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Why do we get pins and needles? | Strange science for kids
About This EpisodeYou're sitting on the floor, minding your own business, being a completely normal human person, and then you stand up and your foot has just, completely, quit. It's fizzing. It's tingling. You try to walk and you look like a baby giraffe who's just been told some very surprising news.In this episode, host Charlie dives into one of the most-asked questions we've ever received: why do we get pins and needles? The answer involves electricity, lightning-fast signals, 86 billion nerve cells, and a nerve with the worst nickname in history. It's one of those everyday things that…
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