Funilly enough, I think we still don’t know how some eels mate, so maybe they were on to something
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affiliate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
this idea seems rather tame when you compare it to a bunch of other batshit crazy ideas people were having in ancient greece, like: each time an eel smashes into a rock, a tiny piece of eel breaks off, and then that tiny piece of eel turns into an adult eel and thats how eels are born.
Stamau123@lemmy.world 7 months ago
lemmeee@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It’s funny how they treated cancer:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cancer#Early_dia…
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
Nowadays doctors are pretty humourless.