"If you’re a cannibal, never eat the brains. Eating brains is how you catch a disease called Kuru. It is 100% lethal."
"A dead body in the beginning stages of decomp smell like wet hay"
"If you die alone and become a “bloater” they pop you like a big zit before removal"
"The human brain has neurons misfire all the time. 99.999% of the time you don’t notice because there’s no noticeable effect, but if the wrong couple neurons misfire at the same time it can induce a seizure."
"A person split in half by the stomach doesn’t die instantly. It has some lastly moments of suffering."
"Robert Pickton, serial killer in British Columbia, used to dispose of bodies at a local fat rendering plant, meaning that many of the products made from that plant, think gummies or anything gelatin related, likely contained human remains."
"The US military conducted chemical weapons tests on 60,000 US service members during WWII. It was kept secret until the 1990’s and wasn’t widely known until NPR wrote an investigative story on it in 2015."
"Orcas will slap baby seals 80+ ft into the air with their tails until the seal’s skin comes off, and eventually dies. The orcas will then not even eat it after, meaning that they literally just do it for fun."
"During a ritual, Aztec kings used to bring some victims up the tall pyramid so they may be sacrificed to their gods. Typically, these victims were tossed along the side of the very jagged rocks and we’re usually found dead at the bottom."
"Cows can create mummified foetuses inside of their uterus. If the foetus dies and is not retrieved, the body absorbs all the liquids and humidity from the foetus, and what is left is a tiny dried up hard solid mummy of a calf."
"19th century murderer William Palmer’s last words to the hangman who would take his life were “Are you sure it’s safe?”"
"The witch in Hansel and Gretel actually was cooking the two kids correctly, by using low heat cauldron over a long time with fatty meat, cuz she fattened them"
"Takes 3hrs for a 180lb human to completely dissolve in a bathtub of potassium hydroxide."
"During the Black Death, people would be so infected with the plague that you could sometimes hear the bacteria “gurgling” in the buboes (lumps)."
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And a lot of those "fines" as so small compared to the profits that it's basically just a fee...
how was it? punishable by fine just means legal for a price.
Then you haven’t been reading the news.
- Fight Club
#26 It was an oven, not a cauldron. Although we don't know what heat she had the oven on, but it was big enough to fit her in it so it had to be Pizza oven size.