00:00There's now these three hidden facts about why we have weekends.
00:03Fact number one.
00:03For most of human history, the weekend did not exist.
00:06During the Industrial Revolution, people worked 70 to 100 hours a week.
00:10Now a single day, labor unions fought brutally just to cut Sunday off for religiousness.
00:14Fact number two.
00:15Getting Sunday off expired, workers parted so hard on their one day off that they started
00:19skipping work on Monday to recover.
00:21This massive weekly hangover became known as the unofficial holiday of St. Monday.
00:25Fact number three.
00:26In 1926, Henry Ford officially gave his fact to workers both Saturday and Sunday off.
00:31He realized that if his workers had full days of return, they would finally buy his cars
00:35to go on weekend roads.
00:36So you are weekend at least three cars of hangovers and count sales.
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