Our ancestors amaze me. The first one that chewed on a coffee bean probably spit it out and thought "yuck". Yet they figured out that if you roast the beans, add water, heat it and flavor it, it's a good drink. What amazes you?
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The first person to "smoke" something. What idiot (I bet it was a man) decides to put a burning object in your mouth and suck on it?????
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The Babylonian guy who figured out beer. Current theory is that he was thirsty and drank water at the bottom of a grain bin. The grain and the mold had fermented and it was probably really gross. And then he figured out how to duplicate that. And it's tasty.
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That human knowledge grew tremendously in the last two centuries (more than in all the rest of the history of humanity), which brought a lot of improvements to our lives but also enormous problems.
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I am always amazed at the fact that ancient Roman civilizations had the technology to lift stones that were over a hundred tons.
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Well, they say that it may have been some goatherders watching there goats eating from a bush in Ethiopia and they noticed their goats all jumping around acting hyper and crazy and so they thought it was from eating the coffee bush. That is the romantic story of how coffee was discovered by humans. I think the refining of metals and the start of the metal ages to be amazing. How did people think of melting and extracting 'rock' and 'stone' to get other metals and then mix them together to get interesting useful items?
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sticks of rock, fig rolls, candy floss.
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Kidney Beans make me laugh Somebody ate a raw bean and it made him really ill, so he thought well if I heat it and try again.......
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that somebody cracked open an oyster shell and ate the slimey looks like a bull hocked it out of his nose oyster inside of it.
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that someone went "see that cow over there? Im gonna drink whatever I can get out of it" and "see that chicken, I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes out of its ass"
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Mountain Oysters...'nuff said.
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how they made chocolate.
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That someone actually thought a squid would seem delicious by looking at the ugly thing.
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I've always been amazed by the just the same thing... Imean, come on, the first guy that ate an oyster must have been pretty hungry...
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