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30 Unsettling Facts Here to Haunt You

These might unsettle you just a little bit, but don't worry that's the point.

1.

More than 7000 people die annually due to the doctor's bad handwriting.

2.

41% of Americans go into medical debt every year. No other developed country even has that concept.

3.

When you die, your house cat is going to want to eat you.

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4.

Dogs like squeaky toys because they mimic the screams of their prey.

5.

Pine trees can grow in human lungs. A man once went into surgery to remove what doctors thought was a tumor. It was a pine tree growing in his lungs.

6.

If you have red eyes after swimming, its not from chlorine. It's from the chlorine mixing with other people's urine.

7.

If the sun exploded right now, you wouldn't know about it for another eight minutes.

8.

There are about 40 supervolcanoes around the world capable of claiming up to a billion lives...and we're about 24,000 years overdue for an eruption.

9.

Cruise ships have morgues just incase someone... you know, during the trip.

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10.

In the 1800's dentures were made out of the real teeth of deceased people.

11.

In the United States there are more vacant homes than homeless people.

12.

Eventually there will be more dead people on Facebook than alive.

13.

The Pirates of The Caribbean ride at Disneyland used to have real skeletons as props.

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14.

44% of the information shared on worldwide news is inaccurate.

15.

An average person walks past 36 murderers in their lifetime.

16.

By the time you reach the age of 18, on average you have 3300 weekends left in your life.

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17.

A human head remains conscious for 20 seconds after being decapitated.

18.

There are thousands of old diseases frozen in the glaciers of the world. Global warming will eventually release them all.

19.

When you die, your hearing is the last sense you lose.

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20.

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

21.

Tooth-in-the-Eye Surgery is when Surgeons put a tooth in a blind person's eye to restore their sight. It was pioneered in the 1960s, and it actually works and it's still being done today.

22.

There's a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.

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23.

Being buried alive accidentally occurred so often that people invented "safety coffins."

24.

The movie "The Exorcist" resulted in many of its cast dying including 2 actors whose characters died in the movie.

25.

Gelatin is made out of bones. That's right, the melted marshmallow in your hot chocolate is melted animal bone. It's good stuff.

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26.

Some female spiders allow their young to eat them alive.

27.

The air you breathe in train stations is 15% human skin.

28.

You swallow 1 to 2 cups of mucus everyday.

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29.

Women in the 18th century used lead as makeup.

30.

Cockroaches can live without their heads for weeks.

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