13 FUN FACTS ABOUT YOUR HAIR

Hello beautiful people!!
Do you really know your hair?,  I doubt so, OK do you know there are trace element of gold in your hair, haha I bet you didn't know this. Well just relax and read through.

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FUN FACTS ABOUT YOUR HAIR.
1. Hair is made out of a protein called KERATIN, keratin is also found in our nails and animals claws, feather and hooves.


2. Hair is the second fastest growing tissue in the human body while bone marrow is the first.

3. All hair we physically see is dead, the only hair that is not dead is the hair found in the follicles.
So what you take into your body affects your hair growth.

4. A wet strand of healthy  hair can stretch up to 29-30% of its normal lengths.  Water stretches hair to be longer than it naturally look.

5. From only a tiny strand of hair, information of what your bloodstream contains such as what you ate, drank, drugs etc can be collected. The only information that the hair cannot give is the gender of its owner this is because the male and female hair are closely alike.

6. A new hair begins to grow as soon as it is plucked out of its follicles.
You see don't be scared when your hair is plucked out, it grows right back as soon as possible.

7. Fear causes goosebumps. And these goosebumps  happen when the muscle for each hair strands contracts.

8.If a man never shaves his beard,  it would grow to be over 30 feet long in his life time.

9. Human hair contains up to 14 trace  elements, if not more and guess what, Gold is part of the trace elements.  The gold trace element is found more in baby's hair than older people because of the breast milk.Source

10. Split ends is scientifically called trichoptilosis.

11. The average person has up to 100,000-150,000 strands of hair and sheds 50-150 strands a day.

12. Natural  Red hair color is the rarest hair color while black hair color is the most common.

13. An average person grows up to 1/2 inch of hair every month.

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