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

•A dead body in the beginning stages of decomp smell like wet hay

•if you die alone and become a “bloater” they pop you like a big zit before removal

•the best way to remove frozen brain matter off the sidewalk is a flame thrower

Confessions of an emergency cleanup specialist ♥️😏

Dolphins throw around pufferfish like a volley ball just to play with them. They also get high off their toxins. Talk about a puff and pass.

People dying often smell sweet. Not in a sugary way, but much more in flowery way. It's the decompositions of the body already starting. It can also smell vaguely like alcohol, especially their breath

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

Edit: the average American

A perfectly healthy person can have a seizure at any point for no apparent reason.

The human brain has neurons misfire all the time. 99.999% of the time you don't notice because there's no noticeable effect, but if the wrong couple neurons misfire at the same time it can induce a seizure.

Source: happened to me

22 U.S. Military Veterans commit suicide each day.

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.

That Robert Pickton, serial killer in British Columbia, used to dispose of bodies at a local fat rendering plant, meaning that many of the products made from that plant, think gummies or anything gelatin related, likely contained human remains.

That in ancient egypt it was a regular occasion that all people watched the pharao masturbate in to the nile

A cremation oven is about 1800° F. Lava is about 2000° F. Hawaii has accessible lava.

The US military conducted chemical weapons tests on 60,000 US service members during WWII. It was kept secret until the 1990’s and wasn’t widely known until NPR wrote an investigative story on it in 2015.

The body fat of a drowned person turns into a soap-like substance if they stay under water with no air contact

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.

I've learnt of some uncomfortable facts from some Aztec (Mexica) fammily which has been passed down from generation to generation, though I don't know how true this one is:

During a ritual, Aztec kings used to bring some victims up the tall pyramid so they may be sacrificed to their gods. Typically, these victims were tossed along the side of the very jagged rocks and we're usually found dead at the bottom.

The priests would gather the bodies and cut them up for distribution to the people according to importance, so the king got the best piece and his family and the other priests received some parts, etc. They inevitably ate these pieces as part of their ritual.

Of course they didn't just munch on them, they prepared them like any other meat and usually ate them with soups.

Fast forward to the time when the conquistadores came from Spain. These guys show up not long after some ritual took place, then the Aztecs welcomed them in and shared their food.

You can figure out by now where this is going, these conquistadores ate the soup so they inquired about what it was made of and sure enough they found out.

Although eating human meat was a big no no, the Spaniards actually enjoyed it. So when they inevitably conquered over the Aztecs, they ended up keeping the recipe of that soup. Instead of using human meat though, they used pork since they've said that it tastes similar.

We still eat that today, it's called Pozole (Pozilli).

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.

19th century murderer William Palmer's last words to the hangman who would take his life were "Are you sure it's safe?"

Charles Dickens called him "the greatest villain that ever stood in the Old Bailey."

4% of people on Death Row are innocent

The witch in Hansel and Gretel actually was cooking the two kids correctly, by using low heat cauldron over a long time with fatty meat, cuz she fattened them

Using a dead animal to try and throw off body sniffing dogs is a myth spread around to try and get people to trip up. If there's disturbed ground and some random animal 3-4ft down you can bet your booty that entire areas getting turned over.

Takes 3hrs for a 180lb human to completely dissolve in a bathtub of potassium hydroxide.