Fascinating Facts You Probably Never Knew About Your Skin

By MindStick

Your skin makes up about 15% of your total body weight.

The average adult has nearly 21 square feet of skin that contains over 11 miles of blood vessels.

A single square inch of skin has about 300 sweat glands.

The thickest skin is found on your feet and the thinnest area of skin are your eyelids.

Your skin renews itself every 28 days and sheds about 9 pounds of dead skin cells every year

Some of the dust in your home may actually be dead skin.

There are at least five types of receptors in the skin that respond to pain and to touch.

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