Ten Facts You Never Knew About The Remarkable Human Body

The Feet

1. Feet are a precise replica of the body itself. The end of the toes represent the scalp, the toenails represent the face, most of the foot represents most of the body and the heels represent the feet. This is why when people walk they put their heels down first. If they didn't they would not be walking with their feet at all.

The Knees and the Elbows

2. The knees were originally located where the elbows are and vice versa. This was to ensure that when people contemplated, they could rest on the leg based elbows to facilitate prayer. It was only when societies became more secular and based in rational thinking that nature adapted by moving the elbows to the arms and the knees to the legs. Consequently we can now think by resting our elbows on a table.

The Hair on the Head

3. Hair on the head does not emanate from the head at all. Rather it is grown just behind the ears and the nose. For the first years of life, it only travels inwards and upwards through the brain to the top of the head. Later it travels in both directions but only in men. This is because it is the Y chromosome which divides to produce a V and an I and so permit reverse travel, leading both to male pattern baldness and the appearance of hair out of the nostrils and lugholes.

The Colour of the Skin

4. The earliest humans had green skin. Black and white skins actually emerged from entirely different routes. In the case of the former, there was a process of natural selection via tribal wars in which some people threw spears at other people. The red blood flowed out of the latter to provide their green skin with a much darker colour. As for the latter, again it was natural selection from the ritual in the Nordic peoples to freeze their enemies to death by leaving them naked in the ice and snow. Over time, the green skin simply whitened.

The Spine and the Solar System

5. The eyes are not the only organs in which the brain interprets things as being upset down and beyond it. What we consider to be all of the planets in a solar system are nothing of the kind. Rather they sit in a line along the length of the spine and the brain projects them out as a psychological illusion in a process of diffusion.

The Soul

6. The soul is not quite the nebulous concept one might think. Scientists now have very good evidence for the fact that it is a human organ of itself. It is shaped, they say, in two distinct sections. One looks like a small plain metal bowl in which there is water. The other looks like a conventional bunsen burner but with the difference that the flame leaves the top in a downward curve. As the flame hits the water, sparks appear on the water's surface in a chemical reaction and this in reality is what we think of as the soul. Confusion only exists because they have been unable to locate it precisely but many believe it surrounds the pineal gland.

The Natural Contraception

7. The earliest males were born with a natural condom appendage. Females had two buttons on their nipples which they could press to create physical changes that are exactly the same as provided by the pill.
It is believed that these organs disappeared over time as people realised that they needed many children to support them in their old age in the absence of any social security system.

The Tattoos and the Body Piercings

8. The first human brains had no concept of how human beings were separate from their environments. Experts now believe that cave paintings are symbols of how people thought they were applying tattoos to themselves. Similarly the holes that are to be found in many rocks are almost certainly proof of early attempts at body piercings while what is now believed to be the world's first ever door knocker would in truth have been thought then to be a ring through the nose.

9. The Chin and the Nose

It took many centuries for the chin to become the structure we know today. It was originally in 200 different pieces, a bit like entirely separate villages and with saliva flowing above it and on occasion onto it just like a river. As those villages slowly came together, there was a need to develop further and so it was that above the river became what we now know as the nose. This is why when you think about it these parts of the human body are commonly known as its Greater London.

10. The Body's Age

Just as with the rings of a tree you can tell the age of that tree, so you can tell a person's precise age by counting the number of wrinkles on their head. Try this with your friends at home. You will be amazed how accurate it is.