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According to ABC News, the most common ‘biggest fears’ people have are social phobias, the fear of open spaces, the fear of heights, the fear of flying, claustrophobia, the fear of insects, and the fear of snakes. And while you might be feeling calm and collected if none of those particular phobias afflict you, just keep reading, because something on this list is bound to freak you out…

Below, you'll find some of the most unsettling and disturbing facts that Reddit users have shared, as well as an interview between Bored Panda and Steffany Strange of the Something Scary Podcast, to remind you pandas that spooky season can be year round if you want it to be. Be sure to upvote the facts that unlock new fears within you, and if you start getting uneasy, just remember that all of these facts were true long before you read them. Oops, did that make you even more scared?

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Why am I reading these I already have crippling anxiety, depression and paranoia

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Chiropractors kill more people per year than sharks

Nvucovich , Ryutaro Tsukata Report

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Jake B
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I knew a women in a wheel chair from visiting a chiropractor. He made tiny error and she was paralyzed. I won’t see one because of it even though I hear people say how good they are. Just can’t.

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To learn more about the topic of frightening facts, we reached out to an expert on all things spooky, Steffany Strange, host of the Something Scary Podcast. Steffany was kind enough to have a chat with us about what she loves most about diving into the world of scary. "I think for most of us we can relate and say scary stories help us tap into the unknown or the supernatural," she told Bored Panda. "But additionally, we as humans have a natural tendency to seek out information in the world/society we live in."

"I love that folklore, scary stories (especially ghost stories) bring in cultural and historical elements to better understand our emotions and the essence of being human," Steffany continued. "This makes me think of my grandfather and aunt telling me Salvadorian ghost stories, and it helped me tap into the unknown elements of the supernatural while understanding my own Salvadorian culture."

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled **Someone you love will probably get dementia, and it will f*****g suck.**

The human brain is a machine, and like any machine it inevitably breaks down. Imagine a person you love. Imagine their mind starts dying before their body. They cease to be the person you knew, a little bit at a time. They lose their memories - the cherished and the mundane. Then they start looking at their loved ones in terror because nothing makes sense and everyone seems like a stranger. It's nature at its most cruel.

F**k dementia.

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adam craker
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom had dementia. She started showing signs in her mid Forty's. She still had her personality for the most part. But it took a part of her and she knew it but she didn't know what she lost. It was awful to watch her slowly deteriorated. She died in an accident at 62. I miss her constantly but I'm glad she never forgot who my dad, brother or I was. My grandfather died about a year before and she constantly forgot. I would just talk about him like he was alive. I couldn't stand for see the hurt in her realizing he was gone.

Labellesouris
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm with my mom now...my grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother and probably further back....on my fathers side, his two sisters, my grandfather, my great grandfather.... This dementia is a destroyer of families. I will not subject my beautiful children to this nightmare if I am so afflicted. I will have a big party then I will go to a state that will let a Dr help me go. Then my family can enjoy their lives with good memories.

Chancey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dementia does suck. I am with my 83 year old mother almost 24/7 because she has dementia and can't be left alone.

ChocolateCake
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandfather had dementia. He slowly forgets all of his favorite foods and happy memories. Whenever I visit him he asks "And who are you?" in a joking way but I really don't want that question to become a reality. Dementia sucks. :(

Bina Cobbler
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Same here. My grandma would always ask "Oh look who's here!", but in reality it was just a polite way of asking who I was, without having to admit that she had forgotten me. It was awful.

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Must Be Bored Again
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked in long term care for years. We had the most amazing Director. She said we were to remember that we were guests in THEIR home and to treat them as we would if they were a family member. Three patients really have stayed in my memories because I was given the honor of being somebody special in the life they lived with dementia. One of my nursing instructors said "Don't pull them kicking and screaming into our world, calmly step into their world." First one-gentlemen who was sure I was his sister. When I was working, he would yell out "Stella, Stella", his sister's name. The way we were staffed, there was always an extra staff person on the floor, so they could take over for me and I would go see what "my brother" wanted.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

CONTINUED Sorry for the incredibly long post. Patient three was an itty bitty little lady with Alzheimer's. One night towards the end, I was tucking her into bed. She also had been nonverbal for quite some time. But on this night, she was calling for her momma. Knowing telling her that her mom isn't here is not going to help. Instead I sat down on the bed next to her and put my arm around her. I just started rocking her. She leaned down across my lap, content. I put my arms around her and just rocked her. To her, she was in her mother's arms again. She quieted down immediately, completely relaxed, I slowly moved her into bed and tucked her in. She was so content having been rocked to sleep by her "momma"!

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Libstak
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dad had vascular dementia, parts of his brain died and others slowly dying. He retained memories but also crazy ideas andco spiracy theories took over. He lost his ability to swallow and stand and balance in the end, broke his hip and never really recovered.

Old Roadie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

::raising my hand:: It does suck. From the first memory glitch to the realization my brain cells are in open rebellion, it sucks. Fighting that s**t to the very end. Never work with toxins, people.

Must Be Bored Again
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry that you have to go through this. I hope you have someone to help as things get worse for you. I apologize but I am going to make an assumption: From you profile pic, I am going to assume you are a veteran. Also possible exposure to toxins from military. If either of these are true you may qualify for dementia care at one of the larger VA facilities or hospitals. Many care centers are separate from the hospitals so if you are not connected with VA, get ahold of your local Veterans Association/Assistance Office. This is not at a VA medical facility, it is usually in an office in a town. They help you do things like research records, get replacement copies of DD-214, etc. Connect with them or your State Representative or

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Jaq Jack
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband's mom had alchohol induced dementia. She sold her house and then got all of the cash out of her bank account. Then she physically lost over 150,000$. Thel crazy part is that once she got help her dementia actually reversed. She is sober now and although she can be a little silly sometimes she is an excellent grandmother to our daughter and a huge help.

