The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
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The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your fingertips.
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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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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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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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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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