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In life, there are certain things that might scare us. For some, it could be spiders; for others, it could be public speaking. Regardless, we try our best to stay away from our fears. But what happens when you accidentally learn about terrifying things?

Recently, a Reddit user posted on the platform, asking everyone, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?". Folks online didn’t hold back and immediately started sharing unpleasant things that made their skin crawl. Today, Pandas, we’ve collected some of their most intriguing answers. But let us warn you: they might send a shiver down your spine.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Pitești Experiment in Romania overseen by the Soviet Union. Probably the worst thing that humans have ever done to other humans. Makes Unit 731 look like daycare. Communist Russia was probably the most evil human organization to ever exist.

It was basically an experiment to prove souls dont exist. That any human, no matter how resilient, can be broken or "demasked" into an animal like slave. and they prove this by killing the human spirit with 24/7 torture, degradation, brainwashing and humiliation. besides the obvious brutal violence stuff like eating your own s**t, vomit, and forced to desecrate every sacred belief you ever held until you totally broke. and they did this to the most resilient anti communist student activists. and they all broke. then they forced them to be the torturers for their fellow comrades. with the threat that if any of the tortured admitted that they were the guard that shown them a shred of mercy or leniency, they would be sent back to the beginning of the program to experience it all again which most did several times. if these prisoners were given even the slightest chance they instantly tried to commit suicide. some even chewed through their wrists to get to their veins. which the communists solved for by knocking out all of their teeth

One of the biggest mistakes the western world made was not make the crimes of the Soviet Union more known. Everyone should know this happened, that yes there was an organization of people much worse than even the Nazis.

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Blackrock and vanguard are buying up millions of homes with the hopes to turn middle class ppl into permanent renters. They come in and pay above asking price without even looking at the house. They've purchased entire neighborhoods. It's only going to get worse.

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The "Housing Crisis" is 100% manufactured scarcity. There are enough homes to house everyone in the USA but they are held vacant to drive up the rent prices. Unoccupied homes require little maintenance so it makes financial sense to keep them vacant rather than risk lowering the renters market.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Ascaris worms are a type of large, parasitic roundworm that make their home in the human digestive tract. They are endemic in many parts of the world. I used to work at a hospital where we took a lot of patients from very poor and remote places, especially Central America, where roundworm infection is very common. When you put those patients under for surgery, the anesthesia causes their blood to become slightly alkaline, which the worms *hate*. So after a few minutes they will start coming out of *every orifice in the body*. Nose, mouth, r****m. And I'm talking full-sized worms that look just like earthworms. It is no cap one of the grossest things you can imagine.

You give those patients a d**g called Bendazole, they poop dead worms for three days, and then they're fine.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The idea of pooping dead worms for three days is already making me not fine.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is anyone that's young enough to say "no cap" old enough to be in an operating room?

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Learned behavior from younger siblings perhaps. Slang can be quite infectious

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The title says that there are things in this world that are hard to digest. Apparently these worms are also hard to digest, so very true.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's one of the meds we use for worming horses as well. I'm surprised the covid deniers didn't latch on to it too.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In college I took an invertebrate zoology class. My lab partner one week turned green when we were given a formaldehyde soaked worm to dissect. I asked him what was wrong. He said that the last time he saw one of those things it was coming out of his a**.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I caught ascaris as a kid. I don't remember it but my dad sûre does! He told me about it, with great détails... Yuck!

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just the first sentence let me know I should probably skip this one if I don't want to have more nightmares than the inevitable

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

BP, r e c t u m is a forbidden word??? Seriously? You really need to get a grip

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Part of me wants to see a video, part of me knows I'll instantly regret it

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I feel like I’d need some serious long-term therapy after that experience.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I f(cking hate worms. Of all the animals on earth, I hate those the worst. Then mousquitos, then ticks. But worms the worst.

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Apart from scaring friends or using these creepy facts during trivia night, you can also use them to spark discussions during a party or include them in presentations or speeches to capture attention. And if you are brave enough, you can seek inspiration from them to create artwork.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Dolphins are known to be quite intelligent, but they can also be cruel. In some cases, they've been documented killing baby dolphins of other pods, seemingly for fun.

