There are many
disturbing facts that most people know, but here are some that you maybe haven't heard before. Scraped together by the minds of
AskReddit, here are 27 facts that are definitely disturbing, and more than a bit obscure. Perhaps by the end you'll have wished you stayed in the dark for some of these. After all, ignorance is bliss as they say.
Why do you want to know these disturbing facts anyway? I myself am more than a bit disturbed after collecting them, and am reminded more of the horrors of the world than of its wonders. We are feeble beings on the individual level after all, susceptible to all forms of malfortune from sickness to accidents to violence. I try to take a positive outlook on life, celebrating its wonder and gifts. And then I read all these disturbing facts. Read them at your own risk, and enjoy them at your own expense.
1
It will take only a rock with a width of 0.6 miles to threaten our entire species' existence. Even smaller rocks of around 130ft across can cause our planet cataclysmic damage.
2
The person you marry is the person most likely to murder you!
3
Sherpas use dead bodies left on Everest to understand their locations.
4
In WW2 Japan bombed China with bubonic plague infected fleas.
5
Your body is fully developed by 24, and not long after you reach that you just start to die, no getting better.
6
You can make dead bodies make sounds with their vocal cords while they're being embalmed.
7
A 42-year-old woman in Delaware committed suicide and it was mistaken for a Halloween decoration.
8
Drowning is quiet, and most kids drown right in front of the person that’s supposed to be watching them.
9
The act of hitting someone in the head won’t actually knock them out. It’s more likely to kill them. In movies, you see people hit a person on the head with something heavy, like a book or a brick or even heavier items. This won’t knock a person out so much as give them a concussion or flat out just kill them - our heads are pretty fragile.
10
Approximately 5 lbs of your body weight is bacteria.
11
Sperm can be ejaculated at up to 42 mph.
12
In America less than 9% of recyclables are actually recycled.
13
In the Czech Republic, there is a church that is decorated with the bones of 10,000 dead people.
14
Because their necks are so long, it takes a giraffe 30 minutes to throw up.
15
Adult teeth in toddlers are right under their eyes.
16
If your stomach didn't develop a new layer of mucus every two weeks, the acids would cause your stomach to dissolve.
17
You need to rotate a human head 3 times to fully decapitate it because of the elasticity of the skin.
18
Studies have shown that 95% of drivers think they drive better than average.
19
Statistically you will walk past 14 murderers in your lifetime and without realising.
20
Algeria’s national anthem was written in blood on the wall of a prison cell.
21
People with night terrors don't remember them. So if you never told them they had night terrors they would go their whole life thinking they slept well.
22
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel in 1838 in which 4 shipwrecked survivors, at the point of starvation, choose to resort to cannibalism. So they kill the young cabin boy, Richard Parker, and eat him. In 1884, a ship called the Mignonette sank. 4 crew members survived. At the point of starvation, they killed and ate the youngest of them: Richard Parker.
23
Child labor is not banned in the US, for farm labor. Less than a handful of states in the US have totally banned slavery. Colorado was the first, in 2018. Yes, you read that year right. There was once an effort to ban child labor by constitutional amendment. It didn't pass.
24
Every time you 'remember' something, you're just remembering the last time you remembered it. That's why they are unreliable.
25
Floating in outer space has what’s called “micro gravity”. It’s not a free floating feeling like in a pool but actually feels like the moment before you drop when falling.
26
Sharks aren't just older than the first trees but also the rings of Saturn.
27
The Challenger crew compartment stayed intact after the initial explosion, and for three of them their emergency air systems had been manually activated. So not only did they survive the explosion, but it's entirely possible the crew was alive and conscious during their entire descent back to Earth.
