OUGD102 - Collection 100

facts about facial hair.

1.       A toothbrush made out of beard hair will remove 99.5% of all plaque and prevent the gum disease gingivitis.

2.       The band ZZ Top had three members, two of which had long beards and looked like Alf. The other guy, who was beardless, was named Frank Beard. He died in a warehouse explosion. That warehouse made fake beards.

3.       The longest beard ever was grown by a guy from Norway who had an interesting name. His first name was the only name people in Norway ever get: Hans. His last name? Beard. That's right. Hans Beard holds the record for longest beard ever grown. You're stupid for believing that. His real last name was Langseth, which translates to English as 'Long Seth', but not from Norwegian, from Dutch. Also, Seth probably means something in some language. Something beard related. Oh yeah, his beard was like a mile long and could be seen from space with a high powered telescope.

4.       Women can grow beards too, although most of the women I've met stick to mustaches.

5.       Pogonophobia is the fear of beards. The fear of women with beards is Whoopie Goldberg ophobia. I have clearly stopped trying. The fear of bears is meningitophobia, the fear of bars depends on what you mean by bar, plus you're pretty screwed up anyway. I'm most afraid of bears. I sometimes have dreams that they chase me.

6.       In Massachusetts you have to pay tax to have a beard. It's only 75 cents a day, like those kids in Africa.

7.       Once you die, your body will continue to grow a beard for about one fifth of a century. Unless you already have a beard, because then it figures, what do I need another beard for? Or if you die by getting most of your face blown off.

8.       Usually fake beards are made in a factory and then stored in a warehouse. That's what Frank Beard thought anyway.

9.       On the popular TV show Full House, Mary Kate Olsen had a full beard, while her sister, Ashley didn't. Since they both took turns playing the same character, Michelle, Mary Kate was only allowed to act in scenes that didn't feature Michelle's face, or scenes where Michelle was a pirate bounty hunter.

10.   When Frank Beard was a kid, the other children used to chase him around yelling "Beardo, Beardo" and throw spears at him because that's what happened to Jesus. One day Frank decided he would never grow a beard ever again. Except he had never grown a beard ever before either. But he did have a beard right then at the infinitesimally narrow instant of time between ever again and ever before. It was.

11.   Beard which is part of the hair on the face and neck contain 7000 and 15,000 hairs.

12.   On average every strand of hair will grow to 140 millimeters each year.

13.   3. A man is expected to spend more than 3,000 hours to shave his beard and remove more than 8 meters from the base of the beard hair each year.

14.   Of all the hair on the face, the beard is the hair of the fastest growing. If someone does not have shaved his beard, the length can be more than 10 meters.

15.   In many ancient cultures a shaved face was a sign of dishonor.

16.   In Homer, the beard was seen as sacred.

17.   Alexander the great was the first man to make clean shaving popular.

18.   Cave drawing from as early as 10,000 BC depict both men with clean-shaven faces and those with short beards.

19.   Ancient Egyptian barbers regularly shaved their clients with razors and pumice stones, as a beard was considered an indication of personal neglect.

20.   The straight cut-throat blade was introduced in the Middle Ages.

21.   Alexander the Great observed that beards could be easily grabbed by the enemy during battle and insisted his troops fight with clean-shaven faces.

22.   Peter the Great of Russia imposed a tax on beards, which was collected at every town gate.

23.   The average man spends about 13,350 hours of his life shaving.

24.   The first safety razor was patented in 1901 and more than 25 million blades are sold in the UK every year.

25.   The world's oldest existing barber's is Truefitt and Hill in St James'Street, London, which opened in 1805.

26.   Just 1 per cent of men enjoy their daily shave, with 99 per cent regarding it as an annoying chore.

27.   Wet shaving is still the most popular method of shaving in the UK.