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Salvador Dalí's Remains Exhumed, Revealing A Perfectly Arranged Mustache

When the late Spanish painter was exhumed for a paternity suit, experts discovered his distinctive mustache kept its shape. "Checking it was a very exciting moment," says the head of his estate.
Salvador Dali in 1971. / AFP / Getty Images

The remains of Salvador Dalí were exhumed Thursday night, pulled from their resting place by Spanish officials hoping to confirm whether the surrealist painter fathered a child in an affair. The closed procedure extracted some samples of hair, nails and two long bones from the artist's embalmed body, the DNA of which might

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