“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker

The human body is a fascinating thing. But despite the fact that we live in this complex sack of flesh for our entire lives, many of us know very little about it. And while there are plenty of fun facts to learn about our bodies, like that information travels to our brains at 268 miles per hour, there are also many facts about ourselves that we actually might not want to know.

But if you’re in the mood to be disturbed, you’re in luck. Because below, we’ve gathered a list of some of the most unsettling facts about the human body that one TikToker has been enlightening his followers with. Enjoy learning something new about these bodies we cart around, and be sure to upvote all of the disturbing facts that you can’t believe are true (or those that you wish weren’t true).

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Every child's jaw is packed with teeth which sounds normal until you realise this is what it looks like.

mndiaye_97 , pengouin85 Report

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JoJo Anisko 1 year ago

This should make you even more aware of how remarkable the human body is, that each of those teeth has a particular place to be, and they mostly end up in the proper place. (Yes, all living things are remarkable.)

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker That weird feeling you get on a roller coaster is actually your internal organs slightly shifting around inside you, especially the ones not secured by ligaments like the intestines.

mndiaye_97 , Gabriel Valdez Report

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AJay 1 year ago

And is this safe?

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker If you rub the soles of your feet with garlic, you'll begin to taste it 30 minutes later, there's a compound in garlic that penetrates cell membranes, travels up the bloodstream, and reaches your taste buds. Meaning you can taste garlic with your feet.

mndiaye_97 , Cats Coming Report

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AJay 1 year ago

Ok I really want to try this now but I don't have any garlic. Any pandas out there willing to make the sacrifice in the name of science?

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades which is why your stomach is in a constant battle to not digest itself. Only being kept in check by mucus.

mndiaye_97 , Kindel Media Report

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Minty mosasaurus 1 year ago

Props to the guy who swallowed the razor blade so we could know this

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker When you really think about it we're all just three-pound brains piloting meat bicycles we call bodies

mndiaye_97 , Joel Ambass Report

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Puffy Panda 1 year ago

As a brain, I am dissapointed in my bike.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker If you force someone to stay awake without giving them any food, they'll die of lack of sleep before they die of starvation.

mndiaye_97 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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Minty mosasaurus 1 year ago

*me reading this at 3:00 am*

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker There's a kind of tumor that can cause teeth to grow in a woman's ovaries and a male's testicles.

mndiaye_97 , anatoliy_gleb Report

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GenericName 1 year ago

Some even run for president!

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Men can actually produce milk, it's more common than you think most men are just too ashamed to admit it. And it can be triggered by starvation. Concentration camp survivors were given food after being starved for weeks and for some reason, they started lactating.

mndiaye_97 , Spencer Selover Report

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Zophra 1 year ago

Double checked this, because of course there's no source. It's true. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-males-can-lactate/

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Since you shed about 40,000 skin cells a day, the dust you see in your house actually used to be part of you. Which means every time you breathe in someone else's house, you could be inhaling 1000s of somebody else's skin flakes.

mndiaye_97 , Cats Coming Report

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Puffy Panda 1 year ago

Brings another meaning to, “I will always be a part of you”

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker If you decapitated someone, the disembodied head will be conscious for 15 to 20 seconds, long enough for them to realize what you did to them

mndiaye_97 , Gustavo Sánchez Report

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ChocolateCake 1 year ago

how exactly did we find out this information...?

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker The brain has no pain receptors, meaning it's possible for people to stay awake and talk to doctors while they're performing brain surgery on them

mndiaye_97 , Anna Shvets Report

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AJay 1 year ago

I knew this! There was a super famous saxophone player a few years back that had to get brain surgery or something and the surgeons had him play his saxophone during the procedure so they knew they didn't mess up.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Because we evolved to walk on two feet, the pelvis and birth canal of women got narrower meaning they have to suffer one of the most painful births on the planet, which is why in 1780 chainsaws were used to saw off a part of the pelvic bone to make childbirth easier.

mndiaye_97 , Anna Shvets Report

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JoJo Anisko 1 year ago

I have no doubt whatsoever that it was neither proposed nor invented by a woman.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Sometimes when you have a runny nose, it isn't snot. It's cerebral fluid that the brain leaks to reduce pressure.

