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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
I knew this! There was a super famous saxophone player a few years back that had to get brain surgery or something and the surgeons had him play his saxophone during the procedure so they knew they didn't mess up.
Shoutout to those surgeons performing one of the most complex medical procedures of all times while someone's playing the saxophone, meanwhile I forget where I'm going when someone at work plays phone music very quietly.
Load More Replies...My stepdad died of brain cancer but one of the weirdest parts of it was that he didn't feel any pain for 2 years until the tumors reached a size where his brain started pushing on his skull. Only the skull pushing actually hurt. It's weird to think you can have life threatening tumors and feel nothing
And it can be important to talk to the patient in brain surgery so they know if they’re pressing on the right bits!
Rosemary Kennedy was talking and singing during her lobotomy. Only when she stopped, did they stop cutting.
This was my first thought. Glad someone else thought it also.
Load More Replies...But doesn't the skin and stuff that you have to cut through to get to the brain have pain receptors, though?
They use topical anesthetic on that part. It's actually the pressure against the muscles, skin, and bone in the skull that makes it hurt.
Load More Replies...My husband went through that. He is a talented Organist and Pianist. Phd in Performance. First open brain awake surgery in Austin at that particular hospital. They stimulated areas of his brain to try not to affect his motor skills during tumor removal. He was given pain killers for cutting through the scalp and anesthesia but not enough to put him out. Just to relax him so he would not freak out with his head open. He had a doctor talking to him keeping him calm the whole time. His motor skills are intact but his math skills and short term memory were lost. He still plays very complicated pieces from long term memory beautifully. But has no clue about a bank account and forgets conversations mid sentence. And the surgery was not that long ago. About 10 years.
That kind of short term memory loss sounds very difficult to live with but better than losing him to the tumour. I hope you have many more good years together.
Load More Replies...But the skin and tissue surrounding the brain has pain receptors right? Or is Dr Mike wrong in that one 911 reaction video?
Yes the patient gets local anesthesia in the scalp and skull.
Load More Replies...and yet, it's the brain that tells us we're in pain, interesting
The famous Hungarian author and humorist, Frigyes Karinthy, wrote an autobiographical book when he found out he had brain tumor. It's called "A journey round my skull". He was operated around 1936 and he was awake during the surgery and shared a lot of details about how it felt. It's a great read, and I heard it was in the curriculum in some medical schools for a while.
Doctor operating on my brain and I'm just like "so you getting the new assassin's Creed?"
Makes sense, doesn't it? In nature, if you have an injury that goes all the way to your brain, the chance of survival is probably extremely low. Things only develop into a common characteric if they give you an evolutionary advantage (or are a side effect of something else, or some leftover residue of something that used to have an advantage). But if everyone (those who happen to have some brain sensors in their brain and those who don't) die after a brain injury anyway, then pain sensors in the brain wouldn't be useful enough to develop into a common characteristic.
Many times some form of communication is required to perform the necessary surgery whether it be reciting something, playing an instrument, or other methods.
But migraine's feel like they are in the brain and holy hell they hurt
Pain is mysterious. Take the phantom pain that many amputees experience. Imagine feeling an itch you can't scratch, on a limb that no longer exists.
Load More Replies...This is how surgery for Parkinson’s Disease is done. Hold up an arm to see if it stops shaking. That way they know they’re in the right place. They put you under general anesthesia until they get to the brain. Then the anesthesiologist let’s you come to and monitors your anxiety levels (God knows I’d want to be hysterical) to give you something to help if you get anxious.
I hear this all the time, but if it's true, how the heck do people get headaches?
Hey doc, just heard a great joke about three doctors in a rowboat. . .
Lots of brain surgery has to be performed with the patient awake, so the surgeon can monitor where to cut, or not
Yeah but then my eyes would tell my brain, “dude this should hurt, right?” The the pain shall come like a tsunami
They would have to heavily sedate me to make my overanxious brain okay with this
Mine has definitely. Just spent a day on my job with me for proof.
Not really. Most of these procedures only involve the use of local anesthetics (think the numbing shot the dentist gives) and maybe a small amount of IV pain medication. Not much pain to deal with compared to most other procedures, but pain is relative so there's that.
Load More Replies...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.
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.
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.