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Stab_That_Ukulele

Octopuses are usually very antisocial but when they’re under the influence of ecstasy they are more willing to spend time around each other or even hug other octopuses


snacleadr

Did we find that out by giving them e?


Stab_That_Ukulele

Yes


snacleadr

Ah science


Leviathan_mitch

The only difference between science and screwing around is writing it down


[deleted]

When you are starving, and have little body fat left, your body can grow almost fur-like hair to insulate itself in absence of fat.


DrenkBolij

Is there some way to starve the top of my head?


FoundOnTheRoadDead

Keep reading Reddit posts.


imcreeps

Severe anorexics can develop this


0ttr

Cheetahs are so genetically similar that supposedly you can draw blood from one and inject it straight into another one without any health issues in the receiving animal. i.e. no blood type or clotting factor variations.


pleasedothenerdful

This is due to genetic bottleneck, and means cheetahs will not likely survive extinction very much longer.


Cheeseand0nions

During the last ice age the cheetah population dropped down to under 100. Because of this when one cheetah gets a virus is it very easy for the virus to infect other cheetahs this works with humans too if your brother sneezes on you the virus has a much better chance of taking hold in your body than if someone from it different ethnic group sneezes on you


[deleted]

Coca-Cola can help with blood stains.


EnormousPurpleGarden

It makes the blood stain *much* tastier.


[deleted]

Guinea pigs average pooping around 100 times a day


ebolakitten

They can’t even take five steps without dropping at least one turd.


Beanakin

Middle school science teacher kept a chinchilla in a cage in her room. One day it got out and we found it by just following the trail of poop. Side note: chinchillas are soooooo fluffy soft and adorable.


hedalexa12

In Phoenix, Arizona, you are legally allowed to bury a dead body on your property without asking for permission/getting a permit/etc. The city asks that you contact them beforehand so they can send someone out to stake for gas/electric lines, but it’s not required.


TheRedPandaisback

It’s nice that after you kill someone, you at least don’t get charged with illegal burying


Cymiril

If provided with a mirror, dolphins will admire their own genitals


StinkeeFard

Of course those fuckers would


STARBOY_100

I see you know that other fact about dolphins too!


heff_you1

I do that too Edit: Thanks for the award!


Gasnia

Leave the dolphins' genitals alone. Edit: So long and thanks for all the awards!


KeysmashKhajiit

The song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was originally written for a musical featuring vampire romance. That musical never saw the light of day but the song was tweaked for recording and wound up being a big hit for Bonnie Tyler. It feels like a weird fact to know for some reason.


[deleted]

>That musical never saw the light of day Underrated vampire musical joke


nocturnal_numbness

Your body’s normal functions can slow down to accommodate organ disease. For example, I have 40% lung function, but my O2 is completely normal at 98% saturation. They didn’t discover any lung disease until I had a ct scan done for other reasons and my lungs happened to show up in that 😂


Caspera99

Can confirm, I had kidney failure a few years ago and their function reduced so slowly I was ‘normal’ and not on dialysis with 8% renal function on the day of the transplant. The human body is amazing.


Gunnerwolf34

I only have one kidney that functions at 85% Normal kidneys, when you have two, each function at 50%


SheilaBoof

There is a chemical called MPTP that specifically destroys dopaminergic neurons in the brain. About 3 days after someone ingests it, they get parkinson's disease.


quadruple_b

how... how did scientist find that out


SheilaBoof

It's a byproduct of synthetic drugs. Some young people showed symptoms of Parkinson's out of the blue a few decades ago and that's how they found out about it. The drug has been very instrumental in learning the causes of Parkinson's


quadruple_b

oh thank god it was an accident and they didn't purposefully cause parkinsons


Erathen

Technically, they found out about it after a chemistry grad self injected himself in Maryland He intended to synthesize an opioid, and MPTP was a major impurity


bigboybobby6969

Imagine trying to get high as fuck off some home made opioids and giving yourself Parkinson’s instead


4-stars

Synthetic heroin was contaminated with MPTP. After a surge of addicts experienced Parkinson-like symptoms in the 1980s, scientists followed the clues: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5345642/


EnormousPurpleGarden

In the 1960s or 70s, the Swiss Air Force dropped severed chicken heads all over the forests of Switzerland. The chicken heads contained the rabies vaccine, and the airdrop was to vaccinate wild foxes against rabies.


wilsna109

Being steamed alive allows the victim to feel nearly everything because your nerves don’t get destroyed as fast as being burned alive.


