Whether we’re gathering knowledge for our nextDIY projector reading up on the country we’re about to visit, learning is a lifelong process. However, it’s not always just sunshine and rainbows.Last week, Reddit userThrowrapis3cesinvited everyone on the platform to share the disturbing facts they wish they didn’t know, and they have already received nearly two thousand replies.From human biology to waste management and social customs, continue scrolling to check out the stuff people think they would be better off not knowing.This post may includeaffiliate links.
Whether we’re gathering knowledge for our nextDIY projector reading up on the country we’re about to visit, learning is a lifelong process. However, it’s not always just sunshine and rainbows.
Last week, Reddit userThrowrapis3cesinvited everyone on the platform to share the disturbing facts they wish they didn’t know, and they have already received nearly two thousand replies.
From human biology to waste management and social customs, continue scrolling to check out the stuff people think they would be better off not knowing.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
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Definitely on the most horrifying facts I’ve ever learned is that a mute mail order bride is ten times as expensive as one who has the power of speech. It’s very disturbing and becomes more and more horrifying the more you consider the implications.
Child slaves in the Congo mine the cobalt used in our phones.
The Holocaust that occured in world war 2, was NOT the last.Cambodia, Serbia, child soliders, and the Hutos, Tibet,All with in my 57 years on the planet.Large portions of humanity are horrible people whose only redeeming quality is to be a bad example.
Every hour, an average of 12 children go missing across India. Every day that average is 296 children missing across India.
That people regularly abandon animals and/or children all over the world.
The youngest recorded mother is Lina Medina. She gave birth at the very (IN)appropriate age of FIVE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS, AND TWENTY ONE DAYS OLD.
Domestic violence rates go up when a big sporting event is on. And a team loses. (Obviously a team loses).But, say England is playing France in football. The losing country will see a spike in DV.
“call of the void” When you stand over a high place, and you just want to jump even though you’re not going to jump that’s what it called.. Interesting and disturbing at the same time…
The lil dog in space Laika died terribly and afraid in an oven above the earth..
Fatal familial insomnia. Super rare, but also super scary. Basically, you stop being able to sleep, then you go mad, then you die. No cure.
That covid infections harm every system in our body.Ourhearts,vascular systems,brain,immune systemsconnective tissuestays behind in our gutsand reproduces in our bone marrow.This can’t end well.
I am not the same after reading King Leopold’s Ghost, about King Leopold II of Belgium’s f*****g regime of terror and torture in Congo in the nineteenth century and what traces it still leaves today.
One way many states departments of corrections try to anticipate the number of prison cell will be required in 20 years is based on how many third graders fail the state reading assessment.
Quokka mothers will eject their babies from their marsupial pouches at predators to escape.Omni-Man rules. “I can always make another kid”.
When I body falls from a building, they don’t go ‘splat’, they bounce, unless it’s a very very high fall. Also if you’re driving over 80km/h and hit a horse or large animal, you can inhale its intestines and suffocate on them. Some factual stories from my ex-police father.
Microplastics are found in human blood, organs and even placentas. These tiny plastic particles, which come from things like degraded plastic waste and synthetic fibers, are so persuasive in our environment that they’ve made their way into our bodies through te food we eat, the water we drink and even the air we breathe. While the long-term health impacts are still being studies, the idea that plastic is now part of our biologic system is pretty unsettling….
The sheer power and devastation of hurrucanes. I watched an interview with people who survived the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Their accounts were just awful. Some highlights:- One man, who at the time was a teenager, was trying to get to their storm shelter out back. He was holding his toddler sister. Once he got outside, debris hit the girl in the head, smashing her head against his face. She died instantly. He said he just stood there, holding his sister’s body for several seconds.- One man watched their refrigerator fall on top of and pin their mother, breaking her back and paralyzing her. She was alive when he left her.- People climbed trees to get away from the storm surge. Once it receeded, they had to crawl over bodies caught in lower branches.- Several people were wandering around town naked afterwards. The storm had stripped them of every piece of clothing.
A pig will eat every part of your body except teeth, there were several farmers who went missing and the only thing left was a pile of teeth in the pig pen. Pigs have also been known to walk in to farmhouses and eat people’s babies, so yeah pigs are crazy.
The 6 missing nuclear bombs that we know of.
