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50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread A Jewish doctor treated Hitler’s Mother(The only person Adolf ever truly loved) while she was dying of cancer.

He promised his eternal gratitude to the doctor and even after becoming a pathological anti-Semite and later the Fuhrer, he was true to his word and was adamant the doctor and his family be placed under protection from the purge.

While some may think this an act of genuine kindness, I just think about all the lives lost because Hitler never stopped to think that all Jews were capable of good and not just the one who happened to have been good to him because of immediate proximity..

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Rostit. . 1 year ago

That makes it even worse. The doctor was called a "Edeljude" or "Noble Jew". Hitler was a monster. No humanity in that carcas.

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50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread In ancient Egypt, the deceased bodies of beautiful and high ranking women were left to decay for several days before mummification to discuourage necrophilia by the embalmers.

TheLoneleyPython , M abnodey Report

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

Better safe than shaggy.

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A woodpecker retracts its tongue and wraps it around its brain to prevent injury when drilling into trees in search of insects,

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Snorky The Pig 1 year ago

That's actually really cool (why is there no woodpecker emoji)

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Humans, being mostly Carbon, can be made into diamonds.

I plan to go the cheaper route and have my ashes be rolled into a glass paperweight. Some day I might even end up on the shelf of a Goodwill for $2.99

Edit: 3000 points has unlocked another, also disturbing fact.

Snow is so sound deadening, that your kid could be building a snowfort, have it collapse, and you wouldn't hear their cries for help. Even worse is when they're tunneling into one of those parking lot plow piles. They won't hear the plow coming.

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

Jesus. Gotta watch my niece closer this winter

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That reports of child abuse dropped precipitously during the COVID-19 pandemic not because less children were abused but because teachers were unable to see the typical evidence of abuse because most teaching was conducted online.

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Black Cat 1 year ago

😔 so sad. It would stand to reason more child or domestic abuse occurred during the lockdowns.

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Humans can live without their stomachs (and no you don’t necessarily need any ostomy bags either).

Ask me how I know…

Never mind, I’ll tell you.

I don’t have one any longer (stomach cancer).

Edit: Thank you kind strangers for the awards. ☺️ Never got one before and now I have two, scratch that FOUR Now

Edit 2:Y’all!!!! You are so sweet and kind. Thank you everyone for the well wishes, kindness and questions.

Please go get genetically tested for these things. So far 4 of the 6 members of my family don’t have stomachs anymore (all this year).

Genetic testing can save your life!

Edit 3: Fun fact: Us ones without stomachs call ourselves seahorses now because they don’t have stomachs either.

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Nina 1 year ago

TIL seahorses don't have stomachs and humans can live without one as well

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50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread I was told by a very senior police officer (a parent of a kid I taught) that it is estimated that 30% of all missing persons reported to police who are never located have been murdered and more often than not they have been murdered by the person reporting them missing in the first place. The police know this, but lack evidence to proceed with prosecutions.

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moggie63 1 year ago

This is why I never report anybody missing.

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50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread I remember hearing some dude (retired military) on a podcast talk about how fragile our electric grid really is, and if it ever went down some 60%-ish of the population would die in about 2-3 months because nobody knows how to gather food or water anymore.

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Daniel Cadman 1 year ago

"Haibo" comrade come to south africa the land of load shedding, and an absolute waste of time government.

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#10

Big corporation always calculate wether its cheaper to pay a fine/settlement rather than obey the law.

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Kris 1 year ago

Sounds like the Ford Pinto!

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#11

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Elon Musk’s father is currently with and has a child with his step-daughter. He became her step-father when she was about 3

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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago

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#12

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread I think I speak with every woman on here: blood stains are easier to get out of fabric than you think they are with very few cleaning materials, provided you get to them quickly enough.

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rullyman 1 year ago

Wash with cold water first. Lifts the blood without setting the stains.

