25 Disturbing Facts People Wish They Didn't Know

When a Reddit user posted the question, "What are some disturbing facts you wish you didn’t know?" people quickly jumped in with everything from eerie science facts to unsettling truths about human behavior. The responses were diverse, chilling, and sometimes downright disturbing. Here’s a selection of some of the most unsettling facts that people shared in response to this provocative question.

#1

Image source: Ok-Indication-5121, Edouard MIHIGO Child slaves in the Congo mine the cobalt used in our phones.

#2

Image source: anewstartforu, Pixabay I just heard about this one. A hospital in Kentucky pronounced a man brain dead so they could harvest his organs after he overdosed in Oct 2021. They began their routine viability checks. He woke up during a viability cardiac cath, which sent some personnel over the edge and speaking out. They were quickly dismissed by KODA (Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates). His sister also reported that she saw him crying with his eyes open as he passed her during his honor walk to OR for harvest. Her report was also dismissed. In OR, some of the operating physicians refused to continue with the procedure as they reported he was thrashing and bucking the vent. KODA was not pleased and requested additional surgeons to proceed despite this calling his behavior involuntary. There was no one available to step in. Surgery was canceled. The man is alive and well today. Many of the staff, including physicians, reportedly needed therapy after this experience.

#3

Image source: MightySasquatch, photo nic Definitely on the most horrifying facts I've ever learned is that a mute mail order bride is ten times as expensive as one who has the power of speech. It's very disturbing and becomes more and more horrifying the more you consider the implications.

#4

Image source: puzzleman123, Jonathan Borba It's illegal in India to find out the gender of your baby, because so many prefer boys over girls.

#5

Image source: NaughtyMuse1, Zoshua Colah Every hour, an average of 12 children go missing across India. Every day that average is 296 children missing across India.

#6

Image source: TeacherRecovering, Pixabay The Holocaust that occured in world war 2, was NOT the last. Cambodia, Serbia, child soliders, and the Hutos, Tibet, All with in my 57 years on the planet. Large portions of humanity are horrible people whose only redeeming quality is to be a bad example.

#7

Image source: -INC0GN1TO-, elmundo The youngest recorded mother is Lina Medina. She gave birth at the very (IN)appropriate age of FIVE YEARS, SEVEN MONTHS, AND TWENTY ONE DAYS OLD.

#8

Image source: chinny1983, Unknown User Domestic violence rates go up when a big sporting event is on. And a team loses. (Obviously a team loses). But, say England is playing France in football. The losing country will see a spike in DV.

#9

Image source: DerGodzillaMeister, Diana That people regularly abandon animals and/or children all over the world.

#10

Image source: Global_Criticism3178, Pixabay The 6 missing nuclear bombs that we know of.

#11

Image source: CMKhani, Ron Lach The human brain is the same consistency as room temperature butter.

#12

Child ab*se is more common than you think. If it’s not happening in your house, it’s definitely happening on your street. Image source: aneeshasaeed

#13

Image source: MassholeForLife, kat wilcox Approximately 50% of murders are unsolved every year. Was closer to 90% unsolved in the 70’s.

#14

Likely most of the 9/11 jumpers were conscious throughout their fall. That’s just the most heartbreaking thing to imagine. Image source: Appropriate_Code6068

#15

Organophosphates, including the chemical weapon Sarin Gas, work by inhibiting your muscle's ability to relax. Your muscles basically constrict and can't unconstrict, causing what feels like a muscle cramp through your entire body - your arms, your chest, your eyes, your tongue, everything. It most frequently kills via asphyxiation, because you can't exhale. Surviving means a permanent, irrecoverable loss of motor function, even with rapid medical treatment. Image source: sparklewoozzz

#16

The Yellowstone Caldera, sometimes referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano, Under Yellowstone park that has the power to change the climate globally as well as end everything when it erupts. Image source: No-Customer-2266

#17

Image source: Altruistic-Box-4066, Jonathan Borba That your organs know where they're supposed to be and move on their own. During surgery, doctors will just stuff them back in and they'll rearrange themselves back to their proper spot.

#18

Image source: KellyM14, Quang Nguyen Vinh That praying mantis females usually eat the males during intercourse but the male can continue without his head.

#19

Image source: PrincessGlitterSwan, Michael Giugliano "call of the void" When you stand over a high place, and you just want to jump even though you're not going to jump that's what it called.. Interesting and disturbing at the same time...

#20

Image source: Civ_1_Settler, Solving Healthcare Fatal familial insomnia. Super rare, but also super scary. Basically, you stop being able to sleep, then you go mad, then you die. No cure.

#21

Image source: Renmarkable, Joshua Hoehne That covid infections harm every system in our body. Our hearts, vascular systems, brain, immune systems connective tissue stays behind in our guts and reproduces in our bone marrow. This can't end well.

#22

Image source: wolfingitup, uknown The lil dog in space Laika died terribly and afraid in an oven above the earth..

#23

Image source: FatCatLoui, Gemeinfrei I am not the same after reading King Leopold's Ghost, about King Leopold II of Belgium's f*****g regime of terror and torture in Congo in the nineteenth century and what traces it still leaves today.

#24

Image source: Dr_JackaI, 松岡明芳 Unit 731 was a Japanese “””research institute””” during WWII where they committed atrocities that would’ve made even the coldest of Nazis blush. They would test the efficacy of different explosive devices by having live prisoners stand close to the blast and then see who survived the blast. They would infect prisoners with STDs to see how the disease would develop if left untreated. Sickeningly, they sometimes would infect new prisoners with the STD by forcing an already-infected prisoner to rape them at gunpoint. They forced other prisoners to strip off all their clothes and stand out in the cold until they died of frostbite, just to see what happened. Perhaps worst of all, nobody was ever tried for war crimes and the man behind it all, Shiro Ishii, died peacefully in 1959. The United States knew of Unit 731, but they requested their “findings” in exchange for not investigating or prosecuting those responsible. Because of this, we don’t even know how many people actually died there, estimates range from 23,000-300,000. None of the “findings” were even useful to the United States as it became clear that the experiments were carried out merely because the researchers thought they’d be fun. Nakagawa Yonezo witnessed experiments and executions at Unit 731 and later testified, “Some of the experiments had nothing to do with advancing the capability of germ warfare, or of medicine. There is such a thing as professional curiosity: ‘What would happen if we did such and such?’ What medical purpose was served by performing and studying beheadings? None at all. That was just playing around. Professional people, too, like to play.”

#25

Image source: fisheypixels, Rachel Claire Quokka mothers will eject their babies from their marsupial pouches at predators to escape. Omni-Man rules. "I can always make another kid".