25 Things You Never Wanted To Know About Your Body

1 Dermoid Cysts

Sometimes they contain teeth, eyes, and other body parts.

2 Kidney transplants

They don't actually take the bad one out, so you end up with three kidneys.

3 Meconium

This is what makes up a baby's first few poops and it is the result of ingesting hair, skin, and other things while in the uterus.

4 Smell

The only way to smell something is for small particles of that object to attach themselves to the inside of your nose. So yes, your worst fear is confirmed.

5 Internal decapitation

Also known as orthopedic decapitation, this is when your skull separates from your spine (but everything else remains intact). This is immediately fatal in about 70% of cases.

6 Aneurysm

It can kill you completely unexpectedly and within seconds. Even if you are young and healthy.

7 The Lazarus Reflex

This is a reflex in brain dead patients that causes them to lift their arms and fold them on their chest like Egyptian mummies.

8 Eyes

Your eye is not recognized by your body as belonging to your body. In other words, if there weren't a barrier protecting the eye from the immune system, your white blood cells would attack it. In scientific terms, your eye has immune privilege.

9 Cancer cells

Every hour of every day your body is producing cancerous cells. They don't lead to cancer, however, because your immune system destroys them.

10 Coffin birth

This happens when the gases built up inside a dead pregnant mother push the fetus out (it is also dead).

11 Obstructive Bowel Cancer

One of the possible symptoms is vomiting feces

12 Organisms

There are more bacteria and other organisms living on and in your body than there are humans on Earth.

13 Mucus

On average, you produce about 2 quarts every day, and swallow it.

14 Danger triangle of the face

Due to the special nature of the blood supply to the human nose and surrounding area, it is possible for retrograde infections from the nasal area to spread to the brain.

Translation: popping a zit on your nose can kill you, at least theoretically

15 Prions

You may or may not have a protein in your brain that is bent the wrong way. If you do, one day it will convince the other proteins to bend that way, and you will die (after going crazy).

16 Telemorase

This enzyme essentially makes your cells immortal but it is for the most part turned off after birth. Cancer cells actually re-activate it to become immortal.

17 Human microbiota

This refers to the aggregate of microorganisms that live on and in you. Although it was long thought that microbes in your body outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, recent research has shown that it is actually closer than that. Also, defecation may tip the scale in favor of human cells.

Translation: pooping makes you more human

18 Chronic alcoholism

Chronic alcoholics can develop oesophageal varices. These are basically varicose veins in your throat. If they pop you can bleed out through your mouth in just a few minutes.

19 Digestive tracts

All of us are walking around with poop in them, almost all of the time.

20 Commotio cordis

This happens when your chest gets hit in just the right area at just the right moment, and causes you to go into cardiac arrest (it disrupts your heart rythm). So yes, you can die by getting hit in the chest.

Note: this usually occurs in young healthy males who play sports.

21 Demodex folliculorum

These mites live in your eyelashes and eat your dead skin cells.

22 Stomach acid

If it weren't for cells that were constantly busy rebuilding your stomach's wall, you would digest yourself.

23 Melanoma

They can be small and faint. In fact, they often look like freckles to the untrained eye, but melanomas can be the most lethal of all the cancers. Get yourself checked.

Note: this is especially relevant for Australians

24 Blood

Almost every liquid in your body is made out of blood to some extent. Your tears, milk, sweatit's all blood.

25 Gastrointestinal fistula

This is a hole that occurs in your stomach or intestines which allows the contents to leak out.

Translation: poop inside your body