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How much do you know about you?

41 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Body to Shock Your Nervous System, and Maybe A Few Other Systems While They’re At It

January 25, 2025

Where do we even begin? Wildly intelligent people have spent their lives finding out every possible thing about every nook and cranny of our bodies, but they might still need a few more lifetimes. It’s all pretty intricate.

And in the grand scheme of things, you’re pretty tiny, but to the estimated 37 trillion cells in your body, you’re basically a walking, talking universe. Mind… blown!

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The Hyoid Bone

The only bone in our body not attached to another bone is right under our jaw. Mandible Hyoid bone Larynx GRAGKED.COM The hyoid bone is a small horseshoe-shaped bone locat- ed in the front of your neck. It is instrumental in the function of swallowing and tongue movements. Since it's not con- nected to other bones, anato- my skeletons don't show it. — Source

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Your Heart

CRACKED BEING UNDERWATER SLOWS DOWN YOUR HEART. When you hold your breath and go underwater, your face and nose get wet. A reaction known as the dive reflex causes your heart rate to slow down, to stop your breathing for a bit, and to make your blood vessels narrower. — Francesco Faconti/Shutterstock
National Center for Biotechnology Information

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Red Eyes

CRACKED Why does smoking weed give you red eyes? Because the chemicals in it interact with certain receptors in your body, which causes the blood vessels in your eyes to widen and more blood to flow to them. — Shahedul Sifat/Shutterstock
McGill University

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Stone Man Syndrome

Stone Man Syndrome Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is a disorder in which muscle tissue, tendons, and ligaments gradually turn to bone. It starts with the neck and shoulders and makes its way down the body and into the limbs. Once the mouth is affected, it becomes very difficult to speak and eat, and bones formed around the lungs make it hard to breathe. Photo: Getty Creative Surgery makes the condition worse, because trauma makes the body create more bone. CRACKED.COM http://ghr.rim.nih.gov/condition/fibrodysplasia-ossificans-progressiva — Source: 23 Horrifying Diseases You Won't Believe Existed

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Bones

Your bones are always under construction. Your bones are covered with (and are full of) autonomous cells that patrol and maintain your skeleton. One o

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Tattoos

A laser doesn't actually remove your tattoo it helps your body poop it out. The laser just breaks down the particles of pigment, and they're then carried away by white blood cells. Eventually, your body filters it into feces. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: InkedMag

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Smell

Cis women have a better sense of smell than cis men. This is because they have more brain cells than cis-men. Literally. They have more olfactory cells. CRACKED.COM — Source: Medical News Today

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Egg Cells

HUMAN EGG CELLS ARE ABOUT AS WIDE AS A STRAND OF HAIR IS THICK The egg cell is the largest of the cells in the body. It can be seen without a microscope. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Dead Skin Cells

41 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Body to Shock Your Nervous System, and Maybe A Few Other Systems While They’re At It — Source: Penguin

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Uvula

The informal Japanese word for Uvula directly translates to Throat Penis. CRACKED.COM The Japanese word for Uvula, the dangly thing in the back of your throat that keeps your throat moist and stops food from entering your nasal passage, is Nodo Chinko (), which directly translates to Throat Penis. — Burogu

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Blue Blood

The blood in your veins is never blue. CRACKED COM De-oxygenated blood is a deeper red but appears blue because of the way our skin reflects white lig — Source: OSA

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The Human Heart

CRACKED Your heart is on your-left side. It's a myth that the heart is on the left side of the chest. Actually, the heart is in the middle of the chest, but it's slightly tilted to the left. — Jo Panuwat D/Shutterstock
ABC News

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The Abdomen

BREATHE FROM THE ABDOMEN. CRACKED Take a deep breath. You likely raised your shoulders a little and puffed out your chest. But the muscle you're supposed to use to breathe, your diaphragm, is under your lungs. Chest breathing can lead to headaches, fatigue, and anxiety, so you should instead train — For details, read 7 Basic Things You Won't Believe You're All Doing Wrong

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Blood Disorders

CRACKED BLOOD People got the first-ever transfusion of lab-made red blood cells in 2022. Scientists have been using lab models to study different things, and these lab-grown cells may help treat red blood cell disorders. — Gavi / Stanford Blood Center

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Heart Attacks

CRACKED WOMEN: NOT JUST SWEATING THE SMALL STUFF. Women are more likely than men to have nausea, sweating, vomiting, and pain in their neck, jaw, throat, stomach, or back when they have a heart attack. — Brigham and Women's Hospital / Doylestown Health

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Digestion

EXERCISING POWERS DOWN DIGESTION. When you exercise, your body isn't focusing on digestion. Instead, it's sending more blood to your muscles and lungs, so digestion is put on the back burner. CRACKED — PeopleImages.com - Yuri A/Shutterstock
Manhattan Gastroenterology

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Runaway Bride-ology

CRACKED COLD FEET ACTUALLY DO HELP YOU RUN AWAY. Stress hormones pull blood away from your feet and to your heart and lungs so that you can more easily run away. — You Really Do Get Warm and Fuzzy, and Other Scientifically Accurate Cliches / Fine Art America

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Tinnitus

An excessive amount of salt can make tinnitus worse, as it restricts the blood vessels and decreases the amount of blood flowing to the eyes, ears, and brain. CRACKED — Danny Smythe/Shutterstock
South Valley Ear Nose & Throat

