People On The Internet Share Some 30 Disturbing Facts So We Could Learn About Them

Some of these are things that we're better off not knowing.

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• Published in Interesting
• January 18, 2022

Knowledge is power. But even if we become knowledgeable, there are still things we have yet to discover.

There is so much to know about the world that we can only discover a small fraction of it. We don't know what truly lies beneath the ocean and what's up there in space.

But one thing's for certain. When we unearth a new discovery, we love sharing it with other people so that they can benefit from the knowledge as well.

Some facts are wonderful, while others are so weird and creepy. And today, we're looking at the latter.

AskReddit is a community that encourages thought-provoking questions. A Reddit user by the name CallofDutysVeryOwn asks the community.

What is the most disturbing fact you know of?

The thread went viral as it had 17.4k responses as of writing. It seems that people are eager to discover new things, even if they're disturbing.

But even the creepiest things can be the most interesting. This is especially true for people who enjoy being weirded out of frightened.

And if you're one of those people who like casually discussing weird stuff, this post may be for you. We compiled 30 of the most interesting responses in the thread, so let's take a look!

1. Out of every 20,000 to 250,000 neck cracks, one would produce a small tear, which could eventually lead to a blood clot and finally, a stroke.

2. One redditor is disturbed by the fact that attention-craving people and idiots are given a platform. He watched a 747 pilot that disproves TikTok videos that encourage risky behaviors on planes.

3. Squirrels are carnivorous too! If they're really hungry, they would pray on small chipmunks.

4. Bacteria's resistance to antibiotics is on a whole new level.

Their resistance has become rampant that even the most potent bombacillins won't stand a chance. At some point, a simple wound or sinus infection can cause one's life.

The redditor is against taking Z-pak for colds. And if you were prescribed antibiotics, you have to finish them.

5. About half of the homeless in the USA were in a foster care system at some point.

6. Around 11.5 million documents leaked from a Panama tax office in 2016 revealed something about rich people.

Almost all of them are part of a large criminal conspiracy that allows them to accumulate stolen wealth and evade taxes. No one filed charges against these people.

7. If you don't produce children, then you're the last descendent that returns to being a unicellular organism floating in a soup.

8. Many toilets flush producing the E flat sound.

9. In the past, babies undergo operations without anesthetics. People at the time believed that their nervous system has not developed enough to sense the pain.

10. A brain injury can change you into a completely different person.

11. Wildlife has been disappearing since the '70s and it continues to do so.

12. A parent might have already used you as a bad example.

13. An AA participant admits that people go to work when drunk, including airline pilots.

14. Mummies weren't as rare, but that was until Victorian British consumed many of them as a form of medicine.

15. Cobras actually growl.

16. Trauma rewires the brain in such a way that makes problem-solving and forming an attachment a challenge.

17. In every 200 people, one is related to Genghis Khan.

18. After World War II, only 20% of males born in 1923 in the Soviet Union survived.

19. The number of soldiers stationed in Alaska who are suicidal or depressed is off the charts.

20. Life is experienced logarithmically rather than linearly.

The years are becoming shorter as we become older. And there's a math formula for it called Weber's Law.

21. Facebook knows everything about you.

22. Remember the noises made by Velociraptors in the Jurrasic Park/World? They were actually the sounds produced by mating tortoises.

23. A time will come when stars will stop being born and they will all cease to exist.

24. The 52 Blue is the name for the loneliest whale on Earth.

It produces sounds at a 52-Hertz frequency. In other words, it cannot communicate with its kind.

25. Congressmen who are elected can get away with insider trading.

26. Brain aneurism could occur anytime, and you wouldn't know it.

27. A sense of impending doom is a symptom of a wrong blood type transfusion.

28. Blind people may never know what the color black really is.

29. Why do dogs love squeaky toys? Because they produce the sound of a scared or injured prey.

30. When oysters are cloudy, it means that they have a lot of reproductive fluids.

While the world is full of beauty and wonder, there is always a flipside.

There's a great number of disturbing things as well. And we're already dealing with some of these.

These facts of life might make us feel uneasy. But at the same time, it's better to know them, especially if we can do something about them ourselves.

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