There are billions of people in the world, and most of their lives are so different from ours that it’s hard to picture. This is one of those stories. It’s about a man whose life was very different.
Read on to find out more.
Most people, no matter what country they are from, like to take a shower or bath.
Some people have different ideas about how many times a week a person should shower, but the idea that they should do it regularly stays the same.
But Amou Haji thought otherwise. He chose to go 67 years without taking a shower. And the late Persian man said that he had good reasons for doing it.
He lived alone in Iran and hadn’t taken a bath in more than 60 years. His favorite food was roadkill, and animal dung was said to have been sucked from a pipe.
He was from the Iranian town of Dez Gah and was thought to have been born in 1928. People called him “Amou Haji,” which means “old man,” because no one knew what his real name was.
A story about him says that he became a hermit because he lost his love.
Before dying at the age of 94 in 2022, Amou Haji was known as the 'World's Dirtiest Man.' He lived in a cinder block shack and had not bathed with water or soap for over 60 years.
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His house was said to be made of cinder blocks and was on the edge of the town. No one seemed to mind that he was there.
He burned off his head and beard hair with fire when he thought they were getting too long. That was the only “hygiene” he cared about. His hair and face were both the same shade of gray.
Even though he didn’t always keep himself clean, he lived to be 94 years old and seemed pretty healthy throughout his life.
A lot of people thought the old man was afraid of water, but he wasn’t when it came to drinking it. People said he drank up to 5 liters of water every day from a dirty tin can.