Sami-Jo Ross
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My pop. The last day he was alive, it was like a switch flipped. He attacked the nurses and doctors, snarled and tried to bite my dad, and thought my mom was his dead wife.

Lisa T
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum passed 13 years ago today, she had dementia a few years before that. You basically lose the person you love twice.

Riley Quinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I grieved over the loss of a close friend with dementia long before she eventually died.

Christos Arvanitis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother has Alzheimer's and it's pretty tough to watch. She still knows who we are but has lost all autonomy, can't walk, etc. She will ask the same question 5 or 6 times in the span of a couple of minutes. She's "done" but it is a long goodbye. Brutal. Fortunately she has long term care insurance and much of her obscenely expensive facility is paid for. Otherwise it is a muli-millionaire's disease which is a shameful commentary...

Must Be Bored Again
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately it usually falls on the family to be caregivers. If the person has money or assets, the government will make them sell everything until they are broke, then the state will pay. There is a certain kind of trust an estate attorney can set up so your beneficiaries will be able to take possession of your assets. I'm sorry I don't know name of it and it would probably vary from state to state and county to county.

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Nadine Khazaka
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When my grandma died she'd already lost her ability to speak, the last word she clearly used was Mama, because she forgot she was an adult and thought her parents had left her with strangers. That must've been so terrifying.

Lavendar rose
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma, who is one of my most favorite, adored , special person is going through this and it is incredibly hard and painful. I love you grandma Faye.

Zoe DiAnni
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandpa had it, diagnosed when he was in his 40s, it was awful to watch him forget everything. We used to hide his shoes so he won take off in the morning!

JinxBox
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandpa had alzheimers', but he stayed happy just by being a trusting and loving guy. He'd hold my hand so warmly, would not recognize details like my name but always said he knows "we are his people and that's what matters". Forget names and memories past and connect in the moment, that's enough. Also he never till the end forgot that he really loved my grandmother, he would only forget that they did not just fall in love just last week. He lived his best memories over and over and only forgot the things that were less important. A good way to go.

Nugget
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is awful and usually much harder on the family. As someone who works everyday with people at different stages, there are still joyful moments too. The brain may lose a lot but it doesn't seem to fully lose its capacity to love,even if it's not the same as it was.

David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Been there / done that. Some years ago my grandmother. RIP Currently my very best friend of many years. Still high functioning but she and I both see her starting to have more trouble remembering things and such. She has Alzheimer's

Beachbum
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have already told my kids that if I don't know who you are, please find a way to kill me, I could not handle not knowing who my beautiful kids were, and I don't want to put them thru that.

Stormcrowe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My cousin is suffering from Alcohol Induced Dementia. It's hard knowing she drank herself into this and that we did nothing to help her. Nothing that worked at any rate.

Must Be Bored Again
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is one on Panda's top number of truly personal replies. Shows how many people this decline in someone's health affects people.

Phyllis Turbin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dementia isn't just forgetting people and events. It's your body forgetting how to swallow or breathe. You can't eat or drink sometimes because of this.

D Peterson
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can't make up my mind whether it is worse to have dementia & know it or ALS. Both scare the H out of me!

Jorie
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've posted this before, but it needs to be here, too. My mom had breast cancer which had spread to her brain. Dementia started setting in, and she was aware of it. She said to me one day that the hardest part of it was to know that she was losing her mind. Saddest words ever.

Thatbadbassplayer
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma just passed last month to it. 96. Suffered for over 10 years. Super sad to see what it does to a person in the end stages.

Valdemar
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Three grandparents had it, dad just died from it, and I have early onset.

Must Be Bored Again
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so sorry for all you have gone through and will go through. Please make sure you make all you arrangements for financial items such as estate trusts, care plans, funeral arrangements. As hard as it is, it is easier to do it while you still are able with an attorney or family member than to have family have to figure it out as you go along.

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Unaffected
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mum has dementia and I know it sounds cruel but I hope she doesn't live that long to forget us.She lives with me, was meant to be in a a nursing home already but I can't do it.It is blo*dy hard though!

Sue from England
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Met husband in 2009 being matched on 3 online dating sites! I was 46, he 49 and it was like we'd finally found each other after looking for years. I suffer from 3 chronic health issues & now have heart problems.My husband has been amazing & knowing I was sick didn't stop him proposing. 2019 he had a stroke & got diagnosed with vascular dementia.Devastated is an understatement. Sat and held each other & cried for ages, then talked but decided to just continue to live our lives as normal as we can. I get bad days so he looks after me, & he gets bad days so I look after him.He's not too bad yet, just his memory & gotten lost a couple of times but has more 'good' than bad times.It's still tough.We were fortunate the diagnoses meant he had to go on disability, because of the prognosis, but we get to spend every da together, see grandchildren more. Now my mum in England has it, I can't travel but we see her on videochat. Dementia is horrible and doesn't discriminate.Be kind to each other.

Must Be Bored Again
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Get your husband some type of locator watch or pendant. iPhone has location devices, most Fitbit do also, and there are lots of brands of senior items than you can locate him with. Check ratings and costs prior to purchase, some have infinity charges per month but find one you are most comfortable using and that he won't take off.

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Denise Aitchison
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My maternal grandmother had it and finally passed at 92. She had had a stroke and survived but at the time of her death had not recognized anyone for years. My mother, one of her daughters, had it as well. We had just begun to string together the threads of her behavior and realize what was going on. Mercifully, she died of a cardiac event in the hospital at 72 and didn't have

April Hodakowski
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Watching the progression daily with my Dad. On the bad days I'm "the girl who visits." On the good days he remembers my name. We've started having more bad days than good. :(

Leigh Jones
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Best thing is to be kind. A person with dementia won't remember what you've said or who you are. They will remember how you made them feel. Emotion lasts the longest in even the most impaired brain.

