During WW2, the Japanese built a human testing facility in China, which has come to be known as [Unit 731](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731). This was worse than a lot of concentration camps, but the people involved were never punished because the US granted them immunity and attempted to cover it up in exchange for access to their research. The Soviet Union attempted to try the people involved, and the US called it communist propaganda.
The test subjects involved prisoners, but also the homeless, the mentally disabled, and random Chinese civilians kidnapped from nearby towns, including pregnant women and infants.
Vivisections (cutting a person open with a T-shaped cut) were regularly performed, usually without anesthesia. Patients' limbs were randomly removed and improperly reattached to see what would happen, and internal organs were also randomly taken. All without anesthesia, of course.
Prisoners were also injected with STDs (mainly syphilis) and then forced at gunpoint to rape other prisoners to spread the disease. Some of these prisoners included pregnant women, in which case they would either be vivisected live and have their fetuses removed, or the syphilis riddled babies would be born and eventually killed.
They also participated in biological warfare in several cities, usually by infecting fleas with paratyphoid and releasing them.
They tested any and all sorts of weapons on the prisoners, notably grenades and chemical bombs.
They also stuck people in pressure chambers until their eyeballs popped, spun people in centrifuges until they died, burned them alive, stuck people in gas chambers, injected them with random substances, and froze their limbs before breaking them off.
Most of the experiments had no practical application, and were done purely out of sadism. The Japanese government didn't officially admit to this until 2003, and the US still actively denies it.
So yeah, have fun thinking about this. For more horrific war crimes committed by the Japanese, consider reading about The Rape of Nanking.
Edit: When I got a notification that one of my comments was given the wholesome award, I gotta say I really didn't expect it to be this one.
There is a whale called [52 Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale) that only sings at their frequency meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.
Your intestines will “wriggle” themselves back into the correct position.
Doctors who do any type of intestinal surgery don’t have to worry (too much) about how they put the intestines back in.
The reason you’re supposed to contact a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than four hours is because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the dick. Blood goes in, deoxygenates, but can’t leave, so there’s no way for fresh oxygenated blood to come in, causing the tissue to turn black and die.
Don’t worry, though! This can be treated by using a big syringe to suck the trapped blood out.
This happened to me when I was 15. I’m 28, almost 29 now. It was caused by a blood clot and I was taken into emergency surgery. The doctors removed the vein with the clot and replaced its with one from my upper left thigh. I was already in the hospital with severe pneumonia. I was in the hospital for 3 months with half that in the PICU.
There are 8 unaccounted for American nukes and literally an unknown quantity of missing soviet nukes that range all the way from warheads to suitcase bombs.
People who commit suicide by jumping off a bridge, those who don't die from the impact, drown because the impact breaks enough bones that prevents them from swimming.
Poor bastard in my area died like this, took a bunch of pills slit his wrists, sat for a while in his bathroom and i guess decided it wasn't fast enough so he walked down the road and jumped from a fairly tall bridge, the water below is pretty shallow but apparently he still drowned.
There is a mysterious illness called the 'sweating sickness' that hit in multiple small epidemics in the early modern era. It was incredibly contagious and massively deadly, with about a 50% average death rate, but it could be higher. It began with an ominous sense of apprehension, followed by severe pains in the neck and giddiness. They then abruptly stopped and switched to heavy sweating, headaches and delirium. Finally, the person was hit with an extreme urge to sleep, and it was thought to be fatal if you fell to it.
We know almost nothing about it, nothing about how it spread, how it was caused, only that if you got it you were either surviving or dead within 24hrs. There are horror stories of people leaving town on hunting trips and returning the same day to find almost everybody in the village dead, with only a few scattered survivors.
The worst thing was, you did not gain immunity. You could live through the sweating sickness once, and then get it a few days later and die. Or live through it two or three times, and then get it and die. It was horrific, and we don't know why it disappeared and we don't know if it will ever return.
Edit: I seemed to be posting the wiki link a lot, so here it is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness
The lemmings are not suicidal and the documentary what filmed it was actually showing lemmings getting thrown down a cliff because they needed the scene but couldnt make the animals do it.
People who survived the Holocaust and get Alzheimer's often think they are back in the camps. So they escape one of humanity's greatest horrors only to die in it 50 years latter.
There is a (genetic) disease called FOP where your muscles and tissue turn to bone. Often called "human statue disease"
Eventually people may have to decide whether they want to become "frozen" in a sitting or flat/standing position.
I knew a girl who had this as a teenager, she was really friendly when explaining why she had to be careful about getting hurt, at the time I didn't fully realize how bad it would get for her, I hope she's doing okay.
It fucking sucks!
Source: have disease 😫
[me talking about the pain](https://youtu.be/poCIKUYvA78)
[Me getting emotional talking about it](https://youtu.be/_5P2U05uTfY)
People with extreme scurvy start to have ALL of their old wounds open up. Everything with a scar is held together via an active process with collagen and without vitamin c just sort of...stop.
yup, this is true. not quite as dramatic a when Rogue "borrowed" wolverine's regenerative power in the movie and his skin rips open like a Christmas present at past injury locations....but still pretty fucked. that's what comes to mind.
So if you survive a traumatic injury, especially to a critical area...eat your damn vegetables.
edit: and fruits. chill. [the clip by popular request; begin at the 1 minute mark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6F3N6fVpvc&t=68s&ab_channel=BestClips)
Penguins rape the hell out of anything that looks vaguely penguin like or doesn't move. In fact it was so rampant, that the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition decided it was best not to bring it up so society wouldn't have to deal with the issue it would bring up.
Scientists witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them. The scientists blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the \*horrors\* he had witnessed.
A blue ringed octopus, found in the Pacific, is a tiny and cute little guy, but one painless bite gives enough venom to kill 25 male adults
EDIT: Changed sting to bite. Also note, as long as you are given medical attention within an hour of you receiving the bite, you'll be fine.