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#13

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Most arsonists are found masturbating somewhere within a few blocks of their fires

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

...alright didn't know this one. Pass the unsee juice

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#14

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread That when you have a headache because you're extremely hungover, it's because your dehydrated brain is shriveling and pulling on the membranes that connect it to your skull.

Once I found that out it's made all of my hangover headaches much worse just thinking about it.

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Saint Thomas 1 year ago (edited)

One glass of water between each two alcoholic beverage to stay hydrated. It won't totally stop you from having a hangover (especially if you drink a lot), but it can really help. (Oh, and it won't help with your alcohol level, so please don't use it as a trick to take the wheel...)

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50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure.

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HTakeover 1 year ago

There was a famous incident of a chemist lady (Karen Wetterhahn) who was running some experiments involving it. I highly recommend the YT video about her by ChubbyEmu. Cliffs Notes version... she was gloved up but spilled a couple of drops on her hand. It went through the gloves and absorbed into her skin, unknown to her. Then she started developing symptoms. As soon as she knew what caused it, and knowing it was a debilitating death sentence, she started documenting every step of her life as it progressed, hoping it would benefit science in the future and people could learn from it. And we did... that knowledge gained was invaluable and heartbreaking.

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#16

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread "If you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you" doesnt mean the attorney is free

Edit: Holy s**t I didn't know this was going to catch so many eyes! For clarification this is in the US (suprise suprise) and this is on a state by state basis.

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

Ah yes, 'murica.

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#17

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Doctors removed the eyes of Jack The Rippers last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the killer.

gadget242 , cottonbro studio Report

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rullyman 1 year ago

I work as a tour guide in London and got training on how to give a Jack the Ripper walking tour. Do NOT look up the crime scene photos from his last victim. He obliterated much of that poor woman. It's very harrowing.

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#18

If you touch something you shouldn't, touch it again in the same place and the police can't get a fingerprint as one distorted the other.

Edit: This is no longer true as technology has solved the "issue". So wear gloves or don't do naughty things without consent.

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Jared Robinson 1 year ago

jokes on them take the finger at the last knuckle you are all good. how do you thnk i'm typing this.

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#19

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread If you skin a person alive and they somehow don't die of shock, they'll actually die due to hypothermia as without skin, they become unable to regulate their core body temperature.

Dodec_Ahedron , Angela Roma Report

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Pedantic Panda 1 year ago

Would blood loss not get them first?

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#20

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains. Eating brains is how you catch a disease called Kuru. It is 100% lethal.

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

Similar to mad cow disease :D

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SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago

Both prions. We know next to nothing about prions, other than they exist.

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Tracy Wallick 1 year ago

Do you know how PMS got its name? Cuz Mad Cow Disease was already taken (I'm a woman, I get periods, I thought this was funny, please don't kill me!)

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Whydoyoucare? She/her cis/les 11 months ago

Funny how I know about this…

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Strawberry Puding 9 months ago

You can only catch it from someone who already has it, so... "If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains of either brain-eating cannibals or people who eat brains of cows with MCD"? (the reason kuru is exclusively found in uhh... Papua-new guinea i think? Is that they eat brains of their ancestors out of which one got it genetically/from bovines, but their culture and brains are isolated from other ppl/cannibals by the sea)

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NinaZara 1 year ago

Only if the person you've eaten had Kuru. Nothing happens if you've eaten a brain or flesh of a healthy human (or cow).

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TMoxraaaar 1 year ago

Yeah - "headcheese"

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Jared Robinson 1 year ago

Any nervous tissue, and nervous tissue runs all throughout the body. It is not safe to consume any amount of human flesh. I mean all up to how you want to die. starvation or insanity dementia loss of motor functions seizures all that good stuff.

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Remi (He/Him) 1 year ago

Well if you're in a plane crash in the Andies you might be willing to take the chance. (Anyone here seen the movie Alive)

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Upstaged75 1 year ago

Anyone else remember the X Files episode called "Our Town"? People in a small town keep turning up with a rare fatal prion disease. The only way to contract it is to eat the brain of someone who has the disease...

