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30 Cool But Pretty Disturbing Facts About The Human Body That Not Many People Know About
The human body is utterly fascinating. But just when you think you’ve got a grip on everything there is to know, science progresses and throws you a curveball. What you may have learned in biology class at school is just the tip of the iceberg and might have already changed over the years.
The members of the r/AskReddit online community shared the creepiest and most bizarre facts they know about the human body, and we’ve collected some of the most intriguing ones to share with you. Scroll down, have a read, and you might just see your perspective change.
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#1
If you have severe mental illness like anxiety and depression, you feel like there’s an entire universe within your brain. The amount of thoughts, pain, feelings, sensations, imaginations and perceptions about everything, and it’s complexity, is just too much to handle. You literally feel like time has stopped and are living in an alternate reality. What I’m trying to say is, when you are mentally ill, you have no control over what your brain is feeding your mind, already considering that the brain has high affinity towards negativity (thoughts, pain, etc). Your brain can/will turn against you. Mental illness is no joke, please take care.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
Mine did. I tried. I failed. I failed a lot. I got meds & therapy. I decided that I was bad at finishing myself off so I should accept that I’m also a failure at that and move on. Be kind to yourself and hang around a bit longer, you are valuable and loved. If no one has told you that you are loved then I’ll tell you, I love you being on this planet, you can be and do amazing stuff. Stick around and you’ll see. Be more kind.
Rosie 1 year ago
My therapist told me I should be as kind to myself as I am to others.
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Cactuar Jon 1 year ago
Wait... so people without anxiety ect don't have this? I've often wondered what it's like to not have mental illness. I've never known life without it.
IsaMendes 1 year ago
That feeling when you're just so f*cking tired and just want to shut it all off but it feels like your brain is just getting heavier and heavier and your head is about to explode and you can't hide or run away from it and you feel miserable and alone because no one in your life understands how it feels like.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Groundhog Day. That's what it feels like, but without the comedy or the groundhog. Just the same effing day, after day, after day.
Donteatme666 1 year ago
Yep it sucks hard really really really hard PTSD and depression is mine freaking life
Deborah B 1 year ago
What we see and hear is our brain's interpretation of sensory information, and a lot of what we think we see and hear is being filled in by the brain. If your brain gliches, and makes something up, you can't tell the difference. Hallucinations can seem 100% real, not just "like dreaming", but absolutely real.
alaina66 1 year ago
Right now I'm going through dissociative disorder and feel like I am not in my real body, but a shell acting like a robot everyday. Hopefully new meds will help. It's an awful feeling. Good luck, everyone...
Laura Williams 1 year ago
I have bipolar disorder, schizo affective disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, black outs ect. Ect. Take meds don't really do therapy but for personal reasons.
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#2
Our brain filters out a lot of what we see along with just straight making s**t up based on extrapolation.
staceybeaverhausen 1 year ago
my next life my brain is gonna have all the filters cause f this.
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Elisa 1 year ago
Your eyes reflect everything upside down, your brain turns it back the right way around.
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#3
There’s a nerve that has the nerve of not knowing what its purpose is. Specifically the ulnar nerve aka the Funny Bone. -rest taken from tumblr post - The reason it feels so weird to hit it is that it's not designed to deliver pain signals, so when you hit it it just wiggs out and sends Garbage signals to the brain, and the brain is just like "uh, dude- Ulnar, what the hell is this garbage?? You're supposed to curl a finger and a half, and move some muscles in the forearm, why are you sending me this c**p? How am I supposed to make this into sensory output?" And the Ulnar nerve is just like "dude dude dude, brain- what the hell is going on?!?" And the brain goes- "idiot. Fine. You're on fire, freezing and being electrocuted. Happy?" And the Ulnar goes "holy c**p brain!! I'm on fire, freezing and being electrocuted! What am I going to do!!??!" And the brain says "You're an idiot ulnar. A damn idiot.”.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Fun fact: At the bottom of your arm close to the armpit you can replicate a similar sensation as hitting the elbow when you push your thumb in at the right spot. There's no reason why you should do that and I don't know what this is called either, but it's possible.
Ellie Stokes 1 year ago
Until you have your Ulna nerve trapped after a horrendous elbow break. It sure knows how to send off pain signals then.
Cat Dragon 1 year ago
Every time I hit it my arm (but only the left side) and my last two fingers go tingly
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Thanks for the laugh so much laughter from this one. Still laughing.
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Knocked mine too often, really bruised the nerve, and bone....still healing
If you ever plan on working as a doctor, nutritionist, sports scientist, chiropractor, etc., then you’ve got to have a firm understanding of human anatomy, biology, and biochemistry. However, like with anything science-related, this body of knowledge is constantly evolving.
This means that as a professional, you have to put in the time and effort to stay up to date with the latest developments in your area: reading science journals, attending conferences, and engaging in debates with your fellow researchers. If you’re not active enough, you might soon find that what you know is outdated and you’re not as competitive as your colleagues.
#4
Your intestines "know" what shape they're supposed to be in, and can move themselves, which means gut surgeons can just stuff them back into you when they're done and they'll sort themselves out.
Laugh or not 1 year ago
That must feel weird. I wonder if it is fast enough that the patient is still anesthesised or high on pain killer, or if it is slow and they get to feel their inside moving.
Libstak 1 year ago
I felt it after my hysterectomy, apparently they just settle in and around the space my uterus used to be, felt it for a few weeks.
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Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
Doesn't mean it really hurts until they are back in place. I had a piece of my large intestine removed and they stuffed it back in. Until it settled I had terrible gas bubbles - then I let out an almighty and exceedingly un-lady-like fart and the pain was gone.
Chickie 1 year ago
I had surgery in 2011 that required the doctor to have to examine my intestinal tract. Yep, after taking all of it out (and removing 14 inches of it), he just stuffed it right back in and YES it is very weird to feel the intestines "sorting" itself out. It took a while to readjust. Even on pain killers in the hospital, I could feel it.
David 1 year ago
I'm guessing this is less "know" and more the fact the intestines are basically a muscle. They contract to move food/waste through them and that movement would logically mean they will eventually settle where they fit the best.
Annemarie van der Westhuysen 1 year ago
I definitely felt my intestines rearranging themselves after I had my eldest son. Just sliding down and moving back into place over the space of a week or two as my uterus shrank down...
Kare Deter 1 year ago
omg yes, I could feel & SEE mine move sort of like the baby was still inside. It was the weirdest feeling ever.
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Veronica Jean 1 year ago
I've seen this, actually. Not them move, but the surgeons stuff them back in and wait for them to sort themselves out.
Susie Elle 1 year ago (edited)
Isn't this because the intestine is not a loose tube just chilling in your body, but held together by a scaffold of connecting tissue? I don't know what the name is, but it's like a sheet that holds the entire intestine into a bundle. I don't think a surgeon will cut it loose from that tissue unless absolutely necessary, because if you disconnect the intestine from it's scaffold, it actually will be just a loose tube that could twist and cut itself off. EDIT: the mesentery.
#5
When you get laser tattoo removal the ink doesn’t disappear, you pee it out.
Your body’s immune system breaks down the pigments of ink and it flows in your blood stream, gets processed through your kidneys, then you pee out the ink.
Corvus 1 year ago
Yeah, the most common way of stuff leaving your body is by being peed out... except for body fat, which (believe it or not) is exhaled ;)
Kare Deter 1 year ago
*hyperventilates* don't mind me, just trying to lose some body fat...
