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Your skin wrinkles if you stay in the bathtub a long time because the outermost layer of skin (which consists of dead keratin) swells when it absorbs water. It is tightly attached to the skin below it, so it compensates for the increased area by wrinkling. This happens to the hands and feet because they have the thickest layer of dead keratin cells.
Although puberty usually occurs in the early teenage years, the world's youngest parents were two Chinese children who had their first baby when they were 8 and 9 years of age.
Earwax has antimicrobial properties that reduce the viability of bacteria and fungus in the human ear.
The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria on it than a toilet.
Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.