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Cin 1 year ago

Bones also touched up on it in ‘The Man In The Bear,’ although their way of covering it was far more simple if I remember correctly.

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BoredPossum 1 year ago

How many cannibals do you need to keep that disease from going extinct?

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

Wait, isn't a bulb involved in that question?

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

How many cannibals does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

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Fenchurch 1 year ago

👀

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Michael Largey 1 year ago

Some people don't have to have Kuru for their brains to be lethal.

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Snorky The Pig 1 year ago

Okay, fine. I won't eat the brains. 😉

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Sleestak 1 year ago

Noted

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A Happy Doggo 1 year ago

really don't eat nay brain or nervous tissue of any animal

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DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight 1 year ago

Unless you are a zombie

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Darius S. (he/him) cis/grey 1 year ago

my bowling ball's name is Kuru.. you laugh to death?

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Sergio Bicerra 1 year ago

Phewwww... thanks for the heads up!

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Gimme that Cash 1 year ago

Shush. They don't need to know.

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Nate Lefkowitz 1 year ago

Noted!

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WalterWhiteSavannah 1 year ago

I learned this from scream queens.

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Fresh Big 1 year ago

what about if you cook it thoroughly? Asking for a friend.

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jenjie.newt 1 year ago

True, but the likelihood of finding a person pre-infected with the disease is extremely rare, so you're mostly safe. Though there are plenty of transmissible encephalopathic diseases one could more easily consume, so yeah, probably just don't be a brain-eating cannable

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MINNI THE HAMSTER 1 year ago

HOLD UP WHY ARE U HELPING F*****G CANNILBLES??????????

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David A Paterson 1 year ago

Interestingly enough. Primative tribes that used to practice cannibalism already know enough about this to avoid eating the brains and certain other organs. Headhunters for example only eat the eyes and the tongue of the people they kill.

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PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago

But on the flip side, if you’re a woman and you live and have a child, your child is now immune to kuru. Look up the details of you want to know how exactly etc.

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R.A. Haley 1 year ago

This was always my wife's go-to advice for our kids. Seriously, you can ask them.

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Danielle 1 year ago

Reading these comments has made me wonder if Kuru and the idea of eating brains was part of the inspiration :braaaains' type zombies. It's 11pm,. I've got work at 7, looks like I'm off.down a zombie rabbit hole.

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Darla Hitchcock 1 year ago

Our knowledge of Kuru came AFTER zombie lore, but I personally think it's the answer to the question "Where do zombies come from?" I even wrote it into a short story.

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WalkieTaco 1 month ago

What about the zombies? that seems unfair to them.

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Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 5 months ago

Let’s not be cannibals in the first place🤠🤠

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Sharon Y. Van den Berg 10 months ago

solid advice

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Sharon Y. Van den Berg 10 months ago

solid advice.

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Elaina Gray 11 months ago

I'm guessing this has no effect on zombies since they are already dead?

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Steph Bombardier (Stephhhh) 11 months ago

noted (im kidding dont call the cops on me 0-0)

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Pooka 1 year ago

To be clear, the brains you eat have to be contaminated with the disease in order for you to get the deadly disease. But, just to be on the safe side, maybe don't engage in cannibalism.

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jevais 1 year ago

Just don't eat brains as they're high in bad cholesterol.

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okpkpkp 1 year ago

I have a degenerating brain disease of the cerebellum that affects my balance terribly. Vitamin B is what I was lacking. It affects many other aspects of my life.

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Jay Weigel 1 year ago

Only if the other person has Kuru...or mad cow.

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TheDuck 1 year ago

Aww, but that’s my favorite part!

