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Your fastest nerves outrun a high-speed train.

Thickly myelinated fibres conduct at up to 120 metres per second, about 430 kilometres per hour. Unmyelinated C fibres manage only 0.5 to 2 metres per second. That's why you feel the stubbed toe instantly and the dull, burning pain only a second later.

Useful: The double pain after a knock isn't imagination – it's two different cables.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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