Basically the entirety of pregnancy/childbirth. Like, this other living organism embeds itself in the lining of my uterus, feeds off my blood, makes me grow an entirely new organ (the placenta) just to feed/protect it while it grows, then it comes out while basically still gestating (other mammals babies can walk and run within minutes of birth, ours can’t even hold up their giant domes!) just because the hole I have to push it through won’t be big enough for its head if it stays in any longer.

Oh, and once I’ve done all that I get to have the longest and worst period of my life while my uterus sheds out 40 weeks of uterine lining.

I’ve had a kid and it still f***s me up.

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The sudden urge to jump off of a very high height. You can be physically and mentally stable to the greatest degree and still have this feeling when at such a high height.

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Honestly nothing is more creepy than how deep sea anglerfish mate.

The deep sea is dark, and the anglerfish are spread very thinly. Therefore, when an anglerfish meets another anglerfish, it’s incredibly important they get the chance to mate over and over again. The evolutionary strategy that deep sea anglerfish devised is extra creepy. The male latches onto the female, biting her and never letting go. That way he can inseminate the eggs she drops. Not that bad so far right? But wait, how does he eat if he’s latched on his mate?

Well, the circulatory systems fuse and the female provides nutrients for the male through this fused circulatory system. The true horror starts here. The organs of male start to wither and atrophy, being absorbed into the female. Eventually, the male is reduced to a lump of testicles the females use to fertilize their eggs. Females are often covered in bumps of several males that have melted into the female, becoming a literal body horror lump of meat on the female.

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Your brain literally creates your own reality and your senses and body just go along with it.

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The mantis shrimp can see colors that our eyes aren't capable of perceiving.

Think about that.

What else are we just not capable of sensing?

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When you go to get something from one room (or upstairs) and suddenly forget why you went in there. It’s called a boundary event. Usually, if you go back to where you started (through the boundary) you’ll remember it again.

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You get and cure cancer in your own body thousands of times a day.....

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YOU DO!?!?!?!?!?

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Yep. Cancer is the result of a copy error in our cell reproduction process. Normally our immune system identifies the miscopied cells and kills them, but sometimes it fails and your body basically tries to make a new (and corrupted) copy of you from the miscopied cells afterwards.

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Yes, and continuing further, this cell line with 1 copy error keeps replicating, and eventually develops a 2nd copy error. Eventually the cell lineage amasses many many errors (specifically in growth inhibitor genes) and leads to a cell line which grows uncontrollably, i.e. cancerous cells. The number of errors in the genetic code is also what helps determines the stage of cancer (in many cancers though not all I'm sure).

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Are we all just The Thing??

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Nah, but we do have some pretty buggy DNA on the whole. We really need to update our firmware.

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Ever heard of apoptosis? it's basically a self-destruct button so our cells can regulate and ensure that they are all functioning correctly. When apoptosis fails and the cells are able to grow and develop, you end up with cancer cells.

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Absolutely. Our immune system has natural killer cells that play an important role in fighting cancer. This is overly simplistic, but they basically "eat" the cancer cells. This happens all the time. Our bodies are amazing.

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i dont, im built different

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Yes. This is why it's basically impossible to develop a "cure" all.

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Not thousands though.

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Considering that the body is made of a hundred million million cells, thousands is actually a lot more likely than it seems. Especially in faster-growing cells, where imperfections or defects are more likely to slip by the immune system.

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Um.. yes. Thousands of times. Your body is generating new cells every millisecond.

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So we produce about 10,000 cells per day with DNA damage, I am corrected.

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yup - one of the things I've earned recently is that vigorous exercise hastens the production of a specific cytokine that can speed the rebuilding of destroyed cells literally eating cancerous ones. Obvious nothing is 100%, but everything s about the odds... cut down smoking, reduce the odds, cut down sugar, reduce the odds, increase exercise, etc.

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Considering the number of cells in the human body that are replaced daily, it could be, especially in old people who have a lot of RNA damage from age. Thin skin is a result of the breakdown of the regeneration process over time.

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This time I didn't cure it. I got melanoma. They remove it in April.

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I think I did that wrong, ok I meant to say I hope it's all behind you dear, and you can enjoy a long, happy and healthy life. 💗

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Peeka noooooo... Hope this is all the misery you will have to endure. Please stay healthy 💗

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My body decided to take a couple days off

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Same but Iuckily all clear now. Hope you're ok!

