4th July 2011 The Singular And The Curious

• Men already started using leather belts since the neolithic age to secure the skin they wore, and women of ancient Egypt to hold up their tunics. In the Roman Empire the belt was converted to symbols of power and dignity. So much so that striping a military man of his belt signified that he was expelled from the army. Same as in China, where they even designated the colour yellow (gold) for the exclusive use by the royal families. In periods of war, belts were indispensable to hoister arms, and later after the 2nd World War, they somehow became fashion accessory to accentuate the waist.
• The reputation of the Japanese being slave drivers are quite true in that, the workers there have the least number of days of paid vacations: 7.3 days of rest per year.
• The most common metal in our planet is aluminum. Curiously, despite it's abundance, it was not discovered until 1825.
• Do you know why we find the sound of waves of water calming and tranquillizing? Apparently it's because it has a frequence very similar to respiration of a sleeping human. An image clearly pleasant according to the 'Sound Business'
• A programme of information developed by the University of Cambridge, England, has determined that the 11th of April of 1954 was the most boring day since time immemorial: nothing whatsoever news worthy had happened.

 

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