why doesn’t it hurt to lie on a bed of nails?

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why doesn’t it hurt to lie on a bed of nails?

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Take your body weight, and divide by total number of nails to get the lbs of force applied to each nail. For a 200 lb person on a bed of 800 nails, each nail only has like 4 oz of weight pressing on it.

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