What is the scariest fact you know?

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What is the scariest fact you know?

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  1. PourSomeSmegmaInMe Avatar

    Sometimes the first symptom of an aneurysm is dying from it.

  2. MiguelIstNeugierig Avatar

    Alzheimers symptoms manifest ~only a decade after the disease started deteorating brain matter

  3. IUsedToBeThatGuy42 Avatar

    Humans will probably never achieve interstellar travel on any real scale. There is no planet B. Tick tick tick…

  4. Sdrete Avatar

    The fact that time itself does not stop, it only marches—steady, cold, and blind—dragging us all toward the edge of oblivion, where death awaits us with open arms.

  5. Cheesestrings89 Avatar

    If all bacteria in a cheese decided to move in the same direction the cheese would move quite a distance in a day

  6. Lucky-Meal-9424 Avatar

    If our immune system detects our eyes, it will start destroying them

  7. Sacafe Avatar

    2 things,

    1st, that the end of the universe could be on its way based on the principle of the false vacuum decay, where all subatomic particles drop to a lower energy state and ends up just obliterating everything and we have no way to detect, stop, mitigate or even reverse this.

    2nd, we may not even be real, a construct of a boltzman brain.

    Enjoy the existential dread that comes from these

  8. AdorableNbusty Avatar

    I recently read that your immune system has probably killed multiple cancers in your body without you ever knowing about it. The terrifying part? It only takes one time for it to miss something for everything to go wrong.

  9. Otherwise-Carrot7090 Avatar

    Donald Trump is President of the USA

  10. Lastalmark Avatar
    1. As of right now there are an estimated 6 nuclear bombs from the US that are missing and unaccounted for.

    2. Our bodies have no tangible way of knowing that we’re breathing oxygen. As long as you’re not choking and the gas you’re breathing isn’t irritating; you would just quickly fall asleep and die. Technicians who work with Nitrogen tanks have died simply by walking into an area that hasn’t been completely flushed of the gas.

  11. ParadoxSmoker Avatar

    I took part in the war. And there is a funny fact that if you hear the sound of the bomb that means you have already survived. Otherwise you wont hear any noise except when its in the air. You hear the whistle until it explodes. Heard the explosion, you are alive. You have 5-6 seconds during the whistle to find a proper place to hide

  12. FitGrocery5830 Avatar

    That collagen is the only thing holding scar tissue together, without it, your healed scars would split open.

    The scary part:
    As we age (from our late 20s onward), our bodies begin to deplete collagen faster than we can naturally replace it, and that why skin gets loose and wrinkles form.

    In some people collagen supplements are necessary..

  13. stonedfishing Avatar

    It’s alarmingly easy to make explosive material.

    No, i won’t share my recipes

  14. cherriesdeath Avatar

    prion diseases can’t be cured

  15. TwoIdleHands Avatar

    “Lina Marcela Medina de Jurad gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days”. She was 4 when she got pregnant…there are monsters walking among us, that’s a fact.

  16. Literally_A_CootBird Avatar

    The largest penguin colony in the world is on an island with an active volcano, the most active volcano in its island chain.

  17. CuriouserCat2 Avatar

    Climate chaos is already here and can’t stop it. 

  18. cuatrofluoride Avatar

    25000 people (10000 of them children and babies) starve to death every single day

  19. AldenPyle Avatar

    That 50% of people are dumber than the average person. Those 50% are going to be the death of us all.

    Edit: a word

  20. TherianRose Avatar

    If you start showing symptoms of rabies, you will (edit: most likely) die from it. It’s one of very few conditions that have a near-100% fatality rate once you are symptomatic, even in the face of modern medicine.

    Take a moment and imagine:

    You’ve always had a soft spot for animals. You fetched a towel, murmured gentle words as you reached for it. That’s when it bit you—sharp, fast. You hissed through your teeth but waved it off. Just a scratch. You cleaned it, forgot it, but that little scrape had just signed your death certificate.

    Weeks pass. Then comes the headache. Nagging, but manageable. You take some ibuprofen, go about your day. Next, a fever and an aching tightness in your neck begin. “Probably a cold,” you shrug as you try to power through it.

    Then come the dreams: haunting, vivid, real. The shadows in the corner are watching you, whispering. You lash out at the barest inconveniences. Snap at your loved ones. Existing becomes confusing, irritating, overwhelming. You hardly recognize yourself in the mirror anymore; a pale, shaken shell of yourself.

    Then, suddenly, water is utterly terrifying. Your throat clenches at the sight of what was once a refreshing glass. The sound of the faucet makes your skin crawl. You try to drink, baffled as your muscles seize, your body fighting you yet simultaneously crying out in thirst. It is then that you realize, all too late. The rabies virus continues its unrelenting rampage within you.

    Your next fear is the light, and new fears continue to stack up at every turn. You are hiding, prisoner in your own mind as everything you once knew becomes unfamiliar. Nowhere is safe, everything is hunting you. You are no longer yourself, but a cornered beast, desperately clawing at anything that comes near. Agony descends, your muscles spasm, and your final flicker of life is spent, lost to madness.

