- It's that time of year again,
so what better way than to celebrate by getting creepy?
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Here are 50 amazing facts to blow your mind,
creepy edition.
There are 15,152 living organisms,
from rats to insects to people
living in the New York subway system.
Something to consider,
every single photo taken of you
could be the one used in your obituary.
There are more slaves in the world today
than any other time in history
according to Andrew Forrest
founder of the Walk Free Foundation.
Anywhere from 21 million to 46 million
exists in the world today.
Zombies are possible
and may have existed in the past.
These flesh-eating creatures of Haitian origin
were reanimated people raised
by Voodoo priests called Bokors.
Legend has it that once reanimated,
the zombies would remain under the control
of the Bokor and do their bidding.
If that sounds too unreal,
the government has a webpage on the CDC website right now
called "The Zombie Preparedness Guide"
in the event of an outbreak today.
The Headless Horseman originated from Irish legends.
Known as the Dullahan, it's a frightening being
sitting upon a horse, riding with his head
held high in his hand
so that he may scan his surroundings.
If that wasn't creepy enough, don't worry.
He also carries a whip made out of human spine.
Be careful if he stops to say your name.
You'll die instantly.
The legend of Bloody Mary and the practice
of summoning her by repeating her name
in front of a mirror in a dark room with a lit candle
has very real origins.
It's believed to be based on Elizabeth Bathory,
also known as the Queen of Blood
who was convicted for murdering hundreds
so that she could bathe in their blood.
Every square inch of the human body
has approximately 32 million bacteria on it.
This means that there is an unfathomable amount
of bacteria covering your entire body,
every minute of every day.
An estimated six million people in the United States
or one in every 50 of us
is walking around with a brain aneurysm.
It just hasn't ruptured yet.
In fact, a brain aneurysm ruptures every 18 minutes.
That means for you, it could potentially happen any moment.
The octopus is an invertebrate
meaning it does not have a backbone,
and the absence of bone structure and shell
gives the octopus amazing flexibility and fluidity.
Spiders liquefy their prey.
They don't have any teeth
which forces these predators
to subsist on an entirely liquid diet.
Various species of spiders have different methods
of making a prey milkshake,
but the result is the same.
Every kind of spider has built-in venom
that's specifically designed to break down cell walls.
Your eyes can still move after your death.
Anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds.
That means the eyes still look around
whether they're just twitches
or there's still some synaptic activity.
We don't actually know which.
Because generally people don't come back.
But either way, it's extremely disturbing.
If you sneeze hard enough
it's possible to fracture your rib,
but if you try to suppress a sneeze,
you might rupture a blood vessel
in your head or neck.
Watching TV for more than two hours a day
can shorten your life expectancy by 1.4 years.
If you watch TV for six hours daily,
you might die five years earlier than you would naturally.
One pound of peanut butter
is legally allowed to contain up to 150 bug fragments,
and five rodent hairs according to the government
health regulations.
A lit candle causes more than 15,000 house fires every year.
In fact, accidental candle fires
account for approximately 4% of all U.S. residential fires.
If you wear a ring, the number of germs living beneath it
could be as high as the entire population of Europe,
about 730 million.
Bacteria and moisture get trapped under the ring
and combine with the warmth from your fingers
causes a breeding ground for bacteria
to flourish exponentially.
There is a brain-eating amoeba called the Naegleria fowleri
that lives in freshwater bodies.
It can kill a human in just seven days.
The death rate is 98% and there is absolutely
no effective treatment for stopping it.
There is a parasite which destroys the tongue of a fish
and then itself replaces the tongue
for the rest of its lifespan,
essentially transforming itself
into a living parasitic, but fully functioning
and otherwise harmless tongue,
and it's known as the Cymothoa exigua.
Draculin is a protein which is found
in vampire bat saliva.
This protein prevents the prey's blood from clotting
while the bat is drinking it.
It's composed of 411 amino acids
and is named after the mythical monster Dracula.
A spider's egg sac can filled with 1,500 baby spiders.
On average, the gestation period for a spider
ranges from one week to one month
and there's about a dozen spiders born every minute.
There very well could be one near you right now.
More than 7,000 people die annually
due to doctor's bad handwriting.
It's a chilling statistic,
and according to a July 2006 report
from the National Academies of Science
Institute of Medicine,
preventable medication mistakes also injure
more than 1.5 million Americans annually.
In the 19th century, before medical professionals
had the tools to discern comas or paralysis from death,
the fear of being buried alive was very real.
Patented safety coffins were invented
so that mistakenly buried people
could alert those above ground of their predicament.
Before proper dentures came about in the mid-1800's,
dentures were crafted using teeth
taken from the mouths of deceased soldiers.
King Tut's parents were recently confirmed to be siblings
DNA from the mummified remains of Tut's mother
revealed her to both mother to Tut
and sister of his father.
Cockroaches raised in space are quicker,
stronger, faster, and tougher
than their counterparts on Earth.
Russian news agency Novosti
has reported that baby cockroaches
that have been conceived in space
develop faster and become quicker,
stronger and tougher than their counterparts on Earth.
There is a one-room cabin called The Devil's Toy Box
in Louisiana where people who go there
supposedly lose their minds.
The cabin is on Farmer Grave's Haunted Orchard in Leesville.
It was built in 2014 as part of a Halloween attraction
on the orchard,
but after people started to be hospitalized,
as a result of going into the shack,
the entire Halloween attraction had to be closed.
