Are you one of those horror junkies who spend their free time watching horror movies and listening to true crime podcasts until late at night? Welcome to the club, our twisted friend!
We’ve all seen some crazy stuff. From creepy-crawly insects to serial killers and haunted houses, there’s nothing we won’t watch if it’s on the screen in front of us. But as frightening as these movies and shows are, some scary facts about our world make reality way more disturbing than fiction could ever be. For example, did you know that Aztec priests offered still-beating hearts to the gods, freshly severed from sacrificial victims? Or that safety coffins were invented because so many people got accidentally buried alive? Or again, that there’s a museum in Pennsylvania that displays mutations, tumors, and anomalies for everyone to see?
Well, you already know the world is full of creepy things, but it’s better to remind ourselves of how much from time to time, right? So here we are with tons of other disturbing facts for you to enjoy! You might be surprised by how many of them sound like urban legends but are actually true.
#41
Within three days of death, the enzymes from your digestive system begin to digest your body.
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#42
A single golden poison frog has enough poison to kill 10 grown men.
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#44
It takes the death of 27,000 trees daily to make toilet paper for humans.
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#45
The Catacombs of Paris hold the bones and remains of nearly six million people.
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#46
When a person dies, their sense of hearing is the last to go.
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#47
A rat’s teeth can gnaw through substances as hard as lead sheeting and cinder block.
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#48
The birthday effect is a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday.
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#49
During mummification, ancient Egyptians removed the brain through one of the nostrils.
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#50
Mobile phones are seven times dirtier than toilet seats.
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#51
A book written 14 years before the 1912 sinking of the Titanic may have predicted the ship’s tragic demise. The novella titled "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility" was about an unsinkable ship hit by an iceberg.
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#52
In the 1920’s, the American domestic terror group Ku Klux Klan had a youth chapter called the “Ku Klux Kiddies.”
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#53
Scientists have found a new kind of tarantula with a horn on its back in southeastern Angola.
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#54
The average person sweats between 0.5 - 2 liters an hour during physical activity. But according to some studies, people may lose a minimum of 3 liters a day, even without moving around all that much.
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#56
The “sleepwalking defense” has been used in order to have defendants acquitted for murder.
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#57
There might be a haunted Russian radio station that has been broadcasting the same tone for 45 years.
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#58
Our bodies swell up like balloons after death, due to the release of gases and liquids.
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#59
Every 18 minutes, someone has a brain aneurysm that ruptures.
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#60
The Zoroastrians, an ancient Persian religion followers, leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by birds of prey such as vultures.
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