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EJN 1 year ago

The food (dead person) has to have the Kuru prions in their brain in order for someone to catch it from eating the brain. In some tribes of cannibals, the likelihood of that is considerable. Unfortunately, the prions can exist for a while before anyone knows it and those cannibals ate the bodies of their fellow people even after they died from an obviously neurological disease. Not a good policy.

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Penny Kemper 1 year ago

It's also only found in New Guinea so why would you think just eating any brain would give you this disease? You would have to eat an infected brain. Like that cannibal tribe did. The are the dead's brains as a ritual. That's how this disease was transmitted.

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Dunja Blackwell 1 year ago

The phrazing disturbed me as much the fact. Great hint for all c...s.

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Caroline Nagel 1 year ago

Also, never eat the liver of carnivores, it will Vitamine A poisoning (Hypervitaminosis A).

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Hannah S 1 year ago

That's good to know for my next meal

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Deborah B 1 year ago

You can only get kuru from eating the brain of someone else with the disease. So as long as they weren't a cannibal themself, you would hypothetically be safe. The reason kuru spread so badly in Papua New Guinea was that in addition to occasional cannibalising of enemies, the cannibalistic tribes people routinely ate the brains of family members who died, as a way to keep the deceased "with" them.

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Kandice Heiple 1 year ago

Its a prion disease, which are absolutely terrifying and are always fatal. Same as mad cow disease and fatal familial insomnia

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iseefractals 1 year ago

That's only what it's called in Papua New Guinea. It's actually known as prion disease, and it's transmissible from consuming anything tainted with brains OR cells from the spinal cord. Once exposed it can take upwards of 20-25 years for symptoms to show, and the fatality rate is indeed 100% It works by disrupting the biological processes of how proteins function, and similar effects have been shown in many mammals that intentionally, or inadvertently consume brain or spinal cells of those within their own species, As SammyLawrence27 similar to mad cow.

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Darla Hitchcock 1 year ago

There are several prion diseases, and Kuru is one of them. Mad cow is another.

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The Original Bruno 1 year ago

Kuru is related to Creutzfeld-Jacov syndrome (if I spelled that right, I'm getting a lottery ticket). You only get it from eating someone's brain if they're infected with it. You probably should come up with a better reason to avoid eating human brains, shouldn't you?

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Tom Hardeveld 1 year ago

but...but... my fava beans!

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Miliukov Oleksandr 1 year ago

uncooked

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Xenia Harley 1 year ago

Cooking doesn't kill the prions that cause the disease. It is the same as Mad Cow disease, basically, which is also a prion disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2268835/

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#21

•A dead body in the beginning stages of decomp smell like wet hay

•if you die alone and become a “bloater” they pop you like a big zit before removal

•the best way to remove frozen brain matter off the sidewalk is a flame thrower

Confessions of an emergency cleanup specialist ♥️😏

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Stephanie Did It 1 year ago

For #3, what about the Spatula of Life?

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#22

Dolphins throw around pufferfish like a volley ball just to play with them. They also get high off their toxins. Talk about a puff and pass.

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

Dolphins are also rapist and murderers. love them/s

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#23

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread People dying often smell sweet. Not in a sugary way, but much more in flowery way. It's the decompositions of the body already starting. It can also smell vaguely like alcohol, especially their breath

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Lousha 1 year ago

I can only speak of my dear old cat, not humans. She had a peaceful, slow way to passing, and while it was clear that she is nearing the end, for about a week it was not clear exactly when she would go. Then on her last day I knew immediately that it will be THAT day. She smelled exactly like autumn leaves. Never been near death before, but I guess the knowledge might be stored deeper than personal memories. Sure enough, she did go in about 12 hours. I kept the top I was wearing that day for a long time, because I could smell that autumn scent on it, and it was the last thing she left behind.

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#24

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread I once read that the average person walks past 36 murderers during their life.

Edit: the average American

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rullyman 1 year ago

Imagine how much higher the number is if you live in a walkable city! Stay in your cars folks! /jk

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#25

A perfectly healthy person can have a seizure at any point for no apparent reason.

