Over 46% of ocean waste is fishing nets. And commercial fishing kills more animals in the ocean than any plastic does. Idk why this isn’t talked about more.

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.

In the 1800s a LOT of dentures were made using the teeth of dead soldiers.

People with dementia just... forget how to eat one day. They forget how to swallow. We don't know if they feel starvation or pain, because they're too far gone. My brother works in a dementia care facility, and they know that a patient is gonna die soon when they eventually refuse food. And we don't euthanize them. They just... starve. To death. And they never tell the families that.

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

In 1933, a doctor named Carl Tanzler raided the tomb of a female patient with whom he'd become obsessed and stole her body. He lived with the corpse for seven years. As the body fell apart, he attached the corpse's bones together with wire and coat hangers, and fitted the face with glass eyes. He was only caught when someone saw him dancing with the corpse in front of an open window.

Most serial killers won't ever even be noticed, never mind captured.

All whales eventually lose the energy to surface for oxygen, so they basically just sink and drown.

Rainbow Valley at Mount Everest is named so because of the colorful coats of dead people

The Astronauts aboard the Challenger shuttle were still alive after the explosion. It took them a few minutes to fall to Earth, but they knew they were going to die.

The number of people older than you never increases.

The USA has lost 6 nuclear weapons that were never found.

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.

Seemingly 100% healthy people with literally no reason to believe they would have any reason to, can still spontaneously drop dead.

Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that's frightened or injured.

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”.

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.

You cant join the US army if your IQ is lower than 83. This is 10 % of the population.

There was a man who got really bad radiation poisoning. The Japanese government kept him alive for months just to study how the body reacts. He daily begged for death, and unless you have a strong stomach don't look up the pictures.

Cadmium poisoning is so horrible the name in Japanese literally translates to it hurt 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.

Russia sank a number of nuclear submarines, with the reactors intact, in shallow water. Once the submarine rusts enough, high level nuclear waste will start contaminating fairly crowded shipping lanes. One of the submarines they sunk used a liquid metal cooled fast reactor. When water finally rusts its way into that reactor, instead of the reactor rusting, it may explode.

The Mathews and the hart bridges in Jacksonville are about to fail, the pilings in the river do not touch bottom. I'm a commercial diver and I refuse to drive on these bridges.

After the bombing of Hiroshima, "black rain" that contained radioactive material fell, and many didn't realize it until it was too late. Also, according to my Japanese professor, they didn't even have a word for the atomic bomb at the time. I unfortunately can't remember what she said they called it instead.

One day, you’ll be thought about for the last time, and everyone will forget you.