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Whether we're gathering knowledge for our next DIY project or reading up on the country we're about to visit, learning is a lifelong process. However, it's not always just sunshine and rainbows.

Last week, Reddit user Throwrapis3ces invited everyone on the platform to share the disturbing facts they wish they didn't know, and they have already received nearly two thousand replies.

From human biology to waste management and social customs, continue scrolling to check out the stuff people think they would be better off not knowing.

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35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know I just heard about this one. A hospital in Kentucky pronounced a man brain dead so they could harvest his organs after he overdosed in Oct 2021. They began their routine viability checks. He woke up during a viability cardiac cath, which sent some personnel over the edge and speaking out. They were quickly dismissed by KODA (Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates). His sister also reported that she saw him crying with his eyes open as he passed her during his honor walk to OR for harvest. Her report was also dismissed. In OR, some of the operating physicians refused to continue with the procedure as they reported he was thrashing and bucking the vent. KODA was not pleased and requested additional surgeons to proceed despite this calling his behavior involuntary. There was no one available to step in. Surgery was canceled. The man is alive and well today. Many of the staff, including physicians, reportedly needed therapy after this experience.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Definitely on the most horrifying facts I've ever learned is that a mute mail order bride is ten times as expensive as one who has the power of speech. It's very disturbing and becomes more and more horrifying the more you consider the implications.

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

    I really want to punch that man in the face who first came up with this "order a bride" bullsh*t But wait I'm genuinely curious which country do these brides come from?? (This is genuine curiosity)

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Child slaves in the Congo mine the cobalt used in our phones.

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

    I recommend getting a Fairphone. They do a remarkable job in trying to get all the resources for our phones under fair conditions even in the Congo. And it's a great phone! Look it up!

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The Holocaust that occured in world war 2, was NOT the last.

    Cambodia, Serbia, child soliders, and the Hutos, Tibet,
     All with in my 57 years on the planet.

    Large portions of humanity are horrible people whose only redeeming quality is to be a bad example.

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

    No, the Holocaust was the Holocaust. The word I think you’re looking for is genocide.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls.

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

    Worked on the issue of bride trafficking. Sex ratio and gender relations are so f****d up, poor girls are bought and made to serve as sexual and labour slaves (wives) to as many as 5 brothers/ cousins.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Every hour, an average of 12 children go missing across India. Every day that average is 296 children missing across India.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know That people regularly abandon animals and/or children all over the world.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The youngest recorded mother is Lina Medina. She gave birth at the very (IN)appropriate age of FIVE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS, AND TWENTY ONE DAYS OLD.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Domestic violence rates go up when a big sporting event is on. And a team loses. (Obviously a team loses).

    But, say England is playing France in football. The losing country will see a spike in DV.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know "call of the void" When you stand over a high place, and you just want to jump even though you're not going to jump that's what it called.. Interesting and disturbing at the same time...

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

    There is a worse version of this... when you stand over a high place holding someone else (a pet or a baby) and get intrusive thoughts about throwing that someone into the void.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The lil dog in space Laika died terribly and afraid in an oven above the earth..

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Fatal familial insomnia. Super rare, but also super scary. Basically, you stop being able to sleep, then you go mad, then you die. No cure.

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

    So I have regular insomnia associated with OCD. The only thing tht has kept me alive is medication that helps me sleep. This condition mentioned in the post is my biggest fear- besides drowning and being imprisoned.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know That covid infections harm every system in our body.

    Our
    hearts,
    vascular systems,
    brain,
    immune systems
    connective tissue

    stays behind in our guts
    and reproduces in our bone marrow.

    This can't end well.

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

    That COVID is no joke! There was one patient who was so brain damaged he thought he won an election that he actually lost by more than seven million votes!

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know I am not the same after reading King Leopold's Ghost, about King Leopold II of Belgium's f*****g regime of terror and torture in Congo in the nineteenth century and what traces it still leaves today.

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

    This needs to be more widely known about. The Catholic church sponsored him, and happily accepted the riches that were extorted by hacking the hands off children when their parents failed to deliver.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Unit 731 was a Japanese “””research institute””” during WWII where they committed atrocities that would’ve made even the coldest of Nazis blush.

