All about hair!

Do you love learning amazing things about the human body? If so, you should know that human hair is fascinating! Here are some facts to make you more hair-aware:

• You have between 100,000 and 150,000 hairs on your head.
• You lose between 50 and 100 hairs a day.
• A single hair can support up to three ounces. This means that a full head of hair can support more than 22,000 pounds!
• Hair is like a little sponge, which is why it’s used to absorb pollutants in the ocean.
• Hair lives an average of 5 years before falling out.
• Your hair grows about five inches in a year.
• Hair is 95 percent keratin, the same substance that makes up your fingernails, animal horns and bird feathers!

Interesting, isn’t it?