The world is a crazy place full of all kinds of fascinating and downright terrifying things. Check out this batch of odd and mildly disturbing info that might keep you up at night.
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“It’s rare, but cracking/popping your neck could cause you to have a stroke.”
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“If you’ve ever had a cloudy oyster, that means it was full of sperm.”
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“One inmate who survived the first round of electrocution said death tasted ‘like peanut butter.'”
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“You have a bunch of microscopic parasites called Demodex on your eyelashes and in the pores on your face. They come out at night to lay eggs and eat the oils on your face.”
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“When anglerfish mate, the male literally deforms its body and fuses with the female, and they live together for the rest of their lives.”
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“Patchouli (a type of mint leaf) was used to cover up the smell of decaying flesh during the Black Plague.”
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The last execution by guillotine was in 1977.
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“During the bubonic plague, people sometimes reported hearing strange gurgling noises coming from inside their lesions.”
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“Almost 40% of US murders go unsolved.”
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“In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans would consume “medicines” made from human corpses that were supposed to cure a number of different maladies.”
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“Ground mummies were used in paint for a color that became known as “mummy brown.”
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“A “sense of impending doom” is actually a symptom of a few different conditions and medical issues, including receiving the wrong type of blood in a blood transfusion.”
