These Recently Discovered "Unfun Facts" Are Stirring Up People In The Most Intense Ways

Life isn't simply about cute animals, amusing artwork, and heartwarming stories. Our world is filled with unsettling historical and scientific truths that can make anyone feel uneasy and a little nauseous.

However, we believe that facts are facts: we must do our best to see the big picture, even if some things don't make us feel warm and fuzzy. We compiled a list of the most 'unfun' facts about life on Earth as shared by internet users on the r/AskReddit subreddit.

With excellent and exciting knowledge, everyone wants to appear to be the most intelligent person in the room. While I enjoy strange and amusing facts, Did You Know information can be used as supporting evidence in a timed essay, a debate, or even a discussion.

Did You Know facts assist you in broadening your knowledge base, so you're prepared for any occasion and have the bonus of making you appear to be an expert on any subject? Did you know you can include irrelevant facts in your writings, debates, and conversations?

Did you know that facts strengthen and revitalize your argument? There's a whole world of entertaining and interesting facts available on various topics.

Scroll down to read them. We must warn you that these truths are not for the faint of heart.

1. The youngest mother.

The youngest person to ever give birth was a Peruvian girl, Lina Medina, a Quechua Indian who gave birth to a child in 1939 at the age of 5. She had precocious puberty and had her first period at eight months old. 

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2. Fatal insomnia.

Fatal familial insomnia exists. It’s a rare, incurable prion disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually, you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.

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3. Sad and disturbing truth of Ducky.

Judith Barsi, the little girl who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time, was murdered by her father at the age of ten. All they found of her and her mother were charred remains. The father shot himself afterward.

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4. The loneliest whale on earth.

There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at that frequency, meaning it can’t communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.

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5. Gas chambers

When the gas chambers were first assembled and experimented with at the Auschwitz concentration camp, the SS soldiers overseeing the process found that the people inside would start screaming as soon as the gas agent was released. The screaming was so loud that it could be heard through the thick walls of the building, and the victims would continue screaming for 20 minutes until it gradually faded to nothing. 

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6. The excitement can kill you.

You have a higher chance of dying on the way to get a lottery ticket than actually winning.

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7. How?

A new mattress weighs about 90 lbs, while a used mattress weighs about 110 lbs.

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8. Preparing a body after death.

When preparing a body for an open casket, the mortician will sew the person's jaw shut (to keep their mouth from flopping open) and place special contact lenses on the eyes lined with hooks, both to prevent the eyelid from snapping open due to shrinking tissues and to give the eye a bit more natural bulge, as the eye tends to sink into the socket after death.

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9. We are a result of a miracle.

From 1948 to the end of the Cold War, there were approximately 5,000 close calls in which nuclear weapons were launched or detonated. The fact that we are alive is a statistical miracle.

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10. Marriage and age limits.

There are only two states in the US that have outlawed child marriage. One of them only just enacted the law a few weeks ago. Twenty-three states don’t even have an age limit on marriage.

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11. If Hitler had not survived.

When Hitler was four years old, he fell into a pond next to a church and nearly drowned. However, the priest jumped in and saved his life. To think that WWII and the Holocaust, as well as modern history as a whole, could have been prevented if not for that man is mind-blowing.

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12. Modern-day slavery

There are more slaves today than at any time in history.

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13. Sea turtles don't get to experience adulthood.

Only one in every 1,000 sea turtles born ever makes it to adulthood.

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14. I'd rather get tanned than get cancer.

When your skin becomes red from spending too much time in the sunlight, it’s basically because your skin cells are committing suicide to avoid becoming cancerous.

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15. Rabies kills.

After experiencing the symptoms of rabies, there is no going back; you are dying 100%.

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16. We are in nuclear danger at all times.

There are at least eight nuclear weapons known to be missing.

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17. Brain aneurysm

Anyone can have a brain aneurysm at any age, regardless of their health situation.

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18. Left-handed people should not use power tools.

Left-handed people are most likely to die in an accident involving a power tool because they’re all designed by right-handed people for right-handed people.

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19. Approaching death

When you look at that reality, you realize that despite not being at the end of your life, you may very well be nearing the end of your time with some of the most important people in your life. If I lay out the total days I’ll ever spend with each of my parents—assuming I’m as lucky as can be—this becomes starkly clear.

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20. Voice recordings.

Your voice on recordings is actually how your voice really sounds. Your voice in your head is a bit muffled and deeper because the sound travels through your head instead of through the air. That's why it feels weird to hear your own voice recorded.

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21. Forgotten even when alive

One day, the last person who knows your name will die, and you will be forgotten.

You could still be alive when this happens.

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22. Sweet tooth.

A human tooth has 36 calories.

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23. Are bears so cruel?

Most animals will kill you before eating you; bears just start eating you.

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24. How do we finish the game of tag?

You might still be “it” from an unfinished game of tag.

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25. Wow, interesting.

According to quantum mechanics, there's a small chance the whole universe will suddenly disappear in the next five seconds. Also, there's a small chance the universe, the Earth, all the people, the buildings, whatever device you are reading this from, your posts, the replies, the whole internet, your knowledge of everything, your personality, your memories, your existence, etc., was created just one second ago.

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26. Child helpline has a busiest day, sadly.

Child helplines' busiest day is Christmas Eve because parents get drunk and whatnot. It's so sad to think about.

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27. Do not touch an AM radio broadcast tower.

Touching an AM radio broadcast tower will kill you, and not only will it kill you, but it will hurt the entire time you're dying.

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28. Increase in death rate.

More Americans died in two months from COVID-19 than in ten years of the Vietnam War.

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29. Brain-eating amoebas.

Brain-eating amoebas exist and are commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. Apparently, only four people have survived contracting it in the last 50 years.

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We aren't generally aware of many unusual and exciting things. This list covers some strange facts, some of which are plausible, some of which are unbelievable, and some simply unusual.

Share these with your loved ones and make them aware of these odd, unfun facts. Let us know in the comments which fact was the most mind-boggling.