Most people take their skins for granted. It has always been there and they don’t think too much about how versatile and adaptive it is. The following facts should interest you:
Skin accounts for 16 percent of your body weight.
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In one square centimeter on the back of your hand, there are almost three metres of blood vessels, 30 hair follicles, 300 sweat glands, 600 pain sensors, 6 cold sensors, 36 heat sensors 75 pressure sensors, 9000 nerve endings, more than ten metres of nerve endings and four oil glands.
The average person sheds about 18 kilograms of skin in a lifetime.
Skin thickness varies from 0,5 millimetre on your sex organs to about 6 millimetres on the soles of your feet.
The skin cannot absorb water or solutions with sugar or salt. It can absorb a limited amount of oils and fats.
Skin produces its own antiseptics and prevents harmful bacteria from entering your body.
About 10 percent of your blood circulates through your skin.
Approximately 60 percent of the human body consists of water. Skin prevents that water from evaporating.
Your skin has more nerve endings than any other part of your body.
One person in every twenty has an extra rib, but this happens three times as often in men as in women. Is this perhaps where the story of Adam and the creation came from?
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