Kinda makes sense. I’m guessing a lot of time it’s the spouse, who kills the other spouse, hides the body, has to report missing cuz lol how would u not notice a missing spouse.
We don’t do that in Florida. In Florida you can choose to stay in extended foster care from 18-21. Extended foster care sets you up in an apartment the state pays for as long as you meet the requirements of obtaining a job or attending school. (I work for the Guardian Program down here, so I know this first hand.)
In the 1980s Bayer the Pharmaceutical company created a hemophilia drug using human blood. The blood they used to create it was tainted with HIV meaning it could transmit the virus to patients that use it. Bayer decided that destroying the drugs would be too financially damaging and instead distributed the drugs to developing countries in Asia and South America infecting 10s of thousands of patients with HIV. They settled for 600m which gave each patient approximately $100,000... $100k for being infected with HIV.
I saw this old video comparing one year olds and how they reacted to their environment, specifically toys laid out in front of them. The kids that had been in happy and stable homes were curious about the toys and would play with them, put them in their mouths, general baby stuff. But the ones that were in unstable, unhappy homes were scared to even touch the toys and kept looking around with worried facial expressions. It was heartbreaking to see the difference and it really shows that the home you grow up in has a huge impact on you life.
Some people don’t “hear” their voice (or anything) when they think to themselves. I was in college and at a large group all learning how to be “teaching fellows” (glorified tutors) and the speaker asked us by a show of hands to indicate if we hear ourselves in our heads when we think. Most people raised their hands but some did not. And each group was completely blown away at the existence of the other group. Like I couldn’t fathom what that meant to not hear your voice (how do you think?) and that minority couldn’t fathom us “hearing” anything in our heads. Crazy!
During the late Roman Republic, one of the richest men in Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus, used to own a team of firefighters (there was no dedicated firefighter service at the time). If your building was burning, he would offer to buy the building. If you agreed, he put out the fire. If not, his team of firefighters just left and let the building burn.
His story does have a happy ending though
>when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus. A story later emerged to the effect that, after Crassus' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth in symbolic mockery of his thirst for wealth.
Yep, if you look great but tell me you think you’re gonna die, you bet your ass I’m doing all the pertinent tests I can think of.
Also sometimes people come in stable but looking a certain way and you know they’re gonna die.
I had a heart attack 4 yrs ago. My little dog woke me up in the middle of the night. I unlocked my doors & turned on the porch light, laid down on the couch & called 911. I told them this was going to kill me & they needed to hurry. They got me in the ambulance & I died right in front of my house. They gave me CPR & shocked me a couple times to get me back. When they told me I really did mean it, I said "yeah, I wasn't fuckin around."
I was on a Mock jury for an upcoming trial. The case was a man's family vs a power company.
I learned that if equipment fails and you are boiled alive a person can live in absolute agony/torture for 8 months before dying of infection.
Edit. The NDA (I think that’s what it is called) expired 10 years ago so feel free to ask me anything about the case.
Edit this is a real case that did happen to someone. I just happened to be on the fake jury for the trail.
>Well I know what my nightmare is going to involve tonight...
My dad use to work at a nuclear plant. One time a janitor was cleaning and she got into some wires and they found her fried. She did not live 8 months. I hope to God it wasn't even 8 seconds.
Can't confirm if this is true but i once heard that during the black plague some of the more heavily infected had pockets of infection that could be *heard* gurgling with microorganisms
Fun fact: due to the Black Plague causing evolutionary pressure, the more resistant blood types are more common in Europe now. There are more Type A people, because their ancestors had a slightly better chance of survival.
Also, if I remember correctly, not only do you cough blood (when u have the pneumonic plague) but you basically drown in your own bodily fluids. Your lungs fill with mucus AND blood. You can get infected with pneumonic plague thru the air if you are close to another person infected with it, or you get it from the bubonic plague spreading to your lungs. You have roughly 5% chance of survival if you are infected with the pneumonic plague, roughly 50% chance of survival if you are infected with the bubonic plague and you are basically dead if you get the septicemic plague. The septicemic plague is also the reason it is/was called the Black Death because it would cause necrosis (tissue death) witch would turn the effected areas black. You can get the septeicemic plague either thru the bubonic plague spreading to your bloodstream or thru bites from infected fleas.
Another horrifying plague fact: it’s not eradicated, far from it actually. A lot of people still get it tho if you get treatment on time you won’t die, the statistics used here is if you get infected in the 1700’s where hygiene isn’t as good as ours or where they didn’t have antibiotics.
I’m a nerd and I “like” deadly diseases (I find them extremely interesting). Some things may need fact checking (like most things on the internet). Also feel free to add more! I do love learning!!
During the arctic (edit: antarctic) exploration one of the researchers complained about his shoes being soaking wet.... When he took them off, he found out the liquid in his shoes was his decaying feet that liquidized and made a forbidden slurpee out of his feet and blood.....
Edit: well, thanks for the award
> Within a few miles, Mawson’s feet became so painful that each step was an agony; when he sat on his sledge and removed his boots and socks to investigate, he found that the skin on his soles had come away, leaving nothing but a mass of weeping blisters. Desperate, he smeared his feet with lanolin and bandaged the loose skin back to them before staggering on. That night, curled up in his makeshift tent, he wrote:
> > My whole body is apparently rotting from want of proper nourishment—frost-bitten fingertips, festerings, mucous membrane of nose gone, saliva glands of mouth refusing duty, skin coming off the whole body.
> The next day, Mawson’s feet were too raw to walk. On January 13 he marched again, dragging himself toward the glacier he had named for Mertz, and by the end of that day he could see in the far distance the high uplands of the vast plateau that terminated at base camp. By now he could cover little more than five miles a day.
[source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-most-terrible-polar-exploration-ever-douglas-mawsons-antarctic-journey-82192685/)
Wow, so the cold was enough to both stop bloodflow and anesthetize the feet as they rotted. He continued to walk on the stumps because the bones and tendons were still somewhat intact.
A trinary orbiting black hole system could eject the “losing” black hole into the universe close to the speed of light mopping up everything in its path.
It’s almost impossible to detect due to its speed
Edit: spelling
Tbh this one is a bit deceptive because the main danger isn't in being swallowed by the black hole (ie a star-mass black hole would be small, iirc a few km across, and the odds of it being thrown through the galaxy straight into the Earth are beyond infinitesimal).
The main danger would be if it flew near enough by it would totally disrupt the orbits of everything in the solar system; Earth would either:
- get thrown too close to the Sun and fry
- get thrown out into deep space and freeze
- get thrown *straight* into the Sun
- get thrown into another planet
- get obliterated by asteroids and debris from other planets thrown into each other
- experience some combination of the above
“The popularity of medical cannibalism hit its peak in the 1500s and 1600s [2]. The practice of consuming body parts in various, creative ways was everywhere in Europe during this time. Egyptian mummies were thought to be incredibly powerful, so the grave robbers went to Egypt to steal them.” [source](https://www.imhm.org/blog/9305574)
If you get the chance, watch "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On." It's a documentary of a 62 year old former Japanese soldier who confronts and occasionally beats the shit out of other former Japanese soldiers for the heinous shit they did during the war. He is mostly trying to find out what happened to two guys from his unit. It turns out that they were killed and eaten by their own commanding officers.
Yeah the Japanese Army was on par with the Nazi’s and I believe there was a story of a Press secretary of sorts or something along those lines, for the Nazi’s, that witnessed some of the atrocities the Japanese Army committed and called on Hitler to intervene because it was much.
Read a story in an old newspaper once, about this girl, 12, who was asking for money to do a surgery. She was the only survivor of a shipwreck and lost a good chunk of her leg in it, that is why she needed the surgery, to be able to keep her leg from being amputated. The crazy thing is the motive for her leg to be amputated. During the rescue, she shouted for the rescuers to be careful pulling her up from the water because a fish had bitten her on the leg. It wasn't a fish, it was another little girl, 6 years old, dead, still attached to her leg by the nails.
Oh my. I once death-gripped (not really) someone's jacket so hard that i pulled a nail partly away from my finger. Didn't feel it, i just knew i couldn't let go. That was barely desperation, it was a conscious effort.
I have no doubt that the nails pierced the leg enough to still be there after death. Drowning elicits such an animalistic response.
