I could ’ve gone my whole life without learning what a " Philly Sidecar " is .
Recently, Reddit userNo_Camera29asked, “What’s a creepy fact you wish you never learned?” and people had some real freaky responses. Here’s what they had to say.
1."[The FBI]estimatesthere are at least 500 truckers with torture/murder chambers in their truck, driving freely across the country."
— uranium / shahwaliwhat2 - 1
2.Andsomeexpertsestimate that “there are as many as 2,000 active serial killers at large” in the US today.
— u / snailenkeller
3.“Dead bodiesmoan and gruntwhen you move them. (I was a paramedic and firefighter for 21 years. I was around a lot of dead people.)”
— u / EFD1358
4.There issome evidencethat…“kinks can be hereditary. If you have a niche kink, odds are higher that one or both of your parents do too.”
— u / Campbell920
5.“I once read that the last thingthat stopswhen you die is your hearing.”
— atomic number 92 / SteelBreed
" Yeah , a nanny friend of mine said this is rightful . She said that if you tell someone to close their centre just after they die , they ’ll usually do it , which is creepy as piece of ass . "
— u / Apprehensive_Bug_826
6.Over half of our bodyisn’t human— “There are more cells in your body that belong to other things like bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites than actual human cells. Some are beneficial, some harmful, and most are just along for the ride.”
— u / Roguespiffy
7.“The average person consumes ~5g of microplastics each week. Approximately the same aseating a credit cardevery seven days.”
— u / Most - Organization410
8.“That there is literally NOWHERE in your house that you can store your toothbrush without it getting fecal matter on it — thanks,Mythbusters.”
— u / hylandadley
9.Relatedly…“All smells areparticulate.” What does this mean? “If you can smell shit, there is shit inside your nose.”
— uranium / casvalcometandu / Totes_Not_an_NSA_guy
10.“A non-zero number of farmersgomissingyearly from pigs. They will eat just about anything.”
— uranium / NotAmazingGrace
11.“It is legal inmore than halfof the states in the U.S. for doctors to perform pelvic exams on unconscious people during surgery/procedures without consent.”
— uranium / pratly2
12.“The chainsaw wasinventedby two doctors to assist in childbirth. Sawing throughthe pelvic bone gives a mother and the baby some chance of survival if the baby is too big. Yay!”
— u / AnitaEkberg30
13.“Giving birth to a child is often talked about. Giving birth to a placenta is one thing nobody talks about. It felt like the nurse pulled a giant squid out of my vagina — super gross. After that, she pushed my abdomen, and blood squirted out of me and sprayed her whole. It was absolutely disgusting.”
— u / blistering - Arachnid-5194
14.Sorry to tell you this, but the uterus isactually pulled out of your bodyduring a C-Section: “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 do n’t know whether my uterus was really lifted out , still do n’t want to lie with . "
— u / derkleinewompatz
" My X had our babe via C - section , and I watched . One of the more disturbing parts of it was her womb laying on her chest while two interns blame pieces of placenta off of it as they were discuss where they were going to go get dejeuner . "
— uranium / gogozrx
" altogether normal . I ’m assuming you had a spinal injection , so you were comparatively numb from roughly the belly release down . Once the baby is out , they squeeze the bejesus out of your uterus to cease the haemorrhage . They also have to slay all the good part that smother the babe . It ’s not really a scrubbing ; it ’s more of a pulling tissue paper with fingers / clamps . Then they jostle that bad male child back in you , and away you go . "
— u / Glorifiedpillpusher
15.Relatedly, “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. … You can quite often feel them wriggling themselves back into position.”
— uranium / SnooGrapes2914
" you’re able to feel that joggle opinion after giving birth , too . I felt like I was all jello in my abdomen ; I would find a wriggle and a sneak virtuoso . It did n’t hurt ; the part that hurt was when they came in and did that abdomen scratch to push the blood out of you for your uterus to contract back . That felt like saturated torture . "
— u / kafka18
" watch an abdominal operating theatre as a scholar nurse , I see the doctor remove the intestine and place them in a black ' garbage ' bag , which was attach to the gurney . When the process was finished , the bag was held over the affected role ’s abdomen and shake until all was out . Then the doctor deal his hired man , wiggle stuff around , and proceeded to end the wound . It ’s never the elbow room they show on TV . "
— atomic number 92 / No - Kaleidoscope5897
16.“Nurse here 🙋♂️: I learned that some people will use any hole in a sexual way. Including a surgical hole in the stomach to collect poop into a bag (a colostomy). Additionally, some folks with these kinds of holes will advertise themselves out for the use of that hole. How do we know? They come in with infections in these holes and own up to the behavior. I also learned this sexual act is called a Philly Sidecar.”
— u / Equivalent_Natural _
17.“Loa loa, theAfrican Eye Worm, can invade the human eye. Adults are between 1 and 2.5 inches long.”
— u / Prestigious - Wall5616
If you want to have your day ruined, check out this photo. If you want to have your life ruined, check out an extraction of onehere.
18.Relatedly…“Everyone thinks Guinea worms, the ones youhave to slowly twist out of your skin around a stick, are a purely tropical phenomenon.Not true. … My dad has been infected with them before.”
— atomic number 92 / ocean_flan
19.“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 impoverished 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, rectum. 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 drug called Bendazole, they poop dead worms for three days, and then they’re fine.”
— u / Jorost
20.“Some people areborn witha 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 22-year-old niece yesterday. She is in a coma now. It’s heartbreaking.”
— u / Euryheli
21.“Up until June 2024, there wasno lawagainst necrophilia in Michigan…a month ago.”
