What are some deeply unsettling facts that you know?
In the 1800s a LOT of dentures were made using the teeth of dead soldiers.
The number of people older than you never increases
A convicted rapist managed to abduct an 11 year old girl and keep her as a sex slave for 18 years, even forcing her to bear his children, all while being monitored by parole officers who remained clueless to what was going on for nearly two decades.
The world's most prolific living serial killer is a man called Pedro Lopez.
He was convicted of the killing of 110 girls.
But he claims he has raped and murdered over 300
His current whereabouts are unknown
People with dementia just... forget how to eat one day.
They forget how to swallow.
We don't know if they feel starvation or pain, because they're too far gone.
My brother works in a dementia care facility, and they know that a patient is gonna die soon when they eventually refuse food.
And we don't euthanise them.
They just... starve.
To death.
And they never tell the families that.
Edit: I'm so sorry to those that have lost loved ones to dementia.
It's a really cruel and heartless way to die.
The USA has lost 6 nuclear weapons that were never found.
Ok, i put this in another comment on AITA, but it fits better here.
In Mexico, there was a case of a woman with a thyroid problem.
She worked on a department store.
She started to have serious abdominal pains and told her employers about it, they ignored her.
She went to the bathroom and then called emergency services, who arrived but were blocked by the superiors from entering.
She was pregnant and didn't knew it because of the thyroid.
She was having a miscarriage on the bathroom.
After she came out,
she was fired.
But that's not the end of it.
The store ratted her out for having a miscarriage.
See, where she lives, abortions are illegal, and her situation was apparently, catalogued as an abortion.
She was thrown to prison, 16 years, for "involuntary manslaughter" that was 2016, and even after many protest and media coverage, the state refuses to drop the charges, and the department store hasn't taken any responsibility about their acts
Cows don’t convert grass directly into protein.
They have enormous colonies of bacteria in their stomachs that have population explosions when they eat grass, live, breed, die, and then the cows digest them into protein.
That this thread is going to end up on one of those text-to-speech YouTube/TikTok channels.
The symptoms for a heart attack can be a lot milder than what is shown in movies or TV shows.
I have seen people coming in with some discomfort and then passing due to a massive infarction when we did the angiogram.
The youngest person to ever give birth was a 5-year-old girl.
Edit: For those that have delved a bit too deeply into this one, just a reminder that while sometimes people can be unimaginably cruel and vile...the world isn't such a bad place.
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I was on the USS Ronald Reagan in 2011.
I worked on the flight deck.
The ship responded for a humanitarian mission to Japan following the terrible tsunami .
Upon arrival we detected high lvls of radiation and thought we had an issue with the reactor on the ship.
The smart ppl onboard aka not me , eventually figured out that our ship was in a radioactive cloud released from Fukushima.
The command staff immediately ordered all communications to our families ( email, phone calls ) be seized.
While onboard we could watch major news networks on the armed forces network.
No news network was reporting the nuclear issue that our government , and the Japanese
government knew about.
At one point the command related we were going to do a Noah’s arc type operation by docking in Japan and removing as many US military assets/ families as possible , and evacuate the area.
Those orders eventually got canceled.
After several days the Captain gave us a chance to contact our families.
Within hours it was leaked to all the major news networks what was actually going on, and that US Navy ships were contaminated.
Once again communication was cut off.
We were forced to sign forms that stated we received iodine prior to exposure, which was false.
After about 80 days at sea no country would let us dock due to contamination.
News crews were flown on board.
We covered the flight deck in foam and pushed brooms ( you can see the pictures on google) The headline was Us Ships decontaminated.
Propaganda so other countries would accept us to replenish.
The VA will still not acknowledge this as radiation exposure to my knowledge.
Imagine trying to trust the news after this experience.
Most serial killers won't ever even be noticed, never mind captured
Rainbow Valley at Mount Everest is named so because of the colorful coats of dead people
The Blue Mustang statue at the Denver Airport, Named Blucifer by the locals, killed its creator when a piece fell and severed an artery in his leg.
If weird “ghost” stuff is happening, make sure your carbon monoxide detector is working.
Once symptoms start, rabies has a 100% mortality rate.
Fortunately, the incubation period is several months, so get that shot ASAP.
Years ago I remember watching an episode of the show Monsters Inside Me where this 16-year-old kid was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye.
It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs.
After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor finally figured out what was wrong.
Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly very briefly made contact with you.
Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could
possibly happen to me.
One of the few things keeping us from better pharmaceutical products is human ethics
There were Holocaust survivors that died shortly after being liberated because their body couldn't handle the increased calories when they were fed by the soldiers that freed them
Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured.
The one that still disturbs me is that the sun could randomly eject something that could kill us all.
Someone else probably knows the details better than me, but I read about it a bit a while back.
Jason Earles who played Hannah Montanas brother Jackson, John Cena, Ludacris, and Psy, are all the same age.
