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2030 BCE
The first pickles
Pickles have been around for ages, a luxurious snack perfect for lip-puckering contentment. The Dutch and German words for salt and brine (two key ingredients in making a perfect, satisfactory pickle) contributed to the English spelling and pronunciation. Go eat a pickle today. -
The flush toilet
The flush toilet, a fantastically convenient invention, came to be in 1596 but didn't become widespread until 1851. Before that, people used chamber pots, communal outhouses, and holes in the ground. They even would sit around in a big room having conversation in ancient greece. How unsettling. -
My birthday
In a car, a child was born. In the hospital parking lot. And when the doctor saw, he said “Yup. She’s coming.”