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Inside the search for the world’s longest hair

Each year, hundreds of girls and women flock to Kaunas, a medieval city on the Nemunas river in Lithuania, to participate in the world’s longest hair competition. In a spectacle that has been running since 1992, contestants – some as young as two years old – have their hair measured by red-gloved judges before walking down a runway and shaking their tresses in a ceremonial finale. Long…