Donald Crocker, Jr.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sort of parallel there needs to be more support for considering seizures a disability, I knew someone that had them but couldn't get federal support because technically they could work for stretches who had to live a nomadic existence as episodes caused accidents or memory loss and she'd burn through the jobs and support in an area then had to move on. A sad, difficult, and sometimes homeless existence. Not a personal plea, I don't have contact with them anymore, but mentioning the problems seizure victims face to congresspeople would be helpful.

B Lorax
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandfather had it before he died in 2015, my dad currently has it, my wife's dad had it before he passed two years ago, my step-grandmother has it and my uncle is developing serious symptoms his family is denying. It's so draining dealing with a loved one who has it. If they had terminal cancer it would be easier to deal with because at least they'd still be who they are, not just an intermittent reflection of their former self. It sucks.

Carman Davis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom has LBD. Louie Bodies Dementia. I hate it. It's gotten to the point where she will ask me a hundred times: your my daughter right? It's awful

ROSESARERED
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Double f**k dementia, my dad had it, wouldn't wish it on anyone

Ashley Conover
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Both of my parents had Alzheimer's. I live with some of a friend's family. The grandmother has it. It's terrible.

Shiroppi
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma got dementia after a severe stroke. I can confirm that it 1000% sucked.

R. H.
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been through this several times through Wife's being a home caregiver. It seems every family actively disbelieves there is a problem. Too many people think the patient will get better.

Poppy
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother currently has Alzheimer's. Watching her disappear slowly is horrific but even worse is seeing her realise she's made a mistake because of her Alzheimer's. She knows that she's forgetting important things and it is just soul destroying seeing her break her heart every time she realises she's done something wrong.

Julie Cipale
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My maternal grandmother developed Alzheimer's. My 3 cousins, who she practically raised, checked on her one day. She was sitting on the floor and when they tried to help her up, she started screaming and said that she didn't know them, told them to get out of her house & told 9-1-1 that they were robbing her. My mom & stepfather went to Iowa to help see to her affairs (Mom was the oldest). Grandma didn't recognize my sis, who had gone with them, didn't recognize my stepdad or uncle & thought my 30-year-old brother was supposed to be only 2. She died 2 days after my parents got home. Mom refused to ever fly anywhere, so they loaded up the car again to drive from WA to Iowa again.

Florence O'Grady
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am so very, very, very, glad I have never drank alcoholic beverages in my entire life. I saw the results of drinking in my father and uncle as a child. Now I have proof that over indulgence can harm in ways I never thought of.

Ivana Bašić
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fun fact - not restricted to human family, also affects pets. In addition to human family members, my old dog had it, too. Now my other dog is showing signs and I'm already dreading that I know where that leads.

Natasha
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yea. My maternal granddad and paternal grandmother, so I’m kinda worried I’ll get up with it too, since it runs in the family

thepinkrobot
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandmother had dementia and I was one of her primary caregivers until she got to the point where we didn't trust that we could keep an eye on her all the time. She would constantly try to run away and she'd pack her clothes and unpack and be up at all hours of the night. She forgot who we were and thought we were her sisters or nurses. She would yell at my grandpa and call him a stranger and ask us to call the police on him bc there was a "strange man" outside. She would beat on him. It was devastatingly heartbreaking.

Ann Dennis
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, dementia is the pits. My father died of Alzheimer's, and it was like I lost him twice.

Palo Sulek
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here I feel the urge to mention the song from Amy McDonald, Left that body long ago... and grabbing my headphones

Cuppa tea?
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad has dementia, he's in care house since beginning of the year. We got call about available place just before Christmas. Whole 2 weeks sucked big time, I didn't want to do anything, but for the sake of my mum I tried. Also his older sisters - one has dementia, another had Parkinson's.

Michael Largey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The most painful part of dementia can be realizing you have dementia.

TrippyBanana
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So far it hasn't reared its head in my family but I'm sure it's in our genes.

Kimberly Buchanan Fisanick
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never looked at it like that. It's even more heartbreaking than a person realizes

RoanTheMad
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandfather ended up with it. His memory was so bad he'd forget something he'd literally just done... but yet, you could ask him about anything to do with trains and he'd be able to tell you. x3

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Old memories are the last to go usually. It is kind of like they were written in cement but the newest memories were written on a write-on board. One wipe and they are gone. Can be old job, places they lived, family members, etc.

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talliloo
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i call it "the long goodbye" because the person you knew and loved leaves before the physcial body leaves. my mom had this and i wish i would have known then what i know now. she apparently was aware that things were happening to her but she hid some of the symptoms. when she finally was diagnosed because it was too obvious to be hidden my dad and i felt very bad because we didn't catch it sooner. and, sadly, hers came with paranoia so it was hard to convince her that we were keeping her safe and treating her the best we could.

Benita Valdez
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Already got that out of the way and it was horrible. The speed at which my mom deteriorated was insane. January 2020 we took her car away when she got lost as we realized it was starting. January 2021 we said goodbye in the hospice; her body just shutdown as if she gave up and she got covid in the hospital so that sped it up. 1 month in hospital and then 3 days in hospice before she was gone. Before the hospital she was like a scared child who kept saying she wanted to go home when she was already home. Then one day it was like she turned into a vegetable overnight and had to be hospitalized. Saddest was during the time she was hospitalized we couldn't even see her because of covid; had to wai until it was time to say goodbye to visit.

Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Already happened. My Great Grandmother. I can't help but dread the day it happens to my other family and myself.

What??
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

my grandad is showing signs of dementia, and it is heartbreaking when he's upset because he's forgotten his grandchildren's names.

Dnd Panda
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My great grandma Lavon… she couldn’t even recognize my mom.

