What’s a terrifying fact you wish you never learned?

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What’s a terrifying fact you wish you never learned?

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  1. BramTram15 Avatar

    Your brain can make up entire memories that feel 100% real. So yeah, maybe that embarrassing moment never happened—or maybe it was worse

  2. defensiveminded2020 Avatar

    that we have face mites.

  3. badnewslily Avatar

    The oceans are so deep we’ve explored less than 5% of them. There could be creatures down there that would break your brain.

  4. CarbonatedGhost Avatar

    You’re born with 300 bones but end up with 206 because your body just fuses them like some kind of horrifying meat Voltron.

  5. V3gasMan Avatar

    1/4 of the population has tuberculosis. It mostly just chills in our lungs in a sac of dead immune cells that the bacterium feed on

    https://youtu.be/GFLb5h2O2Ww?si=BW_x3Xs_lGmph7Bj

  6. Preschien Avatar

    We are going to die. You, me, everyone you know. Everyone is going to die, and very soon.

  7. eggs-benedryl Avatar

    I think during covid that you can even be asymptomatic of something you have and you can just spread it and never know it. Like if we had the plague but I felt perfectly fine while i’m killing every person i come in contact with.

    edit: well, that is GOOD to know but it is distressing

  8. wizzbs Avatar

    there’s a g spot in the butthole

    there’s two options now, i get pegged, or i live life never knowing the true potential of that spot

  9. ainosunshine Avatar

    Our proteins fold in specific ways. If you eat meat with a protein that’s been folded the wrong way, your proteins will also start folding the wrong way and you will die shortly. That’s mad cow disease.

  10. Rethoughts Avatar

    I’d read you lose an average of 2-3 years of life expectancy for every inch over 5’11 in height.

    I’d read that Disneyland is the worlds biggest child cemetery. That parents of deceased children scatter their kids ashes all over the park because its a “happy place”.

  11. SnoopySuited Avatar

    The idea of an economy is completely made up, and it only works if everybody pretends that it’s a real thing.

  12. sniksniksnek Avatar

    If you live on the West Coast of the U.S. or Canada, read about the Cascadian Subduction Zone, or maybe don’t.

  13. Over_Deer8459 Avatar

    that all fetuses start as female until they get the y chromosome, so our once-vagina essentially then folds into our nut cannon.

  14. Bottlecollecter Avatar

    There are about 300 dead bodies on Mt. Everest, and some of them have been used as landmarks.

  15. GaudyGoober Avatar

    I learned that a family member was a coyote and drug runner and did some really fucked up shit through his life. All I knew him as was a nice old man, but there was a monster in there the whole time.

  16. Sensitive_Lobster_60 Avatar

    You will never actually see your face, you can see a reflection or a picture but never your actual face

  17. Bowman_van_Oort Avatar

    The current American administration is going to deport American citizens for no reason at all.

  18. Sekshual_Tyranosauce Avatar

    Gamma rays from a dying star may microwave our planet at any second and leave it a sterile rock. We won’t know it’s coming. Not that it’d help.

  19. BountyHunterSAx Avatar

    A certain felon was actually dead serious about implementing certain economic policies that would inevitably lead to catastrophic loss for everyone living in the United States and some loss for everyone in the world.

  20. stcrIight Avatar

    That wasp/fig symbiosis thing. I can’t eat figs anymore 😭

  21. Kaalveythur Avatar

    There a disease called Familiar Fatal Insomnia. It’s bound to certain families, and somewhere between the ages of 30 and 50, the members of these families slowly lose the ability to sleep, and usually dies within 6 years.

    Now, the terrifying fact is that there’s a non zero chance for anyone to develop this disease on their own.

  22. KathyWithAK Avatar

    Scientists have found microplastics in every part of the human body. Most of us eat around five grams of the stuff in a week — or about the same amount of plastic in your average credit card.

  23. Roni_roo2009 Avatar

    if your brain becomes aware of your eyes it will fight and make you blind

  24. Interesting-Log-9627 Avatar

    That just before a lightning strike an “upward streamer” is reaches up from every tall object, trying to reach the clouds. When an upwards streamer connects to one of the streamers reaching down from the cloud, this triggers the lightning bolt.

    There is always a streamer reaching up from your head. Trying to touch the cloud.

  25. nogzila Avatar

    From our understanding of the laws of physics anything can technically happen and I mean anything .