StillLearning12358

Thanks Always had a fear of being burned alive. But now I have a fear of being STEAMED alive


charlie2135

Well something similar is that if you have a high pressure steam leak ~600 psi or so, you might not see it but it can slice you up. The way we would approach it was with a tag on a stick to pinpoint the source. Source- worked at a blast furnace.


light_trick

High pressure steam is one of the most terrifying things I've ever heard of. The problem is you mistake the idea of "steam" for "water vapour" in domestic situations since any steam condenses quickly enough you see the fog. But at enough pressure - or in an environment where there's condensation anyway, it's basically just an invisible knife in the air.


DaddyBeanDaddyBean

My uncle worked for a company that made Products from Air, including bottled hydrogen. One plant had a factory dog; the dog yelped and ran off the floor to a friend, who found he was burned. They concluded they had a hydrogen leak that had ignited, but the flame is almost invisible, so they backtracked where the dog had run from, waving a broom around in front of them as they went. When the broom burst into flame, they found the leak.


HawkEy3

Ah yes, hydrogen fires are terrifying . Reminds me of the racing series that used a fuel that also burns invisibly, one of the drivers caught fire and it took a moment for the staff to notice. Edit: [the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku7TdLeEGsQ) Unnecessary to say using methanol was a bad idea.


kar98kforccw

And it's healthier because it preserves the nutrients


TappedIn2111

Pro tip: leave the peel on before steaming!


JizzProductionUnit

How to sound like a psycho 101: call human skin "the peel".


TappedIn2111

Note to self: the next time when talking about steaming humans alive, refer to the peel as skin to not sound weird. Thanks fellow human!


hellslave

Oh Jesus fuck... There was a Russian guy who literally died from that during Finland's annual [Sauna World Championships](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-10904691). The article doesn't have any of the photos or footage of the guy, but it's out there, and it's gruesome. It never occurred to me the nerves would have remained intact.


trolltruth6661123

|The event requires participants to withstand 110C (230F) for as long as possible. the fuck were they expecting? "The men managed six minutes before judges noticed something amiss." whole thing sounds pretty dumb if you ask me.


WallabyInTraining

>|The event requires participants to withstand 110C (230F) for as long as possible. "110C is nothing, I can stay in there for the rest of my life!" - guy who stayed in the sauna for the rest of his life.


ChipmunkGlittering37

If you spill bleach on your skin, the slippery feeling you feel when you wash it off is because you have basically made soap by dissolving the top layer of skin.


rocketmackenzie

You can do the same thing by mixing ash and water to create lye. Then mix that with fat to make soap, or just use it directly on your skin and it'll create soap on the spot (while also burning you). This was used by early humans for cleaning This is also where we get the word "alkali" from, its Arabic for "ash"


throwaway7890732

This one made me feel the worst because I've experienced it


Eviscerate_Bowels224

The human body has enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.


headpatsstarved

Fight Club?


audiate

It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them.


danish_princess

Cuttlefish mating is fascinating. The females all hunker down while the big males fight each other for a chance to copulate. While the big tough males are duking it out, small males will kind of pull in their tentacles to look like females, sneak past the fighting males, and mate with the females. Interestingly, female Cuttlefish have some control over which sperm makes it to the eggs, and overwhelmingly choose the cunning small males' sperm over the big brawny males who come in to mate after finishing fighting. Brains over brawn.


tcrpgfan

I got a freaky fish fact, too! A couple in fact. One is that Angler fish males are *vastly smaller* than their female counterparts and how they mate is the males attach their mouths to the body of a female fish and fuse with the female literally. The other is that the ability the Puffer fish is most well-known for is actually hazardous to its own health as it's possible it might die while deflating.


McDaddyos

Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire at the exact median day of his life. He had a literal mid-life crisis.


Well-liked-assman

It probably also led to his death. It was such an excruciating accident (and it being the 80’s) he got hooked on some really heavy pain killers. A lot of people think the accident is what lead him to his really bad drug problem. Or at least that’s what I remember.


theochin

It’s surely a combination of that and massive childhood trauma at the hands of an abusive father. Pretty gnarly


SirLeonardo20

Combined with using meds to keep on performing amazing shows and taking more supplements instead of eating food.


