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| What is it about hair? |
Some pretty neat facts on hair that you can wow
your family with (or more likely just nerd your friends out with)...
Enjoy!
1.
Hair is made up mostly of keratin, the same protein animals’
horns, hooves, claws, feathers, and beaks are made of.
2.
When wet, a healthy strand of hair can stretch an additional 30% of its
original length.
3.
Black is the most common hair colour. Red is the rarest and only exists in
about 1 percent of the world’s population, with blonde hair found in 2 percent.
4.
All hair is dead, with the exception of the hair that’s still inside the
epidermis of your scalp.
5.
Hair contains information about everything that has ever been in your
bloodstream, including drugs, and is one of the most commonly used types of
forensic evidence.
6.
The only thing about you that can’t be identified by your hair is your
gender—men’s hair and women’s hair are identical in structure.
7.
Hair grows faster in warm weather, because heat stimulates circulation and
encourages hair growth.
8.
As soon as a hair is plucked from its follicle, a new one begins to grow.
9.
Hair is 50 percent carbon, 21 percent oxygen, 17 percent nitrogen, 6 percent
hydrogen, and 5 percent sulphur.
10.
Hair can grow anywhere on the human body with the exception of the palms of
hands, soles of feet, eyelids, lips, and mucous membranes.
Guy
P.S Info above provided by Rachel Krause
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