40 Disturbing Facts That Ruined Our Day
1.
Humans have enough bite power to bite off their own finger. The only thing that stops us is our brain's natural protection mechanism.
2.
If you try to grab the brain in its natural state, it will fall apart. When you see scientists pick up a brain, it's because they've used chemicals to harden it.
3.
Cruise ships are legally required to have morgues for the passengers that inevitably will die on each trip.
4.
Nighttime is a natural state of the universe, daytime is only caused by a nearby radiating ball of flame
5.
Locked-in syndrome is a medical condition where you can only move your eyes while the rest of your body is paralyzed. Basically, you can be trapped in a coma like state and be aware of it.
7.
During Gladiator Games of the Colosseum, members of the audience would rush into the field to ravage off the blood of the Fallen Gladiators. They believed that in drinking the blood of the fallen warriors, that they would absorb their powers and skills.
10.
In the Victorian era, people used to take photos of their dead relatives in lifelike positions in order to keep them as momentos. Photography was so new and expensive that this was usually the only time someone had their picture taken.
13.
Doctors went into surgery to remove what they thought was a tumor. It turned out to be what looks like a pine tree growing in this man's lungs. Experts say it more likely came through aspiration rather than a seed growing inside of his lungs.
14.
In the 1930s, it was common for parents to hang their children in cages outside of their windows.
17.
If you live to become the oldest person alive, the entire human population will be replaced in your lifetime, except you.
20.
Genghis Khan significantly reduced carbon in the atmosphere because he killed so many farmers where all their farms just turned back into forest.
23.
As of 2019, there are over half a million homeless people in the United States. There are also 17 million vacant homes.
29.
People's general happiness peaks at age 21, and it does not come back to that level until they retire.
30.
Babies grow mustaches in the womb that then spread to grow hair on the entire bodies. They shed it before birth.
32.
Anthrax can be buried for hundreds of years and then reinfect people when the soil is disturbed.
33.
Nearly everything that we can measure on Earth is contaminated with particles of microplastic.
34.
In a government run experiment TSA did not catch 95% of the guns that went through through airports
37.
The survival rate of someone who experiences cardiac arrest outside of a hospital is 1 in 10.
Views
Favorites
Comments