The human brain has neurons misfire all the time. 99.999% of the time you don't notice because there's no noticeable effect, but if the wrong couple neurons misfire at the same time it can induce a seizure.

Source: happened to me

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Spannidandoolar 1 year ago

Also doctors sort of allow everyone one seizure, obviously they investigate the cause of it and reoccurring seizures are treated differently but if they can't fully explain it and it's a one off they just accept it. I discovered this when my son had a seizure as a baby and had to attend their regular "First seizure clinic".

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22 U.S. Military Veterans commit suicide each day.

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Boris Long-Johnson 1 year ago

Whilst sad that figure tells you very little. What is it against the “normal” rate in the USA and how much of the population do veterans make up? Whilst 1 is too many 22 a day might not be a particularly high number as the USA has a lot of military and a high population.

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#27

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread A person split in half by the stomach doesn't die instantly. It has some lastly moments of suffering.

Source: a person was hit by a train and split in half in front of me. He took some time to die.

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

JESUS CHRIST IS OP OKAY I KNOW THAT WAS TRAUMATIC

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#28

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread That Robert Pickton, serial killer in British Columbia, used to dispose of bodies at a local fat rendering plant, meaning that many of the products made from that plant, think gummies or anything gelatin related, likely contained human remains.

westKev , Kyle Johnson Report

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HTakeover 1 year ago

This is a bit misleading. He had a hog farm and his own processing plant. Some of the bodies were fed to pigs, some were ground up & mixed with the pork meat, etc. Which does mean he could've ground misc. parts up & mixed in with the pig parts to be rendered. But the various stories/explanations come from him, and he claims he was framed, so whatever he says we have to take with a grain of salt. We know very little about what actually happened to the bodies as there's almost no evidence since he'd been working for over 30 years and the previous investigations into him (prior to the final takedown) were bungled pretty badly.

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Dutch Swimmer Goes Viral For Super Revealing Trunks During 2024 Olympics: “Is This Legal?”

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#29

That in ancient egypt it was a regular occasion that all people watched the pharao masturbate in to the nile

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Paul C. 1 year ago

And all I got was arrested..............I'm joking, I'm joking!

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#30

A cremation oven is about 1800° F. Lava is about 2000° F. Hawaii has accessible lava.

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Mjskywalk 1 year ago

And it will form a thin, black crust over red hot lava (as it is cooled by the air). The crust is not sturdy enough to hold a human’s weight; meaning if you walk on newer lava fields you could break through and not be found. Source: got to walk on safe week old lava in Hawaii, but the park ranger had to chase a tourist that walked farther out than was safe.

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#31

The US military conducted chemical weapons tests on 60,000 US service members during WWII. It was kept secret until the 1990’s and wasn’t widely known until NPR wrote an investigative story on it in 2015.

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TMoxraaaar 1 year ago

...and most of them were of color.

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#32

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread The body fat of a drowned person turns into a soap-like substance if they stay under water with no air contact

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rullyman 1 year ago

There is a lake in Washington State in the USA that does this. It's called Crescent Lake IIRC. I used to date a guy from Seattle and we did a road trip and bought some books about weird stuff in the state. They said that teenagers from the 60s had been found down there... saponified...

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50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Orcas will slap baby seals 80+ ft into the air with their tails until the seal's skin comes off, and eventually dies. The orcas will then not even eat it after, meaning that they literally just do it for fun.

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

Orcas are crazy sons of bitches.

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Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#34

I've learnt of some uncomfortable facts from some Aztec (Mexica) fammily which has been passed down from generation to generation, though I don't know how true this one is:

During a ritual, Aztec kings used to bring some victims up the tall pyramid so they may be sacrificed to their gods. Typically, these victims were tossed along the side of the very jagged rocks and we're usually found dead at the bottom.

