Interesting facts about Fingers

Interesting facts about Fingers: 

• Fingernails grow about one-tenth of an inch a month. Toenails grow at a quarter of that speed.

• Divination by looking at a person’s fingernails is called ‘onychomancy’.

• The index fingers on the Statue of Liberty are 8ft long.

• The medical term for such an abnormality(six fingers) is ‘polydactylism’.

• Research has shown that top sprinters have long ring fingers. 

• A study in the City of London has also shown that male traders with the longest ring fingers earned up to six times as much as their colleagues.

• The Oxford Dictionary lists seven names for the second finger: it is the demonstrator, forefinger, insignitur, lickpot, index, teacher or weft finger...

• While the middle finger is your middling, your midsfinger or your nameless finger...

• The ring finger may also be called the leech finger, physician finger or wedding finger.

• The little finger is the ear finger, mercurial finger or pinkie.