50 Scary Facts That People Shouldn't Know But Do, As Shared By People On This Thread

The more the ice caps melt, the higher the likelihood that some ancient bacteria is released and ravages our population.

A Jewish doctor treated Hitler’s Mother(The only person Adolf ever truly loved) while she was dying of cancer.

He promised his eternal gratitude to the doctor and even after becoming a pathological anti-Semite and later the Fuhrer, he was true to his word and was adamant the doctor and his family be placed under protection from the purge.

While some may think this an act of genuine kindness, I just think about all the lives lost because Hitler never stopped to think that all Jews were capable of good and not just the one who happened to have been good to him because of immediate proximity..

In ancient Egypt, the deceased bodies of beautiful and high ranking women were left to decay for several days before mummification to discuourage necrophilia by the embalmers.

A woodpecker retracts its tongue and wraps it around its brain to prevent injury when drilling into trees in search of insects,

Humans, being mostly Carbon, can be made into diamonds.

I plan to go the cheaper route and have my ashes be rolled into a glass paperweight. Some day I might even end up on the shelf of a Goodwill for $2.99

Edit: 3000 points has unlocked another, also disturbing fact.

Snow is so sound deadening, that your kid could be building a snowfort, have it collapse, and you wouldn't hear their cries for help. Even worse is when they're tunneling into one of those parking lot plow piles. They won't hear the plow coming.

That reports of child abuse dropped precipitously during the COVID-19 pandemic not because less children were abused but because teachers were unable to see the typical evidence of abuse because most teaching was conducted online.

Humans can live without their stomachs (and no you don’t necessarily need any ostomy bags either).

Ask me how I know…

Never mind, I’ll tell you.

I don’t have one any longer (stomach cancer).

Edit: Thank you kind strangers for the awards. ☺️ Never got one before and now I have two, scratch that FOUR Now

Edit 2:Y’all!!!! You are so sweet and kind. Thank you everyone for the well wishes, kindness and questions.

Please go get genetically tested for these things. So far 4 of the 6 members of my family don’t have stomachs anymore (all this year).

Genetic testing can save your life!

Edit 3: Fun fact: Us ones without stomachs call ourselves seahorses now because they don’t have stomachs either.

I was told by a very senior police officer (a parent of a kid I taught) that it is estimated that 30% of all missing persons reported to police who are never located have been murdered and more often than not they have been murdered by the person reporting them missing in the first place. The police know this, but lack evidence to proceed with prosecutions.

I remember hearing some dude (retired military) on a podcast talk about how fragile our electric grid really is, and if it ever went down some 60%-ish of the population would die in about 2-3 months because nobody knows how to gather food or water anymore.

Big corporation always calculate wether its cheaper to pay a fine/settlement rather than obey the law.

Elon Musk’s father is currently with and has a child with his step-daughter. He became her step-father when she was about 3

I think I speak with every woman on here: blood stains are easier to get out of fabric than you think they are with very few cleaning materials, provided you get to them quickly enough.

Most arsonists are found masturbating somewhere within a few blocks of their fires

That when you have a headache because you're extremely hungover, it's because your dehydrated brain is shriveling and pulling on the membranes that connect it to your skull.

Once I found that out it's made all of my hangover headaches much worse just thinking about it.

One of the most toxic chemicals on Earth is an organic mercury compound. The material safety sheet notes that it has a slightly sweet odor, but at a concentration where the smell is detectable, it is already lethal. That observation came from someone who would inevitably die from accidental exposure.

"If you cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you" doesnt mean the attorney is free

Edit: Holy s**t I didn't know this was going to catch so many eyes! For clarification this is in the US (suprise suprise) and this is on a state by state basis.

Doctors removed the eyes of Jack The Rippers last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the killer.

If you touch something you shouldn't, touch it again in the same place and the police can't get a fingerprint as one distorted the other.

Edit: This is no longer true as technology has solved the "issue". So wear gloves or don't do naughty things without consent.

If you skin a person alive and they somehow don't die of shock, they'll actually die due to hypothermia as without skin, they become unable to regulate their core body temperature.

If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains. Eating brains is how you catch a disease called Kuru. It is 100% lethal.