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The 5,000-Year-Old Mystery Behind the 60-Minute Hour
A historical look into why an hour is divided into 60 minutes, tracing the practice back 5,000 years to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia who found the number 60 to be highly divisible, simplifying calculations.
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