“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, “You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass.” Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.” - Bill Bryson
“Among the many thousands of things that I have never been able to understand, one in particular stands out. That is the question of who was the first person who stood by a pile of sand and said, “You know, I bet if we took some of this and mixed it with a little potash and heated it, we could make a material that would be solid and yet transparent. We could call it glass.” Call me obtuse, but you could stand me on a beach till the end of time and never would it occur to me to try to make it into windows.” - Bill Bryson
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i don’t personally like Bill Bryson, but he’s got a point there.
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Okay I have thought about a lot of things (like the first time someone figured out you could smoke weed, etc.) but this...
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Of course, there’s the age old question of what the person who discovered we could drink other animal’s milk was up to...
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Ok, I do love Bill Bryson, but this one has a well known and easy answer: lightning strikes. Now if he were asking about...
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