People have been sharing the scariest facts they’ve ever heard – 17 pieces of nightmare fuel

10.

‘Everyone talks about fossil fuels running out, nobody talks about phosphorus running out.

Phosphorus is so essential for life, and millions of tonnes of it are used in artificial fertiliser. However it only exists in an extractable form in a few places (Morocco has the most phosphate rock deposits iirc). Some experts have estimated that we’ll run out in a few hundred years.

If that happens, food security is well and truly fucked.’
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11.

‘Your brain can generate false memories-and you might never know.’
-Xybervenom0

12.

‘Sometimes the first symptom of an aneurysm is dying from it.’
-PourSomeSmegmaInMe

13.

‘There are stars out there that make the Sun look like a grain of sand’
-greyjedimaster77

14.

‘Donald Trump is President of the USA.’
-otherwiseCarrot7090

15.

‘When an old person falls and breaks their hip, sometimes it wasn’t the fall that broke their hip; it was the hip breaking that made them fall.’
-elephant35e

16.

‘In the 80 years since the invention of nuclear bombs, there have been at least three (declassified) instances in which the quick decision of one person has prevented nuclear war. We won’t get lucky forever.’
-Appropriate_Arm_1339

17.

‘If all the bacteria in a piece of cheese decided to move in the same direction, the cheese would move quite a distance in a day’
-Cheesestrings89

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