16 Strange Facts That Are Slightly Unsettling

1. The human mouth is home to no less than 500 different types of bacteria.

2. The shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby was the first fatal shooting ever caught on live U.S. television.

3. It takes approximately 3 days for the enzymes that once digested your food to start digesting you.

4. On average, people who fall in love with someone new will then go on to lose two friends.

5. For the last 25 years of his life, Walt Disney was an FBI informant.

6. Female dragonflies have been known to fake their own death in order to avoid unwanted sexual advances.

7. Stephen Hawking died on the anniversary of Albert Einstein’s birthday.

8. The fear of Friday the 13th is officially known as “Friggatriskaidekaphobia.”

9. 40% of schizophrenics are left-handed.

10. As it turns out, shaving your pubic region makes you far more likely to spread an STD.

11. Statistically speaking, men who kiss their wives or S/O’s before leaving for work get in less car accidents.

12. According to a recent study, 1 in 10 people in the UK love their pets more than their significant other.

13. The Aztecs believed that childbirth was a form of battle. Women who died giving birth were supposedly sent to the same heaven as warriors who died in battle.

14. On a biochemical level, being in love is very similar to having a severe case of O.C.D.

15. The Californian Grizzly Bear, featured on the flag of California, was hunted to extinction in the early 20th Century.

16. Lurking somewhere in the murky waters of the Nile River is a 20 foot, 2,200 lb crocodile named ‘Gustave’ that has allegedly killed and eaten over 300 people.