“You Are Hearing Dead People Laugh”: 50 Disturbing Facts That May Leave You Feeling Unsettled

There have been 32 reported "broken arrow" incidents in the USA since 1950 (many more in former Soviet countries and other nuclear powers). A broken arrow incident is basically an accident where they lost a nuclear weapon.

Edit: Apparently losing a weapon is called an "empty quiver" incident

every year you pass your death day but you don’t know when it is

Coconuts kill more people than sharks kill people every year.

There is a theory in quantum cosmology. It is the hypothesis that our universe is actually a 'false vacuum', meaning that it isn't in its most stable possible configuration. Think of a ball rolling on a surface having several local minima (dents in the surface) but there is only one global minima (the dent which is the deepest). The ball may be in one of the dents which is not the deepest one. So, it is stable for now, but, given the chance it will slide to the deepest dent, which is the lowest energy configuration possible, the so-called 'true vacuum'.

Now the interesting part. If our universe is, indeed, in a false vacuum, due to something called 'quantum tunneling', it may 'tunnel' into the true vacuum, creating a bubble of lower energy. Once this lower energy bubble is formed, it expands, engulfing the entire universe, destroying everything we know as is, and creating new laws of physics. The speed of expanding is the speed of light, so we would have no information whatsoever about it before it hits us. We will literally never see it coming.

The really scary and really useless part? There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.

For me, it's the fact that you can go crazy at any point, and even worse, you could have already lost it and you'd have a great chance of never finding out, making it virtually impossible to stop the trip downwards.

the paris climate accord relies on technologies that do not yet exist, and might never exist, to pull carbon dioxide from the air by future generations. if we reach the paris climate accord goals, including using technologies that do not exist yet, there is at least an 50% chance of staying under the predicted catastrophic temperature rise. Literally coinflipping humanity.

why is this a useless scary fact? because there literally is jack s**t you can do about it in our current societies, beyond voting.

I dunno how useless this is but; You are never 100% safe.

Think about it, no matter what scenario you put yourself in, there will always be some sort of counter measure. Let's say you built a concrete room that is 10 inches wide with no doors and windows underground, an earthquake could happen, a sinkhole could open up, a ravine could open up, etc.

No matter how safe a situation sounds, it can NEVER be 100% safe.

Edit: However, it is good at making people paranoid tho.

You can have a heart muscle disease and never know it, and possibly die.

True story, my dad had a cardiac arrest last November (he's 49yo) because apparently he has a heart muscle disease. Never showed any signs, works out regularly, relatively young - and he almost died out of nothing.

Goblin sharks.

That's it.

In a couple of billion years the sun will expand rapidly and consume the earth. There is nothing we can do to stop this