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About Your Fingernails…

  • December 28, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Fingernails grow two to three times faster than toenails. Both are made of keratin, a protein also found in hair and skin. If you’re right-handed, the nails on your right hand grow faster than the ones on your left, and vice-versa.

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