Erin Malsbury Smithsonian anthropologists hold up the world’s longest beard after it was donated to the National Museum of Natural History in 1967. (Smithsonian) People get attached to their beards.

7. Darwin, by the way, had what’s known as a “natural” beard. He would borrow his wife’s dressmaking scissors to snip his moustache, which apparently caused it to go up at one side.