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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered If we held a minute of silence for every victim of the holocaust we will be silent for eleven and a half years

GonzagaPrep2021 , Ann Buht Report

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Gobblecote 2 years ago

Just counting the Jews (6 million). If we count all the victims of the Holocaust, we would be silent for over 25 years. (525600 minutes in one year)

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A brief scroll through this thread proves that the world is both fascinating and frightening. After reading the uncomfortable revelations users typed out in this 'Ask Reddit' thread, those pieces of trivia are bound to keep you awake at night. And you’re definitely not the only one, as the post has amassed over 40k upvotes with over 15k people sharing their little nuggets of wisdom.

But where does this universal drive that pushes us to explore the unknown come from? It seems to draw us into the unfamiliar, urging us to venture into the shadows to uncover the dark facts we never knew about before.

Turns out, this mysterious driving force is something we’re all familiar with — it’s our curiosity. If we allow our craving to know and understand to roam freely, it can take us to exciting places. As Mario Livio, an astrophysicist and best-selling author of Why? What Makes Us Curious, explained to The World, humans are innately curious creatures. "Other animals are curious, but only humans are worried and curious about reasons and causes for things. Only humans really ask the question, 'Why?'"

Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered The entire Universe outside our galaxy could have completely disappeared over 20,000 years ago and we still wouldn't know it yet. Our view of the Universe is actually what it looked like anywhere from thousands to Billions of years ago -with no way to see what it actually looks like "right now". Imagine if you looked out your front window and saw your yard as it was 6 months ago, neighbors house across the street a year ago, and houses a block or two away as they were several years ago. Also off in the distance you see the glaciers from the last ice age. That's what it's like looking out at the Universe.

UEizo , pexels Report

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Liz 2 years ago

So in other words google maps street view?

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got stuck on the moon the official policy was to cut communication and let them suffocate in silence, Nixon even had a speech prepared in case this happened.

thewhiterabbit223 , picryl Report

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Bouche Clay 2 years ago

I was under the impression they had cyanide pills, just in case.

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered The phrase "shoot for the moon. If you miss you'll land amongst the stars."

The next nearest star is 4.3 light years away. If you miss the moon, you're absolutely f****d

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Javier loh 2 years ago (edited)

To put that into perspective, that is about 25370000000000000 km or about 195153850000000000000 bananas

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According to him, this eagerness to understand is something we’re born with. "There are many studies that have shown that there is a strong genetic component to curiosity," he said.

"It is also the case that some people are more curious than others, in the same way that some people have a talent for music and others don’t or some people are smarter than others. But all people are curious, with the possible exception of people who are very deeply depressed or have certain kinds of brain damage."

Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Snow White is 14 years old, and Walt Disney instructed animators to make her look "old enough to marry".

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NuClea Bomb 2 years ago

And what's worse, the prince was thirty-

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered There's a condition in which people become blind, but deny their blindness. The brain creates false perceptions to fill in for the lack of sight.

It's called the Anton Syndrome

nunped , Thirdman Report

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The Gingersmurf 2 years ago

I'm curious; are the false perceptions in any way accurate? This is incredibly interesting.

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There are an estimated 35-50 active serial killers in the US. Famous serial killer Edmund Kemper (I think?) said he thinks that number is way higher because it was so easy not to get caught (he turned himself in).

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Mayra 2 years ago

I shouldn’t be reading this at 1 in the morning

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There also seem to be two basic types of curiosity: perpetual and epistemic. We feel the former when we see something that surprises or puzzles us or doesn’t match up with our existing knowledge. "It is felt as a sort of uneasiness, an unpleasant situation, a bit like an itch you need to scratch," Livio explained.

The latter one, epistemic curiosity, is our love of knowledge and our desire to learn new things. "Our brain and our mind assign value to this knowledge, so this is usually experienced as a pleasurable thing, with an anticipation of reward in the form of what we learn," Livio added.

Bunnies actually have the ability to scream, but they will only scream if they feel they are about to die.

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Cactus McCoy 2 years ago

It is an absolute terrifying sound, chilling to the bone.

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Dolphins can and will pick stuff up and move it around using their penises

Mr_Sugar_Rush , Pixabay Report

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago (edited)

Also, they get high on pufferfish and they were filmed passing it around. Its poison, if digested, is 40,000 times deadlier than meth. Luckily, dolphins don't inhale, they just "puff". Taking the term "seaweed" to a whole new level!

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Male giraffes will headbutt a female in the bladder until she urinates, then it tastes the pee to helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.

