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A single strand of human hair can support about 100 grams.

✓ TRUE FACT
Human hair has impressive tensile strength: a single strand can often hold ~50–100 g depending on thickness and condition. Scaled up, a full head of hair could theoretically support hundreds of kilograms—if it didn’t snap one-by-one first.

🤯 "A single strand of human hair can support about 100 grams. Weak individually, impressive when unionized."

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