Little known creepy things about blood

Blood only accounts for about 7% of the total weight of the human body, but plays an essential role, deciding our survival, because it simultaneously undertakes many functions such as breathing, providing nutrition, excretion, protection, regulating body temperature and body activities. There are still many interesting, even creepy facts that are little known about this unique liquid.

Scientists in the former Soviet Union kept severed dog heads alive using an artificial blood circulation system. The severed heads then moved, their ears responded to sounds and their tongues could lick their lips.

The human heart creates enough pressure to shoot blood up to 30 feet. Over the course of a lifetime, it will pump 48 million gallons (about 181.7 million liters) of blood throughout the body.

The Nordic Food Lab cafe in Copenhagen, Denmark uses blood as an egg substitute. Their specialties include blood pancakes, blood meringues, and blood ice cream.

Horned lizards shoot blood from their eyes into the mouths of predators. Acting as a defense mechanism, the blood has a very unpleasant taste, discouraging animals from attacking the lizard.

Sixteenth-century Germans believed that drinking blood had health benefits. They paid for cups of fresh blood at executions and used executioners as healers.

The anti-aging methods of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, famously beautiful and cruel, included bathing in the blood of virgins. She was nicknamed the "Bloody Countess" after killing 650 women in medieval Hungary.

In an effort to demonstrate his piety, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein once created a Quran written in his own blood. Over two years, he had 26 liters of blood extracted from his body to complete the book.

Haemolacria is a rare condition that causes people to cry tears of blood. It can develop spontaneously, with blood leaking from both eyes several times a day.

Folklore in many cultures around the world has mentioned the use of menstrual blood as a love charm. Unknowingly consuming this blood during meals is believed to have the effect of bewitching the "enchanted" person.

The 15th-century nobleman Vlad III ate bread dipped in the blood of his murdered victims, claiming he wanted to taste life. Vlad III thus became the inspiration for the fictional vampire Count Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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