There are pros and cons to having access to every piece of information at your fingertips. While it is convenient to simply pull out your phone if you need an important question answered, the downside is that you come across facts you wish you didn’t have to know.
Take these responses to a recent Reddit thread as an example. While most of them are trivial, a handful are shocking enough to make you think for a good few days. Before you know it, you’re doing your own deep dives, for better or worse.
If you’re fascinated by all things creepy, this list may be for you.
- Read More: “Littered With Corpses”: 35 Strange Facts You’d Wish You Could Unlearn But Unfortunately Can’t
#1
The scariest sound you can hear in the wilderness is no sound. When things stop making noise, it’s because there’s a predator in your direct vicinity, and they’re already hiding.
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#2
That 5 out of 4 people struggle with basic math.
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#3
Not so much creepy but 20 percent of men say they have nobody to talk to when they have a crisis.
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#4
How disturbing people’s thoughts really are & how you sometimes never know how much you’re at risk.
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#5
A really big percentage of morbidly obese people were sexually abused – had major trauma.
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#6
How age of consent laws around the world.vary from 12 to 19.
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#7
Your phone’s microphone can be activated without you knowing, and yes, apps *can* listen in even when they’re not open.
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#8
Human brain smell like wet pennies.
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#9
The jeepers creepers director was a kid fiddler, and they knew that, and knew about his prison record before they let him direct.
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#10
Your hearing is the last organ to shut down. I don’t know if that’s true, but a doctor told me that as a family member was actively dying.
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#11
Have a relative who works in a crematorium. Sometimes they find surgical tools in the cremains.
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#12
You don’t even know how close you’ve come to death many times.
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#13
That dead bodies can sit up on their own during decomposition due to muscle contractions. Nope. Didn’t need that info.
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#14
Do you know where the myth about storks bringing babies comes from?
Storks hunt small hares, and when those hares are in mortal danger, they cry like human babies…
So people would witness this scene and invent a sweet little tale that kind storks were delivering children to parents, when in reality, those bloodthirsty birds were carrying off helpless baby hares begging for mercy….
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#15
On average, you walk past about 36 murderers in your life. Depends on where you live, but still creepy thought.
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#16
Why we know the % of water the human body contains….
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#17
An entire village was wiped out by a carbon dioxide cloud. 1700 people. No warning, just silent, unescapable death.
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#18
Otto Warmbier was on a group tour of No. Korea in January 2016. He was pulled out of line at the airport as he was headed home. He was detained and accused of stealing a poster with Kim Jong’s name on it. He was beaten, tortured and forced to give a confession written in stilted English (he claimed to have been tasked to steal the poster by a church “deaconess” in exchange for money when in fact he was Jewish). He was put on trial & sentenced to 17 years hard labor. Since there are no diplomatic relations with NK, the State Dept. could not intervene. 17 months later, NK suddenly announced he was ill and would be returned to his family. His head was shaved & he was blind, deaf and incoherently screaming. Parts of his brain were missing w/o surgery, which is thought to be the result of waterboarding. He lapsed into a coma and his family removed him from life support, and he died in June 2017. No explanation was ever revealed as to why he was targeted.
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#19
The night the titanic sinking was so dark the stars were the only thing survivors saw because the moon already set and the lights on the titanic went out.
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#20
There are tiny bugs living in/on your eyelashes – yes, even yours.
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#21
When humans die, their bowels “move”. For executions, prisoners have cotton balls stuffed up the colon to control the “movement “.
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#22
I’m not sure if it’s true, but I heard somewhere that your body is constantly fighting off cancers.
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#23
Chainsaws were invented to aid in childbirth.
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#24
You smell different when you’re asleep.
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#25
Only 50% of people have a reaction to bed bug bites. So lots of people being bit and living with bed bugs unknowingly.
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#26
Your skeleton is wet all the time.
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#27
After interning with a forensic anthropologist, if they ask to borrow your crock pot, say NO. It’s meant to “cook” the flesh off the bones so they can do the skeletal work. Smells weird, works well.
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#28
Type-1 Diabetics can fall victim to “DIBS” or “Dead In Bed Syndrome”. Essentially they pass away in their sleep for no apparent medical reason. It generally happens to younger diabetics and rarely over 40 years old. It cant directly be related to low or high blood sugar and it something that just happens (although somewhat rare).
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