mile wide stretch of land in the first 12 hours. If you were lucky enough to survive until then, the sound alone was enough to drive you insane.
Years ago I remember watching an episode of the show *Monsters Inside Me* where this 16-year-old kid 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 finally figured out what was wrong.
Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.
Cats know when they are going to die, they go and find a small secluded place and pass away.
The Junko Furuta case. Reading about it gave me nightmares. She was held captive for 44 days and basically tortured by her classmates. Some parents knew what was going on but did nothing about it. Since the criminals were juveniles at the time, they are free today.
Edit: For those who haven’t read it, I would honestly say that you shouldn’t and don’t look it up. It will do nothing but make you furious at the least and disgusted. At worst, you won’t be able to forget the details. There’s enough s**t going around, spare yourself this one time.
TW: abuse, rape
[https://japaninsides.com/44-days-of-hell-the-story-of-junko-furuta/](https://japaninsides.com/44-days-of-hell-the-story-of-junko-furuta/).
The astonishing fatality rates that can be found in so many battles in the First World War weren’t accidents or unfortunate byproducts of the technology – they were factored into the battle plans.
By the nature of attritional warfare it was calculated how many men would be lost every week and commanders drew up enough reinforcements to replace them.
This was called “Normal Wastage”.
In 2018 my sister was murdered. We know who did it. We keep track of where he lives, he has moved 4 times since my sister disappeared. The police also know he did it. There’s not enough evidence to bring him in or charge him. Her body has still never been found. If I go after him he becomes the victim and I won’t be able to be a father to my children.
He gets to be alive every day. He’s a serial rapist. We suspect my sister was not his first murder. From our interactions with state police and FBI my impression is that our situation, while a nightmare, is perhaps not as rare as you would normally assume or hope.
In extreme cases of scurvy, your scars break down and old wounds re-open.
Collagen keeps scars together and that collagen maintains itself throughout our lives. But without vitamin C, that process begins to halt and the collagen breaks down.
Eat your fruits and veggies folks.
Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
Mummy brown is a paint hue partially made up of ground up Egyptian mummies. There are paintings made of dead people.
Once symptoms start, rabies has a 100% mortality rate. Fortunately, the incubation period is several months, so get that shot ASAP.
The youngest person to ever give birth was a 5-year-old girl.
Edit: For those that have delved a bit too deeply into this one, just a reminder that while sometimes people can be unimaginably cruel and vile…the world isn’t such a bad place.
/r/aww
/r/eyebleach
/r/tippytaps
/r/mademesmile.
One of the few things keeping us from better pharmaceutical products is human ethics.
The one that still disturbs me is that the sun could randomly eject something that could kill us all. Someone else probably knows the details better than me, but I read about it a bit a while back.
There are dogs and cats on YouTube that made more money than you and your parents working your whole life.
Paradoxical undressing. it happens during the last stages of hypothermia. as your nerves are damaged, the person removes all of their clothing in freezing temperatures because they feel irrationally hot.
If you fall from a high enough point and hit water, your insides are liquefied on impact.
When my dad was in the Navy, someone jumped from a bridge near the base his ship was about to leave. Since his ship had the only available rescue divers on it, they got sent out to check to see if they were military. My dad asked the divers what it was like and they said it was like trying to get a bag of Jell-O out of the water. This happened at Coronado Naval Base
Edit: turns out your insides don’t liquefy, everything just ruptures and it feels like it. My bad.
Seemingly 100% healthy people with literally no reason to believe they would have any reason to, can still spontaneously drop dead.
Cherish every day!
Edit: just thanking for the upvotes. The topic is just a bit grim but, glad it gets people thinking about making their time here count, perhaps. Love y’all. ♥️.
Murder at the hands of an intimate partner is the leading cause of death for women who are pregnant or in their first postpartum year. (This has been shown true by a number of studies in US states, but is likely also true elsewhere).
There was a man who got really bad radiation poisoning. The Japanese government kept him alive for months just to study how the body reacts.
He daily begged for death, and unless you have a strong stomach don’t look up the pictures.
Everyone loves to comment about Prions and Mad Cow. So this is another Prion story, but much more unsettling.
Basically, a company called Lyodura sold dura mater grafts. Dura mater is a layer of the meninges of the brain, and if you suffer traumatic brain injuries a dura mater graft is needed. Nowadays, a synthetic is available, in the 70s this was not the case. Instead the dura mater needed to be harvested from corpses who would willingly donate to Lyodura. However, to produce more dura mater, they began paying doctors to remove dura mater without consent, and because it was harvested illegally, this meant there was no record of the individuals it was collected from. Lyodura sterilised all dura mater together, and this lead to the perfect storm. All it took was one individual to die of Creuzfeldt Jakob disease and to have their dura mater harvested, before being collected and mass sterilised. Because Prions are quite indestructible, it is believed that nearly all Lyodura’s dura mater became contaminated with the disease. It is unknown how many individuals developed Creuzfeldt Jakob disease because of this, but the number was certainly high.
The mathews and the hart bridges in jacksonville are about to fail, the pilings in the river do not touch bottom. I’m a commercial diver and I refuse to drive on these bridges.
