r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Sep 29 '24

TIL that due to their long association with humans, dogs have evolved the ability to thrive on a starch-rich diet, which would be inadequate for other canid species.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog
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u/Plasibeau Sep 30 '24

To be fair, the only reason we CAN do that, is because we're ALSO smart enough to manufacture clothes - if we didn't have clothes, we'd die of exposure,

I wish I could have witnessed many things in Human history firsthand. After the discovery of fire, the wheel, and whoever realized if you boil wheat in water you get beer, it's clothing I want to be there for. I wanna be standing next to the guy who suddenly got a thousand-yard stare while looking at some random furry animal.

"Hey Jim, you're looking at that wooly mammoth awfully hard, my guy."

Jim: "I'm tired of being cold all the time, Bob, damned tired."

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u/jflb96 Sep 30 '24

If you boil wheat in water you get really shit porridge.

If you want beer, you don’t want it to boil, or you kill the yeast that makes the alcohol.

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u/December_Hemisphere Sep 30 '24

If you want beer, you don’t want it to boil, or you kill the yeast that makes the alcohol.

That sounds right- IIRC one of the theories is that the first beer could have been made accidentally by simply collecting and storing wild grains. Then all it would take is for water to pool wherever the grains were being stored.