— u / SavageHeart_YouDidIt
22.Also — “It’slegalto marry a corpse in France.” However, I should note this isusedfor couples where the deceased expressed an intention to marry the still-living partner before their death. So, basically, if your fiancé dies, you can still marry them.
— u/[deleted ]
23.“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 seawater when eating food, which they then vomit back out. The spines keep the food in but let the water out.)”
— u / MyNameIsRay
See a more up-close photohere, or check out the image below.
24.“There areover200 dead bodies located on top of Mount Everest that serve as waypoints for climbers because it’s too risky to retrieve them.”
— u / Maleficent_Nobody_75
" I have a admirer from college whose parent died on Everest and became a famous lead marker ( I wo n’t say which one , but far-famed enough that there ’s a Wikipedia page for it ) . He was about 12 when it happened and begged them not to go because he was afraid they would n’t come back . They did n’t come back . It have intercourse him up for a farsighted clip — hearing his parent referred to as a lead marking for over a decade after did n’t help either . Sometimes , we forget that these were people who had ( and still have ) loved one . "
— atomic number 92 / limthekid
25.“Naegleria fowleri— I now have a somewhat irrational fear of ponds/lakes.” What’s Naegleria fowleri, you ask? It’s a brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater lakes, rivers, ponds, and even sometimes swimming pools and tap water. It kills almost everyone it infects…includinga boy atDisney World’s River Country in 1980.
— u / Jordantrolli
26.“Honestly, what a newborn’s horse hooves look like. I was traumatized for months after I had just given birth myself. Luckily, I did not have a horse baby.”
— u / sculdermullygrusch
27.“Fatal familial insomniais a creepy disease that just doesn’t let you sleep. You start seeing hallucinations till you die. This disease is hereditary. … You can’t just take sleeping pills.”
— u / Key_Course_3256
28.Fatal familial insomnia is an example of aprion disease, which is when the misfolding of proteins in your body (which can justrandomly happenwith no apparent cause) leads to rapid brain damage and death, and there’s really nothing you can do to stop it. Or, as this user pus it: “One misfolded proteincanwind up rendering a brain about as useful as rotting cheese.”
— u / EverSeekingContext
29.“Dolphins are known to be quite intelligent, but they can also be cruel. In some cases, they’ve beendocumented killingbaby dolphins of other pods.” They’llalsokill baby manatees.
— u / livingasaadhi
30.Oh, and…“Otters sexually assault other animals, sometimes long after they are dead. Otters are not cute.”
— u / Shanklin_The_Painter
31.“Alot ofmy fragrances used to come from a beaver’s butt. Castoreum is the base of many leather, animalistic, and chypre perfumes. Its smell is similar to vanilla and comes from the anal secretion of beavers. Since I doubt they are using catch and release, I try to avoid it now.”
— u / carolyn3d
32.“That people who are allergic to cockroachescan’t drinkground coffeebecause there are ground cockroaches in it.”
— uranium / Murr897
" This is why it ’s recommended they purchase whole bean . Also , the masses allergic to roach can be allergic to other insects ( debris mites , crickets , stinging worm , etc . ) and other foods , too . "
— u / StarsofSobek
33.“In the meteor apocalypse movies, it usually starts with some random research team discovering the meteor by accident, then figuring out it’s headed for Earth. That’s pretty much what we have to hope for. Those sons of bitches are fast. Like, faster than you can imagine. In movies, it’s this huge ball of fire that tears through the atmosphere in some cinematic masterpiece that allows the people below to see how fucked they are. That’s not true in real life. In real life, it goes from the edge of our atmosphere to the Earth in less than a second. It hits the Earth so hard it’ll vaporize the ground it touches and itself. Hitting with such force, the ground moves like you threw a boulder into a lake. Waves of Earth become fluid and destroy everything in a massive flux of destruction.”
" But what ’s really scary is that it ’s cold . It’scold untilit impinge on some case of atmosphere from a planet or space body . Because it ’s cold-blooded , it ’s hard to detect by just pointing legal instrument into space . Unless we are specifically looking for it , we wo n’t see it . We wo n’t sleep together that we ’re about to all die . We wo n’t cognise that a shooting star is about to strike us until we see a literal tsunami of globe outside our window about to shoot down us .
That ’s why movies have mass discover it by fortuity . Because the chance of us finding it on purpose are not good .
bring - on : This has bugger off a bunch of attention , and I do see some masses freaking . There is some good news program in respect to this . Thanks to the sheer age of the solar scheme and the universe , a lot of the stuff that could have hit us has already hit us or hit something before us . lunation Crater , not just for our moonlight , show the impact of premature asteroids . Planets have already been bombarded by the stuff and nonsense float about . So , while the chance are n’t 0 , they are pretty low .
Also , we are a really pocket-size planet . Literally a pale gamy dot even before you provide the solar system . And damn near inconspicuous once you entrust the solar system . "
— u / ManoSilence
34.“Vacuum Decay.Theoretically, if some quantum tunneling event occurs in deep space, it can sort of ‘unmake’ the physical laws of the universe, and it will just stop. This effect will spread out at superluminal speeds (this can occur in the same way a shadow can move faster than light or the expansion of the universe itself can move faster than light). These “dead” areas are also invisible as they, by their very nature, emit no radiation, absorb any that ventures in, and move so fast the only way you know one was coming was that all the stars near you would all blink out in a matter of weeks.”
— u / TheStaffmaster
35.And finally, I’ll end on this one, just to bring things full circle: “Bed bugs mate through a process calledTraumatic Insemination. The male bed bug stabs the female in her abdomen with his penis, which is very sharp, then proceeds to fuck her open stomach wound.”
— u / sheldon711
Why does this bring things full circle? Well, check out the comment someone left under it:
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