Some Historical Facts You Definitely Don't Know ( ii )

I wrote an article concerning some historical facts that we might not be familiar with and I cited two examples which are

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1. Roman Parties ( Which Are Absolutely Awesome) Had Wine Djs

This is one of my favorites fact about the ancient Rome and not too many people know this... let me explain this, so in ancient Rome they mixed wine and water ( they never drink alcohol itself) and there's always one person at the parties that is called “ARBITER BIBENDI" which means judge of drinking in Latin.

Over the course of the party this arbiter bibendi will always adjust the wine to water ratio depending on how the party was going and when the party is getting boring, he add some wine and if it looks like more people are getting highly intoxicated, he will increase the water ratio to wine..... basically the job of arbiter bibendi was to make sure that everyone got just the right amount of drunk.

2. Facts About Chickens

“why did the chicken cross the road?"....has to be one of the oldest jokes that we still use, it was first printed in 1847.... like we've been passing down this awful joke for over 170 years. chickens are the closest living relative to T. Rex and that really makes a lot of sense because merely looking at their face they look a lot like a dinosaur.

Cockfighting, even though it's illegal in most countries, it's the oldest continuous sport and some scientist theorize that chickens were actually bred for cockfighting way before they were bred for food like over 10,000 years ago.

3. Gladiatrix Actually Exist

They are referred to as the female gladiators of ancient Rome, I was once a victim of this; I do regard all gladiator as being slaves or criminal based on the games I played... there's a good evidence that there were aristocratic women in ancient Rome who decided to become gladiatrices and this was because these women rejected the Norms of the Roman society and risk their life and limb for fame and fortune.

This wasn't exceedingly common but enough women were getting much involved in becoming a gladiatrix and this made Emperor Tiberius to pass a law banning any freeborn woman from becoming a gladiatrix and that was what lead to total decrease in seeing a woman becoming a gladiator.

4. Planes Were Much Faster Before

This is an example that sometimes technology moves backward, in 1970s you could actually travel to places in 3hrs which will take recent planes 6 hours to complete the journey. so what really happened?, when everything around us is moving faster, how are airplanes getting slower?...... this was actually because the Concorde jet which was faster than the speed of sound, but in 2003 the Concorde was permanently grounded.

well I think they became grounded simply because airlines wanted to make much more money because they realize that the people that flew on Concorde, they would be forced to fly on the slower planes which had way higher profit margins for the first class tickets. thoughz there were other issues as well, the plane was very loud when it broke the sound barrier and there was a big crash in 2000 that spooked a lot of passengers

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