The Veil of Fire
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dementia and cancer almost everyone has a story about either one. For cancer you become their support for dementia you become their memory. Either way you find ways of letting them know you aren't going away and its ok. My dad had Alzheimer's and we fought. We always fought since I was a toddler. Yet, at the end of our fights I wouldn't leave until I said, " it didn't work with me as a toddler it will not work now. You can't get rid of me that easily." Then as I walked away I would toss out a snarky "I love you daddykins". I don't care how much of their mind they lose touch with. You have to remember they are still there, it still the person you love. They just can't find their way out.

Lesbiancats
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My great grandma had dementia. Luckily I was young enough I didn't really realise what was happening

Ingrid Smith
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friends and I are all in our 50s. We joke about which one of us will get dementia first since we all work in the health care industry, and have been friends since our 20s. It will eventually happen though, and it will suck badly.

AliJanx
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Medicine is so focused on the body, it's left the mind behind. Cruel.

Gøøse
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If yall ever want to get real sad, listen to Everywhere At The End Of Time. It was made with the intention of conveying what dementia feels like.

Rachel Burger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've been living with dementia victims for years. Sad and scary. Heartbreaking. But the scariest is the full on , straight up, know what they are doing jerks that are the worst.

Mary Hiers
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Agreed. My dad is 84 and started developing dementia a couple of years ago. It is frustrating and heartbreaking, but I love him as much as ever. Some days he still knows who I am, but then asks me if I have school next week (I'm 57.) I'd rather put a bullet through my head than go through what he is going through. A man who beat cancer twice, now winding down his life like this. It is horrible.

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similarly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have two relatives with dementia. You just have to be patient. You hear a lot of repeats. You get a lot of surprised looks. They can be argumentative. It goes with the dementia. Just be patient and roll with it.

Aria the Dog Lover
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, I hope this doesn't happen to my parents. They have treated me amazingly, even when I'm being rude or unreasonable. I am about to cry just thinking about it. It's so sad and scary, of course if it happens I'll take care of them and their dogs. I'll do what's best for them and I'll do it as best as I can. They do so much for me, this would be the least I can do.

Best Behave
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Dementia is anything but inevitable. Pollution is a big indicator for dementia rates. Environmental issues are not just environmental issues folks

Uncanny
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Until my dad developed dementia, I had a different view of getting old. I kind of thought I’d retire one day, and even if my ageing body began to give out, I could still do the things I enjoy…particularly reading. My dad was a big reader. He can’t do that anymore, because he can’t remember the paragraph he just read, the characters, the story..nothing. He no longer makes new memories. He can’t follow movies. He sleeps a great deal. I think he gets up, has breakfast and then lays down on the couch and goes to sleep, hoping when he awakens he’ll not be so confused. His mind will be clear. But it never is. It’s insidious and horrendous.

TheElderNom
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mother worked in nursing home with a quite large ward for patients with dementia or alzheimers. It was a very though job, many were confused or scared and wanted to leave, some were violent. The worst part for her was that she knew many of her patients from when they were younger, like her old teacher who was the sweetest man but alzheimers made him mean, rude and violent. There was also a relative who when he got a visit from his wife and his daughter asked the the daughter why she had to bring that old crone with her. He had regressed and thought his daughter was his wife and that his wife was his mother in law.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father, passed of dementia and alzeimer (sorry English isn't my first language) he was 30yrs more than my mother. So when he died he didn't know who we were. But time passes, all is part of human nature and experience.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My grandma declined very fast. Would not say “slowly taken away”. She went from her ususal nasty, bitter, malicious self to not recognizing anyone but suddenly being sweetest grandma ever, just smiling all the time and talking nonstop about her garden (she did not have a garden). It took less than a year. She’s been lifelong alcoholic which could have speed things up.

Aroace tiger (she/they/he)
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm so scared of this tbh. My dad has worked for people with dementia and it sounds scary

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled A good portion of spiders shed their exoskeletons occasionally so when you happen to come across a "dead" spider, there's a good chance that it's just an empty husk and there is another, slightly bigger spider nearby.

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We were also curious what sorts of scary things freak Steffany out the most. "The darkness!" she shared. "Your imagination runs wild when the lights go out, and the darkness creeps in. We hallucinate in pure darkness because our brains are biologically wired to fear darkness, amongst other things our brain just does for survival, which I guess brings me to exorcist movies and topics. I think it hits close to home not being able to have control of one's own body."

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And as far as unsettling facts you pandas are likely to never forget, Steffany has informed us that glitter can cut your eyes. "And we have so much glitter in makeup, so I'm always weary even if it is safe," she added.

#5

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled With enough stressors you can trigger a psychotic episode and never be mentally healthy again.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ummm. I'm here to add a voice of hope too. There can and is health after mental health breaks and psychotic breaks. And hopelessness (often a symptom/factor chicken/egg mess) that prevents people from ever returning a state of balance is not to be denied by any stretch. But this statement is too black and white and leaves no room for growth or rehabilitation. If we believe that some bodies can be healed from devastating injuries and equilibrium achieved, why not the mind. With enough of the right supports and treatments? Sadly, mostly inaccessible since (at least for most western culture) we treat health (physical and mental) reactionary instead of preventative. And money drives everything. But as someone who's been suicidal, there can be true mental health after if you live long enough to get there.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Most laugh tracks were recorded in the 1950's. You are hearing dead people laugh.

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Steffany also says it's "very healthy to be able to experience some form of safe scares within a form of horror entertainment because it can release us from our everyday reality of tragedy, fears, and anxieties better yet help us cope."

"I think there's something about watching scary things or listening to ghost stories and coming out of it much braver and reassessing 'what would you do'? Or 'how would you reassess it'? Fear is survival, and that means coming out more courageous and letting go of unnecessary fears," the host added.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Human a******s can stretch out to 7 inches without tearing and a raccoon can fit in a hole as tight as 4 inches.
You’re welcome

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You have walked past someone who was spending their last day alive.

