21.
In 2015, a young woman began to have headaches. They discovered that she had a brain tumor, and when the doctors removed it, they were shocked to see that it was a lump resembling skin that contained bone, teeth, and hair. But this was no parasitic twin: the mass was called a “teratoma,” or “monstrous tumor.” When the woman was an embryo, some cell tissue fell off and ended up where wasn’t supposed to be, her brain. It then develop hair and teeth while the rest of her grew as normal.
22.
There’s a parasite that enters a fish’s mouth, eats the tongue and replaces itself as the fish’s new tongue
23.
It was once discovered that a fir tree was growing inside a human body. Artyom Sidorkin went to the doctors suspecting something wrong with his lungs. The doctors thought they were dealing with a tumor but turns out he had inhaled a fir tree seed which had sprouted and had begun growing in his lungs.
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People don’t take their antimalarial drugs when they travel because they hear bad stories about the side effects and they see native people in the areas living OK without taking pills every day. The truth is, populations native to malaria-endemic areas have all passed through pretty intense natural selection for survival and have a host of genes that prevent them from dying or suffering the other worst effects. Also, most of the resistance is built up over time, this is why it’s most common for children to die rather than adults.
Whatever people have heard about the side effects of the antimalarials, getting it is so much worse. I, fortunately, have never had it, but I study it as part of my work and people have told me about having it and they all say the same thing – it is so awful you can’t believe you’re even still alive. It comes in cycles, usually 48-hours, and each cycle is agonizing and brings you the brink of death, sometimes it takes you, sometimes is spares you for another few hours until it starts again. And there are forms that, even if you clear the infection with drugs, it still remains dormant in your system and can come back at any time.
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It’s quite common after you die to burp a lot as you have more gas build up. Dead bodies can also sit up on their own sometimes
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In the Czech Republic, there is a church called The Sedlec Ossuary that has decorations made entirely of human bones.
This happened because there were too many people in the cemetery to bury everyone, and the church leaders claimed that if their bones became part of the church, it only made them closer to God.
Nice propaganda spin there, guys.
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From Atlas Obscura by Foer, Thuras, and Morton:
Necropants (Reader’s discretion advised)
In Iceland, a long ass time ago (17th c), friends followed complex rules to obtain a dead man’s skin to turn them into pants.
You had to get permission from the dude to use his skin after he kicked the bucket.
You would then wait until burial formalities concluded.
You would rob the s**t out of your buddy’s grave.
You would cut the waist and peel the bottom half of the body off in one perfect flay.
You would then steel a coin from a poor widow, preferably your bud’s.
Place the coin in the scrotum of the necropants to attract cosmic s**t, specifically more wealth in life, and leave the groin full of coins at all times.
Pass that s**t down to your kid.
Fun fact: The Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft has a pair on display for all of us sickos to gawk at.
28.
The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger most likely didn’t die until they hit the water miles below the initial explosion.
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There are upwards of 300 active serial killers in the world
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CNN has had a pre-recorded broadcast from the 90’s which they will premiere during the end of the world
