And today I just lopped off part of my thumbnail while cutting veggies.

[conuly]

This sort of thing happens pretty often, though it could be worse. I used to regularly slice my fingers when chopping veggies and now it hardly ever gets that bad. Just nails.

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[gale_storm]

At least it was a nail that you chopped off, rather than part of a finger. Fingers are rude in their not growing back, as nails do.

[conuly]

But, as we discovered, if you chop off only *some* of the finger but leave a little bit of nail, the nail will grow back.

Because bodies are both gross and amazing.

[gale_storm]

Wow! I… I… I am tempted to look that up online, but I’m a bit afraid of the ick level of what they’d show!! (And I’ve always been one of those people who isn’t bothered by horror films or real-life blood and guts, but now I seem to have morphed into someone who can deal with anything *but* the cosmetic, surface ick!)

I was thinking of this, which I grabbed from the HuffPost, and wouldn’t it be cool to have human bodies learn to do things like it?

“The green anole lizard (Anolis carolinensis), when caught by a predator, can lose its tail and then grow it back.”
(HuffPost)