Amazing Facts about hair

Amazing Facts about hair

• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
• 35 meters of hair fibre is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
• The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
• It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.
• Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.
• In a lifetime,on an average man will shave 20000 times.On an average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.
• On an average, a hair strand’s life span is five and a half years.
• The count of hair follicles is almost the same in chimpanzees and humans.
• The longest human beard on records is 18.6 feet,held by Hans Langseth.

• The average person’s head has 100,000 to 150,000 hairs.
• A single hair can support up to 100 grams in weight and a whole head of hair could support up to 12 tonnes – the equivalent of two African elephants!
• On average, a person will have 100,000 to 150,000 hairs on his or her head.
• The average life of one hair is between four and seven years.
•  Each time a hair falls out, a new one grows in its place (this can happen up to 20 times in a lifetime).
• It is unknown why people develop dandruff.
•  Hair grows with about 1 cm every month.
• The average life span of hair is about five years.