Didn't want to know?! Fascinating and scary trivia & fun facts
Even though we think we don’t want to know scary stories, our curiosity tends to win and we end up watching or listening anyway, right? In this article, we’ve collected general-audience scary trivia and fun facts—the kind that gives you chills but you just can’t stop reading.
Some of it might make a few people regret seeing it a little, but there’s also plenty that’s good to know.
If you’re the type who wants to be informed—about the good and the bad—then follow your curiosity and check it out!
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Trivia and fun facts of surprise and fear (1–10)
It is being routinely produced in cancer cells.
When we hear the word “cancer,” we often think of a frightening illness.
We also see features and news about celebrities and prominent figures who have had cancer on TV and in newspapers.
It isn’t a rare disease; it’s said that one in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives.
You’ve probably heard the term “cancer cells” as well.
In the human body, cell division happens every day.
During this process, the DNA inside cells is copied about 600 billion times daily, and these DNA copies can sometimes go wrong.
Many cells with failed copies die off, but if an error occurs in certain parts of the DNA, the cell can survive as it is.
These are cancer cells, but in many cases they are eliminated by the body’s immune system.
The treadmill was originally a torture device.
Treadmills, which many people use at home or in gyms to help address lack of exercise, were originally instruments of punishment.
In Japan they’re called “room runners,” but overseas they were known as tread apparatuses: prisoners would turn treadwheels for six hours a day, which powered water pumping, grain grinding, and even windmill mechanisms.
At that time, they were used as devices of torture.
With the abolition of prison laws, these punitive devices disappeared, and two professors developed a medical treadmill that came to be used for diagnosing heart and lung conditions.
Later, an exercise physiologist named Kenneth Cooper noted that medical treadmills were also good for training, which led to the creation of home-use treadmills.
You’re more likely to be caught up in a crime and lose your life than to win the lottery.
As we go about our daily lives, we sometimes encounter unexpected strokes of luck or misfortune.
Here is a comparison of probabilities you might rather not know about, related to such luck and misfortune.
As easy-to-understand examples, consider the odds of winning the lottery versus the odds of losing your life after becoming involved in a crime.
Comparing these two, the sad result is that the probability of dying due to involvement in a crime is higher.
Specifically, based on the number of first-prize lottery wins in 2017 and the number of homicide cases in 2016, the latter is said to be 60 times higher.
While it’s a depressing fact, it also makes the dream represented by the lottery feel all the more grand, doesn’t it?
If you force yourself to keep your eyes open while sneezing, your eyeballs can pop out.
Have you ever heard the rumor that we close our eyes when we sneeze so our eyeballs don’t pop out? You could say that’s both true and false.
When you sneeze, pressure builds up in various parts of your face.
Because of that, there is a possibility that the eyeballs could be pushed outward.
However, that doesn’t mean your eyeballs will immediately pop out if you keep your eyes open.
According to one doctor, “While it’s theoretically possible, it’s almost never going to happen.”
Until around the late 1980s, there were instances where surgeries were performed on newborns without anesthesia.
When you hear “the late 1980s,” do you think “that was ages ago” or “that’s fairly recent”? Because newborns couldn’t express their pain in words, there were cases up until the late 1980s where surgery was performed without anesthesia.
In 1988, Dr.
Anand and colleagues investigated and reported that newborns do feel pain, which led to the emergence of the concept of developmental care.
Today, guidelines for pain management in NICU-admitted newborns have been published, and research on pain continues to advance every day.
People often say a decade is a long time—how does this story make you feel?