A content creator from the Philadelphia area, Ashley Washington, knows a few things that keep them up at night. So, they do what every sensible person in their position would—share the horror with others.
Over time, their TikTok account has become an extensive archive of unsettling facts about everything from human anatomy and social practices to the animal kingdom and beyond.
Whether you want to fuel your nightmares or are simply looking for ways to expand your pub trivia knowledge, continue scrolling to dive into the bizarre! And while you do, don't miss the conversations we had with psychotherapists Michelle Maidenberg and Nancy Colier—you'll find them between the entries.
#1
Your stomach produces a new lining every six days to avoid digesting itself. You'd be amazed at the number of body functions that are there solely to keep your body from just destroying itself.
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#2
Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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#3
The last school to be desegregated was Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, in the year 2016. Which is crazy.
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#4
For those of us who are familiar with Waffle House, this shouldn't be unusual, but for those of you who don't know what Waffle House is, it's a restaurant in the United States that is open 24/7, no matter what, every day of the year. the US government actually uses something called the Waffle House Index to determine the severity of natural disasters based on how many Waffle Houses are open.
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#5
Oxford University was created 200 years before the Aztec Empire.
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#6
In 1953, an F11 fighter jet shot itself down because it was going faster than its bullet was.
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#7
90% of modern apples can be traced back to two apple trees.
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#8
When someone gets a kidney transplant, unless there's something harmful in that other kidney, like cancer, they typically just leave them in with the new ones.
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#9
Put a disclaimer on this one, if you're weird about hospitals or medical anxiety, just skip this part. But it's legal in a number of states for medical students to give Pap smears to women under anesthesia without their consent.
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#10
When you cry and your nose is running, it's actually your tears. And if you're like me and you've ever gotten liquid eyeliner in your eye in and wondered why it came out of your nose. They're connected.
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#11
In 1993, a 16 year old spent about three hours operating a New York City subway before he was caught.
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#12
The woman who discovered radium and plutonium, Marie Curie, along with all of her tools, whenever she passed, had to be buried in a one inch thick lead coffin to prevent any of that from getting out and making other people sick.
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#13
For every pound of fat that you gain, you create an extra mile of new blood vessels for it.
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#14
Gram for gram human bone is four times stronger than concrete.
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#15
Kangaroos can use their singular toenail to dismember other animals. It's horrifying.
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#16
Two food facts I love to tell people is :
1. If you are allergic to shrimp, you also can't eat cicadas.
2. In a blind sniff test, 90% of people cannot differentiate between the smell of parmesan cheese and vomit. So sorry if I just ruined that for you.
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#17
While filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn't get a permit to film one of the scenes, so they just did it anyway. But they hired a fall guy to pretend to be the director and spend a night in jail for it.
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#18
Coin Star is tricking you. Coin Star originally had no counting sound and worked much faster. But people didn't believe that it was counting accurately, so they put in a counting sound and made it slower. A similar thing happened with Febreze. It was originally unscented, but nobody believed it worked, so they added scent to it.
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#19
Your corneas are the only part of your body that doesn't get any blood.
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#20
Crickets listen with their knees. Beats me. I had no idea.
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#21
Cows can see almost 360 degrees around them.
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#22
Snakes, specifically pythons, have what's called vestigial legs. So these itty bitty little legs left over from evolution, they're not functional. They don't have bone, they don't do anything.
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#23
One of my favorite complex facts is the guy that sings Peanut Butter Jelly Time died in an 11 hour standoff with police. Meanwhile, his brother in law was trying to talk him down. His brother in law is Snoop Dogg.
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#24
Figs aren't vegan because a bunch of wasps crawl in them and die.
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#25
A shrimp can see more colors than you.
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#26
The lobotomy is still the only neurosurgery based thing to ever receive a Nobel Prize. There also is no Nobel Prize for psychology. It's typically given in economics instead.
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#27
Women who are operated on by male surgeons are 32% more likely to die.
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#28
The plant orchids are named after the Greek word orchis, meaning testicles.
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#29
Before toilet paper, people used corn cobs.
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#30
This one truly haunts me. The pH of your "downstairs" can disintegrate an ant.
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#31
A park ranger at Shenandoah National Park was hit by lightning seven different times.
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#32
You are more likely to survive being shot in the head than to survive rabies.
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#33
The inventor of the Pringles can had his ashes buried in Pringles can in dedication to the brand.
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#34
The Victorians ate almost all of the mummies. Almost all of them.
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#35
In 1980, Saddam Hussein was given a key to the city of Detroit.
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#36
A million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years.
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#37
House flies can live up to two months.
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#38
The United States just started reprinting Purple Hearts. We had a stockpile of thousands of them from World War 2 in anticipation from an attack on Japan.
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#39
Texas is three times bigger than the UK.
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#40
It's been proven that painkillers can actually make you less empathetic towards other people and can dull emotional pain.
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#41
Rabbits can't throw up.
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#42
If you're allergic to chocolate. You're also allergic to cockroaches.
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#43
Babies are born with their skull, just not in one piece. That will never be normal to me.
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#44
Part of the reason people need glasses because the outer layer of your eye is the wrong shape. Now, if you're like me, after learning that fact, anytime I see somebody's side profile, I always look at the shape of their eye. Not that I'm gonna know what I'm looking at, but just for fun.
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#45
You are 14% more likely to die on your birthday.
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#46
You can get constipated related amnesia. You can be so backed up that it puts pressure on your vagus nerve, and when you finally do release all of that from your body, it can cause a form of amnesia.
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#47
The greatest number of children born to one woman is 69 kids. And her husband left her and had 18 kids with someone else.
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