25 Horrifying Facts About the Human Body

‘An aneurysm could kill you pretty much at any moment with little to no warning’
25 Horrifying Facts About the Human Body

The human body is a disgusting, terrifying mass in practice. Sure, they look good painted and propped up just right for fashion shoots and underwear ads, but most of us with a mirror know that’s not standard issue. Those of us without visible obliques are well familiar with the horror of the shifting, multiplying mass of skin and matter that makes up the human form.

In case taking a picture with your front-facing cell phone camera isn’t enough to make you despise your flesh, try reading the following facts about our bodies. Each one a cursed morsel of knowledge irresponsibly made available by users on AskReddit. That being said, the following information is more than enough to give you a newfound respect for your local hypochondriac, so maybe go easy on them from now on.

. 9y ago You may or may not have a protein in your brain that is bent the wrong way. Most likely you don't, but if you do, it's going to convince the other proteins that they should also bend that way, and someday you'll go crazy and die.
PABuzz . 9y ago When you get a kidney-transplant, they don't take the bad one(s) out. So you basically end up having 3 kidneys.
Rusty_Pancake . 9y ago An aneurysm could kill you pretty much at any moment with little to no warnings.
. 9y ago . Edited 9y ago If a woman dies late in her pregnancy thegasses building in her body can push the baby out
mynamesyow19 . 9y ago that the enzyme Telemorase, which can basically make our cells immortal, is turned off after birth (for the most part), but is one of the first things that cancer cells re-activate to make them immortal.
Xtrasauc3 . 9y ago with a couple Everyone's walking around pounds of shit in their lower digestive track.
. 9y ago There a more organisms living on and in your body than the entire human population of the Earth.
. 9y ago Your sense of smell works by your nose capturing and sensing particles of whatever's in your nose at the moment. This means that whatever you're smelling, there are tiny particles of it stuck in your nose.
Just1morefix 0 9y ago The heart is just a muscular pump. People call the heart a pump like that's a fool proof piece of machinery. You know how often sump pumps, fuel pumps, pool pumps and bilge pumps have to be repaired and replaced? That little fist-sized fucker could malfunction at any time.
_PM_ME_YOUR_NIPPLES . 9y ago There are little bugs that live in your eyelashes.
DeadPrateRoberts . 9y ago The chances of getting prostate cancer. I don't even want to look it up.
. 9y ago Meconium, which is what makes up a baby's first few poops, is the result of hair and skin and other stuff they ingest while in the uteruse.
. 9y ago When two people kiss, they create a really long tube with ass holes at each end
No_Eyed_Dear . 9y ago When we form as a blastocyst before becoming a foetus. The anus is created first. Which means our arses are made before anything else, we are at some point just arseholes. Some people I know are still at that stage of develoment.
Meinschendtler 9y ago If you go from extremely cold temperatures to hotter temperatures too quickly then your eyeballs can pop and split.
allsoundbwoyout. 9y ago your heart has a finite amount of beats. obvious but i hated I it when someone told me.
WeatherManStan . 9y ago The eye is a foreign organism. If there were ever a cut made that allowed antibodies to access your eye, your body would eat it alive.
Stockholm-Syndrom . 9y ago The inside of any human being's mouth contains poop particles from at least 6 people. That's a lot of crap.
lovesamoan . 9y ago There are higher concentrations of bacteria in human dental plaque than in a dog's faeces.
LabKitty 9y ago You have two carotid arteries (one on each side) to supply blood to your head. Sounds like a good plan to have a backup in case something happens to one of them, right? Unfortunately, before blood gets to the brain it bottlenecks into a structure called the Circle of Willis. If the CofW bursts (something that happens often enough to haven been given a name: A Circle of Willis aneurysm) it cuts off all the blood to your brain. You'll be dead before your knees buckle.
Providang . 9y ago You could conceivably die from popping a zit on your nose. (If infection travels through facial venous drainage into cavernous sinus in the head)
Microorganisms make up about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass (in a 200-pound adult, that's 2 to 6 pounds of bacteria).
botnan . 9y ago Edited 9y ago You can be internally decapitated and actually still be alive. Edit: this is also why it's important if you get into some kind of accident or collision to get checked out. As far as I know there's not really a lot of outward signs of internal decapitation. If you've got it and you move the wrong way or sneeze hard enough then it could kill you.
gyll . 9y ago The number is hard to pin down, but you produce a least a few cancer cells in your body every day. You don't get malignant cancer, however, because your immune system destroys them before they have a chance to proliferate.
. 9y ago There's something called the Lazarus reflex. It's a reflex movement in brain-dead patients, which causes them to briefly raise their arms and drop them crossed on their chests in a position similar to some Egyptian mummies.

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