Get Premium
Dark mode theme is available exclusively for premium users. Learn more about the benefits of subscribing.
No fees, cancel anytime.
Dark Mode 
No fees, cancel anytime 
then open in external browser
and click "Open in External Browser" 
If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is believing that you know everything there is to know. Even if you’re highly educated and brag about how brainy you are, there’s always—always!—something new to learn. If you keep your curiosity alive and well, and stay humble, you might fill in some of the biggest knowledge gaps you didn’t even know you had.
Today, we’re featuring some of the strangest, most interesting, and frankly mind-blowing facts about the human body that internet users shared in a couple of awesome online threads. Scroll down to check them out and, hopefully, learn something new.
This post may include affiliate links.
#1
Took anatomy in university, the biggest thing that stuck out to me was the wrist/hand.
There is so much packed through the wrist and into the hand it's insane. You got muscles, tendons, bones, veins, arteries, and nerves, all bottle necked through about a 2'' x 1'' opening.
And not only that, but think about how strong your hands are, and yet how delicate and precise they can be.
It's cray cray.
OneHappyPuppy 4 weeks ago
I had carpal tunnel for only 2 weeks before I had my baby and that was worse than the delivery itself. Hurt like a m**o, couldn't move my hands for an hour after waking up. Every. Day. I slept with gloves on. I feel you
Load More Replies...
vdc9f4qsh8 3 weeks ago
During anatomy class, I always thought that we looked like organic robots, especially the spinal column in the spinal cords. They seem like cables.
RELATED:
#2
When blind people win a competition they raise their arms in a victory salute, in spite of never seeing that done before. It seems to be inherent, and some suggest that it shows our connection to primates. Gorillas raise their arms to show dominance over others.
Elmo 4 weeks ago (edited)
I think it's because it's a movement that goes against gravity, and those sorts of things ( jumping, raising hands in celebration etc) have been signs of celebration, excitement and joy for thousands of years, and I'm pretty sure it's a movement used by the mammalian brain, so it's instinctive I think
Harry Gondalf 4 weeks ago
human, apes, and and some monkey children raise their arms when they want to be picked up.
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
Some dogs sit or stand on their hind legs and lift up their front legs when they want to be picked up.
Load More Replies...
Kid Murray 4 weeks ago
That is the prevalent, mostly agreed-upon theory, whether you like it or not. Sorry it hurts your feelings.
Load More Replies... #3
Your heart rate slows when your face touches water, its called the mammalian dive reflex.
Man in the mirror 4 weeks ago
So that's why I don't truly feel relaxed in the bath until I've immersed my head! Mystery solved.
monsieur mabel 4 weeks ago
...will ask my doctor to dunk my head in a bucket of water next time she takes my blood pressure.....no more white coat syndrome for me !!......
As T. Alexander Puutio, Ph.D., who teaches organizational performance and leadership at Harvard and Columbia, stresses in a post on Psychology Today, there are many benefits of staying curious as you age.
For example, older adults who “remain intellectually adventurous maintain better cognitive functioning and enjoy lower dementia risk than their less curious peers.”
What’s more, novel experiences stretch your perception of time, so you feel like you live longer and more vividly.
Not only that, but curiosity also predicts “greater meaning in life and higher psychological well-being across cultures.”
#4
If a mother suffers organ damage while carrying a fetus, the fetus will send out stem cells to repair the mother.
Peter Parker 4 weeks ago
Even parasites wouldn't want the host to die.. just saying..
Load More Replies... #5
Humans are seen as cute by elephants in the same way we see puppies as cute. :).
Hippopotamuses 4 weeks ago (edited)
I'd like to know the details about the research which determined this.It seems like such an esoteric finding.
Also Ziro 4 weeks ago
MEEE TOOO! I think that every time, I read this. How is it possible was the elephant in an Elephant MRI?
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 4 weeks ago
Unproven, te person who first posited this in a tweet said that she isn't a scientist and based the tweet on a tumblr post that came up on a google. Snopes article in reply.