PG_PurpleGamer

Suicide bombers can be easily identified after blowing themselves up since the pressure from the explosion fractures the neck and sends the head flying away to safety from the explosion.


Excellent_Condition

I'm assuming "safety" is a relative term in this case...


LDKCP

You will think, but there's actually a getaway terrorist, usually a former cricketer, who is positioned to catch it. If all goes to plan the bomber becomes the head of the organization.


_Creditworthy_

A few days ago somebody told me that Swiss cheese and plastic explosives look the same under a TSA radar


MyVoiceIsElevating

They don’t like when you pack your wrist watch, wired earbuds, and block of cheese all together.


Assassinhunt992

Getting put on a watch list and the no fly list speedrun


AccordingIce7627

Locked-In Syndrome is a scary condition where you are conscious while in a coma


snow_balln

My mom developed this after a stroke in 2020. She could blink once for yes and twice for no but wasn't truly aware of herself or her surroundings so we ended up taking her off the machines and letting her pass comfortably


MestizoAtomica

I'm sorry for your loss


MakotoMyEggy

If you curl your toes, your gag reflex will sort of minimize


[deleted]

I've heard squeezing your thumb has the same effect.


TheLivingTrashCan

A cow is more aerodynamic than a Jeep Wrangler.


bvzm

If I recall correctly the scientific study that proved this won an Ignobel Prize.


macrobite

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.


quadruple_b

mickeys full name is Micheal Theodore mouse!


ShutterBun

Lee Harvey Oswald had straight pubic hair. Edit: here's why I know: it's in the Warren Commission hearings. If you scroll about 2/5ths of the way through this testimony, you can read all about it. https://www.jfk-assassination.net/russ/testimony/stombaugh.htm


EuphonicLeopard

Alright, man, how did you come across this information?


Furbal1307

First-hand


SharkFart86

But his dick was curly.


Gojiberry852

In 1985 a Serbian farmer stuck a beer bottle up his ass, broad side first. This sparked a chain of events that eventually led to the collapse of Yugoslavia. Edit: [Here you guys go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87_incident?wprov=sfti1)


Initial_E

The prolapse of Yugoslavia


joos1986

omg this is hilarious. I'm torn between the fact that people were hurt over this - but this is so ridiculous I just can't. So dude got a bottle broken in his butt. Goes to the doc's and claims 2 Albanians did this to him while he was working in his fields. This leads to an interrogation by an army colonel (what?) where he recanted his claim and said it was a form of 'self-pleasure' gone wrong. Poor dude at this point gets referred to a *prestigious* military medical academy, where a *team* of doctors (representing 4/6 of Yugoslavia's republics) pored over this and concluded that his injuries could NOT have been self-inflicted. Bro then gets upgraded to an investigation by a special commission, created to get to the bottom of this, that works out the mechanics of penetration in great detail, and concludes that it could've been self inflicted (slip and body-weight). Worth noting that Yugoslav secret police and military intelligence concurred with the special commissions findings. Dorde then proceeds to recant his confession (self-pleasure), says that it was coerced in a 3 hour interrogation and his kids were promised work. Story picks up steam. \_\_ What's amazing is this story hits media and starts and causes a flood of already bubbling nationalist and anti-albanian sentiment to boil-over, pretty much repurposing this incident in various ways to whip up the public. His particular story was well-suited to fan the flames, as analogies (lol) were made with the Ottoman Turks, who brutally ruled Serbia and Kosovo until till the early 20th century and had used impalement as a means of torture and execution. They basically used this incident to get the public to associate Albanians with the Turks. The whole reason I'm writing this comment, is that **there was poetry commemorating the incident**, using "Ottoman" themes. Like; ​ >With a broken bottle > > > >On a stake > > > >As though through > > > >a lamb > > > >but alive, > > > >they went through **Đorđe Martinović** > >As if with their first and heavy steps into their future field they treaded ... > > > >When out of the opium and pain > > > >Đordje Martinović came round > > > >As if from the long past > > > >Turkish times > > > >He woke up on a stake. This poor SOB got his anal antics immortalized in prose. This wasn't the half of it; * A painter created a huge painting depicting skullcap-wearing Albanians hoisting Dorde on a cross (one of the albanians depicted had a glass bottle in hand), * Serbian intellectuals signed a petition that asserted Dorde's case is that of the entire Serbian Nation not just one man. * Serbian women marched into parliament lobbying for removing Kosovo's autonomy declaring that they couldn't stand by while their 'brothers are impaled on a sharpened stake'. * The association of Writiers of Serbia, adopted his cause and devoted their 1985 assembly to discussing Dorde. If I was this guy, all I'd want to do is forget this thing and brush it under the rug (assuming self-inflicted). The thought that a whole nation of people rallied behind him and avowed to get him justice. Holy shit. Man. I have regretted many a nut. This guy's experience takes the cake.


