It's advised for cannibals to not eat human brain because when it's kept open for a while it can get infected by prions. And prions can cause some really shitty diseases like kuru in which a person gets immobilized and pathologically laughs and dies laughing (ig it's called the laughing disease).
Another one, before it was discovered that radioac...... 1 reply
the fact that the penis of a male tortoise expands and shaped like a shovel inside of the female tortoise while reproducing.
I repeat, expand, shaped like a shovel
look up male tortoise humping a shoe or something reply
idk if disturbing but our the halves of our brains are connected with nerves but if you cut the wires or whatever the brains stop contact so if different sides of the brain are asked the same question (because they control different eyes) they will answer differently
this begs the question what are we? are we two in one? are our thoughts really re...... reply
If trauma is bad enough your brain can give itself amnesia! It's called dissociative amnesia, it's considered uncommon but there are varying percentages given for the amount of people who have it. Most people who do won't even notice till they're told or until someone else brings up something they should remember. It can span from only a few months...... 2 reply
a tapeworm can grow up to 6–50 feet (1-15 meters) long and live up to 30 years. for reference your small intestine is about 22 feet long and your big intestine is about 5 feet long.
hamsters actually eat meat. they're an omnivore and not a herbivore like rabbits. in captivity, they are observed to sometimes even cannibalize each other due t...... 3 reply
The holocaust had a predecessor - The Herero and Nama genocide.
It is often referred to as the forgotten genocide and it was completely unacknowledged by Germany until 2021 (keep in mind this happened between 1904 and 1908 so it took them over a century to acknowledge it).
Many believe that the ideologies of this period really 'inspired' Hitler.
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1. Theres micro plastics inside your blood like rn
2. We don't know alot of what nazi doctors did to the people they experimented on, like many human experiments in history, they set everything on fire to get rid of evidence. We'll never know the true horrors of what happened.
3. During the second world war Australian POW (prisoners of war) wer...... 2 reply