Urja Bheda
Its not simple to grow a beard, there’s much more to know about it.
You need to know these Beard facts for sure!
1) Facial hair grows more in summer .
2) Scientists believe that prehistoric men had beards for – warmth, protection and intimidation against blows to face.
3) Beards grow 5.5 inches per year. In fact the average number of whiskers on a man’s face is 30,000.
4) A man spends 3350 hours shaving in his lifetime.
5) Beards help you to filter the pollutants and toxins.
6) Studies have shown that women find a man with a full beard more attractive than a clean shaven look.
7) Facial hair grows faster when a man hasn’t had sex for a while.
8) Beards never grow faster as you shave. Its a myth !
9) Otto the Great always swore by his Beard when saying anything serious.
10) An abnormal fear of beards is called POGONOPHOBIA.
11) Abraham Lincoln grew a beard in the late 1860 when a little girl from New York gave him advice.
12) Shamsher Singh of Punjab, India had his beard officially measured in 1997 at an astonishing 1.83 metres. It is the longest a male has ever had.
13) Beards make you 63% more likely to win a staring contest.
14) Before Sir Thomas More was beheaded he moved his lengthy beard aside saying ” it had not committed any treason”
15) Beards were dangerous in hand to hand combat. Alexander the Great made all the shoulders shave the beards before the battle of Ardela.
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16) High ranking ancient Egyptians dyed their beards and had them plaited with gold thread. Just to show sovereignty.
17) Ancient philosophers retained their beards as a sign of their profession.
18) Beards were once taxed. Peter the great encouraged beardlessness in men. Those who did not obey were charged 100 rubles for a medallion.
19) Around 55% of world men sport some or the other form of facial hair.
20) If you stopped shaving forever you would have a beard approximately 7.5 feet long. !
I hope you were amazed by these facts ! Keep reading more blogs to keep yourself updated.!
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