skin
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How Much Human Skin Does A Person Ingest Over The Course Of Their Lifetime?
The average American eats over 900kg of food a year. This breaks down to roughly 285kg of milk, cheese and ice cream, 84kg of meat, and an increasingly high dosage of anti-depressants. But where does human flesh fit in? Humans shed something like 500 million skin cells a day. The fact is that these literal…
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A Snake Got Trapped Inside An Endless Circle Of Its Own Shedding Skin
Video: Poor snake. This slithery Stimson’s Python somehow managed to shed its skin completely within itself. The tail, oddly enough, finished shedding inside the mouth of the snake, forming a perfect circle that unfortunately trapped the snake inside of its old skin. According to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, the non-venomous snake was just going…
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Laser Analysis Reveals That Astronauts’ Skin Gets Thinner In Space
Astronauts have thin skin. That’s not a slur on their ability to fend off criticism, but the finding of a study being carried out by European scientists to understand how the dermal health of space travellers changes while in orbit.
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If Humans Shed So Much Dead Skin, How Are Tattoos Permanent?
Video: Your body is constantly throwing off dead skin cells — a million every day. So how come tattoos don’t fall off with them? It turns out, your body’s immune system tries to get rid of the ink under your skin, but in the process, it makes those marks permanent, as this video from TED-Ed…