Facts that you will want to forget as soon as possible (26 photos)

Our world is full of not only pleasant surprises. There is also something in it that is not recommended to think about at night. But forewarned is forearmed, so it’s better to be aware of even the most unpleasant facts about what the Universe has in store for us.







More Americans have died from COVID-19 in the two busiest months of the pandemic than in 10 years of the Vietnam War.





When you get sunburned, your skin turns red and peels because the skin cells are essentially committing suicide to avoid becoming cancerous.



It is known that there are at least 8 nuclear warheads in the world that are officially listed as missing.



Fatal familial insomnia does exist. This is a rare, inherited, incurable brain disease that gradually destroys your brain's ability to sleep. Eventually you stop sleeping completely, go crazy, have seizures and die.



Judith Barsi, the girl who voiced Daxie in The Land Before Time, was killed by her father at the age of ten. All the police found of her and her mother were charred remains. After killing his family, her father shot himself.



A brain aneurysm can occur in anyone at any age, regardless of their health status.



A whale named 52 Blue, as scientists have found, sings only at one frequency, which other whales cannot sing at. This means that he cannot communicate with any of his fellow tribesmen. He was nicknamed the loneliest whale on the planet.



On helplines for children, the busiest days are New Year's holidays, because parents allow themselves to get drunk on these days.



Only one in 1,000 newborn sea turtles survives to adulthood.



There are more slaves on the planet today than at any other time in history.



You are more likely to die on the way to the lottery ticket kiosk than to buy a winning ticket there.



Each human tooth contains 36 calories.



Once you have experienced the symptoms of rabies, there is no turning back: you are 100% likely to die.



Brain-eating amoebas do exist. They are quite common in freshwater ponds and lakes. Over the past 50 years, only 4 people have survived close encounters with them.



Your voice in the recording sounds the same as in reality. In your head it is a little muffled and deeper because the sound travels through your head rather than through the air. That's why it's so strange to hear your own voice on tape.



Most predators, if you encounter them at the wrong time, will kill you and then eat you. But the bear will start eating right away.



According to quantum mechanics, there is a small chance that the entire universe will suddenly disappear in the next 5 seconds. There is also a small chance that the Universe, the Earth, all the people, buildings, the device you are reading this from, your messages, replies, the entire Internet, your knowledge of everything, your personality, your memories, your existence, etc. were created just 1 second ago.



One day the last person who knew your name will die and you will be completely forgotten. You may still be alive when this happens.



The most common cause of death for tall people is heart attack, caused by the fact that their hearts naturally have to work harder than average to keep blood circulating, especially at high altitudes. Left-handed people are more likely to die in an accident with power tools because they are all designed by right-handed people for right-handed people.



From 1948 until the end of the Cold War, there were approximately 5,000 scenarios in which nuclear weapons were launched or accidentally detonated. That we are alive is a statistical miracle.



When Hitler was four years old, he fell into a pond next to a church and nearly drowned. However, the priest jumped out and saved his life. World War II and the Holocaust probably could have been avoided if not for this man.



There is more plastic in the ocean today than plankton.



If a new mattress weighs about 40 kilograms, then an old one weighs about 50.



When preparing a body for open-casket burial, the embalmer sews the deceased's mouth shut to prevent it from falling open during the funeral due to tissue drying.



The youngest mother in history was a Peruvian girl, Lina Medina, who gave birth in 1939 at the age of 5. She had precocious puberty and started having her first period at eight months of age. The man who raped her was never found, and she remained silent about how she became pregnant from that time until her gray hairs. The case is well documented in medical journals, including photographs of her pregnant body. It is also listed in the Guinness Book.