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The Best All-Time Beards

These guys have the most notable chin hairs in history

By Rebecca Smith Hurd, Newser User

Posted Nov 15, 2008 6:49 PM CST

(Newser) – To celebrate the public premiere of Charles Darwin's beard (or at least hair from it his great, great grandson found in a small leather box) at the British Natural History Museum, the London Times lists the best all-time chin hairs:

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