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INSANE: Scariest facts want unlearn msn | Rare Historical Photos
Facts make the world go round. They keep us engaged, informed, entertained and can even help us feel a little more interesting or smarter when we're forced to make small talk with strangers.
While some facts quench our thirst for knowledge like a glass of ice water on a hot day, others are like accidentally stepping on a piece of Lego and wishing we’d had the foresight to go the other way. They’re the ones you randomly come across by chance and immediately want to unlearn.
Someone recently asked, “Tell me the scariest fact you wish you didn’t know,” and people didn’t hold back. From realizations like the brain named itself and is studying itself, to the freaky thought that one day (if we haven’t already), we will unknowingly pose for the photograph that will be used at our funeral… These are just a few of the unsolicited facts people would rather not think about.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the best answers for anyone brave enough to explore the cold, hard facts of life that make some others want to run and hide. We've also included some info on how your brain filters out unwanted information. You’ll find that between the images.
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#1
We are not scared of being alone in the dark. We are scared of not being alone there.
Did you hear or read something that you no longer want to know? Just remove it from your brain. Yes, apparently it's as simple as that.
Researchers have recently revealed that people can consciously remove specific information from their memories by "dampening the brain circuits that initially stored it."
Jiangang Shan and Bradley Postle, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are the experts behind the study, which looked at how the brain actively removes memory content it doesn't need.
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#2
Depression levels correlate with intelligence. So basically if you know too much you’re going to permanently struggle with depression because you can’t forget things.
#3
The Titanic sinking was in pitch black because there was no moon that night. It wasn't like it was in the movie.
Their paper, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, explains how they got 30 participants to perform a memory task while recording their brain activity. The group was first given two items to remember.
"Experimental conditions either did or did not encourage participants to actively remove the memory of one of these items. Following these conditions, they were given a third item to remember," reports Neuroscience News. "Finally, participants were tested on their memory of the relevant first and final items."
The researchers found that the brain uses a "mechanism" to consciously remove information from a memory. "Brain scans showed that removing memory content involves reduced excitability in the neural circuits tied to the unwanted information," explains the site.
#4
Prion diseases, like mad cow/rabies/brucellosis/chronic wasting disease, etc, can live dormant in your body for over 10 years depending on the disease. So you could be currently infected and you wouldn't even know it. Not until you start showing symptoms... and there is no cure for any of them. It's crazy cause we don't have "absolutes" in medicine, but one of the only exceptions is that Prion diseases are 100% fatal..
#5
Some people don’t have an internal monologue & that’s so bizarre to me.
John Austin 1 month ago
This one always weirds me out. Couldn't imagine not having an internal monologue. How do you function?
#6
If you have PTSD (like me) you can pick up on bad people or bad vibes quicker then most and also can kind of like sense danger before it happens.
#7
Around 85% of the universe’s mass is dark matter, and we have no clue what that is or what it’s made out of.
#8
For me it’s the dark history of brutal experimentation behind the medical knowledge and procedures we learn.
#9
Honestly the fact that the brain named itself and studies itself scares me.
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Brain is the most important organ of our body according to the brain...
#10
One day you will unknowingly pose for the picture that will be used for your funeral.
#11
Human perception. Everyone perceives things differently, interprets it differently, even what you think you see/perceive may not be real, it's always distorted.
#12
An item or feeling can be the peak of happiness one moment and absolutely nothing in an hour.
#14
While giving birth, women think to themselves they are never doing that again. However, their brain slowly forgets about that pain only bringing the desire to go through the process all over again.
#16
The fact that if we try and put the whole story of the planet earth in one book, us humans would only appear at the very last page, and just a tiny little piece of bottom right corner.
#17
You never see the present.
Your brain shows you the world about 80–100 milliseconds late so it can edit reality.
You are always living in the past, just enough to survive.
Kai D (He/Him) 1 month ago
I like how this was stated and its very interesting. However, that time is more used to process the light of what is being seen so your able to "see" it.
#18
The fact that manifestation and placebo effect is real, they're proven with psychology and neuroscience. You actually have the power to shift realities just by thinking about it.
Classified 1 month ago
Wouldn't this be shifting "your " reality. I don't think you can shift someone else's reality by thinking about it. Only affecting the minimum time you present yourself during an interaction with another, no?
#19
The human mind is so easily influenced, that you (or someone else) can create memories in your mind that never even existed.
