"There is such a thing as homicidal sleepwalking. It’s also called homicidal somnambulism, or sleepwalking murder. In 2005, Jules Lowe was acquitted of murder after killing his father because he was sleepwalking during the crime."
"Before caesareans were perfected, if babies were too big to pass through the birth canal, a chainsaw was used to removed parts of the pelvis quickly. "
"Until the 20th century, human remains were used in the making of medicine."
"A book written 14 years before the 1912 sinking of the Titanic may have predicted the ship’s tragic demise. The novella titled The Wreck of the Titan, described an unsinkable ship that hits an iceberg. It also had a shortage of lifeboats, like the Titanic."
"There is a recorded case of hysteria in a large French convent in 1844. One nun began meowing like a cat, and shortly thereafter, every nun in the convent began meowing together for several hours at a time. This lasted until soldiers accompanied police to the entrance of the convent, and the nuns were informed that they would be whipped by the soldiers until they stopped meowing."
"A human body could be skeletonized in less than four days in highly oxygenated deeper water, according to a study done by Simon Fraser University."
"Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic degenerative brain disorder wherein the affected individual is unable to sleep. The disorder may begin mildly but gradually worsen, causing mental and physical deterioration. There is no known cure, and eventually, the disorder leads to death."
"In Ancient Greece, slaves were punished by way of ‘figging’: A freshly peeled ginger root was placed into the anus or vagina, causing massive discomfort for some period of time."
"One mg of poison from the golden poison frog can kill 10-15 adults."
"The Vampire Moth can latch onto you and feast on your blood for as long as an hour."
"“Prosopagnosia” is the inability to recognize faces."
"You are more likely to be bitten by a new yorker than a shark"
"The X Ray machine is largely responsible for the Child Protective Movement. In the 40’s and 50’s cases for Shaken Baby Syndrome were noticed causing a large push in child protection."
"That it was not uncommon for people to be buried alive by accident in the old days, which is why they started inserting cords in coffins which are attached to bells on top of graves that the ‘presumed dead’ can use as a distress signal."
"In 1973, two men were in a small submarine 1,575 feet deep in the ocean. Suddenly, there was a malfunction, and water began flooding in, causing the sub to sink. They only had enough oxygen left to survive for three days. It took so long for the rescue team to find them that by the time they extracted the crew, the men only had about 12 minutes of oxygen left."
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Science is the only real truth. If science can't explain it, that doesn't mean it's magic. It only means the answer hasn't been discovered yet. The key word here being "yet."
Any who downvote this without logical rebuttal are clearly amongst that group of fools.
Invalid. Saying it's magic is the exact thing they were talking about. We don't know... YET. Everything in the universe happens by random chance and to say otherwise is to say it's magic.
While the way you said it (and that super condescending comment at the end) are kinda offensive I don't necessarily disagree with your core statement. I always think of the Arthur C Clarke quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
The tallest tsunami recorded was in Alaska in 1958, over 1,700 ft [520 meteres]