Barnorama All Fun In The Barn
These 15 facts are like tiny horror movies—short, unsettling, and perfect for giving yourself a little jolt of fear whenever you need a shudder. Let’s just hope you’re not reading them before bedtime!
“Loa loa, the African Eye Worm, can invade the human eye. Adults are between 1 and 2.5 inches long.”
“A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.”
“That one misfolded protein can wind up rendering a brain about as useful as rotting cheese.”
“Sometimes when you have a sharp pain in your chest when breathing in it could be there’s not enough fluid around the lung and it got stuck to a rib or your diaphragm isn’t in the correct place.”
“Some people are born with a malformed mass of veins in their brain called an AVM and they have no idea unless it’s seen on a CT or MRI. Then one day it can burst without warning and that happy healthy person can die, suffer brain damage, paralysis, etc. No warning.”
“Nurse here: I learned that some people will use any hole in a sexual way. Including a surgical hole in the stomach to collect poop into a bag (a colostomy). Additionally, some folks with these kinds of holes will prostitute themselves out for use of that hole. How do we know? They come in with infections in these holes and own up to the behavior.”
“The President of Argentina and his wife kept Eva Peron’s dead body just chilling at the breakfast table.”
“Commented this before, but if you have abdominal surgery and the surgeon needs your intestines out of the way they don’t try to get them back in exactly as they were. They can put them in pretty much any old way and they sort themselves out. Then freaked out even more when someone else commented that you can quite often feel them wriggling themselves back into position..”
“Dolphins are known to be quite intelligent, but they can also be cruel. In some cases, they’ve been documented killing baby dolphins of other pods, seemingly for fun.”
“Bed bugs mate through a process called Traumatic Insemination. The male bed bug stabs the female in her abdomen with his p**s, which is very sharp then proceeds to f**k her open stomach wound.”
“There are over 200 dead bodies located on top of Mount Everest that serves as waypoints for climbers because it’s too risky to retrieve them.”
“There are more cells in your body that belong to other things like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites than actual human cells.”
“The CPR dummy face is based on the face of a teenage girl found dead in the Seine River in Paris in the 19th century. Her cause of death and identity is still unknown.”
“Tarantulas can walk on water.”
“Serial killer Joel Rifkin dismembered at least 2 of his victims with an exacto knife.”