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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker
The human body is a fascinating thing. But despite the fact that we live in this complex sack of flesh for our entire lives, many of us know very little about it. And while there are plenty of fun facts to learn about our bodies, like that information travels to our brains at 268 miles per hour, there are also many facts about ourselves that we actually might not want to know.
But if you’re in the mood to be disturbed, you’re in luck. Because below, we’ve gathered a list of some of the most unsettling facts about the human body that one TikToker has been enlightening his followers with. Enjoy learning something new about these bodies we cart around, and be sure to upvote all of the disturbing facts that you can’t believe are true (or those that you wish weren’t true).
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Every child's jaw is packed with teeth which sounds normal until you realise this is what it looks like.
This should make you even more aware of how remarkable the human body is, that each of those teeth has a particular place to be, and they mostly end up in the proper place. (Yes, all living things are remarkable.)
That weird feeling you get on a roller coaster is actually your internal organs slightly shifting around inside you, especially the ones not secured by ligaments like the intestines.
If you rub the soles of your feet with garlic, you'll begin to taste it 30 minutes later, there's a compound in garlic that penetrates cell membranes, travels up the bloodstream, and reaches your taste buds. Meaning you can taste garlic with your feet.
The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades which is why your stomach is in a constant battle to not digest itself. Only being kept in check by mucus.
Props to the guy who swallowed the razor blade so we could know this
When you really think about it we're all just three-pound brains piloting meat bicycles we call bodies
If you force someone to stay awake without giving them any food, they'll die of lack of sleep before they die of starvation.
There's a kind of tumor that can cause teeth to grow in a woman's ovaries and a male's testicles.
Men can actually produce milk, it's more common than you think most men are just too ashamed to admit it. And it can be triggered by starvation. Concentration camp survivors were given food after being starved for weeks and for some reason, they started lactating.
Since you shed about 40,000 skin cells a day, the dust you see in your house actually used to be part of you. Which means every time you breathe in someone else's house, you could be inhaling 1000s of somebody else's skin flakes.
If you decapitated someone, the disembodied head will be conscious for 15 to 20 seconds, long enough for them to realize what you did to them
The brain has no pain receptors, meaning it's possible for people to stay awake and talk to doctors while they're performing brain surgery on them
Because we evolved to walk on two feet, the pelvis and birth canal of women got narrower meaning they have to suffer one of the most painful births on the planet, which is why in 1780 chainsaws were used to saw off a part of the pelvic bone to make childbirth easier.
I have no doubt whatsoever that it was neither proposed nor invented by a woman.
Sometimes when you have a runny nose, it isn't snot. It's cerebral fluid that the brain leaks to reduce pressure.
This isn't quite accurate. Yes, it can happen, but it's pretty rare, it happens when there's a hole in the membranes around your brain or spinal cord, not just to reduce brain pressure, there's usually other symptoms associated with it, and if it does happen, you should see a doctor. It can heal on its own, but it also puts you at a risk for meningitis.
Sometimes during brain surgery, they'll peel your face forward like a goddamn banana.
If it'll peel, it'll heal. Rather have my face temporarily stowed near my nose than have major scars that would scare children and small animals.
One of the first things a surgeon does before the surgery is clean out the belly button because there can be 67 types of bacteria in there.
If a woman's ligaments stretch and her muscles aren't strong enough her uterus can straight up fall out of her. Kegels are your friend.
Oh god, this happened to my mom, as well. It was a nightmare for all involved. Trying to explain Kegel exercises to a woman in her 70s (who is also your mother) was… not fun. I had no luck explaining to her which muscles to work. My family has very few personal boundaries (no banjo music type stuff though, thank you) and I was nearly ready to have her put a finger up there OBGYN-exam style into my body and do a Kegel so she’d know what I was talking about. Though she probably still wouldn’t have understood how to flex the same muscle in her body. XD
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Uterine prolapse is most typical after childbirth or due to trauma of other natures, abnd you can be strong AF and still experrience it. Don't assume it's about her muscular strength. Pelvic floors are complicated networks of connective tissue and bone. .... MD (And, no, Kegels won't prevent it, but they reduce likelihood.)
Sometimes. Sometimes too many Kegels can cause painful s e x and/or incontinence. See a pelvic floor PT, people. Edit: stupid autocorrect
I’ve actually seen this when I was a nurse. Elderly ladies, their cervix was so fallen down it was visible. They used something called a pessary to deal with that. As much as I’ll write or everyone will be racing for the brain bleach.
It doesn't detach, just dangles. Want to reconsider?