The priests would gather the bodies and cut them up for distribution to the people according to importance, so the king got the best piece and his family and the other priests received some parts, etc. They inevitably ate these pieces as part of their ritual.

Of course they didn't just munch on them, they prepared them like any other meat and usually ate them with soups.

Fast forward to the time when the conquistadores came from Spain. These guys show up not long after some ritual took place, then the Aztecs welcomed them in and shared their food.

You can figure out by now where this is going, these conquistadores ate the soup so they inquired about what it was made of and sure enough they found out.

Although eating human meat was a big no no, the Spaniards actually enjoyed it. So when they inevitably conquered over the Aztecs, they ended up keeping the recipe of that soup. Instead of using human meat though, they used pork since they've said that it tastes similar.

We still eat that today, it's called Pozole (Pozilli).

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Shark Lady 1 year ago

There are still a few tribes who eat humans, the meat is called long pork because of the similarity in taste. Learnt that from an episode of River Monsters.

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50 Of The Most Incredible Shots That Were Submitted To The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

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#35

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Cows can create mummified foetuses inside of their uterus. If the foetus dies and is not retrieved, the body absorbs all the liquids and humidity from the foetus, and what is left is a tiny dried up hard solid mummy of a calf.

Tia_Mariana , Barbara Webb Report

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A Happy Doggo 1 year ago

Humans can calcify babies that are part of an ectopic pregnancy

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#36

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread 19th century murderer William Palmer's last words to the hangman who would take his life were "Are you sure it's safe?"

Charles Dickens called him "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey."

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Fat Harry 1 year ago

I read that it was actually "Are you sure this damned thing's safe?"

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#37

4% of people on Death Row are innocent

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Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago

Even if it was 1% , enough reason to stop it. I've always said that death is a disproportionate punishment for most crimes and too little for others. So no one gets served real justice.

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#38

The witch in Hansel and Gretel actually was cooking the two kids correctly, by using low heat cauldron over a long time with fatty meat, cuz she fattened them

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

Gotta wonder how the author found out, lol

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Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#39

Using a dead animal to try and throw off body sniffing dogs is a myth spread around to try and get people to trip up. If there's disturbed ground and some random animal 3-4ft down you can bet your booty that entire areas getting turned over.

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Kristiina Männiste 1 year ago

Would it not be reasonable just strip the body, remove identifying features- hands, feet, head, body art. And just leave the body in a unfrequented place where animals can easily access it? By the time it gets found it would be scattered and eaten enough to make it impossible to know how the person died or who they vere. Never tested it of course :)

33points

MyOpinionAboutThis , Andrea Piacquadio Report

#40

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Takes 3hrs for a 180lb human to completely dissolve in a bathtub of potassium hydroxide.

Final score:

87points

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MayaGeGe 1 year ago

Absolutely true, that's why I only stay for 2 hours.

113points

Creative20something , SHVETS production Report

#41

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread During the Black Death, people would be so infected with the plague that the buboes (those lumps) that you could hear them gurgling with bacteria

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85points

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Natalie H 1 year ago

Gurgling pustules?? Omg🤮☠️

15points

#42

Every person has technically has been female.

Plush_Orchid Report

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84points

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Libstak 1 year ago

Every foetus starts as female.

81points

#43

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Otters are serial rapists and murderers

giantfupa , Anna Tarazevich Report

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83points

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Black Cat 1 year ago

I didn't want to hear this. Otters are so cute and they hold paws while they sleep so they don't float away from each other. This makes them no better than bloody humans.

