1Rabies
Once you begin to display symptoms of rabies you will go crazy and die. There is no cure. Your brain will slowly melt until you are dead. Therefore the second you get bitten by anything that has the potential to carry rabies you should get yourself to the hospital.
2Richard Chase
Serial Killer Richard Chase took any unlocked door as an invitation to come inside. He only entered homes with an unlocked door, killed and cannibalized his victims. He considered that locked doors meant he was not welcome.
3Crocodiles
Crocodiles can gallop like a horse. Fortunately, alligators cannot.
4Rigor Erectus
Men who are hanged get a death erection, known as Rigor Erectus.
5Black mamba
A black mamba is the fastest snake which can slither at a speed of 12.5 miles an hour (20km/hr). They have neurotoxins that are fast-acting. The venom shuts down the nervous system and paralyzes the victim. Its venom can kill 10 people and it repeatedly bites. To add to this, it has an almost 100% kill rate and can kill a person in 20 minutes.
6Infant procedure
It wasn't until 1987 that the American Academy of Pediatrics declared it unethical to operate on newborns without anesthesia. Until surprisingly recently, the medical community felt it would be dangerous to give infants anesthesia and/or believed that they didn't feel pain.
7Pirates of the Caribbean ride
When creating the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, they couldn’t create skeletons that looked “realistic” enough, so they used real human skeletons from UCLA medical center. They’ve since removed all of them except one.
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8Ducks
Ducks will sometimes become cannibalistic due to boredom, lack of ventilation, or faulty nutrition. They can only be stopped by cutting off their “mouths.”
9Artyom Sidorkin
It was once discovered that something really strange was growing inside a human body. Artyom Sidorkin went to the doctors suspecting something wrong with his lungs. The doctors thought they were dealing with a tumor but turns out he had inhaled a fir tree seed which had sprouted and had begun growing in his lungs.
10Old
If you live to the age of 70 you will have shed around 105 pounds of skin over your lifetime.