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The more I learn about dolphins the more I'm convinced they're just sea people.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest If you have abdominal surgery and the surgeon needs your intestines out of the way they don't try to get them back in exactly as they were. They can put them in pretty much any old way and they sort themselves out.
Then freaked out even more when someone else commented that you can quite often feel them wriggling themselves back into position.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I had my first cancer surgery they had to open me up from my sternum to my groin, which I have a hellacious keloid scar. I had to wear a really strange compression brace that wrapped around my sternum and abdomen for 8 weeks while my body healed. The only time I could take it off was when I was showering, which was a whole other ball of fun trying to keep my staples dry. The f****d up part is that it was a whole lot more comfortable wearing the brace while I healed vs taking it off when I would shower. It basically held my insides in place while I healed and as soon as I would take it off my abdomen/stomach area would become distended because everything would shift around. Cancer f*****g sucks kids!

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Learning that some plants can actually communicate with each other. Suddenly, my herb garden feels a lot more like a gossip column.

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When you think of blood, what color comes to mind? Many of us might think of the color red because humans and many animals have red blood due to the iron in their hemoglobin. However, some animals have different colored blood as well. A copper-based hemocyanin gives the blood of snails, octopi, horseshoe crabs, and some other creatures its characteristic blue-ish or clear color.

Some creatures even have yellow blood, like sea cucumbers. A high concentration of the yellow pigment vanabin, which is based on vanadium, is what causes the yellow coloration.
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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Dead bodies moan and grunt when you move them. (I was a paramedic and firefighter for 21 years, I was around a lot of dead people.).

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Some people are born with a malformed mass of veins in their brain called an AVM and they have no idea unless it's seen on a CT or MRI. Then one day it can burst without warning and that happy healthy person can die, suffer brain damage, paralysis, etc. No warning.

This happened to my 22yo niece yesterday, she is in a coma now. It's heartbreaking.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a stroke four years ago and heard a lot of stroke horror stories! One was a 19 year old who had had a massive stroke around the same time I did. (Birth control pills were suspected! They can cause high blood pressure in some women!) Another, young woman, like early twenties, paramedic. She was performing CPR on another person when SHE had a massive stroke and died! AVM was suspected. Other person died too, the one she was giving CPR to, in case you were wondering.

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Well all of these make my flatworm tidbit seem meek.

When flatworms mate, two "males" use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner, or the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis dagger, remains a male while the loser becomes female and will be impregnated.

Edit to correct the meaning of bifurcated. They don't detach it. Bifurcated means split in two.

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The mere sight of a cockroach can turn a grown adult into a squealing acrobat. These six-legged creatures can survive an entire week without their heads. Imagine you go to get water from the kitchen at 3 a.m. and you see a headless roach. It sounds pretty scary.

Cockroaches are not dependent on the mouth or head to breathe. Due to their open circulatory system, they breathe through little holes in each of their body segments. The reason they die without a mouth is because they can't drink water and die of thirst.
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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest The inside of a sea turtle's mouth/throat looks like something straight out of a horror movie monster. Absolutely covered in spines. (They swallow a lot of sea water when eating food, which they then vomit back out. The spines keep the food in but let the water out.).

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My father's school did a guided tour through the woods searching and learning about local herbs.

A few years later, my father was still a child, police showed up and asked him if he recognised the man in a picture that they showed him. My father explained that he was the herbalist tour guide.

Apparently, the guy had murdered several boys and had my father's name and address in his car.

The police had caught the guy by this point. I think he killed himself or died in suspicious circumstances...

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m glad the kid’s father was honest about what he had experienced and I hope all of the tour guide’s victims saw justice!

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That you don't actually smell dead and rotting animals. You are tasting the proteins in the air. I could have gone my whole life, not knowing that little tidbit.

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Just like we experience goosebumps, so do the bodies of deceased people. However, while a living person’s body hair might rise up because of cold, fear, or excitement, the biological process is different for someone who is not alive.

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Heather Brown, a mortician-turned-death-investigator based in New Orleans, explained, “It’s one of the amazing displays our bodies exhibit when they begin to break down. So, immediately after the death occurs, the decomposition process begins. What you’re seeing with postmortem ‘goosebumps’ is rigor mortis.”
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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Honestly what a newborn horse hooves look like. Traumatized for months after I had just given birth myself. Luckily I did not have a horse baby.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's cartilage and it protects the mother from sharp edges of the baby's hooves.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Tarantulas walk on water.

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That spiders can actually hold grudges. I'm starting to suspect one is plotting webs against me.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Crows are the best example of holding grudges. Birds, not spiders that is.