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Francis 2 years ago

i just imagined this with humans :D in a night club XD

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This particular drive pushes us to become rounded and well-informed citizens by striving to know more about our planet. Even if this means stumbling upon slightly disturbing truths we may immediately want to forget. Because life isn’t just about amusing tidbits of knowledge you can whip out during your weekly dinner party. It is also full of uncomfortable historical and scientific facts that allow us to build a broader perspective.

Unfortunately, our eagerness to learn and understand tends to diminish as we grow older. While we still share our love of knowledge, it’s harder for us to take risks to find that novelty. But that shouldn’t stop us from picking up a few tips and tricks on how to become better at sparking our curiosity.

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered When you're cremated, your teeth explode from the heat.

Vektorien , moein moradi Report

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54 2 years ago

forbidden popcorn

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Chimpanzees just flat out love to eat monkeys.

They love it so much they’ve feasted on certain breeds to local extinction.

Always found this mildly (moderately) disturbing because of the similarities in the species, like if wolves sought after puppies.

YourDailyDevil , Pixabay Report

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norabest321 2 years ago

Wolves will totally go after full grown dogs. Careful if you're ever walking through wolf country with a dog.

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered When a male lion takes over a pride he will engage in infanticide and kill (and/or eat) all of the cubs that the previous male breed.

I know more disturbing facts than I care to admit.

Eddie843 , Pixabay Report

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

Humans do that too. New kings would often kill (not eat) the opponent’s children, potential challengers for the throne.

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To gain some insight on the topic, we reached out to Nancy K. Napier, Ph.D., a Distinguished Professor Emerita at Boise State University and author of Unfolding Curiosity: Wrinkles and Surprises from Business and Beyond. According to her, when it comes to curiosity, she’d offer the idea of "just a little".

Napier explained that previously she hadn’t realized that curiosity can be like an upside-down U-shaped curve. "We need to know just a little about something to make us curious to know more," she told Bored Panda. "If I've never heard of pro wrestling, I'd never even think to ask about it. So a bare minimum sparks curiosity."

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Christopher Mintz-Plasse's mom had to be on set during the filming of his (attempted) sex scene in *Superbad* because he was only 17 at the time it was being filmed.

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

That’s super bad.

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#16

Want to ruin Finding Nemo?

Clownfish live in groups that are all male except for the biggest and most aggressive fish who is the Dominant Female. The next biggest fish is the Dominant Male, and these two are the only ones who breed. When the dominant female dies, the dominant male changes gender to become the dominant female. All the other males then fight to become the dominant male, and the cycle continues.

If you keep a Clownfish male on his own for long enough, he will become female.

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Liz 2 years ago

I feel like that only ruins it if you’re transphobic.

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered There was a series of movies during the 1980s called the “Guinea Pig” films that were so gory that the director of the movies was actually investigated by the cops and had to show how he did the effects

DaNkMeMeKiNg69420 , Jakob Owens Report

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FRAN6IX 2 years ago

I think cannibal Holocaust should be amongst them

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Another thing that immediately awakens an interest is personal connection. "For me, at least, if there is a human connection, it's much easier to become curious," Napier revealed.

"A few years ago, a coach of Australian Rules Football (huh?) wrote to ask about an article on culture and American football that he'd seen with my name in it. We corresponded, we met, they invited me to do a creativity workshop, I watched the game and because I'd met some players and coaches, I was MUCH more curious," she added. "I'm not a sports fan but when I know someone who's on/in the team, that makes me curious."

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If you have a boob job, the database for implants is so well-kept and readily available across the country that they can identify your body based on the serial number of your implants.

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3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago

If there’s anything humans are good at keeping track of, it’s boobs 👍

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If you contract rabies it can lay dormant in your body for years until one day you get a headache, and by then its already too late and you will slowly go insane and grow an erratic fear of water and Inability to swallow - then you die.

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Liz 2 years ago

Even freakier fact: bats are one of the main transmitters of rabies to humans and there are some bats whose bite is unnoticeable. I got pretty paranoid about all the times I was camping or just generally outside at night while bats were around after learning this.

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

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

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Burnt humans smell like smoked Texas barbecue.

Before anybody calls me a serial killer, I worked in a trauma ER and the bad burn victims smelled exactly like this.

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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago

Working in a hospital and being a serial killer aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.

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Interestingly, shyness and boredom also pique our interest, the professor argued. "If I'm in some setting where I don't want people to know me OR if I'm bored, then I play a game with myself to shift the spotlight to someone else."

