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Who invented bedrooms? When do we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wines and beverage? Which arrived first: the bathroom seat or toilet paper? What was the first time? Every day, as soon as our noisy alarms wakes us in the morning until our head hits our cushion at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Set up around one typical day, A Million Years in a Day shows the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we neglect. On this gloriously engaging romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradual-and often unexpected-evolution of our day to day routines. This is not a tale of wars, politics, or great occurrences. Instead, Jenner has scoured Roman rubbish bins, Egyptian tombs, and Victorian sewers to bring us the most interesting, astonishing, and sometimes downright ridiculous historical nuggets from our former. Drawn from around the world, spanning a million many years of humanity, this book is a smorgasbord of historical delights. It is a history of most those ideas you always wondered about-and many you haven't considered. It's the story you will ever have, one million years in the making. "[Jenner] crafts some fine aphorisms ('History doesn't do it again itself-people do'), and it would be a staggeringly discovered person who cannot glean anything new from this work." -The Wall membrane Street Journal