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María Hermida 1 year ago
Can people be poisoned by the ink? I mean, if the pigments flow in your blood stream, could they be harmful for your body?
Astro 1 year ago
They can be, yes! ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35592919/ ) I can tell you that some people possibly get a bit of a weird immune system “boost” from getting tattoos. “People with more tattoos appear to have higher levels of immune molecules, including antibodies. However, researchers point out that more antibodies don't always translate into better immunity and no one knows how long the effects really last.“
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Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
Funny enough, the tattoo is already inside your immune system. Kurzgesat already had a video on it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGggU-Cxhv0) When you get the removal done, you're just breaking it up into smaller parts so it can effectively get rid of it.
Steve Hall 1 year ago
If this is true then why don't you just pee out the ink as soon as the tattoo is made?
Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
Because your immune system's already sending bodies to surround the ink and hold it from 'infecting' other parts of your body. That's how it gets 'locked' into your skin and you don't reject it.
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Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
I never knew that. So women can't make their tattoos disappear?! Luckily I have no tattoos, but darn! Life is not fair.
#6
Your tongue has **incredible** tactile capabilities. So much so, that if you look at any object, you can vividly imagine what it would feel like to lick it. Go ahead, look at the wall, your shirt, your shoe—the tongue knows.
Marcos Valencia 1 year ago
I had my wife in front of me while reading this. I know what you mean.
Marianne 1 year ago
That's because we licked all kinds of stuff as toddlers and we subconsciously remember what it felt and tasted like.
Astro 1 year ago (edited)
I have synesthesia, which for me means letters, numbers and musical notes have colours and moods and textures. The weird thing about the textures is that I feel them in my mouth. So the letter U is dark blue and feels like a heavy cool glass marble in my mouth. TV static is like running my tongue over something hairy. Idk why 😅
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Dragons Exist 1 year ago
At least for me it's a similar thing with imaging what your fingers would feel
Forrest McCanless 1 year ago
If I think about hot peppers, my tongue tingles and I begin to salivate - it's happening now. Yum!
Astro 1 year ago
Mmm like jalapeños stuffed with feta and cream cheese…. 🤤
Load More Replies... Laugh or not 1 year ago
Yes, it does, and it remembers the good stuff, so thinking of certain foods make it all tingly and I start salivating.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
What sort of nonsense is this? Either I'm weird or it doesn't apply to everyone. Because I can't "vividly imagine" that.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Chances are it's you. There's always a few % who don't have what "everybody" has in these things --- an inner voice/narrator, ability to picture things, ... . That said, I just looked at my computer and I have no idea what it would taste like; so many plastics smell/taste/feel different.
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Definitely a Human 1 year ago
You only know because you've touched those things with your fingers though
One of the most intriguing things about the human body, at least for us, is our brain’s capacity for neuroplasticity—the ability to change and adapt throughout our entire lifetime. Though neuroplasticity is very active when we’re kids, we have the ability to mold our brains even when we’re older.
To put it simply, neuroplasticity means that our brains are slowly shifting and adapting as we learn new skills and things about our environments. New connections get formed, and some existing ones get stronger, while weaker ones end up being lost.
#7
The liver can grow parts of itself back. If you get a splinter or foreign object stuck in your skin you can hold a flashlight against your skin and shine the light through your flesh, and the foreign object will be a dark spot. Light actually passes through our flesh quite well. Also, if you shine a bright enough light into your mouth you can see the light in your own eyes.
Edit: I’m really glad that so many people have gotten out their flashlights and had some fun with them! Never stop exploring and being curious and trying to discover new things! The world is amazing and has so much crazy stuff to uncover! Y’all keep having fun now, and thank you everyone for all the wonderful replies and absolutely making my day!
Steve Hall 1 year ago
I can put a flashlight up to my son's ear and see the light shine on the wall beside him.
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
I used to make my hand glow a lot with a flashlight as a kid, with AI, acell phone, a flashlight, and a dark room I wonder if they could make an app that could make something like an xray of your hand but without actual xray radiation?
ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Used to do this as a kid with a torch, mouth and hands, always captivating
Peter Trudell Jr 1 year ago
who hasn't already put a flashlight between their lips and puffed out their cheeks to see them glow? Did that all the time as a kid.
#8
People keep saying "your brain" in these comments. I think one of the creepiest things is that you are the brain and the brain is you, but for some reason we brains really don't like to acknowledge this.
Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
My brain is me, I am my brain, fair enough. I’d like to know why my brain (me) decided that for a two year period it (me) spent so much time working out how to kill itself (me) and that it took a lot of chemicals and therapy to get myself (and my brain) to slow that process down to just a few suicidal thoughts a year. Stupid brain (me), don’t you see that if you were successful then you’d have killed yourself (and me!).
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
I feel you .. deep down. Glad you found some medication that helps you. I had ideations for 30 of my 50 years, and two pills a day has made my brain (me) finally understand that I am worth loving. I will keep you in my thoughts.
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Astro 1 year ago
If I cut off your arms, legs, and replace all the organs I possibly can with donor organs, you’ll still be yourself, right. But if I remove your brain, you’re gone. Not exactly proof but 😂
Load More Replies... Becca not Becky 1 year ago
My mental health in nursing textbook described the brain as the only organ that can study itself.
Tanya Hunt Clarke 1 year ago
The brain is just an organ, it has some residual memory - like a heart can have - but our consciousness is what makes us. Even the medical community are begining to acknowledge the probability of a separate consciousness that does not die when our bodies do. This is evidenced by health workers in hospice care, also by surgeons and nurses who have been told what they did/said during operations in which the teller was clinically, and officially, dead (but later brought back to life - an NDE, Near Death Experience) and the milllions of people who have undergone an NDE (thousands of whom have written books about it, or recorded their stories on You Tube).
Blue 1 year ago
Mine ("main") is just a tad broken right now. But what I do know is that you in fact have a few 'brains' throughout your body. So my "main" brain is just a tad unwell right now, but that, in turn, is effecting my other brains... For example, you have more than one in your guts. The point is, you have a "main brain" - the one in your head - but you actually have a few dotted about. Classed as 'lesser', but actually apsoloutely essential to your very functioning overall
#9
Incident number 1: I had a bad enough broken bone when I was 9 that it almost killed me. Apparently the marrow that makes blood can't exist in your bloodstream, fun fact lol.
Incident number 2: My orthopedic surgeon and my neurologist still don't have a good explanation as to how I have full range of motion in my legs (ie: the ability to walk/run even) I've never seen a super smart guy like my neurologist just go "I don't really know?" after I had broken my back and had nerve damage and partial paralysis in both legs. My neurologist says that sometimes cerebrospinal fluid can act as a bridge for major nerve damage so MAYBE that. Otherwise? He wrote some published stuff about it that was more question than answer haha.
All I know is that when I get x-rays done or switch doctors, the response is "how did you walk in here??" it visibly unsettles them. Like I'm playing a prank and my wheel chair is hidden somewhere lol. I don't really care, if I'm being honest. It hurts a lot sometimes, and people get really weird sometimes when I remind them that I can't do some things but, *shrugs* I can walk so it doesn't matter much to me.
