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The real reason why your fingers wrinkle when you soak in the bath

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A common misconception is that our fingers wrinkle due to swelling triggered by water absorption.

Scientists at Binghampton University , New York , studied the patterns of looped peaks and valleys that formed on the sodden skin.

They discovered that these patterns mostly repeated themselves when they were soaked again 24 hours later.

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