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The National Institute of Mental Health suggests that phobias affect approximately 10% of U.S. adults each year. They typically emerge during childhood or adolescence and continue into adulthood (and impact twice as many women as they do men).

So when Reddit user Aelmnnor asked everyone on the platform to share scientific facts that creep them out, they received plenty of answers, and the post eventually turned into a nightmare fuel tank. From microorganisms living on our bodies to powerful cosmic events, here are the things that people wish were a lie but, sadly, aren't.

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Basically the entirety of pregnancy/childbirth. Like, this other living organism embeds itself in the lining of my uterus, feeds off my blood, makes me grow an entirely new organ (the placenta) just to feed/protect it while it grows, then it comes out while basically still gestating (other mammals babies can walk and run within minutes of birth, ours can’t even hold up their giant domes!) just because the hole I have to push it through won’t be big enough for its head if it stays in any longer.

Oh, and once I’ve done all that I get to have the longest and worst period of my life while my uterus sheds out 40 weeks of uterine lining.

I’ve had a kid and it still f***s me up.

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

Thankfully I made a good choice. No kids means none of that drama for me yay!

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The first AI that can successfully pass the Turing test would be able to pretend that it couldn't.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The sudden urge to jump off of a very high height. You can be physically and mentally stable to the greatest degree and still have this feeling when at such a high height.

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I heard it's "the call of the void" and it's a normal human thought

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Honestly nothing is more creepy than how deep sea anglerfish mate.

The deep sea is dark, and the anglerfish are spread very thinly. Therefore, when an anglerfish meets another anglerfish, it’s incredibly important they get the chance to mate over and over again. The evolutionary strategy that deep sea anglerfish devised is extra creepy. The male latches onto the female, biting her and never letting go. That way he can inseminate the eggs she drops. Not that bad so far right? But wait, how does he eat if he’s latched on his mate?

Well, the circulatory systems fuse and the female provides nutrients for the male through this fused circulatory system. The true horror starts here. The organs of male start to wither and atrophy, being absorbed into the female. Eventually, the male is reduced to a lump of testicles the females use to fertilize their eggs. Females are often covered in bumps of several males that have melted into the female, becoming a literal body horror lump of meat on the female.

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

well as the males are born from a female, if you think about it more, isn't it just an organ the female disposes, letting it grow outside of her, and when it joins her she claims it back?

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Your brain literally creates your own reality and your senses and body just go along with it.

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People think the brain sees what the eyes tell it to, but really the eyes pull up an image of blurry colors and dark spots and the brain goes “cool so that’s a tree”

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

Your brain usually edits out your nose. Until someone points out that fact.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The mantis shrimp can see colors that our eyes aren't capable of perceiving.

Think about that.

What else are we just not capable of sensing?

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

I would like to know how someone found this out. What possible way led to this discovery

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When you go to get something from one room (or upstairs) and suddenly forget why you went in there. It’s called a boundary event. Usually, if you go back to where you started (through the boundary) you’ll remember it again.

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It has a number of different names, eg doorway effect. It's thought to be the result of the brain taking the time to size up the new area and check for danger/threats. Silly things like the reason you entered the room in the first place can be thrown out by the brain as being unimportant. I've found the best way to overcome this is by saying out loud that I was doing. eg "I'm going to make a cup of tea." or "I need to collect my zinctropic machine." The thought it right at the front of the brain, and is less easily ignored/forgotten.

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

I've been using this coping method for years, and while it does help me keep track of where I was headed and why, it also has gained me the reputation of someone who is either approaching insanity at breakneck speed, or else is a full-blown psycho who has probably escaped from some mental asylum. A friend once told me that there are two types of people in the world: those who fear that talking to themselves means that they are going mad; and those that fear that they WILL go mad if they DON'T talk to themselves!

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

Or you're a Sim and the player cancelled your action.

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

I shared this with my husband one day and he was like yeah that’s not going to work as he’s walking back into the previous room and then he suddenly remembers what he was coming in for. I was like I told you so lol.

