Gaze Detection - The human brain seems to be able to sense if someone is staring at us, even if we do not see the person at all. This ability has probably protected us from predators. So, if you have sometimes felt that someone was staring at you, chances are someone really was.

Once you begin to show signs of rabies, it's already too late to do anything about it. You have an inevitable and terrifying death ahead of you. Also, it's possible to get rabies from even a tiny, unnoticeable scratch, possibly while you're sleeping. If you've been camping in the last couple months, you could have it right now and not even know it.

Spiders have exoskeletons that they shed. When you see a dead spider, it might not be a dead spider. It could just be it's old skin, and the spider is now somewhere else, and bigger.

Sometimes when an elderly person falls and ends up with a broken hip, it’s actually the hip breaking that causes the fall.

That doctors admitted to euthanizing patients at Memorial Medical Center hospital in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina because their only other option was to leave them to die. Several were charged but have defended their decisions as the only humane choice in an impossible situation. One patient in particular was not terminal, but due to his size, was unable to be moved.

That the leading cause of death for a pregnant woman is m*rder.

Morgues prefer to hire women. For the reason you assume.

Carbon dioxide was blamed for the deaths of around 1700 people in Cameroon, west Africa, in 1986 when a massive release of gas occurred from Lake Nyos, a volcanic crater lake. The clinical findings in 845 survivors seen at or admitted to hospital were compatible with exposure to an asphyxiant gas. They were just sleeping when the lake released a giant cloud of CO2 and wiped out almost an entire village.

During the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the flight data shows that the astronauts turned on their internal oxygen supplies *after* the explosion...so it's likely that some of them were still alive when they hit the water.

For a lot of people the first sign of cardiovascular disease is sudden death.

Supposedly global warming will cause spiders to slowly get bigger overtime.

The American blood supply runs on about a 2-3 day buffer for most products. If for some reason the entire system shut down for a couple of weeks, people would die for lack of transfusions. And while at least 60% of our citizens are eligible to donate blood, only 5% of those people ever will. If that number went to around 8%, no blood bank would ever need to call you again.

There are orphanages full of kids who will never be adopted and many might not live long enough to "graduate" from the facility. The reason is that these are kids rescued from, or abandoned by the child s*x trade. They have an eclectic selection of STDs. HIV is rife. And most have major emotional/psychological issues from the abuse they suffered.

People will hurt you and take joy out of it even if you're the most nicest person in the world And sometimes those people are called family.

Remember the crocodile that took the toddler at Disney? A guy that worked there told me the toddler wasn’t consumed. The crocodile stashed it under some submerged roots to let it soften up for a few days before consuming it. They found the body before that.

50% of all plastics created have been since the year 2000 In recent brain samples inspected, 0.5% of the tissue was plastic by weight. 0.5% of our brains are now plastic. Most of the plastic found (40%] was polyethylene. I cannot confirm this I'm only parroting it but it lives rent free in my head lately, like the plastic probably.

I'm a vet, and I would say the most horrifying thing I have to tell people is that I can't do anything for their animal. It feels horrible every single time I have to discuss palliative care or talk about it perhaps being "time" for their animal.

On very rare occasions, a corpse can ‘give birth’. If a pregnant person dies, then certain results of decomposition, such as bloating, can force the fetus out of the womb, giving the illusion of Corpse Birth.

People that work with roaches, such as laboratory staff, reasearchers, and pest control personnel, often develop allergies to roaches....and preground packaged coffee.

Research suggests that people locked in comas or otherwise paralyzed are “conscious” and thinking the whole time.

Apparently Yellow Stone is becoming more active

The history of Gynecology and the father of It is quite horrific to learn about. He essentially experimented on slaves without any form of anaesthesia.

Every traditional disposable diaper ever made is still in a landfill and has not decomposed. One diaper takes 500 years to decompose. The best biodegradable ones take 50 years. That means, unless you were in cloth diapers, the ones you wore as a baby are still out there.

You are currently covered in millions upon billions of tiny little lifeforms; most of which are required for your continued existence. You are the entire universe to a litany of microscopic beings

This isn’t particularly existential or deep but Whales don’t actually die of old age. They die from drowning when they’re too old to resurface.

After a hip broken or after hip surgery, after 60yo, you have 50% chance of dying in the next 2 years. Like flipping a coin.

We are either alone in the universe or we are not alone in the universe.

The chainsaw was originally a medical tool used during birth. They cut your pelvis in half to help get the baby out. It was invented in the 1800s and was hand powered.

1 out of 3 women and 1 out of 4 men will have cancer .

A guy accidentally threw his child into helicopter blades. His wife left him and he k*lled himself later. I think about it everyday.