Amateur Gastroegyptologist Seamus Blackley came across what he very much hopes are isolated strains of yeast off a few 4,500 year old Egyptian pots and figured it would be a good idea to make some bread out of it. He even went as far to make the dough out of grain used around the time the yeast would have been active, since what we know as modern wheat didn't exist at the time. Anyway, he baked a loaf and was able to taste some (hopefully) authentic ancient bread.
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Most people wish they were taller, but few people think that there might be any drawbacks to living in a world that was made to accommodate people a foot shorter than you. Here's a bunch of tall people cramped into small spaces, leering over bathroom dividers, hitting their heads on stuff, and generally being what seems like inappropriately tall. For some instructions for the tall, here's memes about how to talk to short people.
Warm up your eyes and get ready to be puzzled. We've got giant cats, people with horses for faces, things that look like other things and loads of other junk. Anyway, get ready for confusion and "aha" moments. For more optical illusions, check out these eye-crumbling images of crazy perspective
After a crazy freak accident, this man was able to pull himself out of his destroyed car and walk away. Holy crap that thing is wrecked. And holy crap is he lucky to be alive. If you wanna see more unlikely and mostly uplifting coincidences, then check these out.
There's nothing quit like the satisfaction of making a prediction and ending up being totally right. Okay, maybe it's not so satisfying if it's about being cheated on or your brother's divorce, but it at least feels a little cathartic to have been right. Here are times people got it right out of the blue. For more stories of amazing intuition, here are some times people's "there's something not right about him/her" predictions came true.
The inconvenient thing about the future is that you never know what seemingly insignificant thing is going to become a big deal later on. Here are people whose butterfly effect-style small choices ended up having huge repercussions later in life. For more stories about unlikely things that happened to people check these out.
Weird coincidences, fails, and funny moments aren't all that rare in life, but what is rare is when someone snaps a perfectly timed photo that tells the whole story. Luckily, there were people out there who were in the right place at the right time who were able to give us these gems. For more, check out these 21 wacky and amazing photos taken at the perfect time.
Yeah, it almost feels like a crime how cheap some of this stuff is. Actually, some of it is! That said, a few bucks for a pineapple that started growing in 2017? Holy crap! If only someday we could add something like healthcare or housing to this list then that'd be cool too, but for now, we got these.
We're grateful for people who take their camera out at the site of a precariously balanced cake. These are photos taken at the perfect time of fail, coincidence, or peak artistic integrity. For more serendipity, check out these 23 lucky (and unlucky) photos taken at exactly the right time.
Yeah, we googled em. Pretty legit. We're as surprised as you. It kind of makes sense, if you consider how long people have been around, and all the things we've done, that someone would've thought to enlist a bear in the military or that multiple people would have died in a literal whiskey flood. History is crazy.
Laughter is the best medicine, and these folks were in for a shock when they realized not everyone had constant discomfort, unexplained pain, the inability to sleep and uncontrollable sneezing. We are not talking about medical memes, but real life ailments that people got so used to living with, that they forgot normal people don't suffer from the same.
If you need everyone to know just how thoughtful and knowledgeable you are, don't worry. We've got your back. The next time you're with a group of people, you can sling some of these facts their way and feel smart. It's OK, we all want to do it. And what better way to sound smart than to fire a few facts into a boring conversation!
Thomas Romain is an animation artist who lives in Tokyo. He takes his sons drawings as inspiration and translates them into his own art style. Prepare to be jealous that your dad never adapted your own inventive childhood doodles into professional-level artwork.