Long story short, sometimes your body can do some weird and creepy s**t that even the professionals go....."ehhhh?" about lol.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
I had a very complicated case when it came to my oral health. Because of a weird combination of genes, 5 of my permanent teeth didn’t erupt until proper surgery was done. The fifth tooth that didn’t erupt was so deep inside my skull that the surgeon had to take care not to cut into my nasal cavity when removing it from inside. I’m a topic of gossip at my local dentist because of this
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
My dentist wrote a paper about how my false teeth got eaten by a dog when I was 4. :) I had an accident where my 2 front teeth got knocked out and needed a retainer to hold the space open until my adult teeth grew in. The retainer had 2 little porcelain teeth on it but I always had to take it out in order to eat. At a b-day party I did exactly that. Then the b-day girl's dog somehow found the retainer and decided the fake teeth looked delicious. LOL! She didn't eat the whole thing - just the teeth. I was very upset I didn't have teeth anymore, and my parents weren't pleased about having to replace it. The dog was fine though. ;)
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
I just had an x-ray of my cervical spine. Two of my vertebrae have fused together at the front from chronic slouching all my life. It explains why no amount of exercises will get my posture straight again.
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
I have an eye disorder named after me, under my maiden name. To this day, every time I see an eye doctor, no one can figure out how it is that I can see as well as I can, and nobody knows what to do with me. They've been telling me I was going to go blind since I was 14 years old, but here I am still able to drive.
Ur_Fav_Lazy_Panda🫶 1 year ago
I have hypodontia, an oral issue which you are missing permanent teeth. I was born without eight teeth, which are permanently gone, and my teeth are peg like and rounded at the bottom. I only have two pairs of teeth that line up properly, which is making it hard to eat. One tooth of each pair of teeth is loose, so I have to get some sort of help from my orthodontist next month! I’m excited to eat properly again!
Shine Chisholm (they/ them) 1 year ago
The blood in my left leg just kind of chills out. It doesn't really hang out in blood vessels. I have no problems, though. We found out about it on accident. It's crazy to me
CanadianDimes 1 year ago
I broke my fibula when I dislocated my ankle 20 years ago and the break never fully ossified back together (likely explained by the fact that the fibula bears only 5% of the weight in the lower leg). It’s probably held together by soft tissue connections, which don’t show up on x-rays. Whenever I get my ankle x-rayed, the image just catches the fibulas break and I always get concerned x-ray techs talking to me. The very first time after my ankle had healed, the radiologist called my GP in a panic to inform her she had a patient walking around on a broken leg. Technically true!
PattyK 1 year ago
What does incident number 1 mean? Yes, a broken bone can be fatal when it severs a major artery, but that has nothing to do with bone marrow. And more than one bone makes bone marrow, so even if one bone marrow-producing bone is broken, the other bones will continue making bone marrow.
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
I believe they mean that the break was so severe, they ended up getting bone marrow into their bloodstream, which almost killed them .
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Of course, neuroplasticity isn’t a panacea. It still requires a massive amount of effort for us to learn new skills, languages, and information. That being said, it means that we never lose the ability to learn as we grow older, which is a very optimistic thought.
#10
Food that was consumed can sometimes take up to 5 days to fully pass through your intestines into your colon. So when people say that you are full of s**t, they ain't lying.
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
Or in my case, a month or more. I literally only poop 1 or 2 times a month...at best. I generally wake up in pain, sweats and nausea as my boddy attempts to pass the hard stool. I have literally passed out on the toilet from this. Its horrible every time and I'm certain my colon will explode and kill me someday. Yes, I'm being treated by a doctor.
Crystal Spencer 1 year ago
My 15 year old like to play a game.. how long before mom sees tonight's corn. The record is 28 days.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Lactose intolerant here. One yogurt and my bowel get emptied in less than one hour.
Corvus 1 year ago
As one of my friends said: "It's so weird to imagine telling someone that you love them, while there is food decomposing in your gut."
Lotekguy 1 year ago
No reason to feel that way. You're bonded by the fact that the other person's gut is doing the same. Shared activities strengthen a relationship, so feel free to pledge thy troth forthwith.
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I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Haven’t much in my life but one thing which is good is that I am a happy pooper! And it’s a little win that I’m grateful for 👍🏻
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
Factors can include if you are fasting or starving in which case the body tries to hold on to the food longer, and if it starts spoiling in which case the body will try to get rid of it fast. Also although in the long run it's in one end out the other the human digestive system tries to compensate for being short by having the food move back and forth in certain sections until it feels it's gotten most of the nutrition out of the food each section is designed to extract.
#11
Bodies will move as they’re coming out of rigor. I’ve been bumped by a few (I’m a coroner). Bodies can also make sounds as the remaining air/ gas leaves… 2am in the morgue and I thought I was in COD zombies.
Cecilia Harris 1 year ago
This list is making me want to NEVER work in a morgue. Respect to those who do, it's just not for me. I scare way too easily.
Astro 1 year ago
My grandma worked in a morgue. She passed away last year. I inherited her car. She has a decal on the back window that kind of looks like a “first responder” decal with the cadaceus medical snake & wing symbol….but it’s all black and it says “last responder” 💀 took me a couple days to get it but when I did I genuinely laughed out loud. Thanks for one last laugh Baba 😂❤️
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Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
A guy who worked as a morgue tech in our local hospital claimed that a body sat up behind him while it was on the slab. He said his fight or flight mechanism kicked in, and he wheeled round and lamped that dead c**t right in their f*cking face. The hospital told the relatives the body had been dropped in transit, which is why it had a broken nose that materialised after death...
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I've been at a morgue once. Dead people sound surprisingly much like whoopee cushions
cerinamroth 1 year ago
My dad was definitely more of a whoopee cushion in life than he was in death... In fact, my last words to him were "You live by the sword, you die by the sword" because he was complaining about the stink after doing a fart in a lift.
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Barbara Turner 1 year ago
April fools is coming up. Don't anyone please remove the soundbox from a screaming rubber chicken and put it in the throat of a body. It's illegal.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago (edited)
Experienced that with a pet who'd just crossed the Bridge (I was putting him in the car to take him home from the vet's office for burial). Went running back into the office freaking out. The vet and staff seemed used to such things and did very well kindly calming me and explaining the situation. In my defense, I was only early 20s at the time and did not know it could happen under conditions that weren't from a Stephen King novel.
John Nelson 1 year ago
I had a cousin that worked in a funeral home doing cleaning after hours. One stormy night, he swears one of the bodies moved. He ran screaming from the building and never went back. Sounds like he wasn't seeing things after all. But I won't stop razzing him when it comes up now and then. :)
#12
The placebo effect is one of the biggest superpowers of the human body, showing how strong and weak it is at the same time and how easy is to trick any mind. Modern day science can't still fully understand it.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
It even works on rats. If a rat has had painkillers and believes it got them again, it will act as if the painkillers had worked.
Ace 1 year ago
The placebo effect is just one example and really only comes about because the patient believes that their treatment will work. Even when they know that they're only receiving a placebo treatment it can still work. Some early 'medical' treatments worked only via this mechanism, with no actual physical interaction at all. I'm talking about faith healing, or shamanism, or other 'spiritual' treatments, some of which still exist, with some limited success, to this day.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
In case anyone is wondering what that is, it's literally the opposite of placebo. Tell someone that a thing will harm them (even though it's harmless) and they will suffer harm. It's one reason that reading "possible side effects" on d***s can be a bad thing. If you think you've going to get dizziness, nausea and drowsiness you probably will.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 1 year ago
I can confirm this effect does work. I was supposed to be on painkillers after surgery but ended up taking an antacid instead yet I felt little to no pain the whole night
Giles McArdell 1 year ago
Did you know that you can benefit from the placebo effect even if you know you are taking a placebo AND that if you also explain the placebo effect to a patient then the effect is even stronger - In other words - the placebo effect has a placebo effect! :D
David 1 year ago
Placebo only works on some people. As near as I can tell I am one it doesn't work on, even when at times I wish it would. But my situation is not that rare. "Apkarian says they've repeatedly found that around 50 percent of patients will respond to the placebo and 50 percent won't"
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yep. I'm one that it doesn't work on too. Or maybe I've just got so used to painkillers doing nothing that I expect d***s to not work and I've flipped over to the nocebo effect.
