25 of the Creepiest Science Facts

The world is a scary, scary place. At any moment, someone could push a button and nuke you from existence. You live in a hilariously fragile meat tube that could fall apart with the slightest malfunction. Someone keeps greenlighting spin-offs of The Bachelor. Around every corner is a potentially Lovecraftian horror, if only on a metaphorical level.

But ask an expert in any scientific field, and that metaphor disappears real quick. They’ll tell you which plants are fucked up, which animals are crazy, how the ocean is a void of unimaginable terrors, not to even think about space, how your brain is a wacky funhouse nightmare, and how your body is pulling all kinds of freaky shit you don’t even know about.

When user aelmnnor asked r/AskReddit, “What’s a scientific fact that creeps you out?” all that knowledge came tumbling out of Reddit’s intellectual Pandora’s box, and we’ll never be able to close it again.