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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies

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Nighttime is for horrors and discovering how frightening the world really is. We aren’t talking about ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. They haven't YET been added to the library of proven scary facts. We are here to take a look at the scientifically proven horrors. The ones that we can’t deny or run away from. And unfortunately (or luckily for all you dark copers out there), there are many creepy facts about humans and the Earth we live on.

Human bodies might work in creepy ways, but they can’t beat the frightening things our minds have done. For example, one of the scariest facts on our list touches upon the horror movie Poltergeist. This might come as a shocker to you, but the corpses you saw in the movie — those were actual human remains. With this scary fact in mind, you might watch the movie from a different perspective. Or never watch it again.

However, to truly make your sleep feel more like a nightmare, you should know the dark facts about Earth and its inhabitants. Crows, for example, can remember and recognize human faces. On the other hand, some scary facts touch upon geography. Mount Everest, the highest mountain above sea level, is also the world’s highest graveyard. Approximately 150 bodies are resting on this giant of a mountain. All of whom will likely never be recovered.

Ready to get scared? If so, turn off the lights, cozy up in your bed, and delve into the scary and disturbing facts we have compiled below. Also, we advise you to stick till the end because, throughout the post, we explore how scary facts affect sleep and why the ocean might be the most terrifying place on Earth!

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Crows can recognize and remember human faces.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com , Tom Swinnen Report

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Vic 2 years ago

I love this about crows.. brilliant creatures..

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B 🇺🇦🇨🇦 2 years ago (edited)

I used to live next to an elementary school, had to walk through the school zone to get to my bus to work. I also had a crow family in the backyard trees that I kind of befriended (creatively called Bart, Mrs Bart, and Bart Jr.) They would come hop over and chirp and ask me for food when I was on my patio and I always had seeds and veggies for them (and occasionally treats like scrambled eggs!) After Bart Jr was taught by Bart and Mrs how to come ask for food, he had a short silly period where he would follow me to the bus stop just shrieking 😅 the parents picking up their kids from school probably thought this awkward white girl powerwalking past the school trying to pull up her collar to hide her face while a bouncy baby crow was bobbing after her, trying to goofily dodge strollers and students and all the while hollering like a dork was weird as heck. He was embarrassing but I miss my little Barts :) (definitely named after The Simpsons because I befriended Bart first, but all 3 were experts in shenanigans and mischief)

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Yourname942 2 years ago

That isn't creepy. They are really intelligent, and will bring you gifts if you are nice to them and feed them regularly

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Meike H 2 years ago

Only creepy when you are a d**k to them. Crows are reasonable.

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Duncan Rogers 2 years ago

That whole family, crows, ravens, magpies...the corvids...are all so much smarter than most folks realize. They are tool users for heavens sake.

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- 2 years ago

I watched a video of a crow putting pebbles into a container of water. The displaced water then rose enough for the crow to drink. I thought, "Holy Archimedes! I'm dumber than a crow."

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Bat 2 years ago

When I was a kid I had crows near my house and fed them. One time a kid a few years older then me and some of his buddies started beating me up, and the crows have been mad at him ever since. He’s 24 now and still will get picked on by the crows.

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ASHRFOX 2 years ago

Sorry how is this creepy?

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debrina blackmoon 2 years ago (edited)

If someone is mean to them or person/animal they like.

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BusyLizzy 2 years ago

Crows are amazing. They can also read traffic lights. When a light is red they will swoop down and drop a nut at an intersection and wait for it to be run over and cracked. As soon as the light turns red again they'll swoop down and pick it up.

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Kenny Kulbiski 2 years ago

I made the mistake of feeding a crow on my coffee break in the park. Now it's there everyday on the hood of my truck screeching at me until he gets his food. He's not grateful, just demanding. The only present I've received is some occasional crow c**p on my hood. He's brilliant all right, he's figured out a blackmail scheme.

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Agent 8433599 2 years ago (edited)

I want to create a crow army

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Laura Kelly 2 years ago

If you leave food out for crows they will reward you. They will soon start leaving you trinkets of different sorts. A woman who loved to take pictures always fed the crows in her yard. She was in town one day taking some pictures. She accidentally left her lens cap in the area that she was taking pictures. There was a little box in her back yard. When she got home the lens cap was in the box. While typing this I was trying to remember where I read this. I believe I saw in right here on Bored Panda!!!

