TIL hair smells bad when burned because keratin needs large amounts of the sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine for polymer crosslinking, which give it it's rigid properties en.wikipedia.org Submitted by Fantastic-Berry-737 t3_11xn6tn on March 21, 2023 at 5:06 PM in todayilearned 19 comments 399
Enthusiastic-shitter t1_jd5uflp wrote on March 22, 2023 at 1:14 AM I have hairy hands and a high powered gas stove. I burn the hair off my hands on a weekly basis just making eggs Permalink 1 [deleted] t1_jd61ruc wrote on March 22, 2023 at 2:09 AM [deleted] Permalink Parent 1
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