‘World’s dirtiest man’ dies at the age of 94

Amou Haji, popularly known as the world’s dirtiest man, died at the age of 94, a few months after his first wash. The Iranian national did not take a shower for more than half a century as he believed staying dirty kept him alive for so long.

Haji lived in an open brick hut and had faced some “emotional setbacks in his youth” that made him live in isolation. He died on Sunday in the village of Dejgah. According to the Tehran Times, Haji would eat porcupine meat, smoke cigarettes and pipes filled with animal excrement, and believe cleanliness would make him ill. He smoked multiple cigarettes at once, all of which were gifted by villagers.