In life, there are certain things that might scare us. For some, it could be spiders; for others, it could be public speaking. Regardless, we try our best to stay away from our fears. But what happens when you accidentally learn about terrifying things?
Recently, a Reddit user posted on the platform, asking everyone, "What's a creepy fact you wish you never learned?". Folks online didn’t hold back and immediately started sharing unpleasant things that made their skin crawl. Today, Pandas, we’ve collected some of their most intriguing answers. But let us warn you: they might send a shiver down your spine.
#1
If you have abdominal surgery and the surgeon needs your intestines out of the way they don't try to get them back in exactly as they were. They can put them in pretty much any old way and they sort themselves out.
Then freaked out even more when someone else commented that you can quite often feel them wriggling themselves back into position.
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#2
Tarantulas walk on water.
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#3
Dead bodies moan and grunt when you move them. (I was a paramedic and firefighter for 21 years, I was around a lot of dead people.).
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Apart from scaring friends or using these creepy facts during trivia night, you can also use them to spark discussions during a party or include them in presentations or speeches to capture attention. And if you are brave enough, you can seek inspiration from them to create artwork.
The post, which has nearly 8.5k comments, shows how people are eager to understand and share scary facts. If you are in the mood to face your fears today, let’s learn more about some eerie truths.
#4
Well all of these make my flatworm tidbit seem meek.When flatworms mate, two "males" use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner, or the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis dagger, remains a male while the loser becomes female and will be impregnated.
Edit to correct the meaning of bifurcated. They don't detach it. Bifurcated means split in two.
#5
Ascaris worms are a type of large, parasitic roundworm that make their home in the human digestive tract. They are endemic in many parts of the world. I used to work at a hospital where we took a lot of patients from very poor and remote places, especially Central America, where roundworm infection is very common. When you put those patients under for surgery, the anesthesia causes their blood to become slightly alkaline, which the worms *hate*. So after a few minutes they will start coming out of *every orifice in the body*. Nose, mouth, r****m. And I'm talking full-sized worms that look just like earthworms. It is no cap one of the grossest things you can imagine.You give those patients a d**g called Bendazole, they poop dead worms for three days, and then they're fine.
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#6
Dolphins are known to be quite intelligent, but they can also be cruel. In some cases, they've been documented killing baby dolphins of other pods, seemingly for fun.
i_want_that_boat:
The more I learn about dolphins the more I'm convinced they're just sea people.
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When you think of blood, what color comes to mind? Many of us might think of the color red because humans and many animals have red blood due to the iron in their hemoglobin. However, some animals have different colored blood as well. A copper-based hemocyanin gives the blood of snails, octopi, horseshoe crabs, and some other creatures its characteristic blue-ish or clear color.
Some creatures even have yellow blood, like sea cucumbers. A high concentration of the yellow pigment vanabin, which is based on vanadium, is what causes the yellow coloration.
#7
The inside of a sea turtle's mouth/throat looks like something straight out of a horror movie monster. Absolutely covered in spines. (They swallow a lot of sea water when eating food, which they then vomit back out. The spines keep the food in but let the water out.).
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#8
Some people are born with a malformed mass of veins in their brain called an AVM and they have no idea unless it's seen on a CT or MRI. Then one day it can burst without warning and that happy healthy person can die, suffer brain damage, paralysis, etc. No warning.This happened to my 22yo niece yesterday, she is in a coma now. It's heartbreaking.
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#9
That there is literally NOWHERE in your house that you can store your toothbrush without it getting fecal matter on it - thanks Mythbusters.
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The mere sight of a cockroach can turn a grown adult into a squealing acrobat. These six-legged creatures can survive an entire week without their heads. Imagine you go to get water from the kitchen at 3 a.m. and you see a headless roach. It sounds pretty scary.
Cockroaches are not dependent on the mouth or head to breathe. Due to their open circulatory system, they breathe through little holes in each of their body segments. The reason they die without a mouth is because they can't drink water and die of thirst.
#10
I had to have a C-Section when our daughter was born and heard one doctor say to the other doctor: “Pass me the uterus, I’m gonna clean it.” Still don’t know whether my uterus was actually lifted out, still don’t want to know.
gogozrx:
My ex had our baby via c-section, and I watched. One of the more disturbing parts of it was her uterus laying on her chest, while two interns picked pieces of placenta off of it as they were discussing where they were going to go get lunch.
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#11
The CPR dummy face is based on the face of a teenage girl found dead in the Seine River in Paris in the 19th century. Her cause of death and identity is still unknown.
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#12
It was believed, all the way up to 1980, that babies couldn't feel pain.
When "Another Brick in the Wall, part2" was on the billboard charts, some baby was having major surgery w/ no anesthesia...
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Just like we experience goosebumps, so do the bodies of deceased people. However, while a living person’s body hair might rise up because of cold, fear, or excitement, the biological process is different for someone who is not alive.
