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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
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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There is a company that makes urns in profile to cast the shadow of the deceased
The green falling code in the matrix is just lots of sushi recipes
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
Greenland sharks live at least 400 years and don't reach sexual maturity until they are 150 years old
There are more statues of lions across the world than actual wild lions
A body farm is a place where various corpses are laid on the ground for forensics to study the decomposition process
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.
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured
Water bottles’ expiration dates are for the bottles, not the water
This is a bigfin squid, a type of rarely seen cephalopod with arms and tentacles that can reach up to 26 feet long
You may be living in the last year of your life without being aware of it
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
This is the effect that sunscreen has when viewed through an ultraviolet camera
this actually makes me feel safer, shows that sunscreen can really help you :)
Ella Harper was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backward and was known as the camel girl
Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane
Though often pleasant to humans, the smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant's way of letting out a cry for help
i hate the smell mostly just cuz im allergic to grass adn it makes me sneeze
Pacu is a South American freshwater fish known for its square, straight teeth that eerily resemble those of humans
Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism
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
He was stung 27 times. Would you get stung that much for $27,000???
The average person walks past at least 16 murderers in their lifetime
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.
This was the day Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right
The movie Cannibal Holocaust was so realistic and so gory that the director Mr. Ruggero Deodato was charged with the murder of the actors
Great publicity - maybe the arrest was staged and choreographed to make headlines
This is how a toothbrush looks like under a microscope after the first use
Is this before, or after you've finished cleaning the toothbrush after use?
In ancient Rome, the crushed brains of mice were used as toothpaste
The average person will spend five months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green
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
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
I've told my pets that I don't mind if they eat me if I die.
Load More Replies...My cat's too picky. He'd likely starve while yelling at me to feed him.
Mine too. They'll eat exactly 1 kind of kibble...I know I know wet food is good for them. They are offended by it and try to cover it like a litter box.
Load More Replies...This theory is likely based on that experiment where they left a dead body near a bunch of FERAL cats.
I worked at an animal shelter and we had a few cats come in after their owners were found deceased. They were found to eat at their owners, but it seemed to happen when they had no other food available. Definitely not feral, but desperate and/or opportunistic.
Load More Replies...Good, if he about to starve i would rather prefer for him to feed on my body
Fun fact: you're dog is likely to start eating you before your cat. Dogs will lick and bite to try to wake you, eventually the drive to eat takes over. Cats generally wait until they're out of other options. Not because they care more about you, but because they're obligate carnivores that prefer live prey that they've caught, they're less likely to eat something that is already dead and just laying around.
And if you have pet rats, the other pets are really gonna have to hurry to get a bite, they’re probably already chewing on your toes while you’re keeling over. ;)
Load More Replies...If I die and my cats don't have food, I'd rather them eat me then go hungry and die themselves.
I don’t know about my cats either, given they wouldn’t dream of touching food that’s been in their bowls more than an hour or two, and knowing how much dead bodies smell and how quickly, I can’t imagine they would find me appetising! And I don’t really want to find out either!
It's amazing how quickly animals stop being picky when they're hungry. That said, I would expect it to take longer than 24 hours.
Load More Replies...It would only do it if it was left trapped with you and without food and honestly I'd prefer that than it starved to death along side my body.
The wording though... It's as if saying "for anyone who just died, I just wanted to let you know that your cat's probably eating you eyeballs right now"
This comment needs qualification. For example, a domestic cat will only attempt to eat a human's corpse if it is locked in and without food for a long period (a couple of days???) Nevertheless, if the cat is a dear pet for many years, it is unlikely that it would consume its loved one, and likely that it would lie down and die in a combination of grief and hunger.
I had to refinish wooden floors in a house in San Francisco where the owner died with thirty cats and his brother didn't check in until three weeks later. What a mess but the house was all cleaned out by the time I got there. Only wood floors with dark spots where the cats who didn't eat their master.
Not so. That's actually the last thing they will start to eat and only if they are in danger of literally starving to death will they begin to eat any of you.
Hey, It'll buy him time 'til someone cares enough to look for me.... I think I'm cool with this. I always leave a toilet seat up too, just in case (for extra water access in an emergency). That ounds gross, but I care about my animals more than myself tbh...
Not like I'm gonna need my eyes or my cheeks after I'm gone. If it helps my fur babies survive until someone rescues them after finally smelling the rot coming from my house then they're welcome to my soft bits.
okay i mean i'm not using it anymore and who is gonna open her food cans for her? she'll survive longer that way. damn calm down mr resurrection. XD
Exactly. If the soft can-opener dies, we still need to eat! Shyla's nice and fat, lots of marbling on her.
Load More Replies...Why are people so freaked out by this? You’ll be DEAD. Who cares?
But dogs will wait a really long time, until they start to starve, to eat your body.
I don’t know what’s so unsettling about this. Chances are, if your pet died and you were stuck with its body for a week while you were starving, you might eat your pet too (out of desperation and the instinct to survive). Pets are animals. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. I will still love my cat even if one day I could be food to him. Just because I’m dead doesn’t mean he should too. If my body can keep him alive after I’m dead, then good for him.
At least they still get food… if I died suddenly my fish would suffer from hunger, nasty water, evaporation of the water. My guppies would probably live a bit longer because they would eat algae, but my betta would eventually eat THEM. So sad, my babies 😭
Yup. It’s purely because they want to be close to their owners, and also realize they need to survive somehow, if I remember correctly. Dogs apparently take three days before they do the same. I forget exactly where I read that but I wish I had never known it now.
I always figured that if my wife and I died separately, i.e. not together in a car wreck, one of us would get a funeral and the other would be eaten by our cats.
People who fall in love lose an average of two friends each
This is an early meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club around 1930
Future biotechnology can be used to make prisoners feel as if they were serving a 1000-year sentence in a matter of eight hours
There are only two days that do not last 24 hours: the one of your birth and the one of your death
CPR only works 7% of the time outside of a hospital environment
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
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.
This bizarre helmet from 1925 was designed to improve work productivity and studying sessions
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
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
The only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue
Jelly Beans are so shiny because they're coated with shellac, which is made from insect poop
So... Bored Panda shortened the article by ONE entry, making us click the link for the rest (one) twice. 🙄
Yup. It's like listening to a bunch of 'edgy' eight-year-olds. Quite a few of them are false or faulty correlations too.
Load More Replies...So... Bored Panda shortened the article by ONE entry, making us click the link for the rest (one) twice. 🙄
Yup. It's like listening to a bunch of 'edgy' eight-year-olds. Quite a few of them are false or faulty correlations too.
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