17 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn't Know.
Nathan Johnson
Published
11/16/2021
Stuff you may not want to know.
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In order to conserve water, a camel’s urine comes out as a thick syrup. -
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They used to think that people who died of hypothermia were sexually assaulted. You apparently pop a boner in the final stages before you die. -
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The body fat of a drowned person turns into a soap-like substance if they stay under water with no air contact -
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WD-40 rapidly destroys cocaine rendering it chemically unrecognizable. If you ever need to transport cocaine bring a bucket of wd-40 in case you get pulled over -
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If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains. Eating brains is how you catch a disease called Kuru. It is 100% lethal. -
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Around 30 people die every year, getting crushed from shaking a vending machine. -
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People dying often smell sweet. Not in a sugary way, but much more in flowery way. It’s the decompositions of the body already starting. It can also smell vaguely like alcohol, especially their breath It smells like overchewed Juicy Fruit -
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Orcas will slap baby seals 80+ ft into the air with their tails until the seal’s skin comes off, and eventually dies. The orcas will then not even eat it after, meaning that they literally just do it for fun. -
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During the Black Death, people would be so infected with the plague that the buboes (those lumps) that you could hear them gurgling with bacteria -
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Takes 3hrs for a 180lb human to completely dissolve in a bathtub of potassium hydroxide. -
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The last execution by guillotine was in France (obviously) on September 10, 1977, Star Wars was released in May of that year -
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If you skin a person alive and they somehow don’t die of shock, they’ll actually die due to hypothermia as without skin, they become unable to regulate their core body temperature. -
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Rainwater sometimes leaks into graves (especially in Ireland) where most of the decedents were Catholic, and thus as per tradition embalmed before burial. The groundwater fills the graves and coffins so much that the remains disintegrate and leak embalming fluid which contains many carcinogens into the groundwater. Local residents actually end up drinking bits of dead people through the tap water consumed. -
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The artwork on Metallica’s album Load is a mixture of cow blood and human semen. -
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That there is something called the suicide tree in Australia. One brush up against it causes extreme pain. The stinging is often periodically felt for 2-3 years. It has been known to drive people mad. Even a horse jumped off a cliff I think. -
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Sharks as a species are older than the rings of Saturn. -
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Doctors removed the eyes of Jack The Rippers last known victim in order to check if they could extract an image of the killer.
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