13 Well Drawn Pieces Of Trivia About Tattoos

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13 Well Drawn Pieces Of Trivia About Tattoos

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:

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

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

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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