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A spider cannot chew or swallow food. This is why they need to digest their food outside their bodies. First, spiders immobilize their prey by injecting venom into their bodies. The poison turns the insides of its prey to liquid, and the spider sucks it up.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest I had to have a C-Section when our daughter was born and heard one doctor say to the other doctor: “Pass me the uterus, I’m gonna clean it.” Still don’t know whether my uterus was actually lifted out, still don’t want to know.
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My ex had our baby via c-section, and I watched. One of the more disturbing parts of it was her uterus laying on her chest, while two interns picked pieces of placenta off of it as they were discussing where they were going to go get lunch.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been involved in many caesars and never seen this

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest The CPR dummy face is based on the face of a teenage girl found dead in the Seine River in Paris in the 19th century. Her cause of death and identity is still unknown.

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When in a jungle or forest, the noisy animals is safe. It's when they suddenly got quiet that it is creepy or scary.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Could be the other way too; depending on the type of forest and the noise. Some birds and monkeys make noises (alarm calls) when big predators such as a tiger or a bear is around.

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In order to maintain our oral hygiene, many of us regularly brush our teeth and even floss. But did you know that our mouths can be home to more than 6 billion bacteria? Wait, before you run to the washroom to grab your toothbrush, not every bacteria causes tooth decay, gum inflammation, or tooth loss.
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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Bears don't wait until you are dead to start eating you.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lots of predators don't wait til you're dead. Casual Geographic will tell you all of them lol

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest It was believed, all the way up to 1980, that babies couldn't feel pain.
When "Another Brick in the Wall, part2" was on the billboard charts, some baby was having major surgery w/ no anesthesia...

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure, obviously, when the babies are crying it means there excited, not shouting out in fear or shock. Wow, some people are so dumb.

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Giving brith to a child is often talked about. Giving birth to placenta is one thing nobody talks about. It felt like nurse pulled giant squid out of my vagina, super gross. After that she pushed my abdomen and blood squirted out of me and sprayed her whole. It was absolutely disgusting.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Anyone who has ever said that giving birth is a beautiful experience has obviously never given birth.

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Butterflies aren't only cute and pretty, they also have some peculiar habits. For instance, few butterflies feed on the tears of reptiles. Dr Andrew Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist, Entomology at the Australian Museum Research Institute, says, “It’s been documented many times in Central and South America with butterflies feeding on turtle and alligator tears. People have hypothesized that they’re obtaining salts and/or proteins.”
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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest When you are in the process of dying, the last part of your brain function to go is related to your hearing. Essentially, you can hear everything around you, but you're locked in. Whether you can comprehend it is for a person much smarter than me to answer. But imagine understanding that the people around you are mourning and all you can do is listen. Or even worse, theres nobody.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My soul dog lost her fight with life last week. Our vet told us to communicate and keep talking to her until her heart officially stopped because her hearing would be the last to go.

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Up until June 2024 there was no law against necrophilia in Michigan.... A month ago... Can't bang a face or a butt legally, but a dead person wasn't against the law.

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Hmm. I had to Google it, so just leaving this here for others “Is oral sex illegal in Michigan? Sodomy laws generally prohibit oral and a**l sex, even between consenting adults. While most of these laws apply to both straight and gay people, they are primarily used against lesbians and gay men.”

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Recently in Russia they've taken to digging up the freshly buried corpses of soldiers and eating them.

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Commonly known as bot or warble flies, botflies are a type of species whose larvae burrow under your skin. Once they lay their eggs on a host, typically through an insect, the eggs hatch, and the larvae dig into the skin, creating a small, painful bump.
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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest That there is literally NOWHERE in your house that you can store your toothbrush without it getting fecal matter on it - thanks Mythbusters.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't care. It isn't hurting you. Consider - the reason it is all over your house is it is tiny molecules floating in the air. Therefore, you are breathing them. They didn't kill you when you didn't know that and they won't kill you now.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest You’ve probably heard a fact about how 70% of the human body is water. We basically know this because of a Japanese general who roasted people in an oven.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

General Ishii, of Unit 731. He was granted immunity at the wars end if he "shared" his findings.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Pugs and other brachycephalic dogs can have their eyeballs just...pop out of their skull.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest The average person consumes ~5g of microplastics each week. Approximately the same as eating a credit card every 7 days.

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These facts might make you feel icky, but hey, it’s still interesting knowledge to have. Which of these creepy facts scares you the most? And don’t forget to upvote the most terrifying ones.
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Sometimes when you have a sharp pain in your chest like a lung area when breathing in it could be there’s not enough fluid around the lung and it got stuck to a rib or your diaphragm isn’t in the correct place.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest A lot of my fragrances used to come from a beavers butt. Castoreum is the base of many leather, animalic, and chypre perfumes. Its smell is similar to vanilla and comes from the a**l secretion of beavers. Since I doubt they are using catch & release. I try to avoid it now.

