Random Skin Facts

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    Carotenemia
    Carotenemia
    If you eat lots of carrots, you'll start to turn orange.
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    The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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    The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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    Demodex
    Demodex
    Demodex is an arachnid that lives on the skin of almost all humans. It has no anus, and when it dies, the accumulated faeces is released.
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    Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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    ‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin
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    There is a disease called ichthyosis that turns the skin scaly like a fish.
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    Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
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