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Male guitar players often leave the nails on their playing hand uncut and use them for playing as well....
A hang nail is painful because you have ripped open the edge of the living nail root....
If you don't drink enough water, this is bad for your health anyway but you might have never expected that it leads to dry nails as well....
The longest finger nail ever recorded was that of an Indian guy and it was 48 inches long....
Nail manicure is a very ancient activity. There is evidence that even 4,000 years ago it was known to our predecessors....
Nails are very tough (compared to skin of course) but even they will be dissolved in about 4 days, if you put them in Coke because Coke is highly corrosive....
It is a myth that hair and nails will continue to grow for several days after death. This is an optical illusion and is due to the fact that the skin shrinks, thus making it look as if the hair and nails are growing....
Some mammals, for example elephants, have 5 nails on each of the their front legs and most often only 4 nails per hind leg....
Nails reflect your health status....
Cutting your nails after dark is bad luck. Although this is pure superstition, there is enough logic in it – if you cut your nails when there is not enough light, you can injure yourself....
Light trauma, like typing on a computer stimulates nail growth. Well, this kind of trauma looks more like a massage actually....
Nails grow at different speeds on both hands. If you are right-handed, the nails on your right hand will grow faster than the nails on your left hand and vice versa....
Nails grow faster on young people than on old people. Also nails grow much faster during pregnancy....
Seasons and weather also affect nail growth. Nails grow faster in warm climates and during daytime, than in cold climates and at night....
When nails are freshly cut, they grow faster than nails that are not cut often. That is why it takes so much time to grow nails longer than an inch (breaking nails is excluded)....
The fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. The slowest – on the thumbnail....
Toe nails are about twice thicker than finger nails....
Men's nails grow faster than women's nails. Finger nails for both genders grow faster than toe nails....
Nails grow at the rate of 0.1 mm daily (or 1 cm in every 100 days). So, for a finger nail to regrow completely, it takes between 4 and 6 months. For toe nails, the period of complete regrow is 12 to 18 months....
Nails don't sweat. The nail bed does not have sweat glands, so it can't perspire. It is the skin around the nails that gets sweaty....
The nail plates are dead cells and contrary to the popular belief, they don't breathe. So they don't require oxygen. However, the nail beds and the cuticles are live cells and they do need oxygen, vitamins and minerals....
Nails are actually the same as hair. Both hair and nails are made of the same protein, called keratin....

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