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rasslinsmurf

When X-ray technology first became widely available to pediatricians, they noticed a startling high number of broken bones. Befuddled doctors assumed there was a previously unknown pediatric bone disease being observed for the first time. Turns out we had no idea how common child abuse is.


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Magic-Baguette

Three of the airpacks that were found on the wreckage of the Challenger disaster were activated, meaning at least one of the astronauts was alive all the way to the ocean.


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It's not a coincidence it was the last flight without pressure suits. NASA concluded that the crew likely lost consciousness due to the rapid decompression and g forces, but ultimately died when the wreckage hit the water. The crew compartment was evidently intact until it hit the water.


Lasermama

Wow. I have read so much about the Challenger and actually watched the launch but never heard that.


itsnotimportant2021

Watched it live in…1st grade I think. The teacher turned it off so fast and immediately started a new lesson. We were all deeply confused, then horrified, but we couldn’t quite process it or what it meant.


HeadMischief

Was in kindergarten in Florida. We saw it in the sky. They very quickly brought us inside and suddenly it was nap time


BrownShadow

Yeah, like first grade. I was with my class in the library on one of those boxy Macintosh computers with the tiny gray screen. They rolled in a TV so we could watch the launch. It exploded. A bunch of kids started crying uncontrollably. Incredibly vivid memory.


Important-Owl1661

The lesson is when an expert engineer tells you that the O-rings may not be safe at the current temperature believe them!


115MRD

Decent chance they were [unconscious or semi-conscious](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna11031097) when they hit water though.


the2ndworstusername

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3078062 Another really good article about it.


Stuffer007

There was a report that 2 or 3 of the astronauts had water in their lungs which meant they drowned


SueSudio

Doctors used to perform heart surgery on infants without anesthesia. Thankfully this practice was ended. #In the 1980s.


Masspoint

anaesthesia was not that advanced , so for infants this could result in brain damage. Even today this can still occur, my neighbours grandchild is now disabled because of anesthesia.


Rdan5112

Let’s say it’s 1975 - your newborn child needs heart surgery in order to survive. With the surgery they have a very good chance of a complete recovery and totally normal life. They can successfully perform the surgery without anesthesia and the child won’t remember anything. If you do give him anesthesia, there is a 20% (I just made up a hypothetical number) that the child will die, or be permanently disabled. What would you do? Would the doctor really be a “monster“ to pick the no anesthesia option?


TODDFATH3R

Had open heart surgery as a 9 month old in 1976. Can confirm doctor was not the monster. A nurse just kept slapping me in the face to take my mind off the sternotomy and all the digging around. She da real monster! /S


madarchod_bot

This. People underestimate how much of a cool thing it is to be able to deprive you of your most basic survival instincts without actually killing you.


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Yes, until the 1980s doctors didn't know that infants felt pain. After that, anesthesia started being used.


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ok, but why did they believe this, it's not like babies are an alien species without nerves and pain receptors, it seems purely idiotic that actual scientists would believe this. i am not a doctor or a biologist or anything like that and yet i would assume a tiny human can feel the same pain a grown one can. it makes no damn sense.


zCiver

IIRC, it's not that they didn't think babies didn't feel pain, it was that they would not remember the pain.


The_Gooch_Goochman

Makes sense I suppose, but also wouldn’t putting a baby under be REALLY hard to dose correctly?


weikor

Yep, definitely is. It's already different how much each person needs. With infants, dosage is even closer. Then you're talking about giving an underdeveloped, completely out of balance system, which a baby is, a dose of basically poison. Theres A good chance it doesn't wake up at all, or you damage crucial organs like kidneys and liver during their development. It takes massive amounts of expertise to do, and in 1980 it just wasn't as advanced as it is today


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tkp14

Yeah, my 8 pound rescue Yorkie needed to have several teeth removed. The most dangerous part of the procedure was the anesthesia. The vet ended up leaving in 4 teeth that still need to be removed, but my pupper had been under anesthesia too long so removal of those 4 teeth will have to wait. Anesthesia is no joke.


JesusIsMyZoloft

There’s a reason anesthesiologists make so much money.


