Amaze your family and friends with some of these fun facts about feet:
- Each foot is made up of 26 bones, more than 150 ligaments, an intricate network of muscles, nerves and blood supply
- It takes at least 5-6 months to grow an entirely new toenail
- Fingernails and toenails grow faster during hot weather, pregnancy and teenage years
- Feet contain approximately 250,000 sweat glands that excrete about half a pint of water per day
- During the first year of a child’s life, their feet grow rapidly, reaching almost half their adult size
- By 12 years old, a child’s foot is about 90% of its adult length
- Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci called the feet “A masterpiece of engineering and a work of art”
- Shoe size in Britain is measured in Barleycorns, a unit of measure that stretches back to Anglo-Saxon times
- The ancient Romans were the first to the constuct distinct left and right shoes. Before then, shoes could be worn on either foot
- Neil Armstrong stepped on to the moon with his left foot
- The average person will take 10,000 steps per day
- Therefore, in a typical lifetime, you will walk more than 4 times around the planet (115,000 miles)
- The afternoon is the optimum time to shop for shoes, as feet tend to be more swollen then
- 75% of all British people will suffer from a foot problem in their lifetime
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