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Articles that make you wonder how Mankind has managed to survive this far:

Chemicals

  • Chlorine trifluoride - mixing this with many other substances will cause immediate combustion. Also, the Nazis considered it to be too dangerous to work with.
  • Hydrofluoric acid - one of few substances that can dissolve glass. Also, it destroys your bones by dissolving through your skin.
  • Nickel carbonyl, aka "liquid death". Enough said.

Food

  • Balut - boiled ready-to-hatch duck eggs.
  • Casu Marzu - Sheep's milk cheese infested with maggots.
  • Escamoles - Ant eggs / "insect caviar"
  • Lutefisk - lye-soaked fish.
  • Pacha - Boiled sheep's head (Needs disambig and article, sadly)
Source: 6 most terrifying foods in the world
Source: Steve, don't eat it!

Animals

Not all of these are huge, some are either just scary or completely opposite the human concept of cuddly.

Some invertebrates from 5 most horrifying bugs
  • Invertebrates:
(Aquatic)
Coconut crab. That thing it's on? That's a small tree man...
(Non-aquatic)
  • Army ant - Moves in swarms which eat everything they come across, other than rock.
  • Dorylus - Driver ants, specifically, will send an ant down your throat to deliver a poisonous bite to the inside of your lungs, to kill you. Fun fun.
  • Asian giant hornet - it's bite contains a neurotoxin and chemicals that will melt your skin off. Srsly.
Asian giant hornet
  • Vertebrates
Aquatic
  • Candiru - also known as the "penis fish" ... wanna guess where it likes to get stuck?
  • Epaulette shark - also known as a walking shark. As in, it can walk with its fins.
Non-aquatic
  • Extinct (various)
  • Non-animal live
Fungus
Teensy tiny
  • Viruses
Ever wanted to be immortal? Henrietta Lacks is, or more specifically, some of her is, in the form of an immortal cancer that killed her, and has been commercialized. Still, it could have been worse, she could have been parasitic. (Thx to Splarka)
So, why's this here?
  1. . Hospitals/Physicians own your discarded tissue, you have no say in the matter...
  2. . Your cervical cancer + HPV = new species of contagious cancer...
  3. . It's in the fucking wild now
  4. . It's got its own species name, and outlasted its original host.

Plants

Places

a/k/a The Gates of Hell
Why it's interesting:
  1. The least accessible point on the planet.
  2. Rather close to where the Bloop (an unexplained biological sound from an unknown giant animal was heard)
  3. Also rather close to the Monahans underground/undersea nuclear weapons test (~ 20kT, no article)
  4. Did I mention it's right next to Cthulhu's home of R'Lyeh?

Paranormal

People

Humanity

Forteana

Other

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Image from Myiasis.