Interesting Foot and Hand Facts

The average person walks approm. 130,000 kilometres in their lifetime. That's 3 times around the world.

It's rare that both feet are exactly the same size, one if often larger than the other.

In a pair of feet there are 250,000 sweat glands that produce approx. 500ml of sweat each day.

When walking, each time your heel lifts off the ground, it forces the toes to carry one half of your body weight.

Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

By the time you are 12 years old, your feet are 90% their adult size.

58% of women paint their toenails.

One type of humming bird is the size of an average nail.

A quarter of all the bones of the human body are found in the feet.  There are 52 bones in a pair of feet.

Your nails on either hand grow at different rates depending on whether you're right or left handed.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.