Post-relationship grief affects men, in the long term, more than women. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://bigthink.com/ideafeed/breaking-up-feels-different-for-men-and-women
Health
Find some great and fun health facts all gathered right here under our health category. Once you have had your fill of fun facts about health head on over to our random fact generator to learn more random factoids!
WTF Fun Fact – Dying Cells And Cancer
A new alternative cancer treatment is being researched and involves injecting dead cells into the body. Preliminary studies show injecting dying cells into tumors helps the immune cells target the cancer. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65768-dying-cells-injection-cancer.html
WTF Fun Fact – Toxic New Car Smell
The self-explanatory ‘new car smell’ is a result of the 200+ chemical compounds ( some of them toxic) found in cars being unstable and prone to off-gassing, or releasing chemical vapors, which leads to the odor we all know and love. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160315-is-new-car-smell-bad-for-your-health
Fun Fact – Amniotic Fluid Refresh
The amniotic fluid in a mother’s womb, , which can be nearly a liter of fluids at 30+ weeks, is replaced every 3 hours towards the end of pregnancy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.embryology.ch/anglais/fplacenta/amniotique01.html
WTF Fun Fact – STD Cupcakes
In 2012, at a pop up shop in London’s St. Bart’s Pathology Museum, STD decorated cupcakes were showcased in an effort to promote safe sex. The cupcakes feature scabs, boils, green-colored genital discharge and warts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2012/10/09/std-cupcakes-cancer-cookies-and-marshmallow-brain-created-by-baker-596315/
WTF Fact – Kidney’s Trashed
The US has roughly 100,000 patients waiting for a kidney transplant and yet over 2,000 kidneys are discarded each year, 1/5th of them because a recipient couldn’t be found. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/health/transplant-experts-blame-allocation-system-for-discarding-kidneys.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Fun Fact – Viagra failure
The drug Viagra (or sildenafil) was originally intended to be a heart medication designed to treat angina by increasing blood flow to the heart, but it failed at that. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,139084,00.html
Fun Exercise Fact – Take Stairs One By One
Research shows that you burn more calories taking a set of stairs a single step at a time instead of two at a time. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051213
A holey heart
One in four people have a hole in their heart called a Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO), which has been their since they were newborns. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/congenital-heart-defects/about-congenital-heart-defects/patent-foramen-ovale-pfo
Weird Fact Born without fingerprints
Adermatoglyphia, or immigration delay disease, is a genetic mutation that causes people to be born without fingerprints. Worldwide it affects only 4 known extended families. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110809-fingerprints-skin-disease-health-science-weird/
Stomach acid is no joke
Parietal cells in your stomach produce hydrochloric acid which helps to break down food. This acid is so concentrated that one drop would eat straight through a piece of wood. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sharecare.com/health/digestive-health/how-stomach-keep-digesting-itself
The urge is real
Latchkey incontinence is the increased feeling of “having to go” the closer you get to the restroom. It is a conditioned subconscious response similar to what Pavlov proved with his scientific experiment with his dog. – WTF Fun Facts
Source:https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/02/technology/france-office-email-workers-law/index.html
Human body has miles of…
Laid end-to-end, an adult’s arteries, veins and capillaries would stretch for about 100,000 miles – enough to wrap around the world nearly four times. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10976/Circulatory-Blood-vessels.html#ixzz4lbaU3JV5
English Sweating Sickness
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the English sweating sickness epidemics killed thousands of people and then the disease disappeared. The contagious disease came on suddenly and could kill within hours. The cause and disease itself remains unknown. – WTF Fun Facts
the world record for the longest time between the
The world record for the longest time between the birth of two twins is 87 days. The first of the Elliott twins was born 4 months early while her sister remained in the womb for another ~3 months.
