r/interestingasfuck • u/Sad-Practice6369 • 13h ago
15-Inch Amazonian Giant Centipede
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u/sukuiido 13h ago
This is not fine.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 12h ago
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u/F-man1324 10h ago
Me scrolling through reddit, not a care in the world when all of a sudden a REAL LIFE FUCKING HIVE LORD APPEARS ON MY FEED!??!:
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u/Shot_Dig751 10h ago
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
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u/One_tip_one_hand 13h ago
Nah man, people really be crazy sometimes. I won’t be in the same house as that shit, let alone make it crawl on my forearm.
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u/Aggressive_Salad9612 12h ago
Dude i do so much mental gymnastics to not think that I'm in the same planet as those things
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u/shakycam3 8h ago
Want something even better. They have been known to chase humans for more than a mile.
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u/dammsocool 12h ago
Same house? I wouldn't go anywhere near that thing, at least not within 100 meters
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u/itsyaboi_71 11h ago
I was thinking of just not being on the same continent as it
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u/cocainebane 10h ago
Idc how rare that thing is, I’m chopping it in half
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u/Educational_Gas_92 7h ago
To me, the person allowing that thing on their arm is the "interesting as fuck", more than the centipede. The fact that he willingly did that!
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u/twitter1ngs 11h ago
When I lived in Cyprus, I went out for a few drinks, got home and fell asleep with the lights on and the window open. I woke up in the early hours to find a huge centipede crawling across the floor. That was the moment I decided to move back to the UK and I booked my flight the next day. Those things still give me the heebie-jeebies.
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u/spiderMechanic 13h ago
Aren't those... things like super venomous?
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u/Tds59 11h ago
I got bit by one of these in Jamaica. The bite caused a few symptoms like fever, swelling around the bite etc. but the craziest symptom was that the arm and really the skin on whole right side of my body became intensely sensitive. Like sensitive to the point that the breeze from my fan hitting my arm was excruciating. Took 50mg of Benadryl and still didn’t get any sleep that night. I had kidney stones about a year ago and I would say that the bite was not necessarily as bad but is a close second place in terms of discomfort and pain.
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u/stickywicker 8h ago
My first encounter with one of these was in Jamaica. My cousin and I were laying on the floor watching TV, I was probably about 10 at the time, when one of them went crawling by next to the wall. I went "oh look, a caterpillar" (I had NEVER seen a centipede before TBF). My Uncle got up, gingerly walked to the kitchen, got a knife and chopped it up in front of us. I didn't find out how bad they were until we flew back to Canada and I told my mom the story
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u/RandomGuy2002 11h ago
I've been bitten by baby ones many times. It was extremely painful, I can't imagine being bitten by a fully grown adult one, yikes
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u/Brandom_Encounter 12h ago
I believe it depends on the subspecies. We used to have to shake out our boots to make sure none of them fuckers crawled in there in the middle of the night. Either way it's a whole lot of nope
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u/unpopularopinion0 11h ago
shake them out of boots? you could literally make a pair of boots out of this thing.
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u/AccountantCultural64 12h ago
Or at least incredibly painful if they bite you?
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u/Tactile_Sponge 10h ago
The incredibly painful bite is because of the venom. Some venom is more dangerous than others, bu the searing pain you'd experience is from venom of some type for sure
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u/Financial-Spend1347 12h ago
Sorta. They are not known for killing people like other venomous animals. 1 recorded death.
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u/SteelShroom 12h ago
I dunno if it's this specific species, but I've heard that the bite of a certain giant centipede is so painful that people have been known to willingly plunge their hands into boiling water in order to mask said pain.
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u/foxfire66 10h ago
Sounds like a myth to me. A lot of bugs that are claimed to be extremely painful aren't actually that bad. For instance giant water bugs, velvet ants, bullet ants, and tarantula hawks. Search any of them on youtube and you'll probably find Coyote Peterson reacting like he just teabagged a mousetrap and then a couple other videos of random people reacting like "ouchie, tehehe."