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

My Granny used to say that doorways steal our thoughts and that's why we forget why we've walked into a room.

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

That's why I always cross my fingers or tuck in my shirt or something, so when I walk in the room and forget why I'm there, I'll be like, "Why am I crossing my fingers? Oh yeah, I need to grab my coat!"

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

Apparently looking quickly from side to side helps jog your memory in that situation

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

Sometimes thoughts don't carry over through loading screens

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I can do this five times in a row some days....🤤 think marijuana may have given me the strength I needed to make that 5 round trip upstairs for my...... Sht I'll be back

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

It's because I change into a different person in each room.

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

Yeah, I always thought it had something to do with all those parallel universes...

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

But menopause brain fog is a beast in its own category.😂

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

My da' had a lengthy jaunt for his boundary event back in the day. ...he works in intelligence...

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

Like when we all went from that one other galaxy to this one.

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

I read another post that looking to the side also helps

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

I've got adhd which affects my short term memory, I forget why I stood up. Going back to anywhere doesn't help, once I forget the it's gone forever.

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

Many rooms contain memory vampires. You don't know they're there because they take the memories..... 😱

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

I call it the hereafter. It's because I cannot remember what I came in here after. Ba-da-bum.

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

When I was young and drank a lot, I would often black out when leaving a room or building.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts You get and cure cancer in your own body thousands of times a day.....

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The universe is unbelievably infinite, while simultaneously unbelievably infinitesimal.

The universe has ~10^22 stars, a rough guess. This is an unfathomably large number for humans to comprehend, but bear with me. There is roughly 100 thousand million stars in our galaxy alone, and there are roughly 125 billion galaxies.

A single drop of water contains ~10^21 H2O molecules, not too far off from the number of stars in the whole universe. A very similar number, but contained in a single drop of water!

It blows my mind that the universe can contain such mind boggling numbers of things on such wildly different scales. There is so much to reality that the human mind just isn't capable of grasping.

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

Yet the alternative to being truly infinitessimal is more bizarre, yet true: at a certain point, the law of physics break down until there's another certain point at which even space itself is quantumized. Still wilder, this means there's a finite amount of information in the universe.... and that information survives a black hole. Which means if the universe actually IS massive enough to contract back on itself, all of reality can be thought of as a projection of information from a single point in space. (I don't say space and time because time also breaks down with density.)

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts If you believe strongly enough that you have been cursed, your brain can shut itself off entirely in severe cases. The psychological term for it is "Voodoo Death Syndrome." It's just the fact you can literally think yourself to death that unsettles me so.

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

There are a lot of people who are pretty safe from thinking themselves to death.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Caterpillars turn completely into goo in their cocoon, and then become a butterfly.

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And there is evidence they retain memories from their pre-goo days. Memories of strong positive/negative stimuli that they show preference-for/aversion-to, even after metamorphosis.

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

They don't completely turn into goo as some of the nervous and respiratory system remains during the process. They just change structure to adapt to the new physical form of the adult. :)

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That so many vegetables came from the same plant. Broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc. They are, botanically speaking, the same species. Humans have just bred them to emphasize different traits (buds, leaves, tubers...) Imagine if humans were as genetically flexible. Imagine a person walking around with GIANT toes, but otherwise normal.
Actually, plant genetics in general is a weird, weird world.

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

The same is true for dogs. They are all the same species, but look so different. The Chihuahua and New Foundland are the same species.

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Violets secrete a chemical that causes you to forget what they smell like afterwords. You’re essentially getting roofied every time you sniff one.

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

No, incorrect. Violets get their scent from ionone. It's an extremely sweet scent that many people describe as also being dry. "Powdery" is the word that's usually used. Another word is "ethereal," or "ephemeral." After stimulating scent receptors, ionone binds to them and temporarily shuts them off completely. This substance cannot be smelled for more than a few moments at a time. After that, people go anosmic to it. Then, after a few breaths, the scent pops up again. Because the brain hasn't registered it in the preceding few moments, it registers as a new stimulus. Although plenty of people don't like the scent of violets, they don't constantly overpower people, and they don't fade out.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts When the Titanic sank non of the shoes decomposed so there’s tone of shoes at the bottom of the ocean.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts A gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on earth instantly with no warning.

