Creepy Science Facts to Feel Weird About

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Eric Lund
Mar 21, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

It's not like we should be constantly disgusted just walking around the world we live in, but there are definitely some parts of it that are hard to process. They say that ignorance is bliss, and that certainly feels more true when learning about all the strange and gross weirdness of everyday life. Knowing this kind of junk doesn't even make someone more likeable. Anyway, here's more un-fun facts to quote around respected colleagues.

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    Font - MER_manatee 3 days ago The mantis shrimp can see colors that our eyes aren't capable of perceiving. Think about that. What else are we just not capable of sensing?
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    Plant - MissSara101 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago Because of some pesticides used, roaches won't 2 go anywhere near a meth lab.
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    Font - iFranton 3 days ago If you believe strongly enough that you have been cursed, your brain can shut itself off entirely in severe cases. The psychological term for it is "Voodoo Death Syndrome." It's just the fact you can literally think yourself to death that unsettles me so.
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    Font - RAINGUARD 3 days ago Due to relativity, it is impossible to measure the speed of light in a straight line. The only way we've measured it is by round trip with mirrors. For all we know, it could be instantaneous going one way, and half the speed of light in the other, and it would be impossible to tell.
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    Smile - Squigglepig52 3 days ago edited 2 days ago A 26 e3 3 6 Caterpillars turn completely into goo in their cocoon, and then become a butterfly.
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    Font - Back2Bach 3 days ago · edited 3 days ago 4 34 The brain can play tricks on you: When you look at a clock and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory - and your perception of time stretches slightly backward. This effect is called chronostasis.
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    Font - azure-skyfall 3 days ago 2 3 2 That so many vegetables came from the same plant. Broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc. They are, botanically speaking, the same species. Humans have just bred them to emphasize different traits (buds, leaves, tubers...) Imagine if humans were as genetically flexible. Imagine a person walking around with GIANT toes, but otherwise normal. Actually, plant genetics in general is a weird, weird world.
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    Font - ApostropheJ 3 days ago 3 e 3 4 Parasites can live anywhere inside of you, for years unnoticed. A simple migraine could be a tapeworm crawling in your brain, causing damage. Your eyes begin to blur frequently and you don't know why and it's not getting better. Losing weight and having diarrhea but it's not a stomach bug. Well, I guess it s.. You are having a difficult time catching your breath and your chest doesn't feel right. It could just be some parasite hanging out, using you.
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    Rectangle - Knork14 3 days ago S A fever is your body way of saying: "We dont negotiate with terrorists! We either destroy the enemy or we die with them!"
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    Nose - ssjx7squall 3 days ago S 2 E You get and cure cancer in your own body thousands of times a day...
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    Smile - DHFranklin 3 days ago S2 The first AI that can successfully pass the Turing test would be able to pretend that it couldn't.
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    Product - IckyBB 3 days ago A gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on earth instantly with no warning
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    Rectangle - SonofTreehorn 3 days ago Your brain is making decisions before you are even aware of the decisions it has made. It also makes decisions based off of learned behavior and you just go along with it.
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    Smile - BigMilko 3 days ago Doctors/ scientists are BARELY keeping up with the influenza virus. It keeps on mutating rapidly. It really wants to get inside you.
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    Font - UnkindledGardener 3 days ago Most of the water on the earth will rain down at some point... The creppy fact about this is that the human body is 60% water, meaning that at some point the same water that runs trought your body, the one on your blood, bones, brain, etc. Will rain down at some point,
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    Font - munificent 3 days ago 2 e2 3 Obligate siblicide O species of animals, multiple offspring are born but only one is actually raised by the mother. The others are born only as backup in case the first-born doesn't survive. When the first-born is fine, which is the typical MCAfee MSECURE . In some case, it kills the others.
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    Font - LonelyWolf82 3 days ago - edited 2 days ago Spider webs were used as bandages in ancient times
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    Human body - One_Guy_With_A_Dream 3 days ago We know more about the moon than we do our own oceans.
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    Font - wawapexmaximus 3 days ago 32 Honestly nothing is more creepy than how deep sea anglerfish mate. The deep sea is dark, and the anglerfish are spread very thinly. Therefore, when an anglerfish meets another anglerfish, it's incredibly important they get the chance to mate over and over again. The evolutionary strategy that deep sea anglerfish devised is extra creepy. The male latches onto the female, biting her and never letting go. That way he can inseminate the eggs she drops. Not that ba
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    Font - Witchgirl2658 3 days ago · edited 22 hours ago Not exactly scientific or creepy but, it's close enough and I want to contribute. Mouth pipetting was a thing in labs in the 1980s. A pipette is, for simplicity sake, a glass straw that lab staff would use to transfer liquids. Now a days we use special bulbs, that when squeezed, would suck up the liquid for us. Kinda like a turkey baster or eye dropper. Before we had these bulbs lab workers had to use their mouths to suck up the liquid. Which
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