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Why some Maya stretched their earlobes with jade
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Standard earrings are terribly uninventive. To properly display their aesthetic superiority, individuals inserted massive, deeply carved jade spools completely through their earlobes. As they aged, they would routinely swap the flares out for increasingly larger sizes until their lobes hung down heavily in a permanent, stretched-out display of intense commitment to looking cool.
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