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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. 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]

  4. 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]

  5. The hidden dangers of acrylic nails and why you might ... - AOL

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    Photo: Getty 1. The hard-to-clean area underneath your nail may cause your nails to be extra sensitive, especially if an MMA-based acrylic (Methyl Methacrylate) is used. Though they've been banned ...

  6. Woman breaks records with her 18-foot-long fingernails - AOL

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    Photo: Guinness World Records. It takes Ayanna, a nail technician, over 20 hours to paint her nails, which requires two bottles of nail polish. With this time commitment, she only paints them once ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Woman with 17-inch nails looks for a date on 'Strange Love' - AOL

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    The premiere of TLC's newest show, "Strange Love" featured a woman named LaRue Drummond.She is a single mother who's been growing her nails for 40 years now. "I hope I find my knight in shining armor.

  9. Kuntilanak - Wikipedia

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    Kuntilanak or Pontianak is often described as an astral female spirit; another version of this figure is a woman spirit with long sharp fangs and fingernails. It is similar to the spirit of a woman unable to give birth while her stillborn child was inside her womb.