When I read jewel theft type mysteries I always vaguely assumed “paste” gems were somehow like toothpaste and wondered how they ever fooled anyone. Apparently just a stupid term. google.com/amp/s/livesand
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Before the internet allowed us to look stuff up we primitives mostly had to make do with absurd interpretations of things we didn’t know
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One thing I’ve thought of recently: there are some things that I just never look up, even when I keep meaning to. Given the sum total of human knowledge is at our fingertips, what we decide to find out is interesting (or maybe just arbitrary)

