21 Facts About the Human Body That Will Make You Wonder How We’re Not All Dead
‘If our internal temperature changes just a little bit, we die’
The world is such a fragile place. At any time, a building might fall apart, industries could collapse and it’s entirely possible for Beyoncé to release a mediocre album. The world itself will eventually succumb to some kind of unexpected but definitely fiery death. You know what they say: There’s no tropy like entropy.
But maybe one of the most fragile things in the universe is our stupid human bodies. We’re all schlepping our consciousnesses around in sloppy sacks of meat that could break down in any number of ways in the blink of an eye, or possibly due to the blink of an eye.
That’s why user nathaliuw asked r/AskReddit, “What medical fact makes you think, ‘How the hell does the human body even manage to stay alive?’”
