I’m surprised this does not mention humans can grow back the tips of their fingers (past the white part of cuticle) https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/06/10/1903854... Supposed to be only kids but I’ve chopped off a few mm by accident it came back as an adult or I can’t tell the difference.

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roarcher 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does your fingerprint look normal? When I was a kid I was goofing around with a pair of scissors and lopped off a good chunk of the pad of one finger. Thirty years later my fingerprint looks like a bunch of little dots at that location. The ridges never grew back properly.

	▲	VladVladikoff 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Same. Chopped off the tip of my thumb with an axe, it’s healed but very scarred and fingerprint is not normal.

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adamors 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The exact same thing happened to me. I chopped off a good half a cm with an axe when splitting firewood about 5 years ago. After no less than 6 months there wasn’t any sign of the mutilation.

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KellyCriterion 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

2 years I ago I sliced maybe 1.5mm frommy thumb-tip; when taking off the bandage, I could clearly see the "straight cut" and that some material was missing.

Until today, it recovered completely

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oniony 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What, last night?

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delfinom 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Lol, I once sharpened my knives and went to cook. During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife is", next thing you know, i cut about 1/4" of my finger tip off, right through the finger nail with zero resistance.

Besides the blood getting everywhere and needing superglue to stop it, it grew back completely fine.

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catlikesshrimp 3 hours ago | parent [-]

"During the prep I said, "wow I wonder how sharp the knife"" Is there something missing in the story? (drugs, coercion, self harm ideas, anything) I have had my fair share of avoidable cuts, but none of them included looking at the edge before happening.

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coryrc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The way you asked that question is wholly inappropriate for a public forum and also rude.

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rpastuszak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Irony deficiency

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delfinom 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't look at the edge, I was just thinking of that idea while slicing some vegetables and coincidentally not paying attention at the same time.

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stymaar 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Liver as well, but I have no idea if that's the same underlying phenomenon.