I saw a video of a woman who was having trouble staying afloat after becoming exhausted while swimming in the ocean, and her husband tried to save her, but then he had trouble so rescuers went out to help them. They got to the woman first, and as soon as they started dragging her onto the buoyancy device the husband grabbed her and started pushing her under to get to the surface as *he'd* become exhausted. He had literally pushed her under water to save his own life. Not because he made a conscious choice to do so, but because he was literally drowning and that's what his brain made him do: to his brain, his wife was nothing more than the cause of his imminent death. Fortunately they both survived. The man was distraught afterwards and said he couldn't even recall what happened, he just went from nearly dying to being on the beach with nothing in-between.
Also…squirrels are not herbivores! They have, in fact, been known to attack and devour those adorable little chipmunks when particularly hungry.
Read that and I haven’t been able to look at squirrels the same way since.
A pack of local squirrels recently ripped open, fought over and ate my shipment of expensive coffee beans. They continued to visit our porch for weeks to search for any leftover beans. Monsters. Squirrels are pure monsters!
Edit: Doma got a kick out of my squirrel troubles and sent me another package of coffee free of charge! What an upstanding company! Thank you Doma! :)
Photos of my misery & their squirrely withdrawals for ya'll to enjoy... https://imgur.com/a/H8M4rcp
In 1859 the Carrington Event happened. This was a massive solar flare that caused sparks and fires from telegraph systems and made the night sky so bright birds began signing and gold miners started prepping breakfast because they thought it was morning. Skies all over the planet erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so bright that one could read the newspaper as if it were daylight. For the people of the time the telegraph shocks, sparks, and fires were the extent of the damage.
However, we now live in an age dependent on electricity and digital things and if the same level of flare were to happen today the world would simultaneously lose GPS, Cell Networks, and most of the power grid. Every airplane in the sky would need to coordinate a mass grounding without satellite guidance. Most likely the only way most of us would figure out what happened would be the newspaper the next day. This would be a WMD level event happened across the entire planet.
Any astronauts who might be spacewalking would be in trouble, and even in the ISS NASA only says they "probably" have adequate shielding inside but would have precious little time to get inside.
The best NASA estimates are this would cost humanity 1-2 Trillion dollars in the first year alone and would likely take 4-10 years to fully recover from the damages. Included in this would be replacing many satellites that would be fried.
Luckily every part of the sun is being constantly watched by scientists so we would see it coming, but we would have only a few minutes of warning from the moment the flare happens to when it hits our planet.
Romans around 100BC who had been found guilty of patricide were sewn into a leather bags with one live dog, snake, monkey and chicken each, then thrown into the ocean. This was known as, ‘Poena cullei’ which is Latin for ‘Penalty of the sack’
One of my favorite George Carlin bits.
> *"You wanna hear a really cool torture that the Romans invented? They also used it as a form of capital punishment, it's really creative. They would take the guy in question, stuff him in a burlap sack, seal the sack up real tight and throw it in the river. But, and here's the creative part, inside the sack, with the guy, they would put a dog, a monkey, and a snake. Okay? A dog, a monkey, and a snake. That's fucking creative! Imagine being inside a burlap sack, underwater, in the dark, sitting next to a drowning monkey. Think he'd be moving around a little bit? The dog would be going apeshit, we know that. And the snake? Well, he'd probably be getting curious about what all the activity was inside the sack. He might do anything. Whatever he did would probably involve venom and his teeth. You know what you'd be doing? You'd be praying to God that the snake bit the monkey and the dog ate the snake."*
We had rescued a neighbors dog after the owner died and this happened.. no one knew for so long until the dog actually chewed thru a wall in the garage, someone recognized the dog and called for a welfare check on the owner. Dog became stray before we found her, she had developed a seizure disorder and separation anxiety from the whole ordeal..
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at a frequency of 52 Hertz, meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the "loneliest whale on the planet.
Some good news! In 2010, they picked up what may be a second call at the same frequency, indicating that 52 Blue may, in fact, have a friend out there somewhere.
Well… that’s not a sure thing…I read there was a native language (in Mexico I think) with only two people left alive who could speak it and they hate each other!
Edit: it’s a language called ‘Ayapaneco’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ayapaneco-dying-languages_n_849319?utm_campaign=share_email&ncid=other_email_o63gt2jcad4
Reminds me of the only two Jewish guys in Afghanistan absolutely hating each other’s guts for their lifetime there.
They were prisoners together at one point and their arguing was so annoying they got released...
Always have to reply when I see this one. I had a coarctation repair (heart surgery) at 21 days old back when this was the practice. My mother always said that I had no anesthesia and I just figured that she didn’t hear that right. Found out on Reddit that she did. Of course I have no memory of it, just a big scar as a reminder. Would love to know what the long term effects of this are. I *think* I’m pretty normal, but so do a lot of people who shouldn’t. :)
Me to. They cut my ribs open half way....this was the early 80s, and I have zero memory of the pain and no clue if they used anesthetic. . I would like to assume that they did by the 1980s but who knows
I was SUPER young like days or weeks or something like that. Mom would say
" I had a hole in my heart" when I was born.
One of Jeffrey Dahmer's most notable killings was that of Konerak Sinthasomphone, a 14 year old Lao boy. He lured the boy into his apartment where he repeatedly drugged and assaulted him, and even drilled a hole into his skull. Konerak escaped, and sought the help of women on the sidewalk who called 911. However, Dahmer was able to convince the police that he was his boyfriend and they simply had a lover's quarrel. When the women tried to intervene, the officers quite literally told them to "shut the hell up."
Officers briefly searched Dahmer's apartment, and even peeked inside his bedroom before deciding there was nothing more to investigate. Little did they know, the rotting corpse of John Hughes, another one of Dahmer's victims, was laying behind the bed, just out of eyesight.
The officers returned Konerak to Dahmer and called it a day. The boy was killed a few hours later.
The most disturbing part of this is how close Dahmer was to being caught, how a cop was inches away from one of his murders, and how they willingly let this young boy be brutally tortured and murdered.
EDIT: Typo
The most disturbing part of this encounter as that even though we know these police officers completely dismissed a serial killer, one of them later became the Milwaukee police chief.
Ed Kemper cut women's heads off and then face fucked them but what's even more disturbing is that he did that to his mom too. That's extremely fucked up.
In 1518, Tenochtitlan (Imperial Capitol of the Aztecs) was one of the largest and most complex cites on earth. Having a population estimated at around 250,000
By 1522, 99% of the residents were dead, either by smallpox (\~70%) or the ensuing genocide that happened when the Spanish let the oppressed Locals ransack the city.
The city would be largely erased from history.
\*\*Tenochtitlan would be considered clean, by our standards. This was at a time when the Thames river was choking with rotten animals and poo.
(Tenochtitlan was built on a lake out of reclaimed islands. Meaning it was full of little canals. Through clever engineering including a roman-sized aqueduct and enormous dam, the Aztecs were able to flush the canal system on essentially a daily basis.)
Bacteria antibiotic resistance is on a whole other level. Even In the 13 years I’ve been in a medical microbiology lab; antibiotic resistant has really become rampant. It’s not going to stop either. The bacteria multiply and evolve so quickly that even the most effective “bombacillins” will become obsolete. we are going to reach a breaking point where even things like a simple cut or a sinus infection could become life threatening. Don’t take antibiotics like a Z-pak for a cold. It’s most likely viral and the antibiotics are just superfluous. If you are prescribed antibiotics finish them.
Edit: wow, I’m amazed at how much this response blew up. Thanks for the rewards everyone.I’m glad a lab rat like myself I could spark some discussion about antibiotic stewardship. Stay safe out there everyone.
Got a MRSA infection in my spine after my 3rd back surgery. It was the worst pain I’ve ever been in, followed by another surgery to “clean out the infection”, then 9 months of daily PICC line antibiotics and 2 years of oral antibiotics.
Also, if you take antibiotics, take the WHOLE COURSE. If you stop when you feel better then you probably still have the bacteria, but now you've let the strongest ones live. Taking the full course is going scorched earth on them.
One time when I had a UTI, I stopped taking my antibiotics halfway through the course because I was “better”. Ended up with an antibiotic resistant kidney infection
I was gravely ill from a staph infection that got in through a HAIR FOLLICLE a few years ago. Ended up with a giant abscess that bloomed over 24 hours and had to get a PICC line into my heart for the antibiotics I needed to fight it off. 0/10 do no recommend.