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

Not all life unless it blows the planet apart. There are fungi living miles/kilometers below the surface of the Earth to hat would be unaffected.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts That as the permafrost melts, a lot of locked up methane will be released, and microorganisms there will "wake up" and do their jobs, breaking down organic matter, and release more methane and greenhouse gases.

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

Not to mention any viruses that were long dormant so our bodies won't know how to fight them.

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Your brain is making decisions before you are even aware of the decisions it has made. It also makes decisions based off of learned behavior and you just go along with it.

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

This one shocks most people. Our brains do most of our decision making for us, and then let us know about it once we're already committed. If we "ask" it why we're doing something it will come up with a reason, but this reason is often nonsense that doesn't hold up to close scrutiny. Oliver Sacks covered a lot of this in his excellent and very readable books.

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Humans are bioluminescent (nothing to do with body temperature). We emit visible light that can be photographed in specific conditions. But, this light isn't visible to us. Which makes it a strange thing to have evolved, and begs the question

"what organisms is this light visible to, and why?"


Edit: Adding an edit for all the comments explaining evolution... Please read the thread before commenting. I find this a creepy fact due to implications on interspecific relationships, NOT because I think prehistoric humans went shopping for a bioluminescent hat with a specific motive in mind.

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

I get OP'S point. We breed plants and animals for characteristics that please us (often involving flavor). So shouldn't we wonder if the same has been done...to us?

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The brain can play tricks on you:

When you look at a clock and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory - and your perception of time stretches slightly backward.

This effect is called chronostasis.

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

Is this why that last second on the five second timer before skipping a YouTube ad seems to feel so long?

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Parasites can live anywhere inside of you, for years unnoticed. A simple migraine could be a tapeworm crawling in your brain, causing damage.

Your eyes begin to blur frequently and you don't know why and it's not getting better.

Losing weight and having diarrhea but it's not a stomach bug. Well, I guess it is...

You are having a difficult time catching your breath and your chest doesn't feel right.

It could just be some parasite hanging out, using you.

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

As someone who suffers from migraines often, I am choosing to pretend this is false information lol

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts That 99% of all life that has ever existed has gone extinct.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts When a president declares a national state of emergency the law prohibiting medical experiments on unwilling human subjects is suspended.

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

This will totally depend on the country and individual national laws.

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your digestive tract is an unbroken tube from mouth to a**s...your lips are basically the other end of your b******e.

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Not exactly scientific or creepy but, it's close enough and I want to contribute.

Mouth pipetting was a thing in labs in the 1980s. A pipette is, for simplicity sake, a glass straw that lab staff would use to transfer liquids. Now a days we use special bulbs, that when squeezed, would suck up the liquid for us. Kinda like a turkey baster or eye dropper.

Before we had these bulbs lab workers had to use their mouths to suck up the liquid. Which meant if they weren't careful they'd get whatever they were sucking up in their mouth. I'm currently training to be MLAT and those fluids would usually be urine, liquid stool, sputum and so on.

Edit: So mouth pipetting is still a thing. I'm Canadian and I've been told that it is rare or none existent in our labs.

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

It's still a thing in my School. I hated it. Thankfully I just passed out from School.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Sea stars eject their stomachs to cover edible parts of their prey, begin digesting it externally, and then pull the partially digested prey into digestive glands to finish the job.

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

We call them starfish where I come from but I think Sea Stars sounds much cuter

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts Obligate siblicide. In some species of animals, multiple offspring are born but only one is actually raised by the mother. The others are born only as backup in case the first-born doesn't survive. When the first-born is fine, which is the typical case, it kills the others.

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

Eagles, which makes any webcams heartbreaking to follow

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts We know more about the moon than we do our own oceans.

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

The moon was easier to get to. And with no life, there's not many surprises up there.