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The Panda society 2 years ago

Not creepy fact. Wonderful fact. Fact misfiled. Bad Panda.

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AKRaven 2 years ago

Why is this considered creepy???

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Leon Bryan 2 years ago

There was a crow that sat outside my house for multiple days a few years ago Probably remembered my face

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Danielle Hardesty 2 years ago

Nothing about that will keep me from sleeping.

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Emily 2 years ago

Scary smart

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Jenny Ann 2 years ago

This has always been an interesting fact! Like how is this even possible? Lol

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Beachbum 2 years ago

How is this creepy at all?

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Gaya Knust 2 years ago

Not creepy. This is amazing.

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Gossameringue 2 years ago

That's more than I can do

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E B 2 years ago

Also if you mess with them they will not forget, and will tell their friends about you too. Don't mess with the little black dinos, man!

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DuchessDegu 2 years ago

I do hope so, I feed them everyday!

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Shyla Clay 2 years ago

Most of the time, I can't

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Jan Eivroc 2 years ago

So better be nice to your corvid friends out there!

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago

Chickens too I believe.

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Carden Blackthorne 1 year ago

Not only that, their language is complex enough that they can describe your face to their children.

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Daveon Banks 1 year ago

YOO WHAT

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Phoebe Stein 2 years ago

That is not creepy.

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MICHAEL SHERBROOK 2 years ago

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MICHAEL SHERBROOK 2 years ago

big chees

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Carden Blackthorne 2 years ago

A fun addendum to this fact is that crows are fully capable of teaching their young how to recognize human faces they have never seen before.

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Gavin Scherr 2 years ago

so if i had a pet crow and say it went somewhere and came back it would know me

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Gavin Scherr 2 years ago

uhhhhhhhhhh

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Oh Deer 2 years ago

smort

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rodger coghlan 2 years ago

And can pass on the human behavior so if the human fu*ks w/the crows - crows everywhere will hear about it

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Oddly Me 2 years ago

Ahh, how much we have learned as a species. I hope nothing but good comes from this knowledge. I am far from being creeped out by this.

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Clover 2 years ago

I knew of a shuttle bus driver at a casino who used to share his lunch with a crow with an injured wing, that couldn't seem to fly. Eventually, other crows befriended him too, and would lead his shuttle in to the casino. All of the shuttles looked alike, but they knew who was driving this particular one. Must have recognized his face too.

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Anne Mitchell 2 years ago

So can Australian magpies and many other birds.

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Joy Hunter 2 years ago

Cape buffalo (the ones in Africa) can remember for at least two years the faces of any human that tried to harm any member of their family. If they see any of those people they will chase the person up a tree and the rest of the cape buffalo family will come and wait at the foot of the tree for the person to come down.

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Nahkaparturi X 2 years ago

What's creepy about this ? My summer project is to befriend a crow. Has turned out harder than initially thought. As very intelligent birds they will avoid human contact to much greater extent than for example seagulls, ducks or pigeons. So, when you try to bribe them, they just stare at you from the distance as the as the others practicaly throw themselves on your lap in their greed. If you succeed though, a crow can learn to return the favor and bring you gifts in return for treats. Can't see a screaming seagull doing that.

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Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 2 years ago

Human, on the other hand, can hardly remember or recognize what they had done to crows.

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Kris 2 years ago

So creepy. I also find it creepy when people recognize my face :P

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Susan Bosse 2 years ago

I have a goal of training the ones outside of my house. I want shiny objects in trade for food.

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Margrete Sonnenberg 2 years ago

Yep, the crows recognize me. I leave nuts out for them.

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Sarah Young 2 years ago

You don't remember crow, but crow remembers you.

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Cubbypotato 2 years ago

Crows are amazing

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Tiffi 2 years ago

I knew this. Amazing animals.

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Zena Belen 2 years ago

So can I, does that make me creepy...?

