1.Half of all plastics ever made were made in the past 15 years.
2.It was only this year that the US Department of Health and Human Services banned non-consensual pelvic, breast, prostate, and rectal exams for “training and educational purposes” on patients under anesthesia.
3.The “microwave-safe” label on containers is given if the container won’t warp or melt in the microwave. The label does not guarantee chemicals won’t leach into food from the container when heated.
4.Shoes discovered in the Titanic are usually in pairs. The bodies disintegrated, but the tannic acid in leather preserves the shoes.
5.Finally, according to the Smithsonian, “peaking in the 16th and 17th centuries, many Europeans, including royalty, priests and scientists, routinely ingested remedies containing human bones, blood and fat as medicine for everything from headaches to epilepsy.”
So many kinds of creepy! Do you have a strange, unsettling, or creepy fact that you think about more often than you should? Tell us in the comments below!
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