Brain-eating amoeba exists, and they live in our waters.

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There are over 200 bodies on Mount Everest, and they’re used as landmarks.

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There are more vacant homes than homeless people in the USA.

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Locked-In Syndrome is a scary condition where you are conscious while in a coma.

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Crows are so intelligent they can recognize a human face, even hold funerals for their dead.

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Teratoma is a tumor made up of several different types of tissue, such as hair, muscle, teeth, or bone, and can occur anywhere in the body, including the brain.

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As recently as 1999, it was widely believed by medical professionals that babies could not feel pain until they were a year old.

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Your cat might sense when you are dying.

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According to the FBI, the number of serial killers, that are still not caught among the USA, varies from 25 to 50.

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Doctors treated women “hysteria” through a “pelvic finger massage.”

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Even after decapitation, human heads stay conscious for a while.

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In 2007, a woman died after drinking more than a gallon of water in three hours. She did it to win a Wii.

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Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months.

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People can die with no discernible cause of death. We're talking about sudden arrhythmic death syndrome (SADS).

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Around 8% of young people are thought to hear voices at some stage in childhood. This makes hearing voices about as common for young people as having asthma or dyslexia.

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The Asian giant hornet’s sting is so painful that one entomologist described the sensation of being stung as feeling "like a hot nail being driven into my leg".

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The Mutter Museum displays various mutations, tumors, and anomalies of human anatomy.

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Mike the Headless Chicken was alive for 18 months after being decapitated.

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In 1973, two men in a small submarine experienced a malfunction in the sub. The sub slowly started sinking. Although the men were able to radio for help, they knew they only had enough oxygen to survive for three days. When the rescue team finally found them, they only had 12 minutes of oxygen left.

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Medical errors cause around 250,000 deaths every year.

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The FBI has reported that approximately 40 percent of USA's homicides go unsolved.

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H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer, constructed a “Murder Castle,” a hotel with secret compartments and gas chambers to murder unsuspecting visitors of the Chicago World Fair. He confessed to 27 murders, but is suspected of many more.

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Aztec priests, using razor-sharp obsidian blades, sliced open the chests of sacrificial victims and offered their still-beating hearts to the gods.

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We only have good information on less than 5% of the world’s oceans, and maybe sparse information on another 10%.

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Postpartum psychosis can happen overnight.

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As many as 80 million bacteria are transferred during a 10 second kiss.

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Babies grow hair in the womb that spread to cover their entire body and are called Lanugo.

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The dust specks you see floating around is mostly dead skin cells.

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Some fish have human-like teeth.

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Your house pet will probably want to eat your dead body.

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1 in 50 people in the United States has an unruptured brain aneurysm, which is a bulge or ballooning in a blood vessel in the brain.

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Scaphism is an ancient form of execution where the victim was trapped between two boats, fed and covered with milk and honey and left to be devoured by insects.

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Disneyland’s famous Pirates of the Caribbean ride used real skeletons. And some people, including former Disney employees, insist that a few of them are still being used.

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Your bed can have up to 10 million dust mites.

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Vampire moths are real and they can drink human blood though skin.

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Ancient Romans believed that drinking gladiator blood not only would give them strength and vitality but also cure epilepsy.

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Pigs will eat anything, and that includes humans.

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Most species of Horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes.

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The Catacombs of Paris hold the bones and remains of nearly six million people.

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When a person dies, their sense of hearing is the last to go.

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Dance marathons, also known as endurance contests, were events in which people dance or walk to music for an extended period of time. Couples would compete to see who could dance the longest, often for cash prizes. Unfortunately, sometimes people would drop dead from exhaustion on the dance floor.

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During mummification, ancient Egyptians removed the brain through one of the nostrils.

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A single golden poison frog has enough poison to kill 10 grown men.

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“Prosopagnosia” is the inability to recognize faces.

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1.2 trillion gallons of sewage, stormwater, and industrial waste are dumped into US waters every year.

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Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.

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A rat’s teeth can gnaw through substances as hard as lead sheeting and cinder block.

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In the 1920’s, the American domestic terror group Ku Klux Klan had a youth chapter called the “Ku Klux Kiddies.”

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The “sleepwalking defense” has been used in order to have defendants acquitted for murder.

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Mobile phones are seven times dirtier than toilet seats.

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It takes the death of 27,000 trees daily to make toilet paper for humans.

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Our bodies swell up like balloons after death, due to the release of gases and liquids.

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Every 18 minutes, someone has a brain aneurysm that ruptures.

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The birthday effect is a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday.

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Scientists have found a new kind of tarantula with a horn on its back in southeastern Angola.

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“The Devil’s Bible” exists, and it’s a contract between a monk and Satan.

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2019 ​was the second warmest year in NOAA’s 140-year climate record.

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A book written 14 years before the 1912 sinking of the Titanic may have predicted the ship’s tragic demise. The novella titled "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility" was about an unsinkable ship hit by an iceberg.

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The average person sweats between 0.5 - 2 liters an hour during physical activity. But according to some studies, people may lose a minimum of 3 liters a day, even without moving around all that much.

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The Zoroastrians, an ancient Persian religion followers, leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by birds of prey such as vultures.

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Being buried alive accidentally occurred so often that people invented “safety coffins.”

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A person will shed around 75 pounds of skin in a single lifetime.

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Women in the 18th century used lead as makeup.

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There might be a haunted Russian radio station that has been broadcasting the same tone for 45 years.

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An estimated 41% of adults in the US face health-care debt, ranging from under $500 (16%) to $10,000 or more (12%).

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Did you know that the American actress Glenn Close was raised in a cult?

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Wes Craven’s “A Nightmare on Elm Street” is based on a real story.

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Isla de las Muñecas or the “Island of the Dolls” is one of the most haunted places in the world.

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Decorations made from human bones adorn the interior of the Sedlec Ossuary.

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18th century doctors believed that bloodletting was necessary to “balance” one’s health.

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The Judas Cradle was a means of torture where the victim was forced to sit on pyramid-shaped wooden device.

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Microscopic mites live on our eyelashes.

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Doctors used the teeth of dead people to make dentures.

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You can actually fit all the planets in the Solar System in the space between the Earth and the Moon.

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Lady Bugs are known to eat their own larvae to ensure the survival of the other larvae.

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When the movie trailer for The Exorcist first came out in theaters, people were too scared, so eventually they stopped playing the trailer in theaters.

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More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now extinct.

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The cosmological theory of the Big Rip posits that as the universe continues to expand at a faster and faster rate, the force will pull galaxies further from each other, then galaxies will be pulled apart, followed by the planets and objects from their stars, the stars themselves, planets, and so forth until even nuclei in atoms are separated.

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An average of 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year.

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People used hollowed human skulls as bowls and cups back in ancient England.

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The average person consumes around 38 ounces of mucus every day.

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Charles II watched William of Orange consummate his marriage.

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Muscovite palaces and courts had professional foot-ticklers.

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Corpses recovered from bodies of water decay faster.

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Mice and rats can spread at least 35 different diseases to humans.

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In the Middle Ages, people used to eat mummies for medicinal purposes.

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Your coffee mug probably has fecal matter on it.

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The Vent Haven Museum houses vintage ventriloquist dummies.

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King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.

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The Roman Emperor Vespasian taxed the trade of urine.

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Rat Kings are real and they're more interesting than you might think.

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Museo delle Anime del Purgatorio displays documents signed by haunted souls in purgatory.

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The most haunted island in the world is Poveglia, Italy.

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