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A Vietnamese man hasn’t had a hair cut in 31 years. He’s hoping to get into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest hair in the world. How does hair look when you put off getting a haircut for that long? His twenty-foot-long hair is matted in a thick rope that does not look attractive, perhaps because the last time he washed it was 6 years ago.

Tran Van Hay, who is now 67 years old, started growing out his hair when at age 36. A government official says, “He can’t work anymore as a farmer because of the volume of hair so he’s just collecting herbs for traditional medicine as charity work.” Tran is trying to beat the record of Hoo Sateow in Thailand, whose hair in 1997 was over 16 feet long.
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A study by German scientists shows that people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202. Soon only the bottle blondes will remain, because too few people now carry the recessive gene for blonde hair. In order for a child to have blonde hair, it must receive the right gene from both sides of the family in the grandparents’ generation. They predict the last truly natural blonde will be born in Finland, which has the highest proportion of blondes.

Increased travel and immigration is bringing darker-haired people into countries where blondes once predominated. When the gene pools mix, darker hair wins out and there are fewer natural blondes born.
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