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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A lot of poop is dead bacteria by volume.

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[–] Nomad 51 points 4 days ago (16 children)

Its possible to stick your tongue inside your nose from inside your mouth. I am among quite a few people that can do it and clean the inside of the nose from boogers.

How you ask? Here is the Wikipedia page about that, because if course there is one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecar%C4%AB_mudr%C4%81

[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Apparently if your tongue isn't long or flexible enough, the Wikipedia has suggestions, ranging from months of flexing and tongue exercises, to just fucking snipping your frenulum.

"It is possible" lmao, like yeah, it's also "possible" to put my dick in my butt if I cut my ass off and hold it in front of me XD

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Usually these TIL threads give me nothing new.

This one is new to me. Thanks.

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is the worst thing I have read today.

[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would someone want to do this? Genuinely curious.

[–] Nomad 1 points 2 days ago

Feels strange at first, then its very handy. Helps unclog the nasal passages. You can even suck on a side passage and spit out what comes out. I once had a piece of string from a corona mask stuck in a side passage and was able to get that out just with my tongue. its also a nice trick so groce out people xD

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[–] Flickerby@lemmy.zip 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (7 children)

Of all of the cells in your body, less than 45% of them are human. The majority are microorganisms designed to work with your gross-ass self for similarly gross organic meat-bag processes.

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[–] pocopene@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Newborn baby girls can experience a phenomenon called "false menses" or "mini-periods" due to a sudden drop in maternal estrogen after birth, causing slight vaginal bleeding or a blood-tinged discharge that typically lasts only a few days.

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[–] falseWhite@lemmy.world 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

Human face pores are home to tiny, microscopic mites called Demodex.

They are most active at night, when they leave their follicles to mate on the face and then return to find a new follicle.

Almost everyone has them. So there are tiny arachnids having sex on your face every night.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 72 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Surprisingly not in this thread: all the horrible things pregnancy can do.

[–] EgoNo4@lemmy.world 48 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I'm fairly certain that if women would get a full disclaimer with all the nasty side effects a pregnancy comes with, they'd give it a second thought... On the other hand, some women insist on having a second baby... And then a third... And a fourth...

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago (7 children)

They literally have hormons to forget the worst of birth.

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

I was told all the things that could go wrong when I was a kid, and then my mother was all, why not have a kid, and I was just

"CAUSE IT'S A NIGHTMARE???" lol

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[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 58 points 4 days ago (6 children)

You can develop a rectourinal fistula and end up pissing shit

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 32 points 4 days ago

Annnd thread closed.

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[–] doctorspike@lemmy.world 64 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Retrograde menstruation.

Because the feliciano tubes aren’t closed on the ends, where they interact with the ovaries, blood from a period can flow backwards into your abdominal cavity.

Additionally, a small amount of sperm (if a woman is sexually active and say trying for a baby) can also go the full way and leak into the abdominal cavity.

So some women can have blood and semen free floating in their abdominal cavity. Between organs

Edit: autocorrect got me. I meant “fallopian tubes”

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Feliciano tubes, you say.... Felopian tubes, do you mean?

I find it a bit funny that your gross examples are semen. But also yeah. So sticky.

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[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 51 points 4 days ago (11 children)

There's a type of cyst called dermoid cyst which can grow hair, nails or even teeth inside it.

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 4 days ago (3 children)

When fertile, women have significantly increased mucus volume in their vaginas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix

Several hundred glands in the endocervix produce 20–60 mg of cervical mucus a day, increasing to 600 mg around the time of ovulation.

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

The real gross fact is that cervical mucus, during ovulation, has the same consistency as egg whites and can be whipped.

[–] WeirdyTrip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 4 days ago (3 children)

To anyone with a vagina, this is def not an unknown fact hahaha. And gross is debatable but to each their own

[–] sunbeam60@feddit.uk 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To anyone with a long term partner that has a vagina it’s hardly news either.

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[–] ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 points 2 days ago

A fun addition to this fact is that vaginal secretions are made from modified plasma. Like that stuff in your blood.

So TECHNICALLY women don’t just bleed for their period.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

If you feed a latex tube through the nose and out the mouth then pull it back and forth, it makes a squeaking sound

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 56 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 31 points 4 days ago

That's not how you floss.

squeaky squeaky squeaky

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[–] joe_archer@lemmy.world 37 points 4 days ago (7 children)

There are more cells in your body that aren't you, than are.

The count of bacterial cells in your gut, on your skin etc is higher than the number of your own cells.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I've always found this interesting. Human beings (or any vertebrates I suppose) are really more of a colony than a single being. And it's not just a technicality, it's meaningful. Much of that colony interacts with your nervous system and affects your moods and behavior. You think you have total control of your mind, but you would think and act differently with a different balance of gut bacteria. Chew on that for a while...

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Humans can grow horns similarly to Omens in Elden Ring. Cutaneous horns can be caused by benign growths, precancerous lesions, or even skin cancer. Apparently, these are also becoming increasingly common in people.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

ear wax tastes slightly bitter.

[–] DoctorPress@lemmy.zip 33 points 5 days ago (13 children)
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[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You have mites living in your eyelashes.

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