15 most important facts we would rather not know

These facts will make you feel terrible and like us, you will want to forget them like a bad dream. We warned you!

The FBI estimates that at least 500 truckers are driving around the United States in vehicles equipped with torture and death chambers.

Some experts estimate that there are currently as many as 2,000 active serial killers in the United States.

Hearing is the last sense left behind at the time of death, the University of British Columbia has found. The first study to examine hearing in palliative care patients near death suggests that some can hear even when unconscious.

More than half of our bodies are not human. The human body contains more cells from other organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites, than actual human cells.

Every year a significant number of farmers are wiped out by pigs. These animals can eat almost anything.

The chainsaw was invented by two doctors to assist in childbirth. They believed that cutting through the pelvic bone would give mother and child some chance of survival if the child was too large.

It is legal to marry a corpse in France, but this rule only applies to couples where the deceased declared their intention to marry their living spouse before they died.

The average person consumes about 5 grams of microplastics per week – almost the same as eating a credit card every seven days.

If a person is having abdominal surgery and the surgeon has blocked off the bowel, he may remove it and not put it back in place. He can rearrange it in almost any way and it will fit back in place on its own. People can often feel their bowels return to their original position.

There are more than 200 dead bodies at the summit of Everest and they are guiding climbers because bringing them back is too risky.

Fatal familial insomnia is a terrible disease that does not allow a person to sleep. He begins to hallucinate until he dies. This disease is hereditary.

Dolphins are known to be very intelligent, but they can also be cruel. There have been recorded cases of them killing baby dolphins in other pods. They also kill baby manatees.

Otters sexually assault other animals, sometimes long after they are dead.

Many scents are created from the anal secretions of beavers. Castoreum is the basis of many leather, animal and chypre perfumes. Its scent is similar to vanilla.

In the movies, a meteor is a giant fireball that pierces the atmosphere and hurtles slowly toward the Earth as people watch. In reality, that’s not the case: it flies from the edge of our atmosphere to the Earth in less than a second. A meteor hits the Earth with such force that it vaporizes the ground and itself that it touches.