71 Health Facts That Are As Surprising As They Are Educational

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I immediately just sat up straighter! 😁

Today I learned there is something called "floppy baby syndrome" and I also learned that I wish I hadn't learned that.

The stress is not created by love, it is created by our mental doubts about the success of a new relationship. We get the same butterflies when going for a job interview and our first day at a new job, our first day of college.

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Not so much the Black Sea as the Blue See...

cool, never knew why dimples happened

It doesn't work for me. Although I'm taking cold showers because I'm in menopause and I don't want to accidentally burst into flames. 😂

We teach BEFAST - sudden onset of Balance/coordination problems Eye problems (seeing out of one or both eyes) Facial drooping Arm weak on one side Speech abnormalities (slurred, doesn't make sense, garbled) Time to call emergency services!

Also rubbing your hands together vigorously assists in breaking the membrane.

How to avoid the pimples?

I thought it tramped air to warm us up?

Approximately? Some have more?

Yeah these "facts" are a little dated.

Nicotine in tobacco at normal doses doesn't hurt anyone. It's the tar in tobacco that causes problems, that's why we have tar filters. PS. Be very very careful with the acetylcholine pathway. Many poisons such as strychnine and atropine target this pathway.

See? Alcohol IS a solution

Formerly trauma, latterly something else?

And creates high risk for pulmonary embolism and stroke.

And by getting older hair grows in places where it never meant to be.

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Oestrogen, outside of the US.

Fun fact: When performing CPR, the proper rhythm is to the beat of Another Bites the Dust. Alternate fun fact: People get mad if you start singing Another One Bites the Dust while performing CPR.

I know several people who wear blue light blocking glasses when they work at a computer. I just wear glasses so I can actually read what's on the screen. 😁

In some people, somehow the opposite happens, and coffee can help them fall asleep. Weirdly, in the morning when I drink a cup, I do feel like it helps wake me up. However, at night when I think I might be restless, I can drink a cup and before I can completely finish it, I’ll be ready fall right to sleep. My niece does the same thing. So it’s definitely a thing:)

Hate these bastards.

Bags under the eyes are caused by your blood flowing to your head while you sleep. Raising the head of your bed a few inches to elevate the angle of the bed can help prevent that. But then the blood flows to your legs so you have to raise the foot of your bed. Best to sleep in a big bowl I guess!

Longevity researcher have tried creating d***s that extend the telomeres but found it causes cancer to grow. Because that is one trait of cancer, it does not d*e.

Beer is never bought, only rented short-term.

People spend more time in enclosed spaces when it's cold also

That is why breaking up is hard to do.

After sufficient exposure, ONLY the pain signals are sent to the brain!

I use to get these all the time back in my youth when we all wore our eye liner on the inner part of our eye. 😫

D*e Viren und Bakterien, d*e machen niemals Ferien

The footage of Japanese contests where they drink a few beers, go out in the cold, and see how long they can go without urinating.

So that's why I feel blissful after eating scallops 😂

Ice cream and ginger ale always does the trick!

But if the egg is already released, isn’t the plan b pill useless?

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The "in order to fight off the pathogens" bit is really not true. It's just a part of the body's response, like other inflammation as a result on illness or injury, but the implication that increased blood flow for healing is the reason it does so is a huge over-simplification, there are much more significant mechanisms at work.

The UK's answer to sweating is to drink more tea :)

That's why stress can cause a flare up of fibromyalgia

Not sure about this one. Lipolysis creates glycerol and fatty acids, not carbon dioxide and water. From what I can find it uses water rather than creates it.

All allergies are like this.

Surely "funny bone" was a medical student's idea of a joke name for the humerus.

And dehydration, which comes with another set of problems.

But, lactic acid is what, acute limits your power, right? If you can't anymore, it's too much thereof, I remember ... but, that never was a prime interest of me, ...

its a glitch in the matrix it happens when they change something

Omg! I’ve always wondered about this! I have amazing night vision! Either that or I’m surrounded by night blind people:) anyway, I only need the smallest light source, like moonlight thru a tiny crack in a curtain would be enough to see the whole room. But I can never pick out color! Lol, anyway, I’ve wondered about this for a long time.

Known as ‘Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease‘ or GORD outside the US.

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This based on one massively flawed study from 2005. No causal link was established. A later more controlled study found no evidence to support this claim.

They spent actual money figuring all this out?

It's function is not just "to stop menstruation", it is also a signal to propagate cellular division and proliferation especially in germ cells (no, not germs as in bacteria). Hence why you can detect testicular cancer with a pregnancy test

And dizziness

I know what pigment gives my hair it's blonde colour...

The vessel dilation in the brain also puts increased pressure on brain tissue. Hence causing effects throughout the body such as nausea, balance disturbances, visual and audio oddities, etc. known as a migraine aura.

Methinks this is 'pop science'.

That's an expensive way to burn calories. Who spends an hour in the shower? I'd have run out of warm water by that point!

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Used as a treatment for dark spots on the skin, not (just) for generic skin lightening as is still common today in parts of the world, where racism-related prejudices against dark skin are still sadly prevalent.

Hope you don't need it, but my Meniscus repair surgery left huge bruises either side of my lower thigh above the knee. "Yeah we use a torniquet during the procedure".

But most of the time it isn't your stomach growling, it's your colon. Most of which sits higher in your abdomen than you probably realize.

I don't happen to believe the "left brain" vs "right brain" idea. The idea came out of the same stable as acupuncture and chiropractic.

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Still does. The idea that the appendix is useless has been thoroughly debunked, it's now known to play a significant part in the immune system and in gut health.

So what's the plural: bacteriae?

grief is the price we pay for love