mustache, n.Trivia

Mustaches filter in the air breathed in through the nose.

When Salvador Dali was exhumed 28 years after his death, his famous “10 past 10” mustache was perfectly intact

Mustaches have around 600 hairs

Mustaches are generally touched around 760 times a day.

Mustache cups were a Victorian England cup, fitted with guards to prevent a man’s mustache from getting wet

Mustaches can hold as much as 30ml of liquid.

Amish men shave their mustaches as a protest against violence. When mustaches became prevalent in the German military, the Amish began shaving their mustaches as a physical representation of their opposition.

Salvador Dali once conned Yoko Ono out of $10,000 by sending her a piece of dried grass instead of a hair from his moustache

Mustaches are good protection against skin cancer,

Adolf Hitler wore his mustache in that fashion after shaving it to fit his gas mask in World War I

Babies grow mustaches in the womb that then spread to cover their entire body in hair called Lanugo

Nietzsche’s famed mustache allegedly “scared” women at the time.

The King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.