28 creepy and depressing facts that you immediately want to forget (29 photos)

We all love to learn new things, but curiosity, as we know, is fraught. One Reddit user asked other members of the community to share with him the creepiest facts they know, and they did not disappoint - enough to give nightmares for many years to come!





1. Elderly people die so often on cruises that every cruise ship has a morgue on board.



2. The bodies and belongings of people who died while climbing Everest are used as reference points by other climbers.



3. One climber, David Sharp, began to freeze so close to where the frozen body was being used as a landmark that 40 people simply walked past him. When someone finally realized that Sharpe was still alive, it was too late.



4. The last execution using the guillotine took place in 1977.



5. Speaking of executions: one of the methods of execution in Ancient Rome was that a person was beaten and then sewn into a bag along with a live dog, snake, monkey and chicken, after which the bag was thrown into the ocean.



6. During the bubonic plague, patients reported hearing strange gurgling sounds coming from their buboes.



7. Almost 40% of murders in the United States remain unsolved.



8. Also, the most common cause of death for pregnant women in the United States is homicide. They die from homicide twice as often as from complications caused by pregnancy.



9. Every five seconds a child under the age of 15 dies in the world - most often the death could have been prevented.



10. Every day, 25,000 people die from hunger, including 10,000 children.



11. And this is not because there is not enough food in the world, but because of the way it is distributed. To make matters worse, about 1.3 billion tons of food are lost or wasted every year.



12. In the past, babies were operated on without anesthesia because doctors believed that they did not feel pain. Before - this is up to the 1980s.



13. In many countries there used to be human zoos. In essence, these were small artificial villages where indigenous peoples of different places, often from Africa, imitated the way of life that was inherent in them according to the inhabitants of these countries. Many of them died in these villages.



14. Sometimes people were put in cages, often naked. One man was kept in a cage with an orangutan at the Bronx Zoo, demonstrating that he is the evolutionary link between orangutans and modern humans.



15. In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans consumed "medicines" made from human corpses that supposedly treated various diseases.



16. Some of these medicines were made from mummies stolen from Egypt. They were crushed and made into tinctures, and the skulls were made into powders. The crushed mummies were also used to create paint - the resulting color was called "mummy brown".



17. Have you ever felt like you were going to die? It's best not to ignore it: "feeling of impending doom" is actually a symptom of several different diseases and health problems, including those caused by transfusions of the wrong type of blood.



18. There could be an aneurysm in your brain right now that you don't know about, and it could burst at any moment.



19. It's rare, but if you crack your neck incorrectly, it can lead to a stroke.



20. There is no treatment for rabies once the virus has manifested itself. The mortality rate from rabies (99.9%) is higher than from any other disease.



21. If the oyster looks cloudy, it means it is full of sperm.



22. King cobras can roar.



23. And one more thing about snakes: the venom of some species can clot the blood so quickly that it turns into jelly.



24. Adult otters sometimes rape and kill other otters, as well as baby seals. They also engage in necrophilia, and some male otters hold female cubs hostage.



25. Squirrels are not herbivores - they are omnivores. Sometimes they kill and eat other animals, such as chipmunks.



26. Because male chicks are of no use to the egg industry, they are ground alive or suffocated immediately after they hatch.



27. Starfish digest food outside their body. Essentially, they spit out their own stomach and secrete enzymes that digest and liquefy the prey before absorbing it into the body.



28. Dogs love squeaky toys because they sound like scared or injured prey. They also sway her, shaking her head from side to side, because this is how wild dogs and wolves kill their prey, breaking its neck.