Napier challenges herself to see how long it takes in asking someone questions before his/her/their eyes light up and she has found what excites them. "I once talked with a super boring accountant and used this challenge — it took me about three minutes to learn he's a world-class fly fishing expert and we were off and running for 45 minutes. I learned a lot and he was thrilled to talk about that rather than having to talk business," she mentioned.

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Meerkats are adorable creatures. They even started in a show called Meerkat Manor.

But they are, by far, the most murderous species of any animal, killing more of their own species with greater frequency than any other animal

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tara 2 years ago

"the most murderous species..." I think that is us humans.

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

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

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered In medieval times, diabetes was known as the honey sickness and to test for it a physician would have to taste your urine.

ebrum2010 , Julia Volk Report

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

And with ladies, they checked if they were ovulating while they were at it

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered In infants, their adult teeth are behind their eyes

Freudian-Sips , John Finkelstein Report

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Francis 2 years ago

that's why x-rays of babys are super creepy

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And sometimes, you don’t even need to step out of the house to achieve this. The internet is a place of knowledge where picking up intriguing tidbits of information is something you simply can’t avoid. And if you consistently uncover new intriguing facts every day, you’re bound to reap the benefits in no time.

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A lion’s tongue is so rough it can lick your skin off. I learned this valuable piece of information from a toy in a Arby’s kids’ meal when I was younger.

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Edgar 2 years ago

It has some kind of hooks, and it's supposed to tear meat of from bones. Cats tongues are similar, hence the pain when they lick us.

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#25

Penguins will often work as prostitutes for other penguins to get stones for their nests

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FabulousMari 2 years ago

So are we going to start s**t shaming penguins too?

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

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

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered If you die while late into a pregnancy the build up of bodily gases can push the dead foetus out of your body. Its called postmortem fetal extrusion.

SirObalobus , Negative Space Report

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Lance LaRocque 2 years ago

With a sudden traumatic death of the mother the fetus lives for a few minutes and can be extracted alive.

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#27

Anne Frank’s diary had lots of masturbation that later got cut out

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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago

So she was a perfectly normal teenager who probably never intended to let anyone else read their diary, not sure what is disturbing about that.

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Octopuses have what is called, “decentralized intelligence” which essentially means that their limbs have their own “intelligence”. For example, if a severed human limb touches acid or fire or anything that would cause pain, nothing would happen however if an octopus limb touches acid or fire, it would recoil and avoid it, even though it’s been severed and is no longer attached to the octopus.

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🫠Nobody pathetically🫡 2 years ago

There is a chance that the octopuses lungs are smarter than me.

107points

#29

Two out of three people have herpes. So, you probably have herpes. There are tons of herpes viruses. Not all of them cause sores.

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Helen Waight 2 years ago

Yup, Epstein Barr (glandular fever/mono) is a herpes virus. Varicella Zoster (chickenpox) is a herpes virus. If you’ve ever caught one of those you never clear it from your system so you have (technically) herpes.

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

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

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Someone Asked "What Is A Fun Fact That Is Mildly Disturbing?" And 35 People Delivered Moths will vibrate their genitals as a way to prevent bats from locating them

lilchikinnugget , Pixabay Report

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Serial pacifist 2 years ago

So the bats get d*ck-blocked

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#31

It isn't your sweat that smells, it comes from bacteria living on your body essentially s******g stuff out after they feast on your secretions

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Helen Waight 2 years ago

Yup, they feed off the lipids in sweat. There’s a gene that controls whether or not you sweat lipids so it’s possible to have sweat that doesn’t smell bad. Having said that, still need to wash!

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#32

They couldn't give the firefighters from Chernobyl morphine, because their veins were literally melting.

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Helen Waight 2 years ago

Not entirely true. They tried to give as much pain medication as possible to the patients (the initial firefighters on the roof of the turbine building got an absolutely ridiculous level of radiation - like no way are you surviving) but because of the burns, the body’s entire stock of bone marrow turning into paste (so you cannot replenish blood cells at all) and other really nasty effects there is no way for the body to process enough to have an effect. They definitely tried morphine though.

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The world record for most kidney stones passed is 6,504 by Don Winfield, the most being removed is 172,155.
The largest kidney stone ever removed. was 20cm long and weighed 4.4 pounds, another being 13 cm.

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Laura Ketteridge 2 years ago

What on earth were these people eating to produce such stones?!

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#34

Nutmeg was used as a hallucinogenic before modern drugs. It can also kill you if more than a tablespoon is eaten at once."

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FabulousMari 2 years ago

Ok but how many Pumpkin Spice Lattes would be too much nutmeg?

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Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

WANNA FIND OUT, HONEYBUN??

