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Sure, we can turn a blind eye to the dark side of the world. But that won't make it any brighter. I would even argue that we should, on the contrary, venture into the shadows. Into the unknown. I believe we'd come out with a better understanding of ourselves. Or at the very least, of our surroundings.

Luckily, there are two Reddit posts we can use as starting points for our journey. One by u/Literal-Pile-of-Poo and the other by u/Yoloextreme345. They're phrased differently but essentially ask the same thing and invite other users to share some of the most disturbing facts they know. And many have. Here are some of the most popular submissions.

#1

30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway When X-ray technology first became widely available to pediatricians, they noticed a startling high number of broken bones. Befuddled doctors assumed there was a previously unknown pediatric bone disease being observed for the first time. Turns out we had no idea how common child abuse is.

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

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

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    We managed to get in touch with one of the people who started this discussion, u/Literal-Pile-of-Poo, and they were kind enough to have a little chat with us about their now-viral post.

    "I think I [came up with the idea for it when I] was just watching TV and [since] I liked reading those kinds of threads in r/AskReddit where people tell stories or something that was just interesting like [random] facts, I thought I would just make a post that I would find interesting to read as well," the Redditor told Bored Panda.

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    #3

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Giving birth has higher mortality rate than having an abortion.

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    KatHat
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The single biggest cause of death of pregnant people in the USA is homicide.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Whales don't die from old age they just lose the strength to pull them selves up for air and slowly sink and drown

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    Billy Beecham
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Damn. I got stage 4 copd so I can relate. Depressing. At least they could just *blink* be dead instead of that crap!

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    "From the responses, I learned a lot about how nature is much more brutal than it seems. Many of the facts were about weird things animals do," the Redditor added.

    But with that being said, they think people should not seek messed up info if they're not into that kind of thing. "The less disturbing things you come across the better in my opinion. But, I feel this post was more geared towards changing your perspective on how things work."

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Right now, your Government is doing things YOU think only OTHER Governments do.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Three of the air packs that were found on the wreckage of the Challenger disaster were activated, meaning at least one of the astronauts was alive all the way to the ocean.

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    Del Olds
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually worked on that mission and one of the lead investigators had told me that other than the pilot, copilot and last person in the seating arrangement, all o2 aux systems had been activated. I believe he said the person behind had to do the activation, which implied 5 people were conscious. That investigator also worked Apollo One right out of college and told me that sad story. How did I come by this info, I had worked on the TDRSS fuel and engine systems and when I was watching the launch, I realized immediately it was a pressure-based explosion. So for 3 days I thought I may have caused the problem and was quite distraught. A VP at the company called his good friend, the investigator I mentioned, and they called me to ket me know i had not contributed to the disaster. But I will never forget the impact of that day and how it forever changed how I dealt with setbacks.

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    However, there's something intrinsically human about seeking out gloom. Experts call it negativity bias. 

    In short, it's our tendency not only to register negative stimuli more readily but also to dwell on these events. Also known as positive-negative asymmetry, this negativity bias means that we feel the sting of a rebuke more powerfully than we feel the joy of praise.

    As humans, we tend to:

    • Remember traumatic experiences better than positive ones;
    • Recall insults better than praise;
    • React more strongly to negative stimuli;
    • Think about negative things more frequently than positive ones;
    • Respond more strongly to negative events than to equally positive ones;

    So chances are, we'll see similar posts in the future as well.

    #7

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

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    #8

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Doctors used to perform heart surgery on infants without anesthesia. Thankfully this practice was ended.

    In the 1980s.

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    Billy Beecham
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the 80's? Whose idea was it to not use anaesthesia? Whoever decided that deserves a pineapple up the ass without anaesthesia. Daily.

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    #9

    A Jewish doctor treated Hitler’s Mother(The only person Adolf ever truly loved) while she was dying of cancer.

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

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

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    Charlotte A.
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hitler probably didn't have Jews killed because he genuinely feared or hated them - he did it to give the German people a "common enemy" and basically to manipulate the public. Which is kind of worse.

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    When I was younger: realizing that adults don’t have a clue what they are doing half the time either was the biggest wake up call.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway There are face mites which live inside your pores next to your hair follicle, eat your sebum, don't have anuses and come out at night to mate on your skin. And there's nothing you can do about it. I'm so sorry.

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    Billy Beecham
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup. They be gettin freaky deaky on ya face all night long. You thought you had oily skin. Now you know that ain't oil. It freaky deaky juice.

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    #12

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Urine used to be an ingredient in stained glass.

    So now whenever I see old churches with stained glass, I think of piss-stained rainbow windows.