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1.21Gigawatts?! 2 years ago

So can wasps

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Joybug 2 years ago

And chickens.

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Ariel Strong 2 years ago

Don't they make better pets than parrots?

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Why Dark Facts Are Scarier at Night?

Horror and darkness mix rather perfectly. Scary facts can evoke terror and horror because that’s simply how our brain works. Creativity plays an important part here because we start to imagine fictitious things. Our minds start imagining things that are simply not there… or are they?

Imagine for a moment a situation. You are in your room, alone in the house. You start reading through some dark facts we have compiled. You brush them off as “goofy” and “not scary.” But your ears pick up noises outside your door. You start thinking, “What was it?”, “Who made those sounds?” and your body trembles. That’s because your brain has been hijacked by fear.

Both horror movies and games work on the same principle. However, scary facts are way more interesting because they’re true to the bone. Thus, if you are looking for a quick pass to a nightmarish night — these facts are the way to go.

#2

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Tooth-in-the-Eye Surgery. Surgeons put a tooth in a blind person’s eye to restore their sight. It was pioneered in the 1960s, and it actually works and it’s still being done today.

eyewiki.aao.org , Lisa Fotios Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist.

snopes.com , imdb Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies There are bodies of over 150 dead hikers on Mount Everest, and they’are used as landmarks.

smithsonianmag.com , David Waschbüsch Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever.

amnh.org , Pawel Kalisinski Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Climate change is making spiders bigger.

royalsocietypublishing.org , Anthony Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies A haunted radio station from Russia has been broadcasting a dull monotonous tone for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn.

bbc.com , Zeynep M Report

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How Do Disturbing Facts Impact Our Sleep?

Knowing why disturbing facts are scary, you might want to understand how they impact your sleep schedule. It’s not a myth that horror genre-related stuff (scary facts included) worsens sleep. However, to prove the myth practically, watch a horror movie or read some terrifying facts before sleep. The likely outcome is that fear will kick your fight-or-flight response into overdrive, signaling the body to release adrenaline (if you get scared, of course).

If you missed a few biology classes, adrenaline is a hormone our bodies produce. It’s usually released in dangerous or stressful situations. It activates our “fight or flight” response and keeps the body on high alert. Truly horrific facts, when read at night, will quickly trigger the production of this hormone.

High alert mode can heavily disturb your sleep because adrenaline keeps you up and makes you feel moody and slightly annoyed. So, the next time you decide to read a scary collection of facts, don’t expect to fall asleep early. Just make sure to get around 8 hours of sleep the next day.

#8

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.

sciencedirect.com Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Two Scottish surgeons originally invented the chainsaw to assist childbirth.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Karolina Gabrowska Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Spiders can survive in space.

nasa.gov , Pixabay Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Locked-In Syndrome is a condition in which a patient is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state.

rarediseases.info.nih.gov , RDNE Stock Project Report

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#12

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies The film 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' is based on a real story reported in the LA Times. A boy was terrified to go to sleep, and when he did, he died while screaming about a nightmare.

latimes.com , imdb Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies While Ted Bundy was a psychology major at the University of Washington, he worked at Seattle's Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.

distractify.com , bryce carithers Report

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#14

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Ducklings can engage in cannibalistic behaviors when they're bored.

dpi.nsw.gov.au , Pixabay Report

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#15

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies When you die the last sense to leave your body is the ability to hear.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Pavel Danilyuk Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored.

oceanservice.noaa.gov , Francesco Ungaro Report

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How Many Creepy Things Are in the Ocean?

Humans are natural explorers. Thus, something we can’t explore gets shrouded in mystery. The more mysterious the place — the creepier it is. You might not know it, but only 20% of the ocean has been explored. Thus, it’s no wonder why so many creepy things and facts come from this place.

While we might label space as the most mysterious thing, that title goes to the oceans. With 80% of the ocean still unexplored, what we know now is already creepy. For more creepiness, check out creatures found in the deep seas. It’s a guaranteed way to get a mild case of insomnia.

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So, regarding how many scary things are in the ocean, the answer is simple — a lot already, and much more hidden. Someday, we might explore 100% of the ocean. By that time, we will be indeed frightened to our cores.

