1. It's your body's largest organ
2. An average adult's skin spans 21 square feet, weighs nine pounds, and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
3. Fetuses don't develop fingerprints until three months' gestation.
4. In blind people, the brain's visual cortex is rewired to respond to stimuli received through touch and hearing, so they literally "see" the world by touch and sound.
5. The average skin, when stretched out is 2 square meters.
6. Skin accounts for around 15% of your bodyweight.
7. The thickest skin is found on your feet (1.4 mm deep).
8. Skin colour is the result of a protein called melanin.
9. 1 in 110,000 people have albinism.
10. It takes up to 6 months for babies to develop their permament skin tone.
11. Every 28 days your skin renews itself
12. Over 50% of the dust in your home is actually dead skin