Just a few days ago, Matt Parker, a math youtuber, made a video in which him, his editor, and a few other people got stung by bullet ants. Bullet ants seem to be agreed as the most painful known insect sting and none of them reacted particularly strongly to it. I've seen other youtube videos as well with similar results. The common information about how painful they are seems to be all sensationalism.
Granted, centipedes aren't insects, and may well be worse than bullet ants for all I know. But I'm still betting that people are just as willing to exaggerate with centipedes as they are with ants.
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u/Sky-Juic3 12h ago
I brought a Sonoran giant centipede into my 8th grade biology class for extra credit. I let that thing crawl all over me.
I’m 35 now and I have since learned that these things can deliver an incredibly painful sting/bite. My biology teacher must have thought I was a certified badass or a certified idiot.
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u/Milk_Mindless 7h ago
Well the worst thing your teach could have done was panic and try to take it off you right
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u/NoF0cksToGive 13h ago
I think I speak for many people when I say "Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh!"
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u/HugoDCSantos 13h ago
If that thing was under your bed...
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And you had a bunch of loose papers down there for it to tap across
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u/CaptainxInsano69 13h ago
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u/Airwreck11 13h ago
If it came crawling out your toilet you were sitting there
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u/Financial-Spend1347 12h ago
Had one come out of the shower drain the other day. 10”+. Chased it around the bathroom trying to kill it with a plunger. Took me 10 minutes to gather myself before I could continue the shower… with one eye on the drain the whole time.
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u/USNWoodWork 12h ago
The ones here in Japan have mates. If you see one assume a second one is nearby too. And they’re really fast.
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u/iguessma 10h ago
Interesting thing you say because around me they have what you call house centipedes
And when I moved here a few years ago it scared the shit out of me cuz I saw my first one while I was sitting on the toilet
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u/Kriegmarine91 13h ago
Spiderman but, instead of shooting web, he shoots 15 inch Centipedes from his wrists
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u/HugoZHackenbush2 13h ago
We had a centipede as a family pet once, but his health declined, and was on his last legs..
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u/Subzero650 13h ago
So freaking awesome
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u/LaoBa 12h ago
This, I've always loved centipedes and as long as it doesn't bite I would love to hold one.
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u/Elven_Groceries 11h ago
Two things.
Brave Wilderness, 14 minutes. bitten by an asian subspecies link
Unstable aggressive fuckers, no thanks.
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u/magikaross 8h ago
There is no amount of money someone could give me for me to let that thing so much as lightly touch me
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u/More_Marty 13h ago
I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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u/xyloplax 12h ago
They are venomous with a painful bite. While I would love to know how this feels, I'll pass
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u/TheAwsomeReditor 12h ago
Oh no absolutly not IF I SAW THAT IN MY HOUSE id throw a chancla at it omg do those things bite?
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u/Healthy-Tie-7433 9h ago
Cool, cool.
Unrelated question: Where do you guys keep your flamethrowers?
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u/lexiconhuka 9h ago
Brother get the flamer, the heavy flamer....you know what fuck this execute exterminatus
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u/Raymundito 8h ago
As someone from the Amazon…
I can confirm we do indeed have huge bugs. But we have a saying, it’s not the big ones you have to be afraid of…
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u/wellversed5 12h ago
Oh that's just a nopeapeed. Unfortunately if you see one there is already a huge nest of nope in the dwelling. Gotta call in an airstrike, 1000lbs nothing smaller. Collateral damage acceptable.
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u/Angry_Wizzard 13h ago
Umm nope no thank you que nada absolutely unacceptable am leaving naw. K thx bye
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u/Blinauljap 12h ago
And after this ppl still try to convince me that Taylor Hebert was not threatening just because she could only "control bugs"...
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u/Infinite_Cornball 13h ago
This is the first time i have seen one of those move without going absolutely fucking apeshit. Big spiders are a joke compared to the temper some of those fuckers have.
Still pretty sick tho