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There’s never a bad time to share a fun fact. You can easily break the ice in any conversation or lighten the mood by sharing some information that others might find amusing. But what are we supposed to do with all of those unsettling, uncomfortable and upsetting facts that are floating around inside our brains?

Today, we’re dedicating our attention to disturbing info, pandas. Redditors have recently been sharing some of the least fun facts that they know, so we’ve gathered some that you might not want to know down below. I’ll warn you right now to keep reading at your own risk, and be sure to upvote the facts you wish weren’t true!

#1

40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Old people move so slow because everything they do hurts. I’m getting old and it’s starting to happen.

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    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know I was a social worker. I saw a lot.
    The first three weeks, we were in a classroom doing intensive training. Every day, someone would walk out. It wasn’t out of being rude, it’s because each person has a point at which they cannot go any further. They showed us some of the worst. The deal is, they do it for very good reason. If we are so horrified that we refuse to learn about the abuse, how will we recognize it in one of our kids?
    That’s what I ask of all adults. PLEASE, if you see something, don’t assume it’s impossible so you can push it out of your mind. A whole lot is possible.

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    Jason
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Watching some of the YouTube crime podcasts it's crazy how some people treat children. I couldn't even imagine treating my worst enemy half as bad.

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    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know The number one cause of death for pregnant women is domestic violence.

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    Rachknits
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2022/11/five-essential-facts-to-know-about-femicide

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    To learn more about how this thread started in the first place, we reached out to Reddit user Ghost-5AVAGE_786, who posed the question, "What is your not-so-fun fact?” They were kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda and explain what inspired them to spark this conversation.

    "My mind birthed this question out of my simple desire to learn broad and niche facts which pique my interest," they explained. "I have a peculiar fondness to wacky or even 'not-so-fun facts', which is why I had asked the question to one of the biggest communities on Reddit."

    #4

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know A lot of people in nursing homes will die shortly after family leaves. I’ve had funeral directors tell me this is very accurate. Both my parents did. We were there, left for the night and while gone, they died. It’s like they don’t want to expire in front of anyone.

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    #5

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Chainsaws were invented for medical use, largely for cutting into the pelvis during childbirth in a process called a pelviotomy. And from about 1940 to 1987, approximately 1,500 women were given one in Ireland without their consent, way after they should have switched to C-sections, often to perfect the surgery for use in Africa.

    A 2012 study found that many of the victims say the Catholic Church  "encouraged, if not insisted upon, symphysiotomies."

    It took until 2012 for people to begin getting any compensation and the first woman to receive it was subjected to the procedure *post cesarian.* However, they dropped the ball so hard on addressing it afterwards that the survivor's group of these women had to go to the UN Committee Against Torture to get anything else done.

    Some babies were also killed in the process.

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    We also asked the OP if they were partial to any unsettling facts. "My personal favorite not-so-fun fact is the peculiar circumstances of Cleopatra's marriage," they shared. "According to history, Cleopatra had married both her brother and father (at separate times, of course), as it was a part of some weird cultural ritual of the Egyptians. In all honesty, this fact did disgust me to quite an extent."

    "However, this does showcase how bizarre and different cultures and ancient kingdoms can be," Ghost-5AVAGE_786 added. "This fact in particular, came to me from a show called Horrible Histories, which is a British Children's show to teach the odd facts of history."

    #6

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know You ever use bleach without gloves, and it gets kinda slimy?


    That slime isn't the bleach. It's your skin melting.

    blakeman8192 , Nothing Ahead Report

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    Brenda
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who the heck uses harsh cleaners of ANY KIND without gloves? Seriously, I've NOT cleaned until I got gloves. My gloves don't get tossed until I have another pair.

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    #7

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know There's an extremely high chance that Boeing executives contracted a hit on one of their former employees for being a whistleblower and basically the public response (other than a few angry social media posts) has been "well, yeah, that's just what happens...".

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    As far as why we're so drawn to these unsettling facts, the OP says, "I suppose our species in general is highly peculiar, hence it's fascination for disturbing facts, whether full of gore or just a tad bit strange."

    And as far as what they thought of the replies to their post, they told Bored Panda, "The comments bombarded me with many unusual, as well as some upsetting, facts. The strangest one I had come across was where a user had commented about dolphins being able to be sexually attracted to humans, and they can or will act upon these desires when given an opportunity."

    #8

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know ER Doc here


    A lot of people know when they are about to die, even if they don't know why. Just instinctual, they even say it very calmly and knowingly "I'm gonna die." Or something similar. And then they code. 


