Oh my g*d she's bald.

Well good old Britney blew a gasket, as if she wasn't running one cylinder short of a V4 (have to be ecological). She cut off all her hair and got a tattoo. I don't know whether she is just bonkers or if she is sly as a fox. All that free publicity, maybe it will give some much needed CPR to her career, let's face it, it has been just about dead for the last three years. What is really strange is that this piece of fluff news, has been breaking news for days. In some places it even made it to the evening news and there are tons of videos on You-tube. Personally...yawn who cares?
Now mind you, I have nothing against bald women, after all Sinéad O'Connor has made a bald head her trade mark, but then again she has talent. Britney on the other hand is not even close to being in the same class, nor does she have the same class.

All of this just to introduce the trivia of the day... Hair, or lack there of.

• Average number of hairs on the head: 100,000
• Red hair: 90,000
• Brunet: 100,000
  
• Black hair: 110,000
• Blond hair: 140,000
• The longest documented hair length is Xie Quiping with 5.627 meters (Guiness Book Of World Records)
• Annual growth: 12 cm
• Female hair grows more slowly than male hair (too bad ladies)
• Normally takes about 7 years to grow hair down to the waist
  
• Male hair is more dense than female hair (ditto)
• Lifespan of hair: 2 to 7 years
• Diameter of hair: 0.1 mm
• Load-carrying capacity: 100 grams (= one chocolate bar)
• Humidity stretches the hair (also causes frizzz)
  
• Combing is less detrimental than brushing
• Hair grows faster in warm weather
• Elderly people have slower hair growth and diminished hair density (it's called naturally going bald)
  
• Hair is the fastest growing tissue in the body, second only to bone marrow.
• 35 meters of hair fibre is produced every day on the average adult scalp.
• 90% of scalp hairs are growing and 10% are resting.
• It is normal to lose 100 hairs per day from the scalp.
• You must lose over 50% of your scalp hairs before it is apparent to anyone.
• Thyroid imbalance and iron deficiency are reversible causes for hair loss.
• Over 50% of men by age 50 have male pattern hair loss.
• Forty percent of women by the time they reach menopause will have female pattern (hereditary) hair loss.
• The technical term for balding is alopecia (There's a word for you Jazz. Britney is suffering from self-inflicted alopecia)