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●Fool● 1 year ago
Suggestible You by Erik Vance is a really interesting read about the placebo effect. I highly recommend it
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Tylenol or paracetamol they don't know what it does no idea. Just helps with pain and fever.
#13
The pain you feel from a sunburn is your skin cells effectively killing themselves before they mutate into cancer.
The Original Bruno 1 year ago
No. I mean I could twist reality into knots trying to make this fit reality. But the pain you feel is, like all pain, damage to nerve cells' endings. Cell death around them doesn't help. And yeah, the cells are sorta designed to die rather than allow mutation go unrepaired.
Binky Melnik 1 year ago (edited)
I’m pretty sure it was here I read something along the lines of “People might quit sunbathing if we called sunburns by their real name: radiation burns.” I can’t tell you how much that impacted me! I quit sunbathing decades ago, but prior to that, I loooved being tanned. Once I decided I wanted to stop before I wrinkled, I never did it again, but I still fervently wish I’d never done it! And I think children should be taught about “radiation burns.” Do they really wanna get THAT on their largest organ? (Not THAT, you dope; I’m talking about your SKIN!)
Kaitlynn Hopkins 1 year ago
Yes. The number of times I've heard people say, "It's hot, you should wear sunscreen..." I want to face palm every time. Sunburns are not thermal burns, they're radiation burns, that's why it causes cancer and why you can still get sunburns in the winter.
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Cat Dragon 1 year ago
I recently learned of the cell corruption, and I really wanna make that a whole novel idea but now we have the Suicell Squad and I'm definitely putting that somewhere
Lotekguy 1 year ago
I like the idea of skin "taking one for the team", whether it's scientifically accurate, or not.
JoMeBee 1 year ago
I like the idea of the pain being nature's way of telling us not to do it again, but do we ever listen?
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Just once I got a sunburn that bad, on my legs. When a fly sat down on one, it burned like hell
#14
A dead body will often move as its being cremated. Muscles contract as they cook, after all. Sometimes this means a body will sit up in the crematory machine.
Cecilia Harris 1 year ago
I wonder if this is on the orientation for funeral home workers. "Oh, and by the way the bodies might move when you're cremating them." I feel like that's something you should know in advance.
Jan Rosier 1 year ago
Sounds like the perfect 'initiation' prank, keeping this fact quiet...
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 year ago
One of my friends is a mortician. She said that larger/heavier people sometimes catch on fire inside the crematorium, because, well, fat is flammable :/
Kit Springs 1 year ago
I just read about a crematorium catching on fire from a 500 old corpse. Yeah, mortician stories are weird. My uncle is one. And many have a very different sense of humor.
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Nandi La Sophia 1 year ago
I used to live in a Buddhist retreat center where cremations took place. They were essentially an open-to-all affair, and I used to cater them. On one occasion, the arm of the man being cremated, raised straight up from the pyre and made subtle waving motions. His loved ones were laughing through tears and recalling he'd said "I'll wave goodbye" or something like that. I think I saw 4 in total and all but one had a similar thing happen. Truly interesting and profound to see someone's cremation/burial be witnessed in that way
K. LNU 1 year ago
My grandfather told me he had to watch his father being cremated (think 1930s; I believe it was so the family knew the body was gone and not sold to a medical school), and he saw the mortician cut the tendons and muscles of the arms, legs, torso, etc. He asked why and the mortician told him that was, so the body did not sit up when it was being cremated. That would have been a nope for me!
Nolann Soenen 1 year ago
That seems unlikely to me. Even if the muscles contract, it seems to me that this generally does not translate into visible movements, much less the body remaining seated in the crematory machine.
Downunderdude 1 year ago
The time to worry is when the body shouts 'Hey! Turn the heating down a bit, will ya?'
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
How do they know? Do they have cameras inside? Aren't those burning? Wouldn't the light of the fire make it impossible to see anything anyway? I heard these ovens could heat up to thousands of degrees
#15
The first time a scientist discovered the existence and function of the brain, what really happened was a brain discovering the existence of itself.
#16
The front of your tongue is curious, constantly patrolling, and autonomous. It chases the dentist around your mouth and you aren’t even aware of it. So embarrassing and weird/creepy.
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
I've had two different dentists tell me that I have the most annoyingly strong tongue they've ever encountered. By far the most interesting compliment I've ever received.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
I've had my fingers stroked by a few tongues in my dental career and tbh it still weirds me out a bit, best thing to do is to do your best to relax (I know it's easier said than done)
New Everywhere 1 year ago
I can think of one reason why this curiosity and patrolling is a gooood thing
Laura Gillette 1 year ago
Dentist once told me "you have a very powerful tongue." He said he was having to fight with it to keep it out of the way.
whiterabbit 1 year ago (edited)
I've worked in oral surgery for 15 years and have seen a few curious tongues get wrapped up in a surgical bur, it's not pretty. They typically heal well though.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
I feel like I ought to send my tongue to etiquette school now!
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
Question of control. I always keep my tongue away from the place the dentist is working
#17
Human skin is overlaid with a pattern called Blaschko’s Lines, stripes covering the body from head to toe. The stripes run up and down your arms and legs and hug your torso. They wrap around the back of your head like a hood and across your face. You just can’t see them.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Those are so awesome, I hoped to see this here. I recommend googling them
George Costanza 1 year ago
It isn't necessarily "overlaid" with that pattern. That's simply how we develop embryologically from stem cells. That pattern is how the skin develops outward during development to cover the body.
Astro 1 year ago
Under certain lights you can see these patterns on your skin, I think that’s what they’re referring too when they say “overlaid” :)
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Katerina Hruskova 1 year ago
OMG, thanks for this post. I have these lines visible on my calves and never knew why the heck I have two colored skin on them. No mixed race or chimerism. This is it!!!
nottheactualphoto 1 year ago
What immortal hand or eye hath framed thy fearful rhubarb pie? Oh, that was the diner, not the tyger. Never mind.
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#18
Heard a story of this guy who got an axe or something to his head. Destroyed most of his brain, except the part that processes routines. He got up from the bed beside his dead wife, got dressed started brushing his teeth, (what was left of them), casually checked the mirror and wiped his skin of some blood with tissue. Walked round the house and collected newspaper from the doorstep, eventually he just collapsed. he was like a zombie , unaware of anything but for his routine. really freaky.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Reminds me of the headless chicken that lived because the stem of its brain was still there.
ScarletRos 1 year ago
Yes! I heard this story on a true crime channel recently. I think his son did it.
Verfin22 1 year ago
Christopher Porco killed his dad with an axe and swiped at the mom too. She doesn't believe he did it. She lived, but her face was badly damaged.
Kare Deter 1 year ago
At the time of the attack she named her son as the attacker, but after recovery has no memory of it and doesn't believe her son could/would do something like that.
