Your stomach acid eats razor blades | True Freaky Facts

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[00:00:00]Your stomach acid could dissolve a razor-blade. Bodies are freaky. Metal seems permanent. We trust it to hold bridges, build skyscrapers, [music] survive anything we throw at it.

[00:00:13]But inside you, something far more powerful waits.

[00:00:24]Gastric acid registers pH 1 on the scale.

[00:00:28]That's hydrochloric acid, the same stuff used to strip rust from industrial steel.

[00:00:34]Your stomach juice is a thousand times [music] more acidic than lemon juice.

[00:00:39]It would burn through wood, fabric, even bone.

[00:00:43]Dr. Paul Hollander documented this in [music] 1997 at the University of Minnesota, measuring how quickly gastric fluid attacked surgical [music] grade steel. So, why doesn't your stomach digest itself?

[00:00:56]Because it replaces its entire lining [music] every 4 to 5 days.

[00:01:01]You're building a brand new stomach lining right now, faster than your skin [music] heals a paper cut.

[00:01:09]Inside you sits a vat of industrial strength acid, held back by tissue that [music] rebuilds itself constantly.

[00:01:17]Now you know.