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Explanation: Lincoln's famous facial hair was actually suggested by a letter from an 11-year old girl, who proposed that he would look more dignified with whiskers, and thus more likely to win election. Lincoln wrote her back warmly, but musing that he might seem odd if he suddenly started growing out his facial hair after years of being clean-shaven.
Apparently, he eventually took the advice to heart!
The beard fell at the exact rate I was scrolling. My exhausted brain thought you had some some BBC code wizardry for a second
Who says I didn't? 🤔
BBC code?
Big Beautiful Code
Scourge of phone keyboards.
Simplified HTML but with square brackets (so the backend recognizes it) used in forums in olden times.
Edit: right BBCode, not BBC code.
He looks kinda like Bill Nye without the beard.
He used to be a doctor who??
Was he a pastor?
Slave owners HATE this one weird trick!