Our lips and our buttholes are made out of the same type of skin.

Statistically speaking, most people die within a 20 mile radius from their childhood home.

“During the Cold War, there was a missile siren malfunction, and if it wasn’t for one Stalinslav Petrov’s intuition, the Soviets would have sent nuclear missiles to the US, resulting in an all out nuclear war, where millions would have been killed.”

There’s an amoeba (Naegleria fowleri) that will eat your brain. They live in warm water, and can enter through your nose.

The Strid at the River Wharfe in Yorkshire, England has a 100% mortality rate, or close to it. The river basically turns on its side and if you fall in you’re very likely to wind up dead in it.

“At any time, you could contract Creutzfelt-Jakob Disease and nothing could be done. It’s caused by an error in proteins and can happen to anyone. 100 percent fatality rate, and no vaccine or cure.”

A 9.x earthquake can and will hit the Pacific Northwest at any time.

Worms taste like fried bacon, wasps taste like pine nuts, and beetles taste like apples.

“The fact that no matter how good your life is, that rug can be pulled out from under you in a flash.”

An octopus is flexible enough to enter your mouth, navigate your digestive system and leave through your anus.

Memories are subject to change. You can even convince yourself that a story you heard is an actual memory of yours.

Deaths via a can of food are startlingly high.

Bears can run as fast as horses.

Butterflies have been known to drink blood.

There was a woman that had a mummified baby in her body for 46 years until she learned it was there.