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One human hair can support 3 ounces.
One human hair can support 3 ounces. is a Interesting Fact in the Interesting Facts category.
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Hair is strong. A single strand could hold 100g (3oz) in weight: the combined hair of a whole head could support 12 tonnes, or the weight of two elephants. Weight for weight, it is not as strong as steel: more like aluminium, or reinforced glass fibres or Kevlar, which is used to make bulletproof vests.
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Fact Comments
351 days ago
dodo
not true...i have done this test in science and it totally depends on how the persons hair
284 days ago
Anonymous
Yea I was gonna say that too. No way this can be stated as a fact. Seems like a lot of these "Facts" are just made up.