#20
"We are either alone in the universe or we're not, both are equally terrifying."
Classified 1 month ago (edited)
Mathematically speaking, it would be impossible to find that only one little planet, in one tiny solar system, in one tiny galaxy in the vast universe has Goldilocks conditions for life as we know it. We just won't be able to physically reach these places in human lifetime due to astronomical distances, the expansion of the universe, our short life span, the eventual d***h of our star, etc. Not to mention we're looking at the past when we view the universe & its contents based on the limitations of the speed of light, so we can never know the present state of what we see. It should be that we are more isolated, rather than alone in the universe.
#21
The fact that there is no purpose in existing itself.
Jenny K Anderson 1 month ago
I wouldn’t call that a fact; it is more like your opinion/belief.
#22
The older you get, the more familiar you become with the passage of time, so it seems to move faster. Think how long a year or a summer seemed when you were a kid.
#23
Pseudocyesis, also known as a false or phantom pregnancy, where the body shows real pregnancy symptoms (like a growing belly, missed periods, morning sickness) but there's no fetus. The brain is INSANE.
Helen Rohrlach 1 month ago
My dog had these. When she was 12, she had to be spayed because of a lump. And before you start yelling at me, she only had 4 litters of pups in her life. I lived remote.
#24
Some serial offenders don’t feel fear or guilt at all, and their brains never light up where empathy should be.
#25
If we look back around 25 to 30 generations in our family tree, we start to all share common ancestors, meaning everyone one of us are very distantly related to each other.
Helen Rohrlach 1 month ago
2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and so on and so on. It doesn't take long to add up.
#26
We can psychologically condition people to be scared of something or love something.
#28
The fact that when we're looking at the stars, we are most likely looking at their past when in reality, theyre probably not there anymore because their light takes so long to reach us. This is kinda scary to think of.
#29
Humans can see light from ~380nm to 700nm. This is less than 1% of the existing light spectrum. We’re basically blind.
#30
There's a rare psychiatric disorder called Capgras Delusion , where you think your family and friends have been replaced by imposters.
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Geke van Wallinga 1 month ago
There's an episode of Criminal Minds where the UnSub has this disorder. S7.E3: Dorado Falls.
#31
There's a rare psychiatric disorder called Capgras Delusion , where you think your family and friends have been replaced by imposters
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#32
I just read a neuroscience article that said the brain holds on to negative comments for 20 years but compliments start to fade after 6 weeks.
#33
Our bodies constantly create cells with potential to become cancerous, and the immune system usually detects and eliminates them before they can form tumors. The first time I heard this, I was scared because what you mean every day is a potential day to have cancer.
#34
It takes light to travel from the sun to the earth in 8 minutes. That means if the sun exploded we wouldn't know until 8 minutes later.
#35
Crows can memorize your face.
Lesley Byfield-Papworth 1 month ago
absolutely....they are very suspicious and judgy if they havent met you before....
#39
I once got CPR while fully conscious. I can't even describe it. Did you ever hit that funny nerve in your elbow? Imagine that in your whole body and head+the pain and you feel like your neck is gonna burst open.
Dave Sturtz 1 month ago
Fully conscious with no pulse? Not for long. Or was someone doing CPR when they really really should not have been?
#42
Your skin is constantly shedding cells, turning pieces of you into dust without you ever noticing. It’s a slow, invisible process almost like Sandman dissolving into grains.
Every day, parts of you disappear… and are quietly replaced
#45
In the 1980s, it was widely believed by medical professionals that babies could not feel pain, with medical procedures such as surgeries being regularly performed without anesthesia.
#46
Trillions of neutrinos are passing through our body every second right now from the Sun, distant supernovae, cosmic rays, and we can’t feel them, stop them or detect them in any way.
#47
Early onset schizophrenia is a thing and can begin in childhood. It's characterised by fatigue, forgetfulness and lack of motivation, so is often diagnosed as depression.
SwordInTheDarkness 1 month ago
What the héll is "early onset" schizophrenia?? Everyone knows it can manifest at any age.
#48
That everyone is doing struggle for the life that can be ended at any point and he doesn't even know the time when it will happen.
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#49
Isn't it scary that we see memories in a third pov while it actually happens us to in first pov.
#50
About 3% of kids aren’t raised by their biological father, that’s terrifying to me.
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