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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.
I dunno. I worked in a maternity ward for a while, and the shout of 'JUST GET IT OUT!' was heard more than once.
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I had two kids w/o painkillers but at NO point did I think a chainsaw near my pelvic bone would be a good idea.
I had two kids by having my abdomen gutted and I still don’t think a chainsaw near my pelvic bone would be a good idea.
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If I am not wrong, another consequence of this was that human babies also evolved paralelly to be born much more "prematurely" to fit the narrow birth cannal. Human babies are born totally defenseless and underdeveloped. They are dependent to their mothers for longer time than the babies of other mammals that are able to move a bit or hold onto their mothers or some even can run not so long after birth.
It’s more like: Women who tended to give birth at an earlier point in gestation were selected for (in the evolutionary sense), and their counterparts who give birth once the baby is too large to pass the opening were selected against, which I know sounds wildly pedantic, but evolution never actually makes any choices or coordinates things so neatly because it has no agency, it cannot actually deliberate. Even scientists who know perfectly well how it works also make use of verbiage that invokes the ghost of an agent. They say things like “giraffes grew longer necks to get at higher leaves”, which, grammatically, makes it sound like giraffes got together to deal with that high-leaf situation. They obviously didn’t do that. The ones that had slightly longer necks got slightly better fed and were slightly more fit during the mating season, so had a better chance of passing on their long-neck genes. Evolution is just a way to talk about a certain kind of statistics.
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It's called the "obstetrical dilemma", and, in evolutionary terms, it's only getting worse. The human cranium is still on a path toward enlarging, and the pelvis can only be so wide while still functioning for bipedal locomotion. We are creeping toward an impasse.
Yups. Women have pelvic spreading which helps to a degree, but it's also why younger girls/teens are at a higher risk for giving birth so young because the spread just doesn't help them. Big, oversized babies are a problem too.
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Yes, I was just reading about it recently..... my female partner freaked out a bit when I told her :-)
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So how cutting your bone with a chainsaw is less painful than birthing a child? I don't think they had anesthesia at that time either...
It wasn't about pain, it was about getting out a stuck baby
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This process is known as SYMPHYSIOTOMY and for many years, sawing through pubic ligaments/cartilage and, more rarely bone, was used in Ireland as an alternative to Caesarean. Over 1,500 women in Ireland between 1944 and 1987 were given this torment without their informed consent. The procedure will leave you unable to walk, pee, poo, or give birth again, depending. It doesn't use a chainsaw. Just a medical bone saw. Also, this torture was first advocated (by a man) in 1597. Rather than call a midwife to turn a breech baby or similar, the man just got to sawing.l.. without care for consequences for the woman. It's been used across Europe and Africa, and people as recently as the 2010s still advocated for its use over caesarean section. Source: WHO, UN Committe Against Torture, and Irish Examiner. (My ucnle by marriage is born Ireland, his aunt had one done, so that's how I heard about it)
I'm feeling a little faint now especially the recency
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And some people still think getting kicked in crotch is more painful.
Symphysiotomy. It's a barbaric operation that can lead to lifelong pain and disability. It's almost unbelievable how recently it was still being done. __ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/dec/12/symphysiotomy-irelands-brutal-alternative-to-caesareans
What makes it worse is making women lay down just so the Dr. can see what's going on. Sitting, squatting makes it safer, quicker and less risky for tears and hemorrhaging. Imagine being constipated and having to squeeze out poop laying down and pushing way too hard.
Apparently it was an English King who decided women should give birth laying down, so he could see his offspring being born easier. I guess it doesn't matter that squatting down and letting gravity bring the baby down would probably be quicker and more comfortable for a lot of women.
They also have hand chain saws for medical use, essentially a serrated chain with handholds at the ends.
Got the year wrong: The first chainsaw was designed by German orthopaedist Bernhard Heine in 1830. He called it the osteotome, from the Greek osteo (bone) and tome or tomi (cut); literally, the bonecutter.
I actually had to read it twice to be sure I read what I read.
Since women are the ones that give birth, can we just leave all of these birth tools and new ways to give birth up to women to decide? I dont want my pelvis sawed in half :/
1830 not 1780 and it was just a small handheld instrument that was cranked by hand
Let's clarify that it was a hand cranked chainsaw. Nothing like what is known today as an actual chainsaw. It was commonly used to decapitate diseased body parts
Chainsaws didn't exist in 1780 (eh hem, electricity?) They used hacksaws
Invented by Scottish doctors - one Scottish invention that really makes me wince
So you see, those chainsaw massacre people were really doing some good.
They didn't use chainsaws but Irish doctors were still performing symphysiotomies in the 1980s.
What is being described here is called a symphysiotomy and/or pubiotomy, the former uses a scalpel to cut the connective tissue between the two wings of the pelvis while the latter uses a surgical tool to cut the pubic bone itself. The purpose was to aid the laboring mother in a difficult vaginal delivery, beginning in Europe in the late 18th century and going extinct roughly a century later when c-sections became much safer. The major exception was Ireland where the barbaric practice continued well into the second half of the 20th century. These procedures are not only permanent, they are excruciatingly painful and were usually done without the patient's consent. It results in lifelong difficulty walking as well as constant, agonizing pain. The old trope of Irish women walking with a limp comes from exactly this.
Let’s keep a little perspective here. The “chainsaws” used in 1780 were the size of a kitchen knife and used a hand crank. It was an alternative to using a regular knife and just sawing with your hand for a procedure that was beneficial. It sounds barbaric but it was the 17 fücking 80’s. This faster, cleaner and more efficient method saved babies and mothers. If you think that someone was just splitting someone in half to do this procedure like Leatherface you should really read more. And of course BP, intentionally or not, is the worst site I’ve ever seen in my life in choosing proper pics for posts. Also does the title of the overall thread count as a “trigger warning?”
Incorrect. They were invented in Scotland by two doctors in 1780, they were small with a manual crank - not the kind you'd use to chop down a tree
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It's less about walking on two feet, and more about the size of baby's head compared to other young animals.
It involves both aspects. Proportional to body size we have the smallest pelvis out of all mammals and our infants have the largest skulls. Large object going through small opening is what leads to difficulties.
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So… chainsaws we’re around when King George the third was on the throne?
Believe it or not, this is literally the reason they were invented. https://allthatsinteresting.com/why-were-chainsaws-invented
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They were hand-operated. This article has a picture: https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/why-were-chainsaws-invented.htm
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Yes. You're missing the good manners to read the comments and see if your question has already been answered. Several times.
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No. Not electric chainsaws, hand cranked ones. Symphesiotomy (the cutting of the ligaments at the pubic symphysis) was a huge leap forward in saving the lives of babies that would otherwise have died. It is still in use in very remote areas where other medical interventions are not available, and was in use in Ireland until relatively recently. It is by no means a death sentence for the mother, although long term complications are sadly very common.
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A quick Google search would prove you wrong
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I'm trying to think of a polite way to say it, because what I want to say is unkind - but birth equals the worst period pains times about 100, and that's before we even discuss perineal tearing etc. There is no mental preparation or ancient knowledge that can make ripping from your v* to your a* not hurt. I've seen this argument before but from 12 year old boys and middle aged incels. It's just depressing.
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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.
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.
