INTERESTING INFORMATION BLOCK

INTERESTING INFORMATION BLOG

1.01 Why are male babies' clothes blue?
Centuries ago, people had a common belief that demonic forces were wandering around the rooms of babies or young children, waiting for an opportunity to enter their bodies. It was also believed that these evil forces were expelled by the color blue. Because blue was the color of the sky. Even today, in the Middle East, the doors of some houses are painted blue to ward off the devil. At that time, because baby boys were more important for the continuation of the dynasty, it became a tradition for baby boys and little boys to wear blue clothes, in case the devil got scared and left, and this continued for centuries. Much later, when baby girls became as important as baby boys, ", there was a need to give their clothes a color, and the color of the rose, the most beautiful of flowers, was pink.

1.02 Why are men's buttons on the right?
Indeed, why do all men's clothes have buttons on the right and buttonholes on the left, while women's clothes have the opposite? Here is another habit that has become established because people use their right hands more. For a right-handed person, it is easier to slip a button on the right into a buttonhole on the left. That's why men's buttons are always on the right. So why are women's buttons on the left? Don't the majority of women use their right hands? In the early days when buttons were first used on clothes, buttons could break easily and were too expensive for everyone to buy. Rich women who could afford buttons could only put on their long dresses with the help of their maids. Servants, on the other hand, could button their wives more easily and faster by using their right hands in front of their wives (of course, it goes without saying that men unfastened them faster, too). For this reason, tailors began to sew the buttons on the maid's right side and the wife's left side. Although today, every woman dresses and undresses herself, for some unknown reason, this custom has not changed.


1.03 Why do people shake hands?

Shaking hands is actually an age-old custom. In ancient times, all men carried a weapon and most of them used this weapon with their right hand. To show that he was friendly to another and that he did not have a weapon in his hand, a man would extend his empty right hand, and the other would do the same. But in order to be safe and to prevent the other from suddenly drawing a gun, both parties stood together, squeezing their hands slightly, until they were sure of each other. The habit of shaking hands while shaking hands may have started to better grasp the hands and prevent the opponent from suddenly pulling out a gun from inside his clothing. But later it became an expression of friendship.


1.04 How did ancient people go to the toilet?

People have not used toilets for a very long time in their history. In the beginning, they did the same thing as the animals did. They could do their business at the bottom of the nearest bush or by a river. However, as societies developed and villages and towns emerged, it became necessary to travel farther distances to meet toilet needs. In addition, the bad odor and disease hazards caused by waste left in the open have created people's awareness that it is time to take some precautions in this regard. Thousands of years ago, the Sumerians, Egyptians and people living in India were sitting on the couch and after fulfilling their needs, they were pouring the contents of the pot somewhere far away. Two thousand years ago, the Romans started using the first simple toilet. The waste fell into the hole where they sat, and the water flowing under the hole carried them away. Farmers and those working in open fields did not have such a problem anyway. They would dig a hole in a corner of the field, and when the hole was full enough, they would fill it with soil and dig another hole. At night, they kept a chamber pot under their beds. In medieval castles and castles, waste was dropped into the puddle around the building through a hole. The idea of defecating somewhere, dragging it with water from a tank and leaving it in a suitable place first came from John Harrington in 1589, during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. However, at that time, homes in England had neither a water system to fill such a tank nor a water system to take away the waste.
A toilet similar to today's was not designed until two centuries later, in 1778, by Alexander Cumming, a clockmaker in England, and developed by Joseph Bramah. The bad smell spreading from toilets to houses ended in 1849 when Stephen Green installed a 'U' shaped pipe at the exit of the toilet. There is always some water left in this 'U' shaped pipe, which is located under toilets and today sinks, and prevents the formation of odor. Of course, toilets were made of cast iron at that time. Then, ceramic toilets began to be produced for the ease of cleaning their smooth surfaces. In 1888, toilet bowls that ran when the chain was pulled were added to the toilets. Many names are used for toilets in our country, such as hela, kenef, Ayakyolu, WC., 00, Yüznumara. 'WC.' These are the initials of the English name 'Water Closet'. The story of the number one hundred is different. In the past, toilets in hotels in France were at the ends of the corridors. While they gave each room a number, they called the toilets unnumbered and marked them as '00'. Since the word 'unnumbered' and 'number 100' in French are pronounced almost the same, it has been settled as 'number one hundred' in our country as a result of a translation error by someone who is a little poor at French.


1.05 How were men used to shave before?
In 1991, a frozen man's body was found among glaciers in the Austrian Alps. What was surprising was that the body belonged to someone who lived 5,200 years ago and remained almost intact to this day. Another striking thing about this corpse, called the 'Alpine Shepherd', was that there was no beard or moustache on his face.
According to archaeologists in the prehistoric men they were shaving revolution. Paintings on the cave walls from this period show that shells, shark teeth, and mostly sharpened flints were used to shave the beard. It is actually seen that flint was used for this purpose in some primitive tribes discovered today. In the tombs opened in Egypt, ancient Egyptians date back to B.C. Gold and copper tools used to cut beards were found in the 4th century. The reason why prehistoric men shaved their beards was that the beard, which could grow up to 150 centimeters if not cut, severely restricted their mobility. However, the reason for the need to shave the fly is unknown. Why men were created with beards if they have to be shaved every day is another matter. In the past, as well as today, men shaved for reasons such as religion, social position and fashion. For example, in Rome only free people could shave.
MS. In the 14th century, primitives of the current razor began to appear, but Men's painful and bloody shaving problem continued until the beginning of the 20th century. King Camp Gillette (razor) discovered the first two-sided razor in the USA in 1901. However, until the First World War, it was able to sell 168 razors and 51 machines. At the beginning of the war, the US government ordered 3.5 million razors from the company to meet the needs of the army. Thus, razor blades became an industry. After a short time, the Wilkinson company, a former sword manufacturer, also started to produce razor blades, and these two have become the giants of the market to this day. Today, Gillette holds 66 percent of the world market, while Wilkinson's share is 10 percent. It is 20. Gillette, which has always been the engine of the sector, has actually become the name of its inventor and the company, and the name of the product while being a brand. The first electric shavers came into use in the 1950s. In the same years stainless steel razor is introduced to the market. Approximately 80 percent of today's men prefer wet shaving, that is, using a razor. While there are 2 billion men in the world who shave and each of them has an average of 15 thousand hairs on their face, and especially when these hairs grow approximately 2 millimeters per day, meaning that an average of 100 days of a man's life is spent shaving, who can bend the wrist of the razor industry?

1.06 Why is a horse ridden from the left?

As with many other habits, this is because most people use their right hands. Centuries ago, people who mostly used their right hands carried their swords in their sheaths on their left side so that they could easily draw their swords. When riding a horse, riding the horse from the right side with this long sword that goes down to the bottom of the left knee, that is, riding by putting the right foot in the stirrup and throwing the left foot on the horse. It was difficult because of this. When riding from the left, placing the left foot on the stirrup and placing the right foot on the horse, the sword did not cause any problems. Especially in armies going to war, left-handed people had to ride the horse from the left, as it was necessary to act as an example for discipline reasons. Although riders no longer carry the sword, riding the horse from the left has become a tradition that continues until today.