20 unpleasant facts that you want to immediately forget (21 photos)

Knowledge, of course, is power, but in some cases knowledge is also pure existential horror. But if life is in happy ignorance of you seems boring and insipid, then this compilation of disturbing facts from Reddit you will definitely like it. Enlighten at your own risk!





1. When you get sunburned, it's actually your cells that are dying so as not to form a tumor.



2. Seats in public transport are so colorful that it is not clear from the outside how dirty they are.



Source 3The 9/11 Rescue Dogs so bored because they found only corpses that rescuers had to hide among the rubble so that the dogs could rejoice to find them alive.



4. Dogs love squeaky toys so much because the sound reminds them of the squeak of dying prey.



5. When meeting male flatworms, they begin to fight on its members until one of them loses. The loser becomes female, after which they mate.



6. FOP - a genetic disease in which muscles and tissues turn into bone. It is also called "living statue syndrome". AT at some point, people have to decide in which position they “freeze” forever and ever.



7. Blue-ringed octopus, living in the Pacific Ocean, with seemingly cute and harmless, but in one of his painless bite is enough poison to kill 25 grown men.



8. If an erection lasts longer than four hours, it is important to seek doctor, because prolonged priapism can lead to gangrene of the penis. Blood enters, deoxygenates, but cannot leave, so fresh, oxygenated blood cannot flow, and as a result the tissue turns black and dies. However, don't worry, it's treated... by pumping out stuck blood with a giant syringe.



9. There is a plant in Australia called Gympie-Gympie, the burn from which is so strong that the horses that hit him rush from rocks, just to no longer experience this pain



10. If the hamster is nervous, he can eat his cubs.



11. Horses cannot vomit. So if they eat something bad, they just lay down and die.



12. The intestine rotates on its own, returning to correct position. So after the operation, the doctors are not particularly worried, pushing it back.



13. In patients with scurvy, ALL old wounds. All scars are maintained by an active process with and without collagen. vitamin C, this process just stops



14. The girl who voiced Ducky in The Land Before the Beginning times, "killed his father a couple of months before the release of the film. On her headstone her character's signature phrase is embossed.



15. Sloths have so little energy they only have enough energy once every go to the toilet for a week. If a baby falls from a tree, they prefer to save strength and leave it to be eaten by predators.



16. In ancient Rome, urine was used to whiten teeth and clothes. That is, the Romans rinsed their mouths with urine - their own and animals



17. Often if pandas have more than one cub, they choose which one to keep and leave the other because they can't take care of several.



18. Most often, power outages in the US are caused by squirrels.



19. Rain of spiders is a completely real, natural phenomenon.



20. If you have a twin, it is likely that at some point your parents mixed you up and never knew about it.