77points

Woman Refuses To Chip In For Babysitting Because She Doesn’t Even Have Kids, Asks If She’s A Jerk

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#44

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Having an erection for 4+ hours can cause gangrene of the d**k which is when tissue is dead or dying due to lack of blood flow or an infection cause by bacteria. This can lead to erectile dysfunction, cosmetic issues, permanent tissue damage, and in worst cases as I've mentioned earlier, gangrene. This situation is called priapism.

anon , cottonbro studio Report

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82points

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rullyman 1 year ago

That's why the blue pill packet says you should go to the ER. They do a special technique to extract the excess blood. (Poke your w***y with a big needle)

62points

#45

Spotted hyena females have "Psuedopenises". Pretty much both sexes have penises, except the female penis replaces the vagina. This means the urethra must be penetrated by a male in order to mate. The pseudopenis also functions as a birth canal. Pretty painful birth if you ask me.

In a study, Female Spotted Hyenas have been seen trying to peg Male Hyenas. Pretty amusing but also disturbing fact.

Special thanks to my 8th grade biology teacher for this mental scar of information.

Edit: Spotted Hyena females have the pseudopenises, not all Hyenas.

anon Report

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82points

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TMoxraaaar 1 year ago

This is the only species with worse birth pains than humans. The infant and maternal mortality percentage is in the 20s.

41points

#46

When you cremate someone with a tumor a lot of times the tumor doesn’t burn… it just smolders and smells bad.

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81points

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Josephine Blogs 1 year ago

I feel like that sentence needs a comma.

70points

"I Didn't Start The Dryer": Karen Gets Taught A Lesson After Throwing Out Neighbor's Wet Clothes

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#47

If you need a human body to decompose faster, fill the a**s with yogurt. Don't ask how i know, please just google it instead.

FiveDollarSunnies Report

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75points

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SammyLawrence27 1 year ago

right in front of my salad

87points

#48

Had a school presentation of this, cause it fascinates me while simultaneously horrifies me. The movie The Rock got me interested in finding out how much of it was true.

The VX-nerve agent kills in a brutally painful way.

When you tell a muscle to contract, you send out a chemical (ACh) in said muscle causing it to contract. When you no longer want to tense it, you send out a new chemical (AChE) neutralising the first chemical. The VX-nerve agent prevents this new substance (AChE) from being used to neutralise the first substance (ACh).

In the movie they mention you get spasms strong enough to break your own back, which I don't know if it's true or not, but you will begin involuntarily tense every single muscle in your body (including the diaphragm muscle) with so much force it can tear it's own muscle attachment until you eventually die because you can't exhale.

If you spray mere millilitres of this substance on a door handle, the next person to grab the door handle will die. It was used to assassinate Kim Jong Un's brother Kim Jong Nam, by spraying him in the face with this substance in a regular water spray container. I believe the ones who did this also died from the very minuscule amounts that landed on them as well.

Loading0525 Report

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71points

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Norm Gilmore 1 year ago

No. Just No. The ladies involved did not perish. 🙄 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam#:~:text=At%20approximately%209%3A00%20a.m.,murder%20of%20Kim%20Jong%2Dnam.

30points

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

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#49

WD-40 rapidly destroys cocaine rendering it chemically unrecognizable. If you ever need to transport cocaine bring a bucket of wd-40 in case you get pulled over

Own_Yak_5019 Report

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Jared Robinson 1 year ago

lol I don't buy this you sound like a narc.

65points

Ceejaytherighteous , kentarotakizawa Report

#50

50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread Freddie mercury’s last words were ‘pee pee’ as he needed help going to the toilet

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Peppy 1 year ago

No one needs to know that, let’s collectively agree that his last words were something much more meaningful to his nearest and dearest

23points

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CF 1 year ago

This was an absolutely stupid list and so full of inaccuracies that I just can't even.. I usually refrain from commenting because I once got so many downvotes -> suspended on an innocent comment that I felt bad for days (yes, I know I shouldn't take it personally and blah blah blah but here I am). But I had to comment on multiple stupidities on this list.

17points

MayaGeGe 1 year ago (edited)

Yup. You'll find out a lot of people here don't specifically care about accuracy, reality, measure and argumentation, and will just downvote without commenting to support their opinion. A dude on another recent post just established that 'All museums in Western countries were displaying stolen artifacts" - which a big big exaggeration to say the least. My poor attempt to nuance that was met with mute downvotes (not that I care, it's chill beer evening). But yes, it's more about what people want to believe sometimes here. Sorry you were suspended.