Also your bones are wet
In explosions, it’s not (always) flying shrapnel, it’s not the fire that kills you.
No, it’s the pressure wave that liquifies your insides.
Told to me by a buddy who was a US Army Sniper: When shot by a 5.56mm round from a rifle, the bullet tumbles entering the body, the entry wound would be but a small hole, but the internal damage is near catastrophic.
Terminal lucidity is the return of mental clarity or memory or consciousness shortly before death.
This happens to around 10% of people with dementia.
If you fall from a high enough point and hit water, your insides are liquefied on impact.
When my dad was in the Navy, someone jumped from a bridge near the base his ship was about to leave.
Since his ship had the only available rescue divers on it, they got sent out to check to see if they were military.
My dad asked the divers what it was like and they said it was like trying to get a bag of Jell-O out of the water.
This happened at Coronado Naval Base
Edit: turns out your insides don't liquefy, everything just ruptures and it feels like it.
My bad
People's "conscious" decisions are usually nothing of the sort; they're usually made subconsciously.
Then, all the conscious mind normally does is build narratives about the previously-made decisions.
Those narratives consciously seem to arise concurrently with the decisions, but really they arise only afterward.
Research on split-brain patients has proven all of this.
Simply put: your brain makes choices without you knowing; then tricks you into thinking the choices were yours, by allowing you to invent gratifying reasons why you supposedly chose them.
That the Chernobyl disaster, everything that happened and all of the devastation, was the result of only 5% of the nuclear material in the reactor being explosively ejected.
Just 5%.
The remaining 95% of the nuclear material still sits in the ruins of Reactor 4, a volatile mixture of melted fuel, damaged concrete, graphite rods, zirconium cladding, sand, dust and who knows what else.
The entire ruin is emitting lethal amounts of radiation, making cleaning it up next to impossible.
Up until the New Safe Confinement went up in 2017, the only thing that
could be done was to seal the open air reactor off with a hastily constructed shield of metal.
This structure lasted for over 30 years, and as it aged the risk of it collapsing due to decay was very real.
If it had crumbled as it almost did in 2013, the result would have been an apocalyptic release of radioactive dust across a far larger area of Europe than the incident in 1986.
That talent and skill isn’t enough to follow your dreams.
You need appeal and people skills.
The human male ejaculates at approximately 45km/h
The stimulant effect of coffee at a given regularly consumed dose only lasts a few weeks.
After that, your body becomes addicted to coffee and most of the "boost" you get is actually the relief of withdrawal symptoms from the caffeine.
Edit: to clarify given pushback below, I am not saying that there are no benefits to caffine consumption to long term health.
I am also just a random lay person on the internet, so if you plan to make any major life decisions based on this factoid, please investigate further or ask someone who actually knows what
they are talking about.
From 1928 to 1972 my province would sterilize people who they found to be mentally handicapped.
They figured this was the ideal way to stop the spread of mental disease
There will be a last person, a last living organism, to see the end of all life in the universe.
The rest of time will never be experienced, and will just... happen
Youtubers who 'find' animals in distress with the camera running usually put animals in distress to look like heroes.
Source
Other videos are it there
Cats know when they are going to die, they go and find a small secluded place and pass away
My mother saw no end of disturbing things when she was a nurse (circa late 1950s-1960s).
She worked on psych wards where people got disturbing treatments (lobotomies, "sleep" therapy, etc,).
She also worked on a paediatrics ward in an area where there was pretty wild poverty and the kids were in rough shape.
Awful era and living conditions way back when.
Though unlikely, it is entirely possible that the universe has already collapsed and the end of reality as we know it is propagating towards us at the speed of light.
We'll never get any warning that it's coming and it could hit us at any time, annihilating the entire planet in less than a tenth of a second.
In 2018 my sister was murdered.
We know who did it.
We keep track of where he lives, he has moved 4 times since my sister disappeared.
The police also know he did it.
There’s not enough evidence to bring him in or charge him.
Her body has still never been found.
If I go after him he becomes the victim and I won’t be able to be a father to my children.
He gets to be alive every day.
He’s a serial rapist.
We suspect my sister was not his first murder.
From our interactions with state police and FBI my impression is that our situation, while a nightmare, is perhaps not as rare as you would normally assume or hope.
That the Fermi Paradox exsist.
We could be the only high intelligent beings in the universe, the only planet that has life, or we are currently way behind other civilizations that are centuries or even millennia ahead of us in technology and we dont know if they are friendly.
Not to mention everything in between and that being civilizations that are equal with us somewhat or an alien bacterium or virus that is impossible to cure or stop with our current tech and understanding.
Unless you live in a fortress, your house is essentially defenseless.
If someone is hell bent on getting in, they will.
Locks only keep honest people out.
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There are more slaves now then before the civil war
Tumors can grow teeth
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