If you are properly skinned alive you can survive upwards of an hour and will die from hypothermia, not blood loss.

A lot of people in nursing homes will die shortly after family leaves. I’ve had funeral directors tell me this is very accurate. Both my parents did. We were there, left for the night and while gone, they died. It’s like they don’t want to expire in front of anyone.

Old people move so slow because everything they do hurts. I’m getting old and it’s starting to happen.

We don't know the effects of micro plastics on the human body, partially because we can't find a control group.

There is a type of gum disease that is caused by maggots in your gums. Literal maggots from flys laying eggs in your mouth to feed on your rotten flesh.

It's possible for rats to swim up your toilet piping. There are enough air pockets to travel all the way into your bathroom. I could have lived my whole life not knowing this, but here you go.

When gas was introduced into common households during the industrial revolutions, people started paying more attention to what they put on their walls, now that they were lit up. They began decorating more, and wallpaper became a much more important part of the modern home. At the time, green was a very popular colour, as it had never really been an option to decorate with that colour before. However the green colour was obtained with Arsenic (as white paints were often obtained through a lead product). After a while, wear and tear made it so that people literally started breathing in bits of their arsenic wallpapers, and feeling bad within their homes. Their doctors would then suggest they go on holiday to the sea, as the ocean air often had proven a successful remedy. But of course, it was a remedy simply because they were no longer breathing in arsenic. The companies that made these wallpapers were well aware of their nefarious effects, but it took people boycotting "en masse" for them to actually stop production, several decades later.

When whales and dolphins get too old they just drown.

Australians' greatest enemy isn't spider, drop bears, killer roos, massive insects, or devil snakes; it's the sun. Australia has the highest skin cancer rate in the world, and an Australian is four times more likely to develop skin cancer than any other type of cancer, and two thirds of Australian would be diagnosed with it by the time they reach the age of 70.

The number one cause of death for pregnant women is domestic violence.

The fact that the "couple" down the street from me with 3 kids are not husband and wife. They are in fact brother and sister. Yes I know it for fact I went to grammar school with them.

You are more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker then die from a shark.

A lot of people know when they are about to die, even if they don't know why. Just instinctual, they even say it very calmly and knowingly "I'm gonna die." Or something similar. And then they code. Or. They say they have to go the bathroom. Then code. I am dead serious.

Mummies weren’t that rare until the Victorian British ate so many of them.

Bus seats are designed so that you can't tell how dirty they are

If you die on Mount Everest, it's too dangerous and too expensive to move your body. So you'll be stuck there forever, and depending on where you die, other climbers might use your body as a trail marker.

Smell is particle based... remember that next time you go into a smelly restroom... I gotta know it, now so do you.

Brain aneurysms are still a thing perfectly healthy people can drop dead from with no visible symptoms whatsoever. Pop! Dead.

Horses can't throw up. If they need to throw up, they'll die.

You ever use bleach without gloves, and it gets kinda slimy? That slime isn't the bleach. It's your skin melting.

One of the more recent things I learned about is the Paria diving disaster - where four divers got sucked up into an underwater pipe and three of them got stuck in there. The company decided to wait until they were dead instead of doing a rescue operation because money. They said they heard banging for three days until it finally stopped. Not a fun way to go, inside a dark pipe alone, cold and scared. Damn, may those souls rest in peace.

During the cleanup of Pearl Harbor, as the recovery crews for *USS West Virginia (BB-48)* got deeper into the ship months after the attack, they discovered bodies high in the engine room and a locked storeroom where air bubbles had kept them alive for **2 weeks** based on calendars they used to keep track of time. That was "well after" divers had made their first passes over the ship listening for sounds of survivors.

There's a very concerning number of nuclear warheads that are unaccounted for.

Greater than half the population of the USA reads at or below fourth grade level.

When you're burning to death your eyes melt out of your head before you die. So you're still alive while your eyes are melting.

A rare medication reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome can cause your skin to blister and eventually peel off similar to a third degree burn victim. It's a horrible d**g reaction and has a very high mortality rate. It can be caused by almost any medication, including ones you have already taken before and had no prior reaction to. The most common medications that cause it are antibiotics and anti-epileptic medications. (Do not the Google pics unless you are not sensitive to medical trauma pics--they are extremely disturbing).

There’s decent evidence that the Challenger astronauts didn’t die when the vehicle broke apart. They may have even been conscious and alert inside the crew compartment all the way to the surface of the ocean, which was like a two and a half minute fall. It’s possible they were knocked out but it’s possible they weren’t.

That prion diseases exist, specifically fatal familial insomnia. .

If it wasn’t for your stomach lining, your stomach would eat you from the inside out.