22 Interesting But Horrible Facts That Are Going To Shake You Up In The Worst Ways Possible
Before this list was put together, everything was so much better, but now…
Some facts are fascinating, and some are fascinating in the most unsettling way possible. This list leans hard into the second category, with strange details that are equal parts shocking, gross, and hard to forget.
From medical oddities to eerie reminders about the human body and the world around us, these facts are the kind that make you pause mid-scroll. They are short, surprising, and just disturbing enough to stick with you long after you finish reading.
If you like trivia that leaves you a little uneasy, this one should do the trick.
1. Throwing up
It's 100% possible for you to throw up poop, and it's called feculant vomiting.
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Around 7,000 people are killed every year because of doctors' bad handwriting, and many of these errors are caused by illegible prescriptions or dosage recommendations.
Jose Luis Pelaez Inc / Getty Images3. The eyes
The eyes aren't taken care of by your immune system, and if it could, it would hurt them. Therefore, the eye has its own immune response separate from your immune system.
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4. Wow!
You have a much smaller chance of picking up harmful germs from kissing a dog than you do from kissing a human.
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5. Learning more every day
The bodies of those who drown in Lake Tahoe seldom decompose or rise to the surface. This is because the lakes are too cold for bacteria to live, so there is nothing to decompose the bodies.
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Some of these facts are hard to unsee once you know them.
6. Fir trees can actually grow in human lungs
A 28-year-old patient named Artyom Sidorkin reportedly inhaled the seed of a fir tree, which had sprouted and grown in his lung. Doctors thought they were dealing with a tumor and were stunned when they made the discovery.
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7. So sad
If someone is murdered in the US, there's a 1 in 3 chance that police will never identify your killer.
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8. What!
The seats in theaters are sometimes cloth cushions, and bed bugs are drawn to the amount of CO2 expelled there. So, you can get bed bugs from movie theater seats.
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9. Oh no!
Before 1987, doctors operated on babies without anesthesia, partially because they didn't think babies could feel pain, but they did.
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10. Too bad
More 250,000 deaths are recorded every year due to medical errors, and that's more than 684 per day.
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11. No apparent cause of death
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is a condition where someone who looks healthy dies suddenly with no apparent cause of death.
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12. Bacteria on frosting
As a result of people blowing out candles on a birthday cake, there is a 1,400% increase in bacteria on the frosting.
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That one definitely lands in the gross category.
This is the same kind of “wait, that cannot be real” energy as 81 Visual Anomalies That Will Leave Your Logic Spinning In The Mud.
13. *Shocked*
Cockroaches have been recorded eating both living and dead human flesh, as well as fingernails, eyelashes, feet, and hands.
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14. Seriously?
Around 72% of shopping carts contain fecal bacteria.
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15. Brain aneurysm
Around 1 in 50 individuals in the United States currently have a brain aneurysm that hasn't ruptured yet.
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16. Also, a brain aneurysm ruptures around once every 18 minutes
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17. Huh?
The air you breathe in a train station is 15% human skin, and even if you leave the train station, 80% of the floating specks you see in a sunbeam are also skin.
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18. Murders that are not recorded
The homicide archivist, Thomas Hargrove, estimates that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large now. In his records, there are more than 27,000 murders that are not in FBI files.
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19. Imaginary friends
About 20% of children report hearing voices, and their explanation is that they have an imaginary friend.
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20. Sun explosion
If the sun were to explode now, the energy from the explosion would travel at the speed of light, and it would take 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the sun to the Earth.
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21. Dogs like squeaky toys because...
...they mimic the screams of their prey, and there's a theory that they rip the squeaker out of the toy because they think it's alive as long as it squeaks.
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22. Woah!
The dead actually outnumber the living 15 to 1.
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This is certainly one list that has a lot of incredible facts that are horrifying and will blow your mind. Believe me when I say that I was much better off before putting together this list, but then, I guess we learn every day.
Which of these facts shocked you to your bone marrow? Share them below and remember to share this article as well.
Some facts really do stick with you.
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