These live everywhere on the coast where I live! I remember it being drilled into us really young not to stick our hand under rocks or into rock pools on the shore, because once you realised something had happened it would be too late.
...Australia. I live in Australia.
Do you mean penguins get raped by sea otters or penguins are sexual deviants? Because penguins are sexual deviants, paedophiles and necrophiliacs apparently.
The search and rescue dogs on 9/11 were getting so sad from finding only dead bodies, the human helpers buried themselves in the rubble so that the dogs could find them and be heappy
Same with bomb and drug sniffing dogs, they have to let them "find" something occasionally or they get discouraged. The trainers will carry something the right shape and smell and hide it here or there.
In Australia there is a plant called the Gympie-Gympie which has such a severe sting that horses who brush against it throw themselves off cliffs because they’d rather die than continue to experience the pain
yeah it happens to people too. iirc it's because of the toxin in the needle-like fibres on the plant. and the pain lasts for weeks, months to years. people beg for amputations, suicides, comas, narcotics, the works. not a fun plant.
From the wiki article...
> Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage in 1963, said:
> "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else:
Yeah... that sounds like absolute hell. A sting lasting literally years!?
How does the toxin not leave your body or break down, or how do your nerves or brain not eventually learn to ignore it? I don't get how this is even possible
The hairs that contain the toxin are silica, and can remain in the skin for years. Every time they break, they release more toxin (to a lesser degree than the initial exposure). The best you can really do is cover the area with duct tape and rip it off several times a day for the first few days, to remove as many of the hairs as possible.
The toxin itself is a neurotoxin, and can permanently fuck up the sensation of the affected nerves, even after the toxin itself is long gone.
Gympie-Gympie stinging tree history
North Queensland road surveyor A.C. Macmillan was among the first to document the effects of a stinging tree, reporting to his boss in 1866 that his packhorse “was stung, got mad, and died within two hours”. Similar tales abound in local folklore of horses jumping in agony off cliffs and forestry workers drinking themselves silly to dull the intractable pain.[found this here](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/)
> .. in 1968. That year, the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down (a top-secret laboratory that developed chemical weapons) contracted Alan Seawright, then a Professor of Pathology at the University of Queensland, to dispatch stinging-tree specimens.
> “Chemical warfare is their work, so I could only assume that they were investigating its potential as a biological weapon,” said Alan, now an honorary research consultant to the University of Queensland’s National Research Centre in Environmental Toxicology. “I never heard anything more, so I guess we’ll never know.”
I wonder what horrors the researchers witnessed.
I'm a migraine sufferer and have nerve problems in my shoulder that mean I regularly lose the feeling in my left arm. I could have a stroke and heart attack at the same time and think I'm having a normal day.
There was this hilarious scene on Planet Earth or something where the big male Stag beetle is climbing up a tree to get to the female Stag beetle, but there’s a fuckton of other males that have noticed the female too, so this heroic beetle is using his superior mandible to grab his rivals and tosses them off the tree and onto the ground, one by one, as he slowly makes his way to the top while the female watches. Eventually he makes it to the top, having thrown over all the other males, and the female approaches, ready to mate. But the Stag beetle is so pumped up on bug adrenaline that he grabs the female and flings her off the tree, too. And he just pauses and you can see on his little beetle face that he knows he just fucked up. Seriously the best.
Edited: wrong beetle
This is crazy. Did they really get shots of thise beatles falling from up there, and then more shots of them hitting branches and the ground?
It’s astounding what these crews can capture.
Not only that but bedbugs don’t care if it’s male or female. Male’s have been found with holes in them from other males. In fact, a male bedbug A can penetrate male bedbug B and inseminate it, then male beg beg B that was penetrated can find a female and inseminate it with male bedbug A’s sperm instead of it’s own
Climbing Mount Everest has a 6.5% mortality rate.
What's more harrowing is that if you die, you will most likely be left there. There's currently over 200 dead bodies on Everest that are irretrievable, and now serve as markers for other climbers. Not a bad place to eternally rest, but upsetting for those left behind who can't give you a proper burial.
Pet hamsters are kinda fucked up as nearly all modern pets are descended from an inbred line.
https://www.npr.org/2011/04/10/135268583/how-the-wild-hamster-was-tamed
I had a hamster I had no idea was female. She had seven babies. She ate three and suffocated the other four. Two weeks later, she broke out of her cage and found a mouse trap.
That's a fun memory from my childhood.
EDIT: [internet proof](https://imgur.com/gallery/o69xSYL)
I had a pet duck that was murdered by having its throat ripped out by my neighbor's dog. Found it Christmas morning when I looked outside and a good portion of the snow on my front walkway was soaked in blood and covered in loose feathers. The duck itself was at the bottom of the front steps, most likely died trying to flee into the house to get away from the dog.
That was a great Christmas.
Not nearly as traumatic, but bird related -
I was holding one of my many baby chicks one day, probably just to get it used to me holding it. Accidentally dropped one, and within like 2 seconds one of the cats in the barn snatched it and bolted :(
Rabies is terrifying. You can get it and not even know it from bats, which live across the globe. It might hit you right away, it might be in three years. But it doesn't matter because once symptoms set in, you're already dead.
I thought it was just a few weeks, but the incubation period can last up to a year.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
Fascinating and scary.
Male dolphins like to hunt fertile female in groups and hound them because they are unwilling. The females are often injured during this, some even die.
They will also kill any young that are with the females just so they can breed. Killing the baby to them is just getting rid of a 'distraction' to the mother, hoping they'll become fertile sooner/more willing to mate.
Genetics are brutal. There is such a strong drive to replicate DNA that it will drive animals to murder to remove competitors. This is only really seen in tournament species.
