"Spiders’ brains extend into their legs sometimes"
"Diprosopus, the rare genetic condition of developing more than one face. It’s the stuff of nightmares."
"FBI profilers suspect that there are over 2,000 serial killers at large right now. Many will never be caught."
"Male octopus rip off their penis and throw it at the female to mate."
"There were prisoners in Auschwitz given the specific full-time job of doing nothing but burning photo albums and children’s toys, because the death camp collected so many and considered them worthless."
"Fatal familial insomnia is a very rare disorder in which you develop insomnia and it quickly becomes worse and worse until you literally cannot sleep and then you die. Later in the illness, you enter a permanent state of hypnagogia, which is the state between sleep and wakefulness. It has a 100% death rate. "
"The insect that fertilizes a fig stays in the fig. That’s right. Figs have a bug in them guaranteed."
"It can take up to 3 minutes or longer to die a broken neck because the connection to the rest of the body is severed. Meaning you actually die from a heart attack, stroke, suffocation, basically everything related to depriving essentials like blood and oxygen to the brain. "
"Dead whales eventually explode due to built up gasses inside them, and the force is enough to seriously injure a person standing too close. So if you ever see a dead whale on the beach, get away.."
"If you die in your own house your pets will wait a couple days after that they will eat your dead body."
"The fact that you never know what happens behind closed doors. There is some truly disgusting, evil shit that happens in this world that people work very hard to keep secret."
"Sea otters will kidnap, rape, and torture baby seals"
"At this moment you are as young as you’ll ever be again and closer to death than you’ve ever been before."
"The microbial organisms in our bodies account for roughly .03% of our body weight."
"If it wasn’t for your mucus, your stomach would digest itself."