Beer is one of the oldest beverages in human history. The oldest recorded recipe, dating back over 5,000 years, was found in a Sumerian poem honoring the goddess of brewing, Ninkasi.
And now that you know the origins of the word gumbo, here’s a little something else to numb the mind: ancient Egyptians were eating gumbo thousands of years before the founding of New Orleans ...
Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.