Sure, we can turn a blind eye to the dark side of the world. But that won’t make it any brighter. I would even argue that we should, on the contrary, venture into the shadows. Into the unknown. I believe we’d come out with a better understanding of ourselves. Or at the very least, of our surroundings.
Luckily, there are two Reddit posts we can use as starting points for our journey. One by u/Literal-Pile-of-Poo and the other by u/Yoloextreme345. They’re phrased differently but essentially ask the same thing and invite other users to share some of the most disturbing facts they know. And many have. Here are some of the most popular submissions.
#1
When X-ray technology first became widely available to pediatricians, they noticed a startling high number of broken bones. Befuddled doctors assumed there was a previously unknown pediatric bone disease being observed for the first time. Turns out we had no idea how common child abuse is.
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#2
Giving birth has higher mortality rate than having an abortion.
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#3
Whales don’t die from old age they just lose the strength to pull them selves up for air and slowly sink and drown
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#4
Right now, your Government is doing things YOU think only OTHER Governments do.
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#5
Three of the air packs that were found on the wreckage of the Challenger disaster were activated, meaning at least one of the astronauts was alive all the way to the ocean.
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#6
I was told by a very senior police officer (a parent of a kid I taught) that it is estimated that 30% of all missing persons reported to police who are never located have been murdered and more often than not they have been murdered by the person reporting them missing in the first place. The police know this, but lack evidence to proceed with prosecutions.
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#7
Doctors used to perform heart surgery on infants without anesthesia. Thankfully this practice was ended.
In the 1980s.
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#8
There are face mites which live inside your pores next to your hair follicle, eat your sebum, don’t have anuses and come out at night to mate on your skin. And there’s nothing you can do about it. I’m so sorry.
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#9
Urine used to be an ingredient in stained glass.
So now whenever I see old churches with stained glass, I think of piss-stained rainbow windows.
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#10
There is micro plastic in everything you eat and drink. Even the air you breathe contains plastic
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#11
The average polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill 52 adults.
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#12
One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure.
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#13
Around 30 people die every year, getting crushed from shaking a vending machine.
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#14
I remember being told eggs have a protein structure so similar to our blood that you could use blood as an egg substitute in cakes etc.
Really wish I wasn’t told that
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#15
Dolphins cut of the head of smaller fish and use it for masturbation.
Nature is wonderful innit?
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#16
The fungus that can take over a bug’s brain and turn them into basically a real life zombie ant
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#17
A human head can twist approximately 306° before it pops off
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#18
In order to conserve water, a camel’s urine comes out as a thick syrup.
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#19
You can grow teeth on your ovaries.
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#20
Decomposing bodies:
Generally, it could take about a year for the body to decompose into a skeleton in ordinary soil and eight to twelve years to decompose a skeleton.
And if a dead body is inside a coffin and buried deep underground, it could even take 50 years to decompose all tissues on the body.
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#21
It takes 8 pounds of pressure to tear off a human ear; a force approximately equivalent to crushing a soda can.
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#22
The body fat of a drowned person turns into a soap-like substance if they stay under water with no air contact
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#23
Anything and everything about Albert Fish. Man was a true degenerate. If you’re faint of heart or have a weak stomach, do NOT look him up. Absolutely disgusting. I wish I could unread everything I read about him.
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#24
That some tumors can grow teeth and hairs
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#25
Your bones are warm and wet.
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