“If you’re attacked by a bear it won’t try to kill you like other predators would, it’ll just start eating.”
“Statistically speaking, if you are a woman and get murdered, it was most likely by a family member, partner or ex-partner, in your own home. If you are a man and get murdered, it was most likely by an acquaintance or stranger, in a public place.”
“There’s a 1-in-3 chance police will never identify your killer if you’re murdered in the US.”
“If you’re looking at a Victorian photo and one of the subjects in the photo is clearer than the rest, they’re probably dead.”
“Capgras Syndrome is a mental delusion where you believe that the people closest to you have been replaced by impostors.”
“Patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome may see small people and animals, bright moving shapes or distorted and scary faces. Many people call this syndrome a portal to a parallel reality.”
“If you have a parasite in your body, there’s only a slim chance you’ll know about it before it pops out of your skin or leaves through the back door.”
“Erskine Lawrence Ebbin was knocked down by a taxi and killed in Hamilton, Bermuda – and it was the same taxi with the same driver, carrying the same passenger, that killed his brother Neville in July the year before. And both brothers were riding the same moped and died, aged 17, on the same street, police said.”
“Sharks have been around for at least 420 million years, meaning they have survived four of the “big five” mass extinctions. That makes them older than humanity, older than Mount Everest, older than dinosaurs, older even than trees. Yet we could potentially see them extinct in our lifetime”
“If you damage a certain part of your brain, be it genetically or via accident, you will not recognize faces anymore, you will see what they are made of but you cannot put them together to form faces but you can still recognize everything else without problems.”
“There was a serial killer named Albert Fish. He wrote letters to his victims’ parents to tell them how good their children tasted.”
“When he was younger and in scouts my uncle learned all of his troop leader’s favorite knots. His troop leader was Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, who told all the boys how extremely useful it is to be able to tie very strong knots.”
“Body integrity disorder. The PubMed.gov website describes it as “the extremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis,” adding: “Some of these persons mutilate temselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord. Psychologists and physicians explain this phenomenon in quite different ways, but a successful psychotheraputic or pharmaceutical therapy is not known.”
“The Colombian serial killer Pedro Alonso Lopez, who is known as the Monster of the Andes, raped and murdered over 300 girls from Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. However, after he was caught and imprisoned for 18 years, he was put in a psychiatric hospital. There he was reviewed, declared to be sane and was set free, in spite of his blatant avowal that he fully intends to kill again.
Since he was released in 1998, nobody knows where he is or what he’s doing.”
“When he was younger and in scouts my uncle learned all of his troop leader’s favorite knots. His troop leader was Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, who told all the boys how extremely useful it is to be able to tie very strong knots.”
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