Some things are better left untold, you know. Like the fact that your bed likely has somewhere around 10M dust mites or that humans have enough power to bite off their finger… I mean, if that sounds like a scenario from a science fiction movie, you’d better move your seat closer and tune in to ‘The Facts Guy.’
The TikTok creator Adorian Deck, aka The Facts Guy, has been deliberately ruining people’s days with the viral video series featuring some of the most disturbing facts. The appeal to them is somewhat paradoxical, you don’t wanna know them yet you still can’t look away!
So below we selected some of the most creepy, entertaining, surprising and plain weird ones to get you in the Halloween vibe or simply to understand why some facts often remain untold.
#1
As of 2019, there are over half a million homeless people in the United States. There are also 17 million vacant homes.
Image source: adoriandeck, Jon Tyson
#2
A different version of you exists in the minds of everyone who knows you.
Image source: adoriandeck, fauxels
#3
Nighttime is a natural state of the universe, daytime is only caused by a nearby radiating ball of flame
Image source: adoriandeck, Neale LaSalle
#4
1980 and 2021 are as far apart as 1980 and 1939.
Image source: adoriandeck, Afif Kusuma
#5
If you live to become the oldest person alive, the entire human population will be replaced in your lifetime, except you.
Image source: adoriandeck, Matthias Zomer
#6
If you try to grab the brain in its natural state, it will fall apart. When you see scientists pick up a brain, it’s because they’ve used chemicals to harden it.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia Commons
#7
Cruise ships are legally required to have morgues for the passengers that inevitably will die on each trip.
Image source: adoriandeck, Matthew Barra
#8
A single Tiger in Nepal killed 436 people in its lifetime.
Image source: adoriandeck, Pixabay
#9
In a government run experiment TSA did not catch 95% of the guns that went through airports
Image source: adoriandeck
#10
Hearing is the last sense to fade away before you die.
Image source: adoriandeck, Pixabay
#11
Toddlers have adult teeth that are right under their eyes.
Image source: adoriandeck
#12
Doctors went into surgery to remove what they thought was a tumor. It turned out to be what looks like a pine tree growing in this man’s lungs. Experts say it more likely came through aspiration rather than a seed growing inside of his lungs.
Image source: adoriandeck
#13
Humans have enough bite power to bite off their own finger. The only thing that stops us is our brain’s natural protection mechanism.
Image source: adoriandeck, klimkin
#14
Dogs like Squeaky toys because it sounds like prey that has been frightened or injured.
Image source: adoriandeck, chepté cormani
#15
There were once sea Scorpions the size of a great white shark.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia Commons
#16
During World War II, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with the bubonic plague.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#17
Locked-in syndrome is a medical condition where you can only move your eyes while the rest of your body is paralyzed. Basically, you can be trapped in a coma like state and be aware of it.
Image source: adoriandeck, DANNY G
#18
Genghis Khan significantly reduced carbon in the atmosphere because he killed so many farmers where all their farms just turned back into forest.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#19
In the Victorian era, people used to take photos of their dead relatives in lifelike positions in order to keep them as momentos. Photography was so new and expensive that this was usually the only time someone had their picture taken.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#20
There are over 200 bodies on Mount Everest and they are used as waypoints for climbers.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#21
Thanks to pregnancy, the average number of skeletons in a human body is greater than one.
Image source: adoriandeck, freestocks.org
#22
In the 1930s, it was common for parents to hang their children in cages outside of their windows.
Image source: adoriandeck
#23
The picture for your funeral may have already been taken.
Image source: adoriandeck, Brett Sayles
#24
In the 1800s If you had dentures, they normally were made from the teeth of dead soldiers.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#25
Over 50% of commercial pilots have admitted to falling asleep while flying a plane.
Image source: adoriandeck, Pascal Renet
#26
Nearly everything that we can measure on Earth is contaminated with particles of microplastic.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#27
Anthrax can be buried for hundreds of years and then reinfect people when the soil is disturbed.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#28
The survival rate of someone who experiences cardiac arrest outside of a hospital is 1 in 10.
Image source: adoriandeck, freestocks.org
#29
Cannibalism is common in Hamsters.
Image source: adoriandeck, Ellie Burgin
#30
During Gladiator Games of the Colosseum, members of the audience would rush into the field to ravage off the blood of the Fallen Gladiators. They believed that in drinking the blood of the fallen warriors, that they would absorb their powers and skills.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#31
Your bed can have up to 10 million dust mites.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#32
If you live a full life, you’re going to have shed over a hundred pounds of your skin.
Image source: adoriandeck, Karolina Grabowska
#33
People’s general happiness peaks at age 21, and it does not come back to that level until they retire.
Image source: adoriandeck, Daniel Reche
#34
In ancient England, people used hollowed skulls as bowls and cups.
Image source: adoriandeck, Wikimedia.Commons
#35
More than 80 million bacteria can be exchanged during a 10 second kiss
Image source: adoriandeck, Free-Photos
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