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Amou Haji lives in southern Iran. He’s 80 years old, already 7 years past the life expectancy in his country. And yet, for 60 of those years, he has skipped one of the most basic, important parts of what most of us would consider a healthy lifestyle — Amou Haji hasn’t taken a single bath…
As if forgoing cleanliness for 60 years weren’t enough, Amou Haji has a few other peculiarities…
• His favorite food is rotten porcupine.
• Instead of tobacco, he smokes a pipe filled with animal droppings.
• His 5 liters of water a day come from a rusty oil tin.
• To keep his hair and beard trimmed, he burns it over a fire.
• As for his dwelling, he alternates between an open brick shack and a hole in the ground.
And yet, the man says he is happy, and these photos don’t indicate otherwise…