The world's scariest haunted house is called McKamey Manor
and is located in San Diego, California.
It's so scary that all guests need a full mental
and physical evaluation to participate.
You're bound, gagged, drenched in fake blood,
and terrorized for four to seven hours.
Nobody has ever completed it in its entirety
including a marine and a adrenaline junkie.
It has a waiting list of more than 24,000 people.
Abraham Lincoln dreamt about his own death
three nights in a row
before his assassination on April 14th, 1865.
He shared his dreams with a small group
that included his wife, Mary Todd, and his bodyguard.
In 1950, the U.S. Navy secretly released pathogens
off of the shore of San Francisco for a week.
The project, called Operation Sea-Spray,
was to determine the susceptibility of big cities
to bio-weapon attacks.
Spider rain could happen at any moment above you.
According to Rick Vetter, a retired arachnologist,
spiders climb to high areas and shoot out silk
in order to get back to Earth which is called ballooning.
If enough do it together,
you'll be showered with hundreds of spiders.
The emerald cockroach wasp reproduces
by stinging a cockroach twice.
The first, to temporarily paralyze its victim.
The second into the brain which destroys the escape reflex.
The wasp leads the zombified roach
by the antenna to her burrow
where she lays her eggs in its abdomen.
The Karni Mata Temple in India
is known as the Temple of Rats
due to the approximately 25,000 black rats
that live there and are revered at the temple.
There are a few white rats which are considered
to be especially holy as they are said to be
the manifestation of Karni Mata and her sons.
The hagfish is a jawless, eel-like fish
that survives off the bodies
of dead, or dying sea creatures.
They have two rows of keratin-based teeth structures
that they use to burrow deep into carcasses.
Cotard delusion is a mental illness
where the sufferer believes they are already dead,
are putrefying, or have missing body parts
such as brains or internal organs.
People with this disorder
tend to neglect personal hygiene
as well as physical health as they consider it unnecessary,
On August 7th, 1994, blobs of translucent jelly
fell during a rainstorm in Oakville, Washington.
Theories of the origins of the blob rain
ranged from jellyfish to fluid waste from airplane.
However, none have been proven correct.
Jackie Bibby is a veteran snake handler
who holds five Guinness World Records
including holding the most rattlesnakes in one's mouth
and going head first into a sleeping bag
with most rattlesnakes.
He's been bitten 11 times.
One bite even cost him his leg.
The northern fulmar is a species of sea bird
that will vomit a bright orange puke on its predators.
It causes the plumage of the attacker to become matted
and loses its waterproof coating,
as well as smells foul,
similar to that of rotting fish.
Loa loa or the eye worm is a parasite
that occupies the fat layer of humans and causes diseases.
The most visual sign of adult worm infections
is when the worm crosses the sclera of the eye.
They can survive under the skin
for 10 to 15 years causing inflammation.
Ambulophobia is the fear of walking.
Often linked to a traumatic event,
sufferers may develop a sensation of falling
when they try to stand or walk.
A person with ambulophobia will usually keep things
that they need close to them to avoid standing or moving.
Larger cities create larger spiders.
That's right, cockroaches and mice
aren't the only creepy critters
that you have to worry about in the big city.
According to an Australian study,
not only are some species of spiders
more abundant in urban areas,
but they also tend to grow bigger in highly populated areas
with hard concrete surfaces and little vegetation.
The question is how big is your city?
Xylophagia is form of the eating disorder pica.
People who suffer from this disorder
will consume substances like paper, pencils,
tree bark, and other wooden items.
"Silent Hill" is based on actual town.
Centralia, Pennsylvania was once a bustling town
but when fires ignited coal mines beneath the ground,
it gradually became hazardous and abandoned.
The fires started May 27th, 1962
and are still burning today.
When their babies get sick,
Eskimo mothers will put their mouths
on their baby's nose and suck the snot out.
Some still do it, and there are now even devices
that people can buy to suck the snot
out of their baby's nose.
Bill Skarsgard, who plays Pennywise
in the 2017 version of "It"
was born in 1990, the year the original "It" was released.
Leila's Hair Museum in Missouri
is the only hair museum in the world.
The wreaths, bouquets, and pieces of jewelry
are all made from woven strands of human hair.
Museum founder Leila Cohoon began collecting
hair art in 1949 and now the exhibit is home
to a few thousand pieces of art.
In the Asaro tribe of the Eastern Highlands
in Papua New Guinea,
it's tradition to don costumes
consisting of bamboo claws and clay masks,
decorated with wild pig's teeth and tusks.
The Mudmen as they are called
would cake their bodies in mud to complete the costume.
Missouri couple Susan and Brian Trost
sued the seller of a house
from whom they had bought it when they discovered
that brown recluse spiders were bleeding
out of the walls in 2016.
It was estimated by an expert
that around 4,000 to 5,000 spiders had infested the house.
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles
allowed a woman named Lindsay Miller
to wear a metal colander on her head
in her driver's license photo
after she said it was part of her religion.
A committed Pastafarian,
she belongs to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Scientists have created Atomik,
a brand of vodka made from grain grown in the Ukraine
and using groundwater from just south
of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Despite the tongue-in-cheek name,
the vodka has passed radioactive safety tests
and is safe for consumption.
It's estimated that 25 million tons of spiders
exist on Earth, which equates to 57 sextillion spiders.
And other than Antarctica, they exist literally everywhere.
They could even be on you right now.
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