growing a beard<\/a> already), there are facts about beards you need to know.<\/p>\nBelow are 15 facts about beards every man should know<\/p>\n
1. Beards were once taxed. Peter the Great encouraged beardlessness in men and for those who didn\u2019t comply, he taxed them 100 rubles a year for a medallion.<\/p>\n
2. If you were to stop shaving forever, your beard will be approximately 7.5 feet long.<\/p>\n
3. High-ranking ancient Egyptians dyed their beards and plaited them with gold thread. They also sported false metal beards as a symbol of sovereignty.<\/p>\n
4. Beards make you 63% more likely to win any staring contest.<\/p>\n
5. Pogonophobia is an abnormal or persistent fear of beards.<\/p>\n
6. Otto the Great always swore by his beard when saying anything serious.<\/p>\n
7. Facial hair grows faster when a man hasn\u2019t had s*x in a while.<\/p>\n
8. Beards grow 5.5 inches per year. In fact, the number of whiskers on the face of an average man is 30,000.<\/p>\n
9. The average man spends 3,350 hours shaving in his lifetime.<\/p>\n
10. Women find a man with a full beard more attractive than a clean-shaven man according to studies.<\/p>\n
11. Beards never grow faster as you shave. It\u2019s a myth.<\/p>\n
12. Beards were dangerous in hand-to-hand combat. Alexander the Great made all his soldiers shave before the battle of Ardela.<\/p>\n
13. Before Sir Thomas More was beheaded in 1535, he moved his lengthy beard aside, saying \u201cit had never committed any treason.\u201d<\/p>\n
14. Ancient philosophers always retained their beards as a badge of their profession.<\/p>\n
15. The longest beard in the world on a living male is 1.83 metres long when measured from the end of the chin to the tip and the proud owner is Shamsher Singh of Punjab, India.<\/p>\n
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