10. People Needed Their Friends to Help Them Shave
Back in medieval times, mirrors were very small, cloudy, and not very reliable. They were also only available to the upper class. On top of that, razors, as we know them today, didn’t exist, either. If you wanted to shave, you needed to use a dangerously long razor blade. This is why a lot of people would have their shave at a local barber-surgeon. As we mentioned earlier, monks had shaved heads and no bears. So they took turns shaving one another as a community.