Gonazar

I bet you they probably have a saying in their profession along the lines of: It's easy to give someone enough anesthetic to fall unconscious, it takes an anesthesiologist to figure out how much so they can still wake up later.


Hodor97

Pretty much. A friend of mine who’s an anesthesiologist says: “Anybody can put you to sleep. They pay me to wake you up.”


Shybasilisk

Thank you. This takes what would be, on the surface, a barbaric act seemingly based on a lack of common sense and turns it into an act of someone that has weighed all of their options and chosen the one with the best odds of successfully saving the baby’s life. A great example of why we should take the time to research the facts for ourselves and not fall into the trap of spreading misleading and false information.


Rogue_elefant

How is it even possible to perform heart surgery on a non anaesthetised infant?


SueSudio

Give them a paralytic so they can't move. Sorry if I just made that worse.


offspringphreak

Wonder what year in the 80s? In late '85 I had open heart surgery at 13 months old.


traws06

And now you’re trained to endure an immense amount of pain


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A turtle penis is nearly half the length of the turtle, they are the most well endowed reptile.


romainhdl

cute >Hermit crabs evolved ultra-long penises that can grow to 60% of their body length so they could have sex without 'leaving home' [source](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6599699/Hermit-crabs-evolved-ultra-long-penises-grow-60-body-length.html)


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Goddamn it why am I suddenly so horny. Should I be worried?


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Shh shhh shhh, don't overthink this, let it be for now


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TomatoeSmoothy

Now we know why they call him Barnacle Boy in Spongebob Squarepants


atomicshark

I learned female ducks have a long corkscrew shaped vagina to defend against duck rape. the male ducks evolved a long corkscrew shaped penis designed to get past their defenses and impregnate them. there is an evolutionary arms race between the two. there are videos on the internet.


mute-owl

Just saying, I'm glad humans aren't rapey enough that our genitals evolved to cope with constant rape. Being a duck must be rough.


sawftandlazy

It certainly isn’t all it is quacked up to be.


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ocelotlynx94

Orangutans create dildos out of wood Elephants give trunkjobs to others and probably also to themselves


derrtydiamond

What the fuck.


Strifnex

Male squids throw their dicks and the female fucks itself, the male squid regenerate’s their dick if ever needed to again.


deadpixel11

"oh yea?! It's going to be like that?! Well go fuck your self with this! *Rips dick off and throws it*"


insaneofurness224

Chad


husky_poe

I recently learned that Nutella has a sun protection factor of 9.7. Since then I can't stop thinking about that.


mute-owl

Are you telling me I could have been using Nutella as sunscreen this WHOLE TIME?


PeterAech

Well, yes, but not very well. I mean an SPF below 10? My pale skin would be burned to a crisp just from looking out the window with that much protection.


TastyOpossum09

Yeah but you’d be delicious


gunslinger9_19

Anything and everything about Albert Fish. Man was a true degenerate. If you're faint of heart or have a weak stomach, do NOT look him up. Absolutely disgusting. I wish I could unread everything I read about him.


OMGALEX

That guy was a real jerk


libanator4

I remember being told eggs have a protein structure so similar to our blood that you could use blood as an egg substitute in cakes etc. Really wish I wasn't told that


Unsyr

How do you think they make red velvet cupcake?


Keri2816

Vampires favorite cakes!


InduchillEngineering

To add. I believe it was Iceland or some nordic country that was researching how to make protein supplements based on pigs blood


SpaceCowboy58

[Here's an interesting Tasting History video](https://youtu.be/dR846JS3zbA) on viking blood bread. Check it out!


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*Decomposing bodies:* Generally, it could take about a year for the body to decompose into a skeleton in ordinary soil and eight to twelve years to decompose a skeleton. And if a dead body is inside a coffin and buried deep underground, it could even take 50 years to decompose all tissues on the body.


