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    Hej, I think its pretty cool how much slime we got producet in our bodies every day, like up to 1 liter! Me, personally, find it gross dat our noses produce that many bacteria, lol.

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    9 hours ago

    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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        I, a vagina-haver, had no idea until a Catholic friend in college mentioned NFP. The secular Fertility Awareness resources I ended up finding all supported my impression this isn’t widely known. That was twenty years ago, though, maybe young people these days are more body-aware?

        Agree it isn’t really gross, I think it’s cool, but it seemed gross-adjacent enough I could get away with sharing in this thread.

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    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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      I thought everyone had them. If you didn’t, wouldn’t your hair follicles get clogged and gross?

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        It’s not an illness. In most cases they are completely harmless and unavoidable, you get them from your mom as a baby and carry them your whole life. Most people have them. A minority of people can have some skin condition due to them, but it’s quite rare. And yes dogs carry them too, but not an issue for them either.

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

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      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…

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    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

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    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.

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

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        Sometimes regular stimulation is enough. I saw one case where a man took on an orphaned infant where there wasn’t even any animal milk available to hack together formula, and the starving infant attempting to get milk out of his nipple every hour for multiple days was enough to get the one breast to start making milk, and the infant lived thanks to it.

        The need for suckling to stimulate milk production is a catch-22 for women who don’t make enough milk. They have to supplement with formula to prevent “failure to thrive”, but the infant spending some of its sucking time on a bottle instead of a breast reduces their supply even more, so then they have to feed even more formula… There are devices that run a tube to the nipple so the infant can get formula from the tube while at the same time stimulating breast milk production, and they work, but look like a huge pain.

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            Take six mg estradiol enanthate injections weekly for two years. Follow up with domperidone-based lactation induction. Supplementing a testosterone blocker would also be useful.

            Warning, this is essentially going on the full hormone therapy trans women go on. You can induce lactation, but it requires being hormonally female for an extended period of time. Look up the effects of mtf hormone therapy, as you would be getting all of them. Also the breast growth is permanent. You have been warned.

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              I am not genuinely contemplating doing the hormone therapy, the above comment was in jest. However that is very cool to learn about. I had no idea breast development was a one-way road. These are questions I never thought to ask. Thanks for sharing

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    Teeth, or rather where they meet your skull and jaw, are technically classified as a kind of joint!