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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.
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.
I call b******t. https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/why-do-women-eat-their-own-placentas-canadian-study-seeks-to-find-out-1.4239432?cache=fbvfbdkpstrm "The study’s authors acknowledged there was most likely an “overestimate” of women who ate their own placenta in their findings because they sought mothers in social media parenting groups."
Agree, there's no way a quarter of all women are eating those. Imagine people taking home doggy bags of placenta from the hospital. Absolute shite.
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That's disgusting and I don't care what excuses people come up with to do it....it's still f*cking gross.
Take my upvote please. Ive expelled a lot of things from my body, just because they are "natural" doesn't mean they're edible.
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Wow, so much misinformation in these comments. Yes, placentophagy is fairly common nowadays. It started among "natural" or "crunchy" communities, but you would honestly be surprised. I get clients from all walks of life who want to know more about it. The placenta is almost always dehydrated, combined with herbs and put into capsules. It’s taken to reduce postpartum depression and increase milk supply through ingestion of hormones remaining in the placenta. There haven’t been wide scale studies, so no hard data yet, but preliminary studies have been done to get the ball rolling. However, anecdotal evidence - particularly for reducing depression - is very high. It's possible that it's placebo effect, but since the risk appears to be very low (if prepared properly), and the depression rate is astronomically high right now, most birth professionals are in favor of whatever we can do to lower it. Also, you can still bank cord blood. And you use a cooler, not a doggy bag. Geez.
As humans are one of the only mammal species that does not regularly eat the placenta, it appears that there is no evolutionary advantage in doing so. The fad for eating the placenta is just that, a modern fad with no scientific backing or principle behind it. It does make some people richer though, so I guess that's why it persists.
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There have been concerns regarding the placenta containing infection, in particular group B strep. I recall reading of an infant who contracted the infection a few times (seriously ill) before they figured out the source.
How was the infant getting the infection when it was the mother having the placenta? It’s extremely unlikely to pass through breastmilk unless it’s expressed breastmilk that become contaminated (which was the case in the articles I read, so didn’t really have anything to do with the placenta eating).
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I feel like they did this study in the hospital about half an hour after birth and the moms thought they had asked if they had eaten their chicken broth.
Im fairly certain the only reason some animals eat the placenta is to protect themselves and their offspring from predators who may smell the fresh birth. It doesn’t have much of any nutritional value
Mama Dr. Jones made a YouTube video on this about two weeks ago. In it, she discussed that there really aren't any wide scale studies showing any nutritional, hormonal, or immunological benefits to eating the placenta. The reason why other mammals do this is typically to avoid predation because other animals can smell it. Here's my question though: is this not a form of cannibalism? It involves eating a temporary organ that your own body grew and expelled. I can understand wanting to see it or even drying it and keeping it as a memento. But EATING IT?!?!
There was a skit on SNL (rejected) that was an ad for Placenta Helper
Nope, thanks. I think that we will donate the umbillical cord blood or/and tissue..or store it if the child could use the stem cells later in the life to save their life. But the storage fee is quite expensive. But, on the other hand, it still can save life..
@CII are people not allowed ti make mistakes?
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It's... Bogus beliefs about it being very nutritional. Especially for the milk for the baby.
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Never been offered, Never wanted to, Never even thought about it until this. Thanks, but No Thanks.
During my second pregnancy, I got a book on various ways of healing. One thing they recommended was to eat the placenta. It was suggested that you can cook it like liver and onions. No thank you. Oh, I’m a vegetarian, so . . .
Lived in Canada all my life. Lots of friends and family have had babies. Have NEVER, EVER heard of this. Placenta has uses BUT NOT THIS.
My DIL had hers turned into capsules and consumed it that way. I just tried to be nice when she told me and not vomit.
Thought it's one of the few morally acceptable ways to try human flesh. (I mean, I guess you could cut pieces of yourself and eat them but. yeah.) Didn't realize it was an actual thing tho.
It is believed that the reason animals do it is to hide the fact that they gave birth. That the placenta could attract predators/scavengers. We SHOULD be freezing them to use for stem cell therapy as the "death clock" of cell replication will be at the beginning and as the child gets older they may be needed for therapy or even future rejuvenation/life extension procedures.
not surprising, when a woman give birth is a very hard work, and after you are hungry, so good appetite
this maybe a dumb question, but what is the nutrition value of eating placenta?
New studies say that you shouldn't do that bc of all the possible infections you could get. It did after all keep your baby from getting infections. Also, wtf yall. Donate it or harvest the stem cells. Don't f*****g eat it.
I've seen a cat eat it right off her kitten when I was 4. That was a bit disturbing and stuck in my mind since. Imo, to each their own but I could never eat it. Just too gross to think about it. I heard one mom tried feeding it to her guests without telling them. Think about that the next time a new mom invites you over for din din.
I wonder if this might have been a way, long ago, of disposing of something that might attract predators. That would make sense since the mom and new baby would be vulnerable and might have to stay where they are for a while.
Well, yes, that's exactly why animals do it. And I suppose it is possible that some human societies the past did that as well. But obviously in modern times it's just a fad.
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I would like to know the texture of fresh one. I have a baby, but I never thought of eating placenta. Our dogs when that had puppies ate it, but... cant imagine to do that... fresh or cooked... nop
Why not? After all the stress and damage caused to the body by pregnancy, I'll bet all those juicy stem cells are just the thing to help get mom feeling "normal" again.
I wonder if it tastes like chicken? But there are some things I don't need to know.
Seriously, mammals do this after giving birth because birth is traumatic and this replaces needed nutrients. Didn't do this with my first, but I did with my second. WOrth it.
Mammals mainly do it to avoid attracting predators to blood and rotting meat. And yes, it might also help to replace a few nutrients but it really isn't going to make a big difference and for humans it is totally unnecessary. It's nothing but a fad.
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I've read that this is common for dogs as they cannot provide as much helthy foods for their pupies and humans don't have to do this as they can provide all that is needed for the body and the baby with food.
The main reason mammals do this is to avoid attracting predators.
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who in their right god damned mind would digest something that just exited their body 0.2 seconds earlier what the actual f*** *edit* please make this top comment
My parents tried some of my placenta. I was born about 2 1/2 weeks late, and as a result, my placenta tasted gritty.
It is apparently very rich in certain minerals which are depleted during pregnancy, as they are taken by the baby.
No word of a lie - a uni friend of mine blended it into a smoothie. RARE. I know you're thinking she was bullshitting but it is EXACTLY the sort of thing she would do. She made a point of being an 'earth mother' type. A think it's what's now known as a "crunchy mum"?
Or can get it dehydrated and made into pills. Had an acquaintance who ran a business doing this.
The Chinese make a milk based soup called placenta soup. I verified it with a co-worker who is a doctor from China.
As a Chinese, I just gotta say that most of us don’t do that 😁
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I've seen animals (cats, dogs, horses, rabbits...) doing it multiple times since I was a kid and always thought it was a shame that this doesn't sound socially acceptable for humans, because it would help women to recover so much better and faster after giving birth.
This is fallacious reasoning. In studies of human societies, placentophagy (eating the placenta) is an extremely rare behavior, whereas it is very common in almost all other mammal species. If eating the placenta gave an evolutionary advantage then it would be commonplace among humans, because that's how evolution works. The fact that geographically remote populations of humans almost universally agree on this means that the advantage is to *not* eat the placenta.
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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.
