I Have Four Words For These 18 Facts: "Thanks, I Hate It"
1.In 1986, a lake exploded. Lake Nyos in Cameroon released a sudden burst of CO2, suffocating 1,700 people and over 3,500 livestock.
2.Veterinarians sometimes give cows magnets to eat to collect the metal in their bodies and make them less susceptible to "hardware disease."
3.In the 1500s, there was a dancing plague in Germany that claimed nearly 400 lives. People couldn't stop dancing and would eventually collapse from exhaustion or heart attack.
4.Woodpecker tongues wrap around their brains to protect them while they peck.
5.In the 1800s, dentures were often made from the teeth of deceased soldiers.
6.There's a haunted chair in England called the Busby's Stoop Chair that is said to bring death to anyone who sits on it.
Before his hanging, criminal Thomas Busby is said to have cursed the chair, which historians believe was made 138 years after his hanging. During WWII, military members who sat on the chair in the pub never returned from missions. Due to other fatal incidents in the 1970s, the chair was donated and now hangs from the ceiling of the Thirsk Museum, where nobody can sit on it.
7.In Taos, New Mexico, 2% of residents are known as "hearers" of a mysterious low-frequency hum. Not everyone can hear the hum, and when audio equipment was set up, nothing was detected.
8.Lake Natron, a lake in Tanzania, is so alkaline that it calcifies animals.
9.There's a document called the Voynich manuscript written in an unknown language in the 1400s. Nobody knows what it says, and both scholars and codebreakers can't figure out the text.
10.The inventor of the Pringles can was buried in one.
11.Bobbit worms live on the sea floor, can grow up to 10 feet, and can saw a fish in half.
12.In the 1840s, doctors didn’t wash their hands between autopsies and childbirth, leading to a high infant mortality rate.
13.There's a book called Chronicles from the Future written by a man in 1922 who alleges he went into a coma and his conscience went to the year 3096. The book is his detailed description of the future.
14.Giant holes are opening up in Siberia, and nobody knows how or why.
15.There's an unverified legend of an arcade game called Polybius that was installed in several arcades in the 1980s that people would line up to play and report nightmares and hallucinations afterward. Apparently, "men in black" would come to collect unknown data from the machines.
16."Spider rain" is a phenomenon in Australia where millions of spiders seemingly fall from the sky and coat the ground in a thick web.
17.Speaking of terrifying rain, over four days in 1994, it rained a gelatinous goo in Washington that made people really sick. These were known as the Oakville blobs, and none of them remain. There is no documentation that they existed aside from eyewitness accounts.
18.There's an unexplained light called the Joplin Spooklight in Missouri that shows up on an old dirt road. People have reported feeling really cold when they see the light, almost as if it passes through them.
