Ok, so have you ever wondered why we have to get those ugly goosepimples (goosebumps)? Today in class I decided it was time to finally find out. (I hate being in the dark about such important things!) So i looked it up on Quiz Cool.com and found the reason why! It said that when we are cold our arrector muscle pulls up the hair, the duct in our sweat glands gets small, and our blood vessels also get smaller. So actually being cold is a very positive situation! Yeah, our skin looks a little peculiar, but being cold makes our arrector muscles work harder than when we are hot and makes us look thinner too! I guess freezing my butt off and getting goosepimples isn't so bad!!

Here's another interesting thing u need to know. Boogers. Yeah, we all hate them, they can be quite disturbing but actually we need them! So I looked it up and found out that mucus (myoo-kuss), the wet stuff in our nose, traps dirt and other floating particles so that we don't breath them into our lungs. That's very important! So when the mucus traps the dirt particles etc. it then dries up and we are left with what we call boogers! So next time you pick your nose, you may want to thank those little boogers for saving your lungs!

I hope you have enjoyed these little tid bits about our bodies! There will be more to come!

Written by Kendal M.