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    lara
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All colors were "fixed" with urine. There used to be "piss pots" out front of dyers. Men would stop, piss in the pot and the dyer would collect the urine to soak dyed cloths in. That would "fix" the color.

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    #13

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway There is micro plastic in everything you eat and drink. Even the air you breathe contains plastic

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    "If you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you" doesnt mean the attorney is free

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    Uisgea Beatha
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True, and it also doesn't mean they're any good. Most of them put zero effort into actually defending you and instead just encourage you to plead guilty and take the prosecutor's offer. Interesting that the judge, the prosecutor, and your court-appointed lawyer are all on the same payroll.

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    #15

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The average polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill 52 adults.

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    Katy McMouse
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the average polar bear could do enough damage without the aid of it's liver.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Around 30 people die every year, getting crushed from shaking a vending machine.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway I remember being told eggs have a protein structure so similar to our blood that you could use blood as an egg substitute in cakes etc.

    Really wish I wasn't told that

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    Pieter K
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or you could just use bananas. For blood transfusions, of course. And muffins.

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    #19

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Dolphins cut of the head of smaller fish and use it for masturbation.

    Nature is wonderful innit?

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    #20

    People dying often smell sweet. Not in a sugary way, but much more in flowery way. It's the decompositions of the body already starting. It can also smell vaguely like alcohol, especially their breath

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i know this! not just people, but animals too. sometimes weeks in advance. if u smell this, u can predict death with almost 100% accuracy. :(

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The fungus that can take over a bug's brain and turn them into basically a real life zombie ant

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway A human head can twist approximately 306° before it pops off

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway In order to conserve water, a camel's urine comes out as a thick syrup.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway You can grow teeth on your ovaries.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Decomposing bodies:

    Generally, it could take about a year for the body to decompose into a skeleton in ordinary soil and eight to twelve years to decompose a skeleton.

    And if a dead body is inside a coffin and buried deep underground, it could even take 50 years to decompose all tissues on the body.

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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yet if you leave it in the tub of a non air conditioned apartment you get soup in like what, eight days?

    Eb
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the soil. It's fascinating to see the bodies that have been recovered from peat soil, still largely intact after 2,000 years or more. Apparently sandy soil is more acidic and reduces a body to bones quickly, which is why ancient human remains are rarely found in desert countries.

    Kyle
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they don’t explode. They did a study at the university in Gainesville Florida. During the hot wet season it takes 9 days outdoors… some of it because of insects.

    F. H.
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many cemeteries are to wet do allow proper decomposition at all. Bodies develop adipocere and just stay there for centuries. It's a major problem in many areas in Europe, where graves are regularly dissolved to allow new burials.

    Tassenküchlein168
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have questions. Then why we use coffins? And what’s about hundreds of years old skeletons, digged out by archeologists?

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And if the ground is to moist it can lead to a "wax"-like state of the decomposing corpse instead of completly rotting away.

    Brenda Pereira
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine having to open the casket of someone who died a years earlier only to find a soup of bones and body parts. Cremation, here I come!

    The Scout
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To help along with decomposition, many undertakers - if unobserved - will use the excavator to collapse or at least perforate the coffin lid before closing the grave. If the conditions are averse, like very moist clay soil, often in combination with a high ground water level, decomposition is massively disturbed, often leading to saponification of the body. This has become a well-known problem at cemeteries, because if the graves are leveled after a few decades to make room for the next burials, some bodys are still coherent and covered with grave wax instead of being reduced to a few bones. As this could be traumatic for the next of kin if notified, most of there are then silently cremated and re-buried.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Whenever I'm at my grandfathers grave I think about the fact that I'm standing on his decomposing body, and it seems surreal because when I'm at my grandmothers I still seem to expect him to walk in the door after parking their car.

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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For fish in water: they float on top of the water for day 1, day 2 they get pulled towards your filter or sink to the ground, day 3 their eyes go fully cloudy and they start decomposing, day 4 they start affecting the water quality. (RIP Molly, Perdita, Cookies and Cream, and Leopard.)

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    Tiny Dynamine
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a bit sad to know that people talking to the graves of their relatives are basically just talking to a skeleton.

    Mazer
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The temperature, humidity and natural scavenger numbers can greatly alter these numbers

    Don't Look
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, I keep saying this (been to a LOT of burials) but everyone always seems comforted by it for some reason.

    Brian Bennett
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bines and teeth don't Decompose - that's how we trace a lot of human activity!

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    #26

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway It takes 8 pounds of pressure to tear off a human ear; a force approximately equivalent to crushing a soda can.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway The body fat of a drowned person turns into a soap-like substance if they stay under water with no air contact

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Anything and everything about Albert Fish. Man was a true degenerate. If you're faint of heart or have a weak stomach, do NOT look him up. Absolutely disgusting. I wish I could unread everything I read about him.