Heather Brown, a mortician-turned-death-investigator based in New Orleans, explained, “It’s one of the amazing displays our bodies exhibit when they begin to break down. So, immediately after the death occurs, the decomposition process begins. What you’re seeing with postmortem ‘goosebumps’ is rigor mortis.”
#13
Learning that some plants can actually communicate with each other. Suddenly, my herb garden feels a lot more like a gossip column.
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#14
Pugs and other brachycephalic dogs can have their eyeballs just...pop out of their skull.
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#15
A lot of my fragrances used to come from a beavers butt. Castoreum is the base of many leather, animalic, and chypre perfumes. Its smell is similar to vanilla and comes from the a**l secretion of beavers. Since I doubt they are using catch & release. I try to avoid it now.
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A spider cannot chew or swallow food. This is why they need to digest their food outside their bodies. First, spiders immobilize their prey by injecting venom into their bodies. The poison turns the insides of its prey to liquid, and the spider sucks it up.
#16
You’ve probably heard a fact about how 70% of the human body is water. We basically know this because of a Japanese general who roasted people in an oven.
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#17
The President of Argentina and his wife kept Eva Peron's dead body just chilling at the breakfast table.
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#18
It's legal to marry a corpse in France.
Jing2203:
To complete this, I'd like to add that it's legal ONLY if the person gave consent to getting married with you before their death. You can't just get any random corpse and marry it, you have to be engaged AND have filled all the paperwork together before the death of the person. Also, it is a pretty rare situation, as the president themselves have to give their authorisation for the marriage to be considered legal.
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In order to maintain our oral hygiene, many of us regularly brush our teeth and even floss. But did you know that our mouths can be home to more than 6 billion bacteria? Wait, before you run to the washroom to grab your toothbrush, not every bacteria causes tooth decay, gum inflammation, or tooth loss.
#19
The average person consumes ~5g of microplastics each week. Approximately the same as eating a credit card every 7 days.
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#20
Michael Jackson's hair lit on fire at the exact halfway point of his life. 25yrs, 4 mos and 29 days.
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#21
That one misfolded protein can wind up rendering a brain about as useful as rotting cheese.
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Butterflies aren't only cute and pretty, they also have some peculiar habits. For instance, few butterflies feed on the tears of reptiles. Dr Andrew Mitchell, Senior Research Scientist, Entomology at the Australian Museum Research Institute, says, “It’s been documented many times in Central and South America with butterflies feeding on turtle and alligator tears. People have hypothesized that they’re obtaining salts and/or proteins.”
#22
Loa loa, the African Eye Worm, can invade the human eye. Adults are between 1 and 2.5 inches long.
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#23
Finding out that statistically, you're more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery. Guess I'll stick to my day job as a professional lottery player.
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#24
When you are in the process of dying, the last part of your brain function to go is related to your hearing. Essentially, you can hear everything around you, but you're locked in. Whether you can comprehend it is for a person much smarter than me to answer. But imagine understanding that the people around you are mourning and all you can do is listen. Or even worse, theres nobody.
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Commonly known as bot or warble flies, botflies are a type of species whose larvae burrow under your skin. Once they lay their eggs on a host, typically through an insect, the eggs hatch, and the larvae dig into the skin, creating a small, painful bump.
#25
Pitești Experiment in Romania overseen by the Soviet Union. Probably the worst thing that humans have ever done to other humans. Makes Unit 731 look like daycare. Communist Russia was probably the most evil human organization to ever exist.It was basically an experiment to prove souls dont exist. That any human, no matter how resilient, can be broken or "demasked" into an animal like slave. and they prove this by killing the human spirit with 24/7 torture, degradation, brainwashing and humiliation. besides the obvious brutal violence stuff like eating your own s**t, vomit, and forced to desecrate every sacred belief you ever held until you totally broke. and they did this to the most resilient anti communist student activists. and they all broke. then they forced them to be the torturers for their fellow comrades. with the threat that if any of the tortured admitted that they were the guard that shown them a shred of mercy or leniency, they would be sent back to the beginning of the program to experience it all again which most did several times. if these prisoners were given even the slightest chance they instantly tried to commit suicide. some even chewed through their wrists to get to their veins. which the communists solved for by knocking out all of their teeth
One of the biggest mistakes the western world made was not make the crimes of the Soviet Union more known. Everyone should know this happened, that yes there was an organization of people much worse than even the Nazis.
#26
That you don't actually smell dead and rotting animals. You are tasting the proteins in the air. I could have gone my whole life, not knowing that little tidbit.#27
A non zero number of farmers go missing yearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.
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#28
Honestly what a newborn horse hooves look like. Traumatized for months after I had just given birth myself. Luckily I did not have a horse baby.
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These facts might make you feel icky, but hey, it’s still interesting knowledge to have. Which of these creepy facts scares you the most? And don’t forget to upvote the most terrifying ones.
#29
That people who are allergic to cockroaches can’t drink ground coffee because there’s ground cockroaches in it.
