• jordanlund
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    91 year ago

    I had no idea they even knew what cancer was back then… fascinating!

    • @WeirdGoesPro
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      111 year ago

      Just because people lacked advanced analysis techniques, it doesn’t mean they weren’t observant. There are a huge number of things about the world that ancient people were very tuned into, they just didn’t have the tools to learn more than their senses could tell them.

      Just looking at the stars at night and comprehending how long and tedious it must be to track them to the point that you can determine the time of the year or your position on the ocean is a small taste of understanding how much our ancestors noticed about the world.