Sara Frazer 4 weeks ago
If I could be gently held and cuddled and nuzzled by an elephant; in the same way I'd cuddle a puppy; I would be happy
#6
The appendix has a purpose and is not just a genetic remnant. It holds onto bacteria as a reserve for your digestive track incase your system is rapidly flushed (toxins, new bacteria, swift kick to your gooch). In a sense, its a lifeboat for probiotic (if your system was healthy and stable before it hit the fan).
Hippopotamuses 4 weeks ago
As someone who had a rumbling appendix during their teenage years, I would rather have simply had it removed. NB: It's still there.
April Pickett 4 weeks ago
Back in the long, long ago it was thought it just was there. I had mine out when I was 5, bad, bad pain. I felt like a truck was sitting on my stomach. I remember the pain and learning to walk again after it was gone.
Meanwhile, Leon F. Seltzer, Ph.D., the author of ‘Paradoxical Strategies in Psychotherapy,’ notes that curiosity improves cognitive functioning while also helping your mind work more logically and efficiently.
Moreover, staying curious about the world can also boost your confidence, self-esteem, sense of pride, purpose, and life direction.
“Virtually all of us are endowed with a sense of adventure. And so we’re attracted to, and motivated to engage in, what’s novel or new. That’s how, ongoingly, we’re able to take in what previously we weren’t conscious of. As a result, we start to recognize what may still remain outside our awareness, which can incite us to continue our pursuit of knowledge and understanding on an ever-deepening level,” Seltzer writes on Psychology Today.
“Furthermore, as we’re driven to indefinitely expand our knowledge, we become interested in related questions not previously considered. And that prompts us to seek out fresh experiences to obtain information that now draws our curiosity. Needless to say, this well-nigh perpetual venture serves to enrich our lives and make them more meaningful.”
#7
There is no animal in the Animal Kingdom that can outrun a human in a distance race.
Many animals can run faster that we do, but as far as distance goes we are unmatched.
Our ancestors used to practice persistance hunting.
“Persistence hunting is believed to have been one of the earliest hunting strategies used by humans.”.
Daisydaisy 1 month ago
Pretty sure this human could be outrun by many creatures, including perhaps snails and tortoises ...
Tobias Reaper 4 weeks ago
most animals could beat us in say a 100 metre sprint but not in a marathon
Load More Replies... Kid Murray 4 weeks ago
It's adorable that you think I could outrun anything in a distance race.
Chris G. 4 weeks ago
Saw a YouTube about huskies. They burn energy different from other mammals. They run better if they do back to back sled dog races. We are not outdistancing them.
Load More Replies...
patricia patricia 3 days ago
They can run very fast, but only a relatively short distance
Load More Replies... #8
If your second toe is longer than your big toe, it is called Morton's foot.
No Olympic sprinter has ever had a Morton's foot (instead conforming to the standard downhill toes).
However, statues from Ancient Greece (as well as later Roman statues, Michelangelo's David, Venus de Milo, Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and the Statue of Liberty) all portray Mortons feet as it was considered an ideal of beauty.
Lotekguy 4 weeks ago
Is it common among clowns? That could be the reason for those shoes.
Load More Replies...
Michael Fernandez 4 weeks ago
My feet are classically beautiful! Is there a demand for s**y man feet? (And by that I mean sexagenarian man feet. I wonder how the BP text auto carrot will handle that.)
Michael Danhauer 3 weeks ago
The Greeks also saw large male genitalia as a sign of impurity and lustful tendencies. Smaller genitals were a sign of purity and heroic tendencies. That's why all the statues of Greek heroes have small junk.
nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
At least you don't have Diamond Crystal feet.
Load More Replies... #9
The Human-brain organ itself cannot feel pain, but can feel pain from all other part of the bodies.
patricia patricia 3 days ago
It depends on the type of headache. I suffer from migraines, and it's a complex process where the trigeminal nerve and other nerves in the area release inflammatory substances, which cause blood vessels and membranes to swell and become painful. I don't know what causes other types of headache, but it's always muscles, blood vessels, nerves and other tissues that hurt, but never the brain.
