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The sensitivity of touch is distributed very unevenly across your body. Your fingertips and lips have thousands of touch receptors packed closely together and can detect textures as small as 13 nanometers wide. Your back is much less sensitive — you could feel two separate touch points on your fingertips even if they were only 2mm apart, but they'd need to be 5cm apart on your back.
🧠 Human BodySource: BBC