    Or. They say they have to go the bathroom. Then code. 


    I am dead serious.

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    #9

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know We don't know the effects of micro plastics on the human body, partially because we can't find a control group.

    ZealousidealPotato71 , Kevin Krejci Report

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    "In conclusion, 'not-so-fun facts' are a great (as well as peculiar) way to learn about the universe in which we reside in," Ghost-5AVAGE_786 added. "In essence, we don't truly know everything, but our thirst for hunger as a species will never come to an end, as long as we exist. Who knows, maybe even after our time on Earth has ended."

    #10

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Bus seats are designed so that you can't tell how dirty they are

    VanessaDoesVanNuys , Markus Winkler Report

    #11

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know The fact that the "couple" down the street from me with 3 kids are not husband and wife. They are in fact brother and sister.

    Yes I know it for fact I went to grammar school with them.

    Trailerguy13 , Vidal Balielo Jr. Report

    #12

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know That Munmorah power plant in Australia was allowed to operate for decades with a significant diesel leak in an underground reservoir that contaminated the water table. When demolishing the plant you could light the sand that surrounded the tank on fire (about 50 meters each way), and if you dug lower than the sea level anywhere within a I guess about a 1km radius you could smell diesel.

    It's a high fishing surfing area. That was far from the only contaminant. Pfas, Pfos, chromium, etc. People live very close to it. People eat the fish for years from the hot water outlet. (Was a super popular "secret" fishing spot)

    Also during the demolition there was lots of contaminated water collected - This was sent through a filtration process and pumped into the ocean. It had multiple sediment filters and a water/oil separator. I do not believe it was adequate filtration before it was sent back into the sea.

    No one seems to know. I only know because I was part of the works post operation.

    Makes me wonder how many heavy industrial entities got to do who knows what and get away with it.

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    #13

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know That one in five men will leave their wives when they get extremely sick or have to care for them in some manner. 

    SadieArlen , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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    Jenny Fordbridge
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wasn't even 'really sick' when my husband left me, I was going through menopause after the doctor took me off HRT. I'm back on it now and with a much better person. As far as I'm concerned, he can rot in hell.

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    #14

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Living a healthy lifestyle, eating right and exercising buys you the slowest rate of death possible, at best. I work with the elderly and a 95 yo woman mumbled that “this is what I get for being healthy…stiiiiiillll here.”

    SameBirdDiffrntStone , Kampus Production Report

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    Rachknits
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our culture promotes the idea that long lives are the goal but I'd much rather have a shorter healthy active life than spend the last 20 years crippled with pain and no quality of life like one of my parents

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    #15

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.

    GotPC , Narciso Arellano Report

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    Roger9er
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could make a 'The Mummy' horrorfilm with a whole different context.

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    #16

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Mentally handicapped children are roughly three times as likely to be sexually assaulted.

    Note that roughly 25% of all healthy girls and 5% of healthy boys will be the victim of CSA before they are 12.

    Barbarian_818 , cottonbro studio Report

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    #17

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know When gas was introduced into common households during the industrial revolutions, people started paying more attention to what they put on their walls, now that they were lit up. They began decorating more, and wallpaper became a much more important part of the modern home. At the time, green was a very popular colour, as it had never really been an option to decorate with that colour before. However the green colour was obtained with Arsenic (as white paints were often obtained through a lead product). After a while, wear and tear made it so that people literally started breathing in bits of their arsenic wallpapers, and feeling bad within their homes. Their doctors would then suggest they go on holiday to the sea, as the ocean air often had proven a successful remedy. But of course, it was a remedy simply because they were no longer breathing in arsenic. The companies that made these wallpapers were well aware of their nefarious effects, but it took people boycotting "en masse" for them to actually stop production, several decades later.

    pottedplantfairy , Alexander Dmitriev Report

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    Moë
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So many industries $$ before people…why do we let this continue?

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    #18

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Australians' greatest enemy isn't spider, drop bears, killer roos, massive insects, or devil snakes; it's the sun.

    Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and an Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australian would be diagnosed with it by the time they reach the age of 70.

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    Moxitron Jazz
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a big reason has to do with the fact we were colonized by some of the pastiest people on the planet (British)...

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    #19

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker then die from a shark.

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    Libstak
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless some random new Yorker comes down under and goes on a biting spree, I'm pretty sure us Aussies are more likely to be shark bait.

