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Sunday, June 2, 2013

Weird Facts: Sneezing

Maybe if you've looked at the sun, (Not recommended) you might have felt the irresistible urge to sneeze. It's just a weird thing that happens. About 20% of the population will be unable to resist the urge to sneeze, especially if coming from a dark place. Funny thing is, we don't really know why. The most likely theory is that when our pupils contract as a reflex to light stimulus, for some reason the stimulus cross-wires in your brain and so it thinks your nose is irritated, triggering the sneeze. In other words, your brain gets all messed up and does stuff all wrong. However, we still don't know exactly what happens. Weird, huh? If you wanna look it up, the reflex is called the photic sneeze reflex.

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