Load More Replies... 
Emma London 4 weeks ago
But organs and muscles also feel pain! That's why you'll get F*ntanyl in surgery. Even when you are asleep, your body must be given a heavy anesthesia because your parts try to jerk away from pain.
Chewie Baron 4 weeks ago
Ah, but that pain isn’t your brain, it’s the membrane that holds your brain in place,
Load More Replies...When you’ve read through all of these intriguing facts, we’d like to hear from you, Pandas. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments at the very bottom of this post.
How do you continue to stay curious about the world, no matter how many responsibilities and other things you have going on in your life? What are the weirdest things you’ve learned about the human body that sound fake but are completely true? What do you do to accept the world for what it is, not what you think it should be? Tell us all about it.
#10
If you held the pancreas in your hand it would dribble through your fingers because it has the viscosity of snot. That’s why pancreatic cancer is pretty much impossible to operate on.
Sarah Kathrin Matsoukis 1 month ago
In my head I'm scooping out the cancer with a little holey shovel like cat litter
Eastendbird 4 weeks ago
Lost a dear friend to pancreatic cancer this year. Late diagnosis, as is very common, nothing they could really do. F**k cancer.
alchemilla vulgaris 4 weeks ago
Not viscous, not snot, firmer than some of the other organs (liver, kidneys) but as Gourdeous says not as firm as a heart. And as everybody said, hard to operate because by the time it becomes symptomatic it's often already too late.
#11
The part of your eye where the optic nerve exits is what gives you a blind spot, because there are no photoreceptors at that part of the retina. It’s a bit of a design flaw, but luckily, the spot is “filled in” by your brain so, you don’t notice.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago
A lot of what you 'see' is actually made up by the brain instead of what the eye actually sees. Most of it is ignored because otherwise we'd be overwhelmed. Some substances remove the filters and it's wild!
Man in the mirror 4 weeks ago
Octopuses have better eyes because the optic nerve attaches behind the retina, not stupidly across, so they don't have blind spots. This is because their eyes evolved entirely independently form ours in an amazing wonder of parallel evolution that lets us know aliens probably have eyes just like ours.
Robert T 4 weeks ago
Not only that, but if you lose vision in part of your eye (either in the eye or in the part of the brain that processes the image), you don't just see black there - your brain fills in the details. Where it gets weird is that it needs to "refresh" this image by moving your eyes so that a part than can see picks up an image and it gets remembered until the next refresh. This means if you don't keep moving your eyes, that part of the image can become stale. Same haemhorrage I mentioned above affected the sight in both my eyes. If I'm staring at the screen and a message pops up in the bit I can't see, I won't notice it until I move my eyes.
Huddo's sister 4 weeks ago
My blind spot was bigger when I was young, because I had an optic nerve pit (hole) on my retina. My eye compensated for this, so it was picked up until I had the mandatory eye test when entering school. If it got bigger I could have been blind.
Nikki Sevven 4 weeks ago
We all are blind for a minute or two every day. When we rapidly shift our field of vision, our brain blacks out vision for a split second so we don't get dizzy.
#12
The urge we have to breathe is not to supply O2 to our bodies but to dispose of CO2!
CK 4 weeks ago (edited)
Because of this, you can become oxygen deprived without noticing right away when breathing something that's neither O2 nor CO2.
Robert T 4 weeks ago
Hypoxia, such as when you are at altitude and there is less oxygen in the air you breathe. This is dangerous, as it is compounded by the lack of oxygen causing your brain to not be able to think properly.
Load More Replies...
#13
There's one bone that's not attached to any other bone. It's in your throat and allows you to eat, swallow, talk, and breathe.. the hyoid bone.