    EDIT: Adjusting my wording as I’ve learned there have been survivors! As of this study in 2011, six people ever have survived, which is 0.01% of the ~59,000 annual reported rabies deaths according to the WHO.

  21. wetlettuce42 Avatar

    When a star explodes it turns into a gamna burst that can destroy all in its path if one goes off near Earth it will wipe all life on Earth and theres no warning

  22. greyjedimaster77 Avatar

    There are stars out there that make the Sun look like a grain of sand

  23. RMRdesign Avatar

    Not every person breaks down food the same way. In some cases that have resulted in death from pent up gas being released while the person is sleeping can be deadly.

    In 2005 a case in France made headlines after man accidentally killed his wife with a deadly “Musky Brown Shardling”.

    The man had been celebrating the local football club’s big win against a rival club. He had been drinking beer and a sort of homemade mead drink known locally as a hydromel biere bon marche for 24-32 hours straight. With a break to eat cheese and bread.

    The bread and cheese formed a blocking agent for the liquids and gasses building up in the man’s body. It wasn’t until he came home and fell asleep next to his wife that the body slowly started to apply pressure to the cheese and bread.

    The autopsy confirmed what the police had suspected, the wife had suffocated due to the lack of oxygen in the room. Along with the vomit choking her. At a certain point the smell had caused her to violently vomit.

    The husband survived due to his slowed breathing. He had been so drunk that his oxygen levels dropped to that of a monk in a deep meditative state.

    Gastroenterologist have said it’s wise to have your primary doctor do a colonoscopy before and after events like the Super Bowl, the World Cup and other alcohol infused events. This will let you know if there is a dangerous level of gas building.

  24. Heroic-Forger Avatar

    Duck mating is extremely violent and is basically gang rape, with up to thirty male ducks pecking, beating and taking turns mounting a single female and trying to pin her down into submission. The mating is so frenzied and violent that sometimes it goes from gang rape to gang necrophilia and the ducks just keep going.

    It’s reached such a point that male ducks have evolved the largest penis of any bird, shaped like a corkscrew for better forced entry, while female ducks’ have false passages and dead ends in their vagina to make it harder to inseminate by force. There’s literally an evolutionary arms race between males better at rape and females better at thwarting rape attempts.

  25. RustyImpactWrench Avatar

    The Yellowstone supervolcano, which erupts every 600,000 – 800,000 years and causes global mass extinctions every time, last erupted 640,000 years ago.

  26. HarlodsGazebo Avatar

    The vast majority of posters on this subreddit are either bots or karma farmers just looking to sell the account or farm karma until they can post in the big nsfw subs. Many of them use zombie accounts that they gain access to by stealing credentials of dormant account. That’s why they have one post from six years ago and then only recently started posting around 19 days ago. They generally leave incredibly generic responses to people’s replies to bump their own posts and drive engagement. Sometimes they even lie in their replies to generate sympathy karma. Gasps.  

  27. sshonuu Avatar

    Some genetic illnesses won’t show up until you get at least 40 years old. You can live your life happily, but then your body starts to break, you lose control of your movements and emotions and it keeps progressing, until you die. Especially, when the mutation is sporadic, not familial… Like, you won’t know about it until it’ll show itself…

  28. sovietarmyfan Avatar

    It’s no longer possible to fully rely on the news due to the amount of propaganda sources that some news organisations rely on.

  29. CountCrapula88 Avatar

    That some day i will die.

  30. Informal_Upstairs133 Avatar

    We all have a roughly three minute life span extended only by the existence presence of air.

  31. elephant35e Avatar

    When an old person falls and breaks their hip, sometimes it wasn’t the fall that broke their hip; it was the hip breaking that made them fall.

  32. KhaleesiXev Avatar

    A grown-up is not going to come and fix my problems: I am the grown up fixing problems for others. Those poor, poor others.

  33. NobodyofGreatImport Avatar

    By the time you start showing signs of dementia, it’s too late to be treated. Your brain’s already gone by that point, all you can do is slowly waste away.

  34. Initial_Berry_293 Avatar

    When the brain cannot handle an emotional or physical shock it erases it.😳

  35. Pier-Head Avatar

    Every year you pass the future anniversary of your death

  36. Appropriate_Arm_1339 Avatar

    In the 80 years since the invention of nuclear bombs, there have been at least three (declassified) instances in which the quick decision of one person has prevented nuclear war. We won’t get lucky forever.

  37. Hackinon Avatar

    Your body is operating with the help of billions of other micro organisms.

