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The GuavaNumbers blog

Stories and history of memorable numbers, and how they grow small businesses.

Old rotary phone

Who added letters to the phone dial?

Letters have been on phone dials since the beginning. Very early in the history of telephone communication, people figured out that long numbers were really har…

2020-11-21 · 1 min read

Bronze model of a human brain

Why our brains are hardwired to remember words

We've been enjoying Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , a great book we recommend to everyone. In it, the author states that language was the spark that tri…

2020-11-20 · 1 min read