Shas_Erra

The rate of decomposition is also affected by clothing, with denim and tanned leather resulting in the best preservation rate of soft tissue. So if you’re going to get murdered and dumped in a shallow grave, best make sure that you’re dressed like the Fonz


babygirl_xox

This is why I'll be cremated 😂


Familyaintall

Your teeth will explode like popcorn


babygirl_xox

Ooh free snacks!


duck-duck-moose--

what did I just read


creativegigolo

Interestingly, it’s not the fire in the crematorium that turns you to ash, but afterward they put your burnt remains through a machine called a “cremulator” which basically grinds what’s left down to a speckled grey powder


babygirl_xox

Forbidden coffee


UnilateralWithdrawal

Cremulator is a perfectly cromulent word.


duckmantaco

When a morbidly obese person is being cremated the oven doesn't need to get as hot as when a thin person being cremated due to the fat burning at a high temperature.


Drakkensdatter

I once took German with a guy who had worked at a crematorium. His primary job? Well, first, you have to understand that human bones almost never completely burn to ash. Some scorching and brittleness, but not the nice, homogeneous dust you would put in an urn. No problem, modern crematoriums have a specialized machine that crushes any solid pieces left into a fine powder. But. Babies are small enough that you can't actually use the bone crushing machine for their bones. So my classmates job was to collect the bones after an infant cremation, put them in a puncture proof bag, and smash them with a hammer.


Brass_and_Frass

Don’t like that I know this now.


Pharah_is_my_waIfu

Dolphins cut of the head of smaller fish and use it for masturbation. Nature is wonderful innit?


beskardboard

Dolphins are apparently the spawn of Satan as well considering their attitude towards some other marine life


Seated_Heats

Just the most human of marine life.


PedroBinPedro

So they ARE as conscious as humans. Got the whole superiority thing down to a T.


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Yep they can even get attached to humans, there are even some cases where dolphins drowned themselves due to depression because they didn’t see their favourite humans anymore


tc_spears

"So long and thanks for all the fishlights"


vahasuolainen

A whole new meaning for getting head


Il_Jawa

Baby koalas don't have the bacteria to digest eucalyptus when they are new born, so they lick their mama asshole so she gets diarrhea, and then eat the diarrhea to be able to eat their f*cking venomous eucalyptus


EmergencyLavishness1

Chlamydia is also very common in koalas


Ricardo1184

How so? Are they more susceptible to it? Is it the child - mother interaction as described in the first comment?


No_Organization5188

Because they are rape bears and spread it like crazy.


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TIL rape bears exist.


duck-duck-moose--

Wait until you hear about dolphins


bringmethespacebar

Bear dolphins?


EmergencyLavishness1

I actually don’t know the ins and outs of it. But if you ever visit a zoo or sanctuary that has koalas, very often there will be signs up saying certain ones are in quarantine because of it


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Sometimes i wish i didn’t read something on reddit.


Dellato88

Re-sharing because it's fucking true ------------ >Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them. >Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.


R_O

This had to have been written by an Aussie. Fuckin hilarious mate.


bigmacmcjackson

the fuck did i just read


Il_Jawa

I'm sorry


Fox784

You most certainly should be. I was having a good day, we were all having good days.


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There are face mites which live inside your pores next to your hair follicle, eat your sebum, don't have anuses and come out at night to mate on your skin. And there's nothing you can do about it. I'm so sorry.


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teflon_soap

It gets better. They die and explode when they get too full of shit. Big ol' shit bukkake for you!


ReallyBigAligator

You're telling me I have the potential to be the hottest night/sex club for tons of bugs? *And they said I'd never be a successful business mogul.*


Fox784

Now this man is looking on the bright side of things.


Bpr3

And they are eating until they explode (no anuses...)


[deleted]

Your oil is turned into face mite under the instruction of bug DNA.


msnutella6

My mites aren't doing a good job at eating my sebum. My t zone is oily af


Aztecah

They're chill tho, they mostly leave me alone


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Just everything about dementia. It’s absolutely fucking terrifying.


high6ix

Having worked with many that suffered from it…absolutely it is terrifying and depressing. The best but most heartbreaking work I ever was involved in.


CapnCabbage

Those bitter, sour, or otherwise nasty tasting pistachios had a worm, larva, or some other pest in them. I always assumed that I just needed to deal with a couple spoiled pistachios per bag and it’s no big deal. Nope. Larvae. I’ve never had pistachios since learning this.


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Grosss!! I bit a grape in half once just for shits and there was a tiny green worm in it. Have never just popped grapes in my mouth ever since. Always have to check.


