23 Freaky Facts About The Human Body
Nathan Johnson
Published
07/23/2016
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You don’t need to be a doctor to appreciate the wonder of the human body.
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You have a friendly symbiotic relationship with bacteria in your gut that keeps you healthy and helps you digest food. When you die, they will eat you. -
2.
When you blush, the lining of your stomach blushes too. -
3.
Three hundred million of your cells die every minute -
4.
After giving birth, ladies are advised [that] they don't need to tell the doctor about the huge clots falling out their vagina until they're bigger than a lemon -
5.
A woman's uterus can fall out of her vagina if the muscles are too weak... -
6.
If you could scrunch together all the bacteria living on the outside of your body, they would take up about the same amount of space as a pea -
7.
We all have mites in our eyelashes which embed their heads into your hair follicles. -
8.
Humans shed 40 pounds of skin in their lifetimes -
9.
If you ever see the skull of a child, you will see teeth where you do not want teeth to be. -
10.
Apparently, bones can develop cancer... -
11.
Some tumors can grow teeth. -
12.
Bellybuttons are gross because they're usually not washed. -
13.
If our body stopped making mucus, our stomach would slowwwwly digest itself. -
14.
Your body can turn against itself in auto-immune disorders effectively killing itself trying to protect itself. -
15.
If all your muscles could pull in the same direction you'd be able to lift 25 tons -
16.
We carry poo and pee in us at all times. We don't think about it until we actually go to the bathroom, but everyone has some inside...at all times -
17.
Every time you put on a pound of weight, the body creates 7 miles of capillaries. -
18.
The pus in pimples (and pus anywhere else on the body) are actually a collection of dead white blood cells. -
19.
It takes the same amount of force required to bite off a carrot as to bite off a finger. -
20.
Your immune system typically kills off at least one would-be cancerous cell daily -
21.
You don't have kneecaps when you're born! They develop during childhood. -
22.
Untreated strep-throat is a life threatening infection. Can spread to brain/heart and kill you in several days -
23.
We swallow 1-2 litres of saliva and mucus per day. By the time we are 78 the average person has swallowed enough to fill a medium swimming pool
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