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

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Some guy tasted a beaver's asshole to discover that it tastes somewhere between vanilla and raspberries. Not only that, but he managed to convince others to do the same.
I like to imagine some guy wandering around the village, holding a beaver, and telling all of his friends "No, guys. Seriously, you HAVE to try this shit!"

 
Food that's poisonous apart from one small part or food that has to be prepared in a certain way otherwise it's poisonous. Like fugu fish things like that. Like how many people died eating different parts of things like that before someone finally figured out 'oh if we eat this exact part after it's been prepared in this highly specialized way we won't die horribly.'
 
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I wonder how many people had to test taste certain wild food in order to find out what was poisonous or not?
Like how many people had to sort out what berries or mushrooms were poisonous or not? Or how many people were poisoned by Fugu before those Japanese chefs got it right?
 
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