20 Bizarre And Humorous Medical Facts
Medical science is a very vast area of studies. People encounter quite weird type of stuff in it. Facts are formulated when someone finds an anomaly and records it, for later further studies. Today, we thought to present some of the most bizarre and humorous medical facts. So, only the best 20 facts are chosen for you. So you can easily digest and enjoy them.
All the facts are collected from eBizarre. For many more interesting facts just go to their website.
Following are the 20 Bizarre And Humorous Medical Facts:
1. One in 5.5 million men in the United States have two penises. (You wish you were that lucky)
2. A passionate kiss uses up 6.4 calories per minute. (See, you burning your energy there)
3. One out of every four orthopedic surgeons has cut or will operate on the wrong limb at some point in his or her career. (Well, after so many years of studies it’s very sure to happen)
4. Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards. (Damn! Now i wonder why my beard does not grow)
5. During a kiss as many as 278 bacteria colonies are exchanged. (Proved, kissing is gross. But it’s sure so much fun)
6. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter had an operation for hemorrhoids while he was in office. (Anything is possible When you are the president)
7. From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size. (No shit!)
8. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. (Then why engineers use concrete. Oh right! because thigh bones are scarce)
9. If you lock your knees while standing long enough, you will pass out. (I ain’t trying that)
10. If you squeezed out all of the bacteria from your intestines, you could almost fill up a coffee mug. (Now that’s a shocker)
11. Queen Victoria eased the discomfort of her menstrual cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana. (Marijuana FTW)
12. Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts. (War sucks, poor troops)
13. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples. (Who would have thought)
14. The human brain stops growing at the age of 18. (See that’s why many people go crazy after the age of 18)
15. The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes. (And I was going to buy a new Hard Disk Drive!)
16. There have been cases of people dying from paper cuts. The paper cut gets infected, and without proper treatment you can die from the infection. (I’m also a survivor of paper cut, still creeps me out)
17. Undertakers report that human bodies do not deteriorate as quickly as they used to. The reason, they believe, is that the modern diet contains so many preservatives that these chemicals tend to prevent the body from decomposition too rapidly after death. (Preservatives rock)
18. Urine was once used as a detergent for washing. (Why they stopped using it?)
19. You blink every 2-10 seconds. As you focus on each word in this sentence, your eyes swing back and forth 100 times a second, and every second; the retina performs 10 billion computer-like calculations. (Brain made the PC)
20. Your thumb is the same length as your nose. (Stop it, don’t try right now)
Comments (60)
Awesome Compilation! No doubt these are some of the most strangest and bizarre facts that I have come across. I ROFLed when I read the first one (never ever heard in my life!) Googled it too
And yeah after reading the KISSING FACT. No No for me!! The last one was also very informative. Bookmarked!
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Amazing….If they are true…:)
Funny, however the comments after each one were annoying.
interesting, however the comments are mostly lame…maybe comedy is not your thing, but interesting compilation of facts non the less.
Most of them are completely random ramblings without proofs.
Number 15:
This is not possible to know, because the way which our brain stores information is complex e not fully understood.
There are an estimated 100 billion (10^11) neurons in the brain, each potentially capable of forming a synaptic connection with every other neurons – meaning there are 10^22 possible synapses.
Current thinking suggests that one synapse might approximate to one “bit” of information (it is almost certainly much more complex than that,).
One byte is 8 bits, so this is 1.25 x 10^21 bytes, or 1.25 zettabytes, or 1.25 million terabytes of information storage.
Shopped!!!….Oh wait…….
wow, really these are great facts. thanks for sharing.
I *have* seen a few of these ‘facts’ listed before elsewhere: 2, 5, 6, 8, 11, and 12 ( see tinyurl.com/1mn ).
Your English sucks.
I have doubts about the brain finishing growth at 18. I can remember a study which showed that the brain, well more specifically the frontal lobe, continues to develop until the age of 25.
I tried the last one…..lol
I had to Google that first one as well!
Cripes, think of the possibilities!
I can’t figure out why bloggers keep publishing these lists of dubious “facts,” without any supporting citations. (There aren’t any citations on eBizarre, either.) I can’t understand why anyone would want to read nonsense like this. Sure, maybe some of these items are correct. But which ones? I shouldn’t have to do the research. That’s the blogger’s job!
Yeah totally agree, the author does seem like a bit of a unimaginative idiot who was trying to be intellectually witty, but just resulted in proving himself to be boring and somewhat irritating.
Number 14 is not true. There have been many recent experiments conducted that have proven that brain cells replenish all the time (and you can increase the rate of reproduction); though, the rate does decline as we get closer to death.
Apologies for not attaching citations. Thanks to all of you for dropping by and giving us your feedback. From now on we will try our best to provide citations.
Your feedback is highly appreciated.
its just fun to read them, i am sure bloggers put these facts up for fun as-well!
dammit, I tried 20 before noticing the comment >.>
As for number 10, I’m going to guess that this actually means *living* bacteria because there’s a lot more dead bacteria in there than just one cup full.
Roughly 1/10th of every turd is made up of dead bacteria and your large intestine is around 25 feet long.
