Hair grows at a rate of about .44mm per day*

There are around five million hairs in total on an adult human body. The hair on the scalp accounts for approximately 100,000 of these.**

Recently, young schoolgirls in Togolese, Africa had their heads shaved because teachers thought they spent too much time playing with their hair.***

*Treatment of Androgenetic Alopecia with a Marine-Based Extract of Proteins and Polysaccharides

**The Science of Hair

***Head Shaving Tips

The picture is an altered public domain drawing from Gray’s Anatomy ( the book, not the tv show), I was bored so I colored it.