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When I worked in a nursing home, this was a frequent issue for the cna’s . We would have to lift very tall men or use a hoyer lift for super obese patients. I lasted a few years but couldn’t hack it and the strain on my body. This was 25yrs ago and I hope things have changed but not enough staff to go around and I doubt it’s gotten much better.
Hmmm...do you mean a pessary? In America a f***y pack is basically a purse one wears around the waist to hold your wallet, keys, etc.
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Skin's still attached. It's called a prolapse.
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This is the worst way of describing how uterine prolapse occurs that I have ever heard. Don’t do Kegels/pelvic floor exercise until you are and adult (well into your 20’s) or are pregnant and don’t do more then suggested. Too much and too soon can screw things up just as much as not enough.
This used to be very common in women who gave birth to loads of kids. My great aunt was a midwife in a very poor area in the 30s and 40s, where women often gave birth to 10+ kids and would often suffer all sorts of complications and health issues because of it. I'll never forget my great aunt telling me stories of elderly women who would shove vegetables inside themselves to hold everything in place and stop their uterus from sliding out, many were too ashamed to tell anyone or seek medical help.
Well at least that's a way to get rid of it when they won't perform a hysterecromy because you aren't sick
I don't know how to really do kegels. I think I do them all the time but I just don't know it. When I was in prenatal class the instructor described to us it's a muscle that's in the shape of a figure 8 and you're supposed to contract and release it in different parts. I cannot possibly know what I'm doing based on that monologue. I don't even know if I'm contracting or releasing. It frustrates me so much. But since this uterus falling out hasn't happened to me I guess I'm good on that.
This unfortunately happened to me. I will tell you, your uterus is a lot easier to push back inside your body than your bladder!
And going in soon for 3rd bladder prolapse surgery!
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Some kid at my school always tells me every day he hopes my uterus falls out, and I'm going to tell him that she can.
So all those roman doctors warning about a womans uterus wandering was right?
Oh man... Why did I have to be informed of this information? Now I am going to go around worrying about this. Lol Is it more or less common in women who've had kids? Particularly c-sections?
Unless it falls to the ground and kicked to the curb, this isn't worth the pain and discomfort.
I mean...it seems like these should be a surgical way to help with this.
There is, but once it's happened once, you're prone to having it happen again. And there's only so many times they can surgically fix it.
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Women over 50 should never lift anything heavy. It can make their pelvic floor fall. Not prolapse but tear and not be where it should be causing incontinence of the bladder. Surgery can sometimes fix it. I'm not a doctor so don't know the procedures needed.
If you aren't a doctor, you probably shouldn't say blanket health statements like "women over 50 shouldn't..." There's no way that applies to every woman over 50 and just perpetuates the whole weaker-sex thing.
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When you breathe, most of the air goes in one nostril and comes out the other and they switch roles every couple of hours. And you're checking right now, right?
Also, when you realize you are breathing, it switches from automatic mode back to ‘oh, so you’re back again! Here, focus on breathing so you don’t die!’ mode
You produce more earwax when you're stressed and stressed earwax smells way worse than the regular stuff
Your immune system doesn't always recognize the eye as part of the body which is why there are many diseases where the immune system attacks and tries to destroy the eye which could blind you in the process.
There could be mites having sex on your eyelashes right now you would have no way of knowing
Your brain lies to you all the time. if you turn your head too quickly, your brain can't possibly process everything. So it'll take what little information it was able to grab and fill in the missing blanks. There's another way your brain kind of lies to you. If you cover one, the reason you don't see a big black void in your vision is because the brain basically makes up and fills in the missing parts based on the surroundings.
I have vision loss in some parts of my eyes (I'm going to a eye specialist on tuesday and I'm scared of what might be wrong) so my brain does this all the time, it's really weird because sometimes I don't see things because they're at the "wrong" place for my eyes and they just fill out the gap with whatever is beside. So like on a paper some of the things that's written/printed on it is gone and the space is just white.
The water you drink has probably been inside someone or something else.
When you die, your body will begin digesting itself as enzymes eat through cell membranes and leak out.
You can exchange as many as 80 million bacteria in one 10 second kiss, and if you kiss your partner multiple times a day you'll develop similar colonies of oral bacteria.
If someone sneezes in your face, they're launching germs at you at 100 miles per hour. Coughs aren't that bad because they're only about 60 miles per hour.
My youngest child running at me yesterday sneezing in my eyes! Lol oh my downvoter is back. Following me about like a scary stalker
You aren't actually you, you're just a brain controlling the body. The things that make you you is decided by a three-pound wrinkly mess of tissue.
