Get ready to be spooked by these 15 bone-chilling facts that you’ll wish had stayed buried in the depths of obscurity.
“Just the simple fact that, despite all of our exploration and technology, we know so little about what lies beneath the waves.”
“It’s legal to marry a corpse in France, so long as the person who died gave their consent to marry you before their death.”
“The bacterial spores of Bacillus cereus are in all rice varieties and aren’t destroyed when cooked as the spores and toxin (which make you sick) are heat resistant. But they aren’t active until your rice stays around room temperature for them to germinate.”
“It’s easy enough to get a lightbulb fully inside of your mouth, but it is devilishly hard to get one out safely.”
“A lot of smart phones track your eyes, meaning they can not only see what page you’re looking at, but what you’re looking at specifically within that page.”
“Even if you go out of your way to live an incredibly healthy life, there is always a chance that cells in your body will become cancerous. Or, you’ll get smoked by a car or something.”
“That there are things out there in the universe that could swallow our entire earth like it’s nothing…”
“That you don’t actually smell dead and rotting animals. You are tasting the proteins in the air.”
“That the uncanny valley exists because there was an evolutionary reason to be afraid of something that looked human but wasn’t.”
“Cluster headaches exist. No known cause, no known cure. They are so inconceivably painful and they do not stop.”
“10 years ago the fbi estimated there were 50 serial killers loose in the US at any given time. Now they estimate there’s atleast 500 truckers with torture/murder chambers in their truck, driving freely across the country.”
“The average person consumes ~5g of microplastics each week. Approximately the same as eating a credit card every 7 days.”
“Your brain starts to slowly decay around the age of just 27. I literally can’t have a good rest of the day if I randomly remember that.”
“Some spiders can lay eggs under human skin, leading to unsettling parasitic infestations.”
“Some of the victims of Pompeii may of taken up to 15 minutes to suffocate to death by inhaling the scalding hot pyroclastic ash and gases. Other victims died by having their skulls explode from the searing temperatures of the flows. There was also one poor dude they found who’d been basically incinerated in an instant while taking cover in bed.”
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