Edit: https://www.fdot.gov/maintenance/bridgeinfo.shtm
Here you can read terminology and bridge ratings for every bridge in Florida, on the latest report Mathews has a “health index” of 96 but a “sufficiency rating” of 44, while the Hart is 90 and 30.
Ok, i put this in another comment on AITA, but it fits better here.
In Mexico, there was a case of a woman with a thyroid problem. She worked on a department store. She started to have serious abdominal pains and told her employers about it, they ignored her. She went to the bathroom and then called emergency services, who arrived but were blocked by the superiors from entering.
She was pregnant and didn’t knew it because of the thyroid. She was having a miscarriage on the bathroom. After she came out, she was fired. But that’s not the end of it.
The store ratted her out for having a miscarriage. See, where she lives, abortions are illegal, and her situation was apparently, catalogued as an abortion. She was thrown to prison, 16 years, for “involuntary manslaughter” that was 2016, and even after many protest and media coverage, the state refuses to drop the charges, and the department store hasn’t taken any responsibility about their acts
EDIT: So in good news, she was freed in 2019, as noted by an user after me
EDIT 2: BTW, as people ask, her name is Dafne Mcpherson, the store is a Mexican chain named Liverpool, located in San Juan del Río, Querétaro. The reason I didn’t knew she was (thankfully) freed is my fault, the story was lost in between lots of stories that happened from then to today. Mexico is an awful place to be a woman unfortunately, so much we have typified murder against a woman as “feminicide”, and while abortion is a right in the capital, right-wing groups and parties have blocked this right in almost all of the other states.
The USSR built a massive arsenal of nuclear weapons and then dissolved, leaving poorly paid guards behind who no longer had a USSR to hold allegiance to. This made them vulnerable to being bought off by the highest paying bidder to feed their families and a whole bunch of those nukes just vanished and no one knows where they are.
In explosions, it’s not (always) flying shrapnel, it’s not the fire that kills you. No, it’s the pressure wave that liquifies your insides.
Told to me by a buddy who was a US Army Sniper: When shot by a 5.56mm round from a rifle, the bullet tumbles entering the body, the entry wound would be but a small hole, but the internal damage is near catastrophic.
My mother saw no end of disturbing things when she was a nurse (circa late 1950s-1960s). She worked on psych wards where people got disturbing treatments (lobotomies, “sleep” therapy, etc,). She also worked on a paediatrics ward in an area where there was pretty wild poverty and the kids were in rough shape. Awful era and living conditions way back when.
There will be a last person, a last living organism, to see the end of all life in the universe. The rest of time will never be experienced, and will just… happen.
My best friend of 20 years turned out to be a child molester and none of us knew until my other friend’s daughter came forward having been a victim.
Found that out months ago. Still not ok. Now none of my friends talk.
Update: I have to go through everyone’s comments but it sounds like we all are f****d up. All we can do is try to break the cycles of abuse. I was abused too at one point in my life much like my friend who did this. But that’s no excuse to perpetuate the cycle of abuse.
Update 2: Not sure what a*****e or Russian bot put a wholesome award on this but I blocked and flagged your a*s. Shame on you rot in hell.
To everyone else my god I have never had a post blow up like this. Thank you all for sharing your stories and kind words. I’m about to call my friend and see how she’s doing.
Be update: someone just gave me a silver and told me to get f****d? I don’t really understand Reddit at all.
**People’s “conscious” decisions are usually nothing of the sort**; they’re usually made subconsciously. Then, all the conscious mind normally does is build narratives about the previously-made decisions. Those narratives consciously seem to arise concurrently with the decisions, but really they arise only afterward. Research on split-brain patients has proven all of this.
*Simply put: your brain makes choices without you knowing; then tricks you into thinking the choices were yours, by allowing you to invent gratifying reasons why you supposedly chose them.*.
Baby sharks are born in eggs their mother houses _inside_ of her body. The first baby born eats the rest.
**EDIT:** Was recently contacted by the International Shark Association, an organization by sharks, for sharks, asking me to get more specificity before repeating facts I read in a science text book in the third grade. I grew up in rural New Hampshire, a full 45 minutes from the ocean and had never met a shark. I will try to have more awareness around this. **For clarity, this is not all sharks. This is only Sandtiger sharks.**
**EDIT EDIT:** I have just been contacted again by Sandtiger sharks in the same organization asking me to clarify that **Sandtiger sharks are not gross, they are just metal AF** and that they have all enjoyed a deep sense of community in the organization, finding the brothers and sisters they never had in other shark species.
**Thanks for all the Cake Day wishes! Did not expect this post to get seen so much!!** 🎂.
Cadmium poisoning is so horrible the name in Japanese (イタイイタイ病) literally translates to it hurt it hurts. Cadmium poisoning can cause your bones to literally soften; also it can cause kidney/lung disease, chills, muscle aches, hair loss, and fever.
If a hamster manages to get it’s hands on your body if you are dead, it will use chunks of your skin, hair and other stuff to make a nest. Leaving a very bloody and messy scene behind.
One day, you’ll be thought about for the last time, and everyone will forget you.
(That’s my biggest fear, that everyone will forget me and every trace of my existence will be gone forever).
In 2019, there was a document about internet predators. The filmmakers hired three young-looking actresses and let them pose as 12yo girls on social media for 10 days. They received 2458 messages. Only one of them actually wanted to chat, the rest were sexual predators.