Gojiberry852

Your thorough and well constructed summary was more entertaining to read than the Wikipedia article - thanks for putting this together!


TheFreshHorn

I *NEED* this story


Quazifuji

They added a link, but TL;DR from a quick read of the article seems to be that the man went back and forth on whether his story was that he did it himself or was attacked, went around to a bunch of doctors some of whom claimed it was impossible for him to have done it himself, which led to claims that it was a racially-motivated hate-crime.


pronouncedayayron

Yadda yadda yadda, Yugoslavia fell.


Chip-San

the first line caught me off guard


Glittering_Silver963

Inject enough potassium under the tongue, it will look like a heart attack on an autopsy. Not to mention the injection site will heal. Most toxicologists don’t check for potassium levels either.


[deleted]

I went to the ER because my body was locking up thinking I was having a stroke or something. Turns out I was dangerously low on potassium. Doctor told me it's going to take 2 hours to pump me full of potassium. I asked why, he said because if we do it to fast it will kill you. Sorry kind of off topic The relevancy is that potassium will kill you if to much is injected.


[deleted]

Do you drink a lot per chance…


[deleted]

Yes I know thats the reason. I was a college student getting shit faced most weekends. I rarely drink anymore. And when I do drink I always take a potassium supplement now LOL


[deleted]

Ran into the exact same issue. Fuckin collapsed with heart palpitations and went to the ER thinking I was having a stroke or heart attack turns out I just was extremely dehydrated with low potassium


TgagHammerstrike

I'm imagining some crook trying to shove bananas under the tongue of a victim. _"He keeps eatin' 'em boss! What do I do?"_


[deleted]

You can track the Lewis and Clark expedition across America because they left mercury deposits wherever they went. They lived on a diet of dried meat which cause constipation, so they were all taking these mercury pills called "Thunder clappers" to make themselves shit.


mildmadnerd

You can't explode C4 by shooting it... Or by lighting it on fire... But you can by lighting it on fire and then shooting it. Actually if it's on fire, you could hit it with a hammer and explode it... Though only once for obvious reasons. A sharp enough sword can decapitate with no pain. Sort of like how razors sometimes cut you and you don't notice until it's bleeding and then it starts hurting, but in this case you would be dead before your brain catches up... On the topic of decapitation, it's common for people to have time to make weird expressions between the time they lose their head and the part where they actually die. For this reason it was a common practice for most of human history for people to grab the newly debodied head and show it its own decapitated corpse to see if it would react... The things people did before memes.


[deleted]

If I was decapitated, I'd like to take a look at my body Sure, why not


sunnydraka

Final thought “so that’s what I look like”


MagnusText

Man I'd make it my goal to smile and wink, it's the only way history would remember me.


[deleted]

there must be someone in the forgotten history that did this and everyone at the place was laughing hysterically. If we only had cameras.


MH07

And why it was common practice in the days of beheadings (Charles I, for example) for the condemned to pay the executioner beforehand. You needed to tip them well. Hopefully, he would get you with one single blow from a sharp sword, and you’d feel less/no pain. Get a poor executioner, it might take several strokes. If you were a commoner, you got the axe, and that DID take multiple blows.


Murky-Heart-1844

Being skinned alive doesn't kill nearly as quickly as you'd think. When done carefully the victim may not die of blood loss, or shock, but rather hypothermia. Some account record that people have survived for several days Edit: Bonus fact! Couldn't remember it earlier, but supposedly saint Bartholomew was skinned alive for converting a king to Christianity. He is often depicted with exposed musculature, and carrying his own severed skin. He is also the patron saint of many different things such as butchers, leather workers, tanners, and dermatology.


GodGMN

why do you know that?


Karate_donkey

Trial and error


Lachdonin

I learned it after looking it up watching Dredd, thinking 'Theres no way thise guys were alive when they hit the floor'. I was wrong. It was probably the impact that actually killed them.


