Most days, our bodies are just there—mundane vessels we inhabit on autopilot. We wake up, get on with our routines, eat, sleep, repeat. But the moment you actually stop and think about what’s happening beneath your skin? It gets weird. Fascinatingly, beautifully weird.
That’s exactly what happened when one Redditor asked users to share medical facts that sound completely fake but are actually true. People delivered with some genuinely strange and interesting stuff, and we’ve pulled together the best responses below. Scroll down and see which ones surprise you.
#61
Everybody has symbiotic parasites in their eyelashes.
Demodex folliculorium
Everyone.
Sweet dreams.
Demodex folliculorium
Everyone.
Sweet dreams.
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3points
#62
When anesthesia was invented for surgery, anesthesia wasn't used on babies for a while due to people believing they don't feel pain.
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-2points