{"id":31975,"date":"2014-07-01T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=31975"},"modified":"2014-07-07T13:51:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:51:14","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-water-wrinkle-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-water-wrinkle-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why does water wrinkle your fingers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/glass-water-faucet?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/12788_zoom1-548x646.jpg\" alt=\"Glass Water Faucet | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"646\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/12788_zoom1-548x646.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/12788_zoom1-300x353.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/12788_zoom1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a>Forget water in your ears, too much swimming and you\u2019ll emerge from the water sporting the fingertips of a wrinkled prune. Is that an unattractive side effect of showing off your cannonball or an awesome comic book-worthy evolutionary advantage? Answer: you\u2019re a futuristic marvel! Studies have shown that the distinctive wrinkling improves your grip in water. Since the pruning also happens on our toes, evolutionary biologists suggest that it could have helped our ancestors get better footing in the rain or wet conditions. Feeling a little skeptical? Try picking up a wet marble with dry fingers and then again with wrinkled ones. Science!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/glass-water-faucet?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Glass Water Faucet, $45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it an unattractive side effect of showing off your cannonball or an awesome comic book-worthy evolutionary advantage? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":31977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}