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17 Jarring Facts That I Regret To Inform You Are True
That phone you're holding has more bacteria than your toilet seat .
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1. Crows can recognize human faces, and some have even been reported to seek revenge on those who they feel have wronged them.
Stephan Gehrlein / Getty Images Maybe that's why a group of crows is called a murder. 2. You are much more likely to be murdered by someone you know than a total stranger.
Dimension Films 3. Severed human feet are known to regularly wash up on the shores of the Salish Sea, which lies between Vancouver and Seattle.
Gary John Norman / Getty Images 4. You exchange approximately 80 million bacteria in a single kiss.
Netflix 5. If you are murdered in the US, there is a 1 in 3 chance your case will never be solved.
Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection 6. There may be as many as 50 active serial killers in the US at any time.
Netflix / Courtesy Everett Collection “A very conservative estimate is that there are between 25 and 50 active serial killers in the United States,” John Douglas, former chief of the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, told People Magazine in 2014. A serial killer is defined as someone who has murdered two or more people in separate incidents. 7. People ingest approximately a teaspoon of plastic weekly, the equivalent of a credit card.
Nickelodeon Studies suggest we may consume as much as 100,000 pieces of tiny plastic a year. 8. Your cellphone carries 10 times more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
The CW 9. There can still be brain activity for up to 30 seconds after a person is decapitated.
ABC Family / Courtesy Everett Collection 10. The US military is currently missing about six nuclear weapons.
FOX 11. There's a real thing called spider rain, in which millions of spiders can literally fall from the sky.
Anna Pismenskova / Getty Images Also called "angel hair," the natural phenomenon may occur after heavy rain or floods. 12. Up to 10% of green coffee beans may be infested with insects, according to the FDA.
Davin G Photography / Getty Images 13. That strawberry yogurt you're eating might have bugs in it.
CBC / Pop Some brands such as Yoplait color their products with carmine, a natural red dye that comes from crushed bugs. The good news is it's considered safe. The bad news is...well. Bugs. 14. There's a rare fatal condition called Fatal Familial Insomnia that slowly destroys the brain's ability to sleep until you eventually die from it.
Elena Shlyapnikova / Getty Images 15. Research suggests that about 1% of the adult male population in the US meets the criteria for psychopathy.
HBO Research scientist Kevin Dutton told in a 2016 interview that a psychopath can be defined as "someone with a distinct cluster of personality traits, including charm, charisma, fearlessness, ruthlessness, narcissism, persuasiveness, and lack of conscience." It does not necessarily indicate violence, and it is not a diagnosis.