That we understand basically nothing about consciousness. It’s all we fundamentally are and we have no idea on how it’s “produced” or what causes experiences to arise.
Almost all the water molecules you drink have been inside someone’s or some animals body and has been pissed out.
When someone is dying the last sense they lose is their hearing so people can hear everything going on around them but can’t do anything else except listen and wait.
Asked a hearse driver one of the things he was surprised to see first time on the job, he said sometimes you hear knocking from the caskets, this happens more often than you’d think.
They used to not use anesthesia on babies when they would do surgery.
When you blush so does your stomach 🙂
Edit: A lot of people keep asking its the stomach lining that starts to blush it happens when you are nervous or embarrassed.
With the permafrost and tundra thawing out bacteria and other microorganisms that we know nothing about are becoming active again.
From 1928 to 1972 my province would sterilize people who they found to be mentally handicapped. They figured this was the ideal way to stop the spread of mental disease.
Though unlikely, it is entirely possible that the universe has already collapsed and the end of reality as we know it is propagating towards us at the speed of light. We’ll never get any warning that it’s coming and it could hit us at any time, annihilating the entire planet in less than a tenth of a second.
Our lips and a**s are made of the same skin type or material idk how to say without it being weird.
Japan did some horrible experiments on people during WW2 (Unit 731). Vivisection, shattering people’s frost bitten limbs, biological warfare, etc. It’s all quite horrific and don’t recommend anyone without a stomach for horror to read about it.
Also, after the war, the people who ran it were never tried as war criminals because the US decided to keep them and their research under wraps so that they could get a hand up on the Soviets.
That the Chernobyl disaster, everything that happened and all of the devastation, was the result of only *5%* of the nuclear material in the reactor being explosively ejected.
Just 5%.
The remaining 95% (182 tons) of the nuclear material still sits in the ruins of Reactor 4, a volatile mixture of melted fuel, damaged concrete, graphite rods, zirconium cladding, sand, dust and twisted metal. The entire ruin is emitting lethal amounts of radiation, making cleaning it up next to impossible. Up until the New Safe Confinement went up in 2017, the only thing that could be done was to seal the open air reactor off with a hastily constructed shield of metal. This structure lasted for over 30 years, and as it aged the risk of it collapsing due to decay was very real. If it had crumbled as it almost did in 2013, the result would have been an apocalyptic release of radioactive dust across a far larger area of Europe than the incident in 1986.
Edit: Wow this blew up!! I’m glad I’m able to answer people’s questions and give insight; this is a fascinating topic for me and one that I spent a lot of time researching and studying.
The human male ejaculates at approximately 45km/h
edit: the actual number is 44.06km/h.
The real-world process of human fertilization (i.e., not in a lab) is so random that just about anything that happened differently during and after your parents having sex would have resulted in someone else (or no one) being born instead of you.
Beagles are the most popular breed of dogs used in testing because they are the most forgiving to humans.
After the bombing of Hiroshima, “black rain” that contained radioactive material fell, and many didn’t realize it until it was too late.
Also, according to my Japanese professor, they didn’t even have a word for the atomic bomb at the time. I unfortunately can’t remember what she said they called it instead.
That the Fermi Paradox exsist. We could be the only high intelligent beings in the universe, the only planet that has life, or we are currently way behind other civilizations that are centuries or even millennia ahead of us in technology and we dont know if they are friendly. Not to mention everything in between and that being civilizations that are equal with us somewhat or an alien bacterium or virus that is impossible to cure or stop with our current tech and understanding.
The stimulant effect of coffee at a given regularly consumed dose only lasts a few weeks.
After that, your body becomes addicted to coffee and most of the “boost” you get is actually the relief of withdrawal symptoms from the caffeine.
Edit: to clarify given pushback below, I am not saying that there are no benefits to caffine consumption to long term health. I am also just a random lay person on the internet. I learned this as a fact and see some support for it in the literature, but as looking more deeply into it in response to questions below has shown, it’s clear that it’s a pretty complex question and many studies do find net benefits to caffine use, even if the withdrawal model persists in thr literature
If you plan to make any major life decisions based on this factoid, please investigate further or ask someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
Genocides are far more common than we like to admit. It’s actually downright criminal how little we address it.
Russia sank a number of nuclear submarines, with the reactors intact, in shallow water. Once the submarine rusts enough, high level nuclear waste will start contaminating fairly crowded shipping lanes.
One of the submarines they sunk used a liquid metal cooled fast reactor. When water finally rusts its way into that reactor, instead of the reactor rusting, it may explode.
The little girl who voiced Ducky in the Land Before Time movies was murdered by her father when she was 11, in part, because he was jealous of her success.
Child marriage is legal (either explicitly, implicitly, or through loopholes) in 48 of the 50 US states. Most child marriages are an underage girl impregnated by the man they’re marrying. One other thing to keep in mind is a majority of teenage mothers are impregnated by men 20+ years old.
A woman can grow a baby with 10 fingernails and 10 toenails in 9 months while if you injure your nail it takes about 6 months to grow back 1finger nail and 18 months for a toe nail.
Edit:clarification.
The human eye sees everything upside down. Our brain just corrects the image.
Up the same alley, your nose is in your field of vision. Your brain just edits it out.
