Have you ever read something online and promptly closed your laptop immediately after? In the information age, it’s difficult to avoid things like that, with news, random comments, and other harbingers of unsavory facts.
But sometimes, you get that itch to read something strange, weird, or simply downright disturbing. Well, we're here for that. We dove in and found a bunch of weird facts from people who wish they had never found out about them.
More info: Reddit
#22

A guy I used to work with had either a condition or got a virus (I don't remember which, this was about 20 years ago) that attacked his spine; he went to bed fine and woke up the next day totally paralyzed from the waist down. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There was no slow progression, just walking fine one day and completely unable to walk the next.
Edit: I just looked up his obituary (he passed in 2011) he apparently had Transverse Myelitis that led him to become paralyzed
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86points
#23

The type of skin on your lips is called the mucosa and is the same skin found on your a**s because they are two ends of what’s essential a pipe called the alimentary canal
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83points
#24

There’s a spooky skeleton inside you right now! And it’s wet!
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79points
#25

Zombie fires. They are basically peat fields near the Arctic where the permafrost has melted and have warmed up so quickly they started fires that refuse to die.
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76points
#26

My parents have sex toys. I am ok with it. It was just disturbing to discover.
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64points
#27

Hospital-acquired delirium is insanely common in hospitalized elderly patients.
Ever been woken up in the middle of the night by a hospitalized loved one thinking they're at home, in a hotel, in a different hospital, rambling about s**t that makes zero sense, and perhaps thinking it's a different year? I am every night. And I'm starting to lose my f*****g mind.
But you know what's f*****g hilarious? My grandma at 96 handled 2 weeks in the hospital with no issue, whereas my 68 year old father literally acts like a patient with dementia... Maybe he's developing dementia, I don't know. Again, I'm losing my f*****g mind too.
59points
#28

Wow. My fact was going to be that bagged salads and other packaged food stuffs are allowed to have a certain level of insect pieces in them.
Reddit got me beat today.
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57points
#29

How big angler fish can get. They're not massive but can definitely get larger than I'm comfortable with given the size of the teeth.
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49points
#30

I remember watching an episode of the show *Monsters Inside Me* where this 16-year-old kid was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor finally figured out what was wrong.
Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.
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40points
#31

Husband stitch is often done without a consent or sometimes even without woman knowing she got it
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20points