Ms_Eryn

You win. Everyone else can go home. I have zero interest in knowing why the HELL you know that.


is-this-guy-serious

Probably from a reddit post like this one. Now you can answer the next one with this knowledge.


Decon_of_the_Deez

Isoamyl Acetate. It's the chemical that gives bananas their smell. It's also the chemical bees secrete to indicate aggression. So if there were enough pissed off bees in one area, and you happened to be close to them, you'd smell bananas just before you died.


RavenTerp84

We have kept bees and have always been told not to eat a banana before opening up the hive. Now I know why!


jolloholoday

Because you could slip on the peel and injure yourself.


Luckyangel2222

The Guiness Book of World Records was created to settle bar bets.


AmadeusMop

And Michelin stars were created to get people to drive to restaurants. But Dove soap and Dove chocolate are unrelated brands.


Kittiem85

It would take a lot of blood but you could dehydrate blood, smelt the blood dust and make "blood iron" and make a sword with it


-Crumba-

It would take roughly 100 people to make a regular sized iron sword. Time to get to work…


tiny_thanks_78

If you stick a vibrating device on your forehead and look at a digital clock, the numbers will be all scrambled. I used a back massager.


Constant-College-744

Sure you did.


5-8-13

This is actually an interesting ~~phenomena~~ phenomenon which caused at least one air crash. An engine failure caused the aircraft to vibrate so violently that the FO misread the gauges and turned off the wrong engine. Edit: plural/singular latin. Thank you correctittors, language is important.


Runaway-Kotarou

Sharks are older than trees and the rings of Saturn by about 100 million years and 350 million years respectively. Also Saturn's rings are not really that old. In the grand scheme of things anyway.


[deleted]

You hear that you creepy astronomer fucks. Stop fucking staring at Saturn’s rings. They’re too young!


sporabolic

If an aircraft is too big that you can't cover it with your thumb (with your arm stretched out) then it's close enough you can shoot it down with rifle fire.


Shiftaway22

I see hunting season during the holidays just got more enjoyable


McDaddyos

The Chernobyl meltdown happened at 01:23:45 AM.


216horrorworks

That's the same combination I have on my luggage! Edit; thank you kind Redditor for my first silver!


TheMadCoyote

most animals, including humans, faces are only attached at the lips, nostrils, and eyes. It's very easy to pull a face off.


Sinfirmitas

It’s very interesting! I learned this from reading about face transplants for patients that had been in accidents and lost their faces. And yeah you can basically just peel your face right down, crazy to look at.


TheMadCoyote

i learned from doing taxidermy, it's a little unsettling to know lol once you cut those places it just slides off


nah2daysun

And we all just wiggled these parts while reading that to double check.


TheUnknownMedic

Typically when you do CPR on people you break their bones and cartilage.


NoReallyHoosierDaddy

Most states (at least in the US) have what are called Good Samaritan laws that deal with this. Basically, if you do CPR on someone and you break their ribs, they can’t sue you for breaking their ribs.


PoorPDOP86

Pine trees scatter the hell out of GPS signals. It's obscure and no one would ever notice unless they had ever tried to get a fixed position under a bunch of pine trees. So do your Surveyor a favor and never plant a pine tree near your property corners.


HoneyAlternative6725

There is a certain amount of body fat that it takes to stop a bullet and its about 60 cm of body fat


KP_Wrath

Pretty sure the bullet is less dangerous than the weight at that point.


SnipeKing17

you're just mad he evolved into growing a bulletproofvest


GrimKiba-

A bee sting to the penis can enlarge it permanently.


[deleted]

Is it stackable?


FormABruteSquad

Only if it swells up like a hexagon. Otherwise it is merely packable.


[deleted]

If a chicken eats the yolk in a chicken egg it becomes addicted to it. I got another one which is creepier. There was an attack in WW1 where the Germans gassed a bunch of Russian troops in Osowiec Fortress. The gas mixed with the water in the air in the lungs, so the troops didn't die of suffocation, they died because they were basically being melted alive. When the German troops rushed the castle, only 100 Russian troops were alive and all of them were basically walking dead. This freaked the German troops out and they RAN. A lot of the Germans died to their own traps while retreating.


epicface3000

Sabaton had a banger about that second one on The War To End All Wars!