#17

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Technically it’s not impossible to die from holding in a sneeze. Some injuries from holding in a sneeze can be very serious, such as ruptured brain aneurysms, ruptured throat, and collapsed lungs.

healthline.com , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Horned Lizards can defend themselves by squirting blood out of their eyes.

asknature.org , Room237 CC AS-A A 3.0 U Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Mobile phones are 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , Teddy Yang Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Alien hand syndrome is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov , hansskuy Report

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#21

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.

smithsonianmag.com , Polina Tankilevitch Report

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#22

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Some ants turn into zombies via parasitic fungus which manipulates their brains.

livescience.com , Egor Kamelev Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Arrhythmic death syndrome is a sudden condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.

sads.org.uk , Brett Sayles Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies 250,000 deaths a year are due to medical errors.

npr.org , Dalila Dalprat Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies During the mummification process, Ancient Egyptians remove the brain through one of the nostrils.

science.howstuffworks.com , Miguel Á. Padriñán Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies People with Cotard's syndrome believe that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don’t exist. They may think nothing exists.

webmd.com , cottonbro Report

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#27

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Criminologists estimate that there's a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.

npr.org , Tima Miroshnichenko Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months.

rarediseases.org Report

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#29

30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies You’re more likely to die on your birthday. The chance someone will die on their birthday is 6.7 percent, which is higher than any other day.

sciencedirect.com , Marina Utrabo Report

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30 Scary Facts That Will Give You The Heebie-Jeebies Some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive.

sciencedirect.com , Pixabay Report

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#31

In some European cultures it was customary to place the dried or desiccated body of a cat inside the walls of a newly built home to ward off evil spirits or as a good luck charm.

jstor.org Report

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#32

Humans produce about 1.5 quarts of mucus every day.

health.ucsd.edu Report

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#33

Indian followers of the Zoroastrianism don't bury or burn their dead. Instead, they leave the bodies exposed to the rays of the sun, and the corpse is consumed or devoured by birds of prey — vultures, kites, crows.

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#34

Over 20% of children report hearing voices.

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#35

An estimated 6.5 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people.

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The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons.

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#37

Based on a 2006 report by the National Academies of Science’s Institute of Medicine, in the U.S. alone poor handwriting on prescription notes leads to over 7,000 deaths and 1.5 million medical errors.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

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Despite making up close to 5% of the global population, the U.S. has more than 20% of the world’s prison population.

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#39

Decorations made from human bones adorn the interior of the Sedlec Ossuary.
The “Bone Church” contains the bones of around 40,000 different people. These bones are all arranged in different forms, such as garlands, altars, and even a chandelier.

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A homicide archivist Thomas Hargrove estimates that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large right now.

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#41

The Pirates of The Caribbean ride at Disneyland used to have real skeletons as props. When it was first built in the 1960s, designers asked UCLA’s anatomy department for authentic materials. The real skeletons have since been given a proper burial.

atlasobscura.com Report

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'A Sense Of Impending Doom' is frequently reported by patients as an early sign of mismatched blood type transfusion.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

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At least 20 detached human feet have been found on the coasts of the Salish Sea since 2007.

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In the early-to-mid 1980s, years after AIDS was known to be in Canada (1982), the Canadian Red Cross wasn’t screening donated blood for HIV. About 2,000 Canadians were infected with HIV from tainted blood products.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

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#45

When we die, the enzymes and bacteria that were so useful to us digest us from the inside out.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

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Many crocodile species can gallop, and they are fast.

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#47

In the 1920’s, the American domestic terror group the Ku Klux Klan had a youth chapter called the “Ku Klux Kiddies.”

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#48

Depression-era craze of Dance Marathons in which couples would compete to see who could dance the longest, often for cash prizes, unfortunately led to some people dropping dead from exhaustion on the dance floor.

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A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated.

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#50

Harvard owns a book that's bound in human skin.

bbc.com , blogs.law.harvard.edu Report

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"Brain-eating" amoeba has infected at least 40 people in the U.S. over the past decade. The single-celled organisms go by the scientific name Naegleria folweri, and may infect people who swim in lakes or rivers.