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Arlene Harris 1 year ago
CSI did a show based on that (ripped from the headlines kind of thing), that was pretty weird
Sindhuja 9 months ago
Reminds me of this guy who had some sort of growth or tumour thing (don’t really remember what) in his brain that ate a portion of his brain away. However, he looked completely fine on the outside, behaved and functioned just like normal. Apparently, I read, that was because the other portions of his remaining brain just took up the duties of the long gone tumorous parts, so the guy just went on like normal and didn’t did over this for quite a while.
Mojayokok 1 year ago
Oh yeah, their son had tried killed the whole family and thought he was successful, but the sister lived and they also saw where the family’s husband went downstairs to start breakfast and ended up bleeding out. They said he had no idea what had happened, it was automatic when doing his morning routine.
CultOfBambi 1 year ago
This exact scenario was in an episode of CSI. Literally down to the dead wife, tooth-brushing and collapsing while picking up the paper off the porch.
#19
In really bad cases of endometriosis, uterine tissue (the lining of the uterus, i.e. the blood and ‘stuff’ shed during a period) can grow throughout the *entire* body. Colon, bladder, chest, even the head/brain in rare cases. It’s incredibly painful, since it still tries to ‘shed’ like a normal period but has nowhere to go. It can only be confirmed via surgery, since it doesn’t show up on most ultrasounds/MRI scans.
Michelle 1 year ago
Funner fact - the tissue in endometriosis is NOT endometrium. It is an endometria-like tissue
Disgruntled Pelican 1 year ago
Correct. My doctor thinks I may have endometriosis buried in my back, knee and possibly chest due to my symptoms but she can't be sure. Endometriosis has also been found in 16 men, if memory serves me.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
How the hell do you treat this? Especially if it's in the brain, it sounds deadly and really painful. I am so sorry for you
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At the moment my uterus is basically glued to my bowels by all the (fake) endometrial tissue. I've had it removed but it always comes back. And yes, doctors thought I was lying about my pain for years because it doesn't show up on any type of imaging test. During that period the endo destroyed my tubes. Luckily I now have a doctor who believes me and medication that keeps me from bleeding to death. Eventually the whole kit and kaboodle will need to go, but I'm trying not to force menopause too early.
Shine Chisholm (they/ them) 1 year ago
You can get a hysterectomy that still leaves the ovaries. That's what they did for me. So technically I still have a menstrual cycle, even though I don't have a uterus
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Emma Schumann 1 year ago
A horrible disease that 10% of reproductive aged women have and yet almost no research being done. Some women can get by on medication, if they can afford it (last I knew was about $2,000 a month). Others get opened up once a year for surgical removal of as much as possible. Days of crippling abdominal pain.
Astro 1 year ago
I haven’t had my period in over 40 days. Not pregnant (took 2 tests already), no STIs, no diet issues, not currently ill with anything that I know of.
Clown fish 1 year ago
Stress can affect your cycle. Being Ill can also. And age is a factor as well. If you are young ie 9 to 16 cycles can be off sometimes. If you are older ie 40 to 50+ they can be off. In some cases younger women can hit early menopause. If you are really worried please visit your nurse or doctor.
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Tania Schorsch 1 year ago
This is true. I had endometriosis from the age of 17. Periods every 3-5 months that bled heavily on and off for over a month. Pain that crippled me. Doctors didn't believe me when I had pain. I was told it's just cramps. Endometrial tissue grew all over. I couldn't take the pain anymore, so I had a hysterectomy at 35, but kept one ovary. Took a while to recover and I still had pain for a while, but it passed and I've been great since.
#20
A female baby is born with all the eggs she will ever have.
Cora Han 1 year ago
This also means that a pregnant woman is also carrying her potential grandchild.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
This is patently not true. I have often bought eggs at the grocery store. They go very well with fried bacon and toast.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
So this means as the youngest sibling, my genetic matterial is just as old as my mother.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago
Some of it. Sperm is constantly produced and destroyed.
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Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
This is did not know!! I thought we ovulated new eggs every month. Guess I don't know myself as well as I thought!
Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
I also just learned that at birth the normal female is born with 1-2 million oocytes (eggs) and there is a continual decline in the eggs each month.
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#21
The intestines are covered by a double "fleece" of peritoneum. See it like a blanket.
When your intestines get damaged for whatever reason, this blanket starts moving out of itself and crawling upwards towards the place which has the injury. It will stay there until the injury is recovered. And then move on again.
Maybe not the most creepy fact, but definitely interesting in my opinion.
WindySwede 1 year ago
at least vagina. But r****m needs not to be censored as well.
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The Other Guest 1 year ago
Anatomically correct names for body parts should never be censored. Rectum is no more obscene than elbow. Penis is no more obscene than foot. Vagina is no more obscene than duodenum. And mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Learner Panda 1 year ago
The lower half of this diagram should be hung in every school in America, then maybe there would be less confusion about the female body.
#22
Human beings are a cesspool of bacteria and when you die your body eats itself from the inside out.
Marcos Valencia 1 year ago
The gut microbiota is essential for our life. We could consider this "last supper" as a token of gratitude by our side.
Latchkey 1 year ago
Exactly.. this post seems very pessimistic. We need our flora to survive. How gross of this person to say it that way :(
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
My cats will eat me from the outside in. I'm covered both ways.
Cathy CB 1 year ago
I wished I lived in a state in the U.S. where human composting is legal and available. They have some fairly nice outfits in Oregon that discreetly allow this natural process to reduce human remains to a nice functional earth in several months. I know it's also legal in California and Colorado.
#23
There is an urban myth that your fingernails continue to grow after death, which is supposed to explain why dead bodies often appear to have long nails.
The truth is that the soft tissues in the fingers and hands tend to contract as they lose moisture, leading to the *appearance* of growing nails.
Rebekah Fuentes 1 year ago
That's also why dead people were considered to be Vampires. The soft tissue i.e. the lips would retract and expose the teeth. Especially the canines. Which is why many graves were exhumed after the fact.
sweissh 1 year ago
Everybody knows this. I've been hearing this for literally 45 years. Why is it on this list?
kelsischloe1986 1 year ago
No, not everyone knows this. That's why it's on the list.
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One thing that spun me out was hearing about Fallopian tubes after a friend went through emergency surgery. Fallopian tubes are mobile and active parts of your reproductive tract. When one tube isn't there or is “broken” the other tube can actually move over to the opposite ovary and “pick up” an available egg.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
That is why in sterilisation, the tubes are often rather cut instead of just tied. Prevents them from reaching any eggs.
George Costanza 1 year ago
The ACOG now recommends complete tubal removal for sterilization to reduce future cancer risk. Ligation or even just partial removal is no longer recommended.
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#25
Our minds can be tricked, and our minds can trick us. Some people sleep with their eyes open. Our memories are fallible. If you remember something from 10+ years ago, the events in your mind are likely changed. You might remember a couple things properly, but our memories are almost never 100% accurate. On top of that, we usually don't remember the unimportant stuff. Our dreams are a product of our subconscious, from any memory especially recent ones. Edit: thank you for the upvotes! :D.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
Apparently when you remember something, you aren't remembering it - you're remembering the last time you remembered it. This is why memories become less accurate over time - they degrade, like a video tape that's been re-recorded over too many times
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I think it's more likely that unless you're remembering it all the time to reinforce it, it will fade over time. It's like learning stuff, you need to reinforce those neural connections through repetition. If you don't, well you'll struggle to recall it.
