stackyFACTSPeople truly believed shirts grew on animals. When cotton was first described to foreigners, they lacked the capacity to understand it, deciding it must be a magical, tiny wool-bearing sheep that grew directly out of a plant stem.
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Ancient cultivators in the Indus Valley carefully extracted fluffy white bolls from thorny bushes and painstakingly spun them into thread. They essentially…
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When you have a deity for literally everything, you eventually have to assign one to feces. Sterculius was the Roman god of odor and manure, essential for…
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Somewhere deep in a national park stands Hyperion, a coast redwood so absurdly tall it makes towering skyscrapers look utterly pathetic. To prevent eager…
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Being a ginger has historically always been rough, but the Greeks took the prejudice to supernatural extremes. They genuinely thought the lack of melanin and…
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Your breakfast citrus is a total genetic accident. Grapefruits did not exist naturally; they were created completely by a random, unprompted crossbreeding…
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Imagine cracking open a watermelon and getting a mouthful of dry wall. Uncultivated watermelons were mostly thick, tasteless white rinds with swirling hollow…
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