    They would test the efficacy of different explosive devices by having live prisoners stand close to the blast and then see who survived the blast.

    They would infect prisoners with STDs to see how the disease would develop if left untreated. Sickeningly, they sometimes would infect new prisoners with the STD by forcing an already-infected prisoner to rape them at gunpoint.

    They forced other prisoners to strip off all their clothes and stand out in the cold until they died of frostbite, just to see what happened.

    Perhaps worst of all, nobody was ever tried for war crimes and the man behind it all, Shiro Ishii, died peacefully in 1959. The United States knew of Unit 731, but they requested their “findings” in exchange for not investigating or prosecuting those responsible. Because of this, we don’t even know how many people actually died there, estimates range from 23,000-300,000.

    None of the “findings” were even useful to the United States as it became clear that the experiments were carried out merely because the researchers thought they’d be fun.

    Nakagawa Yonezo witnessed experiments and executions at Unit 731 and later testified, “Some of the experiments had nothing to do with advancing the capability of germ warfare, or of medicine. There is such a thing as professional curiosity: ‘What would happen if we did such and such?’ What medical purpose was served by performing and studying beheadings? None at all. That was just playing around. Professional people, too, like to play.”

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

    How many times can a piece of information horrify you. Every single time. Desensitisation fails sometimes.

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

    And that's probably a good thing. Some things one should never become desensitized to; it should always be horrifying.

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

    The cover for the main facilities was that it was a sawmill. Dehumanization was so rampant that doctors called prisoners "marutas" ot "logs".

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

    The agreement that was reached at the end of WWII was that experimental data (From Nazi, Japanese, and other, concentration camps) would be catalogued and studied. However a huge debate kicked off about the moral aspect of using such information and suggested that the documents be destroyed. The "agreement" was eventually made to lock it away as it was "evidence", and to never be used. However... arguments are regularly made to examine the documents for specific things, and sometimes they succeed. The US reviewed the Nazi study of the effects of Phosgene gas, due to a rise in the number of processing plants in the US along the threat of chemical warfare from Saddam Hussain. Frost bite treatment has also improved as a result of studying the papers. I believe that the papers are used a lot more regularly that they would have us believe, they likely just omit their source and don't accredit the papers.

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

    Maybe a controversial opinion, but if it was a family member who had suffered through something like that, I'd much rather that their suffering and death were used to prevent others from suffering and death, rather than have it have been for absolutely nothing.

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

    Scary to think we walk amongst people capable of this type of depravity every day ie psychopaths, sociopaths, sadists.

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

    Remember that the Japanese commited such atrocities in China (the rape of Nanjing) that the NAZIS contacted HITLER to help the situation. Seriously. Google John Rabe.

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

    If you want to know about this, try to find and read "The Knights of the Bushido" Horrifying. There is also "The Scourge of the Swastika" about Nazi tortures.

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

    If anyone doubts whether what I said is true, please go to the Nanjing Massacre Victims Memorial Hall in Nanjing, China, and the 731 Unit Site in Harbin, China. There is more evidence there, and many of the photos were taken by Japanese soldiers themselves. They regarded this as An achievement! ! There are also many photos and narrative materials recorded by German and British missionaries who were in Nanjing at that time.

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

    Not only Unit 731, almost everyone in the Japanese army that invaded China killed innocent Chinese. They would tie the captured prisoners and nearby residents to pillars and let the recruits stab them alive, just to exercise the courage of the recruits! I saw a photo with my own eyes. A Japanese soldier penetrated a baby with a bayonet and then lifted the baby up with a knife. The soldiers around him looked up, as if they were looking at a novel toy.

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

    The writing on this is too mild. I also saw in the information that Unit 731 would dissect infected subjects alive just to see what changes the germs caused to the infected subjects' internal organs. They also conducted human experiments, forcing mothers and children to enter a room with an iron plate on the floor that could be heated red, just to see whether the mother would choose to step on her child and survive or hold her child and die together! How terrible!

