Bizarre Facts About Your Hairs, Know Them

If you think you know everything about your hairs. Think again!! There is a lot of freaky stuff going up there that you rarely know.

Facts that will blow your minds.

• Keratin belongs to fibrous structural protein family and is extremely soluble in water & soluble solvents. Our hairs are made up of keratin. The same protein animals’ horns, hooves, claws, feathers, and beaks are made of.
• When your hairs are wet, a healthy strand of hair can extend itself up to 30% of its original length.
• Hair grows slightly faster in summer weather, because warm season enhances the circulation and encourages hair growth.
• Hair contains information and data about everything that has ever been in your bloodstream, including drugs, and is one of the most commonly used types of forensic evidence.
• Black is the most common hair color. Red is the rarest and only exists in about 1 percent of the world’s population, with blonde hair found is 2 percent.
• Hair constituents of 50 percent carbon, 21 percent oxygen, 17 percent nitrogen, 6 percent hydrogen, and 5 percent sulphur.
• Goosebumps from cold or fear is the result of hair follicles contracting that causes the hair and surrounding skin to bunch up.
• The scientific term for split ends is “trichoptilosis.”
• Balding is only visible once you’ve lost over 50 percent of the hairs from your scalp.
• Hair is the fastest growing tissue after bone marrow.
• The life span of a single hair is 5 years.Hair acts as a thermal insulation protector for our head same as fat provides to our body.
• Hair grows everywhere in our body except palms of hands, soles of feet, eyelids, lips, and mucous membranes.