“Littered With Corpses”: 35 Strange Facts You’d Wish You Could Unlearn But Unfortunately Can’t

Otto Warmbier was on a group tour of No. Korea in January 2016. He was pulled out of line at the airport as he was headed home. He was detained and accused of stealing a poster with Kim Jong’s name on it. He was beaten, tortured and forced to give a confession written in stilted English (he claimed to have been tasked to steal the poster by a church “deaconess” in exchange for money when in fact he was Jewish). He was put on trial & sentenced to 17 years hard labor. Since there are no diplomatic relations with NK, the State Dept. could not intervene. 17 months later, NK suddenly announced he was ill and would be returned to his family. His head was shaved & he was blind, deaf and incoherently screaming. Parts of his brain were missing w/o surgery, which is thought to be the result of waterboarding. He lapsed into a coma and his family removed him from life support, and he died in June 2017. No explanation was ever revealed as to why he was targeted.

The night the titanic sinking was so dark the stars were the only thing survivors saw because the moon already set and the lights on the titanic went out.

There are tiny bugs living in/on your eyelashes - yes, even yours.

When humans die, their bowels “move”. For executions, prisoners have cotton balls stuffed up the colon to control the “movement “.

I’m not sure if it’s true, but I heard somewhere that your body is constantly fighting off cancers.

Chainsaws were invented to aid in childbirth.

You smell different when you’re asleep.

Only 50% of people have a reaction to bed bug bites. So lots of people being bit and living with bed bugs unknowingly.

Back in the 70s, when my mom was in h**h school, she dated a guy who was the captain of a rival h**h school's basketball team. The following year, he and two friends abducted 3 teenage girls, m******d them, and hid their bodies in the woods.

Another interesting fact is that the killers hosed down the trunk of the m****r car at the same car wash I used to go to when I lived in that town, and they also bought the rope that was used in the crime at a hardware store where my brother used to work.

And yet another interesting fact is that one of the 3 killers was arrested by my next door neighbor, who was a young State Police corporal at the time.

Amazingly, I only learned of this about 3 years ago reading a true crime blog.

I didn’t really learn it from someone, i realized it. Right now at this very second, wherever you are in the world, you are on top of probably thousands of different creatures including humans. It does not matter where you go, you will always be on top of someone’s or something’s grave. This earth has a lot of layers; it changes all the time.

Your skeleton is wet all the time.

After interning with a forensic anthropologist, if they ask to borrow your crock pot, say NO. It’s meant to “cook” the flesh off the bones so they can do the skeletal work. Smells weird, works well.

Type-1 Diabetics can fall victim to “DIBS” or “Dead In Bed Syndrome”. Essentially they pass away in their sleep for no apparent medical reason. It generally happens to younger diabetics and rarely over 40 years old. It cant directly be related to low or high blood sugar and it something that just happens (although somewhat rare).

Some English people in the 16th and 17th centuries ate crushed Egyptian mummies.

- 50% of breast cancers have already metastasised before you even get a diagnosis
- There are a lot of mutations that produce quite unspecific symptoms, so you might have one and don’t know and when you get kids, they might be affected a lot more than you.
- there was a medication for sleeping and anxiety reducing that resulted in a lot of children with birth defects. They were amazed b the medication at that time because it apparently didn’t make you addicted but they didn’t know the effect it would have on pregnancy or rather the unborn child. It’s called Contergan or Thalidomide if you wanna look it up.