The worlds largest super volcano sits underneath Yellowstone Park, in North-West Wyoming – it’s called the Yellowstone Caldera and could erupt any time within now and the next “few” 1000 years.
If it were to fully erupt it would wipe out the entire west-coast of America and Canada. The aftermath would kill off the majority of people living in North America and would have catastrophic effects on human life across the entire planet
It would cause ash-fall across North America and drastically impact global climate.
Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
The guy that started the “vaccines cause autism” scare in the late 90s condoned and conducted child abuse as part of his fraudulent study, all in the pursuit of fabricating evidence to support his own business ventures and a class action lawsuit against MMR vaccine manufacturers.
Edit: as many have pointed out, H. Bomberguy’s recent video is outstanding. My daughter is autistic and my soon-to-be-ex-in-law’s have been INCREDIBLY anti-vaccine ever since her diagnosis. They wave Wakefield’s paper around like gospel but I know they haven’t read it because they told me it was “dozens if not hundreds of pages of research” when it’s only 5 or 6 pages in total. It’s infuriating. H. Bomberguy’s video is a good way to break down EVERY. SINGLE. POINT. that the anti-vaccine crowd likes to use.
Edit 2: I should paste the link to that video here. Thanks to everyone sprinkling it through the comments
https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc.
Jason Earles who played Hannah Montanas brother Jackson, John Cena, Ludacris, and Psy, are all the same age.
Also your bones are *wet*.
There was a very last time both your mom and your dad hold you on their laps or carried you on their arms before they never did it again.
If the sun were to suddenly dissapear, we would only know 8 minutes later. Imagine being outside with your kids and suddenly it’s almost completely black and the sun is gone.
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Over 46% of ocean waste is fishing nets. And commercial fishing kills more animals in the ocean than any plastic does. Idk why this isn’t talked about more.
People with dementia just... forget how to eat one day. They forget how to swallow.
We don't know if they feel starvation or pain, because they're too far gone.
My brother works in a dementia care facility, and they know that a patient is gonna die soon when they eventually refuse food.
And we don't euthanise them. They just... starve. To death. And they never tell the families that.
Edit: I'm *so* sorry to those that have lost loved ones to dementia. It's a really cruel and heartless way to die.
There were Holocaust survivors that died shortly after being liberated because their body couldn't handle the increased calories when they were fed by the soldiers that freed them.
All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they basically just sink and drown.
In 1933, a doctor named Carl Tanzler raided the tomb of a female patient with whom he'd become obsessed and stole her body. He lived with the corpse for seven years. As the body fell apart, he attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. He was only caught when someone saw him dancing with the corpse in front of an open window.
Purebred dogs are basically just walking Frankensteins. They were created by rich Victorians in the 1800s for aspects such as speed and strength. However, this circle of a bloodline recession made it worse for the animals. It explains why many modern animals have very wrinkly faces and many golden retrievers don't live past the age of 12 due to cancer. I did a project on this awhile back and it's really interesting to read about.
Also the reason we don't have a lot of mummies is because rich people also ate them in the Victorian era.
To make it short: Purebred dogs are the equal of the Charles II of Spain and mummies were the snack that smiles back in the 1800s.
Terminal lucidity is the return of mental clarity or memory or consciousness shortly before death. This happens to around 10% of people with dementia. :[.
The symptoms for a heart attack can be a lot milder than what is shown in movies or TV shows.
I have seen people coming in with some discomfort and then passing due to a massive infarction when we did the angiogram.
-Edit-
This blew up over the past couple days. I didn’t have time to really look through all the comments, but to all those that have lost a loved one, I’m really sorry for your lost.
I guess the one piece of advise I would like to give is to really look after yourselves, keep your cholesterol levels and blood pressure in check. Lastly, quit smoking if you already haven’t done so!
Cows don’t convert grass directly into protein. They have enormous colonies of bacteria in their stomachs that have population explosions when they eat grass, live, breed, die, and then the cows digest *them* into protein.
Rainbow Valley at Mount Everest is named so because of the colorful coats of dead people
The Blue Mustang statue at the Denver Airport, Named Blucifer by the locals, killed its creator when a piece fell and severed an artery in his leg.
If weird “ghost” stuff is happening, make sure your carbon monoxide detector is working.
Veteran criminals in the gulags would recruit naïve prisoners for their escape attempts called "cows" for the sole purpose of eating them when they ran out of food in the Siberian wilderness.
The Astronauts aboard the Challenger shuttle were still alive after the explosion. It took them a few minutes to fall to Earth, but they knew they were going to die.
Multiple genetic diseases, and this is extremely over simplified so I don't give people nightmares:
Glass bones/brittle bone disease (sneezing can break a bone, or bumping a counter. Basically the body can't grow strong bones at all. CPS has been called on MANY a parent for this disease before diagnosis )
Harlequin syndrome (very very cracked and "broken" skin due to what doctor's believe is the body being unable to shed old skin easily)
Stone man syndrome (body overreacts to injury and instead of a bruise or sore muscle, will turn the injured area into bone. After a certain point people with this have to decide what position to be frozen in for the rest of their existence)
Tree Man syndrome (condition where the HPV to grow uncontrollably to the point that the skin starts looking like tree bark)
Butterfly Skin (you know how delicate a butterfly's wings are and how easily they can lose their wing scales? That's the skin of someone who has this. It just comes off at the slightest touch, leaving many patients to look like walking mummys and needing to be under insane amounts of sun protection.)
