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Mushroom growing out of living skin tissue vs dead hair is absolutely weirder.

• thfuran 3y ago
  Hair isn't dead. It's not cells at all, just extruded protein. But that's largely beside the point.
  • moate 3y ago
    "Dead" in the "nonliving organic material" sense. It seems much easier for mycelium to survive in something incapable of an immune response vs. living tissue. And yes, largely besides the point indeed.
  • samatman 3y ago
    Hair is composed of dead hair cells.
• deafpolygon 3y ago
  'dead hair' is a tad redundant, innit?