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More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed every year from using equipment meant for right-handed people.
The most dangerous tree in the world is the manchineel tree found in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The tree’s trunk is covered with sap that causes skin to blister and can blind you if it gets in your eyes.
Back in the 16th century, the wealthy elite used to eat dead bodies. It was rumored the cadavers could cure diseases. The highest delicacy? Egyptian mummies.
There is a chemical called MPTP that specifically destroys dopaminergic neurons in the brain. About 3 days after someone ingests it, they get parkinson's disease.
One reason that crows and ravens are associated with death is because they would often follow armies as they marched to battle. Being both carrion birds and extremely intelligent, they realized that a large group of armed men marching on one direction meant that there would be a tasty meal of corpses to eat soon afterwards.
Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia at the embalmers.
A single tiger has killed over 436 people in India.
Hearing is the last thing to go after you die.You might just hear the paramedics and firefighters call off CPR
Mount Everest is covered in frozen corpses because removing them is dangerous and time consuming. They are easily viewed from the climbing routes and some are used as trail markers.
CNN has had a pre-recorded broadcast from the 90’s which they will premiere during the end of the world.
Alcoholics decompose faster than the average person when they die.
Either somebody knows where Malaysia flight 370 went missing to, or nobody does. Both are equally terrifying.
During world war 2, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
Cockroaches have been recorded eating human flesh, both living and dead, as well as fingernails, eyelashes, feet, and hands. The American cockroach and German cockroach are more likely to bite humans than other species.
Ducks sometimes become cannibals due to boredom. They can only be stopped by cutting off their beaks.
In the US if someone is kidnapped and not found within about a day then there is a 97% chance the kidnapped person is dead.
Eventually, most of the stuff on the internet will be from dead people.
If your bowel is obstructed severely and for long enough, you will vomit your own feces out of your mouth.
30% of people reported missing, and found dead, were killed by the person reporting them missing.
If you get the wrong blood type for a transfusion, one of the symptoms is "a sense of impending doom".
In the US, the leading cause of death for pregnant women is murder.
Every hour, an average of 12 children go missing across India. Every day about an average of 296 children go missing across India.
The average person walks past 36 murderers in their lifetime.
A Colombian woman carried a mummified foetus in her uterus for 40 years.
Coffin birth, also known as postmortem fetal extrusion, is the expulsion of a nonviable fetus through the vaginal opening of the decomposing body of a deceased pregnant woman due to increasing pressure from intra-abdominal gases.
In World War II, the Japanese would slit the throats of Philippine fathers in front of
It's not really hard to find extremely violent videos on the surface web. Reddit offers a variety of footage of beheadings, flayings, people being burnt alive, torture, cartel videos and more. Do not look those up.
Unit 731, termed as the most vile form of human atrocities, was a Japanese biological warfare research unit that operated during WWII. They performed many experiments on live and dead prisoners of war that were crimes against humanity - including vivisection, intentional infection of individuals with diseases such as the plague and syphilis, finding the human 'boiling point, the optimum process of disembowelment and forced rape and pregnancy for further use in experimentation. At least 3,000 individuals were experimented on. None survived.
A human tooth is roughly 36 calories.
Dolphins cut off the head of smaller fish and use it for masturbation.
Tarantulas taste like shrimp.
Junko Furuta's
captors, rapists, abusers, and murderers are still alive and are walking the streets freely.
During the antarctic exploration, one of the researchers complained about his shoes being soaking wet. When he took them off, he found out the liquid in his shoes was his decaying feet that liquidized and made a slurpee-like substance out of his feet and blood.
There was a time when babies were operated on without anesthetics. It was believed that their nervous system wasn't developed enough to feel pain.
More than 80 million bacteria are exchanged in a single kiss.
People who stay up late at night have more psychopathic tendencies than those who sleep early.
Issei Sagawa was a Japanese murderer, cannibal and necrophiliac who murdered a dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt in 1981. Sagawa mutilated, performed necrophilia on and cannibalized Hartevelt's corpse. Sagawa was arrested and deported to Japan but was controversially released unconditionally after two years of pre-trial detention due to the applicable laws and the way his case was processed in the courts of France and Japan. Sagawa's post-release celebrity in Japan led to international publicity. He walked the streets freely until his death in November 2022.
Twenty percent of children report hearing voices.
The dead outnumber the living by 15 to 1.
