25 Of The Most Disturbing Things You’ll Learn Today
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Did you know that 15% of the air you breathe in an average metro station is human skin? These are 25 of the most disturbing things you’ll learn today.

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Most of the knowledge we have about treating hypothermia came from Nazi human experimentation
According to the FDA, the average person consumes one pound of insects every year, mostly mixed into other foods
Male chicks are often tossed into the grinder as babies because roosters are not as tasty as hen
During the 1950s, the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. An elderly Eskimo wanted to escape but his family took away all his tools. He made a life out of his own feces and frozen spit, killed a dog with it and used its ribs and organs to make a sled. He then tied other dogs to it and rode off.
90% of drink fountains at fast food restaurants like McDonalds have been found to contain fecal matter
There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the USA
Hitler’s plan for Moscow after capturing it was to kill all its residents and replace it with a lake
Lina Medina, a girl from Peru, gave birth when she was 5 years old.
If you starve a pig for a few days it will happily consume a human
Pirates kidnapped Julius Caesar when he was 22. His charisma led the pirates to treat him as a friend. He even insisted they double his ransom. He then said he would crucify them when he was free. They laughed it off as a playful joke. Upon his release he raised a fleet, returned, and crucified them.
15% of the air in an average metro station is human skin
The human ear will rip off with the same amount of effort that it takes to rip 12 sheets of regular bond paper
There are mites that live in your eyelashes and they come out when you sleep to feed on your dead cells
There are about 200 perfectly preserved corpses on the summit of Mount Everest
When you smell something you are actually breathing in particles of that substance