Fun Facts: 18 chilling facts, especially the last one.

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1. In Japan, if someone commits suicide by jumping onto train tracks, their family will be charged a fee for the losses incurred due to the train's disruption.

2. Wild bears will eat people: In 2011, a 19-year-old Russian woman called her mother while she was being attacked by a brown bear and three cubs. Her last words were, "Mom, I don't feel any pain anymore! Forgive me for everything, I really love you."

3. In the original version of *Cinderella*, the heroine chops up her stepsister and puts the pieces in a jar, offering it to her stepmother as food. When the stepmother finishes eating and discovers her daughter's skull at the bottom of the jar, she is horrified and dies on the spot.

4. Fredric J. Baur, the designer of the Pringles jar, requested that his ashes be placed in a Pringles jar after his death.

5. Carl Tanzler was a bacteriologist who fell in love with his patient, Elena Milagro de Hoyos. After she died of tuberculosis, Carl exhumed her body, took it home, and glued the decomposing remains back together with thread and wax. They lived together for seven years.

6. "Boat torture" was a form of punishment used by the ancient Persians. Victims were force-fed milk and honey to attract insects that would bite them. As the insects multiplied, the victim would continue to be force-fed milk and honey until death.

7. The Russian Strategic Guided Missile Forces, responsible for the country's nuclear arsenal, have the motto: After us comes silence.

8. Cottal syndrome (also known as living dead syndrome) is a delusional mental illness in which patients believe they are dead or that their internal organs have been removed.

9. When Japanese hornets sting, they release an enzyme that attacks body tissues and can dissolve your skin.

10. In 2014, two books at Harvard University were found to be bound with human skin.

11. In 2015, employees of two daycare centers in New Jersey, USA, were arrested for recruiting more than a dozen boys and girls aged 4 to 6 and running a "children's fighting club."

12. The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a chemical hazard signal, or you could say it's the plant's tears.

13. If there are no other food sources, the Nematode will eat itself.

14. In 1912, a French orphanage held a raffle to raise funds, and the prize... was a baby.

15. Pharaoh Tutankhamun's penis was mummified in an erect position.

16. In Bern, Switzerland, there is a 500-year-old statue depicting a man eating a baby, called the "Fountain of the Child Eater."

17. Marriage to a dead person is legal in France.

18. More people die from taking selfies each year than from being killed by sharks!

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