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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.

DecadentLife , fauxels Report

Final score:

186points

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Jason 7 months ago

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.

81points

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

paradox-psy-hoe-sis , freestocks Report

Final score:

171points

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Rachknits 7 months ago

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

37points

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."

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.

problem-solver0 , Matthias Zomer Report

Final score:

159points

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Edda Kamphues 7 months ago

I have formed a firm belief that we decide when it's time to let go.

73points

79screamingfrogs , Anastasiia Chepinska Report

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.

Final score:

154points

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Harry (they/them) 7 months ago

holy sh!t

73points

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."

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

Final score:

144points

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Brenda 7 months ago

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.

5points

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...".

Imaskeet , Pixabay Report

Final score:

143points

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Moë 7 months ago

We’ve become so apathetic to so much

91points

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."

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.

Lord_Lava_Nugget , Anna Shvets Report

Final score:

140points

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Ian Webling 7 months ago

Good choice of words.

67points

ZealousidealPotato71 , Kevin Krejci Report

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.

Final score:

139points

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Chicken Nugget 7 months ago

even babies have them???? omg plastic sucks

45points

VanessaDoesVanNuys , Markus Winkler Report

"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

Final score:

139points

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deejak 7 months ago

As well they should.

62points

#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

Final score:

136points

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Bart 7 months ago

Insert banjo music...

95points

#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.

Icewallow-toothpaste , Webaware Report

Final score:

132points

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Roger9er 7 months ago

That's....quite disturbing.

64points

#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

Final score:

131points

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Jenny Fordbridge 7 months ago

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.

157points

SameBirdDiffrntStone , Kampus Production Report

#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.”

Final score:

130points

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Rachknits 7 months ago

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

123points

#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

Final score:

128points

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Roger9er 7 months ago

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

59points

Isa Wan 7 months ago

Title: The yummi mummy. Ugghhh, I want to throw up.

20points

Thomas Bentley 7 months ago

A group of innocent mummies trying to escape from vicious and cannibalistic british gents in three piece suits and bowler hats, who kill by impaling the victims on umbrellas.

11points

Libstak 7 months ago

Mommy eating or inhaling instigating a zombie or rabid type viral apocalypse. Or, the mummies are cursed so inhaling or eating the remains makes the curse take over or their soul takes over and chaos ensues....yeh, lots of good movie and book ideas to explore.

6points

SilverSkyCloud 7 months ago

"you are what you eat"

2points

me myself and i READ BIO AGAIN 7 months ago

THEY WHAT

8points

WindySwede 7 months ago

As I remember they did a "lost in translation" thing, even though I have not seen that movie.. 😅

0points

Ace 7 months ago

In that era most mummies shipped out of Egypt all over the world (and no more to Britain than other European countries as well as the USA) were ground up and used as fertiliser or to make paint. Use of mummies, or indeed other corpses, as a medicine had been around since the 12th century but was no longer a thing in the Victorian age.

8points

TheRealRobertWhite 7 months ago

Don't forget using them to fuel locomotives!

2points

Egg Lady 7 months ago

Mummies were also used to make mummy brown paint until the 1960s-- when it stopped due to lack of mummies.

7points

Sunny Day 7 months ago

Was that when it switched to baby-s**t brown?

5points

M S 7 months ago

This is gross and people cry about brussel sprouts.

5points

Ranger Kanootsen 7 months ago

I'll cry about both next time

3points

Moë 7 months ago

Those crazy Brits!

3points

nm (he/him) 7 months ago (edited)

The bones of hundreds of thousands dead Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, which killed by the Turks and left unburied all over Asia Minor, were exported to Europe, where were used as fertilizer.

3points

Tiny Dancer 7 months ago

Professor Farnsworth's always on trend even in the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAur04gWg3s

2points

Illifred 7 months ago

Well, I mean, if you like beef jerkies...

2points

Laura Williams 7 months ago

Why?

1point

Kittylover368 7 months ago

Whyyyyyyy

1point

Jeffrey Diehl Premium 7 months ago

The Brits are pervy in so many ways.

1point

dayngerkat 7 months ago

TIL the Brits used to eat mummies. Google confirmed

1point

kelly 7 months ago

They ATE them?!

1point

WindySwede 7 months ago

thinking it was a "lost in translation" type of error?

1point

Crystal 6 months ago

Or burned them for fuel. Horrible.

0points

Max Fox 6 months ago

That was only a small number of them. Many were used by British railways in Egypt as fuel, more were used as fertilizer, and more were simply tossed after the "open the mummy" game that the upper classes in Victorian England used to play.

0points

GrumpyRaccoon 7 months ago

THEY DID WHAT

0points

nattandroses 7 months ago

Ate? I thought they made a paint out of mummies

0points

Dread Pirate Roberts 7 months ago

Um....what? O_O

0points

Huyang 7 months ago

Victorian British.....those fellas were on some really heavy mental stuff ...

0points

rumple slunkskin 7 months ago

Mummy, the original mystery snackbox.

0points

Mike Hutton 7 months ago

Love to see a Mummy remake where the mummy is the hero desperately trying to escape a bunch of Victorian era cannibals who want to eat them.

0points

Zaach 7 months ago

I heard that some were used as fuel for steam engines

0points

The wee giant 7 months ago

It was for medicinal purposes

0points

Margaret Weaver 7 months ago

S-sorry...... ATE!??!?

0points

Just a boring person 7 months ago

But is that cannibalism?

0points

Susan 7 months ago

I believe this one. I remember visiting a castle in England (near Bristol area) where there was a chamber you could look in and see something kind of like big metal sarcophagi and the tour told us that it was barred off because people used to ( a very long time ago) try to sneak in and basically stab them with a straw to suck up the liquified insides.