mndiaye_97 , Brittany Colette Report

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Purple Rainn 1 year ago

This isn't quite accurate. Yes, it can happen, but it's pretty rare, it happens when there's a hole in the membranes around your brain or spinal cord, not just to reduce brain pressure, there's usually other symptoms associated with it, and if it does happen, you should see a doctor. It can heal on its own, but it also puts you at a risk for meningitis.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Sometimes during brain surgery, they'll peel your face forward like a goddamn banana.

mndiaye_97 , Anna Shvets Report

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Robert Trebor 1 year ago

If it'll peel, it'll heal. Rather have my face temporarily stowed near my nose than have major scars that would scare children and small animals.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker One of the first things a surgeon does before the surgery is clean out the belly button because there can be 67 types of bacteria in there.

mndiaye_97 , RODNAE Productions Report

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Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago

1. EXACTLY 67? 2. Surgeons clean nothing besides their own hands.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker If a woman's ligaments stretch and her muscles aren't strong enough her uterus can straight up fall out of her. Kegels are your friend.

mndiaye_97 , Cliff Booth Report

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Zophra 1 year ago

Been there. Done that. I give prolapse a one star out of five.

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker When you breathe, most of the air goes in one nostril and comes out the other and they switch roles every couple of hours. And you're checking right now, right?

mndiaye_97 , MART PRODUCTION Report

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HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago

Also, when you realize you are breathing, it switches from automatic mode back to ‘oh, so you’re back again! Here, focus on breathing so you don’t die!’ mode

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“Human Body Facts That Will 100% Trigger You”: 27 Obscure Yet Terrifying Facts About Us Revealed By This TikToker Placentophagy is the practice of a woman eating the placenta that comes out after she gives birth. And apparently, she has two options. She could cook it or eat it fresh out. A Canadian study claimed that 24% of women polled ate the placenta.

mndiaye_97 , AxsDeny Report

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Dontyouwishyouknew 1 year ago (edited)

Eat it fresh out?! That's a bit much. I mean other mammals do it but I can't wrap my brain around a human doing that. Haven't looked this up recently, but I've heard of drying it out and putting into a pill form and just taking it like a daily vitamin. Edit: if you've eaten a fresh placenta, no shade to you. You do you. Not trying to offend anyone.

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What do you think ?

N Miller 1 year ago

Here's a fun fact. When a man and a woman have a baby, if the woman then needs a kidney, the man *cannot* be considered a donor. It has something to do with the fact that his genes have been inside her making the baby, her body's immune system had to do weird and wonderful things to avoid rejecting the baby, but it means that any donor kidney *would* be rejected immediately. It's more complicated than that, but there's a character limit and I'm not a genetic biologist to be able to explain it any better.

Sydney C 1 year ago (edited)

I don't think this is entirely true. I could only find limited info on this issue and from the abstract of this research article it appears that mutual children is not necessarily predictive of rejection: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.724851/full ... from the article "husband specific sensitization is around 20-50%"

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Diolla 1 year ago

Interesting list altough quite disturbing. Thanks BP :-D

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No you didn't 1 year ago

Well, the title did not make false promises.

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Tim Bijlsma 1 year ago

Please don't get your facts of TikTok.

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RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

Here's another fun fact. The team of research scientists who flew to Antarctica looking to find the cause for the hole in the ozone layer were woefully unprepared for the conditions. They forgot to pack a targeting system for one of their radio dishes, so somebody had to sit on the roof and target one of the dishes at the moon. At one point the scientist noticed she couldn't open one of her eyes. It had completely frozen. Luckily it thawed without complications, but that must have been quite disturbing to realize your eyeball is completely frozen.

Alex Martin 1 year ago

Your body is a big jiggly mess of all different kinds of cells, enzymes, chemicals, bacteria, and fungi working in a bizarre balance dictated by billions of years of evolution and/or a glorious creator. It's a freaking amazing piece of hardware.

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Goose 1 year ago

I saw that brain surgery face skin thing, and thought “this seems like a fun thing to find a video of” I found one, and I almost passed out. My vision got blurry, and I started feeling really dizzy. This is a rather common occurrence with me. This has happened from heat exhaustion, and from getting shots. I really hate needles so it usually happens then. I seriously regret finding that video, and I highly suggest NOT TO MAKE MY MISTAKE.