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x4740N@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 day ago

What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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What are some gross or disgusting facts about the human body that people aren't aware of?

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  • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
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    Of all of the cells in your body, less than 45% of them are human. The majority are microorganisms designed to work with your gross-ass self for similarly gross organic meat-bag processes.

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    You can eat anything that comes out of your own or anyone else’s body to increase your power level.

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    Hej, I think its pretty cool how much slime we got producet in our bodies every day, like up to 1 liter! Me, personally, find it gross dat our noses produce that many bacteria, lol.

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    Its possible to stick your tongue inside your nose from inside your mouth. I am among quite a few people that can do it and clean the inside of the nose from boogers.

    How you ask? Here is the Wikipedia page about that, because if course there is one:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecarī_mudrā

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I don’t think my tongue is long enough for this

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        Takes trying for a few days to stretch your tongue to get it far enough back.

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        Keep stretching!

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      This is the worst thing I have read today.

      • nomad@infosec.pub
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        Its not that bad x)

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        Of all the things, this is the. Worst. Possible. Thing.

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      /thread

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m at third stage! I’ve been hiding my tongue behind my uvula since I was a kid. My dentist hated it!

      I never thought of it as stretching… I guess I have a new hobby!

      • nomad@infosec.pub
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        Also helps reduce the gag reflex. ;)

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      Your tongue game must be legendary. Lucky partner.

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        It is but she does not even entertain that idea sadly.

    • Tedesche@lemmy.world
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      No.

      • nomad@infosec.pub
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        Yes xD

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Humans can grow horns similarly to Omens in Elden Ring. Cutaneous horns can be caused by benign growths, precancerous lesions, or even skin cancer. Apparently, these are also becoming increasingly common in people.

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      Without having seen a picture, it sounds more cool than gross

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        Here is an artist’s depiction of someone afflicted:

        Nah, for real it’s pretty gnar:

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          I feel like she could have that reduced somehow if she wanted.

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    When fertile, women have significantly increased mucus volume in their vaginas.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix

    Several hundred glands in the endocervix produce 20–60 mg of cervical mucus a day, increasing to 600 mg around the time of ovulation.

    • WeirdyTrip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      To anyone with a vagina, this is def not an unknown fact hahaha. And gross is debatable but to each their own

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        To anyone with a long term partner that has a vagina it’s hardly news either.

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          I mean. I did not know it was called mucus.

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        I, a vagina-haver, had no idea until a Catholic friend in college mentioned NFP. The secular Fertility Awareness resources I ended up finding all supported my impression this isn’t widely known. That was twenty years ago, though, maybe young people these days are more body-aware?

        Agree it isn’t really gross, I think it’s cool, but it seemed gross-adjacent enough I could get away with sharing in this thread.

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          For the uninitiated, NFP is Natural Family Planning - the practice of avoiding coitus during ovulation as a form of birth control. It’s seen as a natural form of birth control compared to artificial birth control in the form of condoms and the pill.

          It’s strange to me that the Catholic Church singles out birth control as needing to be natural, but not much else.

          It’s around 75% effective at preventing pregnancies, but doesn’t stop STIs obviously.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_family_planning?wprov=sfla1

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    Our noses have erectile tissue.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_concha

    Conchae are lined by pseudostratified columnar, ciliated respiratory epithelium with a thick, vascular, and erectile glandular tissue layer.

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      It’s not uncommon to have a sneeze reflex when aroused.

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      Put your…

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    Human face pores are home to tiny, microscopic mites called Demodex.

    They are most active at night, when they leave their follicles to mate on the face and then return to find a new follicle.

    Almost everyone has them. So there are tiny arachnids having sex on your face every night.

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      Isn’t it also an illness dogs can have? I remember a stray I adopted had to get treated for it.

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        It’s not an illness. In most cases they are completely harmless and unavoidable, you get them from your mom as a baby and carry them your whole life. Most people have them. A minority of people can have some skin condition due to them, but it’s quite rare. And yes dogs carry them too, but not an issue for them either.

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      I thought everyone had them. If you didn’t, wouldn’t your hair follicles get clogged and gross?

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      So they skeet and yeet on your face.

