There are spiders that capture bats in South America. There are also spiders that eat birds in Australia.

Often, burnt bodies are found in the same stance, known as the “Boxer Pose” due to muscles contracting from heat.

“Cyanide poisoning is an incredibly painful way to die Cyanide was what Jonestown consumed for mass suicide. Parents were instructed to give it to their children and convinced the crying was just fear.”

“Pelicans will go into other birds nests, shove the parents out of the nest. They will then swallow babies whole, fly back to their own nests, and regurgitate the still half alive, partially digested babies, to their own babies for them to consume. Some pelicans are literally raised on the partially digested, living flesh of other baby birds.”

1/3 of all people who break their hip die within the year.

If you try to grab the brain in its natural state it will fall apart, when you see scientists pick up the brain they have used chemicals to harden it.

Polar bears are the only bear species that actively hunt and kill humans for food.

Hotels rarely clean their ice machines.

“Llama spit is actually projectile vomit.”

“There is value to the human body as a commodity. While corneas are small, they fetch a large price (£15,000, or about $22,450), whereas our skeleton garners significantly less (£5,000, about $7,483). The price also depends on whether the body part is sold for specimen use, transplants, or on the black market.”

A dying person’s eyes will sometimes go from closed to shooting wide open as they pass.

A cardiac tamponade is when your heart literally chokes itself to death.

“That it literally just takes one person to decide to kill you. In any situation. The fact that someone can choose you randomly to kill – they might be caught and arrested, but they would’ve already killed you. No one can really prepare for it.”

That there is anywhere between 25-50 active serial killers in the United States, according to the FBI. Yet you’re still far more likely to be murdered by someone you know and trust.

“If we see a life-threatening meteor is going to strike us in a few years, we probably, at least at the moment, couldn’t do anything about it. They’ve had training simulations with this exact scenario, and they only got it right like 10% of the time, they need more like 10 years to reliably and consistently stop it.”