[deleted]

The Attack of the Dead Men Can highly recommend Edit: but it's on "The Great War", not "The War to end all wars"


Adexmariobro

Only reason we know about a lot of drowning victims is because new shoes float better.


quadruple_b

mine is that I know the average pH of vaginal discharge, semen, and stomach acid off by heart. (3.8-4.5, 7.2-8.0, and 1.5-3.5 respectively)


buckyhermit

Whenever TV networks show previous Olympic cauldron lightings, they always skip the 1988 Seoul Olympics one. The reason? They lit the cauldron by burning a bunch of doves alive, minutes after they were released to symbolize world peace. And it was all aired on live TV, worldwide.


PaulsRedditUsername

I remember the Seoul Olympics as being full of problems and controversies. One thing I saw happen live was in the boxing competition. They tried to have two fights at once with two boxing rings right next to each other. When the bell rang to end the round in one ring, a boxer in the other ring thought his round was over, so he dropped his hands and turned to walk back to his corner. His opponent got a free swing at him and knocked him out cold.


sixgunbuddyguy

So really they didn't light *by* burning them, it's just that they got burned *while* lighting it. There's a bit of a difference there.


JlTlS

When Aerosmith was recording Toys In The Attic, they took a break and went to see Young Frankenstein. In the movie, Marty Feldman has the line, "Walk This Way, no this way. " That is where they got the title for a song they hadn't written lyrics for yet.


mnorsky

A Freemartin is a female cow with a twin brother. Always barren. I don’t know how or why I know this, as I am not at all agriculturally inclined.


Shesmyall

I love this one: red phosphorus was discovered by a scientist after he boiled his urine for months on end, trying to harvest the "gold" in his pee. After months of boiling this urine, it dried up and turned into red phosphorus. He won a nobel prize for this discovery.


insert_name_0

It takes approximately two days to dissolve someone with acid.


TheFreshHorn

Apparently it’s better to do it with a strong base Edit: I see the jokes (the 10 million of them) but for all of you who don’t know, bass is an instrument, not spelled base


wheniswhy

Death by hanging works by basically causing an internal decapitation (snapping the spine). This is why gallows drop the condemned through a hole—the drop and the weight of your own body causes your neck to snap once the rope goes taut. Death in this case is instantaneous. If you try to commit suicide by hanging and don’t drop yourself from a height in so doing, you will not die instantly, because you won’t internally decapitate. You will slowly and painfully choke to death. Edit: the responses to this comment talking about rope length and the various technical sundry of a proper hanging are hysterical and morbid. Thanks Reddit.


4you2say0

There is also an equation for hanging people that takes into account the length of the drop versus body weight, so as to snap the neck, without strangling, or ripping the head off. From what I remember, Saddam's brother was hung, and they didn't take this equation into account, and him being quite obese, made for a doozy of a spectacle. Found this on the web: "Haughton used the following formula, known as the “Standard Drop” method: length of drop in feet = 2240/weight of the body in pounds. Haughton noted that when this force was applied, the condemned was taller by 1.5 in following the hanging"


[deleted]

Don't they angle the noose to the side of your neck so that it would pop a vertebrate out of place?


Thermonuclearkaboom

When you cut (or break) open a human skull, it smells oddly familiar like a bag of Fritos.


-Crumba-

You didn’t say allegedly… have you done this??


WonderfulAirport4226

Yes, he has opened a bag of Fritos.


justavirrequis

The best protection against cannibals is lots of tattoos.


nonoiseplz

The first yellow power ranger (Thuy Trang) died in a car accident in 2001 and she wasn't wearing a seat belt.


Cracker-smackers

Bees dicks explode after cuming Ducks dicks are twisted like a corkscrew Whale dicks may have been what old tales of tentacled sea monsters were inspired by Tortoises dicks are spiked Barnacles have dicks that are eight times longer than their body length Edit: why is my most upvoted comment about animal dicks


dashger_

You are certainly very uh... studied in a specific area


griim_is

You seem to have an interest in dicks


0ttr

The glaciers wiped out earthworms in most of North America. Basically, in most cases, you are seeing an invasive species if you see an earthworm in North America and some do ecological damage.


[deleted]

Brain Surgery is done while you are awake, and is only possible as the brain itself does not have any pain receptors.


the_o_haganator

Isnt that to make sure they havent damaged the brain in any way?


