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.
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Aspirin may benefit 11 different cancers, including those of the colon, pancreas, lungs, prostate, breasts, and leukemia.
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There are 20 feet of blood vessels in each square inch of human skin.
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The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.
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The human body produces and destroys 15 million blood cells every second.
