20 Facts About Hair
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Here are some interesting facts about human hair.
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Careful what you eat. Your hair hold traces of what you ingest.
This includes minerals and drugs.
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Ethnicity can be determined by examining hair follicles.
Asian hair is round, African hair flat, and European hair oval in shape.
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A single strand of hair can support up to 100 grams in weight.
This is due to it containing keratin, the same thing animal's hooves are made up. It can also be stretched up to 30% of its original length when wet.
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Hair grows faster than any other tissue in the body.
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Except for bone marrow that is!
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Hair is dead.
The only part of hair that is living is the part that is attached to your scalp.
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The average person has 100,000 hairs on their head.
Blondes have 146,000, black-haired 110,000, brown-haired 100,000, and red-haired 86,000.
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Hair helps to keep you warm.
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Your hair will regrow 20 times in its lifetime.
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Even if your hair looks straight, it is actually curly.
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The average human loses 100 hairs per day.
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Hair cannot grow on the soles of the feet, the palms of the hands, or the lips.
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The human body has five million hair follicles.
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The average eyelash lives for 150 days.
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Hair is made of the following elements: carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and sulphur.
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Crash dieting can cause hair loss.
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Red is the rarest hair color.
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The average human sheds 40 to 150 hairs per day.
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Hair has been used to clean up oil spills.
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Hair contains trace elements of gold.
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A single hair lives for at least five years.
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Hair grows faster in warmer weather.
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Hair is mostly keratin.
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