Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 05, 2018

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 7 years ago

    So how many miles of hair is it per year? The next question concerning it is how old would you be to have 949½ kilometers of hair?

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    charliefarmrhere  almost 7 years ago

    Yea, picking your nose like that might make it warm.

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    wmwiii Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    I’m skeptical of the hair thing. Figuring an average lifespan of 70 years, you would have to grow almost 8 1/2 miles of hair per year. I don’t think anyone is capable of that.

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    bluegirl285  almost 7 years ago

    And the nose has been known to turn slightly red. It’s called the Pinocchio effect.

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 7 years ago

    “Give me a head with hair. Long, beautiful hair—” Hair, also The Cowsills.

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    C0MM0N-tater  almost 7 years ago

    I was told that it was the “nether-regions” that got warmer when you lie! [LIER! LIER! …]

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    Dkram  almost 7 years ago

    Imagine being a Nazirite (see wikipedia,) a person who never cuts his hair.

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    hoot1  almost 7 years ago

    Re 8 1/2 miles of hair per year…maybe that’s each hair added together. Ask.com says:The average person’s head has up to 150,000 hair follicles (the entire adult body has 5 million). That would be about 2.8 miles for head hair if it grew a foot a year.

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    Some Guy online  almost 7 years ago

    I wonder if the hair thing includes body hair (facial, underarm, leg, pubic, chest, back, nose, ear, etc)

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    cdnalor  almost 7 years ago

    We’ve had to tell quite a few whoppers lately with the weather we’ve been having. Now if only it worked for the hands and feet.

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    JohnDifloure  almost 7 years ago

    Someone screwed up. The average person grows 6 inches of hair per year.

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    drycurt  almost 7 years ago

    Had a boss who, in nearly every conversation with our customer, would rub her nose at least once. She attributed it to allergies, but I knew better and warned her that the customer was catching on. She couldn’t seem to stop it. So afterward she glanced at me every time she rubbed her nose, as if to acknowledge, “yes, I know.”

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    J Short  almost 7 years ago

    That was amazing; nothing political in reference to the red nose. I am so proud of everyone.

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    linsonl  almost 7 years ago

    When I was in high school, (MANY years ago) there was a girl who had never in her life cut her hair. She had a pony tail that was almost to her knees.

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    linsonl  almost 7 years ago

    When I was in high school, (MANY years ago) there was a girl who had never in her life cut her hair. She had a pony tail that was almost to her knees.

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    LV1951  almost 7 years ago

    Not a big deal on that multiplication.

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    GaryCooper  almost 7 years ago

    When you multiply 212 by 1, it also reverses the order of the digits.

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    sml7291 Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Well I guess that means I’m definitely not an average person…

    I’ve been losing hair since I was in my late teens and there ain’t much there these days. I stopped cutting what little is left a couple of years ago, and probably could have stopped sooner, as it hasn’t grown out even an inch in all that time.

    On the plus side I saved a bundle while I was serving in the military… I got my hair cut every month or two instead of every week or two like normal folk.

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 7 years ago

    So healthy dogs are honest.

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    jennifer  almost 7 years ago

    I don’t believe it. There has to be a dimension unit error. It is more likely to be 590 inches which is 49 feet … giving about 8.5 inches per year for a 70-year lifespan.

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    jennifer  almost 7 years ago

    Other sources give 4+ to 7 inches per year as an actual growth rate measurement.

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