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The King of Hearts lost his mustache to a copying error

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Facial hair has always been a casualty of poor craftsmanship. Originally, the King of Hearts sported a glorious mustache just like his royal peers, but a sloppy artisan copying the deck in the late medieval period simply forgot to carve it into the woodblock. The error became the permanent aesthetic.

The King of Hearts lost his mustache to a copying error
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