10 Surprising Mysteries About The Human Body

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Here are 10 mysteries about the human body.

 Medical science has advanced in ways that were at one time likely deemed impossible. Nonetheless, there are still a number of pretty normal features and occurrences that continue to go unexplained.


Here are 10 mysteries about the human body.


Number 10. Hiccups. Other than to make people uncomfortable, hiccups do not appear to serve any purpose. It’s believed that the involuntary muscle action may be a weird evolutionary holdover from humans’ very early days. Tadpoles have been suggested as providers of potential clues, as they exhibit a hiccup-like movement when breathing water.


Number 9. Creating art. Sure, it’s one of the defining characteristics of humans and the societies they form, but why the drive to create and experience it exists remains unknown. Just as there are myriad theories about what defines art itself, there are a plethora of thoughts on what fueled its early existence and changes over t