25 strange, disgusting and creepy facts about the human body (26 photos)

There seems to be an endless supply of new things to learn about our own bodies, and it's always interesting - for example, did you know that information enters the brain at a speed of 430 km/h? However, there are some things you're better off not knowing if you want to sleep peacefully at night, and the facts in this collection are just that.





1. Every baby's jaw is full of teeth, and this fact seems completely harmless until you realize that it looks... like this.



2. Anyone who has ever been on a ride, especially a steep roller coaster, knows a strange feeling in the stomach. In fact, this is the displacement of your internal organs, especially those that are not secured by ligaments, such as the intestines.



3. If you rub the soles of your feet with garlic, then after about half an hour you will feel its taste in your mouth. Garlic contains a substance that penetrates cell membranes, travels up the bloodstream and reaches the taste buds. This way you can taste the garlic with your feet.



4. If you think about it, we are all stupid one-and-a-half-kilogram brains riding a meat bicycle, which we call a body.



5. The acid in your stomach is so strong that it can dissolve a razor blade, so your stomach is constantly fighting to keep from digesting itself. This acid is contained only by stomach mucus.



6. If you do not give a person sleep and do not feed him, he will die from lack of sleep earlier than from exhaustion.



7. There is a type of tumor that can grow teeth on a woman's ovaries and a man's testicles.



8. Since a person sheds about 40,000 old skin cells per day, the dust you see in your home is made up of yourself. That is, every time you come to someone else's house, you inhale thousands of cells from someone else's skin.



9. Men can produce milk, and this is much more common than it seems; most men are simply ashamed to admit it. Male lactation can be caused by starvation - this was observed in concentration camp prisoners when they were fed for the first time after several weeks of starvation.



10. After decapitation, the disembodied head will remain conscious for about 15 seconds. This may even be enough time for the brain to realize what happened.



11. Since we evolved to walk upright, women's pelvises and birth canals have become very narrow, which means they have to endure some of the most painful childbirth on the planet. In this regard, in 1780, during childbirth, women sawed off part of the pelvic bone with a chainsaw to facilitate the process.



12. There are no pain receptors in the brain, so people can stay awake and calmly talk to doctors while they perform brain surgery on them.



13. In very rare cases, what can be mistaken for normal nasal discharge during a runny nose is brain fluid, which the brain releases to reduce pressure.



14. During some brain surgeries, doctors simply remove the patient's face like peeling a banana.



15. If a woman’s ligaments are stretched, and the vaginal muscles are not strong enough, the uterus may simply fall out.



16. In preparation for surgery, almost the first thing you do is clean your navel, since up to 67 types of bacteria can accumulate there.



17. When you breathe, most of the air enters one nostril and leaves the other, and they switch roles every couple of hours. We checked it now, right?



18. Our immune system does not always recognize the eyes as part of the body, so there are many diseases in which the immune system attacks and tries to destroy the eye, which can blind the person in the process.



19. People produce more earwax when they are stressed, and this stress-induced earwax smells much worse than normal.



20. Mites could be mating on your eyelashes right now, and you won’t even know it.



21. The water you drink has most likely already been inside someone or something else.



22. Up to 80 million bacteria can be exchanged in one 10-second kiss. Therefore, if you kiss your partner several times a day, you will develop similar colonies of oral bacteria.



23. If someone sneezed in your face, they launched germs into you at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour. The cough is not so bad in comparison - only 100 kilometers per hour.



24. When you die, your body will begin to digest itself as enzymes eat through your cell membranes and leak out.



25. Placentophagy is the practice of eating the placenta that is expelled after childbirth. It is either cooked or eaten fresh. According to a Canadian study, 24% of women surveyed ate their placenta after giving birth.