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The ancient Greeks had surprisingly modern showers

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We act like the cascading rainfall showerhead is a modern luxury, but antiquity had us beat by thousands of years. The ancient Greeks loved their gymnasiums so much they engineered elaborate lead pipe systems to pump continuous streams of water over bathers. They essentially invented the concept of standing under a rushing spout, completely ruining the quiet dignity of the traditional sponge bath.

The ancient Greeks had surprisingly modern showers
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