Placentophagy is the practice of a woman eating the placenta that comes out after she gives birth. And apparently, she has two options. She could cook it or eat it fresh out. A Canadian study claimed that 24% of women polled ate the placenta.
Eat it fresh out?! That's a bit much. I mean other mammals do it but I can't wrap my brain around a human doing that. Haven't looked this up recently, but I've heard of drying it out and putting into a pill form and just taking it like a daily vitamin. Edit: if you've eaten a fresh placenta, no shade to you. You do you. Not trying to offend anyone.
Here's a fun fact. When a man and a woman have a baby, if the woman then needs a kidney, the man *cannot* be considered a donor. It has something to do with the fact that his genes have been inside her making the baby, her body's immune system had to do weird and wonderful things to avoid rejecting the baby, but it means that any donor kidney *would* be rejected immediately. It's more complicated than that, but there's a character limit and I'm not a genetic biologist to be able to explain it any better.
I don't think this is entirely true. I could only find limited info on this issue and from the abstract of this research article it appears that mutual children is not necessarily predictive of rejection: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.724851/full ... from the article "husband specific sensitization is around 20-50%"
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Here's another fun fact. The team of research scientists who flew to Antarctica looking to find the cause for the hole in the ozone layer were woefully unprepared for the conditions. They forgot to pack a targeting system for one of their radio dishes, so somebody had to sit on the roof and target one of the dishes at the moon. At one point the scientist noticed she couldn't open one of her eyes. It had completely frozen. Luckily it thawed without complications, but that must have been quite disturbing to realize your eyeball is completely frozen.
Your body is a big jiggly mess of all different kinds of cells, enzymes, chemicals, bacteria, and fungi working in a bizarre balance dictated by billions of years of evolution and/or a glorious creator. It's a freaking amazing piece of hardware.
I saw that brain surgery face skin thing, and thought “this seems like a fun thing to find a video of” I found one, and I almost passed out. My vision got blurry, and I started feeling really dizzy. This is a rather common occurrence with me. This has happened from heat exhaustion, and from getting shots. I really hate needles so it usually happens then. I seriously regret finding that video, and I highly suggest NOT TO MAKE MY MISTAKE.
Great I should have read this with a bucket next to me to puke into thanks.
Here's another one: the chemical makeup of happy tears is different from that of sad tears.
Never mind the mites that crawl out of you pores and have sex on your face. Those are creepier than eyelash mites IMHO.
How do people reach adulthood and not know this stuff? I thought all of this was fairly common knowledge.
Here's a fun fact. When a man and a woman have a baby, if the woman then needs a kidney, the man *cannot* be considered a donor. It has something to do with the fact that his genes have been inside her making the baby, her body's immune system had to do weird and wonderful things to avoid rejecting the baby, but it means that any donor kidney *would* be rejected immediately. It's more complicated than that, but there's a character limit and I'm not a genetic biologist to be able to explain it any better.
I don't think this is entirely true. I could only find limited info on this issue and from the abstract of this research article it appears that mutual children is not necessarily predictive of rejection: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.724851/full ... from the article "husband specific sensitization is around 20-50%"
Load More Replies... Here's another fun fact. The team of research scientists who flew to Antarctica looking to find the cause for the hole in the ozone layer were woefully unprepared for the conditions. They forgot to pack a targeting system for one of their radio dishes, so somebody had to sit on the roof and target one of the dishes at the moon. At one point the scientist noticed she couldn't open one of her eyes. It had completely frozen. Luckily it thawed without complications, but that must have been quite disturbing to realize your eyeball is completely frozen.
Your body is a big jiggly mess of all different kinds of cells, enzymes, chemicals, bacteria, and fungi working in a bizarre balance dictated by billions of years of evolution and/or a glorious creator. It's a freaking amazing piece of hardware.
I saw that brain surgery face skin thing, and thought “this seems like a fun thing to find a video of” I found one, and I almost passed out. My vision got blurry, and I started feeling really dizzy. This is a rather common occurrence with me. This has happened from heat exhaustion, and from getting shots. I really hate needles so it usually happens then. I seriously regret finding that video, and I highly suggest NOT TO MAKE MY MISTAKE.
Great I should have read this with a bucket next to me to puke into thanks.
Here's another one: the chemical makeup of happy tears is different from that of sad tears.
Never mind the mites that crawl out of you pores and have sex on your face. Those are creepier than eyelash mites IMHO.
How do people reach adulthood and not know this stuff? I thought all of this was fairly common knowledge.
