Creepy Facts A Thread

5: SCARIEST THING WE DIDN'T KNOW

SCARIEST THING WE DIDN'T KNOW

WARNING: This stuff is some combination of gross, haunting, or paranoia-inducing. You're on your own with any lasting issues caused by these facts.

1) Humans shed skin, too. Like a lot of skin. According to the WHO (World Health Organization) and recent studies, the average person will shed roughly 112 pounds of skin in their lifetime.

2) We can solve American homelessness easier than you think. On average, there are over 17,000,000 vacant homes in America at any given time. Meanwhile, according to EndHomelessness.org, there are roughly half a million homeless people on the states. We have enough vacant homes to give each homeless person several homes. (And still leave out anything haunted.)

3) Your cellphone is more disgusting than a public toilet. Your cellphone has 10 times more bacteria on it than the average public restrooms.

4) Our doctors may be killing us. Okay, that was dramatic. Please, if you feel like something is wrong – go see a health professional. But, it's interesting (read: terrifying) to know that roughly 250,000 deaths are caused by medical error each year.

5) We've found the most terrifying defense mechanism. Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism.

6) You can be trapped in a coma-like state and be aware of it. Locked-in Syndrome might just be the most terrifying medical condition. It's when you're stuck between being asleep and awake. You know you're awake and can hear and see things around you. However, can't talk and can only move your eyes so you're unable to respond to anything.

7) Your cat can sense when you're dying. A pet cat, named Oscar, resided in a nursing home and was believed to be able to tell when one of the residents would soon die. He'd sleep beside them until they passed.

8) Rat Kings are real (and even harder to look at than the Tiger King). When a group of rats  living in a close quarters get their tails tangled together (this can happen for many reasons), they're called a "rat king".

9) Never say you've been 'eaten alive' by mosquitoes, again. That was an actual method of execution. Scaphism was an ancient form of torture and execution where you'd cover someone with honey, stick them in a hallowed log and let nature works its course.

10) Pine trees have proven that they can grow inside the body. Doctors recently went into surgery to remove what they thought was a tumor. It turned out to be a fir tree growing in the man's lungs.

11) There might be a haunted Russian radio station. UVB-76 is a low-frequency radio station that has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows where the broadcast is originating. It's mostly just a buzzing noise with occasional Russian voice transmission.

12) Your child is exactly as creepy as you think they are. Twenty percent of children report hearing voices. It could be imaginary friends or .....

13) Attack of The Killer Bees might not be too far from the truth. The Japanese giant hornet has a venom so powerful, it's said to "melt" human flesh.

14) One-third of murderers go unsolved in the United States. Is there anything else that needs to be said?

15) More than 80 million bacteria are exchanged in a single kiss. Think about that next time you give your date a kiss. Is it really worth it?

16) There was a chicken called Mike the Headless Chicken that lived for 18 months after its head was cut off.

17) Babies grow mustaches in the womb then spread to cover their entire body in hair called Lanugo. The body hair keeps them warm and helps regulate body temperature. Don't worry, they she'd it before birth.

18) It takes the death of 27,000 trees daily to make toilet paper for humans.

19) A human being can fill a swimming pool with the spit they produce in their lifetime.

20) Crows are so intelligent they can recognize a human face. So don't get one mad, okay?

21) We all have teeny tiny mites living on our eyelashes.

22) The Catacombs of Paris hold the bones and remains of nearly 6 million people.

23) The Pacu fish from South America has a human-like teeth.

24) With all the explosions, movement, combustion, and mayhem, the universe is still completely silent. That's because there's no air for the sound to travel through vibrations like it does on Earth.

25) An astronaut's footprint on the moon can remain there for a million years.

26) You can actually fit all the planets in the Solar System (sorry, not you Pluto) in the space between the Earth and the Moon.

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