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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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#1
Every child's jaw is packed with teeth which sounds normal until you realise this is what it looks like.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
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.)
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#2
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.
#3
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.
#4
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.
Minty mosasaurus 2 years ago
Props to the guy who swallowed the razor blade so we could know this
#5
When you really think about it we're all just three-pound brains piloting meat bicycles we call bodies
#6
If you force someone to stay awake without giving them any food, they'll die of lack of sleep before they die of starvation.
#7
There's a kind of tumor that can cause teeth to grow in a woman's ovaries and a male's testicles.
#8
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.
#9
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.
#10
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
#11
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
#12
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.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
I have no doubt whatsoever that it was neither proposed nor invented by a woman.
#13
Sometimes when you have a runny nose, it isn't snot. It's cerebral fluid that the brain leaks to reduce pressure.
Purple Rainn 2 years ago
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.
#14
Sometimes during brain surgery, they'll peel your face forward like a goddamn banana.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
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.
#15
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.
Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
1. EXACTLY 67? 2. Surgeons clean nothing besides their own hands.
#16
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.
#17
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?
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 2 years ago
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
#18
You produce more earwax when you're stressed and stressed earwax smells way worse than the regular stuff
#19
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.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
My one relative had this happen to him, he’s now blind in one eye
#20
There could be mites having sex on your eyelashes right now you would have no way of knowing
#21
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.
Superninjatiger 2 years ago
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.
#22
The water you drink has probably been inside someone or something else.
A Wild Bean 2 years ago (edited)
Probably? Nah, definitely. This is the same water that's been on our planet since way before the dinosaurs (edit: it was a typo, please be nice)
jolie laide 2 years ago
Yups, our water is essentially "space water", since all of it got here through the cosmic bombardment of Earth in the very early days, and some through chemical reactions. Besides all the rock and metal, water is as old as the Earth almost.
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Reinaldo Fuentes 2 years ago
After a 4-billion year history of life on Earth, the water inside of you has DEFO been part of many other living organisms.
Robert Trebor 2 years ago
The gold ring you wear could've been part of a Pharoah's funeral. It's fungible.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago (edited)
Liar, Liar! I have searched every single finger of my hands but I can't find a gold ring. Fortunately, the search did not take long because I have been working in a sawmill for many years. 🤘
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Kevin Humble 2 years ago
I guess - acording to a homeopath it's free medical treatment for all.
Exotic Butters 2 years ago
It has been. There isn't any new water. It's the same water that's always been here. Your next glass of water could be from my swimming pool when I was 10. Don't worry, I never peed in it.
Chlorox Bleach 2 years ago
Even better, at least half of the water you're drinking has been around longer than the sun
thepinkrobot 2 years ago
What did this person think? That water is just newly made every time you pour a glass?
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Apparently all the water on Earth is not native to Earth. It didn't come from the inside the Earth. Much of it is in the atmosphere as vaporized droplets. The fresh water we do have has been recycled by people and creatures since it's existence. There is water all around. Whether it's frozen snow, permafrost, ice, salt water, freshwater, swamps, mold, vapor in the air, clouds, in our bodies, in animals, in plant, dew. It travels all over the world in air and ocean body currents, and through travellers.
Rachel Smith 2 years ago
Yeah, we don't get new water. This one seems like a "no duh" kinda thing. The only way we'd get new water is if we get it from outer space.
Empresslockness 2 years ago
There is no new water lol. We drinking the same water our ancestors did.
Bluetoyou 2 years ago
Well it is way worse than the cycle of life. Sewage goes to the sewage plant. It's processed. Then what do they do with it? Do they pipe it into a nearby lake? And the pipe out the other end for your drinking water? I grew up on ground water. Where I live now the water is from the Karse system underground here. But people in cities I would look up your source and what happens to the water from the sewage plants.
Harley Lee 2 years ago
Also, the morgues wash the dead bodies and drain the blood into regular sewer systems. I heard this from someone who worked in one- casually said oh yeah just down the drain. I hope this is a lie
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
On some days it must have been water that Klaus Kinski and John McEnroe had already drunk.
Best Behave 2 years ago
Duh, Life started evolving 3-4b years ago, so yes those water moecules have almost certainly been through many other creatures
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
And the plants you eat were also living beings, as were the bugs that were happily feeding on them until they were sprayed with pesticide, the rodents that were killed to protect the harvested crop, and the animals that lived on the fields before they were turned into monoculture "deserts".
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#23
When you die, your body will begin digesting itself as enzymes eat through cell membranes and leak out.
#24
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.
#25
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.
Clown fish 2 years ago (edited)
My youngest child running at me yesterday sneezing in my eyes! Lol oh my downvoter is back. Following me about like a scary stalker
#26
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.
#27
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.
Dontyouwishyouknew 2 years ago (edited)
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.
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N Miller 2 years ago
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.
Sydney C 2 years ago (edited)
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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RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
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.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
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.
Goose 2 years ago
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.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Great I should have read this with a bucket next to me to puke into thanks.
Anton Swanepoel 2 years ago
Here's another one: the chemical makeup of happy tears is different from that of sad tears.
Xenon 2 years ago
Never mind the mites that crawl out of you pores and have sex on your face. Those are creepier than eyelash mites IMHO.
Sabrina Bowen 2 years ago
How do people reach adulthood and not know this stuff? I thought all of this was fairly common knowledge.
N Miller 2 years ago
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.
Sydney C 2 years ago (edited)
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... RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
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.
Alex Martin 2 years ago
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.
Goose 2 years ago
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.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
Great I should have read this with a bucket next to me to puke into thanks.
Anton Swanepoel 2 years ago
Here's another one: the chemical makeup of happy tears is different from that of sad tears.
Xenon 2 years ago
Never mind the mites that crawl out of you pores and have sex on your face. Those are creepier than eyelash mites IMHO.
Sabrina Bowen 2 years ago
How do people reach adulthood and not know this stuff? I thought all of this was fairly common knowledge.
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