30 Cursed Facts To Haunt Your Thoughts

1.

Veterinarians that put down sick pets will say that the owner often chooses not to be in the room, leaving the pet frantically searching for its owner in the last minutes of his life.

2.

America has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of all prisoners in the world.

3.

If you show symptoms of rabies, your chances of dying are nearly 100%.

4.

In Australia, there is a plant called the gympie gympie, otherwise known as the s*icide plant. When touched, it delivers multiple stings with a long-lasting neurotoxin that is so painful that people would rather kill themselves than live through a few days of excruciating pain, and then a further several years of lesser pain, or full reoccurrence in the correct conditions. If the tiny hairs that deliver the stings are not removed, or are buried, the pain will continue for years. The pain, which has been described as feeling like being doused in hot acid and being electrocuted simultaneously, is so bad the people have been driven mad by it. Horses who have been stung by this plant have literally thrown themselves off cliffs. An ex-serviceman names Cyril Bromley is known to have fallen into one of the plants during WWII. Driven mad by it, he had to be strapped to a bed to prevent himself from committing suicide. Another rather unfortunate officer is known to have shot himself in the head after using one of the plant’s leaves as toilet paper. Rather than live with the pain in his rear end, he chose to end his life.

5.

The youngest girl to ever give birth was 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days old.

6.

Insect populations have decreased by 80% since the 1980's.

7.

Rabbits eat their babies if stressed enough.

8.

Goats apparently have the most human-like vaginas of all animals.

9.

Every year, 150 people die from a coconut falling on their head in the US alone. Probably only fun for the coconut.

10.

Whales and Dolphins die by not having enough energy to surface for air, so they slowly sink into the depths of the ocean and suffocate.

11.

There is a disorder that causes your body to replace your muscle tissue with bone over time. For those who are wondering, it's called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). And currently there is no cure for it

12.

Brain activity has been recorded for up to ten minutes after death. What is that person experiencing during those last minutes of life?

13.

There once lived a man known as Tararre who is known as "the hungriest man in history." Despite being average to below-average weight, he lived his whole life with a nearly endless, insanely ravenous hunger. He would eat anything and everything he could find. Since his family couldn't accommodate him, he took to the streets where he'd eat all the raw meat, rotting fruit, live rodents, and other small animals he could find. He used this horrific "skill" to become a street performer where people would give him barrels full of cork, huge baskets of apples, more live animals, and sometimes rocks just to witness him swallow it all with ease. There are other disgusting aspects of tarrare's life that are worth reading about. I think the least fun fact about him is that he was caught several times trying to eat bodies from a hospital morgue, he was also suspected to have consumed a toddler at the same hospital. It's one of the most disgusting yet fascinating stories I've ever read.

14.

If you're attacked by a bear, it won't necessarily try to kill you like other predators would. It just starts eating.

15.

There is a whale that has been searching for a mate for the last 5 year. It has been wholly unsuccessful because its voice is a different frequency than other whales. So much so that whales run from it.

16.

There are more prisons in the United states than there are colleges. And prisons have inmate quotas to meet.

17.

The chances of you waking up tomorrow is less than 100%.

18.

A crocodiles stomach can melt down bones due to its powerful gastric juice.

19.

Japanese used to use prisoners to test how many "bodies" their sword was (they would stack prisoners on top of each other and however many the sword went through was how many bodies the sword was)

20.

Over 300 people are believed to have jumped from the World Trade Center on 9/11. One of the falling bodies killed a fireman at the scene. On top of that, there are still over 1000 victims whose remains have not been found.

21.

There once was a person that had a 300% mortality rate when he did his surgery.

22.

It was legal to mail children in packages via the USPS from 1913 to 1920.

23.

Up until the 1980s, babies weren’t put on painkillers during surgery, it was believed they didn’t feel pain.

24.

25,000 people die of hunger, every day.

25.

There are worms that can live in almost every part of the body. Even your eyes, or brain... And they eat you.

26.

93% of humans are dead, and almost all of them were forgotten within 3 generations.

27.

The Mongolians, to ensure everyone showed up for a war, would issue a proclamation saying that the last person who showed up to training camp would be tortured and murdered in front of everyone.

28.

Cysticercosis is when a tapeworm manages to lodge itself inside your brain causing big cysts to form in your head causing headaches and seizures.

29.

At Harvard University, there is a book bound in human skin.

30.

The world's oldest living creature was a clam named Ming (I forgot exactly how old, I think like 900), and I'm saying "was" because scientists killed it by accident.