Here's the number that stops a room: the shape we slap on Valentine's cards every February 14th appears on burial jewellery dated to roughly 500 BC, which is, to be precise, about 1,800 years before m
"The King has taken my wife, and I am the one sent away."
Here's a number worth sitting with: by 1932, the Ford River Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan employed over 75,000 workers, and enforced a strict no-talking policy on the floor. No talking. Certainly
In the spring of 1847, a Viennese obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something uncomfortable: the maternity ward staffed by medical students had a mortality rate nearly five times higher than