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"Today, most castoreum is harvested in a sterile environment by anesthetizing beavers and expressing the castor sacs near their tails. In the past, beavers were often killed for their castoreum and pelts." I don't remember that job coming up on career day.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest That one misfolded protein can wind up rendering a brain about as useful as rotting cheese.

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Just the fact that at any moment in any point in life we can just drop dead from a random brain aneurysm.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest There are over 200 dead bodies located on top of Mount Everest that serve as waypoints for climbers because it’s too risky to retrieve them.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not just corpses. Also an absolutely insane amount of trash. Humans suck.

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Cluster headaches exist. No known cause, no known cure. They are so inconceivably painful and they do not stop. They are so bad that people have taken a ride down the sewer slide just due to the pain.

Edit: Cure, not treatment.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Carl Tanzler fell in love with Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, a young tuberculosis patient at the Key West hospital where he was a radiology technician — but his fondness grew into an obsession after she died in 1931. Tanzler lived with the corpse of the woman he loved for seven years. When she started to decompose, he embalmed her body and stuffed her with cottonwool. When she was eventually discovered, he was asked at his trial if he ever "consummated" their relationship. He said no, but "stuff" was found in the cottonwool of her... ahem, bathing suit area.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest It's legal to marry a corpse in France.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I imagine the purpose of this is for the financial or status gain of the spouse.

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I found out they remove your nipples and put them back on during a breast reduction. My breast reduction, to be specific.

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Serial killer Joel Rifkin dismembered at least 2 of his victims with an exacto knife.

An exacto knife.


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There are as many as 2,000 active serial killers at large.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If only we could get them all into a game of Murder Tag. There can be only one!

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Fatal familial insomnia. Creepy disease that just don't let you sleep. You start seeing hallucinations till you die. This disease is hereditary and you can't find symptoms. This disease destroying sleep sells, so you can't just take sleeping pills. There is a book about this disease: "family that couldn't sleep". This family was very big and they watched how their children dies. Very creepy.

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It is legal in more than half of the states in the U.S. for doctors to perform pelvic exams on unconscious people during surgery/procedures without consent.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I read that as "it is legal in more than half US states for doctors to sexually assault unconcious patients"

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That even if we live a healthy life many cells in our body still have the potential to become cancerous.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep happened to me! Healthy young in my mid twenties then bam sick af with Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer. So glad I beat it !

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Michael Jackson's hair lit on fire at the exact halfway point of his life. 25yrs, 4 mos and 29 days.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Bed bugs mate through a process called Traumatic Insemination. The male bed bug stabs the female in her abdomen with his penis, which is very sharp then proceeds to f**k her open stomach wound.

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Some of the victims of Pompeii may of taken up to 15 minutes to suffocate to death by inhaling the scalding hot pyroclastic ash and gases. Other victims died by having their skulls explode from the searing temperatures of the flows. There was also one poor dude they found who'd been basically incinerated in an instant while taking cover in bed.

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Dying of dehydration is really painful. So think about that next time you give yourself an opportunity to get stranded.

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

My Doctor & I have not quite figured out which of my medications is giving me such extreme dry mouth. I wake up in the morning and my lips are stuck to my teeth - Fireman Bill style (Lemme show ya sumptin). As soon as I brush my teeth (and tongue) it gets a bit better. I then down a really cold bottle of water and keep drinking water all day. Frustrating as f*ck, (especially for my husband who enjoys certain "pleasures").

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The bacterial spores of Bacillus cereus are in all rice varieties and aren't destroyed when cooked as the spores and toxin (which make you sick) are heat resistant. But they aren't active until your rice stays around room temperature for them to germinate. So it's best to cool it down a bit then immediately put it in the fridge. Also don't reheat it more than once.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been repeated and grossly exaggerated in the internet in recent years after one high-profile case when someone died after eating pasta that they'd left out for a week, uncovered and at room temperature, after cooking. So yes, there are risks, but there's no more reason to be scared of eating rice after a couple of days in the fridge than any other food.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest The President of Argentina and his wife kept Eva Peron's dead body just chilling at the breakfast table.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Loa loa, the African Eye Worm, can invade the human eye. Adults are between 1 and 2.5 inches long.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ow, my eyes started itching when I read this

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest There are more cells in your body that belong to other things like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites than actual human cells.