Vampire disease (basically if someone goes out in sunlight without enough protection, their skin reacts horribly. Worse than a sunburn by at least 20x)
Edit: thank you for the awards lovely strangers!
And to people who might wonder how the heck I came up with this list, well, when you do research for your own medical problems, are fascinated by ER stories, and are still wondering why some of the human body glitches exist, you come across a lot. Definitely gives you a hard slap to the face and more sympathy. Especially if you meet people like these in the wild. Makes it easier to look at them as people instead of wtf their genetic lottery decided to do.
Climate change. It’s a bit hard to grasp without context. And context is key because no one can understand, respect, or appreciate anything without context.
The earth is about 4.6 Billion years old. Arguing about climate change is difficult since 4.6 Billion seems like a very long time and we has humans have been alive for such a short time. “Why do I care? I won’t be alive to deal with it?”
So… let’s add context and say that the planet is 46 years old. That means that humans have been around for about 4 hours (4 hours ago I was making dinner). 1 minute ago the industrial revolution began (the mid to late 1800s - and I began typing this). In that time we have destroyed (removed, burned, chopped down) over 50% of the worlds forests.
This is not sustainable. For anyone’s generation.
To understand problems you must have context.
Edit: spelling, missing words, etc. (I’m getting drunk).
Youtubers who 'find' animals in distress with the camera running usually put animals in distress to look like heroes.
Source
https://youtu.be/p7nVntZpJLM
Other videos are it there.
There was a medical manufacturing lab in the UK that kept having reports of headaches and weird visions. People would see something at the edge of their vision, but couldn't figure out what it was. It wasn't just one person either, and was causing some serious panic. When they entered a room, they felt a "presence," like someone else was in the room with them, and something would appear at the corner of their eye, then disappear when they tried to look.
Turns out, it was caused by a newly installed fan that was vibrating, causing a sound that was too low-frequency for humans to hear it. Hilariously, the guy who discovered it found it using a fencing sword. He had brought it to work and put it in a vice to polish it, but then the sword started vibrating. Me, I would have nope'd out of there, considering the room was haunted, and now a sword is moving, but he was apparently much braver.
The frequency is known as the "fear" or "ghost" frequency. It's around 19hz. [Here](https://youtu.be/h-zM3qAzBaw) is a YouTube video of 18.98hz. Mileage may vary, for some people it causes just mild discomfort, others it causes total panic, and still others it does nothing. For me, it caused my eyes to feel weird, and after a good minute or so, I noticed weirdness at the edge of my vision, and was definitely creeped out. I shut it off then, definitely an unnerving experience.
It's not entirely known why it triggers such a response. The optical illusions and eye discomfort are likely due to the frequency resonating with your eyeballs, causing them to vibrate. But the actual fear response is unknown. Some theories are that our bodies are able to detect low frequencies, such as that of earthquakes or predator roars, but we just can't hear it. A bit like how deaf people can still "feel" certain sounds. So we become alert and nervous around these "infrasounds," since they usually indicated danger. This, combined with the optical illusions, leads to some pretty uncomfortable experiences.
Oh, and don't worry, "vibrate your eyeballs" sounds way worse than it is. It's like super tiny vibrations, and your eyeballs are nice and squishy. It's not harmful in the slightest. At least, not mentally. Certainly feels like you are doing some eldritch ritual though.
(Edited due to me being a doorknob and mixing up Hz with kHz).
In the Battle Of Verdun, over a million artillery shells were fired onto a 19 mile wide stretch of land in the first 12 hours. If you were lucky enough to survive until then, the sound alone was enough to drive you insane.
Years ago I remember watching an episode of the show *Monsters Inside Me* where this 16-year-old kid 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 finally figured out what was wrong.
Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.
Cats know when they are going to die, they go and find a small secluded place and pass away.
The Junko Furuta case. Reading about it gave me nightmares. She was held captive for 44 days and basically tortured by her classmates. Some parents knew what was going on but did nothing about it. Since the criminals were juveniles at the time, they are free today.
Edit: For those who haven't read it, I would honestly say that you shouldn't and don't look it up. It will do nothing but make you furious at the least and disgusted. At worst, you won't be able to forget the details. There's enough s**t going around, spare yourself this one time.
TW: abuse, rape
[https://japaninsides.com/44-days-of-hell-the-story-of-junko-furuta/](https://japaninsides.com/44-days-of-hell-the-story-of-junko-furuta/).
The astonishing fatality rates that can be found in so many battles in the First World War weren’t accidents or unfortunate byproducts of the technology - they were factored into the battle plans.
By the nature of attritional warfare it was calculated how many men would be lost every week and commanders drew up enough reinforcements to replace them.
This was called “Normal Wastage”.
In 2018 my sister was murdered. We know who did it. We keep track of where he lives, he has moved 4 times since my sister disappeared. The police also know he did it. There’s not enough evidence to bring him in or charge him. Her body has still never been found. If I go after him he becomes the victim and I won’t be able to be a father to my children.
