1Bird Fancier's Lung
People who work with birds or own many birds can get a disease called "Bird Fancier's Lung." It is triggered by exposure to avian proteins present in the dry dust of droppings or feathers of a variety of birds. This condition can cause shortness of breath, fever, dry cough, chest pain, anorexia, weight loss, fatigue, and progressive pulmonary fibrosis.
2. Women get drunk faster than men because the female body produces smaller quantities of an enzyme called 'Alcohol Dehydrogenase' Tthis enzyme is released in the liver and breaks down alcohol.
3. While undergoing screening for kidney donation to her son, a 64-year-old woman found that she had no spleen despite never undergoing surgical removal. She was diagnosed with a rare birth defect and still was able to donate her kidney.
4. Pushing your thumb into the roof of your mouth gets rid of brain freeze.
5. Having allergies decreases your risk of a brain tumor by nearly 40%.
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6Pediatric Cataracts
Unlike adult cataracts, which can be removed after years and normal eyesight is restored, severe pediatric cataracts must be treated within weeks or the brain will learn to permanently ignore the defective eye.
7. Stomach aneurysms (abdominal aortic aneurysms) exist and can suddenly kill you much like brain aneurysms. The biggest modifiable risk factor for abdominal aortic aneurysms is not smoking. As long as you're not a smoker (less than 100 cigarettes in a lifetime), you're doing all you can to prevent it.
8. Making predictions impedes the formation of memories. Trying to predict what is going to happen next in any given moment, impedes your brain’s ability to encode your current moment in memory.
9. The act of vomiting involves a complex series of chain-link reactions by your body that connect to a "vomit center" in the brain. The lower digestive system in cases of perceived poisoning shuts down and causes the stomach to convulse in order to bring everything back up the way it came in.
10. When the liver fails to produce bile, your poop doesn't get the regular brown pigments so it becomes white.
11Irritated Diaphragm
Pain signals sent by an irritated diaphragm will be felt in the shoulder. The stabbing sensations near the heart that are sometimes felt after consuming a fatty meal are often confused with heart attacks but are nothing more than symptoms of indigestion, which can irritate one’s diaphragm.
12. If a person receives bone marrow from someone who is a different ABO type, the recipient’s blood type will eventually convert to the donor's type.
13. Saxophone Penis a.k.a. Ram's Horn is the result of a blocked lymph node or a bacterial infection that leaves the penis swollen and twisted.
14. The cremaster muscle is responsible for moving your testicles up or down. It expands and contracts according to temperature by moving them further from the body when it’s warm and closer to the body when it’s cold.
15. Although the urinary bladder may hold as much as 600 ml of urine, the desire to urinate is usually experienced when it contains about 150 ml.
16Black Hairy Tongue
Black Hairy Tongue is a harmless condition that is often caused by an overgrowth of bacteria or using too many astringents. The tongue turns black and the taste buds grow longer than normal making the tongue appear to have long black hair.
17. Agenesis refers to the failure of an organ to develop during embryonic growth and development due to the absence of primordial tissue. Agenesis of wisdom teeth differs by population, ranging from practically zero in Aboriginal Tasmanians to nearly 100% in indigenous Mexicans.
18. There is a valve in fetal heart that diverts blood away from the lungs while in utero. It begins closing as the baby takes its first breath after being born and gets oxygen from its own lungs for the first time.
19. Retinal is a photoreactor molecule present in the human eyes, but it has to leave the eye and be recycled through the liver once it has been exposed to light.
20. Human ear can't tell where low frequencies come from. This is why subwoofers can be hidden in home theaters or in trunks of cars.
21Kidney Cells
If kidney cells didn't have aquaporins, which allow cells to reclaim water from urine, humans would have to excrete about 180 liters of urine per day.
22. Tight Pants Syndrome is a real health risk which can result in abdominal and chest pain and could also lead to “testicular torsion” in men. Testicular Torsion refers to the twisting of the testicle within the scrotum, which can lead to blood loss and if not treated within 6 hours, can result in loss of the testicle.
23. About 8-16% of humans are missing the palmaris longus muscle, which was once used for climbing.
24. A person with damage to the right brain hemisphere can develop a "joke addiction," a compulsive need to constantly make jokes.
25. Post-workout muscles aren't sore because of lactic acid buildup. It’s a myth perpetuated by a doctor who experimented on a severed frog. Lactic acid is actually a fuel made from glucose and burned by the muscles to maintain energy. Soreness which is typically experienced post workout is from micro tears in the muscle and the resulting inflammation.
