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Beauty By Numbers.
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Hard as it may be to believe in this germ-obsessed day and age, cleanliness hasn't always been next to godliness. Queen Elizabeth I is believed to have said that she bathed once a month--"whether I need it or not." Here, the naked truth about how we have (and haven't) kept dirt away. --SARAH VAN BOVEN
1700 B.C. : Year the first bathtub was believed to be in use on the island of Crete, later excavated at the queen's apartments at the Palace of Knossos.
1500 B.C. : Approximate age of scrolls discovered in Egypt that described the use of soap for bathing.
5: Average number of bathhouses per block in Rome by the second century B.C.
42% of Americans say they wash their hands ten or more times a day.
476: Year the Roman Empire fell, leading to a decrease in bathing by people across Europe.
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