Some are beneficial, some harmful, and most are just along for the ride. Also we’re riddled with microplastics so that’s fun too.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Viruses don't have cells but the rest is mostly true. Most of it is bacteria living in your gut.

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#51

That otters sexually assault other animals, sometimes long after they are dead. Otters are not cute.

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When 2 people kiss they make one long tube, b**thole to b**thole.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest Finding out that statistically, you're more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery. Guess I'll stick to my day job as a professional lottery player.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been almost struck by lightening. The tree above me got hit. Got off that mountain fast after that.

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More than 1.5 billion of people are currently infested with worms.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's 3 in 16. Think about 16 of your best friends. Edit: of course it's probably more common in third world countries, but at least some of your 16 friends will be infected wherever you live.

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Naegleria fowleri - I now have a somewhat irrational fear of ponds/lakes.
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For people that want to know what it is:
Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is technically classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate, rather than a true amoeba. This free-living microorganism primarily feeds on bacteria but can become pathogenic in humans, causing an extremely rare, sudden, severe, and usually fatal brain infection known as naegleriasis or primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
It is typically found in warm freshwater bodies such as lakes, rivers, hot springs, warm water discharge from industrial or power plants, geothermal well water, and poorly maintained or minimally chlorinated swimming pools with residual chlorine levels under 0.5 mg/m3, water heaters, soil, and pipes connected to tap water. It can exist in either an amoeboid or temporary flagellate stage.

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4 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Phew i'm safe - they can't eat what's not there

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Some members of the Mormon church practice baptism by proxy for the unbaptized deceased, which they believe the deceased person may choose posthumously to accept and thereby gain entry to heaven. Targets of this practice have included popes, US founding fathers, the Buddha, Genghis Khan, and both victims of the Holocaust and Hitler.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah... grew up being mormon, never once belived though. The process is somewhat simple, you get a card wih their name and info on it and basically you get babtized yourself and i have no clue why they do it. Its creepy and whenever my church would go to do it I would find a reason out of it.

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Your brain starts to slowly decay around the age of just 27. I literally can't have a good rest of the day if I randomly remember that.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn't worry me, because I'll have forgotten it by teatime...

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List of youngest birth mothers.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lena Medina. She gave birth by c-section at age 5yo. She's still alive last I checked. She's in her 90s.

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The only part of your skeleton you wash is your teeth 🦷.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This doesn’t horrify me. My inside bones get washed by my blood, so :)

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Most people do not know one of the reasons why AC electricity can kill you. In order to generate electricity the power companies spin a magnet inside a coil of wire (or spin a coil around a magnet). The angular frequency that the coil or magnet is spun at is about 50Hz to 60Hz. More than 30 mA of AC (rms, 60 Hz) or 300–500 mA of DC at high voltage can cause fibrillation (irregular heart beat). Basically, AC current goes back and forth really fast and can pump your heart for your brain instead. Your brain thinks something else is pumping the heart for it so it stops. Once you let go of the object your being electrocuted by, the brain doesn’t clue in to pump the heart again because it thought something else was doing it. Scary… very scary!

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I dont know why, but it creeps me out that our skin does not have receptors that sense wetness. It's a perception created by our senses.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, you don't know your wet until the body feels cold - I was in Fiji during a cyclone and did not feel wet even though I was so soaked my wallet was soggy

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I once read that kinks can be hereditary. If you have a niche kink odds are higher one or both of your parents do too.

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50 Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest That people who are allergic to cockroaches can’t drink ground coffee because there’s ground cockroaches in it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Accuracy of this statement has yet to be varified (there insects that eat coffee beans that can be found in the beans)

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This is more life ruining than creepy. But Window calculator between the 8 and 9 keys, the 9 key was mistakenly made 1 pixel off and they aren't in a grid. It's not all in line up and down. Once you've seen it you can't unsee it.


[I always found this video a good demonstration of both the discovery and what you feel afterwards](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHhpu_bfYZk).

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the video, absolutely, clear from a brief glance and highly annoying, however I think this is isolated to only certain Windows OSes or skins? Because it is not on mine.

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The detailed effects of a specific class of Soviet nuclear weapon when it explodes. Holy S**t… one of the memories I was happy to lose when I had a traumatic brain injury. I just remember going home and hugging my wife and kids.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's up with all the "Soviet" stuff. 100% positive other world powers have equally horrifying weapons. And it's convenient none of the exact effects are listed here.

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