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Be Amazed

Facts That Will Scar You For Life

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered how many bacteria you swapped with the last person you kissed, or how snails eat? The answers to questions like these can be more shocking than you’d expect. With some facts, once you’ve learned their secrets, you’ll wish you never did! Here's a selection of scary and shocking facts that will scar you for life!




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0:00.0

Have you ever wondered how many bacteria you swapped with the last person you kissed or how snails eat?

0:06.5

The answer to questions like these can be more shocking than you'd expect.

0:11.1

With some facts, once you've learned their secrets, you'll wish you never did.

0:15.9

Get ready to never be the same again, because here are a bunch of facts that will scar you for life.

0:22.4

You're listening. You're listening to be amazed. Most of us never stopped to think about just how many

0:36.3

microscopic beings we share our bodies with,

0:39.2

but research carried out for the Belly Button Biodiversity Project, found there to be around

0:44.0

70 species of bacteria in the average person's belly button alone. They even found bacteria

0:50.2

normally used to make cheese chilling in there. What's more, if you were able to remove all

0:55.3

the bacteria from your body, it would weigh as much as seven ounces. And if exchanging phone

1:00.8

numbers isn't enough for you, every time two people kiss, they exchange between 10 million

1:05.5

and 1 billion bacteria. Of the 100 billion bacteria living in the gut, 85% of them are beneficial,

1:13.6

and they're vital for keeping us alive. At least now you'll never be lonely.

1:18.6

Now here's a disturbing idea for you. Babies in the womb have been known to cry when startled.

1:24.6

Only their lungs and airways are filled with amniotic fluid until birth,

1:28.8

meaning there's no way for them to produce sound. That means right now, frightened babies in utero

1:34.9

are inconsolably, silently screaming and sobbing. Pretty creepy. How about Kotard syndrome?

1:42.4

It's a rare condition whereby sufferers become convinced that they,

1:46.5

or parts of their bodies, are dead. It's thought to be caused by malfunctions in the facial

1:51.7

recognition centers of the brain, meaning the person becomes unable to associate emotions with

1:56.6

their own body and no longer recognizes themselves as a living being.

2:05.4

Some convince themselves that they have been condemned to eternal damnation on earth,

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