Kira Okah 4 weeks ago
It strongly suggests it, but it's not infallible and cannot stand without any other evidence. It was only fractured in 1/3 of homicide strangulations, there are other ways for it to break, it's breaking is more likely with increased age, and the most common reason for it breaking is unfortunately sㅤuicide.
Load More Replies...
Blackmoon The Dragon 4 weeks ago (edited)
Only connected to muscle! It needs the flexibility I'm guessing
#14
Your eyeballs are only 34% bigger now than they were on the day you were born.
Lotekguy 4 weeks ago
The comment isn't about the bigger part, but about the relatively low percentage of growth compared to the rest of the body.
Load More Replies... #15
Humans and giraffes have same number of neck bones (7 cervical vertebrae).
GlitterPanda 4 weeks ago
almost all: the exceptions being the manatee (6), two-toed sloth (5 or 6), and three-toed sloth (9)
Load More Replies... #16
Humans are bioluminescent and glow in the dark, but the light that we emit is 1,000 times weaker than our human eyes are able to pick up.
Here is an article about it.
#17
Right before you vomit your mouth fills with quite a bit of saliva, this normally happens like 30-45 seconds before you vomit. It does this to help protect your mouth from the acids in the vomit. It's also a good indicator that you are going to vomit. So if that happens to you find the nearest toilet, bush, or garbage can.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago
Yes, I always know I'm going to hurl because of the rush of saliva. It's never been incorrect. Find that sink/bin/window fast!
Anonymouse 4 weeks ago
I found if you get some TUMS, or generic antacid, and can grab 4-5 and chew them during this time, it totally neutralizes the acid, and your vomit is majorly less disgusting. Of course, you have to act fast, but if you are feeling nauseous, you generally have some time...
Auntriarch 4 weeks ago
Especially if you are dry retching, take a few mouthfuls of water as well, gives you something to bring up that isn't quite as nasty.
Load More Replies...
Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
I can’t rely on this sign anymore as due to constant anxiety I’m so nauseous that there’s always a rush of saliva but no vomiting so I have no reliable way of knowing I’m sick until it’s too late
UnclePanda 4 weeks ago
The tooth thing is secondary - your GI tract flushes with mucus as part of the upcoming launch.
#18
The largest bone in the human body is the femur. It can support 30 times the weight of a person's body. Ounce for ounce, that's stronger than steel.
Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
Calcium is still somewhat brittle but when mixed in with other elements like phosphorus it can be strong
Load More Replies... #19
There's something called "placebo sleep"--if you trick your brain into thinking you got a good night's sleep you will become convinced you got a good night's sleep.
More Information 4 weeks ago
I think "tricking my brain" is another way of saying "convinced myself", right?
Jedi Panda 4 weeks ago
Ah yes. If you convince yourself that you got a good night's sleep, you will shockingly convince yourself that you got a good night's sleep!😂
Load More Replies... 
Billo66 4 weeks ago (edited)
3 drams of Laphroaig at breakfast and yesterday is but a fleeting memory.
nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
Excellent choice. It is, after all, "the most richly flavoured of all Scotch whiskies."
Load More Replies... Lotekguy 4 weeks ago
In college I learned that all we really need is three and a half to four hours of solid sleep to go through one complete cycle. I believed it, and for 5. decades have been able to function just fine with that being my usual pattern. I have no idea whether that's anatomically accurate or a placebo effect. Either way, it works for me.
#20
That we are all so different on the inside.
I assumed we were all cookie-cutter, like the anatomy posters. Then, I went to a cadaver lab, for school.
I saw a body with a bicep with 3 heads (making it a tricep) and 2 heads on the tricep (making it a bicep)
Some people have extra organs (extra kidneys).
I had just assumed... (it also puts evolution into a more real context).
Senjo Krane 4 weeks ago
We also have different blood vessels so when a surgeon cuts you open he's never 100% sure what he's going to find or where it will be.
BarfyCat 4 weeks ago
My mom had an artery wrapped around her esophagus that caused problems with swallowing food. It was just a weird genetic anomaly.
