“Cadmium poisoning is so horrible that the name in Japanese literally translates to ‘it hurts it hurts.’ Cadmium poisoning can cause your bones to literally soften; also it can cause kidney/lung disease, chills, muscle aches, hair loss, and fever.”

“Veteran criminals in the gulags would recruit naïve prisoners for their escape attempts called “cows” for the sole purpose of eating them when they ran out of food in the Siberian wilderness.”

“In the Battle Of Verdun, over a million artillery shells were fired onto a 19 mile wide stretch of land in the first 12 hours. If you were lucky enough to survive until then, the sound alone was enough to drive you insane.”

“The astonishing fatality rates that can be found in so many battles in the First World War weren’t accidents or unfortunate byproducts of the technology – they were factored into the battle plans. By the nature of attritional warfare it was calculated how many men would be lost every week and commanders drew up enough reinforcements to replace them. This was called “Normal Wastage”

“Mummy brown is a paint hue partially made up of ground up Egyptian mummies. There are paintings made of dead people.”

“In extreme cases of scurvy, your scars break down and old wounds re-open. Collagen keeps scars together and that collagen maintains itself throughout our lives. But without vitamin C, that process begins to halt and the collagen breaks down.”

“The world’s most prolific living serial killer is a man called Pedro Lopez. He was convicted of the killing of 110 girls. But he claims he has r*ped and murdered over 300.”

“Terminal lucidity is the return of mental clarity or memory or consciousness shortly before death. This happens to around 10% of people with dementia.”

“There were Holocaust survivors that died shortly after being liberated because their body couldn’t handle the increased calories when they were fed by the soldiers that freed them.”

When you blush, so does your stomach.

“The Junko Furuta case. Reading about it gave me nightmares. She was held captive for 44 days and basically tortured by her classmates. Some parents knew what was going on but did nothing about it. Since the criminals were juveniles at the time, they are free today.”

“The Azure swimming pool in Pripyat was in use until 1998, 12 years after the Chernobyl disaster.”

When two people kiss, they form long, bendy tubes with assholes at both ends.”

“Cows don’t convert grass directly into protein. They have enormous colonies of bacteria in their stomachs that have population explosions when they eat grass, live, breed, die, and then the cows digest them into protein.”

“With the permafrost and tundra thawing, out bacteria and other microorganisms that we know nothing about are becoming active again.”