Why are fly stickers placed in men's toilet urinals? Detailed answer

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Why are fly stickers placed in men's toilet urinals?

Some time ago, the urinals of the men's toilets at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport were fitted with fly stickers. After the introduction of the innovation, the press service of the airport stated that thanks to this, it was possible to significantly save time on cleaning the toilets. A visible target causes men to instinctively seek to knock down a fly, as a result of which they miss the urinal less often. Similar stickers subsequently appeared in the toilets of airports and public buildings in many other cities.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What is sorcery?

There were times when many people believed in witchcraft and sorcery. A sorcerer was considered a being with great strength and power, whose goal was to cause evil, who acted with the help of the devil, satan, the devil. Witchcraft was considered the evil that this creature caused.

Witchcraft could be directed against one enemy or an entire society. It was believed that hurricanes and epidemics were the result of evil spells. People lived in fear, ignorance, superstition, so only witchcraft could explain unforeseen misfortunes. At an early stage in the development of society and religion, witchcraft was prohibited on pain of death. The Old Testament says: "In order not to suffer, witchcraft does not live."

Later, the Christian church fought against sorcerers. In 1484, the Pope issued a papal decree that officially condemned witchcraft. The reason for this was that the plague that came to Europe was blamed on witchcraft. Witch hunts also took place in the American colonies. Between 1647 and 1663, hundreds of people from Massachusetts and Connecticut were accused of witchcraft, 14 of them were hanged.

But at the beginning of the XNUMXth century, belief in witchcraft began to fade. People began to understand the true causes of the phenomena they feared: hail, thunderstorms, lightning, mental and physical illnesses. Doctors today are explaining that dreams and hallucinations that were once believed to be the result of witchcraft were actually hysteria or mental illness.

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