Oh, and some references.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/09/21/370003.htm
http://www.heptune.com/poop.html
http://www.medfriendly.com/feces.html#whatare
My Thumb is longer than my nose!
17 Is not true. That started out as a joke so many years ago. There is no way we can absorb preservatives in food and have them actually “preserve” the cells in our body.
If you knew how aging works in the body, and what preservatives do in food…
leave the guy alone! everyone’s so cynical these days, its a few interesting facts and it makes us laugh, who cares if its not 100% proven.
Whats with the lame unfunny comment after each statement?
exactly my point!
Actually, the frontal cortex continues to mature into the early 20’s.
And I always stand with my knees locked, have never passed out!
There are not 5.5 million men with two penises in the US. It’s just not true. I work at a hospital, so my Head of Medicine looked it up. He was so intrigued, he called several other Heads of Medicine from Jefferson, Temple, Children’s Hospital, Pennsylvania Hospital and University of Pennsylvania Hospital. All confirmed that this is garbage. Try getting your facts from reliable sources.
We have already apologized for not attaching citations. Still we appreciate your concern.
Specially for you, I have gathered this information which proves this fact. Give it a read. Thanks.
“Diphallia (also known as Penile Duplication) is a condition in which a male is born with two penises. It is a rare disorder with only 1,000 cases recorded. Sufferers are also at a higher risk of spina bifida than men with one penis. A person with diphallia can urinate from one or both of his penises. In most cases, both penises are side by side and the same size, but occasionally one smaller penis will sit atop another larger one.”
Yeah right! maybe we should all stop taking a critical look at things like that! The next thing you know, people will teach creationism in school and stuff.
It’s not that you’re not including citations, Newz Guy. It’s the fact that half of this list is complete fabrication. You can’t defend your list of “20 Bizzare and Humorous Medical Facts” if they are not facts. It’s not harmless and humorous, it’s dangerous misinformation wrapped up with annoying parenthetical comments… Take this crap down and do some real research…
Very nice blog, and good going for such a new blog.
Newz Guy you have inspired me, By approving all the negative comments which are telling you what you have done wrong and things could have been made better. It clearly shows that you have guts to listen to your mistakes and appreciate your commenter’s.
This is the most important thing for the success of any publication, I see bright future for this blog.
Thanks for your kind words and humble wishes. All we try to do is to provide the best info but we surely have the courage to accept our mistakes. That’s how things evolve and better things come up. We are nothing without our readers and commenter’s who guide us all the time.
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This isn’t true, at all.
The human brain can store about 300mb of information. That’s the most recent, most technically accurate number developed by scientists. It’s pitifully small. Atrociously small. But that’s it.
What you’re doing is using the entire brain of neurones to calculate how much it can store, but you’re forgetting that much of the brain is unused. In fact, many of the neurones are formed before birth, hard-wired processes like beating the heart, and breathing. That “built-in” memory doesn’t really count as storage capacity because you can’t modify it, it can’t be changed, it’s like you wouldn’t add all the information stored in your motherboard’s BIOS to your computer’s storage capacity, would you?.
If you count only the neurones that the human brain uses to store memories, you’ll find it’s much less than the proposed billions of whatever. And the general conclusion is less than a gigabyte.
Hi David, while I understand your point, you’re incorrect. As far as we can tell, we have an unlimited capacity to store information. And trust me, I’m a neuroscientist doing research on memory!
While I agree with everyone above who rolled their eyes at this, I also just have to add to the pot that the comments written in are borderline illiterate. I counted 10 BASIC errors in probably under 100 words of original content.
Maybe you should learn to read before you tackle any attempts to be witty, hm?
Queen Victoria smoked reefer!
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Newz guy, just because you write something down in between quotation marks doesn’t prove that it’s a fact. You still fail to properly cite your sources. Your comments are also not funny at all.
Interesting list. Though I can tell you that at least #9 is bullshit. I have naturally hyper extended knees and elbows, which means I lock my knees whenever I stand. I have yet to pass out from it.
Well actually your calculations did not include the rate at which neurons die. You are born with only a limited number of neurons and they die quite rapidly never to be replaced. And I couldn’t help but notice you really did not have any citations or proof of your statements either… just saying
actually the two penis thing is true…. called Diphallia check it out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphallia
Sorry I have to agree, the comments after each fact were just annoying.
Stick to what you’re good at.
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humourous and witty, sorta.
Don’t let the nay sayers stop you. Everyone is a critic these days.
Not all facts need citations and who really cares anyway, this isn’t a PhD dissertation, its the internet and a blog.
Fact: the US gallon is smaller than a UK gallon. Now I am not going to cite the Internation Standards for weights and measures, so I guess its not a fact.
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erm .
cool list of facts, for starters.
BUT-
since i was born i’ve always stood with my knees locked
and i’ve never passed out.
and why would you? there’s no shortage of oxygen to the brain. worst thing: you have shitty balance and you are more likely to bail if someone kicks the back of your knees.
that was some sort of good solution – there are some other good solutions available into the market but this sems to be the best so far.. .
Quite a week, indeed.-Health Care
[citation needed]
nice facts, the comments in brackets were a bit crap…..
The facts are interesting. The juvenile and somewhat illiterate comments following each are not.