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40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body

A body with an ability to learn about itself! That’s some wild stuff right there

40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body

January 31, 2025

Lugging around your upright body can be tiring enough as it is, so we’re sorry to weigh it down even further with these hefty facts. Maybe try to store them evenly around your brain so that one side doesn’t get lopsided enough to pull your head to the ground. Your body is already in a tough enough battle with gravity.

If you think you’re strong enough for this fact-lugging, here’s a beefy pile of tidbits about that sentient meat sack of yours.

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Smell

Losing one's sense of smell strongly predicts death within five years. The loss of sense of smell predicts death more accu- rately than a diagnosis of cancer, heart failure or lung disease, the only oth- er common cause of pre- dicting it more accurately being severe liver damage. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW — Source

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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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Brain Cells

Some human brain cells increase activity after death CRACKED.COM Scientists discovered glial cells in our brains grow for many hours after we die.

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Pointing

40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body — Source: The Conversation

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Pregnancy

40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body — Source: Texas Health

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Toothaches

IN CASE OF TOOTHACHE, APPLY ICE TO YOUR HAND. Rubbing ice on the back of your hand, between your index finger and your thumb, has been shown to soothe

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Eyes

GRACKED OUR EYES ARE THE SAME SIZE OUR ENTIRE LIVES. But our ears and nose never stop growing. — Flushing Hospital / Baby Centre

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Cancerous Cells

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

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Cells

More than half your body is not human Human cells only make up 43% of the cells in our bodies. The majority of cells? Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and archaea. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Heart Muscles

CRACKED HEART MUSCLES Japanese researchers made history: they transplanted lab-grown heart muscles from stem cells into a human. They used degradable sheets with heart muscle cells to patch the patient's heart. — Longevity Tech / Health

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Ancient Greece

CRACKED.COM In Ancient Greece, it was believed that if you cut the feet off the corpse, it couldn't rise to haunt you. Greek tragedies discuss the method of cutting off of the feet, hands, ears, nose, and other extremities and tying the removed body parts together under the armpits of a murder victim to prevent the undead from taking vengeance. — Source

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Bacteria

There is about 2 to 9 pounds of bacteria in your body. CRACKED COM The human body contains trillions of microorganisms, outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1. These microorganisms make up about 1 to 3 percent of the body's mass, and play a vital role in human health. — Source

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The Liver

The liver is the only organ in your body that can really regenerate itself. Most organs replace damaged tissue with scar tissue, but the liver can create healthy new tissue - even if 50-60% of it is destroyed, it grows back. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Toxic Seeds

The pretty pea with a toxic seed. ROSARY PEA CRACKED.co Often made into ornate jewelry, the seeds of the Rosary Pea create a toxin similar to ricin, called abrin. Once in the body, abrin prevents cells from creating protein, leading to cell death. As your liver, spleen, and kidneys start to fail, you'll hallucinate, have seizures and urinate blood. — Source: CDC

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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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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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Body Hair

Body hair doesn't stop growing at a certain length, it just falls out before the hair on your head. CRACKED.COM For eyebrows, the growth cycle is completed in around 4 months, while it takes the scalp 3-4 years to enter the shedding phase. — NCBI

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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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Feet

BONE HOGS CRACKED.COM With 206 total bones in our body, and 52 bones in our feet (26 in each foot), just over one quarter of our bones are in our feet. — Source: inshorts

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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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Thigh Bones

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. GRAGKED.COM A cubic inch of bone can in principle bear a load of 19,000 lbs. or more -roughly the weight of five stan- dard pickup trucks. — Live Science

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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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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 CR

17

Nail Growth

Your hair and nails don't continue growing after you die. The skin dries up and shrinks away from the base of the hair and nails, giving the illusion — Source: BBC

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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: CBS News

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Tonsils

TONSIL STONES ARE OLD STUFF THAT'S GOTTEN TRAPPED IN THE POCKETS OF YOUR TONSILS. They're actually a combination of bacteria, dead cells and mucus that's just been... around a while, hardening in the back of your mouth. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human Body

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Sunburns

Why do we get sunburns? A sunburn occurs when the body tells skin cells to commit suicide rather than turning into skin cancer. CRACKED COM — Source: Independent

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Your Very Few Permanent Cells

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 — Source: 22 Kinda Gross Facts About The Human Body That'll Make You Feel A Little Uncomfortable

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Blaschko’s Lines

The skin of all human beings is covered in stripes. GRACKED.COM They are cellular relics of our development from a single cell to a fully formed human called Blaschko's Lines, and they cover the body from head to toe. — Source

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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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Mites

40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body — Source: NPR

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Belly Buttons

40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body — Source: Scientific American

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Dead Skin Cells

40 Facts About That Rickety Old Flesh Wagon You Call a Body — Source: Penguin

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Stem Cells

A fetus can loan stem cells to its mother. If a pregnant mother experiences organ damage, her fetus will send stem cells to help with the repair. NOW

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Stomachs

Your stomach isn't where you think it is. Liver Stomach Small intestine itine It's closer to your nipple than to your belly button. NOW YOU KNOW CRACK

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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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Nose Hair

YOU GROW NOSE HAIRS LONGER THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON'S HEIGHT. A nose hair growing from a single follicle can grow up to six feet in a person's lifetime. Enough for a whole new you, roughly. CRACKED — Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock
Cleveland Clinic

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Organ Transplants

1962/ Lung 1 963 Liver First human organ Kidney transplant from deceased donor. 2018 First successful penis and scrotum transplant. CRACKED com

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Toes

MUCH WHY DOES IT HURT SO TO STUB A TOE? Located at the end of our longest limbs, our feet tend to part of faster than any move body whenever legs our

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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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