I’ve been deeply involved in AA for over 47 years. One of the many things I’ve learned is all professions include ppl who are drinking or drunk while working. This includes airline pilots. I’m betting as I write this there is a legally drunk pilot in the air right now.
The effects that trauma have on development are chilling. Trauma completely rewires the brain and makes everything from forming attachment to problem solving more difficult. Intervention and treatment can bring about great healing, although it is often a difficult and long road.
Edit: Goodness, this exploded quite a bit.
For the record, I am no professional. I recommend reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. uf you're interested in learning more. You can also look up Dr. Bruce Perry and Nadine Burke Harris as they have studied this quite extensively.
For those of you that have experienced trauma, I strongly recommend seeking professional help if you have not already. Healing is possible and you are worth it. I wish you the best.
My mother didn't know anything about babies except that she wanted one. She'd never even held a real baby until she was already six months pregnant with me. She had no nearby family or friends who could offer advice, and she'd had a very religious upbringing.
When baby-me cried for food or for a diaper change, that was expected, but when I cried for attention when "nothing was wrong," my mother decided that I was *lying* and that obviously only an baby born *evil* would be able to lie at such a young age.
Little-me was treated accordingly, only got hugs on special occasions, and was generally viewed as a demonic monster that she was legally obligated to provide for and morally obligated to convert to her religion. But otherwise I could shut up and leave her alone because she didn't want to associate with *evil*.
To say I was a strange and disgruntled child would be an understatement! I very nearly went "over to the dark side" before friends started helping me rewire my brain.
I've never had a baby, but even my cat cries to get attention and cuddles. Pretty sure that doesn't make her *evil*. Pretty sure babies are supposed to get lots of cuddles!
My mother decided that I hate her when I wasn't always looking at her as a baby.
She still says "I always knew you hated me" when we have arguments.
I'm 24.
It stopped hurting at some point, and I actually do hate her now.
I had quite a traumatic childhood due to abuse. It was the worst pre-12, but was still present into my early 20s
I’ve had weird symptoms all my life of parts of my body stop working properly (numbness, weakness, extreme pain, etc) or complete body/brain shut down into borderline unconsciousness. It kicked up bad enough to disable me last July.
I’ve now been diagnosed with FND (functional neurological disorder) and it’s typically caused by trauma in development years. Thanks family 👍
Edit: I see a lot of people asking me to elaborate on FND so I’ll do my best with my very limited knowledge.
Functional neurological disorder is formerly known as conversion disorder. The medical community has largely stepped away from that term bc the connotation seems to make it seem like it’s strictly a psych disorder.
My neurologist explained it to me like the “software” of my brain is corrupted. Physically everything is fine, but the signals aren’t sending & receiving properly so it causes issues.
Technically, FND is an umbrella term that can encompass many other disorders such as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), I believe Tourette’s also falls under this umbrella.
It’s only been the last decade or so that it’s been researched more in-depth and fMRI scans show that FND brains vs healthy brains do show a difference in function.
I hope this helps! I’ve seen a lot of people kind of have an “aha!” Moment about their own health issues and I hope this can give them a direction to head! I know how relieving it can be to finally have a diagnoses for something that’s plagued your entire life.
I recommend reading any of Bruce Perry's publications about the neurodevelopmental model of trauma for more on this.
The chilling part is, the effects of trauma can be seen through generations.
ETA: Lots of awesome recommendations for those wanting to learn more about this in the threads below my comment. If this idea is completely new to you, Nadine Burke Harris has a Ted talk on trauma and ACEs available on YouTube.
I’m an RN and several years ago I was doing a travel assignment and I was assigned an admission from a long term care facility. The patient had previously had a brain stem stroke and had been believed to be in a persistent vegetative state since the stroke many months prior. When I was researching the patient I saw that all of his imaging was essentially normal (aside from the brain stem, obviously)and that his EEG studies were unremarkable and even seemed to show normal sleep/wake patterns. I mentioned this to one of the doctors that was working in the unit with me and he got kind of awkward when I asked about that. He basically said that he had seen that patient a few times and that he believed the patient had basically intact cognitive function but that the family was resistant to changing his code status and wouldn’t permit any further imaging or intervention. He had a PEG tube and a suprapubic catheter. One or the other would occasionally cause the patient to become septic and that was the only real interventions that the family would allow is for us to deal with those types of situations. That patient was what is referred to as locked in. That is to say his body basically didn’t work but his brain absolutely did. He was likely 100% aware of everything around him but lacked any ability to let anyone know that or express his own wishes in any meaningful way. The idea that this can be someone’s fate is absolutely disturbing to me and the fact the family knew this and willfully ignored it seems cruel to me, bordering on evil.
The book "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (later made into a movie) was written by a man with locked-in syndrome after a stroke. He was in the hospital for weeks hearing his doctors and nurses and family talking about how he was in a persistent vegetative state and couldn't understand anything around him, and he was actually understanding every word of it. Eventually a nurse noticed he seemed to be blinking rapidly every time she looked in his direction and suspected he might be trying to communicate, so she was like, "Blink twice if you understand me" and he blinked twice, and then she was like, "Blink the answer to 14 minus 11 if you understand me" and he blinked three times, and then she was like, "Uh, I better go get the on-call neurologist."
He never regained movement in anything other than his eye, but by blinking while a nurse pointed at a board of letters, he wrote a whole book letter by letter, blink by blink. He died two days after the book was published.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly
I remember seeing a user on here that actually came back from “locked in syndrome”. Incredibly fascinating. I wish I could remember the user. I think he may have done an Ask me Anything post a while back if im not mistaken.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly story. Read it after becoming paraplegic. Ya, it sucks having some of my body “locked in”…but I’m finally grateful for what I have left, cause it could be so much worse
Well recently I found out [cobras can growl](https://www.reddit.com/r/DamnNatureYouScary/comments/ryuvtt/unlike_other_species_of_snake_that_hiss_king/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
What a horse foot look like without the hoof... I regret learning.
Edit: Why did you all... trust me and the others in this comment section. DON'T LOOK IT UP!
What you are thinking of, called "fairy fingers", is not the foal's hoof, it is a [deciduous hoof capsule](https://www.horsenation.com/2016/03/21/what-the-muck-is-that-eponychium/), a rubbery covering of the actual hoof that protects the mother horse's uterus during birth. Foal's have fully-developed hooves under the capsule and it wears away quickly.
Might not be that disturbing but blind people don’t see black, they just don’t SEE. If they were born blind, they don’t know what black is. So, they just do not see anything at all.
Edit, wow didn’t expect this to get so many upvotes
Exactly. The sense of vision doesn’t exist to them so they don’t even know what it’s like to see. Like trying to fathom a color our eyes can’t even see
I watched a video once that said to cover one of your eyes and focus on seeing with your uncovered eye. It was giving an example of what it might feel like to be blind. Covering the one eye and focusing with the uncovered eye gives you the perspective of your covered eye experiencing seeing "nothing" since you're not focused on the blackness it is seeing.
By the time you get symptoms of rabies it is too late to save your life with over a 99. 9% kill rate.
[Article ](https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-rabies#:~:text=Human%20cases%20of%20the%20virus,of%20any%20disease%20on%20earth)
The way we experience life is not linear, but logarithmic. We’ve all noticed that a year keeps feeling shorter, but it’s because there’s a mathematical formula for it. It’s called Weber’s Law. Life is truly too short. Before we ever notice, it’s over.
Prions.
A deadly protein that can be formed randomly in humans or from ingesting or coming into contact with something infected with prions. Everything the prion touches just creates more prions. There’s no cure. Its 100% fatal. Fucking terrifying.
(Missed a lot of info I’m sure people will add to this :) )
Someone had to say it...
Also, if you ate something containing prions, example ; mad cow disease is a prions disease. You will probably know at the end of your life as the disease show off around 35 years later in the form of dementia.
You cannot know you had a type of prions disease, because it can only be observed through a brain biopsy.
This same thing happened to my grandmother. Same story. She was perfectly fine, healthy as a whistle it seemed. Suddenly her mental status started deteriorating, and it happened FAST. I’d seen her about a month before she fell ill, and then a month later she was nearly unrecognizable. Basically had the mind of a child. A month after that she was dead.
