15 WTF Facts That Left Us Thoroughly Disturbed

solidsnake4545 Published 01/24/2022 in wtf

Be warned - some facts you can't unlearn no matter how hard you wish you could.

1. About 153,000 people worldwide die everyday.
2. Fruit stickers are edible, the glue used for them is regulated by the FDA.
3. “Criminologists estimate that at least 200,000 murders have gone unsolved since the 1960s.
4. Most Salmon we eat is farmed and dyed pink, in reality, farmed salmon is a greyish colour.
5. You can’t die of ‘old age’, only from diseases brought on by age.
6. Apple seeds contain small traces of cyanide.
7. Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is a condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.
8. The skin around the finger and toenails dries and contracts after death, making it look as though they have grown.
9. You swallow 1 to 2 cups of mucus every day.
10. Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.
11. In some cases, bodies develop a corpse wax that can preserve the remains for years.
12. The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.
13. Dead bodies swell up like balloons after about four days, due to the release of gases and liquids.
14. On average, you secrete 26 gallons of sweat into your bed per year.
15. The air you breathe in a train station is 15% human skin.

1. About 153,000 people worldwide die everyday.
2. Fruit stickers are edible, the glue used for them is regulated by the FDA.
3. “Criminologists estimate that at least 200,000 murders have gone unsolved since the 1960s.
4. Most Salmon we eat is farmed and dyed pink, in reality, farmed salmon is a greyish colour.
5. You can’t die of ‘old age’, only from diseases brought on by age.
6. Apple seeds contain small traces of cyanide.
7. Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is a condition where someone seemingly healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.
8. The skin around the finger and toenails dries and contracts after death, making it look as though they have grown.
9. You swallow 1 to 2 cups of mucus every day.
10. Botflies are a type of insect whose larvae burrow under your skin.
11. In some cases, bodies develop a corpse wax that can preserve the remains for years.
12. The average bed has between 100,000 and 10 million dust mites.
13. Dead bodies swell up like balloons after about four days, due to the release of gases and liquids.
14. On average, you secrete 26 gallons of sweat into your bed per year.
15. The air you breathe in a train station is 15% human skin.