Content creator from the Philadelphia area, Ashley Washington, know a few things that keep them up at night. So, they do what every sensible person in their position would—share the horror with others.
Over time, their TikTok account has become an extensive archive of unsettling facts about everything from human anatomy and social practices to the animal kingdom, and beyond.
Whether you want to fuel your nightmares or are simply looking for ways to expand your pub trivia knowledge, continue scrolling to dive into the bizarre!
The woman who discovered radium and plutonium, Marie Curie, along with all of her tools, whenever she passed, had to be buried in a one inch thick lead coffin to prevent any of that from getting out and making other people sick.
Two food facts I love to tell people is :
1. If you are allergic to shrimp, you also can’t eat cicadas.
2. In a blind sniff test, 90% of people cannot differentiate between the smell of parmesan cheese and vomit. So sorry if I just ruined that for you.
Put a disclaimer on this one, if you’re weird about hospitals or medical anxiety, just skip this part. But it’s legal in a number of states for medical students to give Pap smears to women under anesthesia without their consent.
There’s a thing called immune privilege, which is basically just your brain keeping your eyes, brain, and your testes a secret from your immune system so that it doesn’t try to k**l them and you.
Your stomach produces a new lining every six days to avoid digesting itself. You’d be amazed at the number of body functions that are there solely to keep your body from just destroying itself.
When you cry and your nose is running, it’s actually your tears. And if you’re like me and you’ve ever gotten liquid eyeliner in your eye in and wondered why it came out of your nose. They’re connected.
The abysmal layer of the ocean is the layer that is in complete darkness. It makes up 83% of the ocean and 60% of earth. The thing that makes this worse is that, one, we can’t really get very far in the ocean. But two, that the square law doesn’t apply underwater. The square law says that as things get larger, they have kind of a breaking point where they would be crushed under their own weight. So they can’t get too big. But the ocean does not apply there, of course.
While filming Tokyo Drift, they couldn’t get a permit to film one of the scenes, so they just did it anyway. But they hired a fall guy to pretend to be the director and spend a night in jail for it.
The guy that built the Taj Mahal built it in honor of his wife, who he impregnated to death. And then she died in childbirth. He wanted to build the Taj Mahal. Not only did he put everybody in debt doing this, but after it was built, he wanted no one to ever be able to build anything even remotely similar. So he k**led all of the architects and designers. And then anyone who actually physically built it, he cut off their hands and legs so that they couldn’t build it again. Then a couple of years, he decided he wanted one, but in black. And then his son had had enough of it. So his son k**led all of his other brothers, took a throne, had his dad put in jail, and then, while he was in jail, presented his dad with all of his dead brother’s heads on a platter, which eventually drove him into madness. He plucked all of the hair off of his head and body and then died.
This one’s really cool, but the way your brain prepares to intake alcohol if you drink it regularly. Same thing with dr**s. If you go somewhere you don’t normally go when you drink, or you drink something different than normal, or you’re in a different situation, it’s at a different time of day. Your brain hasn’t had time to mentally prepare for that. So you’re actually going to get more drunk than if you were, you know, having your usual glass of wine at home.
There are more ants alive today than there have been humans ever. Ants are also the most populous animal basically anywhere. And on top of that, if you put the weight of all humans together equals the weight of all ants currently living.
Coin Star is tricking you. Coin Star originally had no counting sound and worked much faster. But people didn’t believe that it was counting accurately, so they put in a counting sound and made it slower. A similar thing happened with Febreze. It was originally unscented, but nobody believed it worked, so they added scent to it.
For those of us who are familiar with Waffle House, this shouldn’t be unusual, but for those of you who don’t know what Waffle House is, it’s a restaurant in the United States that is open 24/7, no matter what, every day of the year. the US government actually uses something called the Waffle House Index to determine the severity of natural disasters based on how many Waffle Houses are open.
One of my favorite complex facts is the guy that sings Peanut Butter Jelly Time died in an 11 hour standoff with police. Meanwhile, his brother in law was trying to talk him down. His brother in law is Snoop Dogg.
Part of the reason people need glasses because the outer layer of your eye is the wrong shape. Now, if you’re like me, after learning that fact, anytime I see somebody’s side profile, I always look at the shape of their eye. Not that I’m gonna know what I’m looking at, but just for fun.
Snakes, specifically pythons, have what’s called vestigial legs. So these itty bitty little legs left over from evolution, they’re not functional. They don’t have bone, they don’t do anything.
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