10 Weird Facts About Facial Hair

— January 3, 2015 Comments Off 1081

2. A Complicated Affair

So you think that growing a beard or mustache is as simple as just growing a beard or mustache? Then you should know that there’s a very impressive-sounding name for the act of growing facial hair. It’s called pogonotrophy.

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