1. “If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow.” (Arabian proverb).
2. The King James Bible contains 14 references to nostrils and only 13 to noses.
3. According to a study in 2011 by Israeli chemical engineering professor Abraham Tamir, there are 14 shapes for a human nose.
4. Women’s noses grow until the age of 15 to 17; for men, it is 17 to 19.
5. Our noses can detect more than 10,000 scents.
6. The technical term for picking one’s nose is rhinotillexomania. According to a 1995 study in the US, 91 per cent of people pick their noses.
7. Rhinotrichotillomania, on the other hand, is the word for compulsively pulling out nose hairs.
8. According to Guinness World Records, the longest nose on a living person is that of Mehmet Özyürek (Turkey) which measures 8.8cm (3.46in) from the bridge to the tip.
9. “Rhinoceros” means nose-horn. Macbeth is the only Shakespeare play to mention a rhinoceros.
10. Shostakovich wrote an opera called The Nose based on a story of the same name by Gogol about a man whose nose takes on its own identity.
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