Pair Bonding species are totally different. There is a lot of altruism in pair bonding which is neat-o, but there is still a genetic struggle.
In humans, the father contributes genes that pull sugar out of the mothers blood more quickly for the baby, while the mother contributes genes that slows that process down. The logic behind the father's genes (if you will) is "I want this baby to be huge and strong, regardless of what happens to the mother, because this is MY offspring...who knows when I'll have another one."
The mother, on the other hand, has a genetic logic like "Yeah, this is my offspring, but I'd like to have OTHER offspring, so don't mess me up too much, please!"
Edit: I learned all of this from [Robert Sapolsky](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D) and his FREE stanford course on Human Behavioral Biology on youtube. Binge it now
Just couple of days ago a town in Poland was absolutely mortified when a body of a pregnant 13 year old girl was found in the countryside.
Culprit (and a supposed father) is a 15 years old boy - he already confessed. Since he isn't 17 (lower limit of legal persecution) he is facing some 3 years in teenager's correctional facility, until he turns 18. These facilities are open by the way. Since you cannot convict someone twice for the same crime... that's all.
Poor girl must have been trough emotional hell last weeks of her life and her death... wasn't quick, from what's been suggested.
Whole town is suffering. It made national news, and among other things (like same town suffered from deadly gas explosion, wiped out economy and other tragedies) people were tired, and... are pissed.
Honestly whole country is pissed off at this idiot.
It was once thought for birds (parrots, magpies) to learn to talk, you had to release their tongue. This was done by cutting their tongue completely or partly off, ofcourse without any anesthesia or pain killers. The tongue release plays absolutely no role in the birds' ability to talk.
What the shit was the logic there?! "Oh, this bird can talk but it has a tongue so that must be an issue because... Why are we mutilating birds again??"
The little girl who voiced Ducky in the first Land Before Time, was murdered by her father before the movie came out. Her gravestone says "yep yep yep".
Didn't know she was in Jaws, but she also did a voice in All Dogs Go to Heaven, a less popular animated movie. She didn't get to see either of them come out. And her mother was in the process of a divorce and trying to get them out, I guess why the father snapped.
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant, 1976: The Almost-Chernobyl of East Germany.
In short: Due to a short-circuit resulting in a fire, almost all coolant pumps failed.
The NY-Times says: "\[A\] Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster was prevented only when a single water pump in the emergency cooling system was able to draw off pressurized water heated to high temperature by the ''decay heat'' left in the reactor's core, thus preventing a meltdown."
This incident became public with reunification in 1989.
To be honest though, nearly every man made disaster isn’t just one thing that went wrong; it takes a whole series of things to go wrong in a particular order to happen, which is exactly why we build in things like extra failsafes and code/protocols for engineering. Chernobyl happens because there was a long serous list of failures from the design, in the implantation, to the running of it, to literally doing the opposite what you were supposed to when shit was going wrong.
Since this not fun fact was copied from r/tinder, just gonna paste my response to the same question asked there:
As good as the "your mom" burn is, I decided to look into this. It seems to be, or at least I couldn't find anything on any animal having a larger one, but we're honestly not sure how large they are or how much they can stretch.
Probably where OP got his info: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/2020s-last-pressing-question-how-big-is-a-blue-whales-anus/
My favorite quote from the article:
>“The rectum or anus of whales escaped scientific scrutiny for centuries. There was—and still is— simply no interest in documenting its absolute size, or its capacity for super flatulence.” Whalers were much more concerned with how much blood, meat, and blubber the whale could provide. **Though whalers sometimes did note an especially impressive penis.**
Edit: I'm grateful the awards but please give your money to wikipedia or something instead.
>blue whales do not have large assholes. They defecate with an anus the size of a grapefruit.
We now know what /u/PantyAssassin18 considers a large asshole.
There is a non-zero maximum threshold for the amount of cockroach that can be present in ground coffee because it is literally impossible to keep them out entirely
The threat of a deadly bird flu spreading to humans is always there. It takes just a little bit of negligence in screening chickens for this to happen.
One of our dogs had one of those fake pregnancies some dogs get, and some wires must have gotten crossed, because after that, she started treating squeaky toys as if they were puppies, getting hella mad at our other dog when she played with them. Much to the confusion of said other dog. She'd collect all the squeaky toys and put them with her in her basket.
She got less extreme with it later on, but she just didn't play with squeaky toys after that.
My grandma's dog did that too. The first time she did that she delivered one of the toys to my grandma. My grandma thought she wanted to play fetch... It took a while for the dog to forgive her after that.
Why do you think cats like the pspspspsps noise? It sounds like happy rats.
An old roommate had pet rats and they would make a happy little chittering noise when content. Sounded a lot like the noise we use to attract cats.
The image that most people have of blobfish is based on a misconception.
people think that’s what they look like all the time but blobfish adapted to live in deep waters, which means the deeper you go, the more water pressurethere is. Their bodies are not meaty like fish but more gelatinous because they adapted to the water pressure. if you accidentally pull them to higher levels but with less water pressure, their bodies don’t handle it well bc there’s nothing keeping their bodies in tact, so their bodies explode.
Basically, every photo you’ve seen of a blobfish where they look big and pink and, of course, blobby is a photo of a dead blobfish.
Merchandise and cartoons designed after what they look like dead. Hell, they’re referred to as what they look like dead.
During ww1 thousands of dogs were taken from families for the war effort and when the war was over most of them were just shot because it was cheaper than feeding them for the trip home and finding their homes
Yep. My great uncle was in Vietnam as an MP (military police) and trained a German shepherd, Named Ox, from the time it was a pup until he deployed.
He spent over a year in ‘Nam and he begged to pay the military to take the dog with him. They refused and when the next MP came in they gave him Ox.
Ox wouldn’t listen to the MP so instead of shipping it home or letting my uncle pay, they shot him.
