15 Amazing Facts About Hair

Hair is something that covers almost every part of our skin. Our hair might as well be one of the top things we spend time on (personal grooming). Here are 15 really cool and amazing facts about our hair.

1. The average scalp has more than 100,000 hairs. Red heads have at least 90,000 hairs.

2. The average man shaves over 20,000 times in a lifetime.

3. The maximum length hair can grow to is 70-90 cm.

4. A single strand of hair can support upto a load of 100 grams. So theoretically, the average head can support the weight of ten average family sized cars (weighing a 1000kg each).

5. A normal person can lose upto 100 hairs a day, from the scalp.

6. You have so much hair, that you must lose at least about half your hair, to make hair loss noticeable to anyone.

7. Your hair can reveal a lot about you: what you eat, if you do drugs, what you do to your hair, your ethnicity (different races have different hair structure) and so on. So, anyone with a strand of hair from your scalp can, in theory, make a profile of your lifestyle.

8. There is one (and perhaps the only) thing your hair cannot reveal about you: your gender.

9. Hair grows only about 0.5 millimeters a day. So, to reach a maximum length of 90 cm, it would take a single strand of hair about 1800 days.

10. Hair is the second fastest growing tissue in the body (after the bone marrow).

11. African and European people are more likely to become bald than Asians.

12. Hairs are essentially dead cells.

13. Hair grows faster in warmer conditions. So, if you want to quickly grow your hair, head someplace warm.

14. Frequent washing does not cause hair loss.

15. The average life of a single strand of hair is 3-7 years.

BONUS FACT: 16. Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails: keratin.