MUSTACHE FACTS

 In 1967, The Beatles gave away cardboard mustaches with their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

 Scientific research, commissioned by the Guinness Brewing Company, found that the average mustachioed Guinness drinker traps a pint and a half of the creamy nectar every year. Now that Guinness is UK 2.10 a pint, this is the equivalent of an annual moustache tax of UK 4.58.

 There are between 10,000 and 20,000 hairs on a man's face.

 In the Glorius Mustache Challenge - whose efforts aim to revive the mustache trend - out of 44 total contestants/challengers (ages 18-30) that committed to grow and have just a mustache for one month, 24 passed the challenge, 12 failed, and 8 redeemed themselves by growing a stache the following month. Only 11 of these men would proudly grow a mustache again. Go Glorius!!

 The only 4 U.S. Presidents known for baring mustaches are: Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, and William H. Taft. Since Taft in 1909, all U.S. Presidents have been clean shaven.

 The mustache has a wonderfully powerful effect upon a man's whole expression. The idea of virility, spirit, and manliness that it conveys is so great that it was a long time the special privilege of officers of the army to wear it. -Mrs. C. E. Humphry (Etiquette for Every Day, 1904)

 Groucho Marx for many years wore a fake moustache of greasepaint on stage and film, then grew a real one later in life.

 By 1914 and the advent of WWI, the military mustache was well-established. Generally, the shape of the stache suggested rank: As a man advanced in rank, so did his mustache become thicker and bushier, until he ultimately was permitted to wear an ever fuller beard.

 In the U.S. today, there are some ten million millennial men thought to be wearing mustaches.

 The owner of the Oakland A's baseball team paid each of his players $300 to grow a stache in 1971. Not surprisingly, when the A's met the clean cut Reds in the 1972 World Series, it was dubbed the "Hair versus Square" Series by the media.

 According to the Guinness Book of World Records, in July 1993, Kalyan Ramji Sain of Sundargarth, India, had a mustache that measured 133.4 inches long.

 In a deck of cards the King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache.

 A U.S. Marine's mustache cannot be longer than half an inch.

 Fireman are not allowed to have facial hair because it prevents breathing equipment from fitting properly.

 It perplexes. It fascinates. It amuses and it repulses. Glorious is the mustache!