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"There's always something about horror and ghost stories that bring us together through culture and I'm so excited to see what this generation brings as I continue to see more diversity and different voices that bring in new perspectives," Steffany says. "Including myself, being able to be part of something where we can share each other's cultures and bond over our fears is beautiful underneath the facade of just horror."

If you'd like to hear more from Steffany about all things horrific and spooky, be sure to check out the Something Scary Podcast. You can listen to the show right here and find their YouTube channel where they release weekly animated videos, alongside the podcast, right here!

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#9

Some of your friends might just pretend to like you because you are useful to them and you don't realize it because they're just great at hiding it!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this has happened to me way too many times. i suck at making friends. the friends I have now are nice though :)

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Lake Superior has dead bodies from the 1920s.

With freezing temperatures and a lack of oxygen, bodies don't decompose at the rate they would under normal conditions. Sure, they don't look as "fresh" as the day they died (in fact they're covered in bodily fat from saponification), but they can be recognized as human remains.

In fact, there's been this ongoing debate because of the ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald that sank in the 70s, because scuba divers wanted to explore it but the families of the deceased were upset because this is basically a mass grave.

There's a YouTube channel called Ask a Mortician that just did an episode on this, and I really recommend it. She goes a lot more in-depth about the facts, and even went out there to talk with a surviving Fitzgerald relative.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The lake it is said never gives up her dead, when the skies of November turn gloomy...

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled An aneurysm can happen at any time to anyone for any reason

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband had one when he was 32. He fell asleep watching TV and I woke him up to say it was bedtime. He said he had a headache and that he'd rest there for a while. I didn't think anything of it and went to bed. Our kids found him when they got up early to watch TV before school and they woke me up saying daddy was sleeping on the floor. People rarely survive aneurysms and they usually do so by getting immediate medical care. It's a miracle that he survived and is with us today.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Youve probably walked past a murderer

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Katie Lutesinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Walked past? The guy was our waiter at the local Italian restaurant and went to school with my sister. She hated him, which felt very justified indeed some years later when he abducted and killed a local man and dumped his body in a national park.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Sleep helps your immune system fight off those cancer cells, just think of that when you're up at 4AM.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah i see you all.. GO TO SLEEP!!! STAY HEALTHY!!! (i know its hard but u can do this!)

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Not exactly useless, but there have been quite a few men who have died at the Grand Canyon because they thought it would be cool to take p**s over a ledge, only to lose their balance.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Your body produces a cancerous cell about once every thirty minutes.

Your immune system is usually very, very efficient at finding and immediately neutralizing them.

But it's very possible that thirty minutes from now will be the time your immune system slips up and allows it to reproduce.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You may already be dying, many fatal diseases have no symptoms until it's too late. You're welcome.

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#17

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled By you winning the lottery you increase your chances of being murdered by a family member or any other person close to you.

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#18

you know nobody fully. you only see the sides they choose to show you. the only person you really, truly know is you, and even then, there's your subconscious.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes I can confirm this, as I do this. I'm not even the same on different social medias- Here I'm a bat, somewhere else I might be a tree or a loaf of meat. My parents Don't know i'm a furry and my Friends Don't know that I actually hate one of them. Nobody knows me whole, maybe I don't even know myself.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled How much do you know about your great grandparents?

Because in 50-100 years, that will be how much the world knows about you.

Edit: for those of you stating that information storage and accessibility will allow everyone to easily look back into the past, I challenge you to run a game designed for Windows 95.

Point being, information storage is not a ubiquitous system and as the architecture of software and hardware changes there is certainly a possibility that some systems will require specialised tools and equipment to acess.

Furthermore, social media is the highlight reel of history, not the story. Very few people show their true selves in their twitter or Facebook feed.

Also a number

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My great-grandfather died in 2017:( Though I was only 7, I remember he told stories about how he fought in WWII and how he shared the chocolates he got for christmas with my sister and I :)

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Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong.

Ever since then I get super paranoid whenever a fly goes anywhere near my face because of the scary fact that something like this could possibly happen to me.

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Pablo Aikin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Doctor here: fly larvae can only feed on necrotic (dead) tissue. Therefore, these parasites only arise in already injured structures (previously infected by bacteria). If a fly oviposits on healthy tissue, said larvae will starve to death.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled [Komodo Dragons](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ) poison their victims and then follow them for hours on end. Then once the victim is throughly exhausted and poisoned, it tears it to shreds and eats it alive.

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Brittania Kelli
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They aren't actually poisonous, it's their saliva has deadly bacteria and the dragons can then follow the scent of your flesh being destroyed by that bacteria. It's in order to not waste energy chasing prey.

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There are some parts of the Universe that we’ll never, ever be able to see. No matter what we do. They’ll always remain just out of reach

Edit:I never had this much upvotes, Thanks to everyone

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of the universe is out of our reach. We can only go till the Local Group (the group of galaxies which our galaxy is also part of). It’s impossible to go past the local group into the next group because of how the universe is expanding. There will come a time when the light from other groups beyond ours will be shifted to such long wavelengths that it would be impossible to detect them. Our galaxy will be lonely and any future species won’t be able to figure out how the universe started or how it will end. Our galaxy will slowly grow darker and darker as the last of its stars slowly start dying and fading away

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#23

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled According to some research a human head may remain conscious for up to 30 seconds after decapitation. Most notably, a man named Dr. Beaurieux did a series of experiments in the early 1900’s where he yelled at recently decapitated criminal’s heads and saw a response.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The response was probably pain from having their head cut off and smash onto the floor

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The sun could have exploded 8 minutes ago and we wouldn't know about it.

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#25

The bubonic plague is still alive and well and thrives in such places as Africa and the western United states.