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I really wish I could lose some chunks of my memory. I have a strong case of intrusive thoughts and these memories (some from back in grade school even) will come scorching through my head. BTW I'm 65, so I've been dealing with these for decades.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
Soooo the vivid dream of sitting in a falling plane hurling toward an ocean is from what memorie exactly? I‘ve never flown in my life!
#26
You can grow tumours with hair, teeth, and eyes but no heart or brain.
CORGI QUEEN 1 year ago
don't google it y'all I did it for you. it is a bunch of babies with cancer in their bum that makes it look like they pooped their skin diaper. or its skin with hair on the inside. I wont sleep tonight but Ill let you all.
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Spidercat 1 year ago (edited)
Weeeeell technically, until it is born, an unborn baby fits all the criteria for being a tumor. I mean it's grown from a cell of the host, it shares a blood supply, it takes nutrients from the 'host' and it does have a heart and a brain.
Feathered Dinosaur 1 year ago
It definitely is a parasite. Still love the little blood suckered though lol
Load More Replies... Patti 1 year ago
My granddaughter had one at 15 yrs old. It was 2.2 pounds and was in her chest, resting on her heart. Very dangerous. They had to crack her chest open, like open heart surgery. Drs said she had it at birth and it slowly grew over the years. It looked like a pot roast. It had skin cells, no hair or eyes
George Costanza 1 year ago
Teratomas actually often have brain-type tissue within them. Hair (really skin with hair and other skin appendages) is most common. Teeth and eyes are incredibly rare. But brain tissue is also very common, along with lung, sinonasal mucosa, gastrointestinal tissue, and thyroid.
#27
My favorite is the blind spot at the center of each eye, where the optic nerve is. A lot of people don't even know it exists, and even if they do, it is bigger than people often think. And it's also really easy to demonstrate to people if you know how. It's one of my favorite bar tricks - all you need is a pen and a napkin to draw a cross and a dot. https://thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/experience_jaune06.html Alternate demo: https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html Edit: If it doesn't work, you're doing something wrong - not getting close enough, the image is too small on your phone, you're not closing the correct eye or not keeping your gaze fixed on the cross. It isn't because you don't have a blind spot. Unless you're a squid, you have a blind spot. All vertebrates have them.
I’ll have a treble thanks. 1 year ago
Not me, I know where my blind spots are and they are generally overestimating other people’s honesty,integrity and abilities !
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Jesus, that freaked me out. Like, I know the blind spot is a thing, but the practical demonstration really...
AnkleByter 1 year ago
I'm a squid. Well, not really, I just have a left eye that has never actually functioned as an eye and merely fills what would otherwise be an empty face hole. Actually, many people who have vision issues in their left eye, won't be able to test this theory. We don't "technically" have a blind spot, even if we're not squids.
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago (edited)
It's a trick somebody showed me decades ago, but they didn't tell me it was to prove the eye has a blind spot. Learned about the blind spot in school, in biology class
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago (edited)
I learned this in school. Who does not learn this at school? Normal school. Like 6th grade or something.
#28
The fact that our chromosomes can never truly and perfectly replicate themselves. Most defections can be and is usually fixed and wont cause any harms. But if the damage is too big to be fixed that cell will literally commit suicide, If it doesnt the cells around it will try to kill it. If they cant the immune system and white blood cells deal with it. But if a defected cell survives all 3 of these counter measures. It will start to rapidly replicate and replicate. This is how a tumor forms and how we get cancer. Cancer wont stop growing untill its host is dead. This is also why its this hard to treat since cancer cells arent a new organism they are still fundementally human cells. any medication that aims to kill them risks the chance of killing the healthy cells with the cancer cells. This is why we cant be too agressive with medication on cancer. Any part that can be physically removed will be removed via surgery and the rest will be taken care of with chemotherapy and meds. If the tumor is big enough to be physically removed but is in a position that makes it almost impossible to remove it like around vital organs or veins that person will most likely die. So yeah there is only 3 measures between you and having cancer. Edit: I am so happy that my comment has lead to an educative conversation in the replies. You guys rule. And also I have to say this too. Cancer cant be prevented due to its nature unfortunately.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
You also have effectively way more cancer cells than you'd ever be comfortable with. Your body just kills basically all of them immediately.
Animal lover 1 year ago
I have had both Uterine and breast cancer, but I have extremely fortunate that they were caught early. Uterine cancer at 67 and breast cancer at 75. Never stop getting PAP tests and Mammograms
Catharina Geerts 1 year ago
It's also how evolution works, and how all kinds of living beings over time can adapt to changing circumstances
#29
You can become allergic to yourself.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
My father had a classmate 50 years ago that was allergic to her own sweat and tears. Poor girl
Elisabeth Chai 1 year ago
I always thought I was crazy, but I am allergic to my own sweat as well
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After I had meningitis my body decided it hated itself for about 6 months. It randomly attacked every system - my skin, joints, liver, pancreas, thyroid, etc. I never knew how I was going to wake up in the morning. It sucked big time. And then it all just stopped as suddenly as it started. No doctor has ever been able to explain it to me.
Bored Dino 1 year ago
I have a severe allergy that is EXTREMELY common in the US. It gives me severe anger, distress, and in severe cases, anxiety attacks. It’s called….. stupidity. I’m allergic to stupidity
#30
Humans are bioluminescent. We literally glow, the visible light that emits from our bodies are 1000 times less intense than the levels which pur eyes are sensitive to.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Apparently we also have fascinating patterns that we can't see with our eyes. But I forgot what those are called. Does anyone know?
#31
A pregnant female corpse will build up enough gas to expel the fetus even after death. Look up coffin birth.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
It is however very unlikely that the baby will survive due to the mother having been dead (oxygen deprivation), even though it's not unheard of
Anna Ekberg 1 year ago
If the mother dies while pregnant I think you have like 20 minutes to get the baby out before it dies.
Load More Replies... Cecilia Harris 1 year ago
Why are there SO MANY CORPSE FACTS in this thread. I mean, I know it says "creepy human body facts" but I should not be reading this at 4 AM. I think this is my goodbye point for this list. See y'all!
️ ️~ lefty libra️ ~ 1 year ago
i looked it up and my results weremt as bad as you're probably thinking
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#32
That if you workout, fat dissolves in your body and is expelled mainly through breath.
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
Yes, bad breath, but if you work out your bad breath is fat bad breath.
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Sometimes there are just random extra muscles. You can go your entire life with out even knowing it. I've worked as a mortician and the MEs would tell me about some cases like this. Also, just random tumors, even when the individual had never been diagnosed. Lastly, skin sounds like saran wrap when peeled from the body.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I'd understand it for a taxidermist, but for what reason does a mortician have to peel the skin off a body(
George Costanza 1 year ago
Other than anatomy class in med school no one is "peeling" skin off the body. Embalming services don't require it, nor do autopsies.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
I'm sure that removing the clothing from burns victims removes the underlying skin from the body. There's no avoiding that.
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#34
Nightmares are the brain's best attempt at encoding your memories as you sleep. The more emotionally traumatic or scary, the more focus goes into encoding. (or so a sleep documentary I watched once said).
Upstaged75 1 year ago
We all do. But there are usually elements of truth in it.
Load More Replies... Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Then what does it mean if I dream about giraffes raining from the sky with gnomes dressed as Santa Claus watching?