He gets to be alive every day. He’s a serial rapist. We suspect my sister was not his first murder. From our interactions with state police and FBI my impression is that our situation, while a nightmare, is perhaps not as rare as you would normally assume or hope.
In extreme cases of scurvy, your scars break down and old wounds re-open.
Collagen keeps scars together and that collagen maintains itself throughout our lives. But without vitamin C, that process begins to halt and the collagen breaks down.
Eat your fruits and veggies folks.
Https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
Mummy brown is a paint hue partially made up of ground up Egyptian mummies. There are paintings made of dead people.
Once symptoms start, rabies has a 100% mortality rate. Fortunately, the incubation period is several months, so get that shot ASAP.
The youngest person to ever give birth was a 5-year-old girl.
Edit: For those that have delved a bit too deeply into this one, just a reminder that while sometimes people can be unimaginably cruel and vile...the world isn't such a bad place.
/r/aww
/r/eyebleach
/r/tippytaps
/r/mademesmile.
One of the few things keeping us from better pharmaceutical products is human ethics.
The one that still disturbs me is that the sun could randomly eject something that could kill us all. Someone else probably knows the details better than me, but I read about it a bit a while back.
There are dogs and cats on YouTube that made more money than you and your parents working your whole life.
Paradoxical undressing. it happens during the last stages of hypothermia. as your nerves are damaged, the person removes all of their clothing in freezing temperatures because they feel irrationally hot.
If you fall from a high enough point and hit water, your insides are liquefied on impact.
When my dad was in the Navy, someone jumped from a bridge near the base his ship was about to leave. Since his ship had the only available rescue divers on it, they got sent out to check to see if they were military. My dad asked the divers what it was like and they said it was like trying to get a bag of Jell-O out of the water. This happened at Coronado Naval Base
Edit: turns out your insides don't liquefy, everything just ruptures and it feels like it. My bad.
Seemingly 100% healthy people with literally no reason to believe they would have any reason to, can still spontaneously drop dead.
Cherish every day!
Edit: just thanking for the upvotes. The topic is just a bit grim but, glad it gets people thinking about making their time here count, perhaps. Love y’all. ♥️.
Murder at the hands of an intimate partner is the leading cause of death for women who are pregnant or in their first postpartum year. (This has been shown true by a number of studies in US states, but is likely also true elsewhere).
There was a man who got really bad radiation poisoning. The Japanese government kept him alive for months just to study how the body reacts.
He daily begged for death, and unless you have a strong stomach don't look up the pictures.
Everyone loves to comment about Prions and Mad Cow. So this is another Prion story, but much more unsettling.
Basically, a company called Lyodura sold dura mater grafts. Dura mater is a layer of the meninges of the brain, and if you suffer traumatic brain injuries a dura mater graft is needed. Nowadays, a synthetic is available, in the 70s this was not the case. Instead the dura mater needed to be harvested from corpses who would willingly donate to Lyodura. However, to produce more dura mater, they began paying doctors to remove dura mater without consent, and because it was harvested illegally, this meant there was no record of the individuals it was collected from. Lyodura sterilised all dura mater together, and this lead to the perfect storm. All it took was one individual to die of Creuzfeldt Jakob disease and to have their dura mater harvested, before being collected and mass sterilised. Because Prions are quite indestructible, it is believed that nearly all Lyodura’s dura mater became contaminated with the disease. It is unknown how many individuals developed Creuzfeldt Jakob disease because of this, but the number was certainly high.
The mathews and the hart bridges in jacksonville are about to fail, the pilings in the river do not touch bottom. I'm a commercial diver and I refuse to drive on these bridges.
Edit: https://www.fdot.gov/maintenance/bridgeinfo.shtm
Here you can read terminology and bridge ratings for every bridge in Florida, on the latest report Mathews has a "health index" of 96 but a "sufficiency rating" of 44, while the Hart is 90 and 30.
Ok, i put this in another comment on AITA, but it fits better here.
In Mexico, there was a case of a woman with a thyroid problem. She worked on a department store. She started to have serious abdominal pains and told her employers about it, they ignored her. She went to the bathroom and then called emergency services, who arrived but were blocked by the superiors from entering.
She was pregnant and didn't knew it because of the thyroid. She was having a miscarriage on the bathroom. After she came out, she was fired. But that's not the end of it.
The store ratted her out for having a miscarriage. See, where she lives, abortions are illegal, and her situation was apparently, catalogued as an abortion. She was thrown to prison, 16 years, for "involuntary manslaughter" that was 2016, and even after many protest and media coverage, the state refuses to drop the charges, and the department store hasn't taken any responsibility about their acts
EDIT: So in good news, she was freed in 2019, as noted by an user after me
EDIT 2: BTW, as people ask, her name is Dafne Mcpherson, the store is a Mexican chain named Liverpool, located in San Juan del Río, Querétaro. The reason I didn't knew she was (thankfully) freed is my fault, the story was lost in between lots of stories that happened from then to today. Mexico is an awful place to be a woman unfortunately, so much we have typified murder against a woman as "feminicide", and while abortion is a right in the capital, right-wing groups and parties have blocked this right in almost all of the other states.
The USSR built a massive arsenal of nuclear weapons and then dissolved, leaving poorly paid guards behind who no longer had a USSR to hold allegiance to. This made them vulnerable to being bought off by the highest paying bidder to feed their families and a whole bunch of those nukes just vanished and no one knows where they are.
