30 Horrifying Facts You Wont Believe Are True.
Nathan Johnson
Published
02/27/2023
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The experience of just being alive is as wonderful as it is terrifying.
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Human trafficking makes 150 billion a year in money -
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An unbelievable number of people who die of dehydration do so with a fair amount of fresh water in their possession. -
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When you get a sunburn, your cells are dying to avoid becoming cancerous -
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If a person gets bitten by an animal who has rabies, he will continue to live on a normal life for 12 weeks, and after the symptoms develop, there is no way he's making out alive. You'll know you're gonna die. -
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You could die at any moment without any notice and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. -
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There is more actual lemon juice in lemon-scented Pledge spray than there is in Country Time Lemonade. -
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Google fired two of their leaders in the AI ethics team for publishing articles about the dangers of an AI Google supported:) -
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Pigs can dispose of a body with relative ease -
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There are 18 genocides taking place right now on this planet, and dozens have happened since WWII ended. -
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When you have scurvy, all your old scars and wounds open up, due to the vitamin needed to maintain scar tissue. So for me for example, I had my jaw dislocated and my gums cut open from check to check to remove wisdom teeth. If I got scurvy I would bleed uncontrollably from the inside of my mouth out. What would be your most horrifying scar? -
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Snails have thousands of teeth. -
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A lone pilot was flying in Australia in 1978. He reported to air traffic control that he was accompanied by an aircraft above him. When asked to identify the aircraft, he replied "It isn't an aircraft". His plane disappeared, and was never to be found again. -
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In 2009 a paralyzed Belgian awoke from a **23-YEARS-LONG** coma, and it was discovered he was fully conscious and could hear everything around him the entire time. Like.. What. The. Actual. F!?!? Just imagine lying there not being able to move for two decades but also being aware of your surroundings. That's all kinds of messed up nightmare fuel right there. -
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Fatal insomnia -
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Virtually everybody has the capacity to kill, they just haven’t been put under the circumstances where it would be a preferable option. -
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The existence of people who believe that the earth is flat, despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that it isn't. -
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Antibiotic resistance -
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An estimated 1.5 billion disposable masks entered the oceans last year, and that's on top of a dramatic increase in other single use plastics. -
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Being gay is illegal in 69 countries. In 7 of those countries homosexuality is punishable by death. -
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There are more slaves today than there were during the transatlantic slave trade era. -
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How dark the BTS of the Wizard of Oz is. In Judy Garland's(Dorothy) own words "... they had us working days and nights on end. They'd give us pep-up pills to keep us on our feet long after we were exhausted. Then they'd take us to the studio hospital and knock us cold with sleeping pills- Mickey sprawled out on one bed and me on another. Then after four hours they'd wake us up and give us the pep-up pills again so we could work another seventy two hours in a row. Half of the time we were hanging from the ceiling, but it became a way of life for us." -
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in the NT (Australia) I remember seeing a government warning that crocodiles inhabit the area. Among the few bullet points of advice on the sign, the last one read "If they see you, it is already too late" -
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In Mississippi and some parts of Florida, there is a Bacteria in the water at the coast that will literally eat your flesh off of you. Florida is much safer than Mississippi though. At least, in that aspect. There is a mosquito in Florida that, when it bites you, can make your brain swell inside your skull and can possibly kill you. -
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The supervulcano under yellow stone is still active and can errupt. The chances are very low but If it does, It can cause devistation in whole USA. Spreading ashes over the whole Country and parts of Canada. -
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Over 150 dead bodies of climbers are still on Mount Everest. -
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The average American consumes over 150 pounds of sugar every year. That’s approximately 187g of sugar per day for my metric system friends. -
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you have a higher chance of dying to a swarm of bees than of winning the lottery -
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You might feel like the healthiest person in the world and yet still randomly die in your sleep. Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome is just one example. There are tons of small obstructions and irregularities that your heart could be suffering from that go completely unnoticed by you, your friends, and your doctors. You might be at an increased risk of just passing on when you go to bed tonight, and no one would even suspect as much until you actually died. -
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Every single year, there are thousands of people in the US alone who disappear. Most of them show up again; usually the next day but sometimes a few days, a few weeks or even a few months later. However, out of these thousands of people, there are roughly 150 people - every single year - who disappear and... simply never appear again. Nobody knows what has happened to those people. They might be dead, they might not be, we simply don't know. -
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In just 1 kiss, over 80 million bacteria are exchanged
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