Astro 1 year ago
Last night I dreamed that a bunch of my friends and I were watching thousands of airplanes battle with millions of birds in the sky above us while we sat on a park bench and ate popcorn. The birds were kamikaze-style flying into the engines and causing the planes to explode. For some reason I woke up in a cold sweat and had to turn all the lights on lmao
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Dark Pearl 1 year ago
what about my recurring nightmare of being chased around an island by a weird naked boy, which ended with me drowning him? I don't think that's ever happened to me
keyboardtek 1 year ago
I read that when we sleep the brain gets flushed with spinal fluid. This spinal fluid simply stimulates the brain cells and creates random images call dreams. And that walking daily is crucial to brain health as the tail bone acts like a mini pump that moves spinal fluid up and down the spine and brain.
Astro 1 year ago
Interesting, I’d be curious to read about that if you have any links :)
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Rebekah Fuentes 1 year ago
I wish this wasn't true. I unfortunately understand this to be true 💯 of the time. I will consciously try to forget, but my sub will absolutely NEVER let me. I think it's self preservation.
#35
So nobody is concerned about the fact that your stomach contains one of the most corrosive liquids to ever exist? Nobody? Just me? Ok then.
Corvus 1 year ago
Hydrochloric acid... though there definitely are more corrosive acids out there (sulphuric, especially).
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Nah, several times a year I go to a sulphuric acid plant and work on a cooling tower that has 96% hydrochloric acid pumped into it and us situated next to the phosphoric acid plant
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
You'll know if you get Noro virus and can't stop vomiting for 12 hours straight, but 11 hours of those are nothing but stomach fluids. Last time I had Noro I legitimately had burns in the back of my throat (and no idea how bad my esophagus was).
Astro 1 year ago
I went through a long period of being very sick and caused acid wear on the back of my teeth from a months of regular vomiting
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Allegedly, your immune system has no clue your eyes exist. Effective tomorrow, if your immune system found out about your eyes it would treat them as a external threat. Therefore try and neutralize your eye balls leaving you blind.
Marcos Valencia 1 year ago
This is an imprecise explanation. The ocular immune privilege is a blood-eye barrier preventing the immune and inflammatory cells from accessing the eye, to avoid the loss of vision (if an inflammatory response should occur in the eye). The immune system wouldn't consider the eye as an enemy.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Actually, immune privilege is when the immune system’s activities in a certain site are restricted so they’re not allowed to do any inflammation. The testes, ovaries and eyes are the only organs in the human body to have immune privilege
#37
If you wear a glass which vertically inverts your vision long enough, your brain will correct it and you'll see things normal. But when your take those glasses off, everything will look upside-down again until brain recalibrates again.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
According to the TV show Bones, it takes three days.
#38
Viewed from a medical standpoint, the inside of your gastrointestinal tract is technically the outside of your body, making you a meat donut.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
Could we please discuss "meat doughnut"! I woke up two cats with laughing. I'm in trouble now.
Downunderdude 1 year ago
AnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnusAnus. I feel much better now.
Downunderdude 1 year ago
For goodness sake, BP. It's a medical diagram. A**s is the medical term. What's wrong with you people?
#39
We ate our own hair while inside the womb. “Babies eat the lanugo (called as the foetus’ hair) that they shed while in the womb, and it builds up within them to form the substance that makes up their first poop, known as meconium.”.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
My daughter was born on the cusp of prematurity and was bald as an egg on top but had such a hairy little back to keep her warm. Super cute furry baby.
George Costanza 1 year ago
Babies are just consuming everything in the amniotic fluid. Shed skin cells, hair, their own pee, etc. It's a continuous closed-loop cycle in there.
Delenn 1 year ago
Is that the poop that is very toxic? So it is very important that it is not expelled inside the womb (well I suposse any other poop will be pretty bad too inside the womb)?
LuciBelle 1 year ago
Not so much toxic, unless they inhale it. Usually if a baby poops while still in the womb, it’s because they are or were in distress.
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#40
The brain will always/usually try to ensure it’s survival, if knocking you out does so, then you will faint for the safety of the brain
I remember finding this once but I don’t remember clearly.
Downunderdude 1 year ago
I read something once. Or maybe it was something else. I don't remember clearly.
#41
Your perception of reality is likely much different from others.
Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago (edited)
Why is this being downvoted?? It's true! Anybody downvoting this needs to start reading a LOT more BP, as well as Brightside, Buzzfeed, and whereever else you find articles that teach you about yourself and people in general. It's called soul searching and self awareness. I have learned, and grown, so much. *mic drop*
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Doctor here. One thing I learned in medical school was that newborn babies can produce milk due to hormonal influence from their mother shortly after they are born.
#43
Brain aneurysm. About 1 to 2% of the world population will go through an aneurysm during their lifetime, and a small portion of these people will die from a rupture. The worst part? It has no boundaries. Literally anyone can get one at any time and just die.
Kirsten Kerkhof 1 year ago
However, if you have a direct relative who died from one, get an MRI. These aneurysms take roughly 10 years to grow to fatal dimensions, but if caught before they leak/burst/rupture there is a really good chance you can have it operated successfully (I'm due for my 5-year MRI next month. This cycle of check-ups was started after both my father and grandfather died from a brain aneurysm).
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
My cousins cousin died of an aneurysm at 19. He had no symptoms and had been to work but he had a slight headache when he got home so decided to go for a quick sleep. 15 mins later his mum called him for dinner and he didn't come. Assuming he was still sleeping she went upstairs and found him dead in bed.
Upstaged75 1 year ago (edited)
A childhood friend of mine died that way. A healthy young woman and she just dropped dead from an aneurism. At the time her kid was only 4. Heartbreaking for her whole family. Her husband still posts from her Facebook account sometimes with pics of the kid. :(
detective miller's hat 1 year ago
Happened to my friend's cousin when she was only 25. Just dropped dead in her kitchen one day.
#44
Not necessarily creepy but your brain knows a lot that it just decides not to tell you. Like it knows why sleep is needed and why it dreams or where core memories and all of that is stored. It just decides not to share that information with you.
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
I know exactly where the core memories are stored. I've seen Inside Out.
Falcon on Dizzy 1 year ago
kinda like how your phone knows your passwords but sometimes won't tell you what they are
Robert Trebor 1 year ago
My brain has been deciding on sleep a lot these past few days. My arm chair is getting a workout. I'm being treated for Giant cell arteritis (inflammation of the right temporal artery) after having essentially the same vicious headache since January.
Clown fish 1 year ago (edited)
Is it because it also knows we are to stupid to know that stuff
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago (edited)
No, I'm pretty sure the brain doesn't know WHY sleep is needed or WHY it dreams. "Why" is a question of meaning, and meaning is a quality of the world given to it by human intelligence. Your unconcious brain might know HOW to sleep, but not WHY it does so.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Isn't it? So what's doing the thinking that constitutes 'you' if it's not the brain? I can imagine a conscious life where I am nothing but a brain being somehow kept alive, but I cannot imagine that the rest of my body would have any consiousness or essence of 'me' without a living brain.
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Our main organs (minus skin) are mostly protected by muscle walls and our rib cage, and yet we can survive with one of any of the paired organs. Strangely though, are spinal chord is extremely delicate and fragile and has almost no protection at all. The muscles we build on the back to protect it do not cover it, but rather cushion it from the sides and provide structural support. You could be very weak with almost no muscle mass and be fine after injury to the front of your torso. You could be the strongest person in the world and a minor injury to your back can still render you completely paralysed.
