Tumblr Thread Goes Off The Rails With The History Knowledge

We can always count on the wonderful ever wandering minds of the Tumblr world to lead us down just the kind of bizarre rabbit holes that we'd otherwise never have thought to explore. In this case, the Tumblr thread delivers big time in terms of wild historical knowledge. The moral of the story is definitely to be specific. The devil's in the details, man. For some more gold from the Tumblr world, check out this Tumblr thread about scientists and their terrific superstitions in the lab.

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    Font - watermelon-mafia S lemememeringue Follow systlin Follow GUYS THEY FIGURED OUT THE ROMAN CONCRETE RECIPE THAT MAKES IT IMMUNE TO SEAWATER http://www.msn.com/en-us/news /technology/mystery-of-2000-year-old -roman-concrete-solved-by-scientists /ar-BBDO5VC beautifultoastdream EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! systlin Follow I KNOW RIGHT?!???
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    Font - ella-raene Follow I can't help but feel this is one of those things where we had actual documents saying "it was done with this and this", and some old rich white guys looked at it and went "oh mirth, the ancients were so silly. They probably wrote this basic stuff down and the actual builders had Secret Techniques we need to Discover" For a long time, archeologists didn't know how greek women did their high-piled braids and hair. There was a word that translated to “needle" in the descri
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    Font - The Egyptians had diagrams of construction steps for their pyramids. Archeologists went "oooh, ancient primitive people, how they do this?" LITERALLY MYTHBUSTERS OR THE OLD DISCOVERY CHANNEL or someone went "what if we did the thing the pictures said they did" AND GUESS FI GUESS F KING WHAT. ING WHAT. Also that thing with native Americans saying squirrels taught them how to get sap for maple syrup, and colonizers going "that's a myth sweaty" Sincerely, if the scientists had to do actual a
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    Font - systlin Follow In this case, it was more they had roman writings saying what went into it but figured there was some secret because when they followed roman recipes it never turned out quite right. Because the sources left by Romans always just said to mix with water. Because, if you were a Roman??? Obviously you knew that you used seawater for cement. Duh. That's so obvious that they never really bothered specifying that you use seawater to mix it, because it wasn't necessary, everyone k
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    Font - It's sort of like the land of Punt, a ally of Egypt that's mentioned all the time, but we don't actually know where it was located. Because it isn't written down anywhere. Why would they write it down? It's Punt. Everyone knew where Punt was back then. It'd be ridiculous to waste the ink and space to specify where it was, every child knows about Punt. 3000 years later and we have no damned clue where it was, simply because at the time it was so blindingly obvious that it was never written
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    Azure - aethersea Follow 2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense lierdumoa Follow Forget eggs what about milk? They'll look back in the ancients and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they'll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime tiddies proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonker
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    Azure - aethersea Follow 2000 years in the future people are going to be making scrambled fish eggs and crying bc the ancient recipes make no sense lierdumoa Follow Forget eggs what about milk? They'll look back in the ancients and think we drank human breast milk by the gallon. When asked for evidence they'll pull out from the deep archives the historical records of anime proving ancient humans had huge boobs. i mean space-arcanist Follow An absolute ride from start to finish. Thank you, everyo
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