Several months ago his son, Evan, 26, remarked that he thought the eyebrow hairs must be close to a world record. He looked it up in the Guinness Book of World Records, and the record set in 2004 is just a hair over 3 inches. “I went and measured my longest right away, and it was longer” than the current record, Leonard says. “It’s hard to measure yourself, plus looking in the mirror makes things backwards, but I felt I was a world record.”

Someday I hope to be unkempt enough to unwittingly set a record.