25 Strange, Disgusting, and Creepy Facts About the Human Body (26 photos)

It seems like there's endless new things we can learn about our own bodies, and it's always interesting—for example, did you know that information reaches the brain at 430 km/h? However, there are some things you're better off ignoring if you want to sleep soundly at night, and the facts in this collection are just that.







Every child's jaw is full of teeth, and this fact seems completely harmless until you realize that they look like this...





Anyone who's ever ridden an amusement park ride, especially a high-speed roller coaster, is familiar with the strange sensation in their stomach. This is actually your internal organs shifting, especially those not held in place by ligaments, like your intestines.



If you rub the soles of your feet with garlic, you'll notice its taste in your mouth after about half an hour. Garlic contains a substance that penetrates cell membranes, travels through the bloodstream, and reaches the taste buds. This way, you can taste the garlic through your feet.



If you think about it, we're all just three-pound brains riding a meat bicycle we call a body.



The acid in your stomach is so strong it can dissolve a razor blade, so your stomach constantly fights it to keep from digesting itself. This acid is only contained by gastric mucus.



If a person is deprived of sleep and not fed, they will die from lack of sleep before they die from exhaustion.



There is a type of tumor that can grow teeth on the ovaries in women and testicles in men.



Since a person sheds about 40,000 old skin cells a day, the dust you see in your home is made up of you. This means that every time you enter someone else's home, you inhale thousands of their skin cells.



Men can produce milk, and it's much more common than you might think; Most men are simply embarrassed to admit it. Male lactation can be caused by starvation—this was observed in concentration camp prisoners when they were fed for the first time after weeks of starvation.



After decapitation, the disembodied head will remain conscious for about 15 seconds. This may even be enough time for the brain to process what has happened.



Since we evolved to walk upright, women's pelvises and birth canals have become significantly narrower, meaning they have to endure some of the most painful childbirths on the planet. For this reason, in 1780, women had part of their pelvic bone sawed off with a chainsaw during childbirth to ease the process.



The brain has no pain receptors, so people can remain awake and calmly converse with doctors while they perform brain surgery.



In very rare cases, what might be mistaken for normal nasal discharge from a runny nose is actually cerebrospinal fluid released by the brain to relieve pressure.



During some brain surgeries, doctors simply peel off the patient's face like a banana peel.



If a woman's ligaments are stretched and her vaginal muscles are not strong enough, the uterus can simply prolapse.



When preparing for surgery, one of the first things they clean is your belly button, as it can harbor up to 67 types of bacteria.



When preparing for surgery, one of the first things they clean is your belly button, as it can harbor up to 67 types of bacteria.



Our immune system doesn't always recognize the eyes as part of the body, so there are many diseases in which the immune system attacks and attempts to destroy the eye, which can blind a person in the process.



A person produces more earwax when stressed, and this earwax smells much worse than normal.



Right now, mites could be mating on your eyelashes, and you might not even know it.



The water you drink has likely already been inside someone or something else.



A single 10-second kiss can exchange up to 80 million bacteria. Therefore, if you kiss your partner several times a day, you will develop similar colonies of oral bacteria.



If someone sneezed in your face, they launched germs at 100 miles per hour. Coughing isn't so bad in comparison—it's only 100 kilometers per hour.



When you die, your body will begin to digest itself as enzymes eat through your cell membranes and leak out.



Placentophagy is the practice of eating the placenta, which is expelled after childbirth. It is either cooked or eaten fresh. According to a Canadian study, 24% of women surveyed ate their placenta after giving birth.