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Origins

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Mar 2026

The '8 Glasses of Water' Rule Has No Source. We Traced It Anyway.

Everyone knows you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Nobody knows where that came from. We traced it back as far as it goes — and what we found is more interesting than a clean answer.

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