Hans Steininger was an Austrian man who was well known for having a very long beard. His beard was 4.5 feet long and he often had to wrap it in a leather pouch to stop it from getting in the way of well, everything. Unfortunately, on the one day that he was without his leather pouch, it proved fatal. In 1567, a fire broke out in his town and in his attempt to escape, he fell and tripped over his beard which broke his neck.