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    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know During the cleanup of Pearl Harbor, as the recovery crews for *USS West Virginia (BB-48)* got deeper into the ship months after the attack, they discovered bodies high in the engine room and a locked storeroom where air bubbles had kept them alive for **2 weeks** based on calendars they used to keep track of time. That was "well after" divers had made their first passes over the ship listening for sounds of survivors.

    theothermeisnothere , Imperial Japanese Navy Report

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    Roger9er
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They must have had gone through hell, what a horror if you think that through. The hunger, thirst, encouraging each other while being terrified yourself...my Lord.

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    #21

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know One of the more recent things I learned about is the Paria diving disaster - where four divers got sucked up into an underwater pipe and three of them got stuck in there. The company decided to wait until they were dead instead of doing a rescue operation because money. They said they heard banging for three days until it finally stopped. Not a fun way to go, inside a dark pipe alone, cold and scared. Damn, may those souls rest in peace.

    EntertainmentPure955 , Saad Alaiyadhi Report

    #22

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know It's possible for rats to swim up your toilet piping. There are enough air pockets to travel all the way into your bathroom. I could have lived my whole life not knowing this, but here you go.

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    Aileen Grist
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very true - we accidentally trapped a rat in the house and it ate through a window frame to get out - they don't. like being close to us.

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    Uncanny
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I live in Oz. Getting up to pee at 2am and leaving the light off to ‘hold on to the sleepy’ , you can never be completely sure you’re not peeing on an outraged 🐍. At least if you’re a guy, you have the benefit of a little distance. 😆

    Tim Gearing
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can attest to this. Walking to the loo one night and stepped on a Golden Crowned snake. It was relocated back into the bush, along with its friend that was waiting by the front door. Edit. No intentional harm was done to either snake after the event.

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    LuckyL
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Old fear confirmed. Okay, the old fear is more about snakes. And I live in Germany, not so many snakes travling through pipes here.

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    Bored Retsuko
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone's pet rat was reported in the rats subreddit to have done this recently!! It escaped through OP's loo, ended up in the neighbour's loo, and OP rescued it heroically. New fear unlocked, indeed! Glad they got it back!

    Kristiina
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard about a building where rats came out of the toilet bowl in the eight floor. So you are not safe even in the higher floors. Not sure what is the limit that rats can travel through piping.

    HTakeover
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Generally the tube is empty for most of the length. Water is kept in a few specific bends which helps keep the sewer gas from coming up. But it's easy to climb up the empty(ish) pipes, take a little swim and pop out the other side.

    Kare Deter
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So grateful to live out in the country and have a septic tank

    GB
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My neighbor had a raccoon come up through his toilet!

    Natty Tempest
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And all the spiders could wipe out humanity if there were any reason for them to do so... Its a possibility, just not a liklihood.

    Laura Williams
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Always look before you go so can snakes. In my house it's look before you leap.

    L. Murphy
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most rats have much better things to do than swim in your toilet.

    Vampiresscrow
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of A rat came up through the toilet, I would be throughly shocked. I live in Alberta. We are considered "rat free."

    EmBree
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That happened regularly in the cheap apartment we lived in in the '70s. We had to keep the bathroom door closed at all times so the little monsters wouldn't get into the apartment it self.

    Olli Hawk
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    At my old school we had cockroaches and bugs come up through the drains

    David
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meh! I live in the country. Rodents are just a thing. I try to keep rats / mice out of my house but they are not something I freak over. PS - This is only a "thing" if you are connected to a public sewer system. With a septic tank there is really nowhere for them to enter the system. Also, if you are on public and this is a concern for you, there are special one way valves they can put in the sewer line to prevent the rats from going up your pipe. There are youtube videos on this if curious.

    Pyla
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In my area, we have so many raptors, coyotes, etc, we don't have rats. How do I know? My horse feed and bird feed are in my shed and I get nothing. Once the door was left open and my local squirrel got caught over night. He wasn't unhappy about his plight. And I know fecal mater from vermin from working with horses and keeping a horse at board.

    Cathy Jo Baker
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This can happen. At the condo complex where I have small apartment in Florida, every time I leave and won't be returning for a while, the water gets turned off, bleach goes in the toilet bowl, followed by a layer of saran wrap. The seat goes down, more saran wrap. Finally, close the lid, and put something heavy on top. Rats are not picky and they can get in to apartments that way! Several years ago a neighbor on the second floor left in a hurry without properly closing up his unit. Rats got in through the toilet, came into his apartment and destroyed it. Just another fun aspect of life in the Sunshine State!

