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10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HAIR!
- A single hair strand has a thickness of .02 - .04 mm.
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Everybody sheds between 40-150 strands of hair per day.
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Crash dieting can cause temporary hair loss.
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Hair is mostly made of keratin; which our outer layer of skin and fingernails are also made of.
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In animals, horns, hooves, claws, feathers, beaks, quills (porcupines), and baleen (whales) are all also made of keratin.
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On an average adult scalp, 25 meters of hair fiber is produced every day.
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At any random time, 90% of the hair on a head is in a growing phase, while the other 10% is in a resting phase.
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40% of women have female pattern hair loss by the time they go through menopause.
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The average person has roughly between 100,000 and 150,000 strands of hair on their head.
- Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body. The only thing that grows faster is bone marrow.
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