During the early Renaissance, a large forehead was deemed very beautiful. Women plucked their eyebrows and pushed back their hairline in order to achieve the look. They sometimes burned the follicles with hot pins to keep them from regrowing in order to achieve an almost baby-like bald forehead.
Azalea, a chimpanzee at the Pyongyang Central Zoo in North Korea, gained international notoriety for her habit of smoking roughly a pack of cigarettes every day.