40 Fascinating But Pretty Unsettling Human Body Facts That You Might Have No Idea About

How much do you know about the human body? Get in here!

Maryjane

• Published in Interesting
• August 23, 2022

The human body is an oddball. Our bodies, which consist of 206 bones, a few liters of blood, approximately 600 muscles, and much more, have evolved over a period of about 6 million years and are now capable of amazing feats.

Even though we may not all be competing in the Olympics or scaling Mount Everest, each and every one of us has a body that is working really hard to keep us alive. And even though we live our entire lives in these intriguing skin suits, most of us don't really grasp how they function.

How well-versed are you in the human body? If you don't work in the medical sector, it's likely that you don't fully understand many of our bodily processes.

Our bodies are amazingly intricate. In adults, there are over 46 miles of nerves, more than 60,000 miles of blood vessels, and over 100 billion nerve cells in their brains.

Not to mention our intelligence, our ability to exercise our free will, and our tendency to make decisions that are consistent with society rather than just acting on instinct. Because of this, a Reddit user named Alwaysclimbing5 asked other Redditors to provide interesting facts about the human body that few people are aware of.

Here is the post below:

Readers shared fascinating information, ranging from how we can be born with extra ribs to how sensitive our noses are to the scent of rain. We've compiled the most fascinating comments from the reddit thread below for you to read.

1. Hey everyone, guess what... I'm a mutant

2. Some people never get a headache

3. Your body takes a a while to slow down

4. What natural redheads require...

5. The magic of breast milk

6. One amazing thing I discovered during my thesis

7. How we sleep when we're in an unfamiliar environment

8. Every 45 seconds or so, he had a hiccup

9. It's not the heat of the sun that's hurting us

10. You can still see it, all over the human body

11. You can give birth after you've died

12. The immune privilege of the eye

13. This is an amazing evolutionary adaptation to protect the eye sight

14. Just one nostril doing the work at a time

15. When you want to wake up at an exact time

16. What women are programmed to forget

17. Your brain chooses to ignore seeing the nose

18. Out internal regulator keeps us from using our full strength

19. Why our hands gets wrinkly some of the time

20. Your liver can actually regenerate

21. There are some people who are super sleepers

22. The anticipatory rise that happens involuntarily

24. They spend their entire lives on our faces

24. An amazing example of neuroplasticity

25. When you feel like the first second lasts a little bit too long

26. Some super humans right there

27. A baby has several defense mechanism

28. The number of bones in a baby's body

29. The body has enough fat

30. We are more bacteria than human

31. The bones in your body

32. A strong femur

33. The corpus callosum

34. Weight loss

35. The baby urine

36. Always!

37. Now I know better

38. Amazing fact

39. The palmaris longus

40. Uhm... Okay...

No matter how attentive you were in biology class during your freshman year, there is a reason why becoming a doctor might take more than ten years. We hope you enjoy your daily dose of biology and learn something new about yourself.

Let us know the facts that truly astounded you in the comments below. Make sure to share this post with your loved ones so they too can learn something new.

Maryjane