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      Would that mean that I’m not a virgin, having been in multiple orgies?

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      Op said gross or disgusting. That sounds awesome

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    You can develop a rectourinal fistula and end up pissing shit

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      One hole for everything! A pseudo-cloaca :3

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      Annnd thread closed.

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      This is the first comment on my post that actually makes me feel uncomfortable.

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      Imma have to tell you to stop doing everything you’re doing immediately.

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    Surprisingly not in this thread: all the horrible things pregnancy can do.

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      I’m fairly certain that if women would get a full disclaimer with all the nasty side effects a pregnancy comes with, they’d give it a second thought… On the other hand, some women insist on having a second baby… And then a third… And a fourth…

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        They literally have hormons to forget the worst of birth.

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          Oh, birth isn’t always the worst of it.

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            Co-signing on their house loan, THAT’S the worst part.

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        I was told all the things that could go wrong when I was a kid, and then my mother was all, why not have a kid, and I was just

        “CAUSE IT’S A NIGHTMARE???” lol

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        Sometimes they don’t get the really horrible effects, or at least not the first couple of times.

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    Retrograde menstruation.

    Because the feliciano tubes aren’t closed on the ends, where they interact with the ovaries, blood from a period can flow backwards into your abdominal cavity.

    Additionally, a small amount of sperm (if a woman is sexually active and say trying for a baby) can also go the full way and leak into the abdominal cavity.

    So some women can have blood and semen free floating in their abdominal cavity. Between organs

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      Feliciano tubes, you say… Felopian tubes, do you mean?

      I find it a bit funny that your gross examples are semen. But also yeah. So sticky.

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        To avoid stickyness what you want to do is, since it’s a protein, freeze dry it with liquid nitrogen as soon as it exits the urethra and viola! no more sticky.

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        It’s always Christmas with some ovaries.

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      Whew. Can it cause issues ?

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        Blood in the abdominal cavity is extremely painful. That alone is an issue, yes.

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          Why would blood in the abdominal cavity be painful? Wouldn’t it eventually just get absorbed by the lymphatic system?

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        You can end up with a baby developing where it shouldn’t if I remember currently in extremely rare cases

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        It can! This is one of the possible causes of endometriosis.

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          Well that’s very good to know. I’m telling my wife. Thanks for the info

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    There are more cells in your body that aren’t you, than are.

    The count of bacterial cells in your gut, on your skin etc is higher than the number of your own cells.

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      I’ve always found this interesting. Human beings (or any vertebrates I suppose) are really more of a colony than a single being. And it’s not just a technicality, it’s meaningful. Much of that colony interacts with your nervous system and affects your moods and behavior. You think you have total control of your mind, but you would think and act differently with a different balance of gut bacteria. Chew on that for a while…

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      They aren’t me genetically, but I still need them to live. So really I still feel that it’s a part of me.

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      I think one’s microbiome has more mass than one’s brain too. So… who is really doing the thinking?

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        My brain hasn’t that’s for sure

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      This is one of the scientific plot holes in The Fly. Or at least the 1980s version. The head-swap version has other problems.

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    You have mites living in your eyelashes.

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      You don’t know me

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      I wonder what types of parasites dinosaurs had. Guess we’ll never know

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      I’m locked in here with them. They’re locked in here with me!

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    There’s a type of cyst called dermoid cyst which can grow hair, nails or even teeth inside it.

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      I read this as demonoid cyst which might be a better name.

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      That’s a teratoma

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      My wife had one of these, only spotted after they saw the teeth in an x-ray.

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        All that but we can’t grow new teeth in our mouths. What’s up with that, nature?

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          Just get a dermoid cyst on your gums and hope it grows teeth!

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      That sounds like an infinite money glitch. Sell the teeth and hair, rinse and repeat.

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        Enough to be gross, too little to be profitable. Wonder what kind of teeth it grows, maybe you could use them as spares.

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        Evil twin farming

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      I had heard of that but didn’t know the name and forgot about it

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    If you feed a latex tube through the nose and out the mouth then pull it back and forth, it makes a squeaking sound

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      That’s not how you floss.

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        That’s not how you floss.

        squeaky squeaky squeaky

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