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A chicken named Mike lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off.

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#53

On average, a person can secrete 26 gallons of sweat into a bed per year.

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#54

If the sun blew up right now, you wouldn't know about it for another eight minutes.

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#55

H. H. Holms, America’s first serial killer, constructed a “Murder Castle,” a hotel with secret compartments and gas chambers to murder unsuspecting visitors of the Chicago World Fair. He confessed to 27 murders.

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More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone.

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People used hollowed human skulls as bowls and cups back in ancient England.

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The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.

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#59

Tarantulas have been found to "swim" in both the wild and in captivity.

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#60

John Douglas, a former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit and author of Mind Hunter notes that “A very conservative estimate is that there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the United States” at any given time.

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The last use of a guillotine in France was the same year the first Star Wars movie premiered. 1977

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Fifteen percent of the air you breathe in a metro station is human skin.

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#63

Vampire moths feed on the blood of mammals, including humans. They can suck blood for up to 50 minutes.

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Your pets might eat you when you die, and perhaps a bit sooner than is comfortable.

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#65

Your jaw is strong enough to crush your own teeth with its pressure.

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Emperor Nero profited off of human urine. Emperor Nero imposed a urine tax, charging merchants who sold urine.

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#67

The Asian giant hornets have a bite that can leave craters in the skin or even cause death.

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#68

Rodents' teeth grow continuously throughout their lives.

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Babies can grow mustaches in the womb that then spread to cover their entire body in hair called Lanugo. The body hair keeps them warm and helps regulate body temperature. Don’t worry, they shed it before birth.

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#70

Your skeleton is always wet.

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#71

It’s very possible your office coffee mug has fecal matter on it.

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#72

NASA astronaut will consume about 730 liters of recycled urine and sweat during his yearlong mission.

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#73

Ancient Romans believed that drinking blood would let them absorb power.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Report

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#74

Women in the 18th century used lead as makeup. This makeup contains vinegar, water, and white lead, which was the pigment that gave the mixture its color.

theconversation.com Report

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#75

About 40 supervolcanoes are dotted across the globe and we're about 24,000 years overdue for an eruption.

bbc.co.uk Report

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#76

The “sleepwalking defense” has been used in order to have defendants acquitted for murder.

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#77

Aztec priests believed that human sacrifices could stop droughts and famine.

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#78

For centuries, doctors thought that medicines made with human flesh, blood, or bone could be effective in curing all kinds of ailments, from epilepsy to headaches. This practice was called “corpse medicine.”

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#79

Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.

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#80

“The Devil’s Bible” is a real thing, and it’s a contract between a monk and Satan.

Codex Gigas, “The Devil’s Bible” is the largest Latin manuscript known to the world. It contains a full-page portrait of Satan. People believe the manuscript contains the contract of a monk who sold his soul to Satan in the 13th century in order to escape execution.

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Guy Divorced 3 Years Ago Drops Off 3 Y.O. With His Ex-Wife Completely Out Of The Blue

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#81

In a month, we ingest the weight of a 4x2 Lego brick in microplastic.

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#82

Lady Bugs larvae use cannibalism as a survival tactic. Lady Bugs are known to eat their own larvae to ensure the survival of the other larvae. Think of it as population control on a smaller scale.

biomedcentral.com Report

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#83

The Champawat Tiger was responsible for an estimated 436 deaths in Nepal and the Kumaon division of India, during the last years of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

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#84

A person will shed around 40 pounds of skin in a single lifetime. Just like snakes, humans shed their skin too, but at a much slower pace. Accumulated, however, your shed skin will amount to almost half the average body weight.

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Internet Gives Unemployed Woman A Reality Check After She Expects Friends To Buy Her A Trip

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#85

Some species of fish have human-like teeth.

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#86

Microscopic mites can be found in bunches at the base of your eyelashes.

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#87

In the 1800s, dentures were made out of the real teeth of deceased people.

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#88

'Foot binding' practice in China only started to decline in the 20th century.

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16points

#89

The FDA allows up to 4% of a can of cherries to have maggots (and 5% if they are brined or Maraschino).