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Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong.

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.

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With a lethal dose of radiation, victims of acute radiation sickness will, after hours of vomiting and feeling horrible, start to feel much better. Then, they will descend into a hell of a painful death.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts It’s rare, but you can die at any moment for literally no reason at all. Your body just stops working.

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

I have a lot of parts that have stopped working already.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts I could be drinking the same water that my extremely far relative drank back in like the 1800s

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

I drank some water out of a bottle with the sticker: „passed by the water authorities“ I really, really hope not.

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- Out of all our DNA, only 2% codes for our genes.

The 98% leftover is called "junk DNA". I'm not specialised in genetic, but it was long thought to be useless but it's apparently essential for DNA expression regulation and protein formation.

- There are familial forms of alzheimer's disease. They are very rare but they exist, it doesn't skip a generation and one of the form makes you have the disease as early as your late 20's/early 30's.

- In Auschwitz, Joseph Mengele, a nazi doctor who conducted experiment on twins, sewed up 2 twins together for sh**s and giggles and let them die after the surgery of infections. They apparently screamed of pain for days until dying.

- You can live "normaly" with half your brain removed. It's usually done on young children suffering from terrifying epilepsy and the surgery is the last resort. It works quite well and if done early enough, with reeducation, the children develop normally without cognitive deficit, they "just" are blind from one eye, have one very weak arm/leg but they are not cognitively affected : some go to college, get married, have children and live completely normal lives.

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

A family friend’s younger brother had to have half his brain removed as a kid because he had strokes. He’s a teenager now and doing well!

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts After being decapitated there’s still few seconds of brain activity that happen before you snuff out.

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

Poor Sean Bean, often gets killed off early, it's a shame as he is a great actor.

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts There is more microorganisms on your body than people on earth.

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

And there I was thinking how nice it is to have the house to myself today

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Literally everything that you know or feel or experience in total is just a series of electric impulses and nothing else.

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

That’s not scary to me at all. My world doesn’t change because I’m aware my soul consists of biochemistry and electrical impulses, I’m all good.

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There is something called "the squeeze," where when people had old scuba suits with tubes, you could actually get sucked into that tube if the pressure was off. You are literally shredded through your own breathing tube.

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

Mythbusters tested this and it’s 100% possible, plus really gross

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts If you rub garlic on your feet you can taste it.

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

Does it work if we run it on our butt too. See comments about lips and butts.

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In the United States, approximately 1 in every 50 people have an unruptured aneurysm. Most will never rupture, but will just sit there in your brain, silently waiting...

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Here's a good one: your eyes are an exposed extension of your brain.

In other words, and apologies if it sounds a little sociopathic, but if you take apart your head piece by piece with just the brain in tact your eyes would be dangling from the brain. Or, you can just google "eyes and the brain" to see what I mean.

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

Oh, it's worse than that! You know that headache behind the eyes that you get when you get a fever? That's the brain having expanded too much to fit into your skull, so it's pushing out your eyesockets.

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Rogue black holes. There are black holes that just are floating around in space and potentially f*****g up solar system just by passing through it.

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

Rogue stars also exist, travelling at ridiculous speeds. Scientists think they were part of a binary star-system where the other star went supernova, and instead of "eating" the smaller star, it sent it off hurtling through space. Saw it on "How the Universe Works" just this morning!

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts A doctor once told me, on average every human has three anomalies. Not all are visible.

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There is a supermassive star 7600 light years away named Eta Carinae A. It is about 200 times the mass of our sun. It's size is about the size of our entire solar system. It is 5 million times brighter than our sun. And it is very very very near supernova. It might have already happened and the shock wave is on the way.

It probably is far enough away to where won't destroy our solar system. Probably.

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Not so much as a fact but an observation. Viruses are both dead, alive, and inanimate all at the same time. We still don't know why or how they originally came into existence in the first place, and theoretically, the only possible function they serve in any species especially Humans is solely to cap the population growth rate. Therefore, Nature, in all its nihilistic behavior, made a "thing" to destroy Life itself by making it a byproduct of too much Life according to unexplained forces in Nature.