Load More Replies... #21
The skin on your elbow is called a Wenis.
Senjo Krane 4 weeks ago
not to be confused with other organs ending in enis...
Load More Replies...
#22
The 52 bones in your feet make up one quarter of all the bones in your body. When they are out of alignment, so is the rest of your body.
#23
Tilapia skin is close enough to our skin that it can be used to paper over burns and let them heal faster.
Also, our immune systems are similar enough to pigs' that they are the (non-primate) animal that transmit diseases the most easily to us, which is likely why many early religions banned pigs as dirty.
Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 4 weeks ago
It is cod fish and it is sadly not that simple. If you got burned you can not just simply slap some fish on it, the skin has to get special treatment in a lab to be able to do what it is supposed to to. The procedure is not easy and that treatment is not for everybody equally sensible. It is pretty much a fish plaster only the new human skin grows into it. I simplified this, it is a bit more complicated
Debby Keir 4 weeks ago
and covering a burn with a suitable 'dressing' helps with pain relief. (first aid is douse with water and cover with cling film - ?saran wrap in the US.)
Load More Replies... 
highwaycrossingfrog 4 weeks ago
I don't think any "early" religions banned pork, unless you are counting ancient Judaism as early. Otherwise there is Islam and Rastafarianism
Load More Replies... #24
Your memories are not concrete. Every time you think about a memory it becomes volatile and can be changed. There was an experiment where people were told that they had committed a major crime earlier in their life. This was of course false, but after being told repeatedly for weeks the people became completely convinced that the crime really happened.
Hippopotamuses 4 weeks ago
As I have become older, I have discovered this without scientific scrutiny. If my friends hear about my secondary school life again, I swear they're going to k**l me.
Marla Singer 4 weeks ago
This is one of those many things that is easier to believe about others, but difficult to accept about ourselves.
rustyscate 3 weeks ago
This is the basis of positive affirmations but in a negative use. It’s a bit strange why did they have to make them believe they did something bad when they could have told them something good?
#25
The small intestine is longer than the large intestine.
Emma London 4 weeks ago
In Finnish, the large intestine is paksusuoli, literally "thick intestine". This misconception is purely anglosaxon.
#26
* extremely efficient legs, we can walk all day, but a horse or a wolf tires out much earlier.
* resistance to shock, losing a body-part isn't a completely lethal, as with other creatures.
* hyperactive scar tissue, we regenerate faster than other creatures.
* Mega-fauna, we are in the group mega-fauna, which means we are one of the largest creatures on the Earth.
Marianne 4 weeks ago
Google says that a wolf can walk 100 km a day. That's a lot more than a typical human.
Peter Bear 4 weeks ago
Yes, but how long do they need to rest, and how many days can they maintain it? Wolves are also persistence predators, but they're not as good at it as we are.
Load More Replies...
Grm Moore 4 weeks ago
: In cold, wet, or snowy conditions, animals like wolves and dogs can have superior endurance. Specific Animals: Certain animals, such as migratory birds (e.g., Arctic tern, Canada goose) or some marine mammals, can travel vast, continuous distances that far exceed human capabilities, leveraging different forms of locomotion like flight or swimming.
Lotekguy 4 weeks ago
Hummingbirds migrate across the Gulf of Mexico. That's some serious pound for pound (or ounce for ounce) endurance.
Load More Replies... 
#27
Dunno if this counts exactly but coconut water can be used as a temporary replacement for blood plasma. Yaknow, like, for emergency surgery on a stylised desert island?
Chewie Baron 4 weeks ago
No, but we did learn this in WWII. But it has to be young coconuts.
Load More Replies... Ece Cenker 4 weeks ago (edited)
Depends on your blood - Pina Colada ratio on the said "stylised desert island."
#28
That females are born with ~2 million eggs already in their ovaries, although that's down from a peak of 6 to 7 million while in the womb. They lose eggs over time naturally, and by the time they hit puberty they're down to ~300,000.
