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the only part of you that keeps showing up after you've clearly stopped paying attention.
means The hard, flat plate of keratin growing over the top end of each finger, used for scratching, gripping, and quiet self-grooming.
from A plain English compound, old to the bone: 'finger' and 'nail' both trace back to Old English (fingor and nægel) and on into the deep Germanic past, with cousins scattered across the family — German Nagel, Dutch nagel. The 'nail' here is the same word as the metal kind you hammer; both name something hard, pointed, and fixed in place, the body's version simply being grown rather than forged.
- growth speed
- about 3.5 millimeters per month, nonstop
- middle finger
- its nail grows fastest of all
- made of
- keratin, same stuff as rhino horn
- no nerves
- the nail itself feels absolutely nothing
- full replace
- takes roughly six months to regrow
lee redmond — held world record for longest fingernails at 28 feet 4.5 inches combined length until 2009
shridhar chillal — guinness world record holder with left hand fingernails totaling 31 feet 7 inches as of 2018