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Brivid 2 years ago (edited)

Yes my troubled preteen read about this and tried it. Found out when I realized I my nutmeg grinder was missing.

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Pumpkin Spice 2 years ago

Gives you a 12-hour high and a 2-day hangover. I hope your preteen's OK now.

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Robert T 2 years ago

This is why we haven't seen "the nutmeg challenge" then?

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Seth 2 years ago

We did though; TikTok banned the hashtag because teens were winding up in the ER with life threatening seizures.

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Autistic McWolferson the Third 2 years ago

I used to use Nutmeg to get high. Only issue with it is it's STRONG and also... it leaves you feeling like you can barely physically do anything for 48 hours.

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Eunice Villaneda-Bolanos 2 years ago

Someone's on Nutmeg lol!

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Kat 2 years ago

You are more likely to get a psychosis or cardiovascular issues ... Death is rare (just read a case study by an ER doctor who described a suicide attempt by nutmeg...)

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tara 2 years ago

IF you can eat more than a TBSP at once.

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Freddie Torsten 2 years ago

No no, you sniff it

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Sophie 2 years ago

Me, bartending, absolutely destroying drinks with fresh ground nutmeg.

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Sophie 2 years ago

I never knew. Terrifying now I think about it!

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Althea Armwood 2 years ago

Ok, well someone check on me during eggnog season please!

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Asif 2 years ago

Can attest. Experimented with it and others as a teen.

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Mark Berry 2 years ago

How much is just right for a 240lb man?

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Seth 2 years ago

For any given person, the lethal dose is only 2-3 times greater than the effective dose, so just don't. Even if you figure out just the right dose for yourself, you'll have an awful hangover for a few days after. There are plenty of much better options.

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Abner_Mality 2 years ago

Buddy and I split a 4 oz container for this purpose in 1981 (high school). Got high, didn't die. Everything did taste funny for a couple days though...

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Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago

So where is the happy medium between having a good afternoon and death?

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Seth 2 years ago

You're talking about the "effective dose" vs the "lethal dose". For nutmeg, the potency of the pre-ground stuff in jars is all over the place, because the freshness of the oil is what determines how strong it is. When grated fresh, the effective dose to get high can be as little as 5 grams (about a teaspoon) but after the high wears off you'll have a nasty hangover for about 2 days. The lethal dose can be as low as 10-15 grams, so the potential for overdose is extremely high, even when compared to illegal street drugs. For comparison, the lethal dose of magic mushrooms is about 1000 times greater than the effective dose. If you want a good afternoon, nutmeg is a very poor choice.

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Featherytoad 2 years ago

I feel like I need to try this now.

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DonnerDinnerParty 1 year ago

Wow, as little as two teaspoons can cause toxicity! I did read however that there has only been one death, of a 55 year old

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Jane W. 2 years ago

I know they have to keep nutmeg out of the spice cabinet in rehab facilities.

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Ellen Lanser 2 years ago

Do you die a happy person, or in agony?

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Baali Venomax 2 years ago

Bay is the same. Combine the two and you'd get one hell of a trip in higher enough doses.

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Colin Timp 2 years ago

Well, if there wasn't a "nutmeg challenge" going on before, there will be soon.

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Susan Betz 2 years ago

I tried eating nutmeg as a teenager. No hallucinogenic effects at all, sad to report.

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Paula Henderson 2 years ago

That's why you can't buy it in Saudi Arabia

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Caitlin with a C 2 years ago

How many bananas would that be though?

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Karl Baxter 2 years ago

Not true. As a foolish youth, 35 years ago, a friend and I extracted the oil from about 30 nutmegs and ate it in a sandwich (it tastes absolutely foul btw). We were tripping for over 2 days and lethargic for another 2 afterwards. We repeated this several times but stopped when I read that too much is heptoxic so not recommended. The oil is chemically similar to safrole - the base chemical for Ecstasy.

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Frank Miller 2 years ago

To put this item in PROPER context: Long-term use of nutmeg in doses of 120 mg or more daily has been linked to hallucinations and other mental side effects. People who have taken larger doses of nutmeg have experienced nausea, dry mouth, dizziness, irregular heartbeat, agitation and hallucinations. Other serious side effects have included death.

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Peeka_Mimi 2 years ago

Banana peels with nutmeg will cause hallucinations, or so I've heard. Never tried it.

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An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago

Is this why when I style an empty nutmeg container to stuff my doll clothes in, when my mom found it she was briefly concerned before I showed her what was in it-

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An Unpopular Opinion. 2 years ago

*stole, not style

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