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That's a scary thought. It's the one time our body cannot fight it.. that a hellish nightmare begins.

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well my grandmother failed the second part of this every day occurence....... :( no im not okay

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Pff I guess they were right. I am Cancer

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Makes sense to me. Individual cells can mutate for a number of reasons—-and sometimes it seems for no reason at all. Kind of like when a product comes off an assembly line of identical products, only this one’s all wonky, so gets tossed out or broken down and recycled to get right this time. It’s the power of your white blood cells to seek out nd destroy them that makes the difference. If your count is low, or the mutated cells are multiplying so fast your white cells can’t keep up—-or the mutated cells have a mutation that allows them to actually destroy white cells—-then you have to make an appointment with your doctor. Better to nip it in the bud than to let it get worse.

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But that one time, when I was 19, it didn't. A*****e body. Thankfully, that was 35 years ago so bravo that it's continues to do it since!!!

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Wow, I'm glad it is cured then.

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Knew that

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Yes. Our cells are constantly multiplying and as a result there will always be some cells that are mutated and with the potential to become cancerous. Our bodies have the ability to get rid of these cells most of the time. When our bodies do not recognize the cell as a cancer or can't kill it, then it can become a cancer. Source: https://www.sharecare.com/health/genetics-genetic-disorders/do-i-carry-cancer-cells

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I think this one is stated incorrectly. I believe it is more like - some cells mutate / form incorrectly and your body kills them off - but if left to grow / multiply they could develop into cancer. I could be wrong but that's how I understood a video I watched that mentioned the subject.

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The universe is unbelievably infinite, while simultaneously unbelievably infinitesimal.

The universe has ~10^22 stars, a rough guess. This is an unfathomably large number for humans to comprehend, but bear with me. There is roughly 100 thousand million stars in our galaxy alone, and there are roughly 125 billion galaxies.

A single drop of water contains ~10^21 H2O molecules, not too far off from the number of stars in the whole universe. A very similar number, but contained in a single drop of water!

It blows my mind that the universe can contain such mind boggling numbers of things on such wildly different scales. There is so much to reality that the human mind just isn't capable of grasping.

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If you believe strongly enough that you have been cursed, your brain can shut itself off entirely in severe cases. The psychological term for it is "Voodoo Death Syndrome." It's just the fact you can literally think yourself to death that unsettles me so.

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Caterpillars turn completely into goo in their cocoon, and then become a butterfly.

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And there is evidence they retain memories from their pre-goo days. Memories of strong positive/negative stimuli that they show preference-for/aversion-to, even after metamorphosis.

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That so many vegetables came from the same plant. Broccoli, kale, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, etc. They are, botanically speaking, the same species. Humans have just bred them to emphasize different traits (buds, leaves, tubers...) Imagine if humans were as genetically flexible. Imagine a person walking around with GIANT toes, but otherwise normal.
Actually, plant genetics in general is a weird, weird world.

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Violets secrete a chemical that causes you to forget what they smell like afterwords. You’re essentially getting roofied every time you sniff one.

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When the Titanic sank non of the shoes decomposed so there’s tone of shoes at the bottom of the ocean.

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A gamma ray burst could wipe out all life on earth instantly with no warning.

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That as the permafrost melts, a lot of locked up methane will be released, and microorganisms there will "wake up" and do their jobs, breaking down organic matter, and release more methane and greenhouse gases.

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Your brain is making decisions before you are even aware of the decisions it has made. It also makes decisions based off of learned behavior and you just go along with it.

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Humans are bioluminescent (nothing to do with body temperature). We emit visible light that can be photographed in specific conditions. But, this light isn't visible to us. Which makes it a strange thing to have evolved, and begs the question

"what organisms is this light visible to, and why?"


Edit: Adding an edit for all the comments explaining evolution... Please read the thread before commenting. I find this a creepy fact due to implications on interspecific relationships, NOT because I think prehistoric humans went shopping for a bioluminescent hat with a specific motive in mind.

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The brain can play tricks on you:

When you look at a clock and the second hand seems to freeze for a moment, your brain is actually generating a false memory - and your perception of time stretches slightly backward.

This effect is called chronostasis.

