"In 1977, the average life expectancy in Cambodia was 18.91 years."
"The average adult male has a biting force high enough to rip someone’s throat out with their teeth."
“Encephalitis lethargica causes you to slowly ‘survive’ – but not ‘live’. After bouts of deep sleep, where patients can be woken very easily but fall immediately back into the deep sleep, they’re left with post-encephalitis symptoms. The main one being that their minds are fully aware and conscious, but they can’t physically function – a bit like locked in syndrome, and they display extreme apathy.
They even KNOW they’re displaying apathy but can’t express any emotions. So they’re completely stuck – UNTIL someone throws a ball at them, which they then can immediately catch. OR until someone holds their hand and walks alongside them, then they can suddenly walk. Otherwise nothing. “
"It used to be believed that babies as old as 15 months couldn’t feel pain. As a result, doctors would preform surgery without anesthesia. Doctors used muscle relaxants on the infants to prevent squirming, essentially paralyzing the babies for the duration of the procedure. How long ago was this? Reports indicate that this continued up until the 1980’s."
"Due to Fresh drinking water being so scarce on the Galápagos Islands, some bird species, such as the Galapagos Hawk, have adapted by drinking the blood of other animals."
"Organophosphates, including the chemical weapon Sarin Gas, work by inhibiting your muscle’s ability to relax. Your muscles basically constrict and can’t unconstrict, causing what feels like a muscle cramp through your entire body – your arms, your chest, your eyes, your tongue, everything. It most frequently kills via asphyxiation, because you can’t exhale. Surviving means a permanent, irrecoverable loss of motor function, even with rapid medical treatment."
"Eye witnesses are notoriously unreliable especially in high pressure situations, and there is a very real possibility that people convicted of crimes by a eyewitness testimony are innocent."
"A toddler’s adult teeth are right below their eyes."
"One of the first symptoms of heart disease can be sudden death."
"A vitamin D deficiency can make you suicidal, and deficiencies among adults is very common. Like more than 50% of the population in the US."
"The first face transplant was for an 8 year old girl named Sandeep Kaur, who got her entire face ripped off by getting her hair caught in a thresher in 1994. The parents came in with her face in two pieces in a plastic bag. The transplant was a success, and the girl grew up and is studying medicine!"
"On average, ~30 people die in the US annually in elevator-related incidents."
"Moray eels have a second set of jaws and teeth inside their throat. They latch on to prey with their primary jaws and then the second set can move forward and either latch on and pull the prey down their throat or eat away at larger prey without having to let go. "
"As recently as the early 1800s, people ate parts of corpses, believing them to have medicinal properties. Blood, power ground up from the human skull, and human fat were all thought to be cures for various ailments."
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Thank you Pol Pot, a stellar example of communism working as it does.