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The Beard Paper

$1.25

Monday, June 29, 2015

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Attacking Self Image

Fun Facts on Beards

Some Fun Facts

Long Beards

Long Stories in the Making

There are about 30,000 whiskers encompassing your face.

55% of men from the around world can be seen sporting a beard or facial hair.

Beards were once taxed, it’s true. Peter the Great encouraged being clean shaven and for those who did not comply, he taxed them 100 rubles a year for a medallion. This medallion served as a license to wear a beard. Although the principal at hand was not about merely money. His inscription on the beard license read, “The beard is a useless burden.”

Back in 1997 the longest beard was officially measured from chin to tip and it came in at an astonishing 1.83 m (6 ft) To put this in perspective, the average male adult in the United States is 5 ft 10 in.

But the true title for the world’s longest beard, although no longer alive, belongs to Hans Langseth. His Norwegian beard was stretched to 5.33 m (17 ft 6 in) in 1927

On average, a man’s beard will grow 5.5 inches per year.

In the past 25 years, there have been 5 scientific studies involving the attractiveness of beards. Reed & Blunk, 1990. Muscarella & Cunningham, 1996. Neave & Shields, 2008. Dixson & Brooks, 2013.

More Facts about Beards

Beard Aggressiveness

with scholarly backup

and psychology

Beards increase three things: Your age, social status and how aggressive you look.

Beards are a disadvantage in battle and war as they can be grabbed easily, however they could also be seen as a declaration of victory by the combatant whom it belongs to.

The University of Southern Queensland found that facial hair can block up to 95% of the sun’s harmful UV rays.

Want to stop acne in its tracks and have blemish-free skin? It’s simple, “stop shaving” says Dr. Shannon C. Trotter of the Ohio State Wexner Medical Center. The truth is, shaving can spread bacteria around your face, cause hair follicle infection and irritate the skin with razor rash.

If you study beards professionally you are a “Pogonologist”. The study itself goes by “Pogonology”.

Beards make you 63% more likely to win a starting contest.

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