Still debate on whether or not they create new eggs in their life-time or if what they're born with are all they'll ever have, they're still doing studies to try to figure this one out.
#29
Human babies are so helpless when they’re first born because they’re not done developing yet. It has been hypothesized that when humans evolved to walk on two legs, one of the consequences was the narrowing of the birth canal, meaning that babies need to be born earlier or else their heads would be too large to pass through. In theory, a human gestational period would ideally be between 18-21 months!
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago
It's actually because our brains developed to be much larger. The head can't fit through the birth canal. I don't believe it's because we are upright, or other apes would have the same problem, and I don't believe that they do.
Marianne 4 weeks ago (edited)
But we're not the only creatures who get born "early" (I mention this, because I have heard people claim that we are the only ones born immature). E.g. cats and many other animals get born with closed eyes, because they're not fully developed. Also they can't take care of their bowel movements themselves. Their mother has to lick their belly, or they will die from congestion.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago (edited)
We're the only ones that need support for months, or even years.
Load More Replies... April Pickett 4 weeks ago
Interesting. Now find a woman who wants to be pregnant for 18-21 months. Most of us have trouble being pregnant for 9 months.
Sam Trudeau 4 weeks ago
Meanwhile, this is coincidentally the recommended time between pregnancies
#30
A woman's breast milk adapts to her infant's needs based on its saliva. If the baby is sick, mom will produce more antibodies in her milk.
Carol Culhane 4 weeks ago
Why would it seem like bs? Milk also changes throughout a babies development to give them more of what they need to grow. The first milk, or collostrum is incredibly nutrient dense and loaded with antibodies, etc.
Load More Replies...
#31
That muscles can exert a lot more force than they actually do. They aren't used to there full potential all the time because it would destroy the muscle.
When you get an adrenaline rush you are able to tap in to more of your muscles and become significantly stronger.
Daisydaisy 1 month ago
This is perhaps why women can apparently lift cars or fallen trees that are crushing their babies?
Anonymous Fox 4 weeks ago
Yes, exactly. This is also why your heart rate speeds up so much when you're scared; your body is delivering extra fuel to your overclocked muscles.
Load More Replies... #32
The most abundant metal in the human body is Calcium, not Iron as a lot of people think.
#33
Lame because everyone probably knows this by now, but as a teenager I was blown away by the fact that SKIN IS THE LARGEST ORGAN!
Auntriarch 4 weeks ago
We had so much fun at school with people who didn't know the difference between epidermis and epididymis...
Load More Replies... #34
The acid in your stomach could burn your skin! I always thought that was pretty interesting, and reminds me of the scene in Alien, where the alien blood burns everything.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago
This is why stomach ulcers are so difficult to fix. Once the mucus is washed away, the stomach digests itself.
Debby Keir 4 weeks ago
A lot easier these days with antibiotics for helicobacter, which cause the majority of stomach ulcers.
Load More Replies...
#35
The average human heart pumps about 7600 liters (2000 gallons) of blood every day.
Your heart does a lot of work. Take care of it.
#36
During the average person's life, they will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Now I know where Mark Spitz got his name from.
NapQueen 4 weeks ago
I'm pretty sure I could fill two swimming pools of dribble just by sleeping one night!
Sara Frazer 4 weeks ago
You are the Nap Queen, after all 👑 🙇 (I frequently drool while sleeping too lol)
Load More Replies...
#37
Alot of taste is influenced by smell.
Mera 4 weeks ago
Unfortunate, as a person without a sense of smell. It’s actually kind of crazy how much it affects my taste.
Geobugi🇰🇷🇰🇭 4 weeks ago
I feel very sorry for you. As a person who loves food a lot , i imagine it would make me very sad to taste not as much as i do now
Load More Replies... Jack 4 weeks ago
Smell and taste are intertwined. When you inhale, some of that air gets pulled into your mouth where your tastebuds fill in further details. So whatever you're smelling, you're also tasting it.