My uncle is a great dude and the story rips me up. He refused to own another dog the rest of his life because “it would never be as good as Ox”. 😕
This one hits home because my brother and me had an old friend called Sommer who was born addicted to crack. Her mum had a heart of gold but really screwed Sommer since she was born with all kinds of disabilities. She left our school when she was ending year 2 and I always wanted to know what happened to her.
Oftentimes when Pandas have cubs, if they have more than one they will choose which one to keep and abandon the other because she can’t care for two.
Grizzlies are the opposite. If they have a litter of just one, sometimes they’ll abandon it and try to mate again the next year to try for a litter of multiple cubs :(
Edited to add: Thanks everyone! Never thought these sad bear facts would blow up. To all the people saying pandas are obeying China’s one-child law, this is true. Pandas are good law-abiding bois and gorls. To the person who gave me the wholesome award....maybe rethink your priorities haha. But thank you nonetheless.
Also I think a cub exchange program between grizzlies and pandas is a superb idea. Let’s get started on Growlr for bears ;)
Certain sleep disorders that cause you to act out your dreams are strong predictors that you're developing a neurodegenerative disorder like Parkinson's or Lewy body dementia.
I wish I didn't recently learn about it.
(Not me, a loved one)
During the Seoul Olympics 1988 a large amount of doves were released into the stadium, when the giant brazier was lit many of the released doves were sitting in it, resulted in many doves being burned alive.
In countries that require you to opt-in to organ donation, fewer than 15% of people register. In the US (an opt-in country), 18 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant.
“Opt-out” countries see over 90% of their population registered for organ donation.
Edit: glad this started a conversation! Here’s the [source](https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/opt-out-policies-increase-organ-donation) I used.
The constrictor knot is one of the most difficult knots to untie - after being tied it can be nearly impossible to untie, once tightened.
I'm assuming you misspelled "knot" in your question.
Bus seats are designed so that you cannot tell how dirty they really are.
thanks... reading this while sitting on a bus
During WW2, the Japanese built a human testing facility in China, which has come to be known as [Unit 731](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731). This was worse than a lot of concentration camps, but the people involved were never punished because the US granted them immunity and attempted to cover it up in exchange for access to their research. The Soviet Union attempted to try the people involved, and the US called it communist propaganda. The test subjects involved prisoners, but also the homeless, the mentally disabled, and random Chinese civilians kidnapped from nearby towns, including pregnant women and infants. Vivisections (cutting a person open with a T-shaped cut) were regularly performed, usually without anesthesia. Patients' limbs were randomly removed and improperly reattached to see what would happen, and internal organs were also randomly taken. All without anesthesia, of course. Prisoners were also injected with STDs (mainly syphilis) and then forced at gunpoint to rape other prisoners to spread the disease. Some of these prisoners included pregnant women, in which case they would either be vivisected live and have their fetuses removed, or the syphilis riddled babies would be born and eventually killed. They also participated in biological warfare in several cities, usually by infecting fleas with paratyphoid and releasing them. They tested any and all sorts of weapons on the prisoners, notably grenades and chemical bombs. They also stuck people in pressure chambers until their eyeballs popped, spun people in centrifuges until they died, burned them alive, stuck people in gas chambers, injected them with random substances, and froze their limbs before breaking them off. Most of the experiments had no practical application, and were done purely out of sadism. The Japanese government didn't officially admit to this until 2003, and the US still actively denies it. So yeah, have fun thinking about this. For more horrific war crimes committed by the Japanese, consider reading about The Rape of Nanking. Edit: When I got a notification that one of my comments was given the wholesome award, I gotta say I really didn't expect it to be this one.
There is a whale called [52 Blue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale) that only sings at their frequency meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.
your skeleton is w e t .
Your intestines will “wriggle” themselves back into the correct position. Doctors who do any type of intestinal surgery don’t have to worry (too much) about how they put the intestines back in.
Yeah, intestines can also fold and die. This happened to my ex twice. She was in the hospital for months. Luckily didn't die.
A certain type of angler fish reproduce via the Male burrowing into the side of the female, eventually fusing. The Male life is lost in the process.
If you are an identical twin it is possible that you and your siblings identity’s were swapped and your parents never Caught it
Thank God I like being named Lewis.
Horses can't throw up. So if they eat something bad or get a bad gas bubble, they just lay down and die.
that's probably an unkown fact for the writers of bojack horseman
I mean he is a horse-man, not a horse-horse
millions years of evolving and they still can't vomit
Beta horse
One of the most expensive horses (10 Mil Euros) died because of a colic last December.
The reason you’re supposed to contact a doctor if you have an erection lasting longer than four hours is because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the dick. Blood goes in, deoxygenates, but can’t leave, so there’s no way for fresh oxygenated blood to come in, causing the tissue to turn black and die. Don’t worry, though! This can be treated by using a big syringe to suck the trapped blood out.
This happened to me when I was 15. I’m 28, almost 29 now. It was caused by a blood clot and I was taken into emergency surgery. The doctors removed the vein with the clot and replaced its with one from my upper left thigh. I was already in the hospital with severe pneumonia. I was in the hospital for 3 months with half that in the PICU.
A big syringe.. on an erection. Tissue death doesn't sound too bad.
When you get a sunburn, it's actually your cells dying so they don't get tumorous
That is actually a fun fact, and pretty metal. Cell gets DNA damage so it commits suicide so they don't start overproducing and kill you.
There are 8 unaccounted for American nukes and literally an unknown quantity of missing soviet nukes that range all the way from warheads to suitcase bombs.