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#26

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Kiwis and pineapples eat your mouth...

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#27

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled If you begin to display [severe] symptoms of rabies you will go crazy and die. There's no cure.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There has only ever been one person to survive the rabies virus without having received immediate medical attention and the vaccine. She was bitten by a bat when she was 15 and doctors put her into a medically induced coma to allow her immune system to fight it off. She does a lot of stuff now to educate people. https://www.wbay.com/2022/09/28/rabies-survivor-shares-story-educate-others/

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When people are crucified, they rarely die from bleeding out; instead, they die from asphyxiation, or suffocation. The way their bodies are hung makes it almost impossible to breathe unless they physically hold themselves up instead of just hanging there, and after some many hours it gets to be to much, resulting in oxygen deprivation, unconsciousness, and death.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no particular reason to bleed out. In the Bible, Jesus was nailed to the cross. But my understanding is the normal practice was to tie people to the cross. So you were stuck there, but not bleeding.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled If you’re murdered theres a very high chance you knew your killer.

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Katie Lutesinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got a pretty big shock when I watched a True Crime story and it turned out the victim's boyfriend who was acting super suspicious WASN'T the killer. She was killed by a total stranger and the boyfriend was acting shifty because he was involved in a major drug deal and therefore didn't want cops looking at the contents of his phone.

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The possibility of conscious anaesthesia paralysis

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Adira Bennett
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This happened to me when I was intubated 3 years ago. It is indeed as utterly horrific as it sounds.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Alright I collected some of my favourite scary facts from an app I really like called Thunder Dungeon.
They have all types of memes and facts and stuff so it was all written in pictures I had to manually write them down.

1. There's an episode of sesame street that had to be pulled off the air in 76' cause it was so scary, parents complained their children are screaming in horror at the TV.

2. There's a disease nicknamed Ondine's Curse, which causes suffers to die if they fall asleep.

3. On August 26th 1968, every TV in America shut down for 25 seconds, there was a murmuring sound coming from the TV and people reported hearing a demon.

4. In 1994 a man was arrested for dressing as the grim reaper and standing outside old people's homes.

5. It only takes about 7 pounds of pressure to rip off an ear.

6. There is an island in Italy that is supposedly so haunted that the government forbids the public from visiting it.

7. There's a syndrome called Charles Bonnet Syndrome that have been called "a window into a parallel universe". People who has it are prone to seeing bright lights, weird shapes and scary faces. The thing about this syndrome is that all those who suffer from it are almost exclusively blind or vision impaired.

8. When a bear attacks you, he will most likely start eating you alive rather than killing you first.

9. At any possible moment, Earth could be hit be a Gamma Ray Burst which will extinguish most if not all life on the planet.

10. A woman in St.Louis was watching a TV documentary about a serial killer who tortured and killed women, when she realized she was living in his former apartment.

11. There's a Caterpillar so poisonous, just brushing your finger on to it can cause internal bleeding in your brain.

12. In 1942, a man known as the phantom barber would break into people's house while they were sleeping to steal a lock from their hair. He was never identified.

13. There's a fish called a Stone Fish, it's so venomous that if you step on it you could die in 20 minutes.

14. According to a recent study, 1 in 5 CEOs demonstrated psychopathic traits. Another population with similar proportions of psychopaths is the prison population.

15. There was a guy from New York who owned a car with the license plate 5V 1732. He died on May 17, 1932.

That's all folks!

Edit: fact number three, the time of the shut down was 25 seconds, not minutes.

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#32

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You never stop watching with your eyes, even when you close them.
Another one: This topic will be dead in few days O.O

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can see someone's eyes move behind their eyelids. Watch someone sleep when they're going through REM sleep. (Rapid Eye Movement)

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled There’s such a thing as “hair splinters.” Hairdressers deal with it all the time after cutting particularly coarse hair, the small pieces can stick in you like a splinter and pose risk of mega infections if you’re unable to get them out.

I’ve seen a stylist friend of mine lose a whole finger due to one tiny sliver of hair.

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#34

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Bed bugs can survive for up to a year without feeding under the correct temperatures. As adults the females can lay 300 eggs in their lifetimes. You could be spending thousands of dollars and eventually just get infested again. And bed bugs are making a comeback after almost being eradicated.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In addition whenever they become ‘stressed’ by spraying they go dormant. Bedbug eggs are also sticky, so are notorious hitchhikers. Places like behind baseboards, electrical outlets, electronics, inside furniture, crevices in the floors, the places that they can fit into and multiply at an astonishing rate are endless. They are becoming immune to insecticides. A combination of pyrethroids, diatomaceous earth, bagging every and storing outside after laundering, keeping bed legs in containers with baby oil, vacuuming 2/3 hours per day for months might, might with diligence eradicate them. Frying anything that can be fried in the dryer. Beware of scavenging, seal second hand clothes tightly in plastic bags until you can dry them in high heat for 30/35 minutes. Secondhand purchases need to be sealed with clear varnish, steam cleaned or put I to the dryer to kill the eggs, nymphs and adults is critical.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled You can have a heart attack and die at any second because of a heart problem you never knew about. There's one called Brugada syndrome which has no physical evidence and most people aren't diagnosed with it until they drop down dead and testing is done on immediate family members (it's genetic) and one of THEM is diagnosed with it. Happened to my father. We found out because I'm the one tested who has it, my uncle and brother got the all clear, chances are my grandad has it too (4 heart attacks since he was in his mid 40s)

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Cupcake Kitten
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Your grandad has survived 4 heart attacks after his mid 40s? I feel like he's both unlucky (for having so many) and extremely lucky (for surviving)

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There are several species of mushroom that implant their spores into insects, creating a kind of zombie that will lose their mind, wander off, die and their corpse will be used as fuel for the next generation of mushroom.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled When someone dies, the last thing the dying person senses is the sense of hearing, then touch, smell, and taste.

