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Your body's emergency eject button, fired at the cost of dignity and 100 mph air.
means The sudden, involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth, triggered when your nasal passages decide something doesn't belong there.
from From Middle English 'snesen,' likely an alteration of the older 'fnesen' (to sneeze) — yes, words once started with 'fn.' That 'fn-' cluster traces back to Old English 'fnēosan' and has Germanic cousins like Dutch 'fniezen.' The shift from 'fn-' to 'sn-' may have been helped along by scribes misreading the rare 'f' as the long 's,' so the word essentially caught a typo and never recovered. The 'sn-' beginning, fittingly, clusters with a whole sniffly family: snore, snort, sniff, snot.
- raw speed
- Expelled air can hit nearly 100 mph
- eyes shut
- You cannot keep eyes open mid-sneeze
- sun trigger
- Bright light makes a third of people sneeze
- droplet range
- Particles can travel several feet outward
- sleep proof
- You almost never sneeze while sleeping
achoo world record — longest sneezing fit: donna griffiths sneezed continuously for 978 days starting in 1981
pepper induced sneezing — black pepper is one of the most potent natural sneeze triggers due to piperine compounds