25 Completely Disturbing Facts
Featured 02/18/2015
You may want to think twice about reading these utterly disturbing facts.
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1. When you ride the subway, approximately 15% of the air you breathe is human skin.
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2. During the first 10 years of usage, the weight of a mattress doubles. This is because of the accumulation of dust mites and dust mite droppings.
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3. Pick your brand of toilet paper carefully. Fecal matter is able to travel through 10 layers of paper.
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4. In the United States, every year 2,500 left-handed people die from using equipment that was designed for right-handed people.
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5. The FDA estimated that the average American eats a pound of insects every year. These insects are usually mixed in with other foods.
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6. Young koalas have been known to eat their mother's poop.
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7. When a new male lion takes over a pride, he kills all of the existing cubs.
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8. In the United States, there are 5 times as many empty houses than there are homeless people.
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9. The toilet seat is statistically the cleanest place in your home. Your desk, kitchen sink, grocery card, and cellphone all have more bacteria.
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10. You're more likely to die on the way to buy lottery tickets than you are to actually win.
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11. Smelling is caused by molecules from other objects sticking to the inside of your nose.
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12. Restaurant ice machines are almost never cleaned. Trust me, they're really gross on the inside.
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13. A single kiss can transmit 40,000 parasites and up to 250 types of bacteria.
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14. According to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 16% of cell phones have poop on them.
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15. In World War II, George H W Bush's plane was shot down over Japan. He was one of 9 men on board. The other 8 men were captured and eaten.
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16. Thanks to FDA regulations, up 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs are allowed per 8 ounces of raisins
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17. The FDA also allowed 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs per pound of peanut butter.
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18. Cruel Nazi human experiments are the reason we know so much about the stages of hypothermia.
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19. On Mount Everest there are 200 corpses of failed climbers. They are used as guide points for climbers on their way up.
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20. Some species of butterfly have been known to seek out and drink human blood.
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21. Because they aren't as tasty as baby hens, baby roosters are usually tossed into a grinder after they're born.
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22. Feet can sweat up to 20 liters every day.
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23. Eskimo mothers use their mouths to suck the snot out of their babies' noses.
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24. In ancient Rome, the crushed brains of mice were used as toothpaste.
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25. According to a University of Arizona study, at least 20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter.
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