45 Facts That Sound Made Up But Are, Unfortunately, Very Real

Superfecundation is when two eggs are fertilized by different s***m in the same menstrual cycle. This can result in a woman having twins with different fathers. Happens a lot with cats and dogs but is possible with humans.

Because I am autistic I decided to share this fact in polite company, namely to my prudish aunt at a dinner party. She did not think it was as interesting as I think it is.

The general public can't discern foreign disinformation campaigns and is an active participant in destroying the very democracy that blessed them with rights & freedoms in the first place. Slush brain tik tok syndrome has destroyed an entire generation. Enjoy democracy while it lasts, the social experiment is being pushed to its limits and being dismantled by its own people. Scary times ahead. Tolerating intolerance will be the end of it.

Public bathroom, at least in France, have blue light so that you can’t see your veins and can’t do d***s in them.

Senior living communities or centers have higher rates of STD’s than college campus’s in the US.

Actually, about 8% of your DNA comes from ancient viruses that infected your ancestors millions of years ago. Those viruses got stuck in the genome and have been passed down ever since. So yeah… part of you is literally old zombie virus DNA. Sweet dreams.

In 1931, a radiology technician named Carl Tanzler became obsessed with a young tuberculosis patient, Elena de Hoyos, in Florida. After she died, Tanzler exhume her body, brought it home, and lived with her corpse for seven years. To maintain the decomposing body, he fastened her bones together with piano wire, replaced her eyes with glass, substituted her decaying skin with silk soaked in wax, and packed her torso with rags to preserve her shape. He was only caught when Elena's sister spotted him dancing with the mannequin-like corpse through a window.

Statistically, the "stranger danger" campaigns protect only a tiny proportion of victims of CSA; the majority know their attacker, and in as many as 50% of cases (depending on country) the a****r is a close relative...

Maybe "Baddy Daddy" would have been more effective?

Koala’s only source of food is eucalyptus, which is toxic to all animals including koalas. The only way they can digest it is by eating their mother’s feces while they are young. This gives them the enzyme to digest it.

If a child is kidnapped by a stranger and found d**d, they are almost always d**d within the first hour.

I know this because my partner helped build the child abductor profile for the RCMP. statistically there is a greater than 80% chance the child was d**d before anyone noticed they were missing.

Male giraffes will headbutt female giraffes in the bladder to force them to pee. The male will then drink the pee to determine if the female is ovulating.

Human pubic lice are not closely related to human head lice; they are, however, closely related to gorilla lice.

Humans can live and "talk" with their skull open and half their brain sitting separate as a pile of goo in the back seat while the rest of them are still in the driver's seat.
At least 40minutes, probably over an hour.

Sat with a guy i found in a car wreck next to the road at night while waiting for the ambulance.

Anesthesiologist not just put you into some deep sleep, he “k*lls you” a bit, and take care for working of the vital systems. They jokingly say: “the surgeon operates you, while we try to keep you as alive as possible”.

Disney owns the domain muppetf*cker.net.

Around 60% of the world has herpes. That's a lot.

Ducks are in an evolutionary war about being harder to mate with and better at doing it (in the most polite language). The resulting anatomy is... surprising.

The scientific name for the largest cockroach on earth is Megaloblatta Longipennis.

About 50% of people stand when they wipe, and 50% stay seated/crouch.

It’s possible to NOT brush your teeth for your entire life and still have healthy teeth. Cavities are formed from a very specific bacteria which are contagious. If you haven’t encountered that bacteria yet, you are far less likely to get cavities even if you dont brush.

Sometimes elderly people get really constipated, where laxatives and enemas won't do the trick. So you have to put on some latex gloves and go in to dig it out.

Actually not only elderly people. If you're really constipated and you can tell it's there but won't come out, you can absolutely do this. Just be careful not to hurt yourself. It's called disimpacting.