25 disturbing and intriguing facts about life on Earth (26 photos)

The world is a rather interesting and strange place, about which we don’t know everything. Popular TikTok content creator and talented artist @criminal__acttv has a series of videos dedicated to sharing disturbing, creepy, yet truly intriguing facts, and we can't wait to share them with you.





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“Crocodiles know how to climb trees, although it seems they shouldn’t. It is extremely rare to catch this process, because if it notices your attention, it retreats into the water and not onto a tree. The main reason why a crocodile can climb higher on branches is because it wants to bask in the sun.”

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“When the people who discovered the platypus presented its anatomical structure to the association that decides what animals are called, they thought it was a joke. I like to imagine that after they thought it was a joke, they brought them a live platypus and put it on the table, and they were like, "Oh, that's funny. It's a little doll." And then he started moving and the guy who brought him said, "Watch out, his ankles are poisonous." And then they're like, 'What the hell did you just say?'"

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"In places like Brazil, Australia and Texas, where I'm from, millions of spiders can fall from the sky at you."

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“Hippos are responsible for approximately 500 human deaths a year. They are much more likely to kill you than a crocodile. And they like to throw excrement at each other because they think it's funny."

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“Sand tiger sharks typically bear around 100 babies, and in the womb, before the babies are born, they kill and eat each other until only a couple remains.”

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“When you die, your eyeballs will deflate and become soft sacs sitting in your skull.”

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“Female penguins. If their baby dies, they'll probably go to another female and just steal her baby and say, 'That's mine.'"

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“Over the course of a lifetime, the average person interacts with approximately 30 to 36 people who have killed someone.”

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“Did you know that this is how pandas pee? This is what male pandas do to say, 'This is my tree now.'"

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"It is estimated that there are between 150 and 200 corpses scattered around this area of ​​Mount Everest."

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“If you've ever worked in a morgue, there's a good chance you'll find it haunted. Because from time to time a gas is released from the corpse, which sounds either like a whisper or like a distant scream.”

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“Every year, thousands of deaths occur due to illegible doctor handwriting.”

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“If you have pets like a cat, hamster, dog or raccoon, and you die alone, they will most likely eat your corpse.”

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“Did you know that 40% of your body is just foreign organisms such as bacteria and fungi?”

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“In 1933, a Japanese woman on the island of Oshima threw herself into the crater of a volcano. And after that happened and it made the news, 1,000 more people threw themselves into the crater that same year. I haven't found out whether it was active or not, but if so, it would be the dumbest and most painful way to die, because it would be like combining suffocation with burning."

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“There is a species of spider that is so small that it is about the width of a three-millimeter pencil. Imagine that there could be just a ton of these microscopic spiders in your nose, ears and eyes, and you have no idea.”

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“The likelihood that a person sentenced to death will be found innocent after execution is 1 in 25.”

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"If you shined ultraviolet light on a platypus, it would glow not because it's covered in sperm, but because it has a biofluorescent property, like many Australian species."

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“Basically, there is a 100% chance that there is a spider in your house at all times.”

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“When a camel pees, its urine is thick like maple syrup.”

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“Research has shown that some spiders grow larger than normal if they live in a densely populated area.”

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“In some species of spiders, the males have a removable penis, so when they mate, they simply leave it inside the female. Other species of spiders mate by making a sac out of a web and then depositing their sperm into it. And then they kind of shove it where it’s supposed to be.”

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“Koalas actually have fingerprints and they are very similar to humans. And they also get chlamydia.”

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“3% of the ice in Antarctica is just frozen penguin urine.”

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“If we considered SpongeBob's genitals to be the same as those of humans, then the sea sponge could have been born with either a penis or a vagina, or both, or a mixture of both. It sounds creepy. And if SpongeBob had female reproductive organs, he could just swim around, throwing eggs out of his womb until they hit another SpongeBob in the face and they decided to mate. The reason sea sponges resort to these mating methods is because they don't have the brains to think about anything else. SpongeBob would have no brain, no skeleton, or any internal organs. He would simply be a creature that swims around and eats something, producing sperm and eggs in the process. I want you to think about this if you ever dive a coral reef.”