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

Not necessarily, as viral genetic information can also be incorporated into the genome of the host it infects, leading to potentially beneficial alterations. Our genome is for 8% of viral origine. It's not a killswitch implemented by mother nature, it's a package of genetic information that can go from organism A to organism B.

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If all the muscles in your back clenched with force at the same time, they would shatter your spine.

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Some mutations of just one letter in the DNA code can kill the fetus almost instantly, but some people live and have a seemingly healthy life while missing a whole chromosome. If you understand anything about biology, that's completely wild.

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

If you understand anything about coding, that doesn't seem unusual at all. Once argument off, program fails. One module off, skip it and run.

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I'm pretty sure scientific fact is a bit of an oxymoron. Science always leaves room for an improvement on a theory.

That bring said. Where TF is the 95% of the mass of the universe at. Why can't we find it.

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

Look, I haven't cleaned under my bed for a while okay?

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NSFL warning!

Male sea otters will occasionally drown female sea otters during the mating process.

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

...and will keep going with the corpse. Other species aren't safe either, baby seals for example are another common victim

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People Share 40 Creepy Things That They Wish Were Lies But Are Actually Scientific Facts The fact that bacteria in your gut can be more harmful than any flesh eating virus.

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

Flesh eating viruses don't exist. At best, bacteria that produce toxins that can dissolve soft tissue

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Most of the water on the earth will rain down at some point... The creepy fact about this is that the human body is 60% water, meaning that at some point the same water that runs through your body, the one on your blood, bones, brain, etc.


Will rain down at some point.

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

Except for bits of water that could be on satellites, space stations or anything else we sent into space, all the water that has ever existed on Earth is still here on Earth and in Earth's atmosphere.

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Scientific? Maybe not..but i always think about, unless u are mega famous, or made an insane contribution to society, you and everything youve ever said or done will or accomished will be forgotten. In time, after u die, u will gradually be forgoten by your family and friends. Every shared exerpiences with friends or family will be forgotten and lost because u will die and your friends will die your family will die.....no one will exist anymore to share or talk about your memories. Your kid will remember u...and maybe your kids kids.....but those kids kids kids wont...and on and on forever you will be phased out of existance.

Honestly, how long do u think memories of you will carry on through future generations unless u were mega famous for something.

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

I find this comforting, I like the thought that my existence will be wiped from memory, probably in less than a century.

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There is a fungus that turns ants into zombies. And when they die it will be in the best position to spread more of the spores.

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There's a fungus which infects male cicadas; it was very common in the latest cicada outbreak here. It makes the males become attracted to other males, and spreads when they attempt to mate. Then it consumes the entire cicada from the genitals forward until it forces enough of a pressure build-up that the cicada explodes (although I haven't found video of this online yet, so I don't know if this is a bit of an overstatement) and the fungus instantly forms a fruiting body. Exploding homosexual zombie "locusts." If that doesn't seize the imagination of a fundamentalist, I don't know what does.

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Just how big of a number a mole actually is.

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I can still remember the mole song our chemistry teacher played for us. The song is from when the world population was 5 billion.

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Flys take a dump every time they land.

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A buddy of mine is a pilot for a major airline...in top 3 of airlines. I asked him "exactly how much flying are u actually doing during a flight..like how much are u controlling the plane?" He said about 5% ....95% of a flight is completely automated. He said he's involved a little bit on take off and on the landing but for the most part the plane flies itself unless something major happens in flight.

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

Pilots are controlling the aircraft 100% of the time, they just use their hands 5% of the time, and use the autopilot the rest, the aircraft is never just “flying itself” ;)

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Due to relativity, it is impossible to measure the speed of light in a straight line. The only way we've measured it is by round trip with mirrors. For all we know, it could be instantaneous going one way, and half the speed of light in the other, and it would be impossible to tell.

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

Oh, oh I have an idea....it could behave differently when observed than when not observed too....

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