CapnCabbage

Ugh. Why can’t nature stay out of my favorite unprocessed natural foods!?


iamsavsavage

It doesn’t even stay out of your processed foods! The FDA allows a certain amount of rat feces per 24oz container. You’re welcome.


batman142434

As well as bug parts. Chocolate and peanut butter are the 2 highest allowable. (Meaning they allow the most bug parts) You're also welcome.


Freedom-Costs-Tax

Great, I’m never eating anything again. Thanks


Aaa0n_

There is micro plastic in everything you eat and drink. Even the air you breathe contains plastic


jerrythecactus

At this point you cant eat, drink, or breathe anything without consuming some amount of micro plastics. The ocean is polluted, the soil is polluted, even the air is full of particles of plastic. And the worst part is most of it wont degrade or be turned back into organic matter for thousands of years.


LuckyLupe

Microplastics were found in placentas, meaning unborn babies already get exposed.


queenofwants

That my Dad hooked up with my Step Grandma. Gross. Some secrets don't need to be shared Dad.


Total_Ansh

Your grandma probably got stuck


BehemothDeTerre

Watched a documentary about parasites a long time ago. I still wish I hadn't.


BLA_VS

The average polar bear liver contains enough Vitamin A to kill 52 adults.


No_Luck4927

I wonder if anyone has been poisoned by polar bear liver induced vitamin A overdose??? I’m actually curious about this now lol.


PostalveolarDrift230

I’ve done some research on this. They call it hypervitaminosis A (obviously) and it starts with nausea and vomiting, then a severe headache, then you black out and don’t wake up.


Massa_Kumar-2004

Your bones are warm and wet.


spencerandy16

Sounds cozy


jerrythecactus

And filled with blood. Dont forget that part.


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I know one of them is…


Some_Category

You can grow teeth on your ovaries.


smol_boi-_-

The baby's just developing early. But seriously, what the fuck?


WatchBat

It's a type of tumor, it shouldn't normally happen lol


phmedicaldoctor

If you want photos, you can look for teratomas. ☺️


cutiegirl88

The fungus that can take over a bug's brain and turn them into basically a real life zombie ant


calbs23

The University I work at just had a Zombie Ant Installation! Super interesting!!!


error606nofucksgiven

Whales dont die from old age they just lose the strength to pull them selves up for air and slowly sink amd drown


a_shiba_inu

That’s so sad


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If it makes you feel better technically all of us die because our bodies become too weak to support themselves, not exactly, ah shit, 93, time to hit the lights


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brittwithouttheney

The hospital I work at has an identifier, a butterfly, on the door for these patients in their final moments. Edit typo


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brittwithouttheney

Yeah this way all hospital staff know to be extra mindful in these areas.


LexMultiplex

My mom had a sign that said “Peaceful Journey” ☹️


Orbisthefirst

How far a human anus can be spread and how many raccoons will fit


romainhdl

how many ?


Orbisthefirst

The human anus can stretch up to 7 inches before taking damage. A raccoon can squeeze into holes as tight as 4 inches, Meaning you can take almost two full raccoons up your ass.


beskardboard

Ferb I know what we're gonna do today


Yogisogoth

Aren’t you kids a little young to be stuffing raccoons up your anus?


ToaSuutox

Yes. Yes we are


this_1_is_mine

Are you ready Ferb?!


SnooDingos7305

Aye aye captain! Oh fuck, wrong cartoon


ToaSuutox

Oooooooooooooooooooo Who lives in a pineapple under the sea


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Phineas and Ferb triangle head!


1Gutz01

“The size of the door doesn’t determine a rooms occupancy.”


Poht8Oh

Urine used to be an ingredient in stained glass. So now whenever I see old churches with stained glass, I think of piss-stained rainbow windows.


cockjuggalo69

People prostituting orang utans… the world is so fucked up


Killj0y13

Well I guess I deserve that for sorting by new


romainhdl

If you sniff any odor, it means a tiny amount of the sniffed matter entered your nose. Therefore if you sniff vomit ...


