Spooky Facts About Our World That Are Hard To Digest

#1

Pitești Experiment in Romania overseen by the Soviet Union. Probably the worst thing that humans have ever done to other humans. Makes Unit 731 look like daycare. Communist Russia was probably the most evil human organization to ever exist.

It was basically an experiment to prove souls dont exist. That any human, no matter how resilient, can be broken or “demasked” into an animal like slave. and they prove this by killing the human spirit with 24/7 torture, degradation, brainwashing and humiliation. besides the obvious brutal violence stuff like eating your own s**t, vomit, and forced to desecrate every sacred belief you ever held until you totally broke. and they did this to the most resilient anti communist student activists. and they all broke. then they forced them to be the torturers for their fellow comrades. with the threat that if any of the tortured admitted that they were the guard that shown them a shred of mercy or leniency, they would be sent back to the beginning of the program to experience it all again which most did several times. if these prisoners were given even the slightest chance they instantly tried to commit suicide. some even chewed through their wrists to get to their veins. which the communists solved for by knocking out all of their teeth

One of the biggest mistakes the western world made was not make the crimes of the Soviet Union more known. Everyone should know this happened, that yes there was an organization of people much worse than even the Nazis.

#2

Ascaris worms are a type of large, parasitic roundworm that make their home in the human digestive tract. They are endemic in many parts of the world. I used to work at a hospital where we took a lot of patients from very poor and remote places, especially Central America, where roundworm infection is very common. When you put those patients under for surgery, the anesthesia causes their blood to become slightly alkaline, which the worms *hate*. So after a few minutes they will start coming out of *every orifice in the body*. Nose, mouth, r****m. And I’m talking full-sized worms that look just like earthworms. It is no cap one of the grossest things you can imagine.

You give those patients a d**g called Bendazole, they poop dead worms for three days, and then they’re fine.

#3

Dolphins are known to be quite intelligent, but they can also be cruel. In some cases, they’ve been documented killing baby dolphins of other pods, seemingly for fun.

#4

If you have abdominal surgery and the surgeon needs your intestines out of the way they don’t try to get them back in exactly as they were. They can put them in pretty much any old way and they sort themselves out.
Then freaked out even more when someone else commented that you can quite often feel them wriggling themselves back into position.

#5

Learning that some plants can actually communicate with each other. Suddenly, my herb garden feels a lot more like a gossip column.

#6

Dead bodies moan and grunt when you move them. (I was a paramedic and firefighter for 21 years, I was around a lot of dead people.).

#7

Some people are born with a malformed mass of veins in their brain called an AVM and they have no idea unless it’s seen on a CT or MRI. Then one day it can burst without warning and that happy healthy person can die, suffer brain damage, paralysis, etc. No warning.

This happened to my 22yo niece yesterday, she is in a coma now. It’s heartbreaking.

#8

The inside of a sea turtle’s mouth/throat looks like something straight out of a horror movie monster. Absolutely covered in spines. (They swallow a lot of sea water when eating food, which they then vomit back out. The spines keep the food in but let the water out.).

#9

Honestly what a newborn horse hooves look like. Traumatized for months after I had just given birth myself. Luckily I did not have a horse baby.

#10

Tarantulas walk on water.

#11

I had to have a C-Section when our daughter was born and heard one doctor say to the other doctor: “Pass me the uterus, I’m gonna clean it.” Still don’t know whether my uterus was actually lifted out, still don’t want to know.
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My ex had our baby via c-section, and I watched. One of the more disturbing parts of it was her uterus laying on her chest, while two interns picked pieces of placenta off of it as they were discussing where they were going to go get lunch.

#12

The CPR dummy face is based on the face of a teenage girl found dead in the Seine River in Paris in the 19th century. Her cause of death and identity is still unknown.