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Anna Gora

YOU WONT BELIEVE: What causes bruising | Mind Blowing Facts

Close up of a child's bruised knee as they sit cross-legged on a running track next to another child in athletic clothes.

Bumping your hip into the corner of a table or hitting your head on a low ceiling can leave you with a bruise, but the cause of bruising is sometimes less obvious — in fact, some people are more prone to bruising than others, and in rare cases, their bruises seem to appear for no reason at all.  

So what, exactly, causes a bruise?

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