17 Jarring Facts That I Regret To Inform You Are True
1.Crows can recognize human faces, and some have even been reported to seek revenge on those who they feel have wronged them.
Maybe that's why a group of crows is called a murder.
2.You are much more likely to be murdered by someone you know than a total stranger.
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3.Severed human feet are known to regularly wash up on the shores of the Salish Sea, which lies between Vancouver and Seattle.
4.You exchange approximately 80 million bacteria in a single kiss.
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5.If you are murdered in the US, there is a 1 in 3 chance your case will never be solved.
6.There may be as many as 50 active serial killers in the US at any time.
“A very conservative estimate is that there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the United States,” John Douglas, former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, told People Magazine in 2014. A serial killer is defined as someone who has murdered two or more people in separate incidents.
7.People ingest approximately a teaspoon of plastic weekly, the equivalent of a credit card.
Studies suggest we may consume as much as 100,000 pieces of tiny plastic a year.
8.Your cellphone carries 10 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
9.There can still be brain activity for up to 30 seconds after a person is decapitated.
10.The US military is currently missing about six nuclear weapons.
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11.There's a real thing called spider rain, in which millions of spiders can literally fall from the sky.
Also called "angel hair," the natural phenomenon may occur after heavy rain or floods.
12.Up to 10% of green coffee beans may be infested with insects, according to the FDA.
13.That strawberry yogurt you're eating might have bugs in it.
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Some brands such as Yoplait color their products with carmine, a natural red dye that comes from crushed bugs. The good news is it's considered safe. The bad news is...well. Bugs.
14.There's a rare fatal condition called Fatal Familial Insomnia that slowly destroys the brain's ability to sleep until you eventually die from it.
15.Research suggests that about 1% of the adult male population in the US meets the criteria for psychopathy.
Research scientist Kevin Dutton told BuzzFeed in a 2016 interview that a psychopath can be defined as "someone with a distinct cluster of personality traits, including charm, charisma, fearlessness, ruthlessness, narcissism, persuasiveness, and lack of conscience." It does not necessarily indicate violence, and it is not a diagnosis.
16.A human body may "groan" even after death.
"When a doctor or someone tries to resuscitate a person, extra air gets pumped into the patient’s lungs and stomach. After you’ve died, the air can still escape if someone applies pressure to the body while moving it. It could sound like moans, groans, and even squeaks," a Maple Holistics health expert said in an interview with Bustle.
17.Finally, those cute little ladybugs in your backyard? They're actually cannibals.
Ladybug larvae have been known to eat the eggs of their unhatched siblings. The more you know, I guess...?
