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People Break Down The Most Disturbing Facts They Wish They Didn't Know

People Break Down The Most Disturbing Facts They Wish They Didn't Know

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Not all knowledge is power.

Some knowledge is straight-up horror-inducing.

I mean, I suppose it's good to know as much bad stuff as possible so we can try to avoid it all.


Redditor Possible_Hawk495 wanted to hear about all of the worst possible things in life, so they asked:

"What is a disturbing fact you wish you never knew?"

I'm not sure I'm ready for this...

"WARNING - The following is not for the faint of heart or anyone under 17. Or anyone with a pulse probably..."

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"It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls."

dont_u_know

"Just like China, they don't think long term enough about it."

Rock_of_Spaces

While You Were Sleeping

"That one can be aware they are in coma and not able to get out of it. I get anxious just thinking about it."

tooshyforreddit

"I’ve been in a coma, it’s different experiences based on the conditions, I believe. I was in it when I had multiple organ failure when I was 22."

"Even though you’re aware, I wouldn’t equate my experience to being fully aware and stuck. It kind of feels like when you wake up from a very very deep nap, and things seem fuzzy. Weirdly enough being in that state for a few week was some of the most peaceful my body ever felt being honest."

JelloisYummy

Horrifying

"Just how painful and torturous extreme radiation sickness is."

Scarfs-Fur-Frumpkin

"Between that video and the scene in HBO’s Chernobyl where the firefighter is screaming for help in the hospital as his skin falls off, I have learned not to be too cavalier about the use of nuclear armaments or nuclear safety."

aspidities_87

The usual suspects...

"After any significant natural disaster or conflict starts up, human traffickers swarm to the country looking for unattended children. Law enforcement will start watching ports of entry for the usual suspects... the usual suspects."

Ausramm

Good Lord

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"A toddler's adult teeth are right below their eyes."

SuvenPan

"Yeah, I saw a photograph of a small child's skull with part of the area around the jaw removed and it's just packed with teeth."

CRtwenty

My teeth were where? OMG!

From the Inside

"Tarantula hawks are giant flying wasps that sting tarantulas, inducing paralysis. They then drag the paralyzed tarantula back to their nest and lay eggs in them. The eggs hatch, and the larvae slowly devour the still-alive, paralyzed tarantula from the inside."

GlassHalfFullofAcid

Fatality

"Rabies. Just everything about rabies."

spade13F

"Once you're symptomatic, 99.99% fatality rate and that 'lucky' iota that survive in medically-induced comas end up with permanent neurological damage. Also, the horrifying hallucinations."

Tiny_Parfait

"Rabies is pretty interesting. if you are vaccinated then it's 100% preventable, if not your chance of dying is 99.9%."

Unaccounted_fart

After the Hatch

"I remember watching an episode of the show Monsters Inside Me where this 16-year-old kid was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor finally figured out what was wrong."

"Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly very briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me."

-eDgAR-

The Spine Attack

"A guy I used to work with had either a condition or got a virus (I don't remember which, this was about 20 years ago) that attacked his spine; he went to bed fine and woke up the next day totally paralyzed from the waist down. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. There was no slow progression, just walking fine one day and completely unable to walk the next."

"I just looked up his obituary (he passed in 2011) he apparently had Transverse Myelitis that led him to become paralyzed."

A911owner

Put it Back

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"Seems obvious when you think about it, but after an autopsy, they don't put everything back where they found it. It goes in a bag in the abdominal cavity."

clevebeat

Well I'll never sleep again.

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