The internet is a powerful tool. There are seemingly no limits to the amount of information, both relevant and completely irrelevant, you can look up on your screen at any given time​. Whether we’re talking history, wildlife, or downright amusing bites of wisdom nobody even asked for, the web makes it look like the world is a truly fascinating place. Well… usually. Because every now and then, your curiosity takes you to unfamiliar places where you wander into some terrifyingly creepy collections of trivia.

But facts are facts, no matter what. And to really see the whole picture, we sometimes have to roll up our sleeves and venture down the knowledge rabbit hole filled with darker tidbits of information. “What is a fun fact that is mildly disturbing?” asked Redditor chilloutjack and immediately kicked off a thread that is not for the faint of heart.

We’ve gathered some of the most ‘unfun’ responses from the thread to share with you all, so continue scrolling! Upvote your favorite entries and let us know which ones creeped you out the most below in the comments.

#1

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

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#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.

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#3

When you’re cremated, your teeth explode from the heat.

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#4

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.

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#5

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.

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#6

In infants, their adult teeth are behind their eyes

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#7

Dolphins can and will pick stuff up and move it around using their penises

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#8

The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.

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#9

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

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#10

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

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#11

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

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#12

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.

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#13

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.

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#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.

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#15

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

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#16

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.

#17

There are an estimated 35-50 active serial killers in the US. Famous serial killer Edmund Kemper (I think?) said he thinks that number is way higher because it was so easy not to get caught (he turned himself in).

#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

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#19

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

#20

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.

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#21

Anne Frank’s diary had lots of masturbation that later got cut out

#22

Bunnies actually have the ability to scream, but they will only scream if they feel they are about to die.

#23

Surinam toads gives birth from holes on their back. Seriously, it’s so painful to watch…

#24

They couldn’t give the firefighters from Chernobyl morphine, because their veins were literally melting.

#25

Coke (cocaine) was in Coke (the soft drink) and that’s why it’s called Coke.

#26

The world record for most kidney stones passed is 6,504 by Don Winfield, the most being removed is 172,155.
The largest kidney stone ever removed. was 20cm long and weighed 4.4 pounds, another being 13 cm.

#27

Moths will vibrate their genitals as a way to prevent bats from locating them

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#28

Jeffery Dahmer used to give his neighbors sandwiches.

#29

A Rat King happens when multiple rats become congealed together in a tangle of tails, dirt, hair and blood.

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#30

Male angler fish breed by attaching itself to the bottom of the female and inserting all of its insides inside of her

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#31

Burnt humans smell like smoked Texas barbecue.

Before anybody calls me a serial killer, I worked in a trauma ER and the bad burn victims smelled exactly like this.

#32

Want to ruin Finding Nemo?

Clownfish live in groups that are all male except for the biggest and most aggressive fish who is the Dominant Female. The next biggest fish is the Dominant Male, and these two are the only ones who breed. When the dominant female dies, the dominant male changes gender to become the dominant female. All the other males then fight to become the dominant male, and the cycle continues.

If you keep a Clownfish male on his own for long enough, he will become female.

#33

Your a*****e can stretch up to 8 inches without permanent damage and a raccoon can fit in a 4 inch hole

#34

Penguins will often work as prostitutes for other penguins to get stones for their nests

#35

When a fly lands on your food it vomits on it to prepare to eat it

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#36

Nutmeg was used as a hallucinogenic before modern drugs. It can also kill you if more than a tablespoon is eaten at once.”

#37

Owl wing feathers are unique in having comb-like leading (front) edges that change the way air moves over the surface and allows for incredibly silent flight. This is why owls are able to fly right at you, or prey, without the tell-tale ‘whoosh’ noise that you would hear if something like a hawk did the same.

#38

A lion’s tongue is so rough it can lick your skin off. I learned this valuable piece of information from a toy in a Arby’s kids’ meal when I was younger.

#39

It isn’t your sweat that smells, it comes from bacteria living on your body essentially s******g stuff out after they feast on your secretions

#40

Two out of three people have herpes. So, you probably have herpes. There are tons of herpes viruses. Not all of them cause sores.

#41

The sea cucumber will disembowel itself when it feels threatened. It will projectile vomit its digestive system to scare off a predator.

#42

Octopuses have what is called, “decentralized intelligence” which essentially means that their limbs have their own “intelligence”. For example, if a severed human limb touches acid or fire or anything that would cause pain, nothing would happen however if an octopus limb touches acid or fire, it would recoil and avoid it, even though it’s been severed and is no longer attached to the octopus.

#43

If it weren’t for a layer of snot lining the inner walls of your stomach, the acid would burn through you and your insides would fall onto the floor.

#44

Pineapples have an enzyme that dissolves meat, meaning that when you eat one, it’s technically eating you back.

#45

If you have a boob job, the database for implants is so well-kept and readily available across the country that they can identify your body based on the serial number of your implants.

#46

There’s a condition out there that when tissue get damaged, them body replaces the damaged tissue with bone instead of regenerating the organ, as the person ages, they become slowly encased in a prison of bone until they cannot move anymore, the organs inside them turn hard, and eventually they die at the age of 11, the longest reported life of someone who had this condition lived to 13

#47

Humans produce enough saliva in their lifetime to fill two swimming pools.

#48

He song hotel California is actually about drug addiction. For example, the “pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends.” Are actually he side affects. And “You can checkout any time you like. But you can never leave.” When I learned it, I was shocked.

#49

Brain Aneurysms have little to no warning (Headache) and are only diagnosable by CT Scan. Roughly **1 in 50 people in the US have an unruptured Brain aneurysm right now that could rupture at any time.** A quarter of BA cases were misdiagnosed and 75% of those we’re no CT scans ordered by the doctor.

Enjoy your next Headache.

#50

If you get bit by the right(wrong) fly, you can get worms in your eye(s).
They can live up to 17 years.

#51

If you contract rabies it can lay dormant in your body for years until one day you get a headache, and by then its already too late and you will slowly go insane and grow an erratic fear of water and Inability to swallow – then you die.

#52

There was something in the 1960s called Project Acoustic Kitty where basically the CIA wanted to put microphones and transmitters inside of cats and use them to spy on the Soviets. It cost about $20 million and was a huge failure, with the first cat supposedly getting hit by a car and killed immediately after being released. Even though it failed the thought of my own pet being used by the government to spy on me is pretty unsettling.

#53

Everyone has demodex, or eyelash mites, living in their eyelashes. They are microscopic and typically do not cause any issues. People may get skin problems if their demodex population gets out of control, but that can be avoided with proper hygiene.

They feed on dead skin cells, but they’ve apparently also started taking a liking to mascara.

Edit: I stand corrected. According to another user (I apologize, if you’re reading this, I don’t remember your username), only about ~1/5 of the population has them, but considering there’s over 7 billion humans on the planet, that’s still a lot of people lol

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