Jnausicaa 3 weeks ago
Remember that when you are cleaning out the stables,.
Load More Replies... Grm Moore 4 weeks ago
No, flavour is. Taste is sweet, salty, sour, bitter. Flavour though is smell. Lose your sense of smell and all you get is those 4 sense from foods. Happened to my partner.
Sue Shea 4 weeks ago
I completely lost all sense of taste and smell 20 years ago, and yes, I can discern sweet, salt, sour, and bitter. But, absolutely no flavors whatsoever! Creates a dilemma when trying to cook. I enjoy my food now by its texture.
Load More Replies... 
Karen Ballou 4 weeks ago
The taste buds only detect sweet, sour, bitter, or salty. The nose differentiates the ‘taste’ of your food.
April Pickett 4 weeks ago
Except for coffee. That stuff smells great but tastes bitter. I like my coffee anyway.
#38
You are at your tallest each day as soon as you wake up in the morning.
Billo66 4 weeks ago
W*F happens the rest of the day? 10 years ago I was 5' 11" today Im 5,8. Not one to quibble but I kind of need my inches.
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
I'm still 4'10" at almost 71 years old. I refuse to shrink.
Load More Replies... 
#39
When a baby is born, it’s teeth are right under its eyes.
Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
I had a tooth with its roots uncomfortably close to my nasal passages. When they finally removed it by cutting open my mouth, I was able to finally breathe better. Sometimes if I’m jumping on a hard surface, through the pressure from the floor I can feel the hollow space in my face where the tooth used to be
Tobias Reaper 4 weeks ago
all their teeth baby and adult teeth if you see and xray of baby it looks like something from a horror movie
anne young 4 weeks ago
Never 'it'. How would the OP feel being referred to as 'it'? Babies aren't objects. Them*.
#40
It's funny but the nail on the middle finger grows faster than the rest. And the nail on the middle finger of the leading hand is generally a champion in terms of growth rate)
We still don't know why but the growth speed of the nail is somehow connected with the length of the finger, so that fingernails on long fingers grow faster than all, and the slowest on short ones.
Michael Danhauer 3 weeks ago
My nails grow at pretty much the same rate. I think the rest of you are just mutants. Or maybe I am lol...
Marianne 4 weeks ago
Incoming theory: It has something to do with holding a pen. Because I hold a pen with 4 fingers (don't ask me why) and for me, the fourth finger grows it's nail fastest.
nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
I wasn't going to ask why. I was going to ask how!
Load More Replies... #41
There are no muscles in your fingers, they are powered by muscles in your hands and forearms.
Gourdeous 4 weeks ago
Nope, no muscles in the fingers. I'm a hand surgeon.
Load More Replies...
#42
There is a natual chimerism present in every woman's body.
Early in foetal development every cell has to decide for itself which X-chromosome it will use. Once that decision is made it sticks everytime the cell divides. So you get clumps/stripes of cells that share the same x-chromosome next to stripes/clumps that have the other chromosome active.
#43
The dimple of skin between your nose and your top lip is called the philtrum.
#44
All the processes that happen in your body happen in complete darkness.
When people think about bodily processes they think of images of pink and red things moving around in a well-lit environment. In reality it's all pitch black.
Daisydaisy 1 month ago
Oh this really upsets my view of the world!! I've always assumed I'm pretty shades of red and pink inside - but pitch-black darkness! How gloomy!
Laserleader 4 weeks ago
What color is blood? Black like everything else until exposed to light.
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 weeks ago
I'm kinda glad about that. If it's happening in daylight, I'm gonna be worried!
Sara Frazer 4 weeks ago
I've seen it said somewhere before, but a quote like "If all goes well in your life your organs will never see the light of day"
#45
That the brain operates on the same amount of power as a 10-watt lightbulb.
nottheactualphoto 4 weeks ago
Or just say that the brain's power consumption is about 10 watts. Light bulbs don't pertain.
