Ridiculous History
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The Ridiculous Origin of the Modern Calendar
39 minutes Posted Aug 5, 2025 at 5:06 pm.
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The calendar is... ridiculous. Since the earliest days of civilization, humanity has tried to measure the passage of time on Earth through any number of systems. In today's episode, Ben, Noel and Max discover how millennia of trial and error led to the modern Gregorian calendar, which we all still just pretend is a normal thing in the modern day.

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