In life, there are certain things that might scare us. For some, it could be spiders; for others, it could be public speaking. Regardless, we try our best to stay away from our fears. But what happens when you accidentally learn about terrifying things?
Recently, a Reddit user posted on the platform, asking everyone, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?". Folks online didn’t hold back and immediately started sharing unpleasant things that made their skin crawl. Today, Pandas, we’ve collected some of their most intriguing answers. But let us warn you: they might send a shiver down your spine.
#21
Giving brith to a child is often talked about. Giving birth to placenta is one thing nobody talks about. It felt like nurse pulled giant squid out of my vagina, super gross. After that she pushed my abdomen and blood squirted out of me and sprayed her whole. It was absolutely disgusting.
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87points
Butterflies aren't only cute and pretty, they also have some peculiar habits. For instance, few butterflies feed on the tears of reptiles. Dr Andrew Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist, Entomology at the Australian Museum Research Institute, says, “It’s been documented many times in Central and South America with butterflies feeding on turtle and alligator tears. People have hypothesized that they’re obtaining salts and/or proteins.”
#22
When you are in the process of dying, the last part of your brain function to go is related to your hearing. Essentially, you can hear everything around you, but you're locked in. Whether you can comprehend it is for a person much smarter than me to answer. But imagine understanding that the people around you are mourning and all you can do is listen. Or even worse, theres nobody.
87points
#23
Up until June 2024 there was no law against necrophilia in Michigan.... A month ago... Can't bang a face or a butt legally, but a dead person wasn't against the law.
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82points
#24
A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.
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81points
Commonly known as bot or warble flies, botflies are a type of species whose larvae burrow under your skin. Once they lay their eggs on a host, typically through an insect, the eggs hatch, and the larvae dig into the skin, creating a small, painful bump.
#25
That there is literally NOWHERE in your house that you can store your toothbrush without it getting fecal matter on it - thanks Mythbusters.
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79points
#26
You’ve probably heard a fact about how 70% of the human body is water. We basically know this because of a Japanese general who roasted people in an oven.
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77points
#27
Pugs and other brachycephalic dogs can have their eyeballs just...pop out of their skull.
77points
#28
The average person consumes ~5g of microplastics each week. Approximately the same as eating a credit card every 7 days.
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74points
These facts might make you feel icky, but hey, it’s still interesting knowledge to have. Which of these creepy facts scares you the most? And don’t forget to upvote the most terrifying ones.
#29
Sometimes when you have a sharp pain in your chest like a lung area when breathing in it could be there’s not enough fluid around the lung and it got stuck to a rib or your diaphragm isn’t in the correct place.
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71points
#30
A lot of my fragrances used to come from a beavers butt. Castoreum is the base of many leather, animalic, and chypre perfumes. Its smell is similar to vanilla and comes from the a**l secretion of beavers. Since I doubt they are using catch & release. I try to avoid it now.
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71points
#31
That one misfolded protein can wind up rendering a brain about as useful as rotting cheese.
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68points
#32
Just the fact that at any moment in any point in life we can just drop dead from a random brain aneurysm.
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67points
#33
There are over 200 dead bodies located on top of Mount Everest that serve as waypoints for climbers because it’s too risky to retrieve them.
66points
#34
Cluster headaches exist. No known cause, no known cure. They are so inconceivably painful and they do not stop. They are so bad that people have taken a ride down the sewer slide just due to the pain.
Edit: Cure, not treatment.
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65points
#35
Carl Tanzler fell in love with Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, a young tuberculosis patient at the Key West hospital where he was a radiology technician — but his fondness grew into an obsession after she died in 1931. Tanzler lived with the corpse of the woman he loved for seven years. When she started to decompose, he embalmed her body and stuffed her with cottonwool. When she was eventually discovered, he was asked at his trial if he ever "consummated" their relationship. He said no, but "stuff" was found in the cottonwool of her... ahem, bathing suit area.
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64points
#36
It's legal to marry a corpse in France.
Jing2203:
To complete this, I'd like to add that it's legal ONLY if the person gave consent to getting married with you before their death. You can't just get any random corpse and marry it, you have to be engaged AND have filled all the paperwork together before the death of the person. Also, it is a pretty rare situation, as the president themselves have to give their authorisation for the marriage to be considered legal.
Jing2203:
To complete this, I'd like to add that it's legal ONLY if the person gave consent to getting married with you before their death. You can't just get any random corpse and marry it, you have to be engaged AND have filled all the paperwork together before the death of the person. Also, it is a pretty rare situation, as the president themselves have to give their authorisation for the marriage to be considered legal.
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62points
#37
I found out they remove your nipples and put them back on during a breast reduction. My breast reduction, to be specific.
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62points
#38
Serial killer Joel Rifkin dismembered at least 2 of his victims with an exacto knife.
An exacto knife.
😱.
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58points
#40
Fatal familial insomnia. Creepy disease that just don't let you sleep. You start seeing hallucinations till you die. This disease is hereditary and you can't find symptoms. This disease destroying sleep sells, so you can't just take sleeping pills. There is a book about this disease: "family that couldn't sleep". This family was very big and they watched how their children dies. Very creepy.
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55points