The first sense that is usually gone is sight.

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#38

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Your body can kill itself just to get rid of a foreign organism.

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#39

You have almost a 90% chance of breaking a rib by giving effective CPR

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And that is completely fine. Effective CPR requires very forceful compressions, much more forceful than what you generally see on TV. The compressions also need to be a lot faster. The advice from the NHS (National Health Service in the UK): Place the heel of your hand on the centre of the person's chest, then place the palm of your other hand on top and press down by 5 to 6cm (2 to 2.5 inches) at a steady rate of 100 to 120 compressions a minute. After every 30 chest compressions, give 2 rescue breaths. Remember, it is better to be alive with some broken ribs than to be dead with perfect ribs.

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Pooping can kill you because of a major nerve that is involved in the heart

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#41

There have been 32 reported "broken arrow" incidents in the USA since 1950 (many more in former Soviet countries and other nuclear powers). A broken arrow incident is basically an accident where they lost a nuclear weapon.

Edit: Apparently losing a weapon is called an "empty quiver" incident

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thrasher was lost when I was a little girl. We were at a Navy base and the lady we visited husband was on it when it disappeared. I was around 6 but remember that evening of comforting her. We thought it got stuck on and underwater ledge and couldn't get free causing all the men to starve to death. A few years ago it was learned it imploded for going too deep. They died instantly. It was a nuclear submarine I believe.

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#42

every year you pass your death day but you don’t know when it is

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled There is a theory in quantum cosmology. It is the hypothesis that our universe is actually a 'false vacuum', meaning that it isn't in its most stable possible configuration. Think of a ball rolling on a surface having several local minima (dents in the surface) but there is only one global minima (the dent which is the deepest). The ball may be in one of the dents which is not the deepest one. So, it is stable for now, but, given the chance it will slide to the deepest dent, which is the lowest energy configuration possible, the so-called 'true vacuum'.

Now the interesting part. If our universe is, indeed, in a false vacuum, due to something called 'quantum tunneling', it may 'tunnel' into the true vacuum, creating a bubble of lower energy. Once this lower energy bubble is formed, it expands, engulfing the entire universe, destroying everything we know as is, and creating new laws of physics. The speed of expanding is the speed of light, so we would have no information whatsoever about it before it hits us. We will literally never see it coming.

The really scary and really useless part? There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

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Heshjay
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just feels like a hypothesis rather than an actual fact/stat? If the premise that our universe is in a false vacuum is just a hypothesis and not a fact, everything else is just a conjecture.

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#45

For me, it's the fact that you can go crazy at any point, and even worse, you could have already lost it and you'd have a great chance of never finding out, making it virtually impossible to stop the trip downwards.

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Icecream Sarang
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This. So much this. I sometimes wonder if my husband and kids are real. Or if I’ve lost my mind and made it all up.

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#46

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled the paris climate accord relies on technologies that do not yet exist, and might never exist, to pull carbon dioxide from the air by future generations. if we reach the paris climate accord goals, including using technologies that do not exist yet, there is at least an 50% chance of staying under the predicted catastrophic temperature rise. Literally coinflipping humanity.


why is this a useless scary fact? because there literally is jack s**t you can do about it in our current societies, beyond voting.

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#47

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled I dunno how useless this is but; You are never 100% safe.

Think about it, no matter what scenario you put yourself in, there will always be some sort of counter measure. Let's say you built a concrete room that is 10 inches wide with no doors and windows underground, an earthquake could happen, a sinkhole could open up, a ravine could open up, etc.

No matter how safe a situation sounds, it can NEVER be 100% safe.

Edit: However, it is good at making people paranoid tho.

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Mickysixxx
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This sounds like some teenage logic trying to scare someone. They have been doing probability in maths and learnt nothing is 100% certain

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#48

You can have a heart muscle disease and never know it, and possibly die.

True story, my dad had a cardiac arrest last November (he's 49yo) because apparently he has a heart muscle disease. Never showed any signs, works out regularly, relatively young - and he almost died out of nothing.

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#49

Goblin sharks.

That's it.

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AJay
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"The goblin shark is a rare species of deep-sea shark. Sometimes called a "living fossil", it is the only extant representative of the family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old." - Wikipedia. I couldn't work out how to put a picture in but have a google, they look very cool/terrifying.

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#50

In a couple of billion years the sun will expand rapidly and consume the earth. There is nothing we can do to stop this

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Ali H M Salehuddin
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Biillion years into the future, humanity (or more correctly, species that replace us) may have the technological capability to move earth into a safer orbit.

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#51

Dogs love squeaky toys because the sound mimics small animal's cries of agony after being bitten.

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Tushar Roy Mukherjee
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If it's true, then you must know that it's instinctual for them to enjoy that sound.

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#52

People used to rip out the teeth of dead soldiers on battlefields to sell for dentures.

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#53

A church in the czech republic knows as the sedlec ossuary or church of bones has decoration of skulls and other human bones. It is know for this church to hold remains of up to 40,000 humans.

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#54

There is a planet in the solar system populated entirely by robots.

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#55

Just because you’re dead, doesn’t mean you immediately stop perceiving stimulations around you. It takes a bit for your brain to die of oxygen deprivation and shut down. So there’s a good chance that when you die that you’re trapped in your body realizing you’re dead with no way to stop it.

This fact has been semi-confirmed by people who experience temporary death in hospitals, and recall nurses and doctors rushing around them trying to revive them.

