Bizarre Body Facts

[morty]

According to AI .... and who can not trust it, as it's so clever.

Bizarre Size and Growth Facts

• Ear and nose growth: Your ears and nose never truly stop growing throughout your life due to gravity and the breakdown of cartilage and collagen.
• Morning height: You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning than when you go to bed because gravity compresses the spinal cartilage during the day.
  
  • Blood vessel length: Laid end to end, an adult human's blood vessels could stretch over 60,000 miles—enough to circle the Earth more than two times
  
  Weird Biological Quirks
  
  • Earwax sweat: Earwax is actually a specialized type of sweat produced by glands in your ear canal.
    
    
    • Cornea oxygen: The cornea (the clear outer layer of the eye) is the only part of the human body that has no blood supply; it gets its oxygen directly from the air.
      
      • Stomach self-preservation: Your stomach lining replaces its cells every 3 to 4 days so it does not digest itself using its own powerful acids.
      Evolutionary Oddities
      
      • Third eyelid remnant: The small pink tissue in the corner of your eye is a vestige of a nictitating membrane, or third eyelid, found in birds and reptiles.
      • Goosebumps: Goosebumps are an evolutionary leftover from hairy ancestors meant to puff up fur and trap heat.
      
      I never knew the one about the third eyelid remnant or the nose and ears, though had read that there is erectile tissue in the nose and so have never felt the same way about Pinnochio telling lies ever since. Sometimres knowledge destroys innocence.
      
      Crikey, I made a right pigs ear of editing that one ... ignore it and scroll on. Big sigh.
      

[Dextrous63]

So, if you sleep on your back, your nose will be a few mm shorter in the morning that when you got to bed later that day?

[morty]

Gravity ...aye.
But other bits might still grow, 

[Vlad]

Gravity ...aye.
But other bits might still grow,

I bloody wish.

[Dextrous63]

I bloody wish.

Bit late in the day to worry about that.

[morty]

Well it's never too late ... and God loves a trier. 

[Scrumpy]

Don't we all. !!!

[Vlad]

Bit late in the day to worry about that.

I can but live in hope of the Second Coming, mind you the First was quite pleasant