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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 days 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 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 days 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 Child slaves in the Congo mine the cobalt used in our phones.

Ok-Indication-5121 , Edouard MIHIGO Report

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3 days 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 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 It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls.

puzzleman123 , Jonathan Borba Report

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3 days 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 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...

PrincessGlitterSwan , Michael Giugliano Report

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3 days 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 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 days 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 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.

Civ_1_Settler , Solving Healthcare Report

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3 days 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 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.”

Dr_JackaI , 松岡明芳 Report

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3 days 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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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 days 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 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 days 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 days 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 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 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 days 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 The 6 missing nuclear bombs that we know of.

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3 days 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 days 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 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 days 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 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 Approximately 50% of murders are unsolved every year. Was closer to 90% unsolved in the 70’s.

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3 days 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 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 days 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 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 days 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 Currently whatever I am reading about the Diddy case has got me disturbed.
That stuff is just insane.

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3 days 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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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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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 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 days 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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