When you get goosebumps and your hair stands, the hair helps to trap air, making you feel warmer by keeping in your body heat.
46
In 1911, pigtails were banned in China because they were seen as a link with its feudal past.
128
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
7
Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
131
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
130
The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
117
Blonde hair is not exclusive to Europeans. Melanesians of the south Pacific evolved a different gene for blonde hair.
7
Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
-137