Fred's Fun Fact About Ancient Egyptians

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Bread Show is on my friend's fun fact Fred Fun
so much, you guys. And I verified this today as well,
just just looking case, because I was realizing maybe some
I have to I have to make sure these are right.

(00:21):
I have a reputation to uphold. I'm a journalist. Ancient
Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies. Ancient
Egyptian priests would pluck every hair from their bodies, including
their eyebrows and eyelashes. Oh no, they thought their hair

(00:44):
was unclean for the gods. So the purification rituals for
priests included removal of all bodily hair.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
But like I'm Italian, I get a five o'clock shadow,
Like right after I shave, I'd be plucking all day.
I wouldn't have time for anything else.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I mean, they weren't using you know whatever those out
of razors are with four or five blades on them.
They didn't have the intuition. They didn't have they didn't
have they didn't have it. They didn't have jewel. They
didn't have jewel either, which is sweezers. Yeah, well, I
don't just I don't know what they were doing each
individual here. That's ridiculous. Plucking them. Yeah, no, not going

(01:22):
to happen. So just know today or whenever you go
to shave again, just realize life is so much easier now,
or go wax or so they weren't doing that, No,
they didn't know. They didn't. They didn't have a med
spall of any kind. You know, they didn't. There's nowhere
to go, you never know.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I mean they built the pyramids, so that was on them.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
They're building pyramids that their plucking body hair hold on
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