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SurprisingWoman
March 24th, 2019, 12:55 PM
Or maybe not but this is an interesting thought piece.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hair-wwii-babnik-norden-bombsight?

embee
March 24th, 2019, 03:47 PM
That's a cool article. :) People did some really strange sounding things for the war effort. Spider silk was one odd thing mentioned in your article, and there were people growing spiders for that purpose.

lapushka
March 24th, 2019, 04:01 PM
That is awesome to read about, with documentation (the letters) and everything. :)

blackgothicdoll
March 24th, 2019, 04:21 PM
That's going to drive me crazy - I want to know what they really used her hair for! That's a super cool story, nonetheless. Thanks for sharing!

Gem
March 25th, 2019, 02:26 AM
There was a sci-fi story about this - I believe her name was even Mary. I didn't know it was based on a true story and assumed it was the author registering his complaint about changing fashions (the other character in the story had very short blue hair with shapes shaved into it). I thought the author was Robert Silverberg, but I'm having trouble finding it.