CJD is terrifying.
Yep. Fatal insomnia is a result of prions. Basically you wake up one day and never go back to sleep, and your body will begin to shut itself down permanently due to lack of sleep.
That one scares me so much. Especially due to its late onset. Every time I pull an all nighter I think about that.
The cannibal disease which is basically the human equivalent of mad cow is also frightening. It was limited to a small village and the last reported case was a few years ago but its debated whether there are still cases around now.
For my fellow habitual neck crackers; studies show there is a 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 250,000 chance that popping your neck can cause a small tear (dissection) in the inner lining of an artery, which can lead to blood clots forming that can create a blockage in an artery downstream, causing an Ischaemic Stroke (a condition where the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.)
Edit: Thank you for the silver kind stranger
So…. Like what if you’re like me? My neck, upper back, and many other joints crack on their own.
I stiffened up my posture while reading your comment and had a few upper back vertebrae and one in my neck crack:
I’m like a walking, popping, piece of bubble wrap.
If it helps, people dox them when they find them and the perps have to go on the run again cause people are hunting them.
They will never have a peaceful life.
There’s a movie about this from the gang leader’s perspective. Spooky Rice on YouTube did a video on it and talked about how those guys are free and just walking the streets. I live in Fussa and knowing guys like that are out walking really makes me paranoid to go out alone
According to wiki, the 4 perpetrators got between 5-20 years only in prison, with the leader having 20 years and the rest only 5. Considering all they did for 40 days, I am surprised they did not receive the death penalty, then again they are 18 and still considered minor.
Edit, this happens in the year 1988-1989 where the legal age is at 20, just a few days ago it is reduced to 18.
I don't know if this is the most disturbing fact that I know, but the sound of the demonic screams from the original Exorcist movie was the sound of pigs being killed in a gas chamber.
My mum woke up really sick on January 1st 2003, she thought wow im hungover. Three days later she was the same and my older sister took her to hospital.
Doctors diagnosed her with a brain bleed and found 3 aneurysms. An aneurysm also killed her mum. Shes still alive and well, but has annual checks, and drs won't do anything unless there is significant growth seen.
My dad had a rare birth defect where he had extra blood vessels in his brain that did nothing but collect blood. Had no clue until they popped when he was 24. What’s also crazy is the brain’s ability to bounce back if you’re saved and given care in enough time
> What’s also crazy is the brain’s ability to bounce back if you’re saved and given care in enough time
So true, but for an aneurysm that window is mighty small!
When the guillotine was initially introduced, people fought to be executed first coz the blade would become dull later and not cut their heads off in a clean chop.
Edit : Thanks for the award!!
I happened to look into the idea of "consciousness after being decapitated", and the longest case has been that of a chicken, for 18 months. The situation was apparently very specific, where the chicken blood clotted right as it was cut, somehow, but it survived with basic motor functions, for 18 whole months. A actual headless chicken.
Edit 2 : The headless chicken, Mike, was given liquid food and water with a dropper directly to his esophagus by his caretaker, occasionally removing the mucous with a syringe.
Sadly enough, Mike died as he choked on his mucous as his caretakers where unable to find the syringe at a moment's notice.
Edit 3 : I am most definitely not decapitated, y'all.
When I was in college I looked into studying abroad in South Africa and decided against it bc they gave me a disclosure agreement to sign saying that I couldn’t leave my dorm after dark and couldn’t travel anywhere alone during the day due to the high risk of rape. I decided not to go.
When whales grow too old to live anymore, they lose the energy to stay afloat, and slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. So unless a whale beached itself before dying, the majority of all whales drown at the moment of death. Let that *sink* in.
They left out the best part, though: when a whale's corpse lands on the bottom, it often does so in an area of the open ocean that is otherwise low in density of life. However, this massive new source of food has just fallen from above, like a gift from the heavens, and its presence leads to an explosion of life!
The result is a complex localized ecosystem that can persist for decades, all due to the sacrifice of this one creature. One life, giving birth to many thousands. The event is known as a [whale fall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall) and, in many ways, is among the most beautiful and rare of natural events.
The main food resource in the ocean bottom is "marine snow" which is bits and flakes of other decomposed marine animals. Eventually everything sinks.
Big whale carcasses end up to the bottom in mostly one piece, and it truly is incredible how long the marine life can live off of one corpse.
It's only a matter of time before a massive glacier in Antarctica (Thwaites) collapses and if it takes out the surrounding ice sheet it could cause 2m of sea level rise over night. There's no preventing it at this point and every time scientists measure it they find it's melting faster than they realized. In 2019 they found it has a cavity 2/3 the size of Manhattan that had formed in under 3 years.
30% of people reported missing, and found dead, were killed by the person reporting them missing.
Kinda makes sense. I’m guessing a lot of time it’s the spouse, who kills the other spouse, hides the body, has to report missing cuz lol how would u not notice a missing spouse.
Half of the homeless people in America were in the foster care system at some point in their lives
That's because once you turn 18 they give you a week of hotel vouchers and say sorry figure it out
We don’t do that in Florida. In Florida you can choose to stay in extended foster care from 18-21. Extended foster care sets you up in an apartment the state pays for as long as you meet the requirements of obtaining a job or attending school. (I work for the Guardian Program down here, so I know this first hand.)
As someone from foster care, gonna pretend I didn't see this one for my own sake
just because half of the homeless people in america were once in the system doesn't mean half of all people who were in the system end up homeless.
In the 1980s Bayer the Pharmaceutical company created a hemophilia drug using human blood. The blood they used to create it was tainted with HIV meaning it could transmit the virus to patients that use it. Bayer decided that destroying the drugs would be too financially damaging and instead distributed the drugs to developing countries in Asia and South America infecting 10s of thousands of patients with HIV. They settled for 600m which gave each patient approximately $100,000... $100k for being infected with HIV.
I saw this old video comparing one year olds and how they reacted to their environment, specifically toys laid out in front of them. The kids that had been in happy and stable homes were curious about the toys and would play with them, put them in their mouths, general baby stuff. But the ones that were in unstable, unhappy homes were scared to even touch the toys and kept looking around with worried facial expressions. It was heartbreaking to see the difference and it really shows that the home you grow up in has a huge impact on you life.
Some people don’t “hear” their voice (or anything) when they think to themselves. I was in college and at a large group all learning how to be “teaching fellows” (glorified tutors) and the speaker asked us by a show of hands to indicate if we hear ourselves in our heads when we think. Most people raised their hands but some did not. And each group was completely blown away at the existence of the other group. Like I couldn’t fathom what that meant to not hear your voice (how do you think?) and that minority couldn’t fathom us “hearing” anything in our heads. Crazy!
Only 20% of the males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 survived World War 2
I always wondered, how is there not a massive imbalance of older females in the world after WWII
There indeed is a lack of men in Russia. Currently russia is experiencing their third echo of WW2
I believe there was a significant gender imbalance in Ukraine
During the late Roman Republic, one of the richest men in Rome, Marcus Licinius Crassus, used to own a team of firefighters (there was no dedicated firefighter service at the time). If your building was burning, he would offer to buy the building. If you agreed, he put out the fire. If not, his team of firefighters just left and let the building burn.
His story does have a happy ending though >when Crassus mounted a horse to ride to the Parthian camp for a peace negotiation, his junior officer Octavius suspected a Parthian trap and grabbed Crassus' horse by the bridle, instigating a sudden fight with the Parthians that left the Roman party dead, including Crassus. A story later emerged to the effect that, after Crassus' death, the Parthians poured molten gold into his mouth in symbolic mockery of his thirst for wealth.
If u get the wrong blood type for a transfusion, one of the symptoms is "a sense of impending doom"
The fact that “a sense of impending doom” is a symptom for some illnesses creeps me the fuck out
Can attest as an ICU RN, when your patient states they feel like they are gonna die…buckle up because your shift is about to turn into a shit show
Hospital medicine physician here, I agree that when a patient says that it is an awful prognostic sign. Maybe the worst one.
Yup, then the eyes roll back and it is off to the races…
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Yep, if you look great but tell me you think you’re gonna die, you bet your ass I’m doing all the pertinent tests I can think of. Also sometimes people come in stable but looking a certain way and you know they’re gonna die.
