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the slow-motion flex you can grow while doing absolutely nothing.
means The hair that grows on a man's chin, jaw, and cheeks — and, by extension, anything that screens or covers something else.
from From Old English 'beard,' a word with deep Germanic roots (compare Dutch 'baard' and German 'Bart'), and likely a distant cousin of Latin 'barba,' source of 'barber.' All trace back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning roughly 'beard' — humans have apparently been naming their face-hair since before they had writing to name it with. The slang sense of a 'beard' as a cover or decoy is far younger, blooming in 20th-century American usage.
- daily growth
- about 0.4 millimeters every single day
- lifetime length
- unshaved, could reach 30 feet
- viking trick
- warriors set beards alight to terrify foes
- bacteria load
- some host more microbes than toilets
- world record
- longest measured over 17 feet long
abraham lincoln's beard — 16th us president grew it in 1860, changing his appearance before taking office
gnome world record beard — hans steininger's beard was 4.5 feet long, caused his death in 1567 when he tripped on it
fidel castro's beard — cuban leader's iconic beard grew during the sierra maestra campaign starting in 1956