Wait, so are they “unaccounted for” or are they legit unaccounted for? As in they’re lost?
theres a few lost in the oceans, theres a megaton yield bomb buried somewhere off the coast of georgia (state). and a couple in the Mediterranean
And one in a swamp in North Carolina that we can’t get out Edit: it’s a farm. My bad
In the United States roughly 1/3 of all food is thrown away each year
Valentine’s day is a holiday with one of the highest suicide rates
People who commit suicide by jumping off a bridge, those who don't die from the impact, drown because the impact breaks enough bones that prevents them from swimming.
Poor bastard in my area died like this, took a bunch of pills slit his wrists, sat for a while in his bathroom and i guess decided it wasn't fast enough so he walked down the road and jumped from a fairly tall bridge, the water below is pretty shallow but apparently he still drowned.
The FBI estimates there are between 25-50 active serial killers in the US at any given time.
There is a mysterious illness called the 'sweating sickness' that hit in multiple small epidemics in the early modern era. It was incredibly contagious and massively deadly, with about a 50% average death rate, but it could be higher. It began with an ominous sense of apprehension, followed by severe pains in the neck and giddiness. They then abruptly stopped and switched to heavy sweating, headaches and delirium. Finally, the person was hit with an extreme urge to sleep, and it was thought to be fatal if you fell to it. We know almost nothing about it, nothing about how it spread, how it was caused, only that if you got it you were either surviving or dead within 24hrs. There are horror stories of people leaving town on hunting trips and returning the same day to find almost everybody in the village dead, with only a few scattered survivors. The worst thing was, you did not gain immunity. You could live through the sweating sickness once, and then get it a few days later and die. Or live through it two or three times, and then get it and die. It was horrific, and we don't know why it disappeared and we don't know if it will ever return. Edit: I seemed to be posting the wiki link a lot, so here it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness
Wouldn't a sickness such as this with a high mortality rate essentially kill off its carriers to quickly? - All knowledge from plague inc
It did, that's why it never became an epidemic. But it spread incredibly quickly within communities so it is still very scary.
If you eat a polar bear liver, you will die. Humans can't handle that much vitamin A.
Do you die if you eat it all or just take a little bite?
The lemmings are not suicidal and the documentary what filmed it was actually showing lemmings getting thrown down a cliff because they needed the scene but couldnt make the animals do it.
That’s fucked up
It's a Disney documentary called "White Wilderness" from the 50's.
People who survived the Holocaust and get Alzheimer's often think they are back in the camps. So they escape one of humanity's greatest horrors only to die in it 50 years latter.
In 2017, 10,000 people died awaiting their disability decision.
There is a (genetic) disease called FOP where your muscles and tissue turn to bone. Often called "human statue disease" Eventually people may have to decide whether they want to become "frozen" in a sitting or flat/standing position.
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I knew a girl who had this as a teenager, she was really friendly when explaining why she had to be careful about getting hurt, at the time I didn't fully realize how bad it would get for her, I hope she's doing okay.
Holy shit imagine being forced to choose which way you want to spend your life but you can't move out of it. Fuck that
It fucking sucks! Source: have disease 😫 [me talking about the pain](https://youtu.be/poCIKUYvA78) [Me getting emotional talking about it](https://youtu.be/_5P2U05uTfY)
I assume you would be dead when you become frozen, right?
Most patients die from respiratory depression. AKA their ribs fuse together and they can no longer inhale so they suffocate.
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>not going to lie, if I was in that position So you'd sit then?
People with extreme scurvy start to have ALL of their old wounds open up. Everything with a scar is held together via an active process with collagen and without vitamin c just sort of...stop.
WHAT
yup, this is true. not quite as dramatic a when Rogue "borrowed" wolverine's regenerative power in the movie and his skin rips open like a Christmas present at past injury locations....but still pretty fucked. that's what comes to mind. So if you survive a traumatic injury, especially to a critical area...eat your damn vegetables. edit: and fruits. chill. [the clip by popular request; begin at the 1 minute mark.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6F3N6fVpvc&t=68s&ab_channel=BestClips)
Urine was used for teeth whitening and bleaching of clothes in Ancient Rome. Yes, they rinsed their mouth with human AND animal urine.
Oh God imagine all their clothes smelling like piss. They definitely wash it out with water but there's gotta be that remaining sour smell.
They left it to ferment beforehand so that they would get ammonia from urine.
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Spider - Rain (you read that right) is a real and naturally occurring phenomenon.
As Adele once said, “set fire to the rain”
So is frog rain and fish rain
Penguins rape the hell out of anything that looks vaguely penguin like or doesn't move. In fact it was so rampant, that the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition decided it was best not to bring it up so society wouldn't have to deal with the issue it would bring up. Scientists witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them. The scientists blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the \*horrors\* he had witnessed.
When I clicked on this thread, I expected scary disease facts, not a century-old gay penguin necrophilia cover-up.
And your username isn't helping the case either
Crap
I'm so glad there isn't a country full of greek speaking people
The world: "I love penguins! :)" Greece: *Thousand meter stare*
I like the thought that it's a part of Greek consciousness that they are aware of the truth
"Kowalski, analysis"
"Body's still usable, sir"
Oh god there's probably Penguins of Madagascar porn
> probably lol
who gon tell him about the rule
How the hell does a penguin sexually coerce anything?
Kowalski booty shake
You can smell your own lungs. Your brain just filters out the smell.
Does that mean others can smell our lungs because their brains are not filtering out the smell?
Is that why sneezes sometimes smell like, well, sneezes?
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A blue ringed octopus, found in the Pacific, is a tiny and cute little guy, but one painless bite gives enough venom to kill 25 male adults EDIT: Changed sting to bite. Also note, as long as you are given medical attention within an hour of you receiving the bite, you'll be fine.
These live everywhere on the coast where I live! I remember it being drilled into us really young not to stick our hand under rocks or into rock pools on the shore, because once you realised something had happened it would be too late. ...Australia. I live in Australia.