0points

HTakeover 7 months ago

A lot more were turned into fertilizer than were eaten. They were an excellent source of nitrates for plants.

0points

Happy to be a wallflower 7 months ago

So is manure though, I feel like there were better ways

0points

#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

Final score:

128points

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Lavendar rose 7 months ago

This is such a sad fact 😢😢😢

89points

pottedplantfairy , Alexander Dmitriev Report

#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.

Final score:

126points

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Moë 7 months ago

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

79points

#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.

ForgottenShark , Pixabay Report

Final score:

119points

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Moxitron Jazz 7 months ago

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

105points

#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.

UndyneIsCool , Alex Steyn Report

Final score:

118points

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Libstak 7 months ago (edited)

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.

89points

theothermeisnothere , Imperial Japanese Navy Report

#20

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.

Final score:

115points

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Roger9er 7 months ago

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.

81points

EntertainmentPure955 , Saad Alaiyadhi Report

#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.

Final score:

113points

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Roger9er 7 months ago

May the souls of the company not.

161points

Annual-Ad-3350 , Svetozar Cenisev 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.

Final score:

105points

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Sue Denham 7 months ago

Sure, but would they really want to?

34points

#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.

Top_Tart_7558 , NEOSiAM 2024+ Report

Final score:

104points

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Ritchat 7 months ago

Buffalo Bill, is it you?

50points

#24

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

Empty_Sea1872 , MART PRODUCTION Report

Final score:

103points

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Edda Kamphues 7 months ago

And most Fairy Tales are not suitable for children.

95points

#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

Final score:

99points

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Kristiina 7 months ago

New fear unlocked!

103points

#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.

Ok-Noise2538 , Krysten Merriman Report

Final score:

98points

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Moë 7 months ago

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

103points

#27

40 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn’t Know When whales and dolphins get too old they just drown.

pilgrimz , 7inchs Report

Final score:

96points

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Harry (they/them) 7 months ago

that's kinda sad

65points

Exotic_Bumblebee_275 , Lisa Fotios Report

#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.

Final score:

92points

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Ian Webling 7 months ago

Ironic. That sentence is not grammatically correct.

85points

#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

Final score:

91points

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Roger9er 7 months ago

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

112points

#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

Final score:

88points

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LeftEyedAsmodeus 7 months ago

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

87points

#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.

Texpatriate2 , Kai Pilger Report

Final score:

87points

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Ian Webling 7 months ago

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.

105points

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

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Thrill-Seeking Diver Jumps Down Extreme Waterslide, Ignoring The Strict Ban For Women

#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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85points

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Blue Bunny of Happiness 7 months ago

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

107points

#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

Final score:

85points

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censorshipsucks 7 months ago

yep ... like you can hardly see your own nose without a mirror...

23points

#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

Final score:

81points

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UncleJohn3000 7 months ago

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.

10points

#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

Final score:

79points

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deejak 7 months ago

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

42points

#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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78points

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Meowzers! 7 months ago

Poetic

32points

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

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“Ma’am I Live Here”: Woman Refuses To Back Out Of Driveway, Learns A Lesson The Hard Way

#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.

AdorableSunshine02 , Pixabay Report

Final score:

73points

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deejak 7 months ago

I hope lots of endorphins are released.

52points

#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

Final score:

73points

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Libstak 7 months ago

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.

74points

#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

Final score:

65points

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Ace 7 months ago

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.

80points

#40

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

TheTallulahBell , Bill Salazar Report

Final score:

55points

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Katie Lutesinger 7 months ago

Isn't Meat Honey the name of a metal band?

31points

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#41

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

NazunaSimp9 Report

Final score:

33points

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Anikulapo 7 months ago (edited)

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.

19points

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

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French Diver’s “Jewels” In Tight Swimming Trunks Become Talk Of The Town At Olympics

#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

BaymaxJr Report

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32points

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Meowzers! 7 months ago

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

21points

Icy_Selection_7853 , engin akyurt Report

#43

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).

Final score:

30points

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Blue Bunny of Happiness 7 months ago

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.

7points

#44

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.

ChickenNugsBGood , Kindel Media Report

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30points

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Edda Kamphues 7 months ago

Yep, that's called 'acid'.

23points

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

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Mom Leaves $250k Inheritance To Son, Throws A Fit When Daughter Stops Looking After Her

#45

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

zenos_dog Report

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30points

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Stardust she/her 7 months ago

Not only the US, just go anywhere nice and tropical and warm with water.

19points

#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

OkInterest3646 Report

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29points

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deejak 7 months ago

The kick is triggered by not seeing something?

11points

#47

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.

kh9hexagon , NASA Report

Final score:

28points

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Moë 7 months ago

I remember watching that on tv as a kid…it was horrifying

27points

OppositeYouth , Darina Belonogova Report

#48

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

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26points

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deejak 7 months ago

Tell me more.

9points

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

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“This Breaks My Heart”: People Stunned—And Angry—After Woman Buys Lost Luggage From Airport

#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.

filipv Report

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26points

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Auntriarch 7 months ago

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

10points

#50

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.)

LadySygerrik Report

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26points

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Uncanny 7 months ago

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.

24points

#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.

MarcusQuintus Report

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26points

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Corvus 7 months ago (edited)

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?!?

4points

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

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

#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.

UltimaCaitSith Report

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25points

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Detroit Citizen 7 months ago

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.

35points

#53

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

ContentTask2032 Report

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25points

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Katie Lutesinger 7 months ago

This couldn't happen to me. I just ain't got the balls.

49points