🤯 INCRÍVEL: 46 Life Facts That Made People Stop And Question Reality 😲
Life can be scary, and a lot of times we push certain fears aside just to get through the day. But when those fears show up as undeniable facts, they hit a bit differently. Just like a small fall on the ice can remind you how fragile the human body is, a quiet moment under a sky full of stars can make you suddenly aware of how tiny we are in the universe.
A Reddit user recently opened a discussion on facts that genuinely scare people, and the answers spanned the cosmos, the body and even everyday routines.
We picked the ones that really stood out… see if they get you thinking too.
Corpses rot and decay as they get eaten by microbes. These microbes are constantly trying to eat you too, but your immune system is an army of cells inside you playing defense nonstop.
There are more trees on Earth (about 3 trillion) than there are stars in the Milky Way (100–400 billion)
But there are more viruses on Earth (roughly 10³¹) than there are stars in the entire observable universe (about 10²⁴).
You’re basically a walking meat spaceship covered in an invisible ocean of creatures that could end you in days if your immune system ever takes a coffee break.
Night night.
When you start showing symptoms for Rabies, its too late to get the cure and you’re going to die. Such an evil disease, and you wouldn’t even know you have it until its too late.
These facts are not made-up horror stories, yet they are unsettling enough to scare many people. A few of them can also serve as reminders that life is precious and fleeting. Psychologists believe that when we confront the larger truths, it can also push us to start living intentionally and practice mindfulness.
Research suggests that people who strongly believe in something beyond death, such as religion or spirituality, are more likely to say they would “die happy”. In that light, scary facts can also open a door to deeper reflection.
A stroke can happen at anytime and to anyone.
There are risk factors, of course. But everyone is at risk.
A study published by Peleskova et al. (2024) shows that “the strongest fear is triggered by modern threats (electricity, car accidents), while the highest disgust is evoked by ancient threats (body waste products, worms, etc.)”. It proves that fear is deeply rooted in survival mechanisms.
Thinking about our mortality or the unknown universe is scary but experts say that we need to recognize which of these thoughts are important and which ones can quickly turn harmful.
As psychiatrist Alex Dimitriu, MD, puts it, “imagination is a super‑power, until it goes dark” and truly some of the facts here have the power to flip that switch.
You don’t realize just how fragile you are. One wrong car accident, and you’ve lost your ability to walk, or worse. And that car accident could be unavoidable because it’s out of your control.
One bad trip/fall, and you have to be stationary for a week, or a month, or longer. And then you’ll need physical rehab.
You may not know it, but an aneurysm or a blood clot to the heart may be right around the corner, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.
If you went swimming once in a lake with friends, you may have some sort of illness or amoeba that is now a death sentence.
You’re fragile. You’re breakable. It’d be so easy for you to be bed ridden, be paralyzed, be stricken blind, deaf, and dumb. The world is dangerous, and every day you expose yourself to it.
Have a good day! (:.
No one will remember anything about you after you die within a few generations. Certainly after 1000 yrs.
Nothing. All of your actions, your thoughts, dreams…zero.
These facts are not made-up horror stories, yet they are unsettling enough to scare many people. A few of them can also serve as reminders that life is precious and fleeting. Psychologists believe that when we confront the larger truths, it can also push us to start living intentionally and practice mindfulness.
Research suggests that people who strongly believe in something beyond death, such as religion or spirituality, are more likely to say they would “die happy”. In that light, scary facts can also open a door to deeper reflection.
You are never 100% safe. Even if the danger is an extreme one, it could still happen. You’re not safe in you’re bed, in your house, at your work, nowhere. You will never be 100% safe.
Everybody was taking pictures of the pretty aurora’s as far south as northern Florida last week. Not too many realize that if they sky gets colorful enough, all modern electronics including the electrical grid will fail, and there is no backup plan to get it functioning again before society collapses.
You know how if you take a deep breath and jump into a body of water, the air in your lungs makes you float to the surface?
Yeah so somewhere between 30-50 feet under, this no longer happens. You just sink.
While some of these facts may shock us and others might fade from memory, they might also open a door to wonder. Realizing we are a part of this big beautiful Universe, and confronting these truths, can give us a deeper sense of meaning.
As Dr Jesse Preston, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, believes: “Science can be a powerful source of awe and wonder for many… It can foster a sense of connection to others and our place in the world.”
There are millions of tiny microscopic bugs that are crawling over your skin. They’re always there so you leave a lot on the pillow while sleeping. That means you put your face on a graveyard of dead bugs and your skin bits. Since I know this I change my sheets way more regular than before.
We are potentially all alive today because a single Soviet officer second guessed the missile detection system he was operating. The machine threw a warning for 5 nuclear missiles fired from the US that ended up being a false alarm caused by a rare weather event over North Dakota. His name was Stanislav Petrov.
