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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Humans do have stripes but we ourselves can’t see them.

Look up Blaschko lines

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Unless you have the right skin condition I don't think they're visible in any wavelength

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

isn't that only true for XX chromosome people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I say this without doing any googling (big risk) but I'm pretty sure everyone has them - they're the lines along which your skin originally formed in the womb. Or where your skin currently grows and migrates from. Or both. Maybe I should have googled lol