Creepy facts

Aug 5, 2017 12:47 PM

Boom365

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9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Isn't it pretty much standard practice for one of the pilots to sleep during long-haul flights?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel like most of these could easily be bs

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

burke is true, but its Edinburgh University Anatomical Museum, which is only affiliated to the medical school... surgeons hall has his skin

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Back then when I see facts like these I'll be like cool facts. Now I want to see the citation

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

4 and 8 are not true. Certainly no respectable scientist cites nazi science, it was almost universally really shit science.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

[citation needed]

9 years ago | Likes 142 Dislikes 2

Yeah, I was gonna say: made up facts... Made up facts everywhere.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

burke is true, sister has handled the bones

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Apollo 11 one is somewhat true - that was merely the descent stage. The ascent stage was topped off

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

dead people laughing, t.v. just became marginally more interesting

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I feel like the pilots one isn't scary, since they have a at least one co-pilot with them in the cockpit, who is also fully trained.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

don't they actually have rest breaks on long trips so the flight crew can catch a few zzzzs?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yup. A quick google also shows that they often have more than two pilots for flights longer than eight hours.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Does the Mars rover whistle or sing?!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

lol I wish these were creepy... these are just depressing T_T

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I like how the last pic is of Big Bang which is filmed live. The laughter is real (although likely from multiple takes added together)

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#1 it's not from a word meaning death pledge...it's just the words for death and pledge put together

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lots of these are wrong. Cite your sources folks.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#17 a lot more of the right handed die while using the same equipment

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

Base rates.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Gotta look at it from a percentage standpoint. More rightys might die, but there's also way more of them in the first place

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not a bad little collection. Some citation needed.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

How is a fetus mumified in the womb?

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

I think it was calcified, not mummified. So the fetus died, wasn't expelled, and then the body calcified it.

9 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 0

Sounds more reasonable

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The body, in an attempt to break it down, calcifies it. Essentially turns it to a stone.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

She fucked a mummy and he didn't wrap it up.

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Kinda relevant? https://youtu.be/7W35dyPTh6o

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dethklok is ALWAYS relevant.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lions kill the cubs to force the females into a new breeding cycle.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sauces please

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Last one is false. I went to a TBBT taping and could hear my laughs through the episode...told it was a donkey laugh

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#20 There's a Pixar movie in there somewhere.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

WALL-E has already been made.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is actually not entirely true. It is processing dirt samples, which makes noises and scientists programmed it to sound like 1/2

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

happy birthday because we could.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

The one about the Apollo mission isn't scary, it's just really good math by the mission planners.

9 years ago | Likes 176 Dislikes 4

Also a healthy margin for error; they had to search around a bit for a better landing spot.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

actually, mission control was nervous as fuck about it, because of the manual landing but the 'Nauts were not.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 2

The less the better really.

9 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

The safest is when at the start you don't have any fuel.

9 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Sounds like SOMEone lost an arm in a fuel accident

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

yeah, friction is a bitch.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

On the first stage? Maybe. But if you have zero fuel on the last stage, you are fucked.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Absolutely no fuel. Nothing to ignite.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That is definitely the safest way to operate a rocket.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

I just turned 27

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Didn't realize people from the 50s and 60s are all dead

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Dead people? Sirrah, I believe your facts are "fake news".

9 years ago | Likes 58 Dislikes 6

Bachinga *laugh track of the dead*

9 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Fuck.

9 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 1

Mine died long before that

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just turned 28, fuck

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

27 blows. All of a sudden everything hurts, everything is fat, and my face aged ten years overnight.

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Natural human life expectancy is only like 30 anyways.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I don't believe that.

9 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

My brain started deteriorating back when i was 13

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow. I really hope there's scientific evidence. Or imma be smart as fuck at 40!!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Our brain develops until we are 25 and starts to degrade at 27? Well, guess I had two good years.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

And here I am turning 27 on Thursday

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm 32, I'm practically braindead

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Lol same

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm turning 27 this month :(

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

is a myth. Believed for decades, recently neuroscientific research shows the brain loses cells any second, but creates new ones as well.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If needed, that is. So don't stop thinking and learning new things. We here on Imgur should be pretty safe.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Data from Nazi research is not used these days. Research using the data has been rejected by multiple agencies in the past.

9 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Not true, but their names are never used and wont be honored. But research based on hypothermia is one.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So and so. Believe it or not, the Nazis did more perfectly fine (ie, ethical) science than Mengele-type torturefests.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Didnt read the article but its actually unethical to not use the data. The negative repercussions of the actions have already happened so

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

By not using the data to make things better we are actually compounding the negative effects rather than allowing good to come of it.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

However we should remember how it was acquired and honour those that unwillingly gave their lives, and not the nazi doctors.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yup, when citing, the names of the nazis are not used. Just experiment and that it was from then.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

imo the best way to honor them would be to use the data that was gathered to improve the lives of those they left behind.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The one about Ducky is super fucking depressing.... :(

9 years ago | Likes 357 Dislikes 1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah that one really got to me. I had to turn my head and close my eyes for a moment.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't believe in hell. I sure hope I'm wrong, and parents that beat kids rot in hell.

9 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Yep yep yep

9 years ago | Likes 37 Dislikes 1

... and now she's dead.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Dead dead dead

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You monster

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

no kidding. I watched the 1st movie till I wore out the tape when I was a kid (I loooved dinosaurs, come to think of it I still kinda do)

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

yup yup yup :(

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

the fucked up thing was he beat her regularly and was jealous of her success, her mom and her were leaving him when he killed them.

9 years ago | Likes 111 Dislikes 0

what. the. fuck. god. fucking. damnit.

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

So fucking sad. I hate abusive people. I wish torture were legal for fuckers like that.

9 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 11

Torture is ineffective to get information out of people but damn does it feel good

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 7

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Don't want info, just want them to suffer worse than their victims. Would also make a good deterrent.

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

"deterrents" serve only to make people try harder to not get caught. It doesn't stop the behavior.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yeah I'm just going to pretend like I never read it, or that everything is a lie

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Me too...

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I don't doubt the sleeping pilot one at all. After the advent of FMC guided navigation pilot input is really only needed for takeoff/landing

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If we could automate that too...

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

To a certain extent we already have. Most current-gen aircraft have rollout procedures following autoland which requires very little.. (1/2)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pilot input. However much of this is reliant upon ILS landings which aren't always available. Takeoff is unlikely to be automated due (2/3)

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

to the needed communication between pilot and tower in order to prevent accidents or sudden changes in flightpath.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We'll get there eventually, though. Imagine no more pilot strikes!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1