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Jell-O consists of four main ingredients: gelatin, water, artificial sweetener, and food coloring. Gelatin gives Jell-O its weird, not-quite-liquid-but-also-not-very-solid structure. Not to gross you out, but gelatin is made up of a kind of a protein called collagen that’s found in cow and pig hides, hooves, bones, and connective tissue. To make Jell-O, this stuff is boiled down, chemicals are added to it, and then the collagen is extracted. Humans also have collagen — it makes your bones, skin, and muscles strong but also kind of elastic. Collagen is the “bend but not break” protein.
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What is a bruise?
A bruise is also called a contusion (say: ken-too-zhen), and it forms after a hard enough bump to the soft tissues under your skin. When these tissues are injured, small…
How many bones in the human body?
There are 206 bones in an adult human skeleton, but the skeleton of an infant contains 350 (the extra bones fuse together as you grow). There are two skeletal systems…
What are fingernails and toenails made of?
Fingernails and toenails, hair, skin, animal fur, animal claws and hooves, and even animal feathers are largely made up of the very same chemical protein called keratin. It’s nature’s own…
How can you tell whether a number is divisible by another number (leaving no remainder) without actually doing the division?
A Number is Divisibility by: 2 : If the last digit is even, the number is divisible by 2. 3 : If the sum of the digits is divisible by…
What is Sweat?
Your body works best when its temperature is about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius). When your body gets hotter than that, your brain doesn’t like it – it wants…