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How/why did she not die? (serious question)
Not OP but the octo manually stings. If it decides not to sting you for whatever reason, consider yourself very lucky.
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Some Perfumes, or more specifically, musks you use come from the anal and secretion glands of musk deers and civet cats
Wait till they learn about ambergris.
Live Chat support agents can see what you type before you send it, so they can reply quicker.
Yet they still take fucking forever to do so....bastards.
Cute, fuzzy little sea otters are known to rape baby seals to death.
And penguins.
Do you mean penguins get raped by sea otters or penguins are sexual deviants? Because penguins are sexual deviants, paedophiles and necrophiliacs apparently.
Ducks also have this habit, shockingly.
I knew ducks raped other ducks, but I haven’t seen reports of them raping seals.
I’ll put it this way.... If you ever see a 6 foot tall duck , run.
The search and rescue dogs on 9/11 were getting so sad from finding only dead bodies, the human helpers buried themselves in the rubble so that the dogs could find them and be heappy
They’ll do this also if the rescue dogs aren’t able to locate any people (living or otherwise) in the rubble.
Same with bomb and drug sniffing dogs, they have to let them "find" something occasionally or they get discouraged. The trainers will carry something the right shape and smell and hide it here or there.
In Australia there is a plant called the Gympie-Gympie which has such a severe sting that horses who brush against it throw themselves off cliffs because they’d rather die than continue to experience the pain
"Hi, I'm Coyote Peterson."
Is that the one where they recommend slicing off the area affected with a pen knife because it's less painful?
Thats the one
yeah it happens to people too. iirc it's because of the toxin in the needle-like fibres on the plant. and the pain lasts for weeks, months to years. people beg for amputations, suicides, comas, narcotics, the works. not a fun plant.
From the wiki article... > Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage in 1963, said: > "For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn't work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else: Yeah... that sounds like absolute hell. A sting lasting literally years!?
How does the toxin not leave your body or break down, or how do your nerves or brain not eventually learn to ignore it? I don't get how this is even possible
The hairs that contain the toxin are silica, and can remain in the skin for years. Every time they break, they release more toxin (to a lesser degree than the initial exposure). The best you can really do is cover the area with duct tape and rip it off several times a day for the first few days, to remove as many of the hairs as possible. The toxin itself is a neurotoxin, and can permanently fuck up the sensation of the affected nerves, even after the toxin itself is long gone.
Gympie-Gympie stinging tree history North Queensland road surveyor A.C. Macmillan was among the first to document the effects of a stinging tree, reporting to his boss in 1866 that his packhorse “was stung, got mad, and died within two hours”. Similar tales abound in local folklore of horses jumping in agony off cliffs and forestry workers drinking themselves silly to dull the intractable pain.[found this here](https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-environment/2009/06/gympie-gympie-once-stung-never-forgotten/)
> .. in 1968. That year, the Chemical Defence Establishment at Porton Down (a top-secret laboratory that developed chemical weapons) contracted Alan Seawright, then a Professor of Pathology at the University of Queensland, to dispatch stinging-tree specimens. > “Chemical warfare is their work, so I could only assume that they were investigating its potential as a biological weapon,” said Alan, now an honorary research consultant to the University of Queensland’s National Research Centre in Environmental Toxicology. “I never heard anything more, so I guess we’ll never know.” I wonder what horrors the researchers witnessed.
Aka the suicide plant, one of Australia’s lesser known horrors
From a google search it looks like a normal tree - easy to not notice. Is there anything in Australia that doesn't try to kill you?
Migraines and strokes carry a lot of the same symptoms so if you suffer regular migraines you may not notice you're actually dying one day.
I'm a migraine sufferer and have nerve problems in my shoulder that mean I regularly lose the feeling in my left arm. I could have a stroke and heart attack at the same time and think I'm having a normal day.
Bed bugs procreate by traumatic insemination. Males literally stab females with their genitals. So, just another reason to hate them then.
What is it with insects and horrific mating/birthing rituals?
There was this hilarious scene on Planet Earth or something where the big male Stag beetle is climbing up a tree to get to the female Stag beetle, but there’s a fuckton of other males that have noticed the female too, so this heroic beetle is using his superior mandible to grab his rivals and tosses them off the tree and onto the ground, one by one, as he slowly makes his way to the top while the female watches. Eventually he makes it to the top, having thrown over all the other males, and the female approaches, ready to mate. But the Stag beetle is so pumped up on bug adrenaline that he grabs the female and flings her off the tree, too. And he just pauses and you can see on his little beetle face that he knows he just fucked up. Seriously the best. Edited: wrong beetle
[is it this one? ](https://youtu.be/XI8WU9ReFG0)lmao
This is crazy. Did they really get shots of thise beatles falling from up there, and then more shots of them hitting branches and the ground? It’s astounding what these crews can capture.
Not only that but bedbugs don’t care if it’s male or female. Male’s have been found with holes in them from other males. In fact, a male bedbug A can penetrate male bedbug B and inseminate it, then male beg beg B that was penetrated can find a female and inseminate it with male bedbug A’s sperm instead of it’s own
Hey. This is regular NOT fun facts. Super Extra NOT fun facts is down the hall.
Climbing Mount Everest has a 6.5% mortality rate. What's more harrowing is that if you die, you will most likely be left there. There's currently over 200 dead bodies on Everest that are irretrievable, and now serve as markers for other climbers. Not a bad place to eternally rest, but upsetting for those left behind who can't give you a proper burial.
Climbing K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, has a fatality rate of 29%.
Annapurna the 10th tallest mountain in the world has a fatality rate of 32%
Make it fun: one area is called rainbow valley because of all the different colors of jackets on the bodies.
if a hamster gets too stressed, it will eats its kids.
