Ignorance is bliss, whether we are talking about the heat-death of the universe or the amount of worm-like creatures happily living in your eyebrows, some things are better left alone. But like staring at a car crash or a house on fire, we do have a strange, somewhat morbid fascination with things that don’t seem real.
So, naturally, one netizen wanted the internet to share all the strange, unusual, and even creepy facts that do not seem real. So if you enjoy sleeping peacefully, consider another article, as the answers were deeply interesting but somewhat unsettling. If you do stay, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your own facts.
#22
That you are literally just data being interpreted by your brain. And we know for a fact your brain is not perfect, and might not be good at doing that.
A cool fact that illustrates it, is that your nose is obstructing your face 100% of the time. Your brain just removes it, and fills in the blanks. You can see your nose sometimes when you think about it, close one eye, or put the tip of your finger right on the tip of your nose.
If your brain is removing that kind of data as just a "default" setting, what other "default" settings do we have that are literally making so we can't see, feel, smell, or hear the things around us?
It's just wild to think that everything I see, hear, feel, smell, and taste, might just be my brain messing up interpreting the data. And the scariest part, is it could be consistent across the entire species.
What we perceive as "real" might not be real at all. Just an incorrect interrpertation.
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#23
The X Ray machine is largely responsible for the Child Protective Movement. In the 40’s and 50’s cases for Shaken Baby Syndrome were noticed causing a large push in child protection.
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#24
The shear size of the nuclear contamination zone thats in the middle of Washington state, called the Hanford reserve.
No one speaks of how the middle of our state is unlivable due to the polluted groundwater from all the improperly stored nuclear waste.
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#25
Over 50 percent of Americans do not have access to $1,000 in case of emergency.
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#26
As recently as 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed newborns and fetuses couldn't feel pain, so some were operated on without anesthesia.
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#27
There are more unsolved murder cases than there are solved and that's just the ones we know about.
There a lot of bodies at the bottom of most large bodies of water. Be it from accidents or suicides water seems to attract them.
Micro plastics are finding it way into absolutely everything. I don't recommend googling it.
Medical progress has a dark history of testing on the unknown masses.
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#28
A lot of people probably buried their hamsters alive because they didn’t know hamsters hibernate.
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#29
That bees kill wasps by sitting on them and then flapping their wings so hard. This creates a high heat that burns the wasp.
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#30
Doctors actually used to do autopsies and get into a surgery or aid with childbirth without washing their hands. This of course resulted in a lot of deaths and I read somewhere that the first doctor to suggest washing hands was ridiculed, put in an asylum by his colleagues and there he was beaten by the guards and later died. (Probably because of the wounds he suffered from the beatings)
Oh and there is a surgery with a 300% mortality rate.
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