Burn Facts

The average sexual encounter burns about 100 calories, roughly equivalent to walking for 20 minutes.

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.

Scientists have developed spray-on skin technology that dramatically accelerates wound healing for severe burns. The spray deposits a patient's own skin cells directly onto wounds, reducing healing time from weeks to days. In clinical trials, second-degree burns healed in about 4-5 days compared to several weeks with traditional skin grafts.