Most men shave their faces. Matt Siltala put together some interesting pieces of information about the practice:

• The word ‘barbarian’ comes from ‘unbarbered’ – men with beards who did not shave. (Centives commenter jamapa writes that this is incorrect.)
• Alexander the Great required his troops to be clean-shaven so that the enemy couldn’t grab onto their beards.
• In the United States men on average shave 4.6 times a week.
• They take about three and a half minutes to shave. This adds up to 38 days of shaving over a lifetime.
• Across the world 15% of men shave in the shower. The rest shave at the sink.

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Source: Visua.ly