Last year, The Straight Dope dug up an 1872 New York Times item reporting that French adventurers trying for the North Pole claimed to have found so many well-preserved mammoth specimens in Russia that for a time they "lived entirely on mammoth meat, broiled, roasted and baked."

We're a bit skeptical of that tall tale, but there is a new human use for this long-extinct beast: straight razors with a handle fashioned from mammoth tusk. The limited-edition razor -- made with the 10,000-year-old incisors -- comes from the FSC Barbershop and will set you back $2,200 for the narrow size. You can get it engraved with scrimshaw-style lettering for $25 per letter and, best of all, every tusk has an embedded lens which displays a very small image of vintage erotica.

Pick up the badger-tail shaving brush from the Art Of Shaving ($250) and get that woolly mammoth off your face.