Some facts in life are really interesting and fascinating, but some facts are really scary to hear and wrap our heads around.
Some facts that we discover are disturbing because we don’t want them to be true, even though they are. And, if you’re going to find weird facts that totally piss us off, it’s going to be found on our favorite site, Reddit.
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Rabies is more deadly than…anything.
“You’re more likely to survive almost anything than rabies.
Internal decapitation? Yup. Shark Bite? Yup. Being hit by a speeding car, scalped, or breaking your neck? Yes.
Rabies is a death sentence, always.” – justalittlelupy
Murders aren’t always solved.
Thinking about crimes and murder, we always assume that they are resolved and closed because we all binge-watch Law & Order all the time.
Turns out, the majority of murders go unsolved. And, those are the ones classified as murders in the first place—not all of them are.
Australians have the highest skin cancer rate.
“People joke about Australia having dangerous animals of all kinds. However, no. 1 enemy to Australians is the sun.
Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world. An average Australian is four times likely to get skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australians will probably get it by the age of seventy.” -BizarroCullen
Dehydration kills more kids than most diseases.
Reddit user Reverse_Waterfall said that dehydration is something to really worry about in young children, so much so that it kills more children than other diseases.
Dehydration actually kills more kids than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. It’s scary to think about.
Babies used to have operations with no pain killers.
“In the late nineteenth, and first half of the twentieth century, doctors were taught that babies did not experience pain, and were treating their young patients accordingly. From needle sticks to tonsillectomies to heart operations were done with no anaesthesia or analgesia, other than muscle relaxation for the surgery.”- 500SL
Most kids drown when their parents right next to them.
“Movies etc. don’t portray drowning people very accurately. This has led to a common misconception of what a drowning person actually looks like. Since a lot of people don’t really know what to look for, a large number of tragic incidences of children drowning while swimming occurred with the child’s parents right there.” -aredman87
Tumors can grow hair and teeth.
Reddit users shared that some tumors can grow hair and teeth, which is super terrifying to think about. One user even shared, “I had one. It was 10lbs…. had sweat glands, 5 teeth, hair, half a spinal chord and muscles. Grew in 6 months on my ovary…… and right before I got married. Not fun. Don’t recommend.”
Male porcupines fight for their mate in weird ways.
DeliciousHorseShirt shared that male porcupines are a bit strange in the way they choose to mate.
Apparently, they fight other males for their mates by peeing on them. And, they also poop where they sleep to keep things classy.
A childhood actress was brutally murdered by her father.
“Judith Barsi, the young actress who voiced Ducky in The Land Before Time, was murdered (along with her mother) by her abusive father. She was only ten years old at her death. Her gravestone is adorned with Ducky’s catchphrase, “Yep! Yep! Yep!” – FlashpointJ24
This one is a head scratcher.
“There was a point when you were the youngest person on the planet. There’s no guarantee you’ll ever be the oldest person on the planet. However, for the oldest person on the planet there is a completely different set of humans to when they were born.” – ImGCS3fromETOH
Not all sociopaths are bad people.
Pear_Jam2 shared that many times in society, people assume that sociopaths are bad people who are always murderers and criminals.
But, many sociopaths are actually functioning as good members of society—doctors, surgeons, journalists, and more.
One slight change and things would have been different.
“If calculations were off even by a tiny amount, the Apollo capsules would have either crashed into the moon, or skipped out of lunar orbit and have drifted into space forever. Both of these scenarios would involve the crew being very aware of their imminent deaths as there would have been no realistic way to slow down or be rescued.” -Darth_Xenic
Most dogs die of cancer.
“Vet tech here … most of our older pets don’t die of old age, they die of cancer. It sucks. There’s no way to prevent cancer. It’s a mutation of cells. However, to keep your good boi or gurl with you longer some things that really make a difference: a quality diet (please don’t feed them the cheapest stuff, it’s like humans eating the cheapest foods; not terribly healthy though it may fill all the nutritional requirements).” -Rabeque
The world eventually is going to end.
EbenHSHD let everyone know that eventually, the world will end and Earth will cease to exist. Clearly, that is a scary thought.
“It’ll take a very long time, like another billion years or so, but eventually the sun will swallow the planet and erase all evidence that life existed if it doesn’t still exist.”
A 12-year-old and a 40-year-old can legally get married.
“In the US a 12 year old child can legally marry a 40 year old man. Once married sexual contact is “legal” and if the child runs away to say a woman’s shelter, being a minor means they cannot legally sign themselves in, so when the police get involved they are returned to their “legal guardian” e.g. their spouse, who is very likely the abuser they were trying to get away from.” -ruat_caelum