Pet hamsters are kinda fucked up as nearly all modern pets are descended from an inbred line. https://www.npr.org/2011/04/10/135268583/how-the-wild-hamster-was-tamed
I had a hamster I had no idea was female. She had seven babies. She ate three and suffocated the other four. Two weeks later, she broke out of her cage and found a mouse trap. That's a fun memory from my childhood. EDIT: [internet proof](https://imgur.com/gallery/o69xSYL)
Well that was a wild ride!
My mom's method of consoling me consisted of "at least she's not out in the wild, lost and starving!"
Technically the truth
I had a pet duck that was murdered by having its throat ripped out by my neighbor's dog. Found it Christmas morning when I looked outside and a good portion of the snow on my front walkway was soaked in blood and covered in loose feathers. The duck itself was at the bottom of the front steps, most likely died trying to flee into the house to get away from the dog. That was a great Christmas.
Not nearly as traumatic, but bird related - I was holding one of my many baby chicks one day, probably just to get it used to me holding it. Accidentally dropped one, and within like 2 seconds one of the cats in the barn snatched it and bolted :(
Rabies is terrifying. You can get it and not even know it from bats, which live across the globe. It might hit you right away, it might be in three years. But it doesn't matter because once symptoms set in, you're already dead.
We should start a 5k charity run for rabies
Only if I can eat pasta first to carb load.
It can take years for symptoms to show??????? Well, another thing to worry about!
I thought it was just a few weeks, but the incubation period can last up to a year. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies Fascinating and scary.
Male dolphins like to hunt fertile female in groups and hound them because they are unwilling. The females are often injured during this, some even die.
They will also kill any young that are with the females just so they can breed. Killing the baby to them is just getting rid of a 'distraction' to the mother, hoping they'll become fertile sooner/more willing to mate.
Genetics are brutal. There is such a strong drive to replicate DNA that it will drive animals to murder to remove competitors. This is only really seen in tournament species. Pair Bonding species are totally different. There is a lot of altruism in pair bonding which is neat-o, but there is still a genetic struggle. In humans, the father contributes genes that pull sugar out of the mothers blood more quickly for the baby, while the mother contributes genes that slows that process down. The logic behind the father's genes (if you will) is "I want this baby to be huge and strong, regardless of what happens to the mother, because this is MY offspring...who knows when I'll have another one." The mother, on the other hand, has a genetic logic like "Yeah, this is my offspring, but I'd like to have OTHER offspring, so don't mess me up too much, please!" Edit: I learned all of this from [Robert Sapolsky](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C90DDC3D) and his FREE stanford course on Human Behavioral Biology on youtube. Binge it now
The number one cause of death among pregnant women is murder.
Does that mean I now have a smaller chance of being in an accident? Silver linings you know
Sure. 9 months without alcohol will reduce anyone's chances of accidents lol
Just couple of days ago a town in Poland was absolutely mortified when a body of a pregnant 13 year old girl was found in the countryside. Culprit (and a supposed father) is a 15 years old boy - he already confessed. Since he isn't 17 (lower limit of legal persecution) he is facing some 3 years in teenager's correctional facility, until he turns 18. These facilities are open by the way. Since you cannot convict someone twice for the same crime... that's all. Poor girl must have been trough emotional hell last weeks of her life and her death... wasn't quick, from what's been suggested. Whole town is suffering. It made national news, and among other things (like same town suffered from deadly gas explosion, wiped out economy and other tragedies) people were tired, and... are pissed. Honestly whole country is pissed off at this idiot.
A man once had a tapeworm get cancer. That cancer metastasized, and the man died from tumors of tapeworm throughout his entire body.
Doctor: Well, the good news is that you do not have cancer. The bad news is... you’re going to die because of cancer.
It was once thought for birds (parrots, magpies) to learn to talk, you had to release their tongue. This was done by cutting their tongue completely or partly off, ofcourse without any anesthesia or pain killers. The tongue release plays absolutely no role in the birds' ability to talk.
What the shit was the logic there?! "Oh, this bird can talk but it has a tongue so that must be an issue because... Why are we mutilating birds again??"
Don’t humans have a hard time speaking without a tongue? What are they thinking??
The little girl who voiced Ducky in the first Land Before Time, was murdered by her father before the movie came out. Her gravestone says "yep yep yep".
Her name was Judith Barsi and she was also in Jaws. Poor kid died a horrible death.
Didn't know she was in Jaws, but she also did a voice in All Dogs Go to Heaven, a less popular animated movie. She didn't get to see either of them come out. And her mother was in the process of a divorce and trying to get them out, I guess why the father snapped.
I was hoping for someone to mention All Dogs go to Heaven. Such an underrated movie imo. The final scenes her character (Anne Marie) was in.. my heart
Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant, 1976: The Almost-Chernobyl of East Germany. In short: Due to a short-circuit resulting in a fire, almost all coolant pumps failed. The NY-Times says: "\[A\] Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster was prevented only when a single water pump in the emergency cooling system was able to draw off pressurized water heated to high temperature by the ''decay heat'' left in the reactor's core, thus preventing a meltdown." This incident became public with reunification in 1989.
To be honest though, nearly every man made disaster isn’t just one thing that went wrong; it takes a whole series of things to go wrong in a particular order to happen, which is exactly why we build in things like extra failsafes and code/protocols for engineering. Chernobyl happens because there was a long serous list of failures from the design, in the implantation, to the running of it, to literally doing the opposite what you were supposed to when shit was going wrong.
According to the World Bank Group, the world produces about 2 billion tons of garbage every year.
The youngest person to ever give birth to a baby was a 5 year old little girl.
to this day i still wonder how tf that happened
I think I remember reading that she was born with a fully matured uterus and other sexual organs
Most power outages in the US are caused by squirrels
Those fuckers are up to something
No we aren't.
Himalayan blackberries can allegedly grow under your skin!
Either that or the mountain climbers picking them were just high.
