'Its a Miracle': Embalmer Says Salvador Dali's Mustache 'Still Intact' After 28 Years in Grave

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http://gizmodo.com/it-s-a-miracle-embalmer-says-salvador-dalis-mustache-s-1797130068

Decades after his death in 1989, painter Salvador Dalí is continuing to make art, or at the very least, something surreal. Last month, a Spanish judge ordered the artist’s body to be exhumed for a paternity suit filed by a television psychic. The fortune teller, Pilar Abel, claims she is Dalí’s daughter and has been fighting to get the artist’s DNA since at least 2007. Now that Dalí’s corpse has finally been exhumed, his embalmer is happy to report the artist’s signature mustache has remained perfectly coiffed.

“His mustache is still intact, [like clock hands at] 10 past 10, just as he liked it,” Dalí’s undertaker, Narcís Bardalet, told Catalan radio station RAC1, according to a report by The Guardian. “It’s a miracle.”

Bardalet added that the rest of Dalí’s very dead body resembled “a mummy.” Regardless, the surrealist’s still-styled mustache made the embalmer very emotional.

“I was delighted to see his mustache was intact,” he said. “I was quite moved. You could also see his hair.”

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1. Not really. Hair is a very stable protein and he wore it waxed.

You'd think someone who actually deals with dead bodies would have some concept of what preserves and what can't be preserved. We've been preserving stuff in and with wax for tens of thousands of years.

Hair and silk have about a 100 year lifespan if exposed to light and oxygen. Buried hair and silk can last centuries.

Not a miracle, doofus, just your lack of education showing. (ETA: Your meaning the undertaker, not the OP. I do not think the OP is lacking education or a doofus.)