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

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.

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

Most arsonists are found [self-pleasuring] somewhere within a few blocks of their fires

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.

I once read that the average person walks past 36 murderers during their life.

Edit: the average American

A person split in half by the stomach doesn't die instantly. It has some lastly moments of suffering.

Source: a person was hit by a train and split in half in front of me. He took some time to die.

Cows can create mummified foetuses inside of their uterus. If the foetus dies and is not retrieved, the body absorbs all the liquids and humidity from the foetus, and what is left is a tiny dried up hard solid mummy of a calf.

Otters are serial rapists and murderers

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.

Orcas will slap baby seals 80+ ft into the air with their tails until the seal's skin comes off, and eventually dies. The orcas will then not even eat it after, meaning that they literally just do it for fun.

Freddie mercury’s last words were ‘pee pee’ as he needed help going to the toilet