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Why do you think that we have seven days per week with 52 weeks per year?

Hotels that rename the 13th floor as the 14th floor still have a 13th floor.

The words September, October, and November are derived from Latin words septem, octo, and novem meaning seven, eight and nine respectively, but the months are not the seventh, eighth, and ninth months. Why?

 

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