What is the weirdest body part?

But, says BBC Focus magazine, some adaptations have left a few weird leftovers in modern humans...
  • 1) A tail. Before you were born, you had a tail, albeit only for a few weeks. ...
  • 2) Third eyelid. ...
  • 3) Wisdom teeth. ...
  • 4) Darwin's Point. ...
  • 5) Ear wigglers. ...
  • 6) Another nose. ...
  • 7) Claw retractor. ...
  • 8) Baby animal grip.
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What body part is most useless?

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 body part is least common?

Know Thyself Better: 10 Little-Known Body Parts
  • Extra ribs. ...
  • Ear-wiggling muscles. ...
  • The cuticles. ...
  • The floating hyoid bone. ...
  • The tailbone. ...
  • Vanishing bones. ...
  • Regenerating stomach. ...
  • The philtrum. The philtrum, also called medial cleft, is the vertical groove in the middle area of the upper lip.
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Which part of body is only one?

Although no one knows where the number originates, the general count is 78 organs, she said. This list includes the vital organs: the tongue, stomach, thyroid, urethra, pancreas, plus many other single or pairs of organs. Bones and teeth are each counted only once.
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What is the longest named body part?

Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle is, translated from Latin, the "lifter of both the upper lip and of the wing of the nose". It has the longest name of any muscle in an animal.
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Weird Human Body Parts Which may shock you.!!



What is the longest car name?

7 of the Longest Car Names Ever
  • BMW Individual M760i xDrive Model V12 Excellence THE NEXT 100 YEARS. ...
  • Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais Quad 442 W41. ...
  • Land Rover Range Rover Sport HSE Autobiography Dynamic P400e. ...
  • Mercury Grand Marquis LS Colony Park Wagon. ...
  • Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce Roadster.
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What dinosaur has the longest name?

The Longest Dinosaur Name

The dinosaur with the longest name was Micropachycephalosaurus meaning "tiny thick-headed lizard". Its fossils have been found in China, and it was named in 1978 by the Chinese paleontologist Dong.
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What organs can you live without?

You'll be surprised as to how much you could lose and still live. 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 organ do you not need?

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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What body parts 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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What body part has no bones?

The tongue doesn't have bones in it. Other body parts without bones- Ears and nose tips also do not have bones. They are composed of cartilage.
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What is a useless body part called?

Vestigial organs are parts of the body that once had a function but are now more-or-less useless.
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Why is the tailbone useless?

The Tailbone: Grandpa didn't have a tail, but if you go back far enough in the family tree, your ancestors did. Other mammals find their tails useful for balance, but when humans learned to walk, the tail because useless and evolution converted it to just some fused vertebrae we call a coccyx.
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Is an appendix useless?

The human cecal appendix is not completely unnecessary. In humans, the appendix is a small, dead-end tube that connects to the colon near where the small intestines feeds into the large intestines. Being a dead-end tube, the appendix can obviously not transport food and waste through the intestinal tract.
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What is the most used body part?

I'd say its our heart as a muscle (Although some of the scientists may disagree!). It is constantly contracting to pump blood around our bodies. Just think if the average heart beats about 70beats a minute, thats 4200 an hour (70x60mins), then 100,800 beats in a 24 hour period!
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Can you live without a heart?

A device called the Total Artificial Heart helps some of the sickest heart-failure patients regain function — outside of the hospital — while awaiting a transplant.
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How long can you live without heart?

Man lives 555 days without a heart.
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Can u live without a liver?

No. Your liver is so vital that you cannot live without it. But it is possible to live with only part of your liver.
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Can you live without eyes?

You don't need eyes to survive

Some people may lose an eye due to an injury or have one removed because of cancer. In rare cases, a person could be born without them. While a lack of eyes can create many challenges for a person, they technically aren't a vital organ for survival.
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What organ can be removed without causing death?

Gallbladder. Your gallbladder is also not an essential organ. If it's removed, your liver can perform the job without it.
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Which organ can store blood?

Another useful purpose of your spleen is storing blood. The blood vessels in human spleens are able to get wider or narrower, depending on your body's needs. When vessels are expanded, your spleen can actually hold up to a cup of reserve blood.
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What dinosaur has 1000 teeth?

Nigersaurus -- so named because it was discovered in Niger -- had the long neck of a Diplodocus and up to 1,000 teeth in its intricate jaws, Sereno, of the University of Chicago, said on Monday.
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What dinosaur has 600 teeth?

Nigersaurus had a delicate skull and an extremely wide mouth lined with teeth especially adapted for browsing plants close to the ground. This bizarre, long-necked dinosaur is characterized by its unusually broad, straight-edged muzzle tipped with more than 500 replaceable teeth.
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What is the deadliest dinosaur?

Tyrannosaurus rex

The “king of the tyrant lizards” will always be one of the scariest and deadliest dinosaurs around with a bite force three times that of a great white shark - making it the strongest bite force of any land animal that has ever lived.
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What is the oldest car still in production?

La Marquise is the world's oldest running automobile, as of 2011. It is an 1884 model made by Frenchmen De Dion, Bouton and Trépardoux.
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