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Hair is composed alpha keratin. Many of the amino residues in keratin are cysteine, which makes disulfide bonds between polypeptide chains. The disulfide bonds gives rigidity and structure to the hair. Fingernails, feathers, hooves and even tortoise shells are composed of the same protein, they just contain many more disulfide bonds. It is the sulfur which gives burnt hair a very bad smell.

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The "burnt match" smell is from sulfur. More than likely, if your feces smells like sulfur, then you probably ate sulfur-rich foods such as eggs.

A methane smell would come from foods that attract a lot of bacteria in the intestines, often items that don't digest that well in the body. That might include eggs too, as well as beans, and a number of other things.

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huh?...maybe because people have bad teeth, don't brush, or because they smoke

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