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The Year of Living Biblically - ... don't wear clothes of mixed fibers, don't shave your beard ...

I told you about "Improv Everywhere" and I might have told you about Mark Malkoff living at Ikea. But did you already hear of A. J. Jacobs, the Esquire editor who took Biblical Living literally?

Here is a glimpse of what happened to his look:
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A.J. Jacobs: For my book The Year of Living Biblically, I spent 12 months following the rules of the Old Testament. All of them. Hundreds of them. I followed the famous ones, such as the Ten Commandments and ‘Love thy neighbor.’ But I also followed the often-ignored ones, such as don’t wear clothes of mixed fibers, don’t shave your beard and, yes, stone adulterers.


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