13 Creepy Facts Living Rent-Free In Our Heads

1. A Colombian woman carried a mummified fetus in her uterus for 40 years.

2. Having your heart broken can lead to enough stress that it causes an actual heart attack.

3. Studies have shown that, across the world, people’s happiness peaks at around 21 years of age. It doesn’t spike back up until they retire.

4. Polar bears are the only bear species that actively hunt and kill humans for food.

5. The only part of your reflection you can lick is your tongue.

6. There is no physical evidence to say that today is Sunday, we all just have to trust that someone has kept count since the first one ever.

7. In 1939, 835 sheep in the US were killed by a single lightning strike.

8. A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you.

9. “The CPR dummy face template is based on a dead 16-year-old girl’s face. Her body was pulled from the River Seine in the 1880s, and her cause of death and identity were never discovered. A mortician was so ‘entranced’ by her peaceful expression that he made a plaster mask of her, which became the face of CPR dummies and health training equipment.”

10. The liver can be ruptured in one punch. The liver is the second most fragile organ in the human body.

11. Siberian bears sometimes dig up dead bodies for food, and use cemeteries as ‘refrigerators’.

12. Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane.

13. The word ‘mortgage’ comes from a French term that means ‘death pledge’, or a contract that only expires upon death.