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September 17, 2021

Getting a tattoo can be a big decision. After all, you are choosing a piece of art to be placed on your body with a lot of talent, time, money, and pain to get it finished on your skin a.k.a. canvas. A tattoo can be symbol that you hold dear, whether it be one that already exists or one you designed yourself. It can represent a memory of a loved one that you wish to honor, either in memory or while they are still alive. Or it can just be Garfield holding a flag that says “Speed Limits Suck” for some reason.

Your body, your choice. The worst case scenario, you have to get the tattoo lasered off so it'll eventually be pooped out of your body. Oh, you didn't know that part? There's more to know about tattoos than just what you see on Ink Master.

Here are some little known tattoo facts for you:

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Swimming

Going for a swim in the ocean with a fresh tattoo can literally get you killed. It's pretty rare, but it can happen - if you have a tattoo that's a few days old and you go, say, into the ocean, you risk a very deadly bacterial infection. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: CNN

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Tiny particles from a tattoo can spread through your body via lymph nodes. Trabecula Med Cortical sinu sinus Medulla - Capsule Subcar sinus Blood vessel This means that various toxic elements from a tattoo, like heavy metals and titanium oxide, can move to different parts of your body. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Nature

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A tattoo is basically a neverending war involving your immune system. a macrophage Immune cells called macrophages continually try to eat the particles of the tattoo, but they keep failing, and new macrophages replace them. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Popular Science

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Your level of education. doesn't strongly influence how likely you are to get inked. An lpsos poll found that people without a college degree are 33% likely to have a tattoo, but those with a degree are 27% likely. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Ipsos.com

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Tattoos

Unless you're explicitly told otherwise, assume that a given tattoo ink isn't vegan. Sim. Plus, animal by-products are involved in tattooing throughout - for example, the strips of disposable razors often have glycerine. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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Tattoos can actually be a health risk if you get one over a mole or birthmark. The tattoo can cover up any color change on the mole or birthmark, and color changes can be a sign of developing skin cancer. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: WebMD

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The oldest known tattoos in the world are ancient they date to 0 3250 BC. They're on Otzi the iceman, a millennia-old body found in a glacier between Italy and Austria. Amazingly, he had a total of 61 tattoos on his body. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: SI.edu

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Tattoos

A laser doesn't actually remove your tattoo it helps your body poop it out. The laser just breaks down the particles of pigment, and they're then carried away by white blood cells. Eventually, your body filters it into feces. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: InkedMag

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Tattooing was illegal in Massachusetts for almost 40 years - from 00 1962 to 2000. It was considered a crime against the person, and was allowed only for medical purposes (there was fear it could create a hepatitis outbreak). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Cambridge Public Health

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No Elbow Tattoos

US Marines can't get tattoos on their elbows or anywhere near their elbows. Official Marine tattoo policy says that getting tattoos within an inch below the elbow, and two inches above, is strictly prohibited. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: National Post

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The stereotypical tattoo of a single anchor actually has a specific meaning. From: It means the wearer either crossed the Atlantic, or was in the merchant marine (a civilian fleet that, in wartime, carries military supplies and troops). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: Military.com

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Nearly a quarter of all people in the US with a tattoo regret getting it. That's the result of a Harris Poll survey of 2,225 adults in 2015, and it's a big rise in a short time - in 2012, the same figure was only 14%. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: The Harris Poll

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If you have a tattoo, an MRI can cause a skin reactions at the tattoo site. Apparently, ferromagnetic metallic compounds in the tattoo create an electrical current, which leads to a skin burn (that's actually harmless). NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source: NIH

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