8points

Sahil Islam 1 year ago

Why TF are 90% of these knowledge murder related 💀

7points

Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago

I'm seriously concerned at why y'all know some of these

5points

TMoxraaaar 1 year ago

I'm an interpreter. You wouldn't believe what we learn.

6points

Vermonta 1 year ago

Reading books, in particular for me, a historical novel. A woman was given a knife to protect herself and had to be taught how to use it. I learned that if you stab someone in the back you do it below the ribs, point the knife up into the kidney.

4points

TheElementalGod️️ 1 year ago

Experience.

2points

Rick Seiden 1 year ago

The amount of time it takes for your brain to receive input from the various senses is less than the amount of time it took for the submersible to implode near the Titanic. That means those poor people down there knew they were in trouble, knew they were probably going to die, and then, just weren't anymore. No pain, no suffering, no knowing what is happening. One instant you're there, the next you're not. It's kind of better that way, I'd say.

4points

Blaze Black 1 year ago

Some list...

4points

Doge 1 year ago

So many of these are 90% b******t

3points

asdfghjkl 1 year ago

Heard that biting your own pinky off has the same resistance as biting into a baby carrot and your brain prevents you from doing that.

2points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

If a bear has been eating human flesh, its scat will be white. A bit of knowledge from search and rescue.

2points

Kristal 1 year ago

Why?

2points

Catherine Bruce 1 year ago

Bored Panda should be held responsible for allowing individuals to publish information as fact when there is no evidence to back it up.

1point

Kristal 1 year ago

We need a BP article about dead body facts! These were so interesting ... though most inaccurate. Do one with REAL facts ^_^

1point

Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

Why were these mostly about dead bodies?

1point

Sardonyx_3 1 year ago

Vast amounts of experience, of course 😉

0points

The Doom Song 1 year ago

Thanks for the "fun" facts

1point

Cat Chat 1 year ago

The amount of knowledge re how to prevent getting caught for crimes I gained, not only by entries but also from comments, is laughable. 😉🤣

0points

David A Paterson 1 year ago

Knew about half of these. Of those I do know, you got them all right. Good list. I learnt a lot.

0points

DarkGlassSphere 1 year ago

Oh no. No.

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Mimi M 1 year ago

Coulda done without this. Happily downvoted.

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CF 1 year ago

17points

MayaGeGe 1 year ago (edited)

8points

Sahil Islam 1 year ago

Why TF are 90% of these knowledge murder related 💀

7points

Pittsburgh rare 1 year ago

I'm seriously concerned at why y'all know some of these

5points

TMoxraaaar 1 year ago

I'm an interpreter. You wouldn't believe what we learn.

6points

Vermonta 1 year ago

4points

TheElementalGod️️ 1 year ago

Experience.

2points

Rick Seiden 1 year ago

4points

Blaze Black 1 year ago

Some list...

4points

Doge 1 year ago

So many of these are 90% b******t

3points

asdfghjkl 1 year ago

Heard that biting your own pinky off has the same resistance as biting into a baby carrot and your brain prevents you from doing that.

2points

marianne eliza 1 year ago

If a bear has been eating human flesh, its scat will be white. A bit of knowledge from search and rescue.

2points

Kristal 1 year ago

Why?

2points

Catherine Bruce 1 year ago

Bored Panda should be held responsible for allowing individuals to publish information as fact when there is no evidence to back it up.

1point

Kristal 1 year ago

We need a BP article about dead body facts! These were so interesting ... though most inaccurate. Do one with REAL facts ^_^

1point

Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago

Why were these mostly about dead bodies?

1point

Sardonyx_3 1 year ago

Vast amounts of experience, of course 😉

0points