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THEY MIGHT SEEM USELESS, BUT THESE
8 BODY PARTS ACTUALLY HAVE
SURPRISINGLY COOL FUNCTIONS
AS THE ANCIENT GREEKS USED TO SAY, "KNOW THYSELF."
It probably was meant a little more philosophically that we're choosing to interpret it, but learning about
how your body is put together and why is some seriously fun stuff We've all marvelled at our fingers
and toes, wrinkling into prunes in the bath. We've all stared at that weird fleshy appendage hanging
down in the back of our throats.We've all known someone - or been that someone - with an emergency
appendectomy. "It's fine," they say, "the appendix is completely useless anyway."But our bodies are
amazing machines, and, while we may not need some of its features any more, there's very little in our
anatomies with no purpose whatsoever.And about those things we don't need any more? They're evidence
of where we've been - and that we continue to evolve even to this day.
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