    Andy Smith
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah doc, I have no idea how the rat ended up in my b utthole, I was just sitting on the crapper reading Bored Panda and BOOM rat enema

    Janice
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It happened to me. We had a record settling rain and flooding in Port Richey, FL in 2015 or 16. 3 rats came through the pipes and into my toilet. It was a bathroom I didn't use in a bedroom I was using as storage and had not been in for weeks, but somehow I wss about 5 feet away when I suddenly smelled something rank and heard noises. The toilet lid was down (I keep all toilet lids down since) and I grabbed A heavy box and put it on the lid and ran to my neighbor, A cliche Florida red neck (I was never so happy to live amongst Red necks with guns). Anyway, Billy came over immediately and made me leave while he trapped and killed all 3. I'm from NJ, 10 miles west of NYC. I didn't know it was possible, NJ but it happens.

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    #23

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know If you are properly skinned alive you can survive upwards of an hour and will die from hypothermia, not blood loss.

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    #24

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Many lullabies are about plagues or a hanging.

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    #25

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Dental Hygienist here.

    There is a type of gum disease that is caused by maggots in your gums. Literal maggots from flys laying eggs in your mouth to feed on your rotten flesh.

    DauntlessTanker , Anna Shvets Report

    #26

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know It’s incredibly common for people to be eaten by their pets if they die alone. However, it is WAY more likely in cats than in dogs. Cats will pretty much eat you as soon as their food runs out, if they have any. Some of them will eat you even before their food runs out. Dogs are different, they will only eat you out of necessity, if they’ve exhausted all previous foodstuffs that they can get to and if they can’t escape from the property and it will be days before that happens.

    There is a reason for this. Dogs are omnivores. They will primarily eat meat but can eat vegetables. They can survive without meat. Cats are obligate carnivores, which means they HAVE to eat meat. There’s a specific protein that they can only get from meat and it’s essential for their organs to operate properly, otherwise, they will die and it’s not a quick, quiet death either. So given the absense of meat, your pet cat will eat your soft squishy bits first. Usually the face.

    Source-used to be an RVN.

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    Moë
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always think that my cat is taste testing as he licks me…yum I think I’ll start here…

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    #28

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Greater than half the population of the USA reads at or below fourth grade level.

    Exotic_Bumblebee_275 , Lisa Fotios Report

    #29

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know If you die on Mount Everest, it's too dangerous and too expensive to move your body. So you'll be stuck there forever, and depending on where you die, other climbers might use your body as a trail marker.

    chernygal , Nanda Ram Gharti Report

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    Roger9er
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So you'd better die with your arm pointed in the right direction...!

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    #30

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know There's a very concerning number of nuclear warheads that are unaccounted for.

    BigAlsSmokedShack , Yena Kwon Report

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    LeftEyedAsmodeus
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    weird way to put it. One missing nuclear warhead is already a very concerning number

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    #31

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know There’s a relatively good chance that you already own the clothes that you’ll die in.

    *To clarify, I’m not threatening you, haha.

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    Ian Webling
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had to put my dog down yesterday after having her for twelve years. I posted pictures of the day I got her and yesterday. I noticed I was wearing the same jersey.

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    #32

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Brain aneurysms are still a thing perfectly healthy people can drop dead from with no visible symptoms whatsoever. Pop! Dead.

    MrPuzzleMan , Karolina Grabowska Report

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    Blue Bunny of Happiness
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To be fair, that’s the way I’d like to go, suddenly with no prolonged suffering. Sucks for those left behind though.

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    #33

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Everything you experience and perceive is just an incredibly vivid hallucination based on _very_ sparse and broadly interpreted data from our own senses.

    We infer reality. We don’t witness it.

    glytxh , Pixabay Report

    #34

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know There is a whale called 52 Blue
    that only sings at their frequency meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.

    GotPC , Andrea Holien Report

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    UncleJohn3000
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My house came with a great horned owl who would call and respond with another great horned owl a mile or two to the west. It was a nightly duet for 6-7 years. I miss it.

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    #35

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Horses can't throw up. If they need to throw up, they'll die.

    AdExcellent8978 , James Frid Report

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    deejak
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's the rolling around on the ground in pain (colic) that causes their intestines to get tangled that actually kills them.

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    #36

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know At some point the number of yesterdays you’ve had will be greater than the number of tomorrows you’ve got left.

    Vinny_Lam , Thirdman Report

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    #37

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know When you're burning to death your eyes melt out of your head before you die. So you're still alive while your eyes are melting.

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    #38

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know That you are not immune to propaganda, and that chronically online children and adults alike are manipulated to becoming violent extremists .

