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Meg Murphy
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Student injured in jump from burning apartment after lighting fallen hair on fire
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Meg Murphy
Nov 14, 2015
It’s estimated that people lose an average of 50 to 100 strands of hair a day. Most of those will probably go unnoticed, but if throwing those fallen hairs away in the garbage seems too boring a task, you could find some other use for them.
What we don’t recommend doing, though, is lighting your fallen hair on fire like this Japanese university student, for some reason, decided to do…
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