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#90

More than 80 million bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss.

microbiomejournal Report

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#91

The golden poison frog has enough poison to kill 10 to 15 people. Its skin is coated in a deadly poison called alkaloid toxin. One milligram of this poison can kill around 10 to 15 humans.

nationalgeographic.com Report

15points

#92

4,400 Unidentified bodies are recovered each year with approximately 1,000 of those bodies remaining unidentified after one year.

namus.nij.ojp.gov Report

15points

#93

18th-century doctors believed that bloodletting was mandatory to “balance” patients' health.

medicalnewstoday.com Report

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#94

Research has shown that after decapitation there is still activity in the brain for 4 to 30 seconds.

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#95

The peanut butter contains an average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams.

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#96

Being buried alive accidentally occurred so often that people invented “safety coffins.” Doctors often misdiagnosed ill patients, and this was common in 17th century England.

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#97

Cosmologists theorize the constant expansion of the universe could cause it to tear apart. This theory is called The Big Rip.

americanscientist.org Report

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#98

Scientists say 'black holes' exist in the ocean.

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#99

A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land.

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After many years of working as sports journalist and trivia game author and host in Ukraine I joined Bored Panda as a content creator. I do love writing stories and I sincerely believe - there's no dull plots at all. Like a great Italian composer Joaquino Rossini once told: "Give me a police protocol - and I'll make an opera out of it!"

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Stacey Rae 2 years ago

Seems like some fact checking is in order...

12points

Kar Red Roses 2 years ago

Here’s a silly one: male parrots regurgitate on females they are attracted to. It’s like saying “I’M SO HOT FOR YOU BABE, WHENEVER I SEE YOUR FACE I WANNA TOSS MY COOKIES!!” 🦜💘🤮. . . The science at work here is the bird is demonstrating his ability to be a good provider. He is willingly bringing up food from a storage pouch in his throat (called a ‘crop’) to feed his would-be girlfriend. Regurgitation and vomit are not the same thing in the avian world. A mother parrot can similarly feed babies with food from her own crop. Birds appreciate a free meal even if it’s been pre-chewed for them!

9points

Wren Hard 1 year ago

It's actually sweet, my birds do it to each other

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Leara Bridges Brown 2 years ago

How many of these are fact checked??

3points

Miklós Nagy 2 years ago

As always, these "facts" need serious factchecks.

1point

Liv 2 years ago

Here’s a random fact: Adolf Hitler invented blow up dolls

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Dazzled masochistic Lamb 2 years ago

The majority of these have been used numerous times in different posts.

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d bradley 2 years ago

never question the experts or you will be blocked

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Not Telling you 2 years ago

are dorala and Monica advertising or making a joke I don’t get?

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Virtually Fabulous 2 years ago

Advertising bots 🙄

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Stacey Rae 2 years ago

Seems like some fact checking is in order...

12points

Kar Red Roses 2 years ago

Here’s a silly one: male parrots regurgitate on females they are attracted to. It’s like saying “I’M SO HOT FOR YOU BABE, WHENEVER I SEE YOUR FACE I WANNA TOSS MY COOKIES!!” 🦜💘🤮. . . The science at work here is the bird is demonstrating his ability to be a good provider. He is willingly bringing up food from a storage pouch in his throat (called a ‘crop’) to feed his would-be girlfriend. Regurgitation and vomit are not the same thing in the avian world. A mother parrot can similarly feed babies with food from her own crop. Birds appreciate a free meal even if it’s been pre-chewed for them!

9points

Wren Hard 1 year ago

It's actually sweet, my birds do it to each other

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Leara Bridges Brown 2 years ago

How many of these are fact checked??

3points

Miklós Nagy 2 years ago

As always, these "facts" need serious factchecks.

1point

Liv 2 years ago

Here’s a random fact: Adolf Hitler invented blow up dolls

0points

Dazzled masochistic Lamb 2 years ago

The majority of these have been used numerous times in different posts.

0points

d bradley 2 years ago

never question the experts or you will be blocked

0points

Not Telling you 2 years ago

are dorala and Monica advertising or making a joke I don’t get?

0points

Virtually Fabulous 2 years ago

Advertising bots 🙄

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