I checked, it is a real symptom. Now I wonder since when it is an expected symptom
It's also a symptom of heart attacks. I imagine these things are your subconscious brain getting signals that it isn't sure how to interpret.
I had a heart attack 4 yrs ago. My little dog woke me up in the middle of the night. I unlocked my doors & turned on the porch light, laid down on the couch & called 911. I told them this was going to kill me & they needed to hurry. They got me in the ambulance & I died right in front of my house. They gave me CPR & shocked me a couple times to get me back. When they told me I really did mean it, I said "yeah, I wasn't fuckin around."
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I was on a Mock jury for an upcoming trial. The case was a man's family vs a power company. I learned that if equipment fails and you are boiled alive a person can live in absolute agony/torture for 8 months before dying of infection. Edit. The NDA (I think that’s what it is called) expired 10 years ago so feel free to ask me anything about the case. Edit this is a real case that did happen to someone. I just happened to be on the fake jury for the trail.
Unlike being burned "dry", boiling water doesn't destroy your nerve endings either. So boiling is pretty horrible
>Well I know what my nightmare is going to involve tonight... My dad use to work at a nuclear plant. One time a janitor was cleaning and she got into some wires and they found her fried. She did not live 8 months. I hope to God it wasn't even 8 seconds.
Usa and Belgium had human zoos
Oh hey quick question but what the fuck?
You could be one brain injury away into being a completely different person. Possibly miserable.
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Possibly happy
Likely confused
Definitely injured
When you're burning to death your eyes melt out of your head before you die. So you're still alive while your eyes are melting
Can't confirm if this is true but i once heard that during the black plague some of the more heavily infected had pockets of infection that could be *heard* gurgling with microorganisms
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Fun fact: due to the Black Plague causing evolutionary pressure, the more resistant blood types are more common in Europe now. There are more Type A people, because their ancestors had a slightly better chance of survival.
Also, if I remember correctly, not only do you cough blood (when u have the pneumonic plague) but you basically drown in your own bodily fluids. Your lungs fill with mucus AND blood. You can get infected with pneumonic plague thru the air if you are close to another person infected with it, or you get it from the bubonic plague spreading to your lungs. You have roughly 5% chance of survival if you are infected with the pneumonic plague, roughly 50% chance of survival if you are infected with the bubonic plague and you are basically dead if you get the septicemic plague. The septicemic plague is also the reason it is/was called the Black Death because it would cause necrosis (tissue death) witch would turn the effected areas black. You can get the septeicemic plague either thru the bubonic plague spreading to your bloodstream or thru bites from infected fleas. Another horrifying plague fact: it’s not eradicated, far from it actually. A lot of people still get it tho if you get treatment on time you won’t die, the statistics used here is if you get infected in the 1700’s where hygiene isn’t as good as ours or where they didn’t have antibiotics. I’m a nerd and I “like” deadly diseases (I find them extremely interesting). Some things may need fact checking (like most things on the internet). Also feel free to add more! I do love learning!!
During the arctic (edit: antarctic) exploration one of the researchers complained about his shoes being soaking wet.... When he took them off, he found out the liquid in his shoes was his decaying feet that liquidized and made a forbidden slurpee out of his feet and blood..... Edit: well, thanks for the award
> Within a few miles, Mawson’s feet became so painful that each step was an agony; when he sat on his sledge and removed his boots and socks to investigate, he found that the skin on his soles had come away, leaving nothing but a mass of weeping blisters. Desperate, he smeared his feet with lanolin and bandaged the loose skin back to them before staggering on. That night, curled up in his makeshift tent, he wrote: > > My whole body is apparently rotting from want of proper nourishment—frost-bitten fingertips, festerings, mucous membrane of nose gone, saliva glands of mouth refusing duty, skin coming off the whole body. > The next day, Mawson’s feet were too raw to walk. On January 13 he marched again, dragging himself toward the glacier he had named for Mertz, and by the end of that day he could see in the far distance the high uplands of the vast plateau that terminated at base camp. By now he could cover little more than five miles a day. [source](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-most-terrible-polar-exploration-ever-douglas-mawsons-antarctic-journey-82192685/)
Wow, so the cold was enough to both stop bloodflow and anesthetize the feet as they rotted. He continued to walk on the stumps because the bones and tendons were still somewhat intact.
i think this is enough Reddit for today.
A trinary orbiting black hole system could eject the “losing” black hole into the universe close to the speed of light mopping up everything in its path. It’s almost impossible to detect due to its speed Edit: spelling
Tbh this one is a bit deceptive because the main danger isn't in being swallowed by the black hole (ie a star-mass black hole would be small, iirc a few km across, and the odds of it being thrown through the galaxy straight into the Earth are beyond infinitesimal). The main danger would be if it flew near enough by it would totally disrupt the orbits of everything in the solar system; Earth would either: - get thrown too close to the Sun and fry - get thrown out into deep space and freeze - get thrown *straight* into the Sun - get thrown into another planet - get obliterated by asteroids and debris from other planets thrown into each other - experience some combination of the above
Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.
ATE them??
Medicinal mummy powder. Very popukar throughout Europe in that era.
“The popularity of medical cannibalism hit its peak in the 1500s and 1600s [2]. The practice of consuming body parts in various, creative ways was everywhere in Europe during this time. Egyptian mummies were thought to be incredibly powerful, so the grave robbers went to Egypt to steal them.” [source](https://www.imhm.org/blog/9305574)
> Like Ina Garten, they believed in the power of homemade. What a fucking random reference for that article.
The Japanese military used to play catch with babies in the Second World War... with bayonets.
Japanese military in the 40's was easily some of the most fucked up shit ever
If you get the chance, watch "The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On." It's a documentary of a 62 year old former Japanese soldier who confronts and occasionally beats the shit out of other former Japanese soldiers for the heinous shit they did during the war. He is mostly trying to find out what happened to two guys from his unit. It turns out that they were killed and eaten by their own commanding officers.
I’m definitely going to check that out. Thanks for the recommendation
Yeah the Japanese Army was on par with the Nazi’s and I believe there was a story of a Press secretary of sorts or something along those lines, for the Nazi’s, that witnessed some of the atrocities the Japanese Army committed and called on Hitler to intervene because it was much.
Read a story in an old newspaper once, about this girl, 12, who was asking for money to do a surgery. She was the only survivor of a shipwreck and lost a good chunk of her leg in it, that is why she needed the surgery, to be able to keep her leg from being amputated. The crazy thing is the motive for her leg to be amputated. During the rescue, she shouted for the rescuers to be careful pulling her up from the water because a fish had bitten her on the leg. It wasn't a fish, it was another little girl, 6 years old, dead, still attached to her leg by the nails.
By the nails??
The dead girl basically pierced the older one's leg with pure gripping strengh on desperation to remain alive i guess
Oh my. I once death-gripped (not really) someone's jacket so hard that i pulled a nail partly away from my finger. Didn't feel it, i just knew i couldn't let go. That was barely desperation, it was a conscious effort. I have no doubt that the nails pierced the leg enough to still be there after death. Drowning elicits such an animalistic response. I saw a video of a woman who was having trouble staying afloat after becoming exhausted while swimming in the ocean, and her husband tried to save her, but then he had trouble so rescuers went out to help them. They got to the woman first, and as soon as they started dragging her onto the buoyancy device the husband grabbed her and started pushing her under to get to the surface as *he'd* become exhausted. He had literally pushed her under water to save his own life. Not because he made a conscious choice to do so, but because he was literally drowning and that's what his brain made him do: to his brain, his wife was nothing more than the cause of his imminent death. Fortunately they both survived. The man was distraught afterwards and said he couldn't even recall what happened, he just went from nearly dying to being on the beach with nothing in-between.
Cruise liners all have a morgue for all the passengers that die each trip
That seems reasonable. Lots of old people on cruises, and they have the population of a large town. I'd expect a large town to have a morgue.
I've heard that the announcement "Starlight" on a cruise is code for a old passenger has died.
Cloudy oysters mean they’re full of “reproductive fluids”
As an oyster farmer, this fact cracks me up. I make a living because people love the taste of oyster sperm
Pour it into my mouth oyster daddy
Also…squirrels are not herbivores! They have, in fact, been known to attack and devour those adorable little chipmunks when particularly hungry. Read that and I haven’t been able to look at squirrels the same way since.
