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We credit a lot of modern inventions and methods to the Ancient Greeks. From mathematics, philosophy, to devices and literature, lots of things survived those thousands of years between then and now. Not everything was all enlightenment, however. Here’s a few things the Ancient Greeks did that might just shock you. Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr 7. Don’t Spill the Beans Before computers, pen ticked boxes, and holed punched pieces of paper were the common way of filling in a vote, beans were employed as a way to set up the count. White beans meant a yes vote while black beans meant the opposite. There’s a story that the term “spill the beans” derived from the Ancient Greeks for this reason, though that idea’s been disproved. What is more plausible, however, is the fact that the word “ballot” comes from the French word ballotte, or small ball. 6. Put Those Tweezers Away In the early 2000s, it was all about those razor thin eyebrows. Fast forward a decade later, and all of a sudden we’re embracing fuller, bushier brows, a la Cara Delevigne. The Ancient Greeks took that full-brow ideal even further, as they considered unibrows a staple of beauty. This look was desired so much that women would use powdered minerals or even soot to darken their brows. A woman’s purity was prized, so leaving your brows untouched, as in untweezed, or darkened signified your appeal. With the way we revere brows today, do you think society’s well on its way to accepting unibrows again? 5. Gym, Tan, No Laundry Needed The word “gymnasium” is derived from the Ancient Greek term “gymnós.” If we translate that into English, you get the word “naked.” Yup, thousands of years ago, people--mostly men--went to the gym and worked out in the nude. Fortunately, sanitation rules and indecency laws prevent this from occurring in modern society. If you couldn’t tell from all the old statues and artwork from Ancient Greece, the athletes competed naked, too. Watching sports served as an outlet to appreciate the male body. Supposedly, doing so meant paying tribute to the gods. Being naked and being athletic went hand in hand. And when it came to the popular sport of disc throwing, people thought you could balance yourself better without any clothes on. 4. The Taste of Earwax Who has the weaker end of the stick: the patient who comes in sick or the doctor who has to taste their earwax to figure out what kind of sickness they have? According to Hippocrates, doctors could discern what was wrong with their patients by tasting bodily fluids such as earwax or urine. Likewise, doctors lick vomit or feel your phlegm around with their fingers--all in the name of medicine. When learning to become a doctor, you were instructed as to what bodily fluids should taste like so that when it came to treating someone, you’d know what was off. This came down to how sweet your puke might taste or if urine had the same tartness as fig juice. 3. Dung Baths That sounds just as gross is it probably was. Crocodile Dung Baths as the BCE version of all the weird beauty tricks you hear celebrities trying out. Bath and spa culture were of huge significance during the Ancient Greek days. And in their mud baths lay a special ingredient: croc poop. This reptilian excrement supposedly acted as an anti-aging component. Mix that into some earth and water and you have a sought after beauty product courtesy of a relieving crocodile. Not only was this stuff said to improve the tone of your skin via face mask, people would sit in full body tubs of this stuff and relax, hoping for a more youthful look when they emerged. 2. The Apple Throw That might sound like the name of a traditional game you play a the county fair, but throwing apples was the equivalent of sending someone a valentine or commenting under your instagram picture with heart eyes. In order to show a woman that they admired them, a man would throw an apple at her--because how else are you going to show her you care? Be careful who you decide to chuck that granny smith at. To throw an apple meant proposing marriage, so if you weren’t ready for commitment, keep that thing in a basket. The origins of this practice traces back to the story of Eris, the Greek Goddess of Discord. After not getting invited to a wedding, she threw a golden apple into the party where Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena all fought over it. Aphrodite offered up the most beautiful woman in the world, Helen of Sparta, to Paris of Troy, who was the one that decided which goddess got the apple. 1...