23 Facts That Are Mildly Disturbing.

These might creep you out.

Published 3 years ago in Creepy

These might creep you out.

1
If Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got stuck on the moon the official policy was to cut communication and let them suffocate in silence, Nixon even had a speech prepared in case this happened.

2
The rescue dogs from ground zero on 9/11 developed PTSD and needed therapy afterwards because there were so few survivors and so many dead recovered that they thought they'd screwed everything up and done a bad job.

3
If we held a minute of silence for every victim of the holocaust we will be silent for eleven and a half years

4
The entire Universe outside our galaxy could have completely disappeared over 20,000 years ago and we still wouldn't know it yet. Our view of the Universe is actually what it looked like anywhere from thousands to Billions of years ago -with no way to see what it actually looks like "right now". Imagine if you looked out your front window and saw your yard as it was 6 months ago, neighbors house across the street a year ago, and houses a block or two away as they were several years ago. Also off in the distance you see the glaciers from the last ice age. That's what it's like looking out at the Universe.

5
There's a condition in which people become blind, but deny their blindness. The brain creates false perceptions to fill in for the lack of sight. It's called the Anton Syndrome

8
The phrase "shoot for the moon. If you miss you'll land amongst the stars." The next nearest star is 4.3 light years away. If you miss the moon, you're absolutely f****d

9
Christopher Mintz-Plasse's mom had to be on set during the filming of his (attempted) sex scene in *Superbad* because he was only 17 at the time it was being filmed.

10
When a male lion takes over a pride he will engage in infanticide and kill (and/or eat) all of the cubs that the previous male breed. I know more disturbing facts than I care to admit.

12
There was a series of movies during the 1980s called the “Guinea Pig” films that were so gory that the director of the movies was actually investigated by the cops and had to show how he did the effects

13
Male giraffes will headbutt a female in the bladder until she urinates, then it tastes the pee to helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.

14
Chimpanzees just flat out love to eat monkeys. They love it so much they’ve feasted on certain breeds to local extinction. Always found this mildly (moderately) disturbing because of the similarities in the species, like if wolves sought after puppies.

15
Snow White is 14 years old, and Walt Disney instructed animators to make her look "old enough to marry".

16
In medieval times, diabetes was known as the honey sickness and to test for it a physician would have to taste your urine.

17
If you die while late into a pregnancy the build up of bodily gases can push the dead foetus out of your body. Its called postmortem fetal extrusion.

18
Meerkats are adorable creatures. They even started in a show called Meerkat Manor. But they are, by far, the most murderous species of any animal, killing more of their own species with greater frequency than any other animal