POV: You Hear This Fact
(Part 5); Your ears never stop growing! As recently as the 1980s, many researchers and doctors believed that babies couldn't feel pain, so some were operated on without any anesthesia. Dr. Seuss cheated on his wife, Helen Palmer, who was sick with cancer. She then killed herself by overdosing on barbiturates. Phill Lewis, aka Mr. Moseby from the Disney Channel, was arrested for manslaughter and driving while intoxicated in 1991. You're more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark. Beetles are crushed up to produce a dye that makes all of your favorite candies red. Male echidnas have four-headed cocks. The Japanese giant hornet has venom that's so powerful, it can dissolve human tissue. The corpses in the pool scene in Poltergeist were actually real dead bodies, and JoBeth Williams, who starred in the scene, wasn't told until after filming ended. Judith Barsi, who played Ducky in The Land Before Time and Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go to Heaven, was shot and killed by her abusive father when she was 10. People jerk themselves awake while sleeping because their body thinks they're dead – it's their brain's way of making sure they're still alive, since their heart rate is so slow. Every day, a person consumes around 1 to 2 cups of snot. Alchemists used brain matter as an ingredient for an elixir of eternal life. The Judas Cradle was a means of torture where the victim was forced to sit on a spike. King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls. Vampire moths are real. Two Scottish doctors originally invented the chainsaw for childbirth. 1 in 50 people in the United States has an unruptured brain aneurysm. People can die with no discernible cause of death. A person sweats around 1 cup per day. The Zoroastrians leave their dead in special towers to be eaten by vultures. The floating specs you see probably aren’t dust but dead skin cells. Skin particles are flying around us. In underground subway stations we're inhaling a hell of a lot of them...
Caption this Meme
