Thursday 11 September 2014

25 Extremely Disturbing Facts You Wish You Didn't Know



The Romans used crushed mouse brains as toothpaste
When eskimo babies have colds their mothers suck the snot out of their nose.
FDA regulations allow 10 insects and 35 fruit fly eggs per 8 oz. of raisins
They also allow 1 pound of peanut butter to contain 150 bug fragments and 5 rodent hairs
Butterflies have been known to drink blood
Your desk, kitchen sink, grocery cart, cellphone, restaurant menu, and ATM all have more bacteria than your toilet bowl
20% of office coffee mugs contain fecal matter (University of Arizona study)
16% of cell phones have poop on them (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Koalas actually eat their mom's poop
Tired of poop? Too bad. Depending on the brand of toilet paper you use to wipe, the fecal matter can travel through up to 10 layers
According to the FDA the average person consumes a pound of insects per year, mostly mixed into other foods
Your feet can sweat up to 20 liters of fluid per year
If you smell something, molecules from that object are sticking to the inside of your nose
The chance of you dying on the way to get your lottery tickets is actually greater than your chance of winning
More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria can be exchanged in one kiss
Most of what we know about the stages of hypothermia came to us from Nazi human experiments
Male chicks are often tossed into a grinder as babies because roosters aren't as tasty as hens
Approximately 2,500 left handed people die every year as a result of using equipment designed for right handed people
Ice machines in restaurants are usually not cleaned. They even have a part called a slime guard and if you saw it on a bad day you would never get ice again
During WWII an American plane crashed on a Japanese island (Chi Chi Jima). There were 9 men on board. Eight of them were captured and eaten. The one who was rescued was George H W Bush.
The average mattress doubles in weight over the course of 10 years due to accumulation of dust mites and dust mite poop
If a male lion takes over a pride he executes all of the cubs
There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the Unites States
15% of the air you breathe in an average metro station is human skin
There are over 200 corpses on Mount Everest and they are used as way points for climbers

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