I Can’t Wrap My Tiny Brain Around These 24 Extremely Disturbing But Super Fascinating Facts
“‘The human brain is the same consistency as room-temperature butter.”
Once in awhile, you’ll stumble upon a simple fact and your jaw will literally fall open in amazement. We’ve all experienced it before, and IDK about you, but I LOVE that feeling.
And we’ve talked about mind-blowing facts before, but today we’re focusing on a particular kind: DISTURBING facts. Ones that’ll make your toes curl and face scrunch up (the best kind, honestly).
So recently, Reddit user u/throwrapis3ces asked, “What are some disturbing facts you wish you didn’t know?” and people DELIVERED with some facts that are twisting my brain into knots. Seriously, a warning here: some of these are actually quite disturbing.
4. “If you’re driving over 80 km/h and hit a horse or large animal, you can inhale its intestines and suffocate on them.”
5. “The type of skin on your lips is called the mucosa and is the same skin found on your anus, because they are two ends of what’s essentially a pipe called the alimentary canal.”
9. “Any given moment, and out of nowhere, our solar system could be blasted by a huge gamma-ray burst (GRB). It would wipe out everyone and everything out in a millisecond.”
10. “COVID was the best transfer of wealth in recent history. Rich got richer.”
11. “Fatal familial insomnia. Super rare, but also super scary. Basically, you stop being able to sleep, then you go mad, then you die. No cure.”
12. “A mute mail-order bride is ten times as expensive as one who has the power of speech.”
13. “Your bones are always wet.”
14. “Michael J. Fox’s middle name is Andrew.”
15. “Praying mantis females sometimes eat the males during intercourse, but the male can continue without his head.”
16. “When you are doing surgery and a patient on the table dies, they turn cold. Ice cold. FAST. Uncomfortably fast.”
17. “In just a few months, we will be closer to the year 2050 than 2000.”
18. “You are not born with the bacteria that causes tooth cavities. Someone passed that bacteria to your mouth at some point in your life.”
19. “Approximately 50% of murders are unsolved every year. It was closer to 90% unsolved in the 70s.”
20. “Dolphins are one of the most sexually aggressive animals on Earth.”
21. “Donkey milk is the closest thing to human breastmilk in nutrients.”
22. “Everything in our universe is made up of only a fraction of the matter that was created during the Big Bang.”
23. “It’s incredibly easy to mess with people’s memories and even create false ones.”
24. “You are always 2 minutes away from death, but your breath resets the timer. Be thankful that that action is subconscious so you don’t have to remind yourself to breathe.”
OK, I did try to end on a positive note there. Because look at the bright side: even if we’re a bit disgusting, hey, humans are still pretty cool. So don’t spiral too much about these facts (or at least try not to). Plus, maybe tell us some more interesting facts you know in the comments below.
