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9 Feb 2010

The San Blas Indian women of Panama consider giant noses a mark of great beauty. They paint black lines down the centre of their noses to make them appear longer.

Older women, those past menopause, retain 25 to 30 percent more skin repair capacity for their age if they are receiving estrogen-replacement therapy.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The United States was officially made a metric country by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall. In his position as Superintendent of Weights and Measures, he issued the "Mendenhall order" in 1893 which set the United States' standards of length and mass as the meter and the kilogram.

Hair grows in three cycles. The first is the growth cycle followed by the resting cycle and then finally the fall-out cycle. A full, thick, healthy head of hair is due to a rate of hair growth that is equal to or greater than the resting and fall-out cycles.