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  2. Chalkboard scraping - Wikipedia

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    Scraping a chalkboard (also known as a blackboard) with one's fingernails produces a sound and feeling which most people find extremely irritating. The basis of the innate reaction to the sound has been studied in the field of psychoacoustics (the branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects).

  3. Self-harm - Wikipedia

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    [2] [4] Common forms of self-harm include damaging the skin with a sharp object or scratching with the fingernails, hitting, or burning. The exact bounds of self-harm are imprecise, but generally exclude tissue damage that occurs as an unintended side-effect of eating disorders or substance abuse , as well as more societally acceptable body ...

  4. Murder of Sylvia Likens - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, all of Likens's fingernails were broken backwards [n 8] and most of the external layers of skin upon the child's face, breasts, neck, and right knee had peeled or receded. In her death throes, Likens had evidently bitten through her lips, partially severing sections of them from her face. [105] [60]

  5. These Four People Were Faced with Death and Lived to Tell ...

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    The post These Four People Were Faced with Death and Lived to Tell Their Stories appeared first on Reader's Digest. These four people survived terrifying ordeals, against all odds.

  6. Catfight - Wikipedia

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    Catfight (also girl fight) is a term for an altercation between two women, often characterized as involving scratching, shoving, slapping, choking, punching, kicking, wrestling, biting, spitting, hair-pulling, and shirt-shredding. [1]

  7. Bill Morgan lottery win - Wikipedia

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    While being filmed scratching off another card inside the shop he turned around, held up the ticket and said "I just won 250,000. I'm not joking. I just won 250,000." before holding his head in his hands and asking the news team "please don't film me". He then said "I don't believe this is happening. I think I will have another heart attack."

  8. Doctor Runs Out Of Delivery Room After Her Long Nails Cost ...

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    A Brazilian mother is denouncing her hospital after a doctor pierced her baby’s neck with her long nails during labor, causing fatal wounds Image credits: wavebreakmedia_micro / Freepik

  9. Thumbscrew (torture) - Wikipedia

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    Victims' thumbs, fingers, or toes were placed in the vice and slowly crushed. The crushing bars were sometimes lined with sharp metal points to puncture the nails. While the most common design operated upon a single thumb or big toe, variants could accommodate both big toes, all five fingers of one hand, or all ten toes. [1]