In explosions, it’s not (always) flying shrapnel, it’s not the fire that kills you. No, it’s the pressure wave that liquifies your insides.
Told to me by a buddy who was a US Army Sniper: When shot by a 5.56mm round from a rifle, the bullet tumbles entering the body, the entry wound would be but a small hole, but the internal damage is near catastrophic.
My mother saw no end of disturbing things when she was a nurse (circa late 1950s-1960s). She worked on psych wards where people got disturbing treatments (lobotomies, "sleep" therapy, etc,). She also worked on a paediatrics ward in an area where there was pretty wild poverty and the kids were in rough shape. Awful era and living conditions way back when.
There will be a last person, a last living organism, to see the end of all life in the universe. The rest of time will never be experienced, and will just... happen.
My best friend of 20 years turned out to be a child molester and none of us knew until my other friend’s daughter came forward having been a victim.
Found that out months ago. Still not ok. Now none of my friends talk.
Update: I have to go through everyone’s comments but it sounds like we all are f****d up. All we can do is try to break the cycles of abuse. I was abused too at one point in my life much like my friend who did this. But that’s no excuse to perpetuate the cycle of abuse.
Update 2: Not sure what a*****e or Russian bot put a wholesome award on this but I blocked and flagged your a*s. Shame on you rot in hell.
To everyone else my god I have never had a post blow up like this. Thank you all for sharing your stories and kind words. I’m about to call my friend and see how she’s doing.
Be update: someone just gave me a silver and told me to get f****d? I don’t really understand Reddit at all.
**People's "conscious" decisions are usually nothing of the sort**; they're usually made subconsciously. Then, all the conscious mind normally does is build narratives about the previously-made decisions. Those narratives consciously seem to arise concurrently with the decisions, but really they arise only afterward. Research on split-brain patients has proven all of this.
*Simply put: your brain makes choices without you knowing; then tricks you into thinking the choices were yours, by allowing you to invent gratifying reasons why you supposedly chose them.*.
Baby sharks are born in eggs their mother houses _inside_ of her body. The first baby born eats the rest.
**EDIT:** Was recently contacted by the International Shark Association, an organization by sharks, for sharks, asking me to get more specificity before repeating facts I read in a science text book in the third grade. I grew up in rural New Hampshire, a full 45 minutes from the ocean and had never met a shark. I will try to have more awareness around this. **For clarity, this is not all sharks. This is only Sandtiger sharks.**
**EDIT EDIT:** I have just been contacted again by Sandtiger sharks in the same organization asking me to clarify that **Sandtiger sharks are not gross, they are just metal AF** and that they have all enjoyed a deep sense of community in the organization, finding the brothers and sisters they never had in other shark species.
**Thanks for all the Cake Day wishes! Did not expect this post to get seen so much!!** 🎂.
Cadmium poisoning is so horrible the name in Japanese (イタイイタイ病) literally translates to it hurt it hurts. Cadmium poisoning can cause your bones to literally soften; also it can cause kidney/lung disease, chills, muscle aches, hair loss, and fever.
If a hamster manages to get it’s hands on your body if you are dead, it will use chunks of your skin, hair and other stuff to make a nest. Leaving a very bloody and messy scene behind.
One day, you’ll be thought about for the last time, and everyone will forget you.
(That’s my biggest fear, that everyone will forget me and every trace of my existence will be gone forever).
In 2019, there was a document about internet predators. The filmmakers hired three young-looking actresses and let them pose as 12yo girls on social media for 10 days. They received 2458 messages. Only one of them actually wanted to chat, the rest were sexual predators.
That we understand basically nothing about consciousness. It's all we fundamentally are and we have no idea on how it's "produced" or what causes experiences to arise.
Almost all the water molecules you drink have been inside someone's or some animals body and has been pissed out.
When someone is dying the last sense they lose is their hearing so people can hear everything going on around them but can’t do anything else except listen and wait.
Asked a hearse driver one of the things he was surprised to see first time on the job, he said sometimes you hear knocking from the caskets, this happens more often than you’d think.
They used to not use anesthesia on babies when they would do surgery.
When you blush so does your stomach 🙂
Edit: A lot of people keep asking its the stomach lining that starts to blush it happens when you are nervous or embarrassed.
With the permafrost and tundra thawing out bacteria and other microorganisms that we know nothing about are becoming active again.
From 1928 to 1972 my province would sterilize people who they found to be mentally handicapped. They figured this was the ideal way to stop the spread of mental disease.
Though unlikely, it is entirely possible that the universe has already collapsed and the end of reality as we know it is propagating towards us at the speed of light. We'll never get any warning that it's coming and it could hit us at any time, annihilating the entire planet in less than a tenth of a second.
Our lips and a**s are made of the same skin type or material idk how to say without it being weird.
Japan did some horrible experiments on people during WW2 (Unit 731). Vivisection, shattering people’s frost bitten limbs, biological warfare, etc. It’s all quite horrific and don’t recommend anyone without a stomach for horror to read about it.
Also, after the war, the people who ran it were never tried as war criminals because the US decided to keep them and their research under wraps so that they could get a hand up on the Soviets.