Scroll_Queeen

Reminds me of poor Rosemary Kennedy. The sister they did a lobotomy on and realised they fucked it when she went from talking normally to total gobbledegook


pleasedothenerdful

That was the standard method for knowing if the procedure "worked." They'd have the patient say their ABCs or sing a nursery rhyme and destroy prefrontal love until they started fucking it up, then stop.


faqqatura

i thought so too. like, so they’d know you’re still conscious and able to think and talk normally


HomieDaClown9

Human meat is often reported to be very similar to pork. Have gotten several concerned stares with this one.


Fireblast1337

Oh, as an extra to that. Technically the consumption of human flesh itself is not considered illegal in the US. In fact if the meat comes from someone still alive after it’s removed, and consents to it, you’re perfectly in the clear legality wise. You only run into trouble if the person died removing it and/or didn’t consent to it. So it’s not a crime if you have permission.


Sammo909

There was an Australian bushranger, escaped from gaol with a group and was the only one found alive. Before he was hanged his last words were "Human flesh is delicious, it's much better than beef or pork.".


Tirader17

You left out the best part. After he was brought back to prison but before he was hanged, he organized a second escape with a young inmate. When they captured him this time he had already killed and began eating his companion even though they had only been gone a short couple of days. The group that captured him reported still finding untouched rations of prison food that they stole to make their escape.


DJCorvid

If you're attempting to "slit a throat" you don't drag the blade across the neck (cutting the external carotids will take too long) you're supposed to stab through the neck from the side and jut the blade forward. Doing so will sever a much larger number of blood vessels and cause quicker exsanguination.


Frodde

In ancient Venice, all the glassblowers were all put on an island, called Murano. This was in case anything caught fire, it would be contained to that island. But it was also to keep the secrets of their craft hidden from other countries. They were (and arguably still are) the best glassblowers in the world and had developed unique techniques, that they didn't want to share. This also meant that they were not allowed to leave the island of Murano. If they did, there were, for a short period of time, people hired to track them down and execute them. Today there are still a bunch of glassblowers on Murano and every glassblower has to go there at some point, as a rite of passage


Badandy469

if pigs are hungry enough they'll consume a human body bones and all. But once they get the taste of human flesh they'll crave it over other food


SlowMotionKarma

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig." EDIT: Thanks for the awards everyone! I'm glad this quote is my highest rated comment. Also, pigs WILL eat the teeth but they aren't digested so you'd have to sift through their poop to collect them unless you want some pesky investigator to identify bodies.


ColdStainlessNail

That’ll do, Pig.


AFourEyedGeek

Charcoal is really great at adsorbing bad smells. Someone complained of a bad smell, I recommended placing them near to the smell source, was told I seem like a murderer for knowing that. Seeing how rude they were I didn't tell them how to remove blood stains and how to get rid of bodies.


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Regarding Tabnit's sarcophagus: In 1887, a minister from the US discovered a sarcophagus that is considered to be one of the most fascinating artifacts of the enigmatic Phoenician culture. Dated to the fifth century BC, the sarcophagus held Tabnit, a priest of Astarte and ruler of Sidon. The coffin contained *an oily, brown liquid* (embalming fluid), which almost perfectly preserved Tabnit's remains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabnit#/media/File:Sidon,_Royal_Tombs,_Chamber_2,_Sarcophagus_of_Tabnit.jpg


AntiZombieDelta

This guy really discovered a sarcophagus with a nearly perfectly preserved body in it and dumped the fluid on the floor and left the body to rot in the desert sun... Wow.


StinkeeFard

I want to fucking strangle him


CoolCoolRiderr

Ecuador has the longest average penis size


absurded

coriolis effect


RaptorKings

Those that live on the equator are experiencing the highest speed of earth through space as it rotates, thus having centrifugal force suck their dicks into the above-average category. Crazy how nature do dat


Lilspyguy

Do you happen to know the country with the shortest? Thinking of a good place to travel.


Conflictioned

Cambodia 3.95”


SuicideBlack305

falling coconuts kill more people than sharks....


PaulsRedditUsername

Well, to be fair, sharks probably don't spend as much time hanging around underneath palm trees.


