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Not all facts are fun. But that shouldn’t keep us from learning, because they can still be fascinating! Below, we’ve gathered a list of disturbing and unsettling information that you might not want to know from Unpopular Notes. 

From creepy facts about animals to obvious things you may be glad you’ve never previously considered, you’ll find a variety of information on this list. So be sure to upvote the facts you wish you hadn’t read, and try not to become too freaked out by any of these spooky truths!

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing There is a company that makes urns in profile to cast the shadow of the deceased

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

That's cool, and I'm sure there's people who would like this, but I don't think I'd want to see that everyday.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The green falling code in the matrix is just lots of sushi recipes

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

His wife was Japanese, she had cookbooks, so the production designer scanned the recipes, then reversed and mixed up the characters. that's why none of that is actually readable.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Professional musician Dagmar Turner played her violin while a tumor was removed from her brain so that surgeons could preserve her ability to play music

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

It's understandable. She had been playing since she was a little kid, she enjoyed it, she was great at it. If there was chance I'd lose a major part of my life, I'd do this too.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Greenland sharks live at least 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they are 150 years old

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing There are more statues of lions across the world than actual wild lions

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing A body farm is a place where various corpses are laid on the ground for forensics to study the decomposition process

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

I would love to donate my body to a body farm after my death. They do so much good work on helping out forensic science. I'd like to contribute to it, even if I can't do the science myself.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can

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

Dolphins need to come up for air about every 10 minutes, while sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes. They achieve this by slowing their heart rate.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Water bottles’ expiration dates are for the bottles, not the water

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This is a bigfin squid, a type of rarely seen cephalopod with arms and tentacles that can reach up to 26 feet long

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing You may be living in the last year of your life without being aware of it

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

Very well could be my last month, week, day, hour, even minute. There doesn't even need to be a reason, people die suddenly all the time.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing When whales become so old and weak that they can no longer reach the surface, they go deeper and deeper until they touch the seabed and then slowly die

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

Oh no. I think I am in a depressive state right now. I just sighed like wouldn't that be nice 😅😩

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This close-up shows the inside of a penguin's mouth

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

I really wanna unsee that. Will my love for penguins stay the same?

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This is the effect that sunscreen has when viewed through an ultraviolet camera

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

this actually makes me feel safer, shows that sunscreen can really help you :)

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Ella Harper was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward and was known as the camel girl

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

God, and she still had to be strapped into a corset and bustle 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane

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

"Of the 56% who admitted sleeping, 29% told Balpa that they had woken up to find the other pilot asleep as well.". Well, that makes my fear of flying so much worse.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Though often pleasant to humans, the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant's way of letting out a cry for help

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

i hate the smell mostly just cuz im allergic to grass adn it makes me sneeze

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Pacu is a South American freshwater fish known for its square, straight teeth that eerily resemble those of humans

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

Why are people freaked out by parallels in evolutionary selection.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Real bees were used during the making of the ‘90s horror trilogy Candyman, and actor Tony Todd was paid an extra $1,000 for every sting

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

He was stung 27 times. Would you get stung that much for $27,000???

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime

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

Some sources state this number is as low as 4, some go as high as 41. It all depends how many people you interact with per day, in a big city it's likely. If you interact with about 25 people per day for 70 years, you've likely encountered 10 murderers, based on statistics.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This was the day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right

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

They actually held a referendum on this, and, as always, when this is done, people voted against it. They did it anyway eight years later. Referendums don´t have to be binding. Sometimes the government has to govern. I´m looking at you UK.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The movie Cannibal Holocaust was so realistic and so gory that the director Mr. Ruggero Deodato was charged with the murder of the actors

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

Great publicity - maybe the arrest was staged and choreographed to make headlines

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This is how a toothbrush looks like under a microscope after the first use

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

Is this before, or after you've finished cleaning the toothbrush after use?

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing In ancient Rome, the crushed brains of mice were used as toothpaste

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

And in Ancient Egypt, they were used to treat toothaches

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The average person will spend five months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green

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

I swear there are some intersections in town where it becomes five years.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The Diomede islands have a distance of only three miles but due to locally defined time zones, they have a time difference of 21 hours from each other

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

Lynn C*x swam from Little Diomede to Big Diomede in 1987. ___ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_C*x

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Google hires camels for the desert Street View

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing If you have died around your cat, it is likely to start eating you in less than 24 hours, starting from the cheeks and eyes

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

I'd rather I was eaten than all this meat go to waste anyway.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing People who fall in love lose an average of two friends each

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This is an early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club around 1930

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Future biotechnology can be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1000-year sentence in a matter of eight hours

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

So what, it's not enough to lock them up, but now we can engage I'm torture? If you want to swat a fly, swat it. Don't pull off its wings. Who the hell wasted their intelligence coming up with something so Draconian? Cure cancer.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing There are only two days that do not last 24 hours: the one of your birth and the one of your death

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing CPR only works 7% of the time outside of a hospital environment

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

According to whom? There are many instances of unreported cpr... j/s. It sounds very discouraging that way

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing In the event of a plane crash at sea, the cabin crew must prohibit passengers from carrying the bodies of relatives or friends who died during the impact on the lifeboats

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

Right because of all those plane crash survivors. After a 600 mph uncontrolled impact with the ocean I can see how the lifeboat capacity would be a real issue.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing This bizarre helmet from 1925 was designed to improve work productivity and studying sessions

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

Because when you take it off you're so thankful to breathe again you'll do anything?? I'm pretty sure that's called torture.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Theoretically, if you fold paper 51 times, you will find its end on the sun, and if you fold it 103 times, you would go beyond the observable universe

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The beauty micrometer was a device designed in the early 1930s to help the identification of the areas of a person's face which need to have their appearance reduced or enhanced by makeup

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

We dont need that anymore because we can't even see ourselves under all the filters. 👍

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing The only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing Jelly Beans are so shiny because they're coated with shellac, which is made from insect poop

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

This is incorrect. Shocker, huh? If a BP writer ever fact checks something they post, I'm gonna s**t my pants so hard I fly right out of my chair.

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“You May Be Living In The Last Year Of Your Life”: 40 Disturbing Facts That You Might Be Better Off Not Knowing After death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body

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