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    Samantha Lomb
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we all know you want to know now. "Hamilton Howard "Albert" Fish was an American serial killer, child rapist, child murderer, and cannibal. He was also known as the Gray Man, the Werewolf of Wysteria, the Brooklyn Vampire, the Moon Maniac, and The Boogey Man." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish

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    #29

    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway That some tumors can grow teeth and hairs

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    Jayne Kyra
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A teratoma. Do NOT image search if you are squeamish or eating.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Your bones are warm and wet.

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    #31

    Toilets are designed so it is impossible to pass out while puking and drown in one. If someone drowns in a toilet they were murdered.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway A turtle penis is nearly half the length of the turtle, they are the most well endowed reptile.

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    #33

    When a frog throws up, its entire stomach will fly out its mouth and just hang there. The frog then flings out the contents of the stomach and swallows it back down.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway the surgery with the highest mortality rate was 300%. how did this happen? well, there was a surgeon called Robert Liston who was famous for his fast amputations, and when I say fast I'm talking 30 seconds to 1 minute surgeries, 180x faster than amputations now (this happened in the 1800's). one day he was performing an amputation but accidentally amputated much more than he should have, due to the fact that the patient was thrashing about in pain while assistants held them down as there was no anasthetic at the time. he was amputating so fast that he cut through his assistant's finger. the surgical tools were probably dirty as both the patient an the assistant died of infections. as for the third guy, people enjoyed watching Liston preform surgeries and he was at the front of the crowd. Liston slashed the spectator's coat, which supposedly caused the spectator to die of shock (likely a heart attack).

    TL:DR doctor amputated guy, cuts assistant and slashed spectator's coat, causing all 3 to die.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway When dolphins become attached to humans and then the human they like are gone for a long time, the dolphin will drown itself from sadness

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    Granel
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not the only animal that does this. A LOT of animals do this. Be nice to pets, they're MUCH smarter than you believe.

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    #36

    A person split in half by the stomach doesn't die instantly. It has some lastly moments of suffering.

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

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    Uisgea Beatha
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surprisingly common at subway and train stations, when people fall into the gap between the platform and a moving car. The friction of the moving car twists the torso around and around, essentially separating the upper and lower halves but leaving them connected. With a ruined spinal cord, the victim feels little pain and remains alert. First responders hate these incidents because they know that the only way to get the victim out--which has to be done--is by moving the train. The instant the pressure is released, the victim dies, even though they FEEL okay up to the last instant. It's a horrible scene for everyone involved.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway Those bitter, sour, or otherwise nasty tasting pistachios had a worm, larva, or some other pest in them. I always assumed that I just needed to deal with a couple spoiled pistachios per bag and it’s no big deal. Nope. Larvae. I’ve never had pistachios since learning this.

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    #38

    Elon Musk’s father is currently with and has a child with his step-daughter. He became her step-father when she was about 3

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway I recently learned that Nutella has a sun protection factor of 9.7. Since then I can't stop thinking about that.

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    KatHat
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is kinda dumb. Anything opaque that you can smear on your skin would have some level of sun protection factor. Why single out Nutella?

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    #41

    In ancient Egypt, the deceased bodies of beautiful and high ranking women were left to decay for several days before mummification to discuourage necrophilia by the embalmers.

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    I remember hearing some dude (retired military) on a podcast talk about how fragile our electric grid really is, and if it ever went down some 60%-ish of the population would die in about 2-3 months because nobody knows how to gather food or water anymore.

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    Peter Weir
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    some dude, (retired Military)....thats a reputable source to go by

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    #43

    Just everything about dementia. It’s absolutely f**king terrifying.

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    lara
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The thing about dementia and Alzheimer's is only those around you are aware of it. You don't recognize it except when the "clouds clear."

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    #44

    Everyone’s butthole is as unique as a fingerprint.

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    There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery in 2016, including about 25 million in forced labour, and 15 million in forced marriages.

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    #46

    That figs contains wasps. They pollenate by the wasp crawling inside the male plant and then the female one however the female plant has a smaller hole and the wasp dies inside. The wasp decomposes in the fruit. So if you eat a ripe fig you eat at least one wasp. Used to be my favorite. So sad.

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    Samantha Lomb
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again, extra protein. There are bug bits in just about everything you eat. It's fine

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    #47

    There is no guarantee that all life on earth won’t end in the next moment, simply because the wrong type of radioactive space waves hit us

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    lara
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if I don't know it is coming and it is instant, doesn't matter. It is the anticipation that kills you.

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    #48

    If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains. Eating brains is how you catch a disease called Kuru. It is 100% lethal.

