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Ten Strange Thing You Don't Know About Your Self by donjuviam(m): 10:07am On Aug 19, 2014
These are just the strange ten thing u might not know about your self, some may know it but if u don't know b4 u will know now


(1)Your stomach is smarter than you think
Your stomach has more neurons than many animals have in their actual brains; its collection of neurons is so complex, that some call it a “second brain” for humans. While other parts of the body – the palms of your hands, for instance – also have high levels of neurons, your stomach is unique in that it can effectively think for itself, meaning that you can digest food without having to think about it. Ever been nervous, irritable, or content for apparently no reason at all? Ever found yourself unable to concentrate after an enormous meal? Chances are, your stomach is partly to blame – all the more reason to eat wisely.
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You are as hairy as a chimp
This statement might seem to be untrue as soon as you glance in the mirror (unless you suffer from hypertrichosis), but you are indeed as hairy as most other primates. Just like chimps, we have hair all over our bodies – only it’s much finer and shorter than that of our furry cousins. Per square inch of our body we have an average of 500-1000 hair follicles.
And the hairiest creature? The sea otter puts all other animals to shame, with nearly a million hairs per square inch.
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You are a miracle
Biology teachers often begin the year by applauding their students: “Well done,” they say. “You’ve already done the hardest thing you will ever have to do.” When the students look bemused, the teacher will explain. Everybody began as a perfectly symmetrical ball of cells – yet we’ve all ended up having a front, a back, and sides. How can a spherical cell end up forming orifices as complex as eyes, ears, and nostrils? It has to flatten, twist, and push itself into shape. This forms the first orifice you have – your anus. Typically, this becomes the biology teacher’s second joke: All humans start as arses – it’s just that some remain as arses for their whole lives.

(4)You are part-virus
One of the bigger surprises unearthed by the Human Genome Project was exactly how much of our DNA has been contributed by viruses. Viruses can’t reproduce on their own – so some viruses have to insert their DNA into a host cell in order to be copied. If the virus inserts itself into a sperm or egg cell, then the resulting offspring may carry the virus DNA in every one of its cells. This has happened so often in human evolution that no less than 9% of our genome is directly derived from viruses.

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Your body is younger than you are
You are changing all the time. You inhale, you exhale, you eat, and you excrete. You take in molecules and expel others constantly. If you are over the age of puberty, then it is likely that not a single part of your body ever belonged to your baby self. This leads to an interesting problem, still hotly debated by philosophers: if every part of you is different today, are you still the same person you were at birth?
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You are partially blind
Unfortunately, your eyes have a design fault: both of them have a blind spot. This blind spot is large enough to cause problems for those who lose sight in one eye. Thankfully for most of us, the fact that we have two eyes means that the blind spots go unnoticed.
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You can count without counting
When you are presented with groups of up to four objects, you don’t need to count them to figure out how many there are. For these small groups, you have an instinctive grasp of the number of items. Members of the Piraha tribe in Brazil don’t have any numbers in their language, and so they’re unable to count – yet even the Piraha are able to comprehend numbers up to four.
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You may have no free will
It’s often a very violent debate: are you free to make your own decisions, or are your decisions shaped by forces beyond your control? Many arguments have been put forward on both sides of the debate, but here I will focus on the experiment carried out on a patient by Benjamin Libet.
Libet, while observing the patient’s brain, told him to move his hand whenever he wished. Libet found that the brain registered a desire to move the hand, even before the man himself was aware of this desire. This suggests that we may act impulsively, without actually making a decision. It only seems to us afterwards that we did something from our own free will, since we rationalize our action after it happens.
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You have stripes
Many mammals have stripes: cats can have very clear lines, or patches, which develop as certain cells start expressing different genes, and then pass the variation on to other cells. Humans are no different – it is simply that our stripes are usually invisible. You can usually only see these stripes – called Blaschko’s Lines – when a disease affects one type of cell, but not a neighbouring type.... U may have some addition or subtraction to this post.. Kindly post it we're here to learn more

Re: Ten Strange Thing You Don't Know About Your Self by donjuviam(m): 10:35am On Aug 19, 2014
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Re: Ten Strange Thing You Don't Know About Your Self by Abatemtem(m): 10:36am On Aug 19, 2014
Now that I've known them,what shudda goan do nw??
Re: Ten Strange Thing You Don't Know About Your Self by donjuviam(m): 10:46am On Aug 19, 2014
Abatemtem: Now that I've known them,what shudda goan do nw??
if u dont know the next thing to do...go k*ll ur self ill diot (idi*t)
Re: Ten Strange Thing You Don't Know About Your Self by Abatemtem(m): 10:51am On Aug 19, 2014
donjuviam: if u dont know the next thing to do...go k*ll ur self ill diot (idi*t)
e pain am sha...S(-_- )M(-_-)H( -_-)
Re: Ten Strange Thing You Don't Know About Your Self by SMALLPENIS(f): 10:51am On Aug 21, 2014
just go to my alter egos thread, BIGPENIS
www.nairaland.com/1867089/legend-story-pictures-comedy-mode

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