Note: Some disturbing and graphic content ahead.
1.The fact that the “breast ripper,” a medieval torture device with claw-like spikes that was used exactly as the name implies, actually existed. Apparently, it was used on women who were “accused of adultery, abortion, and other ‘crimes.'”
2.On June 10, 1990, a British Airways flight captain was “partially ejected” (i.e. sucked out) from an aircraft after an improperly installed windscreen panel separated from its screen.
According to interviews with the crew at the time, the situation was so chaotic and intense that the cockpit door was ripped off its hinges. One of the flight attendants even grabbed the captain’s ankles “before he disappeared out the window” after he had been “sucked out of his seatbelt,” ultimately saving the captain’s life.
3.This video of a person going down a waterslide that was unexpectedly FLOODED, which is a whole lotta NOOOOPE!
Watch the full video here:
4.Earlier this year, a “black-market” illegal medical lab “complete with bioengineered mice, infectious agents, nearly 30 refrigerators and freezers some of which were non-operational, incubators, and more” was discovered in Reedley, California (just outside of Fresno).
According to Your Central Valley, many local officials described the site as shocking and disturbing and nothing like anything they’d seen in their 25+-year-long careers.
Some of the most shocking things found were a room housing 1,000 white lab mice (200 of which were already dead, the rest having to be euthanized), 800 different chemicals on site, many biohazards like human blood, and infectious viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents including E. Coli, malaria, and even COVID.
5.A 12-year-old boy in Israel suffered a very rare internal decapitation accident after he was hit by a car while riding his bike. Surgeons then had to perform the life-saving procedure of reattaching his head.
According to NBC 15 News, “After the accident, Suleiman [Hassan] was airlifted to the medical center’s trauma unit, where doctors determined the ligaments holding the posterior base of his skull were severed from the top vertebrae of his spine. The condition is commonly known as internal or orthopedic decapitation.”
6.In 2016, an 18-year-old, Tyler Turner, and the instructor he was jumping in tandem with Died in a skydiving accident after their parachutes didn’t open.
Horrifyingly, this was not the first time a parachute failed to deploy during a jump with this company — Skydive Lodi Parachute Center. Just two years after Turner’s death, a 62-year-old, Nina Lowry Mason, also died after her parachute didn’t open.
According to ABC 10, the facility’s owner, Bill Dause, said “he doesn’t keep track of the total number of deaths, but he believes up to 18 people have died [there] since the year 2000.”
7.A few years ago, a man in Arizona, whose mother died after suffering from Alzheimer’s, donated her body to a facility that he was led to believe would use it for medical research. However, he later discovered that her body was sold to the US military for roughly $6,000 and then blown up in a “blast test” without consent.
Shockingly, her body was just one of 20 dead bodies that were actually sold off to the US Army for these blast experiments without the consent of the deceased or next of kin.
The company that sold the bodies, Biological Resource Center (BRC), is no longer in business. However, Reuters reported that for “over a decade, they were able to sell more than 20,000 parts from about 5,000 human bodies.”
8.In July, a man, Javonnta Murphy, was found inside a barrel at a popular beach in Malibu, California.
In a strange twist, according to TMZ, authorities are currently investigating a possible connection between rapper Pop Smoke’s murder in 2020 and Murphy, whose brother, Jaquan Murphy, was charged with attempted murder for Pop Smoke’s death.
9.A 24-year-old construction worker in Texas was accused of being on drugs but was actually dying of heatstroke while working in Texas back in June 2022. The man, Gabriel Infante, ended up dying in a hospital from severe heatstroke and had a recorded internal temperature of 109.8°F.
The Guardian reported, “According to [a] lawsuit, Infante began exhibiting heatstroke symptoms including confusion, altered mental state, dizziness, and loss of consciousness. His friend and co-worker Joshua Espinoza began pouring cold water over him, trying to cool him down. A foreman insisted Espinoza call the police, claiming Infante’s bizarre behavior was due to drugs, and the foreman pushed for a drug test when emergency medical services arrived.”
10.The existence of the puss caterpillar, which, according to this Reddit user below, “will fuck your world up.” They explained, “I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first, but an hour later, I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. Dear husband took me to the ER, and morphine did nothing.”
“I’m better now, but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard of nor seen this bug before, and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had I seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin. At least it leaves a cool scar.”
—Totally-avg