50 Disturbing Facts That Sound Fake But Are Completely True

A woman can release her entire uterine lining in one go. It takes mere seconds. It's called a decidual cast and I've had two of them.

More people on earth are indifferent to you than care about you.
In 100 years, you will be forgotten.

Every organism that has ever lived has either died or will die.

The universe is expanding, and distant galaxies are already moving away from us faster than light, making them permanently unreachable.

Earth has undergone at least five mass extinction events, none of which were preventable by the dominant species at the time.

Lice don’t infect men as frequently as women because they think testosterone tastes yucky.

A prion disease could take you out at any second and you wouldn’t have any notice or warning.

Cleanliness testing is wiping out the horseshoe crab population.
Horseshoe crab blood is legendary for its sensitivity to endotoxin, a type of toxin produced by Gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli. Because of this, horseshoe crab blood is harvested from the animals and used in all sorts of LAL/endotoxin testing. This is essential in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Problem is, many horseshoe crabs don't survive the blood harvesting process. It's devastating!

When homeless people age into dementia, they are no longer able to attend to any self-care at all. So when they are eventually brought into hospital, they often have toenails that have grown through their footwear, and the skin on their feet builds up inside socks or shoes and forms a moist, pungent goop that blends the fabric of socks with skin. They need their feet soaked carefully to remove the socks without tearing the skin. Often there are wounds that have ulcerated and bled into the goop.

The person who invented leaded gas and the person who invented CFCs (which were destroying the ozone layer) were the same person.

Imperial Japan was planning on releasing bubonic plague in the United States near the end of WWII.

It’s more fun for you to discover for yourself, but look up how hyenas give birth.

Male giraffes when they want to mate with a female will gently nudge or kick the female giraffe to essentially ask them to pee. If the female is willing she will pee after this. The male will then drink it to see if the pheromones that are there when the female is ovulating are present before mating with them. This behaviour is called a flehmen response.

Your eye's cornea is not irrigated by blood, thus it doesn't get oxygen from that. It absorbs oxygen directly from the air.

The biggest natural (not human-related) k*llers of Australia’s Koalas and Tasmanian Devils are awful diseases:

In Koalas it’s Chlamydia, a s*xually transmitted disease which causes urethritis, cystitis, reproductive disease, blindness & death.

In Tasmanian Devils it’s Devil Facial Tumour Disease, a contagious cancer which spreads when infected Devils bite each other. It causes large facial tumours that interfere with feeding, leading to organ failure, starvation, infection, & death.

This is a weird somewhat personal not so fun fact. A guy I almost went on a date with years ago just got arrested for grave robbing and having over 100 human remains in his basement. I’m just shook!

A cougar a puma and a mountain lion are the same thing

Your body peaks physically in your 20s, but your brain doesn’t fully chill out until your 30s… so you suffer with full anxiety and back pain later.

As the universe expands, eventually civilizations will develop that won't be able to detect any stars in the sky, and they'll believe their solar system is the only thing in the universe.

When pregnant women die their decomposing body often expelled the fetus, which led to people thinking the dead woman was a vampire so they'd cut out her heart, cut off her head, then cremated everything and scattered the ashes.

The world’s heaviest man per Guiness weighed above 1000 lbs and had to be buried in a piano case.

The leading cause of death for pregnant women is murder