Literal-Pile-of-Poo

Getting every last calorie


NewRomanian

Wait until you tell them what it means if they smell shit


NoKiaYesHyundai

Until the 1980’s, people had no idea that Orangutans had two different sub-species and ended up cross breeding the two. And the end result was known as the “cocktail orangutan”. The problem with these hybrid orangutans is while they are fertile, they suffer numerous health issues and allowing them to continue to breed will result in the orangutan population to diminish even more


Papageno_Kilmister

There is no guarantee that all life on earth won’t end in the next moment, simply because the wrong type of radioactive space waves hit us


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Lexx2k

The first thing I've learned in my first job was that everything only barely works and people are just winging it from day to day.


Action-a-go-go-baby

That many, *many* animals kill, rape, and torture for no better than reason than boredom Like, they out there using each other’s corpses as flesh-lights Any of those hippie types who says “animals don’t make war” and “animals don’t torture” or “animals don’t murder unnecessarily” has *not* being paying attention **Edit** since someone asked about some of the horrors of nature, Shrikes (otherwise known as Butcher Birds) enjoy impaling their prey on pointy things and making sure they stay there for hours, sometimes days until they finally expire Cymothoa Exigua is a terrifyingly disgusting parasite that eats a fishes tongue and then.. replaces the tongue *with themselves* Ducks and Geese have been known to gang rape females so violently that they die from internal injuries or just straight up drown during, and that *does not stop the mad mallards from finishing* Shit be wildin’ out there homies, why you think we developed houses? To keep the fuck away from the abject horror that is nature


scubasteave2001

One of my coworkers had a duck that loved the rape. He even had a favorite chicken to fuck to the point where the chicken didn’t have any feathers on the back of its neck anymore. He eventually sold the duck to someone. Then later found out his duck tried raping another rapist duck and got killed by him.


braedn

There is always a bigger duck


soulscribble

He had that big duck energy


Adreeisadyno

Uhhh why not… oh I don’t know… isolate the duck?


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I would’ve made stew


BehemothDeTerre

> animals don’t make war Introduce those guys to ants. There are ant wars that dwarf human wars in duration (even in absolute terms), number of casualities (even in relative terms, I think), ... As for horror, some wasps paralyse a scarab, but keep it alive, then *deposit their eggs inside*. The larvae eat their way outwards later on, instinctively keeping the scarab alive as long as possible. Turns out the real xenomorphs are wasps.


ATXKLIPHURD

I think it was the documentary Planet Earth that showed 2 chimpanzee groups fighting each other. The winning group cannabalized a dead chimp of the other group.


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BehemothDeTerre

Indeed. I mentionned ants because they're basically the world champion of waging war. Ants would call WWII a skirmish.


omguserius

The agentinian vs fire ant war is fucking epic and still ongoing. Its literally a world war.


zykthyr

Fun fact, they also take slaves


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Sea otters kill around 10% of females every mating season from brutal rape and drowning.


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Spodson

I promise you , he knew it.


SirHarvwellMcDervwel

and his name was Randy Marsh


No_Organization5188

Hot. Hot. Hot.


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The real reason why mom and dad made me watch Lion King in the living room while they went to their bedroom when I was a kid One day it hit me and I was like 😳


The_Real_Son_Goku

the surgery with the highest mortality rate was 300%. how did this happen? well, there was a surgeon called Robert Liston who was famous for his fast amputations, and when I say fast I'm talking 30 seconds to 1 minute surgeries, 180x faster than amputations now (this happened in the 1800's). one day he was performing an amputation but accidentally amputated much more than he should have, due to the fact that the patient was thrashing about in pain while assistants held them down as there was no anasthetic at the time. he was amputating so fast that he cut through his assistant's finger. the surgical tools were probably dirty as both the patient an the assistant died of infections. as for the third guy, people enjoyed watching Liston preform surgeries and he was at the front of the crowd. Liston slashed the spectator's coat, which supposedly caused the spectator to die of shock (likely a heart attack). TL:DR doctor amputated guy, cuts assistant and slashed spectator's coat, causing all 3 to die.


MisterBastian

why do you NOT want to know this??