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    #49

    During the Black Death, people would be so infected with the plague that the buboes (those lumps) that you could hear them gurgling with bacteria

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    Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like frightened or injured prey. Day ruined

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    Buren
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But have you seen my dog playing with his squeaky duck? It makes my day though

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    #51

    Orcas will slap baby seals 80+ ft into the air with their tails until the seal's skin comes off, and eventually dies. The orcas will then not even eat it after, meaning that they literally just do it for fun.

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    Gata Nick
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They also drown baby whales just for fun or to only eat their tongue. Orcas are horrible bullies.

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    #52

    When someone is beaten and suffers blunt force trauma to the back of the head, it isn’t brain damage that kills them. Most of the time it damages the bones in the roof of your mouth and nose and the bleeding from these highly vascular areas make the person drown in their own blood.

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    Cows can create mummified foetuses inside of their uterus. If the foetus dies and is not retrieved, the body absorbs all the liquids and humidity from the foetus, and what is left is a tiny dried up hard solid mummy of a calf.

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    Doctors removed the eyes of Jack The Rippers last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the killer.

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    Jo Davies
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was called Optography. And I am pretty sure they only photographed them, not removed

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    #55

    When a morbidly obese person is being cremated the oven doesn't need to get as hot as when a thin person being cremated due to the fat burning at a high temperature.

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    lil ninja
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a crematorium that caught fire in Cincinnati, Ohio a few years back due to a grease fire starting while cremating a morbidly obese body.

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    #56

    How rabies takes over in the human body. It's disturbing and f**king traumatizing to read.

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    Fajar Kurniawan
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I use to think when you get bit by infected dog, you will behave like a crazy dog too

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    That the average human will talk to 16 murders during their lifetime.

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    #58

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

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway There are little microscopic insect thingies that live in the follicle of each one of your eyelashes.

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    Buren
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are not alone after all! Microscopic insect thingies in follicle of eyelash: I already have friends.

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    Until the 1980’s, people had no idea that Orangutans had two different sub-species and ended up cross breeding the two. And the end result was known as the “cocktail orangutan”. The problem with these hybrid orangutans is while they are fertile, they suffer numerous health issues and allowing them to continue to breed will result in the orangutan population to diminish even more

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    Ranax
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are not two subspecies, there are 3 full species with Pongo tapanuliensis described in 2017. But apparently in 2021 people still do not have an idea.

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    #61

    4% of people on Death Row are innocent.

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    Adam Jeff
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    4% are proven to be innocent and have their convictions overturned. There's no way of knowing how many are innocent but unable to prove it.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway There is faecal matter eeeeeeeeverywhere

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    lara
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And urine in ALL the water, and decomposed bodies every where and it is the ultimate recycle.

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    #63

    That people who drown in confined spaces will claw the skin off the bone of their fingers trying to get out. They sometimes claw their own throats open.

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    MyOpinionHasBeenServed
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This pertains to any method to dying in a confined space. At Auschwitz (not sure I spelt that right) you can see nail marks in the walls in the gas chambers.

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    Takes 3hrs for a 180lb human to completely dissolve in a bathtub of potassium hydroxide.

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    30 Disturbing Facts That People Probably Shouldn’t Have Shared But Did Anyway If you sniff any odor, it means a tiny amount of the sniffed matter entered your nose.

    Therefore if you sniff vomit ...

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    Natalie Bohrteller
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Technically, when you smell vomit, you smell butyric acid. It's also in Parmigiano cheese, which is why it also has a vomit like smell. It's best to be smelled when you open a bag of grated Parmigiano. How do I know that? Chemistry teacher. Sometimes I let my students smell the acid. ;)

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    #66

    During the cold war British tornado pilots where told not to worry about having enough fuel to return to base as there wouldnt be a base to return to after the first 2 hours of war

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    When you are cremated the ovens do not melt your bones. The fragments are put in to a blender and pulverised in to the ash that we think of with cremation

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    Lord Mysticlaw
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Firstly, bones don't melt. Secondly, most of the bones are cremated to ash, but some fragments are left that are indeed finely ground up in a blender-type machine. It's not like your flesh is cremated and then your entire skeleton is put in a blender.

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    #68

    That if you think or imagine licking anything it doesn’t matter what it is, you just know what it feels like, your tongue just knows.

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    After the Tienemann Square Massacre. To get rid of the bodies, Chinese tanks drove over them and "pancaked" them so troops could easily just use hoses to wash them into the gutters

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    Samantha Lomb
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This seems like an urban legend. I've seen enough "pancaked" roadkill to know it is still pretty chunky and not really able to be washed off. Even with a high pressure hose it would be stringy and get stuck in drains.

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