Some Obscurish facts
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Some hairy facts: There are between 100,000 and 150,000 hairs on the average person's head, and nearly 400,000 on your complete body. Babies have about 1,100 hair per square inch (6.5 cm2 ), but by age 50, this drops to around 250 per square inch. Each hair follicle will grow an average of 20 new hairs in a lifetime, at an average rate of a centimetre (there are 2.54 cm per inch) per month - so if you lived to be 100 years old and had just one hair that never fell out, it would be 12 meters (about 40 feet) long. Although humans may appear naked by the standards of other primates, we have more hair follicles per square inch than most other mammals.
Some hairy facts: There are between 100,000 and 150,000 hairs on the average person's head, and nearly 400,000 on your complete body. Babies have about 1,100 hair per square inch (6.5 cm2 ), but by age 50, this drops to around 250 per square inch. Each hair follicle will grow an average of 20 new hairs in a lifetime, at an average rate of a centimetre (there are 2.54 cm per inch) per month - so if you lived to be 100 years old and had just one hair that never fell out, it would be 12 meters (about 40 feet) long. Although humans may appear naked by the standards of other primates, we have more hair follicles per square inch than most other mammals.