• Question: If you lived for 100 years, how long would your hair be, if you never cut it of course?

    Asked by anon-177608 to Urslaan, Nicola on 22 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Urslaan Chohan

      Urslaan Chohan answered on 22 Jun 2018:


      The hair grows about 15cm per year, on average. So over 100 years, it’d grow 1500 cm, or 1.5 km! Of course, the hair doesn’t continue to grow endlessly – it falls out and new hair grows in its place. So in reality, you’d probably have 1-2 metres long hair by the end. That’s if you’re not bald, of course. This is completely determined by genetics too – the record is 5.6 metres!

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