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The skin is the body’s largest organ. It is also one of the most complex organs of the body.

Skin’s biggest job is protection. It is a tough, elastic, flexible, and waterproof covering that helps protect other organs and body parts from such things as germs, heat, cold, and sunlight.

Your skin is your body's first defense against disease and infection, and it protects your internal organs from injuries
Skin cells are being replaced every twenty four hours.

The average adult has 21 square feet of skin (2 sq m) which weighs approx 7 – 9 lb (3.2 - 4.1 kg), has approximately 300 billion skin cells and contains more than 11 miles (17.7 km) of blood vessels.

You have approximately 10,000,000 skin cells on every square inch of your body.

The skin releases as much as three gallons (11 liters) of sweat a day in hot weather.

Globally, dead skin accounts for about a billion tons of dust in the atmosphere.

Your skin sheds 10 billion dead skin cells every day. In approximately a month, your body has made a whole new layer of skin cells! You are likely to shed some 40 pounds (18.2 kg) of skin in a lifetime.

In blind people, the brain's visual cortex is rewired to respond to stimuli received through touch and hearing, so they literally "see" the world by touch and sound.

Right now there are over a million dust mites, microscopic critters invisible to the naked eye, on your mattress and pillow, eating the dead skin cells that fell off you last night!

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