That the Chernobyl disaster, everything that happened and all of the devastation, was the result of only *5%* of the nuclear material in the reactor being explosively ejected.
Just 5%.
The remaining 95% (182 tons) of the nuclear material still sits in the ruins of Reactor 4, a volatile mixture of melted fuel, damaged concrete, graphite rods, zirconium cladding, sand, dust and twisted metal. The entire ruin is emitting lethal amounts of radiation, making cleaning it up next to impossible. Up until the New Safe Confinement went up in 2017, the only thing that could be done was to seal the open air reactor off with a hastily constructed shield of metal. This structure lasted for over 30 years, and as it aged the risk of it collapsing due to decay was very real. If it had crumbled as it almost did in 2013, the result would have been an apocalyptic release of radioactive dust across a far larger area of Europe than the incident in 1986.
Edit: Wow this blew up!! I'm glad I'm able to answer people's questions and give insight; this is a fascinating topic for me and one that I spent a lot of time researching and studying.
The human male ejaculates at approximately 45km/h
edit: the actual number is 44.06km/h.
The real-world process of human fertilization (i.e., not in a lab) is so random that just about anything that happened differently during and after your parents having sex would have resulted in someone else (or no one) being born instead of you.
Beagles are the most popular breed of dogs used in testing because they are the most forgiving to humans.
After the bombing of Hiroshima, "black rain" that contained radioactive material fell, and many didn't realize it until it was too late.
Also, according to my Japanese professor, they didn't even have a word for the atomic bomb at the time. I unfortunately can't remember what she said they called it instead.
That the Fermi Paradox exsist. We could be the only high intelligent beings in the universe, the only planet that has life, or we are currently way behind other civilizations that are centuries or even millennia ahead of us in technology and we dont know if they are friendly. Not to mention everything in between and that being civilizations that are equal with us somewhat or an alien bacterium or virus that is impossible to cure or stop with our current tech and understanding.
The stimulant effect of coffee at a given regularly consumed dose only lasts a few weeks.
After that, your body becomes addicted to coffee and most of the "boost" you get is actually the relief of withdrawal symptoms from the caffeine.
Edit: to clarify given pushback below, I am not saying that there are no benefits to caffine consumption to long term health. I am also just a random lay person on the internet. I learned this as a fact and see some support for it in the literature, but as looking more deeply into it in response to questions below has shown, it's clear that it's a pretty complex question and many studies do find net benefits to caffine use, even if the withdrawal model persists in thr literature
If you plan to make any major life decisions based on this factoid, please investigate further or ask someone who actually knows what they are talking about.
Genocides are far more common than we like to admit. It's actually downright criminal how little we address it.
Russia sank a number of nuclear submarines, with the reactors intact, in shallow water. Once the submarine rusts enough, high level nuclear waste will start contaminating fairly crowded shipping lanes.
One of the submarines they sunk used a liquid metal cooled fast reactor. When water finally rusts its way into that reactor, instead of the reactor rusting, it may explode.
The little girl who voiced Ducky in the Land Before Time movies was murdered by her father when she was 11, in part, because he was jealous of her success.
Child marriage is legal (either explicitly, implicitly, or through loopholes) in 48 of the 50 US states. Most child marriages are an underage girl impregnated by the man they’re marrying. One other thing to keep in mind is a majority of teenage mothers are impregnated by men 20+ years old.
A woman can grow a baby with 10 fingernails and 10 toenails in 9 months while if you injure your nail it takes about 6 months to grow back 1finger nail and 18 months for a toe nail.
Edit:clarification.
The human eye sees everything upside down. Our brain just corrects the image.
Up the same alley, your nose is in your field of vision. Your brain just edits it out.
The worlds largest super volcano sits underneath Yellowstone Park, in North-West Wyoming - it's called the Yellowstone Caldera and could erupt any time within now and the next "few" 1000 years.
If it were to fully erupt it would wipe out the entire west-coast of America and Canada. The aftermath would kill off the majority of people living in North America and would have catastrophic effects on human life across the entire planet
It would cause ash-fall across North America and drastically impact global climate.
Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
The guy that started the “vaccines cause autism” scare in the late 90s condoned and conducted child abuse as part of his fraudulent study, all in the pursuit of fabricating evidence to support his own business ventures and a class action lawsuit against MMR vaccine manufacturers.
Edit: as many have pointed out, H. Bomberguy’s recent video is outstanding. My daughter is autistic and my soon-to-be-ex-in-law’s have been INCREDIBLY anti-vaccine ever since her diagnosis. They wave Wakefield’s paper around like gospel but I know they haven’t read it because they told me it was “dozens if not hundreds of pages of research” when it’s only 5 or 6 pages in total. It’s infuriating. H. Bomberguy’s video is a good way to break down EVERY. SINGLE. POINT. that the anti-vaccine crowd likes to use.
Edit 2: I should paste the link to that video here. Thanks to everyone sprinkling it through the comments
https://youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc.
Jason Earles who played Hannah Montanas brother Jackson, John Cena, Ludacris, and Psy, are all the same age.
Also your bones are *wet*.
There was a very last time both your mom and your dad hold you on their laps or carried you on their arms before they never did it again.
If the sun were to suddenly dissapear, we would only know 8 minutes later. Imagine being outside with your kids and suddenly it's almost completely black and the sun is gone.
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