16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human Body

You are a beautiful, unique product of thousands of years of evolution. But you are also a disgusting skin sack of organs and bacteria. We are nowhere close to fully understanding the human body, but the more we learn, the more truly disgusting we learn these vessels are.

Here are 16 skin-crawling facts about the skin you're in.

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Scientific American

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Penguin

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: NIN

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: How Stuff Works

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Science Focus

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Vox

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: The Economist

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Science

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: NPR

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Popular Science

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: BBC

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16 Nightmare-Inducing Facts About The Human BodySource: Hearing Loss