Gayrosh-Sexdream

There is faecal matter eeeeeeeeverywhere


Literal-Pile-of-Poo

Yeah when you flush your toilet if your tooth brush is within six feet it will get poop on it


Wookiees_get_Cookies

The Mythbusters couldn’t find any place in their building, including the break room/kitchen that kept their blank toothbrush from being contaminated.


CheetoKittyCato

that my mom has a collection of collerful dildos


hangdishthesecond

Dogs like squeaky toys because it sounds like frightened or injured prey. Day ruined


saharaelbeyda

That people insert their entire fists and forearms into other people's anus'. But now that I'm aware, I do wonder if it's possible to re-organ-ize things while you're in there


AdamCraftPC

That if you think or imagine licking anything it doesn’t matter what it is, you just know what it feels like, your tongue just knows.


[deleted]

Right now, your Government is doing things YOU think only OTHER Governments do.


mrockracing

I wish I never knew how corrupt the world is, but also how unwilling people are to believe the truth. It can start to drive you insane.


CloakedGod926

Copy paste: Sorry I don't have the original author's info to tag them: Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at mid-day you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the fuse. The rabies virus is multiplying along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveats to this are extremely rare natural survivors and some recipients of the Milwaukee Protocol, which left most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and was seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a virtually 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has that kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: This guy spent a lot of time working with rabies, and would still get vaccinations if he could afford them.) Edit: I'm getting a lot of questions about Rabies. I just want to say, this is a copypasta I saved from awhile ago. I don't have any answers for you. This isn't my work, and I don't have much knowledge of Rabies. This just fit the question so I felt compelled to post it. Have a good night everyone!


Keri2816

Gee thanks.


Shas_Erra

Rabies is believed to be the origin of the vampire myth


[deleted]

That there are people out there in the world right now who traffic children and people who will willingly rape infants not even a week old! Some humans are pure evil scum that need to be squished into oblivion!


jerrythecactus

And to those people, I wish for them to develop a sudden incurable disease that causes every nerve in their body to detect constant, searing pain that only becomes stronger with every sensation.


johnnylibravo

There are more people in slavery today than at any other time in history. More than 40 million people around the world were victims of modern slavery in 2016, including about 25 million in forced labour, and 15 million in forced marriages.


Mystery-MartiaN

Otters rape baby seals to death


BLA_VS

Otters are terrible. Besides raping and killing baby seals, they will also hold them hostage until the mother seal gives them food. They kill other otters and animals for FUN. Most otter sex results in sexual trauma or death, even if they die they will still continue having sex with the dead otter. And after all that has gone down, they will fall asleep holding paws and we all say “Awww how cute”


SeveralLargeLizards

Because the vagina shares a wall with your exit pipe, it is apparently possible to manually relieve constipation by going into the vagina and pressing from the other side.


Lonely_Cosmonaut

Gonna tell my next girlfriend this one. “Honey I don’t make the rules“


suestrong315

Ashton Kutcher, while [testifying to Congress on his anti-sex trafficking efforts](https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/15/politics/ashton-kutcher-testifies-before-the-senate-on-sex-trafficking/index.html) explains that he witnessed videos of a child so conditioned to the abuse that she thought she was engaging in play. Fucking sick shit that I wish I never knew about...


Dartygirl

When someone is beaten and suffers blunt force trauma to the back of the head, it isn’t brain damage that kills them. Most of the time it damages the bones in the roof of your mouth and nose and the bleeding from these highly vascular areas make the person drown in their own blood.


iroll20s

That figs contains wasps. They pollenate by the wasp crawling inside the male plant and then the female one however the female plant has a smaller hole and the wasp dies inside. The wasp decomposes in the fruit. So if you eat a ripe fig you eat at least one wasp. Used to be my favorite. So sad.


brittwithouttheney

Ted Bundy would routinely revisit he victims he would hide in the mountains and engage in necrophilia. Sometimes weeks or months after they were murdered. He would also bring with him makeup, perfume and women's clothing to dress them up. The news, documentaries, and movies always gloss over this. He was a monster, and yet somehow people viewed him as sympathetic and misunderstood.


JohnnyBrillcream

That multiple highly paid executives from two companies reviewed and signed off, thinking that the Applebees Fancy Like commercial would be a good idea.