11 Facts About Human Hair And Nails That Everyone Should Know.
11 SECRET FACTS ABOUT HAIR & NAILS
- Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body.
- Every day the average person loses 60-100 strands of hair. Unless youâre already bald, chances are good that youâre shedding pretty heavily on a daily basis. Your hair loss will vary in accordance with the season, pregnancy, illness, diet and age.
- Womenâs hair is about half the diameter of menâs hair. While it might sound strange, it shouldnât come as too much of a surprise that menâs 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.
- One human hair can support 3.5 ounces. Thatâs about the weight of two full size candy bars, and with hundreds of thousands of hairs on the human head, makes the tale of Rapunzel much more plausible.
- 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.
- There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. Humans are not quite the naked apes that weâre made out to be. We have lots of hair, but on most of us itâs not obvious as a majority of the hairs are too fine or light to be seen.
- Blondes have more hair. Theyâre 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 personâs 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.
- Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails. If you notice that youâre trimming your fingernails much more frequently than your toenails youâre 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.
- 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 providing they arenât 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.
- You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone. You lose hundreds of hairs a day but youâll 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.
- Human hair is virtually indestructible. Aside from itâs flammability, human hair decays at such a slow rate that it is practically non-disintegrative. If youâve ever wondered how your how clogs up your pipesso quick 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.
If youâve ever had a covering of stubble on your face as youâre clocking out at 5 oâclock youâre 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.
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