20 Facts That Aren't Very Fun.

Facts that are real downers.

Published 5 years ago in Creepy

Facts that are real downers.

1
“If you’re going to be murdered, chances are very good you’ve already met your killer.”

2
“The Great Molasses Flood, sometimes referred to locally as the Boston Molassacre, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. 21 people drowned in a wave of hot molasses.”

3
“There is a genetic disorder that causes your body to replace your muscle tissue with bone over time. It’s called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). And currently, there is no cure for it.”
4
“In Australia, there is a plant called the gympie gympie, otherwise known as the suicide plant. When touched, it delivers multiple stings with a long-lasting neurotoxin that is so painful that people would rather kill themselves than live through a few days of excruciating pain, and then a further several years of lesser pain, or full reoccurrence in the correct conditions. If the tiny hairs that deliver the stings are not removed, or are buried, the pain will continue for years. The pain, which has been described as feeling like being doused in hot acid and being electrocuted simultaneously, is so bad the people have been driven mad by it. Horses who have been stung by this plant have literally thrown themselves off cliffs. An ex-serviceman names Cyril Bromley is known to have fallen into one of the plants during WWII. Driven mad by it, he had to be strapped to a bed to prevent himself from committing suicide.”

5
“You will watch most of the people you love die, and the rest will watch you die. it’s guaranteed to happen.”
6
“The chances of you waking up tomorrow is less than 100%.”
7
“There’s somebody out there that you’re completely compatible with and you get along perfectly and it’s your perfect partner…. but you’ll probably never get to meet them.”

8
“America has 5% of the worlds population, but 25% of all prisoners in the world.”
9
“Banana Republics were coined in the book Cabbages and Kings, about small countries based around single exports that were taken advantage of by large corporations. That company taking advantage of them for the book rebranded and is now called Chiquita.”
10
“Male octopodes have multiple detachable penises. During mating, they simply rip one off and hand it to the female, who then swims away and, quite literally, fucks herself.”

11
“If you show symptoms of rabies, your chances of dying are nearly 100%.”
12
“The average human ass hole can stretch to about 8 inches and a raccoon can fit into holes around 4 inches in diameter. This means a raccoon can crawl into your ass.”
13
“If you’re attacked by a bear, it won’t necessarily try to kill you like other predators would. It just starts eating.”

14
“America’s first baseball star, Jim Creighton, died at 21 from a rupture he got from hitting a home run.”
15
“The girl that voiced Ducky in Land Before Time (Judith Barsi) was dead by the time Land Before Time came out. She had been murdered a few months earlier by her father in a double murder-suicide. Her tombstone says “yep yep yep”.”
16
“Brain activity has been recorded for up to ten minutes after death.”

17
“93% of humans are dead, and almost all of them were forgotten within 3 generations.”
18
“A single tiger killed 434 people in India.”
19
“Whales and Dolphins die by not having enough energy to surface for air, so they slowly sink into the depths of the ocean and suffocate.”