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A month focused on men’s health and mustaches, what’s not to love? It’s Movember! Movember started in 2003 in Australia when a couple of mates sat in a pub moaning over the loss of the mustache as a “Fashion Do.” At the time, mustaches (or Mo’s in Aussie speak”) were a “Fashion Don’t” with...
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