As you consider No-Shave November to help a great cause, we’d like to interrupt this great fun event with some fun, yet odd facial hair facts. Bet you didn’t know these facts!
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- Peter the Great taxed beards to encourage clean hair-free faces. That’s over-taxation!
- Pogonotomy is the fancy word for shaving. Pogonotrophy is the word for growing a beard. Wonder what the word for stubble is?
- The Ancient Egyptians wore fake metallic beards as a way of honoring special occasions. The women wore them too. Could this be the beginning of No Shave November?
- Abraham Lincoln grew a beard at the advice of an 11 year old girl who told him his face was thin. Ah, the wisdom of a child!
- The mustache is not without its clever nicknames: Whiskers, Crumb Catcher, Face-Lace, Lip Shadow. What do you call your ‘stache?
- Average human hair grows at a rate of .014 inches per day, which is about 5 or 6 inches every year.
So now that you’ve learned a lot about facial hair and laughed a little, won’t you join us in our No-Shave November campaign? We’d love to read your funny quips and see your bead and mustache pix. Slap a fake beard on your pets; we’d love those photos too!
Join Fry Orthodontic Specialists in our efforts to raise men’s health awareness and raise funds for the American Cancer Society! We have partnered with the No-Shave November campaign. Your participation will help start conversations about men’s health issues, raise funds for cancer research, and save lives.
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