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1. Blonds have more
hair.
2. 80 head hairs are
likely to fall every day.
3. A hair grows by
0.3 to 0.5 mm per day, 1 to 1.5 cm per month and 12 to 15 cm per year.
4. Human hair is made
up of a body protein called keratin and it grows out of an opening of the skin
called Follicle.
5. Human hair is
virtually indestructible.
6. In a lifetime, a
human being will grow around six feet of nose hair.
7. A single hair has
the ability to support up to 100 grams of weight and the whole head of hair has
the ability to support up to 12 tons of weight.
8. Beards are the
fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average man never trimmed his
beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his lifetime.
9. Women's hair is
about half the diameter of men's hair.
10. Straight hair lies
flat because it is round and grows out of round follicles.
11. Redheads have the
least dense hair, averaging about 86,000 follicles.
12. In 2008 scientists
discovered a new species of bacteria that lives in hairspray.
13. One human hair can
support 3.5 ounces.
14. There are as many
hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee.
15. Curly hair comes
out of an oval follicle.
16. On an average a
persons head has 100,000 to 150,000 hairs.
17. On an average it
takes about 13 days for a grey hair to grow.
18. On an average the
human scalp has about 100,000 hairs.
19. On an average, in
an adult scalp 35m of hair fiber is produced every day.
20. Every day the
average person loses 60-100 strands of hair.
21. Facial hair grows
faster than any other hair on the body.
22. Frequent washing of
hair does not cause hair loss.
23. Hair is the fastest
growing tissue in the body, the next being bone marrow.
24. Healthy human hair
emits sound.
25. Male hairs are
denser and grow faster than females.
26. The average human
head has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing 20
individual hairs during a person's lifetime. Blonds average 146,000 follicles.
People with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles, while those with
brown hair are right on
27. The average person
has about 100 000 scalp hairs.
28. The color of our
hair is also determined by the melanin, a pigment present in the human body.
29. The eyelashes shed
by a human in their entire life is oabout 30 Metres of length.
30. The lifespan of a
human hair is 3 to 7 years on average.
31. The maximum length
of hair can be 70 to 90 cms.
32. The pigment of
human hair is produced in the shaft of hair beneath the skin.
33. There is no
scientific evidence that shaving or waxing will make your hair come back
thicker.
34. You must lose over
50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.
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