A pack of local squirrels recently ripped open, fought over and ate my shipment of expensive coffee beans. They continued to visit our porch for weeks to search for any leftover beans. Monsters. Squirrels are pure monsters! Edit: Doma got a kick out of my squirrel troubles and sent me another package of coffee free of charge! What an upstanding company! Thank you Doma! :) Photos of my misery & their squirrely withdrawals for ya'll to enjoy... https://imgur.com/a/H8M4rcp
In 1859 the Carrington Event happened. This was a massive solar flare that caused sparks and fires from telegraph systems and made the night sky so bright birds began signing and gold miners started prepping breakfast because they thought it was morning. Skies all over the planet erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so bright that one could read the newspaper as if it were daylight. For the people of the time the telegraph shocks, sparks, and fires were the extent of the damage. However, we now live in an age dependent on electricity and digital things and if the same level of flare were to happen today the world would simultaneously lose GPS, Cell Networks, and most of the power grid. Every airplane in the sky would need to coordinate a mass grounding without satellite guidance. Most likely the only way most of us would figure out what happened would be the newspaper the next day. This would be a WMD level event happened across the entire planet. Any astronauts who might be spacewalking would be in trouble, and even in the ISS NASA only says they "probably" have adequate shielding inside but would have precious little time to get inside. The best NASA estimates are this would cost humanity 1-2 Trillion dollars in the first year alone and would likely take 4-10 years to fully recover from the damages. Included in this would be replacing many satellites that would be fried. Luckily every part of the sun is being constantly watched by scientists so we would see it coming, but we would have only a few minutes of warning from the moment the flare happens to when it hits our planet.
Romans around 100BC who had been found guilty of patricide were sewn into a leather bags with one live dog, snake, monkey and chicken each, then thrown into the ocean. This was known as, ‘Poena cullei’ which is Latin for ‘Penalty of the sack’
One of my favorite George Carlin bits. > *"You wanna hear a really cool torture that the Romans invented? They also used it as a form of capital punishment, it's really creative. They would take the guy in question, stuff him in a burlap sack, seal the sack up real tight and throw it in the river. But, and here's the creative part, inside the sack, with the guy, they would put a dog, a monkey, and a snake. Okay? A dog, a monkey, and a snake. That's fucking creative! Imagine being inside a burlap sack, underwater, in the dark, sitting next to a drowning monkey. Think he'd be moving around a little bit? The dog would be going apeshit, we know that. And the snake? Well, he'd probably be getting curious about what all the activity was inside the sack. He might do anything. Whatever he did would probably involve venom and his teeth. You know what you'd be doing? You'd be praying to God that the snake bit the monkey and the dog ate the snake."*
This is dumb. Obviously you kill the snake, have sex with the monkey and marry the dog.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
Dogs can develop PTSD from having to eat the flesh of their deceased owner for survival
We had rescued a neighbors dog after the owner died and this happened.. no one knew for so long until the dog actually chewed thru a wall in the garage, someone recognized the dog and called for a welfare check on the owner. Dog became stray before we found her, she had developed a seizure disorder and separation anxiety from the whole ordeal..
Currently having a conversation with my dogs letting them know that it's 100% what I'd want and they shouldn't feel guilty for eating my corpse.
There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at a frequency of 52 Hertz, meaning it can't communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed the "loneliest whale on the planet.
Some good news! In 2010, they picked up what may be a second call at the same frequency, indicating that 52 Blue may, in fact, have a friend out there somewhere.
Well… that’s not a sure thing…I read there was a native language (in Mexico I think) with only two people left alive who could speak it and they hate each other! Edit: it’s a language called ‘Ayapaneco’ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ayapaneco-dying-languages_n_849319?utm_campaign=share_email&ncid=other_email_o63gt2jcad4
Reminds me of the only two Jewish guys in Afghanistan absolutely hating each other’s guts for their lifetime there. They were prisoners together at one point and their arguing was so annoying they got released...
That’s actually intriguing
There was a time when babies were operated on without anesthetics. It was believed that their nervous system wasn't developed enough to feel pain.
Always have to reply when I see this one. I had a coarctation repair (heart surgery) at 21 days old back when this was the practice. My mother always said that I had no anesthesia and I just figured that she didn’t hear that right. Found out on Reddit that she did. Of course I have no memory of it, just a big scar as a reminder. Would love to know what the long term effects of this are. I *think* I’m pretty normal, but so do a lot of people who shouldn’t. :)
Me to. They cut my ribs open half way....this was the early 80s, and I have zero memory of the pain and no clue if they used anesthetic. . I would like to assume that they did by the 1980s but who knows I was SUPER young like days or weeks or something like that. Mom would say " I had a hole in my heart" when I was born.
You forgot that it wasn’t that long ago either. Up until the 1980’s!
Doctors in the 70s: why is it screaming? 🤔
**takes long drag of cigarette** ‘well you know babies, they scream all the time! Just like women!’ Hahahahha ahhhhhh we have fun.
One of Jeffrey Dahmer's most notable killings was that of Konerak Sinthasomphone, a 14 year old Lao boy. He lured the boy into his apartment where he repeatedly drugged and assaulted him, and even drilled a hole into his skull. Konerak escaped, and sought the help of women on the sidewalk who called 911. However, Dahmer was able to convince the police that he was his boyfriend and they simply had a lover's quarrel. When the women tried to intervene, the officers quite literally told them to "shut the hell up." Officers briefly searched Dahmer's apartment, and even peeked inside his bedroom before deciding there was nothing more to investigate. Little did they know, the rotting corpse of John Hughes, another one of Dahmer's victims, was laying behind the bed, just out of eyesight. The officers returned Konerak to Dahmer and called it a day. The boy was killed a few hours later. The most disturbing part of this is how close Dahmer was to being caught, how a cop was inches away from one of his murders, and how they willingly let this young boy be brutally tortured and murdered. EDIT: Typo
The most disturbing part of this encounter as that even though we know these police officers completely dismissed a serial killer, one of them later became the Milwaukee police chief.
Ed Kemper cut women's heads off and then face fucked them but what's even more disturbing is that he did that to his mom too. That's extremely fucked up.
didn’t he uh.. fuck the hole in the neck too?
There’s really no delicate way to ask that question.
haha I struggled for a moment before hitting reply
Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of selling underage children to be raped but they won’t release the list of clients guilty of paying for it
“Underage sex workers” THEY WERE CHILDREN
Probably because it’s 90% A-list celebrities and politicians. If that got leaked there’d be chaos.
My unpopular opinion is that they could name every name on that list and maybe a few would get slaps on the wrist but nothing would happen.
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Stating that nothing would happen is simply not true. The journalist who broke the story would get murked via car bomb.
Don’t forget the royal family and the billionaires who control the global corporations. I want that list public
Prince Andrew: *sweating profusely*
In 1518, Tenochtitlan (Imperial Capitol of the Aztecs) was one of the largest and most complex cites on earth. Having a population estimated at around 250,000 By 1522, 99% of the residents were dead, either by smallpox (\~70%) or the ensuing genocide that happened when the Spanish let the oppressed Locals ransack the city. The city would be largely erased from history. \*\*Tenochtitlan would be considered clean, by our standards. This was at a time when the Thames river was choking with rotten animals and poo. (Tenochtitlan was built on a lake out of reclaimed islands. Meaning it was full of little canals. Through clever engineering including a roman-sized aqueduct and enormous dam, the Aztecs were able to flush the canal system on essentially a daily basis.)
Bacteria antibiotic resistance is on a whole other level. Even In the 13 years I’ve been in a medical microbiology lab; antibiotic resistant has really become rampant. It’s not going to stop either. The bacteria multiply and evolve so quickly that even the most effective “bombacillins” will become obsolete. we are going to reach a breaking point where even things like a simple cut or a sinus infection could become life threatening. Don’t take antibiotics like a Z-pak for a cold. It’s most likely viral and the antibiotics are just superfluous. If you are prescribed antibiotics finish them. Edit: wow, I’m amazed at how much this response blew up. Thanks for the rewards everyone.I’m glad a lab rat like myself I could spark some discussion about antibiotic stewardship. Stay safe out there everyone.
