"Real corpses were used in the 1982 film Poltergeist."
"There are bodies of over 150 dead hikers on Mount Everest, and they’are used as landmarks."
"The Turritopsis Dohrnii jellyfish is officially known as the only immortal creature in the world. It lives forever."
"Mobile phones are 10 times dirtier than a toilet seat."
"That somebody is out here trafficking humans and then going back to their family while living comfortably in a much nice place than some of us are."
"The earth was around billions of years before we were, and is indifferent to our survival. There have been multiple mass extinctions in the past and we shouldn’t feel any safer. The only difference is we’ve advanced far enough to the point that we’ll probably know in advance when our species is going to go extinct."
"Scurvy at advanced stages can make all of your scars reopen."
"Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow) can lie dormant for more than 50 years, is universally fatal, and is inheritable. There is no cure."
"There are hundreds of unidentified serial killers in America."
"50-70% of people don’t have an internal monologue. "
"Sun eruptions have happened before and lead to blackouts across several continents. All fun and games in the 19th century. Today it could easily kill millions. And it could happen any hour."
"Dementia has no age limit."
"The fact that we know more about outer space than our planet’s deep oceans is unsettling. There are countless mysteries and potentially terrifying discoveries awaiting beneath the ocean’s depths."
"The Permian Extinction was the greatest extinction event in history, the atmosphere was full of CO2 and the oceans warmed so much they held too little oxygen to support most of the life that lived in it."
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