An Historian's Curiosity Cabinet At the Corner of History and Contemporary Life (www.georgewashingtonshair.com)
In 1851, P.A. Browne of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philly, experimenting on their preserved hair locks, found that James Madison's snapped at 503 grains weight, but George Washington's hair sustained up to 1070 grains of pull.
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