  38. Ilove_gaming456 Avatar

    During nuclear war, if your city were to be hit, you’d be better off dying from the initial blast than suffering from radiation poisoning

  39. Sad-Dig-1675 Avatar

    We are food for Trees

  40. Sad-Dig-1675 Avatar

    microplastics are everywhere

  41. squid_ward_16 Avatar

    The FBI estimates that there are about 50 serial killers active in the U.S. every day

  42. Wonderful-String5066 Avatar

    Unless you are famous and have done something to affect society you’ll probably be remembered after you die. However if your like the rest of us you’ll be forgotten within two generations as if you never existed.

  43. Robovzee Avatar

    The CDC kept (and maybe still does). Stashes of atropine syringes around the country in case of nerve agent attack.

  44. pokeyporcupine Avatar

    The people that are in orbit don’t float because there’s no gravity. They float because they’re falling.

  45. zapichigo Avatar

    Just 8 men control more wealth then the poorest 4 billion people on earth.

  46. Wise-Dinner-6885 Avatar

    You can get tapeworms in your brain causing irreversible disability such as blindness or paralyzis. You get it from ingesting fecal matter. Think about that if you have a habit of licking peoples bungholes.

  47. fastr1337 Avatar

    Alfred Henry Lewis once said “humanity is only nine missed meals away from anarchy.” So 3 days and all hell breaks loose in even the most developed countries and the whole “eat the rich” could actually become a normal thing.

  48. BottyFlaps Avatar

    John Edward Jones got stuck upside-down in a tight dead end in Nutty Putty Cave for 27 hours before dying.

  49. JohnSmithWithAggron Avatar

    If something were to happen to you, people close to you wouldn’t know until it’s too late.

    How often do you chalk people not arriving as just them being late? How often do you think people are just sleeping in?

    If I were to die in my sleep for example, it would probably take until the afternoon for someone to actually go and check up on me.

  50. FineWin3384 Avatar

    When you die, it is an experience that your brain has never experienced, so it goes through your entire life to see how to survive. That’s why your life flashes before your eyes.

  51. xybervenom0 Avatar

    Your brain can generate false memories-and you might never know.

  52. MarigoldSigh_xxx Avatar

    Time is unstoppable and you only get to live each second once in your lifetime

  53. Designer-Travel4785 Avatar

    Once you show symptoms of rabies your days are numbered. And it’s a terrible way to die.

  54. sarahafrantz Avatar

    The number one cause of death for pregnant women is homicide.

  55. res30stupid Avatar

    The British police lost track of a convicted spree killer and he was just barely stopped from going on a second rampage.

    In the 1970’s Barry Williams – as a result of his own violent tendencies^1 and paranoid schizophrenia which made him think others were taunting and bullying him – used his gun to murder his neighbours, went on the run and killed two other people while stealing petrol as well as shooting at numerous others.

    He was deemed insane and held until he was deemed able to control his own condition for nearly two decades and released under a false identity of “Harry Street”, but allowed to emigrate abroad under the condition that – if he ever returns – he notify the authorities he’s returned to the country… which he didn’t.

    So, when he was reported to the police by his neighbours in 2013 for violent behaviour and extreme threats of violence against children below the age of 7, it was solely because of a single police officer that he was able to be stopped before he went on another rampage fuelled by his paranoid schizophrenia, which he had stopped taking medication for a long time ago.

    When the threats were reported by the victims, the police assigned a junior officer as one of the cops who were in charge of making inquiries about the man who had made the threats and if he had a previous conviction. And while doing this background check, she realised that none of Harry Street’s publicly available information predated 1995 despite his age putting him in his late-sixties, meaning his recrds only begame when he was around is mid-thirties. This served as an immediate red flag for her.

    She realised that around 1995 was when they switched from paper files to digital databases for police archives and that whoever Harry Street was, the police had probably misplaced his file for one reason or another. So, she goes and gets his physical paper file, starts reading it…

    And calls the family he threatened in the middle of the night to tell the to get the fuck out of their house as she gets armed response officers to kick the man’s door in and arrest him for breach of his release conditions and because they rightfully suspected, upon reviewing his past case, that he was planning to commit another atrocity.

    Homemade guns, pipe bombs and bullets – that’s what the police found in his house. The guy was psychiatrically assessed and deemed to have been refusing to treat his own condition and sectioned with a judge declaring that he can never be released. About a year later, he dies in a psychiatric ward of a nervous breakdown on Christmas Eve, of all days.

    1: Williams was expelled from at least one gun club and was in the process of being expelled from another – one for disturbing behaviour on the gun range such as dressing targets/mannequins up as people he knew including other members as well as modifying bullets to make them more powerful/lethal, but also on suspicion of stealing ammunition.

  56. Snaggl3t00t4 Avatar

    We will face death alone and everything will go on without you regardless.

  57. mrwishy-washy Avatar

    The Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air its sound would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away.

  58. andrelq Avatar

    The idea that our brains don’t even process reality as it is. We’re all walking around with an incomplete picture of the world, filtered through our senses and our perceptions, which is honestly kind of terrifying when you think about it.

  59. munchieattacks Avatar

    We have infallible evidence the universe is billions of years old yet people believe it’s only 4000 years old with no evidence to back it up.