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Advocates for showering with cold water say that it’s a good anti-aging technique. It also has a lot of health advantages! One of the things that it does is force the body to generate its own heat, in a process called thermogenesis. When you go right into a cold shower, you experience cold shock. It actually makes your heart pump blood faster, and you also increase your breathing rate. This is what generates Thermogenesis. It activates the body’s adaptive repair system. That can strengthen immunity, enhance your pain and stress tolerance and ward off depression.
SOURCE This is not to be confused with having two penises. It’s rather, a bifurcated penis. A bifurcated penis separates into two columns thus having two ends. It isn’t exclusive to Koalas either. All male marsupials except for the two largest species of kangaroos have bifurcated penises. Think of the reason why that might be the case…  Yes, that means the females have two vaginal openings. Some other interesting marsupial facts: Echidnas, native to Australia, have a four headed penis. Only two of the heads are used during mating, though. The other two “shut down” and don’t grow during sex.
Google’s built-in calculator will confirm it for you: the loneliest number = 1
Our fingers themselves do not have muscles in them. This obviously might make you wonder how exactly we can move our fingers. Well, the short answer is by remote control.  You might be thinking that we move everything by remote control, because the brain is what controls everything. But the fingers are special because of their lack of muscle. Fingers are moved by tendons, pulled by muscles in the forearm. That’s why if you flex your fingers, you can feel the muscles in your forearm. You could say that we don’t directly control our fingers at all.  The muscles in the forearm and palm are connected to the finger bones by smooth, flexible strings called tendons. The way our finger joints bend is by the muscles pulling on these tendons.  This is partly why many people can’t bend their pinkies all the way without also bending their ring fingers. These muscles operate somewhat like strings on a marionette.  The total muscle count involved is 17 in the palm of the hand and 18 in the forearm. It’s pretty interesting that the parts of our body that we use so frequently are completely devoid of muscles.READ MORE
The vitamin C in strawberries acts as an important building block of collagen—the underlying supporting structure of skin. Just 1 cup of strawberries contains over 100% of your daily vitamin C needs.
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source -  PCT is a feeling of melancholy after having sexual intercourse. PCT is more common in men than it is in women. Many sufferers of PCT also feel strong anxiety for five minutes to two hours after sex. The term itself comes from the Latin post-coital and the French tristesse literally meaning sadness after sex. It is also known as depression after sex.  The reason for the sadness is thought to be due to the loss of semen and the exhaustion the body faces after intercourse. Instead of feeling a relief, the body feels weakness and exhaustion. The Latin proverb “omne animal post coital triste” goes along with PCT and means “all animals are sad after sex.”  Aristotle and many other writers and poets have written of post-coital tristesse in their work. The hormone prolactin, used in making breastmilk, is also found in men and shoots sky high right after an orgasm. It skyrockets 400% more during sex than during masturbation, leading scientists to believe that intercourse is much more satisfying than masturbation.  The prolactin plateaus and you feel a lull in your emotions. It can also be an issue faced if one has sex with someone they don’t really care about, because of the intimate connection sex brings.
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