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POV: You Hear This Fact
(Part 3); A book written 14 years before the 1912 sinking of the Titanic may have predicted the ship’s tragic demise. A body decomposes four times faster in water than on land. Our doctors may be killing us. Okay, that was dramatic. Please, if you feel like something is wrong — go see a health professional. But, it’s interesting (read: terrifying) to know that roughly 250,000 deaths are caused by medical error each year. We’ve found the most terrifying defense mechanism. Horned lizards squirt blood from their eyes as a defense mechanism. Never say you’re being “eaten alive” by mosquitos, again. That was an actual method of execution. Scaphism was an ancient form of torture and execution where you’d cover someone with honey, stick them in a hollowed log, and let nature run its course. "The Backrooms" is real in Japan. One-third of murders go unsolved in the United States. There was a chicken called Mike the Headless Chicken that lived for 18 months after its head was cut off. Mice and rats can spread at least 35 different diseases to humans. These infections include salmonellosis, hantavirus, and rat-bite fever. Crows are so intelligent they can recognize a human face. So don’t get one mad, okay? In the 1800s, dentures were made out of the real teeth of deceased people. Pigs can eat an entire human body, mostly because they’ll just eat anything. A human head remains conscious for around 20 seconds after being decapitated. There is such a thing as homicidal sleepwalking. It’s also called homicidal somnambulism, or sleepwalking murder. In 2005, Jules Lowe was acquitted of murder after killing his father because he was sleepwalking during the crime. Every 18 minutes, someone has a brain aneurysm that ruptures. There might be a haunted Russian radio station. UVB-76 is a low-frequency radio station that has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows where the broadcast is originating. It’s mostly just a buzzing noise with an occasional Russian voice transmission. More than 80 million bacteria are exchanged in a single kiss. Think about that next time you give your date a kiss. Is it really worth it? We all have teeny tiny mites living on our eyelashes. If you thought the Poltergeist movies were terrifying, wait until you hear what happened after they were filmed. Legend of a curse plagues the franchise due to four deaths among the cast: Dominique Dunne (Dana Freeling), Heather O’Rourke (Carol Ann Freeling), Will Sampson (Taylor, good spirit), and Julian Beck (Kane, evil spirit). Dunne, who was 22 at the time, tragically died at the abusive hands of her boyfriend. And O’Rourke was only 12 when she died unexpectedly from septic shock caused by a bowel obstruction. In 2017, homicide archivist Thomas Hargrove estimated that there are more than 2,000 serial killers currently at large. The Japanese Hornet is one of the largest and most venomous hornets in the world. A sting from this bug can result in kidney failure. In ancient Rome, people used to believe that drinking the blood of dead gladiators would give you their strength. The ancient Romans also thought drinking blood would cure epilepsy. The Devil’s Bible is real. It’s a contract between a monk and Satan. The monk wanted to escape death so he made a deal with the devil.