Article created by: Justinas Keturka
Whether we're gathering knowledge for our next DIY project or reading up on the country we're about to visit, learning is a lifelong process. However, it's not always just sunshine and rainbows.
Last week, Reddit user Throwrapis3ces invited everyone on the platform to share the disturbing facts they wish they didn't know, and they have already received nearly two thousand replies.
From human biology to waste management and social customs, continue scrolling to check out the stuff people think they would be better off not knowing.
#1
Definitely on the most horrifying facts I've ever learned is that a mute mail order bride is ten times as expensive as one who has the power of speech. It's very disturbing and becomes more and more horrifying the more you consider the implications.
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#2
It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls.
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#3
Every hour, an average of 12 children go missing across India. Every day that average is 296 children missing across India.
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#4
That people regularly abandon animals and/or children all over the world.
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#5
"call of the void" When you stand over a high place, and you just want to jump even though you're not going to jump that's what it called.. Interesting and disturbing at the same time...
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#6
Fatal familial insomnia. Super rare, but also super scary. Basically, you stop being able to sleep, then you go mad, then you die. No cure.
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#7
That covid infections harm every system in our body.
Our
hearts,
vascular systems,
brain,
immune systems
connective tissue
stays behind in our guts
and reproduces in our bone marrow.
This can't end well.
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#8
One way many states departments of corrections try to anticipate the number of prison cell will be required in 20 years is based on how many third graders fail the state reading assessment.
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#9
Microplastics are found in human blood, organs and even placentas. These tiny plastic particles, which come from things like degraded plastic waste and synthetic fibers, are so persuasive in our environment that they’ve made their way into our bodies through te food we eat, the water we drink and even the air we breathe. While the long-term health impacts are still being studies, the idea that plastic is now part of our biologic system is pretty unsettling….
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#10
The 6 missing nuclear bombs that we know of.
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#11
The human brain is the same consistency as room temperature butter.
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#12
That your organs know where they're supposed to be and move on their own.
During surgery, doctors will just stuff them back in and they'll rearrange themselves back to their proper spot.
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#13
The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, Under Yellowstone park that has the power to change the climate globally as well as end everything when it erupts.
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#14
Currently whatever I am reading about the Diddy case has got me disturbed.
That stuff is just insane.
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#15
Most processed meat is linked to cancer.
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