Another Friday and some more cool Friday Factmondos for you. Enjoy!
MAGICAL SKIN
The average person’s skin covers an area of 2 square meters.
Skin accounts for about 15% of your body weight.
The average adult has approximately 21 square feet of skin, which weighs 9 lbs and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
The average person has about 300 million skin cells.
A single square inch of skin has about 19 million cells and up to 300 sweat glands.
Your skin is its thickest on your feet (1.4mm) and thinnest on your eyelids (0.2mm) Read some more cool skin facts here:
https://forefrontdermatology.com/skin-fun-facts/
There are 30,000 identified species of wasps.
Unlike bees which create their nests secreting a waxy substance to construct their nests wasps create their papery nests from wood fibers that they chew into a pulp and spit out. Another cool fact is that wasps prey on other insects.
They are so good at it that certain areas of agriculture even deploy wasps to help control pest populations in order to protect crops!
Unlike bees wasps can sting multiple times.
