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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?

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