Though the sensation has probably been around since our ancestors developed emotions, it wasn’t until the middle of the 19th century that we started describing the uncanny as something that gives us “the creeps.” Charles Dickens, who enriched the English language with plenty of new words and expressions, is credited with the first use of the phrase in his 1849 novel ‘David Copperfield,’ to mean an unpleasant, tingly chill up the spine.
A few days ago, Reddit user Mimiqttt set out to find out what the definition means to different people, and posted a question on the platform, asking, “What are some creepy facts you know?” From natural phenomena to the biological workings of our bodies, here are some of the most popular answers they’ve received.
#1
One of the most common places to find a dead body is on the toilet. Cause when they’re alive and not feeling well, the first thing they do is go to the toilet thinking it could be a bowel issue.
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#2
When you have a kidney transplant, they don’t remove your original organs, and the Transplant does not go in the place of your old organ.
Source: have had three kidney transplants in my lifetime. I have a total of five kidneys in my body.
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#3
Due to human artificial selection, dogs are evolving eyebrows.
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#4
Your eyes have their own immune system that works separately from your body’s immune system. If your body’s immune system found out it would attack your eyes. I read this here and at my last eye appointment I asked if it was true. The eye doctor said “Yeah, it’s kinda weird” and I was like “Kinda?”
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#5
I believe around 5-10% of the ocean has been explored. We have the technology to study space but it’s not advanced enough to see what’s down there (due to water pressure and darkness and stuff)
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#6
There are about 40 supervolcanoes in the world that have yet to erupt. One supervolcano is in Yellowstone National Park and has a magma chamber that is large enough to fit the entire city of Tokyo inside it.
There’s no indication we’re due for a super eruption in our life time, but the thought it could happen still creeps me out.
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#7
For every 9 people on death row 1 is found to be innocent. Sometimes after death and sometimes after the innocent was on death row for 30 years.
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#8
The only double-hanging of women to be carried out in modern times was the execution of the Finchley baby farmers. Amelia Sach and Annie Walters would “adopt” unwanted babies for a fee. Then, supposedly, find homes for them. They did not find homes for the babies.
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#9
Cotard’s syndrome is a condition where you just think you’re dead or don’t exist. People who have it sometimes stop eating because they think they’re dead.
PurdueJohn:
Similarly there are high anxiety conditions of depersonalization and derealization, where someone doesn’t believe the world around or them exists or are real at all, or that they don’t exist themselves. My daughter had this when she was young. Quite unsettling.
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#10
Youngest “woman” (I use that term loosely) to give birth was 5 years old.
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#11
Today there are more slaves in the world that at any other time in history.
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#12
When a star dies it explodes and releases a gamma burst and it destroys all in its path, if one goes off near Earth it’ll lead to extinction and there’s no warning because it happens immediately.
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#13
Carmine, a red food dye commonly used in food and makeup, is made of COCHINEAL INSECTS.
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#14
When you eat figs you are quite likely to be also eating the mummified carcass of a wasp.
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#15
At any given time, there are 40-50 active serial killers in the United States.
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#16
You have millions of mites, known as demodex, living on your face.
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#17
The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells.
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#18
During the merger of two black holes,a black holes can occasionally get ejected from the system and get shot out into open space and become a wandering black hole, the creepy part for me is that because a large part of the way in which we see black holes is through their interactions with their surroundings we wouldn’t really be able to see it coming towards us
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#19
Really just the fact that we can die or have our lives unimaginably ruined at any moment from a basically endless number of ways and that eventually within a handful of decades (or maybe seconds or any time in between) or so it IS going to happen.
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#20
Last year in the US alone over half a million people were reported missing. About 1% are found.
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