15 unfunny facts guaranteed to bum out anyone.

Want to know how beloved TV dolphin Flipper passed? Or how many calories are in a human tooth? People are sharing facts that are strange, scary, and definitely not a lot of fun to learn. Here are 15 unfunny facts guaranteed to bum out anyone. 

 

1- Brain-Eating Amoebas

That brain-eating amoebas exist at all, and are pretty commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. Apparently only four people have survived getting it in the last 50 years.

2- Tapeworms

Tapeworms can grow up to 32 feet inside of you and they eat half of what you eat. Tapeworms eat everything their animal or human hosts eat. Since they reside in their hosts' intestines, they have no choice but to conform to their diet. These parasitic worms feed on partially digested food in the intestines.

3- Fatal Familial Insomnia

Fatal familial insomnia exists. It’s a rare, incurable prionic brain disease that progressively destroys your brain’s ability to sleep. Eventually you stop sleeping altogether, go insane, have seizures, and die.

4- Dolphins

Dolphins in captivity usually commit suicide by suffocating themselves. Prolonged confinement in such small quarters can lead to depression and self-harming behaviors. Numerous documented examples of such behavior have been observed in both dolphins and orcas, such as repeated smashing of heads against tank walls or gnawing on walls and gates.

5- Delta P

Scuba divers can experience a sudden change in pressure when swimming near pipes and will get sucked inside, doesn’t matter the size of the hole. It’s called Delta P (aka differential pressure).

Worst part? Someone else usually has to go inside the pipe to remove the body.

6- Cockroaches & Coffee

People who handle cockroaches develop allergies to them. This usually prevents them from drinking pre-ground coffee because of the cockroaches that get grounded in with the large batches.

7- 52 Blue

There is a whale called 52 Blue that only sings at that frequency, meaning it can’t communicate with other whales. It is nicknamed "the loneliest whale in the world."

8- Octopus Moms

Deep sea octopus babies take [over four] years to hatch, while mama octopus never leaves the “nest” to feed and dies when the babies hatch.  She doesn’t eat for years!

9- Old Whales

Whales don’t [succumb to] old age. Eventually they just don’t have the strength to resurface and slowly drown. When whales die in the ocean, their bodies eventually sink to the bottom.

10- Female Tarantula Hawk Wasp

The female tarantula hawk wasp stings a tarantula between the legs, paralyzes it, then drags the prey to a specially prepared burrow, where a single egg is laid on the spider's abdomen, and the entrance is covered.

After several weeks, the larva pupates. Finally, the wasp becomes an adult and emerges from the spider's abdomen to continue the life cycle.

11- Sea Turtles

Watching a baby turtle (known as a "hatchling") struggle out of the nest and make its way to the water is an emotional experience but did you know Only one in every 1,000 sea turtles born ever make[s] it to adulthood.

12- Squirrels and Horses

Squirrels will eat baby birds, and horses will eat baby chicks, if given the chance.

13- Seagulls

Seagulls are also known to eat baby seals' eyeballs.Hungry seagulls on the coast of Namibia have a gruesome way of snacking: they peck out and consume the eyeballs of baby seals, according to a new study.

14- Ducks

Female ducks [are forced to copulate] so frequently that they have an [evolved] vagina that they can offer to intruders so they don't get pregnant by the duck they don't want to get pregnant by.

15- Sunburns

When your skin becomes red from spending too much time under the sunlight, it’s basically because your skin cells are committing suicide to avoid becoming cancerous.