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

    If you don't think the USA wasn't doing the same thing, you are wrong, they are just better at keeping it secret. I also have no doubt that all the countries engaged in the wars were doing their own "research"

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

    The US didn't keep it secret at all. We tested nuclear bombs on our own soldiers, this is well documented with writing and videos, and even a series of law suits. We tested STDs on our own citizens because they were African American. We tested psychotropic d***s on prisoners. None of this is secret.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Speak about Jasenovac and the (in)famous SrboSek ("Serbian cutter", designed to cut Serbs alive). Only extermination camp for children in the world. Nobody speaks of the 2M souls lost there to Croatian - Ustashi

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

    Read also about the efforts of Tono Toshio to bring to light the fate of the Fukuoka Airmen: a US bomber crew shot down over Kyushu during WWII, who were experimented on by medical staff at Kyushu Imperial University. The 8 captured airmen all died.

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

    Ha. The American government was doing this for 40 years . The Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. Injecting black American with stds without them knowing.

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

    They would infect prisoners with STDs to see how the disease would develop if left untreated. (hmm Tuskegee Syphilis Study - USA)

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

    Just read A Leaf in the Storm, by Lin Yutang, and learn what the Japanese did in Manchuria.

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

    Yea. During this times, Japanese were truly f****d up.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know One way many states departments of corrections try to anticipate the number of prison cell will be required in 20 years is based on how many third graders fail the state reading assessment.

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

    Now consider that for-profit prison lobbyists donate an average of $2 million per election cycle to candidates who do NOT support adequate funding for public schools, and that little fact becomes even more disturbing.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Quokka mothers will eject their babies from their marsupial pouches at predators to escape.

    Omni-Man rules. "I can always make another kid".

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know When I body falls from a building, they don’t go ‘splat’, they bounce, unless it’s a very very high fall. Also if you’re driving over 80km/h and hit a horse or large animal, you can inhale its intestines and suffocate on them. Some factual stories from my ex-police father.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Microplastics are found in human blood, organs and even placentas. These tiny plastic particles, which come from things like degraded plastic waste and synthetic fibers, are so persuasive in our environment that they’ve made their way into our bodies through te food we eat, the water we drink and even the air we breathe. While the long-term health impacts are still being studies, the idea that plastic is now part of our biologic system is pretty unsettling….

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

    I'm a barbie girl, in a barbie wooooorld. Life is plastic, it's fantastic!

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The sheer power and devastation of hurrucanes. I watched an interview with people who survived the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Their accounts were just awful. Some highlights:

    - One man, who at the time was a teenager, was trying to get to their storm shelter out back. He was holding his toddler sister. Once he got outside, debris hit the girl in the head, smashing her head against his face. She died instantly. He said he just stood there, holding his sister's body for several seconds.


    - One man watched their refrigerator fall on top of and pin their mother, breaking her back and paralyzing her. She was alive when he left her.


    - People climbed trees to get away from the storm surge. Once it receeded, they had to crawl over bodies caught in lower branches.


    - Several people were wandering around town naked afterwards. The storm had stripped them of every piece of clothing.

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

    I have a toddler brother and the first one made me cry

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know A pig will eat every part of your body except teeth, there were several farmers who went missing and the only thing left was a pile of teeth in the pig pen. Pigs have also been known to walk in to farmhouses and eat people's babies, so yeah pigs are crazy.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The 6 missing nuclear bombs that we know of.

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

    6 American bombs. I don't believe for one second that all Soviet Union/Russian bombs are accounted for.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Child ab*se is more common than you think. If it’s not happening in your house, it’s definitely happening on your street.

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

    Horrifying number of people where I live still condones child abuse as a necessary and effective method to raise a child.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The human brain is the same consistency as room temperature butter.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Organophosphates, including the chemical weapon Sarin Gas, work by inhibiting your muscle's ability to relax. Your muscles basically constrict and can't unconstrict, causing what feels like a muscle cramp through your entire body - your arms, your chest, your eyes, your tongue, everything. It most frequently kills via asphyxiation, because you can't exhale. Surviving means a permanent, irrecoverable loss of motor function, even with rapid medical treatment.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Likely most of the 9/11 jumpers were conscious throughout their fall. That’s just the most heartbreaking thing to imagine.

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

    My only hope is that the stress of the fall induced heart attacks and they were already deceased before they hit the ground. Please let it be so. Please let them have been given that kind of mercy in that moment. Weren’t all the horrors that day already enough?

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Approximately 50% of murders are unsolved every year. Was closer to 90% unsolved in the 70’s.