Child ab*se is more common than you think. If it’s not happening in your house, it’s definitely happening on your street.
The human brain is the same consistency as room temperature butter.
Likely most of the 9/11 jumpers were conscious throughout their fall. That’s just the most heartbreaking thing to imagine.
Approximately 50% of murders are unsolved every year. Was closer to 90% unsolved in the 70’s.
That your organs know where they’re supposed to be and move on their own.During surgery, doctors will just stuff them back in and they’ll rearrange themselves back to their proper spot.
The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, Under Yellowstone park that has the power to change the climate globally as well as end everything when it erupts.
Currently whatever I am reading about the Diddy case has got me disturbed.That stuff is just insane.
That praying mantis females usually eat the males during intercourse but the male can continue without his head.
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Bedbugs practice traumatic insemination. The females have a genital area but the males prefer to just stab their p*nis into the females' abdomen and ejaculate right into her abdominal cavity.
Your eye lids are the same kind of skin as foreskin.
Most processed meat is linked to cancer.
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How much plastic we eat without knowing.
How the rest of the world lives. I’ve been to Uganda and India. Ugandan kids live in grass and mud huts, eat raw sugar cane and African potatoes, and just want to learn, but will probably work in a sugar plantation or die young.Indian kids are taught to do anything to get a small amount of money and that carries through their life, even selling their younger siblings of they can.And here I was growing up in suburban America complaining about school and listening to blink 182 on my disc man.I still want to take my kids to Uganda though, so they can better appreciate what we have. And then reply to this thread “when my dad took me to uganda…”.
Everything relating to the Ant-walking Alligator people of Hiroshima. That s**t is legit worse than any horror movie/game I’ve ever witnessed.
The Astronauts on the Challenger were alive after the explosion while the capsule they were in fell back to the ground.
Degloving….misslostinlife:One of our bunnies degloved another. The first vet we went to recommended putting her down without even looking at her. We went there because it happened late at night and it was the best 24 animal vet around. Took her to the small animal vet open the next day and she fully recovered. It was horrifying to look at.
1.Scientists find that the weight of all human-created mass, including plastics, exceeds all natural living biomass.2.The weight of all remaining wild land mammals is less than 10 percent of humanity’s combined weight, which amounts to only about 6 lbs of wild land mammal per person.
Both Disney & Francis Ford Coppola hired Victor Salva after his prison sentence for being a predator.(The Jeepers Creepers franchise creator).
Many of the human organs trafficked on the black market in the United States come from narcos. There have been many cases involving medical professionals, and trucks that have been found with bodies are missing organs.
I just found out that mankind k*lls more than a billion animals everyday for food. Sounds not too humane.
When you die the morgue workers will shove 3 cotton balls up your r****m to minimize any leakage and foul odors emanating from your body.
You are not born with the bacteria that causes tooth cavities. Someone passed that bacteria to your mouth at some point in your life.
In some places in the world where gnocide and terrorism exist together, male neighbors will trade homes and sleep in the homes with neighbors’ wives/daughters. If homes are invaded and the marauders demand that the males in a household rpe the females, they aren’t r*ping their own family members.
In the late 1800s, the heir to the Jameson Whiskey fortune went on an expedition to Africa and came across a cannibalistic tribe. He was curious about them, so he purchased a 10-year-old girl and gave her to them to eat. According to witnesses, she had no emotion when they tied her up and began preparing to k*ll her. She knew what was about to happen and accepted it.
Donkey milk is the closest thing to human breastmilk in nutrients.
What the inside of my bowel looks like, especially during a Crohn’s flare (I have become fully concious half way through nearly every colonoscopy I’ve had).
When you are doing surgery and a patient on the table dies, they turn cold. Ice cold. FAST. Uncomfortably fast. I will never forget that sensation. Awful.
That orphaned newborn kittens have to be carefully monitored because they seek out the nipple so aggressively they suck on the other kittens’ penises often to the point of removing the p*nis entirely. Thanks Ologies podcast!
Everything that happened to Sylvia and the insufficient amount of things that happened to everyone involved.
Did a quick crash course to bacteriology. Using and dumping sanitizer back in the wild will inevitably give bacteria enough time have immunity to it. Which is something so dangerous that can break humanity.
Due to how polluted Vegas is,when they saw the sky clearly,they thought something was wrong.
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