Name an interesting fact about the Human Body

[K J]

Adults have about 120,000 hairs on their head; redheads have fewer, blondes have more, brunettes have the most.

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The human body dies eventually 

Good thing I'm not human 

[K J]

Sixty percent of women who dye their hair do so at home. Of them twenty six percent choose to go blonde, twenty seven percent go basic brunette, and thirty percent choose to become redheads. The sale of at home red dye kits has gone up seventeen percent since the year two thousand hit.   

Professor Jonathan Rees conducted a study of redheads at Edinburgh University.He identified the"gene for red hair" the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R), found on the 16th chromosome. He found that this single gene was responsible for red hair.

Red hair is a genetic mutation.

[Riot]

Red hair is a genetic mutation.

 KEEEEEWLWLLLWLLWLLll!  No really, that's kewl.

[K J]

KEEEEEWLWLLLWLLWLLll!  No really, that's kewl.

It is :D

In the late 16th century, the fat of a redheaded man was an essential ingredient for poison.

Belief that redheads are witches is a folk belief in Germanic culture. From 1483-1784 thousands of suspected witches were nearly always stripped and searched for “marks of the devil”. These included any “abnormality” such as freckles, moles, warts, and birthmarks. Red hair was certainly considered an abnormality. Considering the freckle factor for redheads this was a deadly and shocking horror. Somewhere around 45,000 women were tortured and murdered usually by burning at the stake or by drowning.

The Egyptians regarded the color as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned red-headed maidens alive to wipe out the tint-  Claudie De Lys.

British Press recently reported that that the MC1R (redhead gene) will be used in DNA testing to rule out, or in, if suspected killers in crime scenes are redheads. This will narrow a search if the gene is found to a small percentage of perpetrators. The hope is that next skin color and physical features will be detectable.

[sir dooble]

Red hair is a genetic mutation.

Adding on to that, apparantly the gene for Red Hair will eventually go extinct even if every red haired person were to only mate with other red haired people.
I wouldn't delve too deep into that, but it's a tidbit of information that came up in a conversation once. I couldn't vowch for it's reliability.

The human body contains several non-essential organs that actually have no use to you anymore, yet are easily capable of becoming infected or causing pain that can even lead to death, such as the appendix and the tonsils. (Although, I'm not sure if you can die from tonsilitis.)

The nails on your thumb grow the slowest out of all of the nails on your body.
Nails are also made of the same materials as your hair, which is also the same material that the horns belonging to animals are made from.

Bones inside of the human body are actually pink. The skeleton is generally shown as white though, as it's normally bleached once removed, or over time it changes to a pale/white colour.

[TeslaCoil]

Albino humans have red eyes.

[sir dooble]

Albino humans have red eyes.

Tom Gunn needs to post a picture for us. :)

[kanew2000]

The hair and nails that come out of your body is already dead.

[Riot]

The hair and nails that come out of your body is already dead.

 And it still grows once you die. Its the undead.

[K J]

Adding on to that, apparantly the gene for Red Hair will eventually go extinct even if every red haired person were to only mate with other red haired people.

Actually, since the Gene for red hair is recessive that is not true. Red hair often goes through generations, without any offspring having red hair. For example someone could have several generations without red hair in their family. And have both parents with brunette hair. And still have red hair.

[darerd]

The light let in to a normal human eyes mostly varies on color. Brown tends to give a person natural sunglasses, but blue eyes let a bit more sun in. Green eyes tend to be more neutral.

I have blue eyes... I'm still not in the habit of keeping my sunglasses with me... On really sunny days, since it's summer, there's the light in the sun, the road, my cheeks... I am blinded.

[K J]

My eyes are weird. They change colors. Sometimes depending on mood. Like when I'm depressed they get sorta grey. Otherwise they are Green or blue with yellowish brown around the irises.