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If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read

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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.

#1

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
39points

#2

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
35points

#3

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
Your heart rate slows when your face touches water, its called the mammalian dive reflex.
32points

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 You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
If a mother suffers organ damage while carrying a fetus, the fetus will send out stem cells to repair the mother.
32points

#5

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
Humans are seen as cute by elephants in the same way we see puppies as cute. :).
30points

#6

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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).
29points

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

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.”.
29points

#8

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
28points

#9

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
The Human-brain organ itself cannot feel pain, but can feel pain from all other part of the bodies.
26points

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 Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
26points

#11

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
25points

#12

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
The urge we have to breathe is not to supply O2 to our bodies but to dispose of CO2!
24points

#13

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
24points

#14

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
Your eyeballs are only 34% bigger now than they were on the day you were born.
23points

#15

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
Humans and giraffes have same number of neck bones (7 cervical vertebrae).
23points

#16

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
22points

#17

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
21points

#18

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
20points

#19

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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.
20points

#20

If You Want To Know More About The Human Body, Here Are 50 Strange Facts To Read
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).
19points
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