Wrong Hands by John Atkinson for April 26, 2024

Also, urine to whiten togas. If you reached the age of 10 you could live until 45 or 50. Rich guys, 60 to 70.

Fava beans contain small amounts of L-Dopa which increases dopamine and can give some people more vivid dreams. So that could explain the “souls of the dead” belief – could be enough people dreamt of dead relatives to believe they’d seen their spirits.

Listerurine ?

Seems logical to me.

Not everything was better in the old days. ;-/

As a lefty, I would’ve never made it in Rome.

Use a sponge at the end of a stick (because they did not have toilet tissue) in the public restrooms (nobody except the very rich had private toilets). Remember to rinse it off for the next user.

Considered slavery a career.

looked forward to being immortalized in 1950s sword and sandals movies…

Urban myths that educated upper-class Romans promoted to reduce the population of the uneducated. (Just guessing)

Apparently the gods have been trying to tell me “bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz”.

That urine thing explains so much!

No one lived to be very ancient in Rome.

The last one explains all the others.

If I remember correctly the latin word for left is sinister.