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Cave men - It is believed that about 30 thousand years ago, the first men to start trimming their beards did so with extremely sharp stones.

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Evolution - Beards are the result of a natural selection process based on sexual attraction. Charles Darwin believed they worked as an indicator of sexual maturity.

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Greeks - In ancient Greece, having a beard was a sign of strength, courage, and wisdom.

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Battles - Alexander the Great is known to have forbid members of his army to grow a beard because he believed it became a weakness during one-on-one fights.

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Beard-lovers - The act of cultivating and growing facial hair is called pogonotrophy.

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Beard-haters - A fear or intense dislike of beards is called pogonophobia.

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Taxes - Peter the Great of Russia would charge 100 rubles a year to those who wouldn't keep their face shaved.

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Disrespectful - In the Middle Ages, it was seen as incredibly disrespectful to touch another person's beard and it could even cause a duel.

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Catholic - In the same era, a beard was seen as a symbol of virility and honor among the nobles. The Catholic priests would keep their face shaved as a sign of celibacy.

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Bad luck - In 1567, Austrian Hans Steininger, leader of the city of Braunau, sported a beard that was allegedly 1.4 m long. He stepped on it, fell, and broke his neck.

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The longest beard - The longest beard ever measured was in Norway in 1927. It was around 5 m long!

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Summer - Facial hair grows quicker during the summer months.

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Trim - You've probably heard that your beard will grow quicker if you trim it regularly, but that's not true. Your beard may grow thicker, but never faster.

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Transplants - Due to the increasing popularity of beards, the price of facial hair transplants has increased 500% in the past few years.

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Lincoln's beard - Abraham Lincoln started growing his beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter saying he looked better with it.

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Brand image - Although most depictions of Lincoln feature the famous beard, he only sported facial hair in the last five years of his life.

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Natural filter - If you suffer from an allergy to pollen or dust, you should grow a beard. Many specialists believe it works as a natural filter.

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Kings - Have you noticed that in a deck of cards, the only king that doesn't have a mustache is the King of Hearts?

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Facial hair - It is estimated that, on average, a man's face has around 30 thousand hairs.

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Ginger beard - Men who aren't redheads can grow red beards. That happens because they have only one copy of the MC1R gene. If they had two, they'd have red hair too.

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Super Mario - Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the game's creators, told Conan O’Brien that Super Mario's mustache was created so that the character's nose was more visible in the old 8-bit games.

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Hulk Hogan - When he retired in 2012, the iconic wrestler said he was going to shave off his mustache. However, the American Mustache Institute (yes, this is a real thing) claimed that would be an offence to the whole American mustache community.

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Philosophers - The ancient philosophers kept their beards long as a symbol of their profession.

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Tournament - Every year, the World Beard and Moustache Association organizes an international championship for all the facial hair lovers.

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Dying beard - The ancient Egyptians dyed their beards with gold to show their social status.

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How about you? - Will you let your beard grow or is it too much work?

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