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

    Maybe now that we have the tools to find and trace DNA the k*llers also know better how to leave less traces as possible ?

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know That your organs know where they're supposed to be and move on their own.

    During surgery, doctors will just stuff them back in and they'll rearrange themselves back to their proper spot.

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

    This applies to the intestinal system, not to other organs.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, Under Yellowstone park that has the power to change the climate globally as well as end everything when it erupts.

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

    If it's going to end life on Earth, the bit about changing the climate seems somewhat irrelevant.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Currently whatever I am reading about the Diddy case has got me disturbed.
    That stuff is just insane.

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

    Rich and powerful men - do disgusting things because they are rich and powerful

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    I used to work at the coroner's court and attended hundreds of inquests. I had to become pretty numb to hearing about the deaths and seeing the reactions of the families and witnesses, but there's one that'll always stick with me.

    It's the new baby's first Christmas, only a few months old. The family are eating their Christmas dinner, laughing and telling stories. Granny is holding the baby, and feeds her a little bit of the chicken so she can try it for the first time. The baby chokes to death.

    Every time I think about this one, I wish I hadn't been there and hadn't heard it. It's always in the back of my mind for the rest of the day.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know That praying mantis females usually eat the males during intercourse but the male can continue without his head.

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    #33

    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Bedbugs practice traumatic insemination. The females have a genital area but the males prefer to just stab their p*nis into the females' abdomen and ejaculate right into her abdominal cavity.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Your eye lids are the same kind of skin as foreskin.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Most processed meat is linked to cancer.

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

    Very poorly worded. Some preservatives used in curing meat. specifically nitrate compounds, have links with cancer if used in large amounts, but are also naturally occurring in vegetables like celery, so celery salt is sometimes used in order to be able to claim "no added nitrates". Check the label.

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    #36

    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know How much plastic we eat without knowing.

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    How the rest of the world lives. I've been to Uganda and India. Ugandan kids live in grass and mud huts, eat raw sugar cane and African potatoes, and just want to learn, but will probably work in a sugar plantation or die young.
    Indian kids are taught to do anything to get a small amount of money and that carries through their life, even selling their younger siblings of they can.
    And here I was growing up in suburban America complaining about school and listening to blink 182 on my disc man.
    I still want to take my kids to Uganda though, so they can better appreciate what we have. And then reply to this thread "when my dad took me to uganda...".

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

    Somehow this post just reeks of white people privilege. I'm sorry, but it is. Uganda is not a display for your kids to watch, damnit! And it sounds like ALL of Uganda and ALL of India is just mud huts and beggars.

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    Everything relating to the Ant-walking Alligator people of Hiroshima. That s**t is legit worse than any horror movie/game I've ever witnessed.

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

    I looked it up. I don’t recommend it, it’s utterly horrific.

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    #39

    The Astronauts on the Challenger were alive after the explosion while the capsule they were in fell back to the ground.

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    Degloving….

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    One of our bunnies degloved another. The first vet we went to recommended putting her down without even looking at her. We went there because it happened late at night and it was the best 24 animal vet around. Took her to the small animal vet open the next day and she fully recovered. It was horrifying to look at.

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    #41

    That there have been multiple women that have either died or nearly died because someone with a mental illness forcefully removes the baby from their womb by luring them in with the promise of baby clothes/supplies. Absolutely terrifying.

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

    Not all we're killed by someone with mental illness, some people are just evil.

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    Scientists find that the weight of all human-created mass, including plastics, exceeds all natural living biomass.


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    The weight of all remaining wild land mammals is less than 10 percent of humanity's combined weight, which amounts to only about 6 lbs of wild land mammal per person.

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

    That would mean the average human weighs 60lb (27kg). I don't think so.

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    Both Disney & Francis Ford Coppola hired Victor Salva after his prison sentence for being a predator.
    (The Jeepers Creepers franchise creator).

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

    Disney also had no problem working with Ezra Miller, even after all the despicable things he did. Disney is despicable.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know Many of the human organs trafficked on the black market in the United States come from narcos. There have been many cases involving medical professionals, and trucks that have been found with bodies are missing organs.

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    35 Disturbing Facts People Didn’t Ask To Know I just found out that mankind k*lls more than a billion animals everyday for food. Sounds not too humane.

