Knowing how to survive a zombie apocalypse is no laughing matter. These facts will give you everything you need to stay alive.Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Photo by Jamie Trueblood / Paramount Pictures An impending zombie attack is no laughing matter. In fact, there is a plethora of interesting books and helpful films to allow you survive a zombie apocalypse and provide you with zombie facts. Before you check those out, here are some basic tips for escaping an undead onslaught:

About 30 years ago, Canadian farmers released hogs into the wild as the meat market slowed. These pigs have since grown gigantic and are ravaging farmland across the continent.Wikimedia CommonsThe feral pigs have been wallowing in stream beds — leading experts to worry about infectious diseases being spawned. When Canadian farmers imported wild boars from Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the goal was purely to raise meat. Even though some of them escaped and others were freed once the meat market slowed, none of the farmers thought these animals would survive the harsh Canadian winters.

On January 31, 2013, a 21-year-old Canadian student named Elisa Lam vanished inside Los Angeles' Cecil Hotel — then her dead body turned up in its water tank.To this day, nobody knows how exactly Elisa Lam died. We know that the 21-year-old Canadian college student was last seen in the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles on January 31, 2013. But the infamously chilling hotel surveillance video that captured the bizarre final moments before her disappearance — let alone the other details that have emerged since — have only elicited more questions than answers.

Though some believe that an alien craft called the Black Knight Satellite is orbiting Earth, NASA says that any photographic "proof" merely depicts space junk.In 2017, conspiracy theorists claimed the Illuminati had shot down a UFO. They called the object the “Black Knight Satellite” and said it had been orbiting Earth for more than 13,000 years until leaders of the secret society took action. It was a wild claim, but it was only the latest in a long series of claims that make up the Black Knight Satellite conspiracy theory, which goes back decades.

The pregnant ichthyosaur fossil dubbed "Fiona" was found near the Tyndall Glacier in Chile's Patagonia region.Alejandra ZúñigaExcited archeologists gather around the pregnant ichthyosaur, the first found in Chile. Finding an intact ichthyosaur fossil is exciting on its own. But the ichthyosaur fossil discovered by paleontologists in Chile is not only intact — it’s pregnant and contains embryos. The stunning fossil “is the only pregnant ichthyosaur that’s been found on the planet from the era between 129 and 139 million years ago,” Judith Pardo-Pérez, a researcher at the GAIA Antarctic Research Center at the University of Magallanes (UMAG) told Reuters.