Not actually weird, but amazing...

[babylonsister]

and found on FB, so it must be true. (?)

[my2sense]

1. Must Print

Thanks

[yesphan]

2. 950 km =

590 miles. That would be about 8 miles of hair a year (75 years). Being a barber would be hard work. I think they perhaps meant meters and not kilometers. That's still over 3000 ' of hair or 41 feet/year (75 years). Somethings doesn't add up.

[Richard D]

3. And . . .

. . . a one in 10 chance of getting electrocuted? Doesn't that mean that 1 out of 10 people die that way? Sort of puts everything else there to question.

[A Simple Game]

10. The definition means injured or killed.

I have been zapped quite a few times. Some with not much more than a nine volt battery.

[wysimdnwyg]

4. That's not the only poor assumption

10 years of school... Is that a world-wide average? It's certainly not the average in the US or most industrialized countries.
17 friends while in school? How do they define friends? For even very close friends that number seems a bit low. And only 2 friends at 40. Holy crap I'm lucky. I'd consider a lot more than 2 of my many friends to be close friends. And I keep in regular contact (at least once/week) with a lot more than that.

[Scuba]

9. For even very casual friends, 17 seems high. Two at 40 might be high too. n/t

[tk2kewl]

5. It's probably correct.

Its not just the hair on your head they are talking about. All your little hair follicles are growing hair shedding it and re growing all of the time.

[Scuba]

8. Eight miles of hair divided by 75 years, divided by 1,000 hairs is about 7" a year. Sounds close.

[tclambert]

11. Not just one hair. All your hairs laid out end to end.

Not just hairs from your head, either. Ear hair and nose hair, too.

[csziggy]

12. Maybe it's not the overall length but the length of all the hair you will grow in your lifetime

Strung end to end. Even if your head hair grows (I seem to remember reading somewhere) a half inch a month, how many hairs do you have on your head AND body?

OK, here is what I found:

On the average there are over one hundred thousand strands of hair on a young adult. Blondes average about 140,000 strands, brunettes average 108,000 and redheads average 90,000. Hair grows at a rate of about 150mm a year and each individual hair lasts for two to six years before it falls out, the follicle has a rest for a while, while another takes its place. Hair grows quickest in young adult women aged between sixteen and twenty-four (who are often then at the height of their possible reproductive capacity)

So 100,000 hairs times 150mm a year = 15km a year times 70 years = 1050 km, a little less than their estimate. Which makes sense, because those figures were for a young adult woman and babies and old people grow less hair.

[Corruption Winz]

6. Considering I have no reason to doubt that this is a decent enough average..

I will say that it's incredible reading all of this. The sleep one is the one that bothers me most. Which is probably why I hate sleeping for long periods of time.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. 3 years sitting in the toilet.....

Unless you have any kind of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.....

then it's more like 10 years.


(sorry....sometimes, things trigger memories of some very dark years)

[marions ghost]

13. You will walk the equivalent of 3 times the circumference of the earth

that one is the MOST amazing one to me...

Does this apply to Americans?

[Marnie]

14. I don't know about any of the rest of you but I will spend

exactly zero years.....seconds sitting IN my toilet.

No will I sit in my dog's water bowl, for many of the same reasons.

[babylonsister]

15. I think, in our western world, this could mean bathroom. I've

spent plenty of time there for a variety of reasons.

[saras]

16. One of these nights, if someone leaves the seat up, you never know...

[RebelOne]

17. 7 months waiting in traffic?

Living and driving in the Atlanta area since 1989, I think I have spent 7 years waiting in traffic.