Why the Barber Pole?
May 18th 2020 I always wondered. Now we know, thanks to Trivia Genius:
Back in the 16th century, the majority of Europeans couldn’t read. In fact, an estimated 61 percent of men in Norwich, near London, couldn’t even write their own name! For shopkeepers and craftspeople, this widespread illiteracy was something of a marketing problem: How could they advertise t
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