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Interesting Facts - Page 30
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Coney Island, in New York City, is no longer an island. The water separating it from the mainland was filled in, making it a peninsula.
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The Roman emperor Commodus renamed the city of Rome to "Colonia Commodiana". He also renamed all the months of the year in his own honor. Unsurprisingly, the name changes didn't stick.
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During the French Revolution, the government of France instituted a new calendar and time system. All the months were renamed, a week had 10 days, a day had 10 hours, an hour had 100 minutes, and each minute had 100 seconds. The changes didn't stick.
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Trepanning is the practice of drilling a hole in the skull for medical purposes. While ineffective, it was practiced in many different societies throughout history.
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Tigers in the Sundarbans region of India and Bangladesh have been known to hunt and kill humans. Until recently, it is estimated that these tigers got 3% of their calories from eating humans.
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That French word is from a Latin word commodus
, which is simply com- and -modus. So unfortunately, Commodus doesn't even get his own word. Or maybe fortunately.Still 365 days a year, and midnight every day after 9:99.
Very rational, but also unpractical. On the other hand, there were different ways (non-sexagesimal) to count time around the world, before the European colonised most of the world and standardised the clock.