What is the coolest organ?

Your Liver: Your Coolest Organ.
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Which organ is the best?

The heart is god-tier. There you have it, the official and final human organ tier list.
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What's the most useless organ?

Appendix. The appendix is perhaps the most widely known vestigial organ in the human body of today. If you've never seen one, the appendix is a small, pouch-like tube of tissue that juts off the large intestine where the small and large intestines connect.
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What organs can you live without?

You can still have a fairly normal life without one of your lungs, a kidney, your spleen, appendix, gall bladder, adenoids, tonsils, plus some of your lymph nodes, the fibula bones from each leg and six of your ribs.
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What is the most durable organ?

The human brain is the most resilient organ in the body — Quartz.
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Can you live without a brain?

Since it controls vital functions such as breathing, swallowing, digestion, eye movement and heartbeat, there can be no life without it. But the rest of the brain is obviously capable of some remarkable feats, with one part able to compensate for deficiencies in another.
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Can a brain last forever?

It could be possible to live forever, but you may have to die to do it. Scientists have developed a new technique for brain preservation that could be the first step - of many - to be revived after biological death.
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Can you pee without kidneys?

Kidney dialysis. If you have both kidneys completely removed, you will not make any urine. You will need to have kidney dialysis.
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What is the least useful organ?

The appendix may be the most commonly known useless organ.

While plant-eating vertebrates still rely on their appendix to help process plants, the organ is not part of the human digestive system.
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Why do humans have 2 kidneys?

They help your bones stay healthy, tell your body when to make new blood cells, and even help you stay upright when you're walking around all day by taking care of your blood pressure. With all those important functions, scientist think having two kidneys must be important for our survival.
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Did humans have a tail?

Many believe that human ancestors had and used some form of a tail. Over time as a species, however, we evolved past the need for such an organ, which is why the majority of humans no longer grow them. Most humans grow a tail in the womb, which disappears by eight weeks.
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What body part does not grow?

Answer: The eyeball is the only organism which does not grow from birth. It is fully grown when you are born.
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What is the most useless bone?

The Human Tailbone (Coccyx)

These fused vertebrae are the only vestiges that are left of the tail that other mammals still use for balance, communication, and in some primates, as a prehensile limb. As our ancestors were learning to walk upright, their tail became useless, and it slowly disappeared.
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What is the heaviest organ?

The largest solid internal organ is your liver. It weighs approximately 3–3.5 pounds or 1.36–1.59 kilograms and is about the size of a football. Your liver is located beneath your rib cage and lungs, in the upper right area of your abdomen.
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What's the heaviest body part?

What are the six heaviest organs in the human body?
  • The skin is the body's first heaviest organ, with a mass of 4-5 kg, and a total surface area of about 1.2-2.2 m2. ...
  • The second heaviest is liver which secretes bile. ...
  • The third heaviest organ is the brain which is having an average weight of 1500g.
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Is skin the heaviest organ?

Skin is the human body's largest organ. Body organs aren't all internal like the brain or the heart. There's one we wear on the outside. Skin is our largest organ—adults carry some 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) and 22 square feet (2 square meters) of it.
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What is the longest word in your body?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is a term for a lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust, as in I had trouble breathing and my doctor diagnosed me with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
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Is an appendix useless?

The appendix, notorious for its tendency to become inflamed or even rupture, has historically been viewed as a vestigial organ with no real function. But new research supports the idea that the appendix may indeed serve a purpose: to protect beneficial bacteria living in the gut.
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What organs do you not need?

Here are some of the “non-vital organs”.
  • Spleen. This organ sits on the left side of the abdomen, towards the back under the ribs. ...
  • Stomach. ...
  • Reproductive organs. ...
  • Colon. ...
  • Gallbladder. ...
  • Appendix. ...
  • Kidneys.
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Why is my pee cloudy?

What causes cloudy urine? The most common cause of cloudy urine is the presence of alkaline. Urine is comprised of water, salts and waste from the kidneys and the balance of these components affects the alkaline or acidity (pH) in urine. Normal urine acidic-to-alkaline levels range from 4.5 to 8 pH.
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Can you live with 1 kidney?

A person may be born with only one kidney. This condition is called renal agenesis. Another condition, which is called kidney dysplasia, causes a person to be born with two kidneys, but only one of them works. Most people who are born without a kidney (or with only one working kidney) lead normal, healthy lives.
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Is it normal to pee twice a day?

According to the Cleveland Clinic, the average person should urinate somewhere between between six and eight times in a 24-hour period. While an individual is occasionally likely go more frequently than that, daily incidences of urinating more than eight times may signal a concern for too-frequent urination.
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Can a brain live in a jar?

There's scant research that's similar in the United States, likely because of the dubious ethics involved in keeping an animal brain “alive” apart from its body. A more realistic and ethical “brain in a jar” would be dead, but perfectly preserved.
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Can a person live to be 200 years old?

Humans may be able to live for between 120 and 150 years, but no longer than this "absolute limit" on human life span, a new study suggests.
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Can you freeze your brain?

A brain freeze is a short, intense pain behind the forehead and temples that occurs after eating something cold too fast. If you get one, don't worry – your brain isn't actually freezing. The sensation feels like it's happening inside your skull, but it really has to do with what's going on in your mouth.
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