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Sonja
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So those people are not dead, they're dying. Dead people don't feel anything. But it's a fact that things that will definitely kill you will take some time to do so, during wich you can still sense what's happening around you. Sad and horrifying fact: you can't donate organs when you're truly biologically dead. As soon as a body is fully dead, all the organs immediately start to break down and cannot be transplanted anymore. That's why the legal definition of 'clinically death' actually means you are dying but not yet fully dead, but it's extremely unlikely to impossible to save your life. And now comes the really scary part: the test they do to find out if you are truly brain dead could kill you if you're not. That's why the doctor's diagnosis must be made beforehand to say that you're brain dead, if the doctor isn't sure, the test cannot be made.

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#56

When the Spartacus Revolt was put down, the legions placed 6,000 crucified slaves alongside the Appian Way, the main road leading to Rome.

Imagine walking for miles into Washington, DC, with the screams of men accompanying you every step of the way, hundreds upon hundreds of people being nailed to wood and left to rot.

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#57

“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Cannibalism isn’t illegal in the UK.

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David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does it matter? I mean the real problem is the method(s) of obtaining the meat and they do have laws about that.

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#58

There are some times some creep could watch you sleep or shower and you may not know

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Icecream Sarang
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah…there was a guy in the DFW area breaking into apartments in the night and watching women sleep. One night I had a nightmare that someone was in my apartment. When I woke up, my keys were in the wrong place and the front door was unlocked.

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“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled Your kitchen sink has more bacteria per square inch than your toilet seat.

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Carol Quinn
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the bacterial specie that's important and trust me they are not the same as what is on the toilet lol

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#60

Scientists don’t know what matter is like inside neutron stars, but some theorize it’s a kind of “strange matter” that, if it exists, may turn everything it touches into strange matter. If two neutron stars collide (which does happen) microscopic strange matter particles could fly through space until they eventually reach Earth, at which point the planet and everything on it would turn into strange matter and be destroyed.

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#61

There's a skeleton inside of you right now, and it's wet!

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#62

Whenever you walk near a mountain, there is a small chance that a falling boulder instantly crushes you to death.

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Katie Lutesinger
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Happened to a guy my dad knows. He was lucky though - it only crushed his leg. When doctors told him he wouldn't be able to go hiking any more, he made the best of it by buying a really nice bike and taking up cycling instead. The man is a complete badass.

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#63

The stronger the gravitational field, the longer time is. This said, blackholes have the strongest gravitational pull in existence and as it pulls you apart atom-by-atom time will slow down the closer you get. Because of this, near the center your pain will be limitless and time will practically stop around you as you feel this pain. Just FYI.

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Stardust she/her
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Time will pass normally for you. An observer from outside would see you freeze in time and slowly redshift before fading away

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#64

The past does not exist.

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#65

The Andromeda galaxy getting closer at 430 000km/h but it will hit the milky way in 4 billon years and anyway, the stars are so distant from each other that just a few of them will be destroyed.

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#66

The probability dying due to accident while riding a bike is more than while flying in a plane

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#67

That one day the planet Mercury will get eaten by the sun. But in the 1% chance it actually flings out of orbit, (it’s useless to us because we won’t be around), it could potentially (mind you it’s a low chance for this to happen) hit Venus or maybe even Earth and send flying particles all over the system. The reason why it would get thrown out is because Jupiter is actually tugging on it and making its orbit more elliptical and may eventually get thrown out entirely.

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#68

Every website that you had visited is recorded in someone's computer.

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Steve Robert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That's why I go to all the porn sites. They may know I'm a pervert, but they'll never know what kind!

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#69

You can jump without a parachute only once.

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Ursa Major
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can jump thousands of times, safely. Airplanes were never mentioned in the statement.

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#70

You are slowly dying upon reading this comment.

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#71

Just the ocean. I love seafood but DAMN wtf is with the s**t in there?!?! And also whatever sickness happens when you rise to the surface too fast or when equipment fails when you're really far down AaAAAAAAAAAA

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#72

The amount of force used to bite a baby carrot in half is as much force as you need to bite your finger in half.

Edit: (Or at least partially sever it, for those of you getting super worked up about this, jeez)

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#73

Bacteria will eat you after you die. Alternative you will be lit on fire.

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#74

A standard uranium fission reactor loses a significant portion of its energy of fission as neutrino (not to be confused with neutron) radiation that is not stopped by shielding. In fact the entire Earth is unlikely to stop a neutrino.

But that's nothing. You are being bombarded with even more neutrino radiation from the sun, day AND night. Night too because, again, the entire thickness of the Earth does not effectively stop neutrinos.

However, the thing is, neutrinos are insubstantial "ghost" particles. They pass through anything without having any effect whatsoever except in VERY rare cases. They are phenomenally difficult to detect, because they almost never interact with a detector, even the best designs we can think of.

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Stardust she/her
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Neutrinos are tiny little particles that don’t interact with our particles because they aren’t affected by the forces that our particles are affected by. It’s like speaking a different language and not understanding someone who speaks a different one. The neutrino doesn’t speak the language our particles speak so it doesn’t interact with it

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#75

Every breath you've ever taken has particles of blood in it albeit incredibly small and they won't effect you in anyway but still there

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#76

[Bigfin squids](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDW4IYVlbbw)

also 95% of the ocean hasn't been properly explored so who knows what could be down there.

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Rats Inc
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

bigfin squids are completely harmless and have been shown as incredibly docile when approached by human submarines. there’s literally no reason to fear these guys they just chill very deep underwater that’s it. they’re believed to feed on zooplankton or smaller fish.

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#77

Pumpkins = Berries

I’m sorry redditors but it had to come to this..

Edit: for anyone who doesn’t believe me, here is a the link to the Wikipedia page which has a larger list of botanic berries.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany))

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#78

You are more likely to find a dead body under your bed than in your garage

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David
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Semantics but does it still count as "finding" if you put it there? I mean, it's not like I'm expecting it to not stay where I put it.

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#79

There is a guy in the world who died from the most minor injury.

...And somehow, this half-bothered comment is the one that turns out to have thousands of upvotes.

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