A human thumb has its pulse. The reason for this is because there is a large artery located in the thumb. This artery has a pulse different from the heart, which is why nurses use their middle and index fingers to take a patient’s pulse.
100 Mind-Blowing Patient Facts
Trees can grow in your lungs. In 2009, doctors found a fir tree growing in the lungs of a 28-year-old patient named Artyom Sidorkin. What the doctors initially suspected was a tumour was the sprouting seed of a fir tree. Now isn’t that one of the WTF facts that’ll make you cringe?
At Harvard University, there is a book made with human skin. One of the WTF facts that’ll make your skin crawl: Since the 1930s, Des destinees de l’ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Harvard’s Houghton Library. The author, Arsene Houssaye reportedly gave the book to his friend, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, in the mid-1880s. Dr. Bouland allegedly bound the book with skin from an unclaimed female patient who died of natural causes.