A study published by Peleskova et al. (2024) shows that “the strongest fear is triggered by modern threats (electricity, car accidents), while the highest disgust is evoked by ancient threats (body waste products, worms, etc.)”. It proves that fear is deeply rooted in survival mechanisms.
Thinking about our mortality or the unknown universe is scary but experts say that we need to recognize which of these thoughts are important and which ones can quickly turn harmful.
As psychiatrist Alex Dimitriu, MD, puts it, “imagination is a super‑power, until it goes dark” and truly some of the facts here have the power to flip that switch.
A bear can run 35 MPH for 30 mins. I live 12 miles from a zoo. If the bear takes the freeway, it could be at my house in under an hour.
One day you Will wake up and get dressed not knowing was the clothes you’re going to die in that day.
In 1859 a solar storm hit the earth with so much power it sent sparks through telegraph wires. The next one, and there will eventually be a next one, will fry most of our infrastructure.
But hey good news, we may not live to see if. If a single biologist on this planet figures out how to make harmful “left handed” microbes (microbes that are identical to existing ones but with proteins facing the opposite direction) it will probably wipe out all life on the planet because absolutely nothing is adapted to deal with it.
My solution to the Fermi Paradox (“so where are all the aliens?”). Its much more likely by probability that aliens have not just already come to earth but have already colonized it if they were intelligent enough to have the technology to do so, than they haven’t, we just aren’t aware.
As the air quality decreases so will cognitive function. This is already observable in poorly vented offices.
Where I live, you might die a horrible death after being tortured just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time, and your body would just disappear, your family would not see you ever again, and the government would do nothing about it, but take your death just for the statistics and blame it to past administrations.
And to make things worse, if your family try to push your case, even if it’s just to find your body for proper burial, they might get k****d too.
It’s a horrible thing.
Women can and do have heart attacks without ever knowing or showing symptoms.
While some of these facts may shock us and others might fade from memory, they might also open a door to wonder. Realizing we are a part of this big beautiful Universe, and confronting these truths, can give us a deeper sense of meaning.
As Dr Jesse Preston, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, believes: “Science can be a powerful source of awe and wonder for many… It can foster a sense of connection to others and our place in the world.”
There’s nuance to this, so I’m just going to post what I was told.
Your eyes and your body have two separate immune systems. They both have no idea the other exists. If your body finds out you have eyes, it will attack them as if they are foreign objects.
That, and a solar flare could cook us at nearly every moment.
If you lay all the veins in your body from end to end, you’d probably die.
There is an unbroken chain of evolution and successful reproduction extending from the very first form of life right up to you.
If you don’t have kids, that chain ends with you.
I’m 35 and no kids. I’m letting the Saccorhytus down.
Healed wounds are held together by collagen, your body’s natural glue. The collagen needs to be regularly replenished, so your body constantly makes more and uses it to keep your scars glued closed. Collagen also keeps your teeth glued into your mouth.
If you have Scurvy you stop producing collagen. Your wounds reopen and your teeth fall out.
Eat your greens, kids.
Babies cry in the womb. We have observed through ultrasound all the classic signs of crying like heaving chests, quivering lips, opening mouths. All the movements made when a baby cries, but it cant because their lungs are full of fluid.
Also babies are covered in a fine hair called Lanugo that is shed before and sometimes after birth. At the same time, the digestive system starts working some time around 7 months. Know what the baby eats and drinks? That’s right, amniotic fluid and it’s own body hair. Where does all that go? It pisses and s***s back into the amniotic sack, only to drink and eat all that again.
Also it’s *Loud* in the womb. Not only does sound transfer way better in fluid than it does air, but the late-term uterus is pretty close to the heart.
So for a couple months before you were born you were trapped in a pitch black fluid prison, screaming silently, drinking your own p**s, eating your own s**t, and the entire time it sounded like someone was trying to beat down the door 24/7.
The miracle of life yall.
Nobody experiences true reality. We experience a story that our brain has invented a split second after true reality happens.
If those signals were produced some other way – dream, simulation, hallucinations, or misfiring neurons – you would have no method to detect it.
Prions exist. Basically, they’re a messed up protein that causes other proteins to fold wrong, which is fatal. I don’t know the science- just that prions are terrifying. That’s what caused the “Mad Cow” disease back in like the late 90s? Over in the UK. I learned about prions then as a kid and been scared since.
Money is just a series of text files exchanged between financial institutions a few times a day through ftp style gets and pushes.
Herons eat ducks. I learned that in a kids’ movie last year, and for some reason it traumatized me—a supposedly full-grown adult on paper.
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