While they’re not a
living part of your body, most people spend a good amount of time caring for
their hair and nails. The next time you’re heading in for a haircut or
manicure, think of these facts.
1. Facial hair grows faster than any other
hair on the body. If you've ever had a covering of stubble on your face as you’re
clocking out at 5 o’clock you’re probably pretty familiar with this. In fact,
if the average man never shaved his beard it would grow to over 30 feet during
his lifetime, longer than a killer whale.
2. Every
day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. Unless you’re already
bald, chances are good that you’re shedding pretty heavily on a daily basis.
Your hair loss will vary in accordance with the season, pregnancy, illness,
diet and age.
3. Women’s
hair is about half the diameter of men’s hair. While it might sound
strange, it shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that men’s hair should be coarser than that of women. Hair diameter also varies on average between races,
making hair plugs on some men look especially obvious.
4. One
human hair can support 3.5 ounces. That’s about the weight of two full size candy bars. And with
hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, think of how much that
weight.
5. The
fastest growing nail is on the middle finger. And the nail on the
middle finger of your dominant hand will grow the fastest of all. Why is not entirely
known, but nail growth is related to the length of the finger, with the longest
fingers growing nails the fastest and shortest the slowest.
6. There
are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. Humans are not quite the
naked apes that we’re made out to be. We have lots of hair, but on most of us
it’s not obvious as a majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.
7. Blondes
have more hair. They’re said to have more fun, and they definitely have
more hair. Hair color determines how dense the hair on your head is. The
average human has 100,000 hair follicles, each of which is capable of producing
20 individual hairs during a person’s lifetime. Blondes average 146,000
follicles while people with black hair tend to have about 110,000 follicles.
Those with brown hair fit the average with 100,000 follicles and redheads have
the least dense hair, with about 86,000 follicles.
8. Fingernails
grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. If you notice that you’re trimming your
fingernails much more frequently than your toenails you’re not just imagining
it. The nails that get the most exposure and are used most frequently grow the
fastest. On average, nails on both the toes and fingers grow about one-tenth of
an inch each month.
9. The
lifespan of a human hair is 3 to 7 years on average. While you quite a few
hairs each day, your hairs actually have a pretty long life provided they aren't subject to any trauma. Your hairs will likely get to see several
different haircuts, styles, and even possibly decades before they fall out on
their own.
10. You
must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone. You lose hundreds of
hairs a day but you’ll have to lose a lot more before you or anyone else will
notice. Half of the hairs on your pretty little head will have to disappear
before your impending baldness will become obvious to all those around you.
11. Human
hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from It’s flammability, human hair decays at such a
slow rate that it is practically non-dis-integrative. If you’ve ever wondered
how you clog up your pipes so quickly, consider this: hair cannot be
destroyed by cold, change of climate, water, or other natural forces and it is
resistant to many kinds of acids and corrosive chemicals.
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