37 People Share Mildly Disturbing Facts You May Have Never Heard Before

30 years ago the average home took up to 30 minutes to become fully involved in fire, now it can be as little as 3 or 4 minutes due to the changes in construction materials and the massive amount of synthetic materials used in furniture etc.

Install smoke alarms and get out early folks.

The doctors when performing surgery that requires one to remove intestines momentarily put them on a rack because they wriggle around, and after they’re done they just put the intestines vaguely back and then the organ wriggles back the way it’s supposed to.

Worrying about bad things you have no control over drains you of energy, making you less able to change negative things you do have control over.

Schizophrenia can hit randomly from the ages of 15 to 26 if it is in your genetics. Some people are totally fine, then bam, auditory hallucinations and delusions start happening.

You're a brain inside of a skull. You don't have a skeleton inside of you; you are inside of a skeleton.

In France, a pig was dressed in human clothes, tried in court and was sentence to death

... For eating a childs face

Whenever there’s an earthquake bodies in graves shake around like maracas.

Drinking and driving drastically reduces the chance to get cancer.

If you live to become the oldest person alive, the entire human population has been replaced in your lifetime. Except you.

That many people in this thread mistakenly think probabilities are facts.

Cannibalism is pretty common in hamsters.

There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers.

You know what you call the stupidest graduate from the worst medical school in the country?

Doctor.

The farthest point on the planet you can be from civilization in any direction is a blip in the Pacific Ocean called Point Nemo. If you were stranded there, you'd be thousands of miles away from help and it would be very unlikely you'd be seen or rescued as cargo ship routes don't go near it. To put the distance into perspective, the closest people to you would be the crew on the ISS.

Thanks to pregnancy, the average number of skeletons in a human body is greater than one.

Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for a millisecond, but it was enough 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 figured out what was wrong.

Since then I get super paranoid whenever a fly goes anywhere near my face because of the fact that something like this can possibly happen to me.

Prions. When proteins in your body misfold, they create prions, which then infect neighbouring proteins causing them to misfold, creating a chain reaction and eventually eating *holes in your brain*.

All known prion diseases are fatal. They can k**l you in a bunch of fun ways, including taking away your ability to sleep or your ability to chew and swallow. They're also extremely contagious, and since they're not a virus, non-killable.

And to top it all off, symptoms can take years to appear. So you can be infected with prions in your system right now and not know it.

Quite likely, not everyone who commented here will make it till Christmas.

The Dark Forest ~~theory~~ hypothesis for the Fermi paradox. Any civilization that makes itself known is instantly destroyed by a neighbouring civilization due to fear of themselves being destroyed.

The youngest person to be diagnosed with early onset dementia was just 6 years old.