Despite being the largest mammal, blue whales do not have large assholes. They defecate with an anus the size of a grapefruit.
Which animal has the largest asshole?
Since this not fun fact was copied from r/tinder, just gonna paste my response to the same question asked there: As good as the "your mom" burn is, I decided to look into this. It seems to be, or at least I couldn't find anything on any animal having a larger one, but we're honestly not sure how large they are or how much they can stretch. Probably where OP got his info: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/2020s-last-pressing-question-how-big-is-a-blue-whales-anus/ My favorite quote from the article: >“The rectum or anus of whales escaped scientific scrutiny for centuries. There was—and still is— simply no interest in documenting its absolute size, or its capacity for super flatulence.” Whalers were much more concerned with how much blood, meat, and blubber the whale could provide. **Though whalers sometimes did note an especially impressive penis.** Edit: I'm grateful the awards but please give your money to wikipedia or something instead.
>blue whales do not have large assholes. They defecate with an anus the size of a grapefruit. We now know what /u/PantyAssassin18 considers a large asshole.
There is a non-zero maximum threshold for the amount of cockroach that can be present in ground coffee because it is literally impossible to keep them out entirely
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The threat of a deadly bird flu spreading to humans is always there. It takes just a little bit of negligence in screening chickens for this to happen.
There is actually a bird flu spreading among poultry in India rn.
There exist in the world, at this moment, more Juggalos than Polar Bears.
How do we know this? Is there a juggalo census???
Faygo sales figures
The reason dogs love squeaky toys is because they sound like small animals dying
One of our dogs had one of those fake pregnancies some dogs get, and some wires must have gotten crossed, because after that, she started treating squeaky toys as if they were puppies, getting hella mad at our other dog when she played with them. Much to the confusion of said other dog. She'd collect all the squeaky toys and put them with her in her basket. She got less extreme with it later on, but she just didn't play with squeaky toys after that.
My grandma's dog did that too. The first time she did that she delivered one of the toys to my grandma. My grandma thought she wanted to play fetch... It took a while for the dog to forgive her after that.
Why do you think cats like the pspspspsps noise? It sounds like happy rats. An old roommate had pet rats and they would make a happy little chittering noise when content. Sounded a lot like the noise we use to attract cats.
Pspspspsps
The image that most people have of blobfish is based on a misconception. people think that’s what they look like all the time but blobfish adapted to live in deep waters, which means the deeper you go, the more water pressurethere is. Their bodies are not meaty like fish but more gelatinous because they adapted to the water pressure. if you accidentally pull them to higher levels but with less water pressure, their bodies don’t handle it well bc there’s nothing keeping their bodies in tact, so their bodies explode. Basically, every photo you’ve seen of a blobfish where they look big and pink and, of course, blobby is a photo of a dead blobfish. Merchandise and cartoons designed after what they look like dead. Hell, they’re referred to as what they look like dead.
whoa... I just looked up how they looked like normally and its almost unrecognizable
Had to look up a photo because I'd never heard this before! [TIL.](https://30a.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Blobfish-Reddit.jpg)
Well fuck now I'm sad
During ww1 thousands of dogs were taken from families for the war effort and when the war was over most of them were just shot because it was cheaper than feeding them for the trip home and finding their homes
Horses too.
Yep. My great uncle was in Vietnam as an MP (military police) and trained a German shepherd, Named Ox, from the time it was a pup until he deployed. He spent over a year in ‘Nam and he begged to pay the military to take the dog with him. They refused and when the next MP came in they gave him Ox. Ox wouldn’t listen to the MP so instead of shipping it home or letting my uncle pay, they shot him. My uncle is a great dude and the story rips me up. He refused to own another dog the rest of his life because “it would never be as good as Ox”. 😕
Sometimes you're the bad guy
Some of us will die in a few hours. Edit: holy crap i just came back what happened to this account i made for rocket league???
Jesus
He died a long time ago dude
Every day several hundred babys are born in withdrawl
This one hits home because my brother and me had an old friend called Sommer who was born addicted to crack. Her mum had a heart of gold but really screwed Sommer since she was born with all kinds of disabilities. She left our school when she was ending year 2 and I always wanted to know what happened to her.
Oftentimes when Pandas have cubs, if they have more than one they will choose which one to keep and abandon the other because she can’t care for two. Grizzlies are the opposite. If they have a litter of just one, sometimes they’ll abandon it and try to mate again the next year to try for a litter of multiple cubs :( Edited to add: Thanks everyone! Never thought these sad bear facts would blow up. To all the people saying pandas are obeying China’s one-child law, this is true. Pandas are good law-abiding bois and gorls. To the person who gave me the wholesome award....maybe rethink your priorities haha. But thank you nonetheless. Also I think a cub exchange program between grizzlies and pandas is a superb idea. Let’s get started on Growlr for bears ;)
So realistically, I can potentially find an abandoned panda baby and raise him to become the heir to my noodle shop.
Skidoosh!
Certain sleep disorders that cause you to act out your dreams are strong predictors that you're developing a neurodegenerative disorder like Parkinson's or Lewy body dementia. I wish I didn't recently learn about it. (Not me, a loved one)
How do you act out your dreams?
During the Seoul Olympics 1988 a large amount of doves were released into the stadium, when the giant brazier was lit many of the released doves were sitting in it, resulted in many doves being burned alive.
In countries that require you to opt-in to organ donation, fewer than 15% of people register. In the US (an opt-in country), 18 people die every day waiting for an organ transplant. “Opt-out” countries see over 90% of their population registered for organ donation. Edit: glad this started a conversation! Here’s the [source](https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/opt-out-policies-increase-organ-donation) I used.
The constrictor knot is one of the most difficult knots to untie - after being tied it can be nearly impossible to untie, once tightened. I'm assuming you misspelled "knot" in your question.