Creepy Facts (15 gifs)

1

“The earth was around billions of years before we were, and is indifferent to our survival. There have been multiple mass extinctions in the past and we shouldn’t feel any safer. The only difference is we’ve advanced far enough to the point that we’ll probably know in advance when our species is going to go extinct.”

2

“Siberia’s permafrost melting and unleashing a disease humanity isn’t prepared for.”

3

“In 2019, there was a document about internet predators. The filmmakers hired three young-looking actresses and let them pose as 12yo girls on social media for 10 days. They received 2458 messages. Only one of them actually wanted to chat, the rest were sexual predators.”

4

“Scurvy at advanced stages can make all of your scars reopen, because maintaining them is an active process that your body does all the time and when it can’t produce collagen it stops. Maybe eat some fruit.”

5

“That we need to work for 11 months to get one month off in a whole year. That most of people need to work at a s**tty job until they retire and then struggle to survive on a small retirement. I mean, a bunch of s**t that is terrifying. Billionaires don’t pay taxes etc.”

6

“Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow) can lie dormant for more than 50 years, is universally fatal, and is inheritable. There is no cure.”

7

“Due to human artificial selection, dogs are evolving eyebrows.”

8

“There are hundreds of unidentified serial killers in America.”

9

“There is a species of caterpillar, big blue out of great Britain I believe, that tricks ants into thinking it’s an ant queen in distress. The ants take this caterpillar back to the nest where the caterpillar continues acting like a queen but devouring all the ant larvae. This destroys the ant colony from the inside.”

10

“Sun eruptions happened before and lead to blackouts across several continents. All fun and games in the 19th century. Today it could easily kill millions. And it could happen any hour.”

11

“Dementia has no age limit.”

12

“The fact that we know more about outer space than our planet’s deep oceans is unsettling. There are countless mysteries and potentially terrifying discoveries awaiting beneath the ocean’s depths.”

13

“It is physically possible to be so constipated that your stool will back all the way up your digestive tract and you can vomit feces. You’re welcome.”

14

“It’s a great day. You go for a swim, and then Naegleri fowleri hits you hard. “Naegleri fowleri is an amoeba (brain eating amoeba) that can cause a serious central nervous system infection. The amoeba is found in warm and still fresh water bodies of water and enters a human body through the nose.”