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Lab-Grown Lungs

CRACKED LUNGS Scientists at University of Texas grew human lungs in a lab for the first time, using parts from deceased kids' lungs. It's a big breakthrough since lungs are complex organs, harder to regenerate than skin, say. BODY — Medical News Today / Medical Inflatables

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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

CRACKED ALICE IN WONDERLAND SYNDROME: ARE YOUR HANDS BIGGER THAN YOUR HEAD? Alice in Wonderland Syndrome is a set of symptoms characterized by an alteration of body image and visual perception, most commonly experienced at night. Symptoms include perceiving the size of body parts and external objects incorrectly, with the head and hands often appearing disproportionately large. — NCBI / Slashfilm

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Stomachs

CRACKED THE STOMACH Scientists grew mini human stomachs from stem cells in the lab, to study diseases and test drugs. That also showed how cells in embryos turn into organs. — Scientific American / Prevention

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Eyes

GRACKED OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE OUR ENTIRE LIVES. But our ears and nose never stop growing. — Source

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Fetuses

JUN ( XV 24 PRS A fetus can heal the pregnant person's organs. If a person's heart becomes damaged during pregnancy, stem cells from the fetus will circulate into their body and repair the damage. CRACKED.COM — 14 Supernatural Things Our Bodies Can Do

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Cold Hands

TEMPERATURE CRACKED COM Women have colder hands and feet than men by a couple degrees but higher core temperatures. Women have less blood than men, and this blood more quickly shifts inwards toward vital organs. — Source: The Lancet

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Ears and Noses

You only have two body parts that never stop growing. GRACKED.COM Human noses and ears keep getting bigger, even when the rest of the body's growth has come to a halt. Given enough time, we'd all turn into the Face-Lift minigame from Mario Party. — DW

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Urine

EVER WONDER WHY YOU NEED TO PEE WHEN IT'S COLD? Your body protects itself from cold by constricting the capillaries in your hands and feet. Your extre

15

Lungs

One of your lungs is slightly smaller than the other. CRACKED.COM The left lung is slightly smaller than the right lung because 2/3 of the heart is located on the left side of the body. The left lung contains the cardiac notch, an indentation in the lung that surrounds the арех of the heart. — Inner Body

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Sunburn

Sunburn happens when skin cells put a hit out on themselves. CRACKED.COM Your skin gets sunburned because your skin cells put up a protein flag on their surface that tells your white blood cells to come kill them so that they don't become cancerous. — Source

13

Tongues

BRAIN FREEZE? USE YOUR TONGUE. Press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth to make it warmer. The headache will go away.

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Ears

YOU CAN SCRATCH YOUR THROAT THROUGH YOUR EAR. Massaging your earlobe between your fingers causes a reflex in your throat, relieving the itch.

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Cancer

Your body kills cancerous cells everyday. Your body is constantly surveilling and attacking white blood cells that, if left unattended, would turn cancerous. CRACKED.COM — Source: Nature Medicine

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Abs

MYTH: HEALTHY ABS LOOK LIKE DInnER ROLLS. FAGT8 WASHBOARD ABS CAn Be BAD FOR YoU. As awesome as a stomach you can open beer bottles with may seem, six

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Kidneys

Your kidneys are tasting your pee for toxins. You actually have taste and smell receptors in your kidneys, heart, and red blood cells. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: 22 Kinda Gross Facts About The Human Body That'll Make You Feel A Little Uncomfortable

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Drowning

YOUR BODY NEARLY SHUTS DOWN TO PROTECT YOU FROM DROWNING. It's called the diving reflex, which influences many bodily functions when you're submerged in water... including up to a 10% reduction in heart rate, and redirecting blood from the skin and limbs to more vital organs like the brain and heart. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Fascinating, Super-Disturbing Facts About The Human Body

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Thumbs

BREATHE ON YOUR THUMB By sticking your thumb in your mouth and blowing on it, you can activate your vagus nerve, which runs down your neck. This should calm your heart rate and lower your blood pressure. Some experts say that just blowing on your thumb when it's not — For details, read 5 Insane Ways to Abuse Your Body to Greatness (Tested)

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Stomachs

CRACKED.COM ESCAPING GUT BLOOD GIVES YOU BUTTERFLIES IN YOUR STOMACH. Sometimes your reptile brain senses an anxious situation, but can't differentiate between a Tinder date and a hungry jaguar. So it trips the fight-or-flight alarm, causing an adrenaline rush that shunts blood away from the gut and into the limbs (causing the butterflies). It also relaxes the sphincter, causing loose bowels. So the next time you crap yourself during an intense Pixar scene, know that it's just science! — Source: Scientific Reasons for B.S Things Our Bodies Do

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Your Body Isn’t Permanent

Almost none of your body is permanent. Only a few cells in your eyes, heart, and brain will be with you your whole life. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED COM

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Microbes

41 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Body to Shock Your Nervous System, and Maybe A Few Other Systems While They’re At It — Source: Popular Science

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Bacteria

41 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Body to Shock Your Nervous System, and Maybe A Few Other Systems While They’re At It — Source: BBC

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Bones

41 Random Bits of Trivia About Your Body to Shock Your Nervous System, and Maybe A Few Other Systems While They’re At It

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Scent

Why are you supposed to spray perfume on your wrists and neck? They're some of the places on your body where your blood vessels are closest to the skin, meaning they give off heat, which helps the scent of your perfume or cologne last all day. CRACKED — marinafrost/Shutterstock
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