“I want to know everything” for the fearless: 33 dark facts you can’t forget (34 photos)

They say that knowledge is power, but in this case knowledge is rather a universal longing. This is probably exactly what a Reddit user was thinking when he asked his question: “What are not the most positive facts you know?” The post received more than ten thousand comments, and here are 33 of the most interesting and darkest of them.





1. Crows are now at the "stone age" stage of their development, but we will never see cool advanced crows, because by the time they reach the next stage, we will be long gone.



Scientists say crows create tools that are more advanced than those created by early humans. They also know how to tame wolves! They hunt with them, sleep with them, and scientists have also noticed that individual crows become attached to individual wolves - just like people do when they choose their pets.

2. When rescuers worked at the site of the September 11 terrorist attack, they had to hide in the rubble to be found by rescue dogs - they became depressed because they could not find living victims.





3. The most common cause of death for pregnant women worldwide is murder.



4. Pluto did not make a single complete revolution around the Sun from the moment of its discovery until it was deprived of its planetary status.



5. You are more likely to survive being shot in the head than being infected with rabies.



6. Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world. The average Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australians are likely to have it by the age of seventy.



7. At any time, your body can make a mistake when fighting an infection or virus, and for the rest of your life it will consider vital cells to be dangerous.



8. Creator of Plants vs. Zombies was fired from EA because he was hostile to the idea of ​​microtransactions.



9. Approximately 40% of murder cases are never solved.



10. Most older pets die not from old age, but from cancer.



11. During an inspection in 2015, the US Transportation Security Administration missed 96% of contraband.



12. Mushrooms are closer to people than to plants.



13. Some wasps hunt spiders, but not to eat them. They paralyze them, make a cocoon for each one, and lay one egg before sealing it. When the egg hatches, the larva eats the still living (and paralyzed) spider, after which it breaks out of the cocoon as a wasp.



14. In 2006, scientists in Iceland collected shellfish to study the effects of climate change and then froze them, which ultimately killed the shellfish. In this way they killed the world's oldest clam, nicknamed "Ming", who was 507 years old.



15. Hiccups can be stopped with digital rectal massage (in other words, by sticking a finger up your butt).



16. Diarrhea kills 2,195 children every day - more than from AIDS, malaria and measles combined.



17. We are now closer to 2051 than to 1991.



18. Every cruise ship has a morgue.



19. Most likely, your name will be forgotten within two generations.



20. During the bubonic plague, the Mongols threw infected corpses over the walls of cities of different civilizations.



21. When whales mate, 95% of the sperm ends up in the ocean.



22. During World War II, scientists stuffed dead rats with explosives to help French resistance fighters who left rats in factories to explode when thrown into ovens.



23. All the bones in your body are wet.



24. The average length of a gorilla's penis is 5 centimeters or less. At the same time, the average penis length in men is 10-12 centimeters: congratulations!



25. A gamma-ray burst from space can hit us at any moment, and we can't notice it before it happens, so we'll all just die instantly.



26. Every year, each of us celebrates a birthday. But we also have a “day of death” that we experience every year without knowing it.



27. Some tumors grow hair and teeth.



28. Every week in the United States, drivers hit an average of 50 children while backing up.



29. The entire Universe can disappear in the blink of an eye (from our point of view) as a result of the collapse of a false vacuum.



30. Have you ever seen an anteater in a funny T-pose? So he says that he will literally disembowel you with one blow of his claws.



31. An orca can skin a penguin.



32. Dentists have the highest suicide rate among doctors.



33. Suicide Squad won more Oscars than The Shawshank Redemption.