As awesome as our world is, there are some parts of it you'd rather not learn about. Unfortunately, you've been blessed with morbid curiosity, and the ability to read.
If you choose to continue, you'll be met with unsettling facts about everything from what cartels do to narcs, to the Earth's instant destruction.
Here are 20 facts you'll soon want to forget.
1
Bedbugs practice traumatic insemination. The females have a genital area, but the males prefer to just stab themselves into the females' abdomen.
2
That some morgues only hire women to protect the bodies from necrophilia.
3
Many state departments of corrections try to anticipate the number of prison cells required in the future by tracking how many third graders fail the state reading assessment.
4
Using and dumping sanitizer back in the wild will inevitably give bacteria enough time to have immunity to it. Which is something so dangerous that it could break humanity.
5
Praying mantis females usually eat the males during mating but the male can continue without his head
6
Your bones are always wet.
7
Many of the human organs trafficked on the black market in the United States come from narcos. There have been many cases involving medical professionals, and trucks that have been found with bodies that are missing organs.
8
Your organs know where they're supposed to be and move on their own. During surgery, doctors will just stuff them back in and they'll rearrange themselves back to their proper spot.
9
Organophosphates, including the chemical weapon Sarin Gas, work by inhibiting your muscle's ability to relax. Your muscles basically constrict and can't unconstrict, causing what feels like a muscle cramp through your entire body; your arms, your chest, your eyes, your tongue, everything. It most frequently kills via asphyxiation, because you can't exhale. Surviving means a permanent, irrecoverable loss of motor function, even with rapid medical treatment.
10
At any given moment, and out of nowhere, our solar system could be blasted by a huge gamma ray burst. It would wipe everyone and everything out in a millisecond.
11
Orphaned newborn kittens have to be carefully monitored because they seek out nursing so aggressively that they attempt to feed off each other’s parts, often to the point of removing them entirely.
12
Your main body's immune system does not know your eyes are a thing, and if it learned about them, they would be considered foreign objects and be destroyed. They have their own system.
13
93% of human history is not recorded.
14
The human brain is the same consistency as room temperature butter.
15
Child slaves in the Congo mine the cobalt used in our phones.
16
There are six missing nuclear bombs. That we know of.
17
Your eye lids are the same kind of skin as foreskin.
18
Microplastics are found in human blood, organs, and even placentas and brains.
19
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.
20
Bloodworms have teeth made of biological copper. They have METAL teeth.