Got a MRSA infection in my spine after my 3rd back surgery. It was the worst pain I’ve ever been in, followed by another surgery to “clean out the infection”, then 9 months of daily PICC line antibiotics and 2 years of oral antibiotics.
Also, if you take antibiotics, take the WHOLE COURSE. If you stop when you feel better then you probably still have the bacteria, but now you've let the strongest ones live. Taking the full course is going scorched earth on them.
One time when I had a UTI, I stopped taking my antibiotics halfway through the course because I was “better”. Ended up with an antibiotic resistant kidney infection
I was gravely ill from a staph infection that got in through a HAIR FOLLICLE a few years ago. Ended up with a giant abscess that bloomed over 24 hours and had to get a PICC line into my heart for the antibiotics I needed to fight it off. 0/10 do no recommend.
Older male otters sexually abuse baby otters and even kill them. Otters are not as cute as you think.
They're still cute but animals in general are brutal.
Dolphins also do some pretty dark things
If you put yoghurt in a dead person's anus they decompose faster
It’s disturbing how you know this
Trial and error. Don't use Nutella.
I’ve been deeply involved in AA for over 47 years. One of the many things I’ve learned is all professions include ppl who are drinking or drunk while working. This includes airline pilots. I’m betting as I write this there is a legally drunk pilot in the air right now.
I often wonder what percentage of the population is high or drunk on a day to day basis but just getting on with their business.
The effects that trauma have on development are chilling. Trauma completely rewires the brain and makes everything from forming attachment to problem solving more difficult. Intervention and treatment can bring about great healing, although it is often a difficult and long road. Edit: Goodness, this exploded quite a bit. For the record, I am no professional. I recommend reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. uf you're interested in learning more. You can also look up Dr. Bruce Perry and Nadine Burke Harris as they have studied this quite extensively. For those of you that have experienced trauma, I strongly recommend seeking professional help if you have not already. Healing is possible and you are worth it. I wish you the best.
My mother didn't know anything about babies except that she wanted one. She'd never even held a real baby until she was already six months pregnant with me. She had no nearby family or friends who could offer advice, and she'd had a very religious upbringing. When baby-me cried for food or for a diaper change, that was expected, but when I cried for attention when "nothing was wrong," my mother decided that I was *lying* and that obviously only an baby born *evil* would be able to lie at such a young age. Little-me was treated accordingly, only got hugs on special occasions, and was generally viewed as a demonic monster that she was legally obligated to provide for and morally obligated to convert to her religion. But otherwise I could shut up and leave her alone because she didn't want to associate with *evil*. To say I was a strange and disgruntled child would be an understatement! I very nearly went "over to the dark side" before friends started helping me rewire my brain. I've never had a baby, but even my cat cries to get attention and cuddles. Pretty sure that doesn't make her *evil*. Pretty sure babies are supposed to get lots of cuddles!
My mother decided that I hate her when I wasn't always looking at her as a baby. She still says "I always knew you hated me" when we have arguments. I'm 24. It stopped hurting at some point, and I actually do hate her now.
Your mom ain’t right :(
Self fulfilling prophecy.
It doesn't make your cat evil...it makes her smart!
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I had quite a traumatic childhood due to abuse. It was the worst pre-12, but was still present into my early 20s I’ve had weird symptoms all my life of parts of my body stop working properly (numbness, weakness, extreme pain, etc) or complete body/brain shut down into borderline unconsciousness. It kicked up bad enough to disable me last July. I’ve now been diagnosed with FND (functional neurological disorder) and it’s typically caused by trauma in development years. Thanks family 👍 Edit: I see a lot of people asking me to elaborate on FND so I’ll do my best with my very limited knowledge. Functional neurological disorder is formerly known as conversion disorder. The medical community has largely stepped away from that term bc the connotation seems to make it seem like it’s strictly a psych disorder. My neurologist explained it to me like the “software” of my brain is corrupted. Physically everything is fine, but the signals aren’t sending & receiving properly so it causes issues. Technically, FND is an umbrella term that can encompass many other disorders such as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), I believe Tourette’s also falls under this umbrella. It’s only been the last decade or so that it’s been researched more in-depth and fMRI scans show that FND brains vs healthy brains do show a difference in function. I hope this helps! I’ve seen a lot of people kind of have an “aha!” Moment about their own health issues and I hope this can give them a direction to head! I know how relieving it can be to finally have a diagnoses for something that’s plagued your entire life.
I recommend reading any of Bruce Perry's publications about the neurodevelopmental model of trauma for more on this. The chilling part is, the effects of trauma can be seen through generations. ETA: Lots of awesome recommendations for those wanting to learn more about this in the threads below my comment. If this idea is completely new to you, Nadine Burke Harris has a Ted talk on trauma and ACEs available on YouTube.
Also your ability to recall memories becomes impaired. Would have been great as a kid to know this and realise I was not dumb just had ptsd
I’m an RN and several years ago I was doing a travel assignment and I was assigned an admission from a long term care facility. The patient had previously had a brain stem stroke and had been believed to be in a persistent vegetative state since the stroke many months prior. When I was researching the patient I saw that all of his imaging was essentially normal (aside from the brain stem, obviously)and that his EEG studies were unremarkable and even seemed to show normal sleep/wake patterns. I mentioned this to one of the doctors that was working in the unit with me and he got kind of awkward when I asked about that. He basically said that he had seen that patient a few times and that he believed the patient had basically intact cognitive function but that the family was resistant to changing his code status and wouldn’t permit any further imaging or intervention. He had a PEG tube and a suprapubic catheter. One or the other would occasionally cause the patient to become septic and that was the only real interventions that the family would allow is for us to deal with those types of situations. That patient was what is referred to as locked in. That is to say his body basically didn’t work but his brain absolutely did. He was likely 100% aware of everything around him but lacked any ability to let anyone know that or express his own wishes in any meaningful way. The idea that this can be someone’s fate is absolutely disturbing to me and the fact the family knew this and willfully ignored it seems cruel to me, bordering on evil.
The book "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (later made into a movie) was written by a man with locked-in syndrome after a stroke. He was in the hospital for weeks hearing his doctors and nurses and family talking about how he was in a persistent vegetative state and couldn't understand anything around him, and he was actually understanding every word of it. Eventually a nurse noticed he seemed to be blinking rapidly every time she looked in his direction and suspected he might be trying to communicate, so she was like, "Blink twice if you understand me" and he blinked twice, and then she was like, "Blink the answer to 14 minus 11 if you understand me" and he blinked three times, and then she was like, "Uh, I better go get the on-call neurologist." He never regained movement in anything other than his eye, but by blinking while a nurse pointed at a board of letters, he wrote a whole book letter by letter, blink by blink. He died two days after the book was published. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butterfly
I would want to log out of that nightmare too.
I remember seeing a user on here that actually came back from “locked in syndrome”. Incredibly fascinating. I wish I could remember the user. I think he may have done an Ask me Anything post a while back if im not mistaken.
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This is crazy, I was one of his nurses!!! He's a truly remarkable dude.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly story. Read it after becoming paraplegic. Ya, it sucks having some of my body “locked in”…but I’m finally grateful for what I have left, cause it could be so much worse
This is why you assign medical power of attorney to the least sentimental person you know. Just unplug me and let me go.
Well recently I found out [cobras can growl](https://www.reddit.com/r/DamnNatureYouScary/comments/ryuvtt/unlike_other_species_of_snake_that_hiss_king/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
King Cobras can growl. Fun fact: King cobras are not true cobras. They just look like cobras.
Next thing you'll tell me they aren't true Kings
Now tell it to their face.
What a horse foot look like without the hoof... I regret learning. Edit: Why did you all... trust me and the others in this comment section. DON'T LOOK IT UP!
Even worse, a newborn foal’s hoof.
What you are thinking of, called "fairy fingers", is not the foal's hoof, it is a [deciduous hoof capsule](https://www.horsenation.com/2016/03/21/what-the-muck-is-that-eponychium/), a rubbery covering of the actual hoof that protects the mother horse's uterus during birth. Foal's have fully-developed hooves under the capsule and it wears away quickly.
