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What is the biggest hair with a root bulb that can be plucked and would be satisfying to those skin picker type folks? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What organism has the largest hair with the waxy bulb around the root?

I wanna say

Hippo

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[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get a job at a turkey processing plant.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I got curious and fell down a rabbit hole. My research reveals that the biggest hairs with a waxy hair sack are actually on porcupines, as porcupine quills are technically hairs, and they secrete a waxy protective substance.

Biggest "normal" hairs are found on warthogs.