The first person in history to do something. - Its amazing that some things ever caught on.

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There are some things that if you think about, its amazing they caught on.

For example, circumcision. Someone looked at his dick and decide it was a good idea to take a sharp rock and cut off his foreskin? And even crazier, he convinced just about everybody else it was a good idea and they should do it too!

Drinking milk? Someone pushed aside some animal's babies and started sucking on it's titties, and then was like "Come on guys! This shit is great! Trust me!"

What are some other things where the first person to do it must've seemed weird, and its amazing they convinced others to join them?
 
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I like to think that humanity came up with plant cloning before fresh-seed agriculture. It seems to me that burying a twig in just the right way would have been how people thought baby trees came to be, and sometimes, they were right.

I don't know if that fits in with the parameters, OP, but I'm taking a shit so I'm only about 33% concerned.
 
Can't believe someone actually thought "fire make rock better" and it led to the Industrial Revolution.

Something that's funny is that the Genesis narrative portrays technical knowledge like smithing as emerging from Cain's line. Cain, who was also someone to do something first.
 
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Cheese.

Hmm, what if we take this milk and throw in a cow's stomach lining and let it rot for a month and then strain out all the liquid and eat what's left.
 
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I would love to know the circumstances that lead to someone discovering erotic asphyxiation. And then I would love to know what their sales pitch was that convinced other people to try it.

"No bro, trust me, if you finish right when you're about to pass out from lack of oxygen, it feels fucking amazing. Like, I would risk dying for this shit, bro."
 
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The first person to ever eat lobster or crab. Who the fuck looked at one of those horrible nightmare creatures and thought "Mmm... I bet that thing is delicious"
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Soap.

Who was the first person to think "I know, let's boil up some of that fat with some of that lovely sodium hydroxide"?

And who then thought "That looks great, guess I'll spread some all over my naked body and then wash it off"?
 
“Hey man, I think I can plug electricity into this box and make sound come out in the box in the other room.”

“Dude you need a fucking therapist.”

I always think of an exchange similar to this when the first guy thought about inventing the radio.

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The first person to ever eat lobster or crab. Who the fuck looked at one of those horrible nightmare creatures and thought "Mmm... I bet that thing is delicious"
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Lobster was so abundant in the colonial northeast it was only considered to be food for poor people. I’m not sure what marketing genius tricked us into thinking it was a delicacy.
 
The first person to try milk from a cow.
 
Making fire using friction. if doesn't seem like the sort of thing you could discover by accident. Making fire that way is very difficult, so the only way they could discover it could make fire is if they had some other reason to try to spin a stick on another stick as hard and as fast as they can until they're physically exhausted. But why would anybody do that?
 
What always blows me away is thinking about who made the first straight edge/ruler.

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Making fire using friction. if doesn't seem like the sort of thing you could discover by accident. Making fire that way is very difficult, so the only way they could discover it could make fire is if they had some other reason to try to spin a stick on another stick as hard and as fast as they can until they're physically exhausted. But why would anybody do that?
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