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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5 Why do toenails grow so much slower then fingernails?
gpt
Your toenails are subjected to a lot less trauma than your fingernails. Your fingernails have to compensate for this trauma by growing quicker, about 3 times as fast. 

If they didn't, we'd tear our fingers to shreds. Figuratively speaking. Nails protect the soft tissue around them and help with dexterity by providing counter pressure.