    You could slam your hand on a desk and it go though and re harden and your hand now is one with the desk.

    You can instantly be transported to another planet , star , space , or a black hole.

    You could spontaneously combust .

    A crazy alien predator could be the one that is transported right in front of you.

    The universe itself could spontaneously end with no warning .

    Now the chances of these things happening are astronomically high as in once in a billion years or never kind of thing but it’s still possible. ( as long as it’s not programmed ) which is a horror of its own .

    To our knowledge this is just how physics works it can be random and chaotic.

    There are many horrors I didn’t put up there as I just wanted to give a few examples.

  26. HonestBass7840 Avatar

    Ninety nine percent of all the stars  that will ever be, have already been made. We are in the last warm night our galactic summer, and very soon we will have a cold winter that will never end. Our sun has less than a billion years be for it starts to swell up and engulfed the Earth.  By then, most of the star in the night sky will be turning red, and begin to die. Smaller stars will hang on for long time, but the night sky will be empty. Then there will be only black hole slowly evaporating. The end of the universe will take so long, it will be like a sky full of stars never happend.

  27. Valgus1 Avatar

    Adult life sucks major anus. It is what it is though.

  28. Prof_Gankenstein Avatar

    There are demodex mites that live buried into your eyelashes. Google them.

  29. NeedsItRough Avatar

    That the majority of the ocean has yet to be discovered.

    There could be some super crazy creatures down there that we’ve never seen.

    We might never see all of them.

    I know there’s science that proves creatures can only get so big (because there’s not enough food to sustain something past a certain size) but it’s still terrifying to think about in my opinion.

  30. Lopsided_Narwhal8093 Avatar

    somebody once told me ,that to get rid of a tapeworm you simple starve yourself for two days, then get a glass of milk and sit in front of it with your mouth open. the tape worm will show up soon and then you can pull it out

  31. Practical_Airline_36 Avatar

    All of us have cancerous cells within us. They live and die everyday. Except when they don’t they become a problem.

  32. srichardbellrock Avatar

    “natural flavors” = beaver ass juice.

  33. UnluckyLuke87 Avatar

    Climate change is much worse then the politicians and the media let you know, and nobody in they’re right mind should have kids from now on because in 60 years the world is going to be a very bad place to be living in and you’re basically cursing them to famine and a horrible slow death.

  34. _Moho_braccatus_ Avatar

    The ornithologist’s curse of knowledge. If you know you know.

    Also you lost the game. 🙂

  35. SexOnABurningPlanet Avatar

    Genetic editing. Governments across the planet are racing to create the first true super soldier. More hulk than captain america. Apparently china is trying to combine the DNA of a human and a Tardigrade. I’m sure other countries are doing the same. Whether they succeed or fail, the potential for utter catastrophe may be worst than nuclear proliferation.

    “I’ll give you three use-case scenarios right now which we should be very afraid about. Fear number one: the weaponization of the military. We know how to make a human being who runs on four hours of sleep—I can tell you what mutation to make. Two: We know what gene to edit to reduce pain sensation. If I were a rogue nation wishing to engineer a next generation of quasi-pain-free special-forces soldiers, I know exactly what to do. It’s all published. And three: physical strength. You don’t need a large lab operation. You just need the ill will.”

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/the-transformative-alarming-power-of-gene-editing

  36. CartoonistLarge5904 Avatar

    That all things are impermanent. Never thought of it before.

  37. m3phil Avatar

    The moment when the oldest person was born 100+ years ago, there was an entirely different set of human beings on the planet.

    Not as terrifying as others but blows my mind.

  38. Jack-of-Hearts-7 Avatar

    Prions are horrifying.

  39. YasoOoOo Avatar

    Idiots can become President and Ruin a country and its political/economical Relations within a months

  40. TheKasimkage Avatar

    Airstrikes make babies’ heads come off.

    There are a lot of babies missing their heads due to Israeli airstrikes, and I’ve had the misfortune of seeing some of the videos.

    And just to head this off before someone starts, there were no beheaded babies on October 7th. Nor were there any babies in ovens. The story for the latter is thought to come from the dier Yassin massacre which Israel carried out on Palestinians.

  41. CD696969X Avatar

    Approx 400,000 people wake up during operations in the UK every year.

    Drowning in sea water is far worse than drowning in fresh water, as it takes much longer to die.

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