I have a very bad memory for faces. Apparently it's not prosopagnosia, just "holy shit how can you even function in society?!" level bad memory.
Anyway, I get appoached by people on the street, sometimes chat a bit and then leave without knowing who it was. I figure it's kinda like being a celebrity, just without the money.
English names of days are weird. You have the day of the sun and the moon, ok. Fine. Then Tuesday - Friday are norse gods (Tyr, Odin, Thor, Freya), but what's Saturday doing there?! Saturn is a completely different pantheon!
In Czech we have it simple - Monday is "after Sunday", then there's Secondday, Middleday, Fourthday, Fifthday, Sabbath and Not-working-day.
Yeah, nowadays the word is used from its brutality, not the exact number. The point is not just that every 10th was killed, but that the rest of them were made to do it.
Yeah, I'm not hating on Spain, but I couldn't resist mentioning the conquistador thing, especially since I was reading about the Aztecs yesterday.