“A dead body that isn’t stiff has been dead for either a short time or a long time. The time of death in found corpses is often gauged by the type of fly maggots and their stage in the life cycle.”

“Humans have enough bite power to bite off their finger. Bone and all. The only thing stopping us is our brain’s natural safety factor.”

“A deceased human body can take between 24 and 48 hours to ‘decompress’, releasing the remaining blood, urine, and faecal mater, depending on the situation, position, and method of death.”

“I heard from someone who works in a morgue that corpses periodically burp, fart, and gasp/groan as gases escape through the mouth and anus.”

“When you get burned by electricity, it leaves burn marks shaped like lightning on your skin.”

“If you were to be pulled into a black hole, the point of gravity from your head to your toes is so powerfully different that the closer you get, you start to stretch and pull apart. It’s called spaghettification.”

“A body can swell to three times its normal size, especially if the person passes away in a bathtub.”

When your skin burns and turns red due to sun exposure, it’s because your skin cells are killing themselves to avoid becoming cancerous.

“The tarantula hawk wasp will hunt, paralyse, and entrap a tarantula to use as live food for its larvae.”

“The male honeybee exists only to mate with the queen bee, after which he is “castrated” and dies.”

There is a sunken ship in the Thames estuary filled with wartime explosives called the SS Richard Montgomery which, if disturbed, would detonate and send a tsunami up the river Thames in London.

“Scuba Divers are known to experience a sudden change in pressure when swimming near open pipes, drains, or valves and can get sucked inside, no matter the size of the hole.”

“Since the year 1950, it’s estimated that around 2,500 to 3,000 languages have either died out or become endangered, with fewer speakers every passing day.”

“Technically, according to quantum mechanics there’s a small chance the entire universe could suddenly disappear in the next five seconds.”

“The smell of vomit comes from butyric acid, as does the smell of parmesan cheese. When given a sample of butyric acid to smell, test subjects were disgusted or pleased depending on whether they were told it was puke or parm.”