15 Crazy Body Facts
#15 The Truth Behind Brain Freeze
Thanks to TodayIFoundOut.com, we have an explanation for brain freeze: There is a nerve center towards the back of the roof of your mouth. So when too much of any cold substance--like ice cream--comes in contact, the nerves and blood contract, causing your brain to literally get too cold.
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The Truth Behind Brain Freeze
Thanks to TodayIFoundOut.com, we have an explanation for brain freeze: There is a nerve center towards the back of the roof of your mouth. So when too much of any cold substance--like ice cream--comes in contact, the nerves and blood contract, causing your brain to literally get too cold.
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Get Your Zzzzz!
The next time your boss asks you to stay up late to finish a work project, you can inform he/she that humans are more likely to die of lack of sleep than lack of food. (Just don't get into too much trouble!)
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Daydream In Green?
OddStuffMagazine.com tells us that pregnant women dream more about frogs, plants and worms in their first trimester than anything else.
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Slip Of Speech
Don't dismiss that cute guy at the party just because he's having a hard time putting words together; stuttering is 4-to-6 times more common in guys than it is in girls. (Or you could just be making the poor guy nervous!)
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Smell Me!!
Multiple health hubs agree: Every human on the planet has their own individual smell. The only exception? Identical twins.
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Gesundheit!
CleanClover.com tells us that it really is impossible for us to sneeze and keep our eyes open at the same time. Go ahead, try it.
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Fabulous Filters
The medical world tells us that each of our kidneys contains 1 millions individual filters. Hence the reason it is possible to live with just one, but imperative to have them function; death can result within 8 hours of kidney failure.
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Sink Your Teeth In. . .
. . . but be fore-warned! Your teeth are the only parts of your body that can't repair themselves.
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Baby Blues
Per List25.com: All babies have blue eyes when they're born. Exposure to sunlight and melanin is what brings out their genetic color.
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News For Nail-Biters
CleanClover.com tells us that the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest out of all the nails on your hand. The slowest-growing nail? The one on your thumb.
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Smell The Roses. . . And Everything Else
Olfactory gurus tell us that the nose can remember up to 50,000 different scents. We don't even know if we can write a list even close to that long!
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Break It Down
Listverse.com tells us that the digestive acid in our stomachs is strong enough to dissolve zinc. (But we don't suggest that you eat any solid zinc just to prove this fact.)
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Drool-Worthy
Human salivary glands work so hard, they produce enough saliva over a person's life to fill two Olympic swimming pools.
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Very Visual
Humans really are visual creatures; our eyes receive approximately 90% of all information.
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Not-So-Tickled Pink
It's true: You cannot tickle yourself. LiveScience.com explains that this is because our brains are programmed to anticipate the sensation.