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Parasites can live anywhere inside of you, for years unnoticed. A simple migraine could be a tapeworm crawling in your brain, causing damage.

Your eyes begin to blur frequently and you don't know why and it's not getting better.

Losing weight and having diarrhea but it's not a stomach bug. Well, I guess it is...

You are having a difficult time catching your breath and your chest doesn't feel right.

It could just be some parasite hanging out, using you.

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That 99% of all life that has ever existed has gone extinct.

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When a president declares a national state of emergency the law prohibiting medical experiments on unwilling human subjects is suspended.

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your digestive tract is an unbroken tube from mouth to a**s...your lips are basically the other end of your b******e.

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Not exactly scientific or creepy but, it's close enough and I want to contribute.

Mouth pipetting was a thing in labs in the 1980s. A pipette is, for simplicity sake, a glass straw that lab staff would use to transfer liquids. Now a days we use special bulbs, that when squeezed, would suck up the liquid for us. Kinda like a turkey baster or eye dropper.

Before we had these bulbs lab workers had to use their mouths to suck up the liquid. Which meant if they weren't careful they'd get whatever they were sucking up in their mouth. I'm currently training to be MLAT and those fluids would usually be urine, liquid stool, sputum and so on.

Edit: So mouth pipetting is still a thing. I'm Canadian and I've been told that it is rare or none existent in our labs.

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Sea stars eject their stomachs to cover edible parts of their prey, begin digesting it externally, and then pull the partially digested prey into digestive glands to finish the job.

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Obligate siblicide. In some species of animals, multiple offspring are born but only one is actually raised by the mother. The others are born only as backup in case the first-born doesn't survive. When the first-born is fine, which is the typical case, it kills the others.

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Years ago I saw an episode of *Monsters Inside Me* where this guy was doing something outside and a fly flew into his eye. It only made contact for about a microsecond, but it was enough time for it to lay eggs. After they hatched they started eating his eye from the inside and he was starting to go blind until a doctor figured out what was wrong.

Just imagine that, getting your eye eaten from the inside and losing your sight all because a fly *very* briefly made contact with you. Ever since I learned about this I get really paranoid when there is a fly around my face because of the fact that this could possibly happen to me.

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With a lethal dose of radiation, victims of acute radiation sickness will, after hours of vomiting and feeling horrible, start to feel much better. Then, they will descend into a hell of a painful death.

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It’s rare, but you can die at any moment for literally no reason at all. Your body just stops working.

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I could be drinking the same water that my extremely far relative drank back in like the 1800s

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- Out of all our DNA, only 2% codes for our genes.

The 98% leftover is called "junk DNA". I'm not specialised in genetic, but it was long thought to be useless but it's apparently essential for DNA expression regulation and protein formation.

- There are familial forms of alzheimer's disease. They are very rare but they exist, it doesn't skip a generation and one of the form makes you have the disease as early as your late 20's/early 30's.

- In Auschwitz, Joseph Mengele, a nazi doctor who conducted experiment on twins, sewed up 2 twins together for sh**s and giggles and let them die after the surgery of infections. They apparently screamed of pain for days until dying.

- You can live "normaly" with half your brain removed. It's usually done on young children suffering from terrifying epilepsy and the surgery is the last resort. It works quite well and if done early enough, with reeducation, the children develop normally without cognitive deficit, they "just" are blind from one eye, have one very weak arm/leg but they are not cognitively affected : some go to college, get married, have children and live completely normal lives.

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After being decapitated there’s still few seconds of brain activity that happen before you snuff out.

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There is more microorganisms on your body than people on earth.

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Literally everything that you know or feel or experience in total is just a series of electric impulses and nothing else.

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There is something called "the squeeze," where when people had old scuba suits with tubes, you could actually get sucked into that tube if the pressure was off. You are literally shredded through your own breathing tube.

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If you rub garlic on your feet you can taste it.

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In the United States, approximately 1 in every 50 people have an unruptured aneurysm. Most will never rupture, but will just sit there in your brain, silently waiting...

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Here's a good one: your eyes are an exposed extension of your brain.

In other words, and apologies if it sounds a little sociopathic, but if you take apart your head piece by piece with just the brain in tact your eyes would be dangling from the brain. Or, you can just google "eyes and the brain" to see what I mean.

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