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#1
In 1916, the famous Russian mystic Rasputin survived 3 distinct attempts to kill him in quick succession. Assassins had tried to poison him first, then shot him, then finally stabbed him. Somehow Rasputin was still alive. This was short lived, however, as the assassins finally wrapped him in a blanket and tossed him in a river.
#2
In Chinese culture, smaller feet were considered to be more attractive and feminine, so the Chinese took to binding women’s feet together at a young age.
#3
Between 1890 and 1910, Bayer’s heroine was available in almost every drug store you walked in. It was sold as a non-addictive substitute for heroine and it was also used to cure children’s coughs.
#4
At first glance, these men look like twins or like the same person. These men had the same name, were sentenced to the same prison, and look nearly identical. They are not in any way related and never met each other prior to prison. They are also the reason fingerprints are now used in the criminal justice system.
#5
There was a form of torture called “The Spanish Donkey”. This was a painful and gruesome form of torture where weights were chained to a naked victim straddling a wood beam. This became such a science that the pain was able to be fine tuned by adjusting the amount of weight.
#6
The Catholic church believed that certain saints were “incorruptible”. While it seems silly in modern science, Saint Cecilia is proving modern science wrong. Saint Cecilia was martyred in 177 A.D., and her body has remained the same in the 1,843 years since. This defies the natural order and 5 of the 8 stages of death.
#7
The horrifies looks on the Guanajuato Mummies are considered by experts to be the most terrifying mummies in existence. Their horrified faces lead many to believe they were buried alive.
#8
“In February of 1948, dozens of ships near Indonesia started receiving distress calls from the Dutch ship SS Ourang Medan. The messages read “All officers including captain are dead lying in the chart room and bridge. Possibly whole crew dead.” This was followed by a series of indecipherable Morse Code messages, and then one final one, “I die”. When the ship was later discovered however, the messages paled in comparison to the bodies of the crew. Everyone on the ship was dead, and every body was frozen in place looking up at the sun, with arms outstretched and a contorted, almost anguished look on their faces. And maybe the most strange of all, there were no signs of injuries on any of the bodies.”
#9
Joseph Stalin is one of the most brutal dictators the world has ever known. While he had no problem cutting people out of existence, this dictator did it in his paintings, too. When someone who was in the same painting as him was killed, he would cut them out by retouching the painting.
#10
This is not disturbing but it should be here anyway. This monkey became a hero in WW1, given a ribbon, and promoted to the rank of corporal.
#11
There might be fecal matter in your office coffee mug.
#12
A chicken once survived 18 months without a head.
#13
There’s a type of predatory fish that can walk on land.
#14
You shed about a pound and a half of skin a year.
#15
Peanut butter can contain rat hairs.
#16
There’s a species of lizard that shoots blood from its eyes.
#17
Parts of Albert Einstein’s brain is on display at a museum.
#18
Horses can’t vomit
#19
In 7 hours an elephant produces enough poop to outweigh an adult human.
#20
There used to be real human remains on Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
#21
The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste.
#22
When Eskimo babies have colds, the mothers suck the snot out of their nose.
#23
The FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz. of raisins.
#24
The FDA regulations also allow 1 pound of peanut butter to contain 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs.
#25
Butterflies have been known to drink blood.
#26
Your desk, kitchen sink, grocery cart, cellphone, restaurant menu, and ATM all have more bacteria than your toilet bowl.
#27
From London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 16% of cell phones have poop on them.
#28
Koalas actually eat their mom’s poop
#29
According to the FDA, the average person consumes up to a pound of insects per year, mostly mixed into other foods.
#30
If you smell something, the molecules of that object are sticking to the inside of your nose.
#31
The chance of dying to get your lottery ticket is greater than your chance of winning.
#32
Most of what we know about the stages of hypothermia came from Nazi human experiments.
#33
Male chicks are often tossed into a grinder because roosters aren’t as tasty as hens.
#34
Approximately 2,500 left handed people die every year from using equipment designed for right handed people.
#35
Ice machines in restaurants are usually not cleaned. They have a part called a slime guard which, if seen on a bad day, you would never get ice again.
#36
During WW2, an American plane crashed on a Japanese island. There were 9 men aboard. 8 of them were captured and eaten. The other person was rescued was George H. W. Bush.
#37
The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to the accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop.
#38
If a male lion takes over a pride he executes all of the cubs.
#39
There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the United States.
#40
15% of the air you breathe in an average metro station is human skin.
#41
There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest that are used as waypoints for climbers.
#42
In 2008, 3 Texas teens were arrested for digging up a body and using the skull as a marijuana bong.
#43
Leo, the first ‘MGM Lion’ killed his trainer and 2 assistants a day after the filming of the iconic logo.
#44
More people die from suicide in New York than there are murdered.
#45
There is a gypsy tribe in India which believes that death is the greatest celebration and birth is the greatest grief.
#46
Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli, known as the “Soap- Maker of Correggio,” turned her victims into bars of soap and tea cakes, which she gave to guests.
#47
During the filming of The Exorcist, multiple sets burned down, actors got mysteriously injured, and one of the actors, Jack Mcgowran, even died of influenza. Eventually, a priest was brought in to bless the set.
#48
Salt water takes 10 minutes to drown you.
#49
Bananas are radioactive
#50
Around 17ml of blood can substitute for an egg when baking.
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