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

    Humans are more than just predators, more than just mere "apex" predators. We are top of the food chain. However, without tools? Pretty sure most other apex predators would annihilate us.

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    When you die the morgue workers will shove 3 cotton balls up your r****m to minimize any leakage and foul odors emanating from your body.

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

    Once I die, do whatver to reduce any discomfort I may cause.

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    Male horses get a build up of smegma in their p*nis sheath that can form into a rock hard nugget that can be 4/5cms across. So it has to be kept clean and these ‘beans’ have to be removed manually by the owner, or a vet.

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

    Yep, not my favourite part of owning horses, but it could be worse. I still let my vet deal with one of the cats that has to have a nal glands emptied.

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    #48

    The album cover of dawn of the black hearts by mayhem was a photo of pelle ohlins real s*icide scene taken by his band mate.

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    #49

    You are not born with the bacteria that causes tooth cavities. Someone passed that bacteria to your mouth at some point in your life.

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    #50

    In some places in the world where g*nocide and terrorism exist together, male neighbors will trade homes and sleep in the homes with neighbors’ wives/daughters. If homes are invaded and the marauders demand that the males in a household r*pe the females, they aren’t r*ping their own family members.

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    In the late 1800s, the heir to the Jameson Whiskey fortune went on an expedition to Africa and came across a cannibalistic tribe. He was curious about them, so he purchased a 10-year-old girl and gave her to them to eat. According to witnesses, she had no emotion when they tied her up and began preparing to k*ll her. She knew what was about to happen and accepted it.

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

    Yes, let's trust the account of the people who described buying a child to feed her to cannibals as an experiment. I'm sure there's nothing unreliable there.

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    #52

    Donkey milk is the closest thing to human breastmilk in nutrients.

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    What the inside of my bowel looks like, especially during a Crohn's flare (I have become fully concious half way through nearly every colonoscopy I've had).

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

    You where sedated? In UK you get lubed up and take it like a boss. Not very nice tho. The worst part is drinking the laxatives that flush you out, before hand.

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    Chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment (and also type-1 diabetes) really ruins your arteries and you may survive cancer but not your later heart attack, vision loss, or loss of appendages. By "ruins", I mean they don't just get blocked, they almost look shrunken or atrophied - thready. You can't thread a wire through them for stents and they are no longer good targets for bypass and so that won't help you either.

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

    My husband had radiation for leukemia and this ‘fact’ might not be entirely true. It has scared the shot out of me but his arteries were fine we last checked.

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    #55

    When you are doing surgery and a patient on the table dies, they turn cold. Ice cold. FAST. Uncomfortably fast. I will never forget that sensation. Awful.

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

    Nonsense. As with all thermal exchange it's partly dependent on the difference in temperatures, but in typical circumstances (normal body temperature in a room temperature environment) a dead body takes about 12 hours to feel cool to the touch, 24+ to reach ambient temperature all the way through, and they will not get "ice cold" unless you're storing them in a freezer!

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    #56

    That orphaned newborn kittens have to be carefully monitored because they seek out the nipple so aggressively they suck on the other kittens’ penises often to the point of removing the p*nis entirely. Thanks Ologies podcast!

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

    I wonder about the truth of this. A kitten's penis is so small that it's very hard to determine the sex of the kittens when they're under a certain age (or so I've been told). I can fully see how they would suckle eachothers tails, but penises?

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    #57

    Everything that happened to Sylvia and the insufficient amount of things that happened to everyone involved.

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

    Sylvia Likens, I'm guessing. Murdered by her supposed caretaker, the caretaker's kids, and the kids' friends. Only read about her case if you don't want to sleep tonight.

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    #58

    Did a quick crash course to bacteriology. Using and dumping sanitizer back in the wild will inevitably give bacteria enough time have immunity to it. Which is something so dangerous that can break humanity.

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

    No, this isn’t true. 1) Alcohol evaporates extremely quickly so it’s not just sitting around in the ‘wild’, and 2) Bacteria can’t evolve immunity to alcohol because it literally destroys the cell. It’s like saying that bacteria should’ve evolved resistance to fire by now

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    Due to how polluted Vegas is,when they saw the sky clearly,they thought something was wrong.

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