What’s a disturbing fact you wish you could unlearn? – 17 bizarre bits of trivia you’ll never be able to forget
10.
‘It was believed for a long time that babies do not feel pain and no anesthesia is required when a surgery is performed. This only started to change in the late 1980s after the mom of an infant who underwent open heart surgery without anesthesia started a campaign to raise awareness.
Whenever I think of it and imagine those poor babies who had to go through excruciating pain, with muscle relaxants that prevented them from moving and fighting back on top of that… I’m in tears. I don’t understand how medical professionals could have subjected them to such horror.’
-otis91
11.
‘Everything about rabies, especially the fact that once symptoms show, it’s already too late.’
-WormWithKnowledge
12.
‘I used to remind coworkers of this after particularly nasty jobs when I worked as a paramedic.
When you smell something, that means microscopic particles of what you’re smelling have floated into your nose and sinuses and bonded with a scent receptor.
It delivers its message, and then your body breaks down the molecules and either they get removed from your body by your snot, or they get broken down and become you. Always good to reflect on that when you’re dealing with a lot of shit or decomposition.’
-sam_neil
13.
‘Your organs moving around make sounds that your brain just cancels out’
-miiidnightrxbia
14.
‘How much of modern medicine relies on a hunch or trial and error.
Before I worked in a hospital I used to think doctors knew everything and that curing illness was straightforward. That will apply to some diseases, but there are many, many more which are vague and treatment isn’t really well established or doesn’t always respond as you might expect.
Makes you afraid to get sick after a while.’
-Three_hrs_later
15.
‘Echidnas have 4 penises. 4. Why the hell do they need 4?’
-astroboy_astronomy
16.
‘Read somewhere that almost every survivor who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge instantly regretted it as soon as they left the railing.’
-psycharious
17.
Basically every scene in movies where someone dies in lava is wrong.
Your body is 80% water, and molten magma or lava is just rock that’s so hot that it’s in a liquid state. Rock is a lot denser than water even in a liquid state, so you wouldn’t sink into it: your body would float on the surface of the lava, burning to a crisp while you scream in agony.
Actually it might be even worse, given that when water (I.e. the water in every one of your cells) is suddenly exposed to extreme temperatures all at once, it instantly boils. If that exposure is fast enough, it boils explosively.
And since your body isn’t a perfect sphere being exposed to the +800C lava all at the same time, what (might) actually happen could be parts of your body explosively boiling and popping as little steam explosions rupture your burned skin as you burn alive, floating on the superheated rock smoothie.’
-Rekthor