1 Every minute 30,000 - 40,000 dead skin cells fall off or are sloughed off your body. 2  In one month, your body will have a whole new layer of skin. 3  An all new you every month! 4  An adult will have more than 20 square feet of skin.
From its official headwaters at Henderson Lake in New York, the Hudson flows 274 nm (507 km) southward to New York City. While the overall length of the Hudson River is of interest, more important is the lower Hudson River that stretches 134 nm (248 km) from The Troy Lock & Dam south to The Battery in New York City.
The Hudson River valley runs more or less north to south down the eastern edge of New York State, cutting through a series of rock types including Triassic sandstones and redbeds in the south and much more ancient Precambrian gneiss in the north (and east).ain article: Pollution of the Hudson River. The most discussed pollution of the Hudson River is General Electric 's contamination of the river with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) between 1947-77. This pollution caused a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river or drink the water.