"Crows can recognize and remember human faces."
"Tooth-in-the-Eye Surgery. Surgeons put a tooth in a blind person’s eye to restore their sight."
"Climate change is making spiders bigger."
"A haunted radio station from Russia has been broadcasting a dull monotonous tone for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the last three-and-a-half decades. Every few seconds it’s joined by a second sound, like some ghostly ship sounding its foghorn."
"Spiders can survive in space."
"Locked-In Syndrome is a condition in which a patient is fully aware but is stuck in a coma-like state."
“Somniphobia is the extreme fear of sleep. People with somniphobia may worry or obsess throughout the day about how they can avoid sleep. They may be afraid of what happens when they do fall asleep, such as having a nightmare or sleepwalking.”
"While Ted Bundy was a psychology major at the University of Washington, he worked at Seattle’s Suicide Hotline Crisis Center."
"More than 80% of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored."
"Alien hand syndrome is a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. The person loses control of the hand, and it acts as if it has a mind of its own."
"King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls."
"250,000 deaths a year are due to medical errors."
"During the mummification process, Ancient Egyptians remove the brain through one of the nostrils."
"People with Cotard’s syndrome believe that parts of their body are missing, or that they are dying, dead, or don’t exist. They may think nothing exists."
"Fatal familial insomnia makes it impossible for someone to sleep for months."
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