The Mummies of Guanajuato may have been buried alive.
If you hold a sneeze, you risk rupturing your throat, damaging your ears, and even suffering a brain aneurysm.
The US has the highest number of serial killers.
Additionally, here's a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you're murdered in the US.
6 nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered since the 1950s.
Elmer McCurdy was an outlaw whose embalmed dead body was put on display and sideshows. People paid to see his body until he was forgotten. Years later, on the set of a show, a prop man thought he was a wax mannequin until his arm broke off, exposing human bone and muscle tissue.
Smoking 1 cigarette can take 11 minutes off your life.
When the Pirates of the Caribbean ride opened at Disneyland in 1967, all of the skeletons on the attraction were actual human bones.
Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus, turns ants into “zombies,” flooding their brains with chemicals and forcing them to go where there is just the right amount of light and humidity. The ants then die there, and new cordyceps grow from their rotting bodies.
If it's sufficiently dark, you will hallucinate your reflection as a different entity and it will appear to start moving on it's own.
The girl from the most extreme and illegal video called "Daisy's destruction" is still alive to this day. She cannot conceive children because of all the physical abuse she endured from the hands of Peter Scully and his girlfriends.
Alleged zoophile, Kero the Wolf, who allegedly abused his dog to the extent of kidney failure, is still walking free and is still uploading videos onto Youtube. However, he's far from the worst of the zoosadists after piles of evidence was uncovered with videos of horrific animal abuse, mostly including puppies.
Up until the 1800's, dentures were usually made out of dead soldiers' teeth.
Your eyes have a seperate immune-system from the rest of your body. Once your body's immune system discovers you have eyes, it will attack and inflame the blood vessels in the back of your eyes. This can lead to your vision decreasing or even going blind.
The dolphin who played Flipper committed suicide.
You are more likely to die on your way to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the lottery.
Veterinary Nursing has one of the highest suicide rates of any profession.
The Cambodian Genocide killed an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people between 1975 and 1979.
The estimated death toll of the black plague, the deadliest pandemic in human history, is somewhere in between 75 milliom to 200 million.
The Spanish Flu killed between 17 million to 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million people in the in the 1920s, making it the 2nd deadliest pandemic in the world after the Black Plague.
If the lungs are punctured, the corpse will not float.
Dr. Suess had a mistress and his distraught wife committed suicide. Afterward, he married the mistress.
When a woman dies suspiciously it is standard protocol in many places to have a sexual assault forensic exam completed post-mortem. If a woman is murdered, there's a high chance she was also raped as a part of it
If your group of friends is comprised of 5 or more people, chances are at least one of you will die before you're 40.
If you get bitten by a human, you absolutely have to go to the hospital right away because the amount of deadly bacteria in any given person's mouth could actually kill you if it enters your blood stream.
The US government took thousands of Filipinos from their homeland in the early 1900s and placed them in a ‘Human Zoo’ in Coney Island, New York for American entertainment.
They were forced to wear their traditional clothing all the time despite the colder weather, perform dances and even made them eat ‘dogs’ for the audience in order to emphasize that Filipinos are "uneducated savages".
Famous explores, Lewis and Clark, ate their litter of puppies. Not because they ran out of food. It was because they were tired of only eating salmon.
The last person to be executed by guillotine was in the 70’s.
Nestle convinced mothers in Africa to use formula instead of breastfeeding. They gave them free formula, but only a small amount. Just enough to last until mother stopped lactating, then they had no choice but to buy more.
Thousands of children are sexually abused every day by adults they are supposed to be able to trust.
There are more Panda Express locations in the world than actual panda bears.
The Irish Famine was as much a forced genocide as it was a crop failure. Food and livestock was exported while Irish people starved and ate grass.
In March 1942 only 20% of holocaust victims had been killed and 80% were still alive. 11 months later it was the opposite.
The youngest birth mother in medical history is Lina Medina of Peru, who was 5 years old when she gave birth to her son Geraldo via C-section in 1939. Medina has never revealed the identity of the father nor the circumstances of her impregnation.
There’s 21 to 46 million slaves living right now.
You could have mad cow disease for 12 to 50 years before symptoms start showing.
Tomas Edison killed an elephant with 6000 volts of electricity.
If you took all of the world's spiders and let them out in the Netherlands, they could consume the entire country's population in three days.
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