| Ever wonder what a monk's hairstyle is called? How | | | | 8. For every human, hair is the fastest growing tissue |
| about the name for the fear of hair? This article | | | | on the body. |
| contains plenty of fun facts about human hair -- | | | | 9. On the television show Arrested Development, Ed |
| some of which might surprise you! | | | | Begley Jr. portrayed a character suffering from |
| 1. Ever notice how pre-20th Century military leaders | | | | alopecia universalis - a complete lack of any human |
| like Andrew Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant had long, | | | | hair. Another such character is Judge Holden in the |
| flowing locks and full beards? That's because the | | | | Cormac McCarthy novel Blood Meridian. |
| trend favoring short hair on uniformed men didn't | | | | 10. The world's longest documented human hair can |
| begin until the World War I, when trench warfare | | | | be found atop the head of Xie Quiping of Guangxi |
| created a breeding ground for lice. Since then, military | | | | Province in China. Her hair is just under eighteen and a |
| men have cropped their hair close to their scalps. | | | | half feet long. |
| 2. The myth that human hair and fingernails continue | | | | 11. Human hair isn't the only kind of hair subject to |
| to grow after we die is just that - a myth. | | | | baldness. Primates such as the chimpanzee and the |
| Decomposition only makes it appear that way. | | | | stump-tailed macaque sometimes develop pattern |
| 3. Human hair likes company: Your head has | | | | baldness after adolescence. |
| anywhere from 90,000 to 150,000 hairs on it. | | | | 12. If you have chaetophobia, you may want to take |
| 4. Human hair can't stand too much dandruff | | | | a trip to the barber. Chaetophobia is the fear of hair. |
| shampoo. Because of this, you should use such | | | | 13. In the Sherlock Holmes story The Red-Headed |
| products only when you need them. Otherwise you | | | | League, Arthur Conan Doyle describes a bank |
| risk damaging your hair and scalp, and even creating | | | | robber's plot to distract a red-headed pawnshop clerk |
| more dandruff. | | | | by offering him a high-paying job based solely on the |
| 5. If your hair feels oily, it's because of an excess of | | | | color of his hair. The purpose? To keep him out of |
| sebum, a fatty oil that's produced at the base of | | | | the pawnshop while the robber tunnels through its |
| each human hair follicle. | | | | cellar to a bank vault next door. |
| 6. Liberty spikes - the long, stiff, often multicolored | | | | 14. The main component of human hair is keratin, |
| spikes of hair popular within the punk subculture - | | | | which is also found in gazelle horns, reptile scales, |
| can't be achieved with conventional hair products. | | | | tortoise shells, and - very probably - the defensive |
| Many enthusiasts use egg whites or even Elmer's | | | | armor of dinosaurs like Stegosaurus and |
| glue to get the desired stiffness. | | | | Ankylosaurus. |
| 7. Just today, your scalp will shed about a hundred | | | | 15. The name for the shaved-scalp hairstyle popular |
| hairs. | | | | with monks is a tonsure. |