    Hot_Flower6152 , Vlada Karpovich Report

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    Libstak
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So just don't hate, wherever possible, avoid hate. To be clear you can hate what a country or group does, sure, but no need to hate individuals just because they were born there or had a particular belief foisted on them in their childhood.

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    #39

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Smell is particle based... remember that next time you go into a smelly restroom...

    I gotta know it, now so do you.

    PdxPhoenixActual Report

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    Ace
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Molecules, not really 'particles', and of gasses released from excrement, not actual pieces of excrement per se. So don't worry, just because you can smell someone else's shït doesn't mean you're actually ingesting it.

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    #40

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know Vulture bees - the bees that eat meat! (Do not eat the meat honey).

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    #41

    Dolphins can be sexually attracted to you and will definitely try to do something about it

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    Anikulapo
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So… is there anything I should avoid doing to arouse these slender, athletic, beautiful, horrible animals? Is there anything in particular that would get their attention? just trying to be safe here, that’s all.

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    #42

    There is a condition in which damaged tissue is replaced by bone. People with this condition are slowly consumed by their own skeleton and have to choses which position they want to spend the rest of their life in after a certain point

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    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know A rare medication reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome can cause your skin to blister and eventually peel off similar to a third degree burn victim. It's a horrible d**g reaction and has a very high mortality rate.

    It can be caused by almost any medication, including ones you have already taken before and had no prior reaction to. The most common medications that cause it are antibiotics and anti-epileptic medications.

    (Do not the Google pics unless you are not sensitive to medical trauma pics--they are extremely disturbing).

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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, it’s the reason why some medications have to be very gradually titrated up to a therapeutic dose and if accidentally missed for a day you have to go back to the lowest dose and start again. Also why they have in big letters on them, if you develop a sunburn type rash seek urgent medical advice.

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    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know If it wasn’t for your stomach lining, your stomach would eat you from the inside out.

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    #45

    Apparently, you can go swimming in a southern US lake and an amoeba might just swim up your nose and eat your brain.

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    #46

    Horses have 350° vision they have a 5° gap at the front of their sight and a 5° gap at the back of their sight. If you stand directly behind them they don't see you. And that is what triggers the kick reaction

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    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know There’s decent evidence that the Challenger astronauts didn’t die when the vehicle broke apart. They may have even been conscious and alert inside the crew compartment all the way to the surface of the ocean, which was like a two and a half minute fall. It’s possible they were knocked out but it’s possible they weren’t.

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    #48

    40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know That prion diseases exist, specifically fatal familial insomnia. .

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    #49

    The number of lives that have been saved by inventions made for and during wars is greater than the number of lives lost in wars. As far as human lives are concerned, wars have a net-positive effect. If this isn't disturbing, I don't know what is.

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    Auntriarch
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Its probably more like war turbocharged whatever research had already started. Its more likely that money will be thrown at problems under pressure

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    Your immune system basically ignores your eyes. If for whatever reason your immune system becomes aware of the existence of your eyes, it can attack them and potentially cause severe damage.

    (This is quite simplified, but if you’re interested look up ocular immune privilege. It’s fascinating stuff.)

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    Uncanny
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, at any point my immune system can suddenly say ‘Wait a minute…WTF are THEY?’ And I’ll never even see it coming? Damn.

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    #51

    We've lived half of our subjective experience of life by the time we're 18 years old. It's why our childhoods felt so long and time feels like it goes by faster as we get older.

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    Corvus
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    7 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Indeed, school years (and the summer vacations between them) felt so long back in the day. And now the months just fly by... 2024 has barely started in my mind and it's April already?!?

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    #52

    "Died instantly on impact" in a car crash is anywhere up to 30 minutes, which is about how long it takes to extract your body from a crushed car in a deadly wreck. They don't bother trying to find out how long it actually took you to die, and the family doesn't really want to know.

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    Detroit Citizen
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    7 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hmm. My mother died Jan 19 (heart attack 77y/o). The hosptial is about 5 minutes away by ambulance if not less (had a police escort, lights and sirens). She died between being taken out of my house (2nd fl condo) and before the ambulance (on scene) pulled out. All the EMT said was she became uresponsive. They tried for 30 minutes at the hospital to revive her. I dont know exactly when my mother passed and I dont think I actually want to know. The last time I saw her (as she was getting carried out) she was alive. She told me "Itll be ok little fellar". Thought she meant her, she was telling me, Ill be ok. Sometimes not knowing is better. Still rough tho. Mom I love you, Im sorry I didnt get to say it that day.

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    #53

    One of the most common ways to get testicular torsion is just sleeping wrong.

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