#46
I'm pretty sure alot of people know about the whole 'eyes take in an upside down image and the brain flips it' thing, but if you wear glasses that flip what you see upside down your brain will eventually adjust and flip how you perceive it the "right" way up, this means that when you take the glasses off you'll see upside down naturally until your brain readjusts again.
Laserleader 4 weeks ago
The studies said it takes 3 days for a normal brain to get used to an image upside down. If you apply that to almost anything new to the brai takes three days to be fully understood.
Pferdchen 4 weeks ago
People will get a taste of this if they ever opt for progressive eyeglasses! Nothing is flipped, but it can take two or three weeks for the brain to adjust.
Lady Eowyn 4 weeks ago
I've got progressive lenses. Took me a while to adapt, but worth it to avoid readers and constantly changing glasses.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 4 weeks ago
It's actually even more interesting, because your brain creates new pathways. Just like it does when you forsake a bad habit for a good one.
#47
No matter how warm or hot the outside cold air is our nose changes it to 98F immediately breathing it in.
Stardust she/her 4 weeks ago
Could this explain why breathing in chilly air hurts? Does it have to do with this process or is it completely independent
#48
The length of a person's arm span is approximately equal to their height.
Senjo Krane 4 weeks ago
They mean both arms stretched out. Leonardo da Vinci shows this in that famous sketch Vitruvian Man.
Load More Replies... #49
The sound of women's voices triggers the part of a man's brain that is triggered when listening to music.
Debby Keir 4 weeks ago
*studies suggest that the sounds and musical qualities (prosody) of women's voices activate similar brain areas for men as music does, specifically the auditory cortex, which processes complex sounds, while male voices often trigger the "mind's eye" for self-comparison, making female voices a richer, more complex auditory experience for men that engages deeper processing, like listening to music. * see the study by Sheffield University for more details.
Load More Replies...
Laserleader 4 weeks ago
What part is triggered when hearing a deeper women's voice or a mans voice?
Kira Okah 4 weeks ago
The area that processes all speech, because this is bs.
Load More Replies... UnclePanda 4 weeks ago
Then there's nothing we can do to you that's worse than what you're doing to yourself.
Load More Replies... Harry Gondalf 4 weeks ago
A certain part of the brain of a human male lights up when he views a photograph of a tool. The same area lights up when spies a nubile female.
#50
* there are ~250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet.
* feet perspire more than any other part of the body
* a pair of feet produce a 1/2 pint of sweat a day or a full pint if one wears non-breatheable footwear.
Laserleader 4 weeks ago (edited)
I call BS, maybe a few tablespoons if they have a severe sweating issue, but not a half pint. Thats 1 cup, or a quarter quart. Sweat would be pouring out the top of rubber boots if true.
Debby Keir 4 weeks ago
I'm sure you are as capable of fact checking as I am. *On an average day, your feet produce approximately half a pint (240-250 ml) of moisture. However, during extreme conditions such as hot weather or intense exercise, the total body sweat rate can soar to 3–4 liters per hour, and the feet's sweat glands can go into "overdrive". The feet have the highest concentration of sweat glands in the body, with roughly 250,000 glands between the pair. *
Load More Replies... Novlette Williams 4 weeks ago
Some people have four feet apparently. Lol.
Load More Replies...Explore more of these tags
What do you think ?
UnclePanda 4 weeks ago
The large proportion of absurd and dubious items renders articles like these on par with the National Enquirer.
UnclePanda 4 weeks ago
The large proportion of absurd and dubious items renders articles like these on par with the National Enquirer.
You May Like “Cats Can Recognize Their Owner’s Voice, Face, And Even Footsteps”: 50 Interesting Animal Facts 44 Truly Random Facts That Are Still Better Than The News If You Like Learning The Bizarre Facts From History, Here Are 45 Really Unexpected Ones
Dominyka Proškėnaitė
Dominyka Proškėnaitė
Ieva Pečiulytė
Related on Bored Panda
