Do You Know These 27 Fun Facts About Hair?

• With all the hair on your head, you might as well get to know some fun facts about it.

Some of these fun facts about hair are surprising. Like did you know that black is the most common hair color?

1. A strand of hair is stronger than a copper wire of equivalent diameter.
2. The common thought that hair continues to grow after death is a myth.
3. Hair contains information about everything that has been in your bloodstream like medicine, vitamins and drugs.
4. Human hair is used by groups of eco-friendly volunteers to clean up oil spills.
5. Hair is completely dead except for the part of the hair in the scalp.
6. On average, Blondes have the highest amount of hair strands with 146,000.
7. Hair cross-sections can be used to determine race and ethnicity. Asian hair is round-shaped, European hair is oval-shaped and African-American hair isredlat-shaped.
8. The first hair products specially formulated for African-American hair were created by Madam CJ Walker, the first African-American woman to become a millionaire.
9. The most common hair color in the world is black and red is the lowest, with only 1% of people having red hair.
10. When it comes to hair color and personality, blondes are known as fun and flirty, brown hair is associated with smart and serious and redheads are seen as strong. Do you agree with this as fun facts about hair?
11. In 1950, only 5% of women dyed their hair. These days, it’s more like 75%.
12. A hair follicle will regrow a new strand of hair about 20 times with your life.
13. Each strand of hair can contain traces of up to 14 different elements (including gold).
14. Healthy hair can be stretched up to 30% of it’s length when wet. If it doesn’t go back when dry, you’re not eating enough protein. However, if it snaps, it’s either too proteinized or doesn’t have enough moisture. You can test this with the West  Stretch Test. Did you know about this test as one of the fun facts about hair?
15. Average humans shed anywhere from 50-150 hair strands a day.
16. The only thing that cannot be identified by hair is gender.
17. Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, just behind bone marrow!
18. Hair absorbs oil out of water, like a natural sponge.
19. All of the hair follicles you’ll ever have were formed when you were a fetus,  about 5 months along.
20. Redheads have the lowest amount of hair stands at about 86,000, on average.
21. The anticipation of having sex makes hair grow faster. Haha, this is the best of the fun facts about hair.
22. Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads living in a country  with 13%, but the United States has the largest quantity of redheads living in a country.
23. On average, people have about 100,000 strands of hair on their head.
24. Black hair is the most common hair color.
25. A single, healthy strand of hair can hold up to about 6.5 pounds.

What do you think about these fun facts about hair? Let me know what you think about these and your favorites in the comments!