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#30
The bacterial spores of Bacillus cereus are in all rice varieties and aren't destroyed when cooked as the spores and toxin (which make you sick) are heat resistant. But they aren't active until your rice stays around room temperature for them to germinate. So it's best to cool it down a bit then immediately put it in the fridge. Also don't reheat it more than once.#31
There are more cells in your body that belong to other things like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites than actual human cells.Some are beneficial, some harmful, and most are just along for the ride. Also we’re riddled with microplastics so that’s fun too.
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#32
I found out they remove your nipples and put them back on during a breast reduction. My breast reduction, to be specific.#33
There are as many as 2,000 active serial killers at large.#34
List of youngest birth mothers.#35
When 2 people kiss they make one long tube, b**thole to b**thole.
#36
That spiders can actually hold grudges. I'm starting to suspect one is plotting webs against me.#37
Bears don't wait until you are dead to start eating you.
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#38
Blackrock and vanguard are buying up millions of homes with the hopes to turn middle class ppl into permanent renters. They come in and pay above asking price without even looking at the house. They've purchased entire neighborhoods. It's only going to get worse.#39
Carl Tanzler fell in love with Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, a young tuberculosis patient at the Key West hospital where he was a radiology technician — but his fondness grew into an obsession after she died in 1931. Tanzler lived with the corpse of the woman he loved for seven years. When she started to decompose, he embalmed her body and stuffed her with cottonwool. When she was eventually discovered, he was asked at his trial if he ever "consummated" their relationship. He said no, but "stuff" was found in the cottonwool of her... ahem, bathing suit area.
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#40
Fatal familial insomnia. Creepy disease that just don't let you sleep. You start seeing hallucinations till you die. This disease is hereditary and you can't find symptoms. This disease destroying sleep sells, so you can't just take sleeping pills. There is a book about this disease: "family that couldn't sleep". This family was very big and they watched how their children dies. Very creepy.
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#41
There are over 200 dead bodies located on top of Mount Everest that serve as waypoints for climbers because it’s too risky to retrieve them.
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#42
Sometimes when you have a sharp pain in your chest like a lung area when breathing in it could be there’s not enough fluid around the lung and it got stuck to a rib or your diaphragm isn’t in the correct place.#43
More than 1.5 billion of people are currently infested with worms.
#44
When in a jungle or forest, the noisy animals is safe. It's when they suddenly got quiet that it is creepy or scary.#45
Naegleria fowleri - I now have a somewhat irrational fear of ponds/lakes.
Rodrigoke:
For people that want to know what it is:
Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is technically classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate, rather than a true amoeba. This free-living microorganism primarily feeds on bacteria but can become pathogenic in humans, causing an extremely rare, sudden, severe, and usually fatal brain infection known as naegleriasis or primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).
It is typically found in warm freshwater bodies such as lakes, rivers, hot springs, warm water discharge from industrial or power plants, geothermal well water, and poorly maintained or minimally chlorinated swimming pools with residual chlorine levels under 0.5 mg/m3, water heaters, soil, and pipes connected to tap water. It can exist in either an amoeboid or temporary flagellate stage.
#46
This is more life ruining than creepy. But Window calculator between the 8 and 9 keys, the 9 key was mistakenly made 1 pixel off and they aren't in a grid. It's not all in line up and down. Once you've seen it you can't unsee it.[I always found this video a good demonstration of both the discovery and what you feel afterwards](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHhpu_bfYZk).
#47
Just the fact that at any moment in any point in life we can just drop dead from a random brain aneurysm.#48
Bed bugs mate through a process called Traumatic Insemination. The male bed bug stabs the female in her abdomen with his penis, which is very sharp then proceeds to f**k her open stomach wound.
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#49
My father's school did a guided tour through the woods searching and learning about local herbs.A few years later, my father was still a child, police showed up and asked him if he recognised the man in a picture that they showed him. My father explained that he was the herbalist tour guide.
Apparently, the guy had murdered several boys and had my father's name and address in his car.
The police had caught the guy by this point. I think he killed himself or died in suspicious circumstances...
#50
The detailed effects of a specific class of Soviet nuclear weapon when it explodes. Holy S**t… one of the memories I was happy to lose when I had a traumatic brain injury. I just remember going home and hugging my wife and kids.#51
Serial killer Joel Rifkin dismembered at least 2 of his victims with an exacto knife.An exacto knife.
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#52
Some of the victims of Pompeii may of taken up to 15 minutes to suffocate to death by inhaling the scalding hot pyroclastic ash and gases. Other victims died by having their skulls explode from the searing temperatures of the flows. There was also one poor dude they found who'd been basically incinerated in an instant while taking cover in bed.#53
Cluster headaches exist. No known cause, no known cure. They are so inconceivably painful and they do not stop. They are so bad that people have taken a ride down the sewer slide just due to the pain.Edit: Cure, not treatment.
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