Corvus 1 year ago
Keep in mind that much of our body structure is *still* geared towards walking on 4 legs... even though we evolved walking on 2 legs hundreds of thousands of years ago. It's the main reason we get neck/back pain ;)
Donald 1 year ago
You're right, the human animal has quite worked out the bipedal thing yet lol
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
The spinal cord has loads of protection, it runs through a hole in your vertebrae so has bone all around it. It’s also cushioned by layers of membranes (called meninges) and cerebrospinal fluid. Obviously, significant trauma (injury) to any part of the body can damage it, but don’t be fearful. Our spines are designed to be stable and strong.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
I think this person has confused the spinal *cord* (a bundle of nerve fibres) with the spinal column (a stack of vertebrae and vertebral discs within which the spinal cord runs)
ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
can confirm as a 32yo otherwise healthy man. never broken a bone, have sprained my ankle a couple of times, but I'm in consistent pain due to my back.
#46
How limited our minds are. An ant will never understand that being in my room when I'm vacuuming is a bad idea, but the knowledge exists. I'm sure there's a butt load of information about the universe staring right at us but we'll never understand it because of our stupid human brains.
MushroomHead22 1 year ago
never is a little harsh. im certain we will one day understand it, but it will take time. if everything was easy, then society as we know it today would have been started many many years ago.
Astro 1 year ago
If you’re talking about everything there is to understand about the universe that we currently can’t comprehend with our human minds…..I don’t think there’s enough time in the universe to evolve to complete full omniscient understanding of everything
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There's countless ways it can just... *go wrong*. Just, out of f*****g nowhere, completely unexpectedly, something can become f****d up in a way which is anything from life-alteringly debilitating to lethal.
the dancing demon (she/her) 1 year ago
What makes it even more amazing is that generally it doesn't
keyboardtek 1 year ago
Yes I find it amazing that I do not have to consciously remember to breathe or make my heart beat.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
Happened to me a few months ago. I went from being completely fine to laying in the ICU with a drain in my chest. And the day after I was released I felt 100% again. It was crazy and traumatic. And it was just a random fluke that it happened to me.
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When you die, your hearing is the last to go. So imagine you die in a fire or in a war or something and the last thing you hear is like screaming and chaos.
Elizabeth Lloyd 1 year ago
I don't like thinking the last thing I hear is them pronouncing my time of death
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
Or if your surrounded by family you can hear them crying or whatever and you cant see them or say anything to them but just sit and wait for the end. Essentially you spend your last moments waiting to die
Kit Springs 1 year ago
Willing patients, hooked up to different machines as they die.
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Theres a skeleton living inside you.
digitalin 1 year ago
The average number of skeletons inside the human body is greater than one.
Load More Replies... Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 1 year ago (edited)
unless it's adamantium. Hmm, that leads me to the question, how does wolverine produce blood if he has no bones thus morrow?
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Maybe they know you don't have anything better to do with your time.
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You could be a second away from dying unexpectedly from no outside force and have zero indication it is about to happen.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
To be fair, that’s the way I’d like to die. Maybe not so good for my loved ones though.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Next to being shot going out a window at age 95 by a jealous husband, that's my preference too.
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
Most people are probably surprised when death comes. Outside of suicides, no one chooses when and how they will die.
digitalin 1 year ago (edited)
I don't know. I think some people dying from old age have some knowledge of it. I hear of people holding on until a loved one gets there, or letting go when it's time. Maybe not always.
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The human body gives off light the eye can't see.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Scorpions and chameleons also give off light, but you can only see it under uv light. Many animals do that actually
Adrian 1 year ago
You're confusing two things. Many animals emit light and many animals fluoresce under UV light but it's not the same thing.
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The heart is a metronome for the whole body and it has begun ticking before we’re born and stops when we die.
Justin Tyme 1 year ago
"stops when we die" Yes, but it also stops millions or billions of times before that. e.g. If your heart rate is 70 beats per minute, your heart stops 70 times every minute.
#53
Your liver, pancreas and stomach do their jobs in COMPLETE darkness.
InfiniteZeek 1 year ago
As opposed to my heart, lungs, and testicles doing theirs in broad daylight?!
Tarik Dursun Zorgulen 1 year ago
well, maybe not testicles. They get to see light, hopefully..
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#54
Breathing only resets our incredibly short lifespan.
What do you think ?
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I have one too: Doctors are actually extremely fascinated about any sort or medical novelty, no matter how horrid it is, and will gladly study them. My godfathers wife had a housecat that gave birth to 5 babies, but every single one of them had down syndrome (something cats can apparently suffer from too). The veterinarian was so fascinated by this that he told his entire Gremium, so my godfather suddenly had like 30 veterinary profs, some even with students, that wanted to study those cats. The first vet who "discovered" it even wrote some study about these cats. I don't remember how exactly it ended because I was like 7 when it happened and my godfather has since divorced so I didn't see the ex and her cats anymore.
nikki bates 1 year ago
Cats only have 19 pairs of chromosomes, so 38 in total. This means they don't have chromosome 21, the one which people with Down Syndrome have an extra copy of. This makes it impossible for cats to have Down Syndrome.
Load More Replies... Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
So much information ^^^ to put into your brain. Allow me to add a tiny bit more. You are as unique as a snowflake and way more complex, there’s one of you and yet you are like every other thing on earth as your presence here is part of a huge system that exists for no reason but also every reason. You may focus on whichever side of that you wish but even if you don’t understand or comprehend your value you should stick around ‘cause something will come along and help you realise your importance on the planet. All a bit hippy and that but you are truly valuable and the world loves having you around. Even if you don’t believe it you can wait a bit and see how things go, you never know, you might find that thing you are looking for in the most unexpected of places.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
I find it hard to believe that the world has any use for 8 billion greedy, selfish, all-consuming, ever-breeding creatures. The "system" was never "designed" to support a species that consumes so many resources for itself.
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Zedrapazia 1 year ago
I have one too: Doctors are actually extremely fascinated about any sort or medical novelty, no matter how horrid it is, and will gladly study them. My godfathers wife had a housecat that gave birth to 5 babies, but every single one of them had down syndrome (something cats can apparently suffer from too). The veterinarian was so fascinated by this that he told his entire Gremium, so my godfather suddenly had like 30 veterinary profs, some even with students, that wanted to study those cats. The first vet who "discovered" it even wrote some study about these cats. I don't remember how exactly it ended because I was like 7 when it happened and my godfather has since divorced so I didn't see the ex and her cats anymore.
nikki bates 1 year ago
Cats only have 19 pairs of chromosomes, so 38 in total. This means they don't have chromosome 21, the one which people with Down Syndrome have an extra copy of. This makes it impossible for cats to have Down Syndrome.
Load More Replies... Gavin Johnson 1 year ago
So much information ^^^ to put into your brain. Allow me to add a tiny bit more. You are as unique as a snowflake and way more complex, there’s one of you and yet you are like every other thing on earth as your presence here is part of a huge system that exists for no reason but also every reason. You may focus on whichever side of that you wish but even if you don’t understand or comprehend your value you should stick around ‘cause something will come along and help you realise your importance on the planet. All a bit hippy and that but you are truly valuable and the world loves having you around. Even if you don’t believe it you can wait a bit and see how things go, you never know, you might find that thing you are looking for in the most unexpected of places.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
I find it hard to believe that the world has any use for 8 billion greedy, selfish, all-consuming, ever-breeding creatures. The "system" was never "designed" to support a species that consumes so many resources for itself.
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