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Fun facts are called that because they are little bits of information that are fun to know. They may or may not particularly help you in life, but they definitely bring your life a little bit of joy.
The following facts are the complete opposite of that. We promise you, that at the end of this article. You will feel slightly disturbed and far from joyous.
#1 Up until the 1980s, scientists believed babies couldn’t feel pain. Because of that some babies were operated on without any anesthesia.
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#2 All cruise ships have functioning morgues on-board. As a place to store…you know…dead bodies in case anyone dies..
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#3 There are some colours that humans are just unable to see, and no matter how hard you try, you can’t even try to imagine what they look like
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#4 Humans have only explored less than 5% of the Earth’s oceans. We have no idea what lurks in the other 95%
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#5 The average person walks past almost 16 murderers in their lifetime.
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Here’s the math, assuming you lived in an average-sized city
If you meet about 10 new people a day x 365 days in a year x 71 years of living = 260,000 people that you may walk by in your lifetime.
260,000 people x 6 murderers per 100,000 people = 15.6 murderers
#6 Eyelash mites exist and you probably have a couple living on your face.
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#7 It takes longer for you to drown in saltwater compared to in freshwater even if the same amount of water filled your lungs.
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#8 Serial killer Joe Metheny owned a burger stand and used to sell burgers that combined animal meat with the flesh of his victims to unsuspecting customers
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#9 There are more ways to shuffle a standard deck of cards then there are atoms on Earth.
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Mathematicians refer to the possibilities as “52 factorial” (52 x 51 x 50 x 49 etc) or 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000 chances.
#10 This means that every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you’re probably the first person in history to shuffle the cards in that sequence.
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#11 You’re 6.7% more likely to die on your birthday than any other day of the year
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#12 Ted Bundy was a serial killer who also once worked at a suicide hotline. A coworker once said, “Ted Bundy took lives, but also saved lives”.
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#13 The Japanese giant hornet has venom that’s so poisonous is can dissolve human tissue.
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#14 Violet Jessop survived the sinking of the Titanic, a collision on the RMS Olympic and the sinking of the Britannic. She is also known as Miss Unsinkable.
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#15 In the 19th century, people used arsenic to dye clothes green. Since people didn’t know it was also poison back then, many people died due to this practice.
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#16 Taking pictures of dead family members was common practice in the Victorian Era. Sometimes other members of the family would pose together with the dead person in the photo
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#17 In the middle of Rodney Alcala’s murder spree in 1978, he won an episode of The Dating Game but the woman who picked him refused to go out on the date because he seemed “creepy”.
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#18 John Gregory Tierney was the first person to die while building the Hoover Dam. Exactly 14 years later, his son, Patrick William Tierney was the last person to die while building the dam.
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#19 Astronaut Michael Collins once took a picture of every human who ever lived, except for himself when he took a photo of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Lunar Module with Earth in the background.
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#20 Many Europeans in the 16th and 17th century believed that eating human blood, bones and fat cured certain illnesses. People used to steal mummies from Egyptian tombs and robbed graves to get the bodies.
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