- You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
- A Florida man fell into a sinkhole that opened suddenly at night beneath the bedroom of his suburban Tampa home, calling out to his brother for help as he fell. The body was never found even after diligent rescue operations.
- There is an optical illusion known as the ‘Troxler Effect’. It has been found by psychologists that people experience optical illusions of deformation of their faces after staring at oneself for 10 minutes in the mirror.
- The brain has no pain receptors, so brain surgery is often conducted when patients are awake.
- A body farm is a designated place where criminologists and scientists leave human corpses around in order to study how they decay under various conditions.
- When a person dies, his sense of hearing is the last to go.
- Arnold Schoenberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13. He died at 76 (7+6=13) on Friday the 13th.
- Rapper Tupac's ashes were mixed with weed and smoked by the members of his hip hop band.
- You're more likely to be killed by a cow than a shark.
- A man received the heart of a suicide victim, married his widow, and years later killed himself on the same day the donor did.
- When a 300-year-old statue of Jesus from Mexico was restored, it was discovered that the statue had real human teeth inside its "mouth."
- One species of jellyfish is biologically immortal. Since it can turn back time to an earlier age in its life cycle, it will never die even after reaching sexual maturity.
- There’s a shack called ‘The Devil’s Toy Box’ in Louisiana and people who go in there supposedly lose their minds.
- There are over 200 dead bodies on top of Mount Everest. Because retrieving them is such a risk, they serve as markers for other hikers.
- Serial killer Robert Pickton ground up his victims and fed them to the pigs on his farm.
- Leeches have 32 brains.
- Mark Twain was born on a day in 1835 when Halley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Halley's Comet was in view again.
- In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.
- Scaphism was an ancient form of torture that involved having every orifice covered in honey and then exposed to large swarms of insects. And this was all after being force fed even more honey and milk.