stackyFACTSBefore you could open an aesthetically pleasing iOS app to find out you were going to have a bad Tuesday, someone had to smash the bad news into a rock.
Before you could open an aesthetically pleasing iOS app to find out you were going to have a bad Tuesday, someone had to smash the bad news into a rock. The earliest known personal horoscopes come from Babylon, meticulously pressed into cuneiform clay. Unsurprisingly, they didn't offer advice on love or career growth; they just bluntly stated whether a child was astrologically destined to die a horrible, violent death.
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