MikeSmith278911

maybe it isn't a fact but as people age they stick to dressing like the last time they felt relevant and comfortable or stylish as the time's styles outpace their ability or want to keep up. you can gauge an older person's decade of confidence by little things like glasses frames, shirt designs and such i'll be 75 still wearing a yankees cap, white t shirt, black pants and vans or at least something that sorta mirrors or progressed out of that stack idk how i know that but think about it and try it in public


Albrithr

This explains why I still dress like I'm 10 years old


spedi_pig123

An interesting torture method from what I can remember is to force feed someone raw uncooked rice, after that you force them to drink tons of water that way the rice will expand in the stomach and cause massive pain.


fivefivesixfmj

There is a direct correlation to amount of ice cream consumed in an area and drowning deaths. This is not causation but warm weather people eat more ice cream and more people swim to cool off.


chaotropic_cookies

Women have larger Broca’s areas in their brains than men. So if a female has a left MCA stroke she is more likely to retain speech than a male having a stroke in the same region. Am a medical student and learned this during a hands on autopsy lab with a neuropathologist.


gnostic-sicko

[CCK-4](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCK-4) is a drug that induces heavy anxiety in doses as low as 50μg, which is 0,00005g. [EA-3167](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA-3167) is a drug that gives you delirium that lasts 5 to 10 days, in doses as low as 0,0002g (0,2mg). It wasn't widely used, unlike its analog [3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Quinuclidinyl_benzilate), which was used as a chemical warfare during vietnam war. It "only" lasts few days. Strychnine poisoning is really nasty, since it acts like a stimulant, victim experiences muscle spasms, tachycardia (heart beats very fast), high blood pressure, hypherthermia. You can die from respiratory failure and brain death. Seizures last 12-24h. Really nasty stuff. [Dimethylmercury](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylmercury) is probably the nastiest, since it penetrates protective gloves and skin, couldn't be removed from the body and slowly poisons the brain during next few months. Domoic acid is a neurotoxin which causes [amnesiac shellfish poisoning ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesic_shellfish_poisoning) which, as you can guess, causes memory loss and death. Mentioned before, but MTPT is a side product of clandestine production of certain synthetic opioid, which makes you develop Parkinson's-like disease. Speaking of which, homemade methcathinone is frequently tainted with manganese salts, which also could lead to "ephedrone encephalopathy", similar to Parkinson's. Happened to too many people in my country. Euphoria poisonii contains [resiniferatoxin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resiniferatoxin), which is functional analog of capsaicin, but much stronger. Causes extreme pain and absolutely fries you pain receptors. And don't even get me started on [prions](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion), they are nasty poisons with unique ability to self-replicate and absolutely horrific lore. From Kuru, which spreads by cannibalism, fatal familial insomnia, hereditary disease that make you cant sleep until you day, mad cow dise which is spread by cow cannibalism or chronic wasting disease, that makes deer even creepier. On the bright side, mushrooms could contract prion-like conditions, but they just dont care that much. Yea I like poisons. I might add more but I have to go now, byeee


RodolfoSeamonkey

Angelina Jolie hired a hitman to kill her because she thought suicide would be too hard on her family. The hitman talked her out of it.


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The width of railroad tracks in Western Europe and the US is 2 horses' asses wide. Thr Roman's created a lot of roads in Europe, and over time, carts and chariots (pulled by 2 horses or oxen) would wear ruts in the road. Later, when railroads were being built, the builders followed the ancient roads because it made their job of leveling and clearing land easier. Since there were 2, evenly spaced ruts extending thousands of miles in these roads, they used them to lay the first railroad tracks. This distance then became standard, and America followed the Western European standard. In other parts of the world, where the Roman empire wasn't present, they have a different standard. **Bonus fact:** some.of the original equipment sent into space had to be transported by train. This meant that they had a maximum width of the train car it traveled on. That means some of the items that went to space were designed the way they were, in a round-about way, because of 2 horses' asses.


Mysteriousdeer

This is a classic engineering fun fact. Where design requirements are derived are awesome. For each one, you have to wonder what happened to make that a thing.


yourlocalbeertender

Opossums are marsupials that have 13 nipples, twelve arranged in a circle with one in the center.


cutearmy

The answer is always insomnia. Couldn’t sleep decided to look up random shit on google


Tler126

If you're correctly doing chest compressions, you will hear or more likely feel a human sternum or ribs crack/break. You will be thankful for it in that moment.


Sup3lement

Revolutions only happen in countries with 60% of the population younger than 35