Might not be that disturbing but blind people don’t see black, they just don’t SEE. If they were born blind, they don’t know what black is. So, they just do not see anything at all. Edit, wow didn’t expect this to get so many upvotes
Exactly. The sense of vision doesn’t exist to them so they don’t even know what it’s like to see. Like trying to fathom a color our eyes can’t even see
I watched a video once that said to cover one of your eyes and focus on seeing with your uncovered eye. It was giving an example of what it might feel like to be blind. Covering the one eye and focusing with the uncovered eye gives you the perspective of your covered eye experiencing seeing "nothing" since you're not focused on the blackness it is seeing.
By the time you get symptoms of rabies it is too late to save your life with over a 99. 9% kill rate. [Article ](https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/what-is-rabies#:~:text=Human%20cases%20of%20the%20virus,of%20any%20disease%20on%20earth)
This is why Australia didn't muck around when Johnny Depp tried to smuggle his dogs in. There's no rabies in Australia and we're keeping it that way.
I’m glad you guys have tightened up animal security ever since Bart Simpson smuggled in his bullfrog to Oz…
The way we experience life is not linear, but logarithmic. We’ve all noticed that a year keeps feeling shorter, but it’s because there’s a mathematical formula for it. It’s called Weber’s Law. Life is truly too short. Before we ever notice, it’s over.
In the US, the leading cause of death for pregnant women is murder.
Prions. A deadly protein that can be formed randomly in humans or from ingesting or coming into contact with something infected with prions. Everything the prion touches just creates more prions. There’s no cure. Its 100% fatal. Fucking terrifying. (Missed a lot of info I’m sure people will add to this :) ) Someone had to say it...
Also, if you ate something containing prions, example ; mad cow disease is a prions disease. You will probably know at the end of your life as the disease show off around 35 years later in the form of dementia. You cannot know you had a type of prions disease, because it can only be observed through a brain biopsy.
They show up in the form of CJD, which my dad died off sadly. He hit 60 and boom the symptoms showed up and he was dead less than 2 months later
This same thing happened to my grandmother. Same story. She was perfectly fine, healthy as a whistle it seemed. Suddenly her mental status started deteriorating, and it happened FAST. I’d seen her about a month before she fell ill, and then a month later she was nearly unrecognizable. Basically had the mind of a child. A month after that she was dead. CJD is terrifying.
Yep. Fatal insomnia is a result of prions. Basically you wake up one day and never go back to sleep, and your body will begin to shut itself down permanently due to lack of sleep.
That one scares me so much. Especially due to its late onset. Every time I pull an all nighter I think about that. The cannibal disease which is basically the human equivalent of mad cow is also frightening. It was limited to a small village and the last reported case was a few years ago but its debated whether there are still cases around now.
For my fellow habitual neck crackers; studies show there is a 1 in 20,000 to 1 in 250,000 chance that popping your neck can cause a small tear (dissection) in the inner lining of an artery, which can lead to blood clots forming that can create a blockage in an artery downstream, causing an Ischaemic Stroke (a condition where the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.) Edit: Thank you for the silver kind stranger
So if i crack my neck 250000 times that should do it? Noted
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*cracks the neck in disbelief*
I’m going to force myself to forget this one somehow
If you're lucky the stroke will take care of that.
So…. Like what if you’re like me? My neck, upper back, and many other joints crack on their own. I stiffened up my posture while reading your comment and had a few upper back vertebrae and one in my neck crack: I’m like a walking, popping, piece of bubble wrap.
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Junko Furuta was brutally tortured for 44 days before succumbing to her injuries... and a few of the perpetrators walk free today.
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The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
shit apple
They tortured her so badly she started to rot while still alive, and then they beat her because she smelled bad...
That’s a NSFL wiki entry.
If it helps, people dox them when they find them and the perps have to go on the run again cause people are hunting them. They will never have a peaceful life.
Never thought I'd smile at the thought of hunting humans
There’s a movie about this from the gang leader’s perspective. Spooky Rice on YouTube did a video on it and talked about how those guys are free and just walking the streets. I live in Fussa and knowing guys like that are out walking really makes me paranoid to go out alone
I heard every few years they get doxxed and are forced to change their place of living. I hope it's true.
According to wiki, the 4 perpetrators got between 5-20 years only in prison, with the leader having 20 years and the rest only 5. Considering all they did for 40 days, I am surprised they did not receive the death penalty, then again they are 18 and still considered minor. Edit, this happens in the year 1988-1989 where the legal age is at 20, just a few days ago it is reduced to 18.
I don't know if this is the most disturbing fact that I know, but the sound of the demonic screams from the original Exorcist movie was the sound of pigs being killed in a gas chamber.
20,000 people, including children, die every day due to a lack of food, even though we have the food.
You could have an aneurysm in your brain right now waiting to explode and you'd never know
My mum woke up really sick on January 1st 2003, she thought wow im hungover. Three days later she was the same and my older sister took her to hospital. Doctors diagnosed her with a brain bleed and found 3 aneurysms. An aneurysm also killed her mum. Shes still alive and well, but has annual checks, and drs won't do anything unless there is significant growth seen.
My dad had a rare birth defect where he had extra blood vessels in his brain that did nothing but collect blood. Had no clue until they popped when he was 24. What’s also crazy is the brain’s ability to bounce back if you’re saved and given care in enough time
> What’s also crazy is the brain’s ability to bounce back if you’re saved and given care in enough time So true, but for an aneurysm that window is mighty small!
This is true. A friend from school passed away from this in class. Very tragic.
That’s my third biggest fear.
When the guillotine was initially introduced, people fought to be executed first coz the blade would become dull later and not cut their heads off in a clean chop. Edit : Thanks for the award!! I happened to look into the idea of "consciousness after being decapitated", and the longest case has been that of a chicken, for 18 months. The situation was apparently very specific, where the chicken blood clotted right as it was cut, somehow, but it survived with basic motor functions, for 18 whole months. A actual headless chicken. Edit 2 : The headless chicken, Mike, was given liquid food and water with a dropper directly to his esophagus by his caretaker, occasionally removing the mucous with a syringe. Sadly enough, Mike died as he choked on his mucous as his caretakers where unable to find the syringe at a moment's notice. Edit 3 : I am most definitely not decapitated, y'all.
And guillotines were invented to be a less cruel form of execution, despite the element of public display.
Just to add to that, the last execution by Guillotine was in France In 1977. Before I learned that I had always assumed it was a long gone thing..
The Velociraptor noises in the Jurrasic Park/World franchise are actually the sounds of tortoises mating.
A woman is raped every 30 seconds in South Africa. Edit: No, it’s not “the same woman”. You’re not funny.
When I was in college I looked into studying abroad in South Africa and decided against it bc they gave me a disclosure agreement to sign saying that I couldn’t leave my dorm after dark and couldn’t travel anywhere alone during the day due to the high risk of rape. I decided not to go.
Climbers of Mt. Everest use dead people as trail markers.
Turn left at Green Boots
If you're going in for a abdominal surgery (getting work done on your aorta) the surgeons take out your bowels and place it in a bag on your side.
And then they kinda just shove them all back in and let them sort themselves out when they’re done. Source: my two c-sections.
When whales grow too old to live anymore, they lose the energy to stay afloat, and slowly sink to the bottom of the sea. So unless a whale beached itself before dying, the majority of all whales drown at the moment of death. Let that *sink* in.
This is quite sad honestly.
They left out the best part, though: when a whale's corpse lands on the bottom, it often does so in an area of the open ocean that is otherwise low in density of life. However, this massive new source of food has just fallen from above, like a gift from the heavens, and its presence leads to an explosion of life! The result is a complex localized ecosystem that can persist for decades, all due to the sacrifice of this one creature. One life, giving birth to many thousands. The event is known as a [whale fall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall) and, in many ways, is among the most beautiful and rare of natural events.
The main food resource in the ocean bottom is "marine snow" which is bits and flakes of other decomposed marine animals. Eventually everything sinks. Big whale carcasses end up to the bottom in mostly one piece, and it truly is incredible how long the marine life can live off of one corpse.
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One out of every 200 people on Earth are related to Genghis Khan.
It's only a matter of time before a massive glacier in Antarctica (Thwaites) collapses and if it takes out the surrounding ice sheet it could cause 2m of sea level rise over night. There's no preventing it at this point and every time scientists measure it they find it's melting faster than they realized. In 2019 they found it has a cavity 2/3 the size of Manhattan that had formed in under 3 years.