stackyFACTSThe moment you suffer a papercut, millions of tiny cell fragments called platelets aggressively rush to the chaotic scene of the crime.
The moment you suffer a papercut, millions of tiny cell fragments called platelets aggressively rush to the chaotic scene of the crime. Once they hit the exposed tissue, they violently change shape, growing sticky tentacles that physically grab onto each other and the torn blood vessel. They form a desperate, suicidal microscopic barricade to literally plug the leak, completely stopping your vital fluids from draining onto the floor.
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