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a quarter of your bones crammed into the thing you ignore until it hurts.
means The body part at the end of your leg that you stand and walk on, or a unit of length equal to twelve inches.
from From Old English 'fot,' a thoroughly Germanic word with cousins all across the family — German 'Fuß,' Dutch 'voet' — and stretching further back to the Proto-Indo-European root 'ped-,' the same ancient source that gave Latin 'pes/pedis' (hence pedal, pedestrian) and Greek 'pous' (hence octopus, the eight-foot). The measurement sense is just as old and just as literal: a 'foot' was once roughly the length of an actual human foot, which is exactly why early measurements were charmingly inconsistent until someone standardized whose foot counted.
- bone count
- 26 bones, 33 joints, over 100 muscles and tendons
- sweat factory
- around 250,000 sweat glands per pair
- unique print
- footprints are as distinctive as fingerprints
- first contact
- the heel strikes ground at nearly body weight
athlete's foot — fungal infection (tinea pedis) affecting over 70% of people at some point