stackyFACTSWe act like astronaut ice cream is the height of modern ingenuity, but the ancient Incas beat NASA by centuries. By leaving potatoes out in the freezing high-altitude mountain air and then crushing the water out of them the next morning under the blazing sun, they practically invented the modern survivalist's pantry.
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