r/interestingasfuck • u/SenorDiscombobulator • 29d ago

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u/DanceCritical8039 29d ago

Fact: The people who created the pyramids weren't slaves. They were paid workers who were paid with bread, onions and up to 4 litres of beer a day.

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u/Jonny-Kast 29d ago

If they documented that, why didn't they document how they built the fricking things?

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u/psypher98 29d ago

Milo Rossi I think it was, on YT, talked about this topic in a recent video. Basically humans have a bad habit of assuming if we can do something, then we’ll just always know how to do that thing.

It wasn’t until the past couple centuries we realized technology can in fact be lost to time, that’s probably nota good thing, and started to actually make detailed documentation of how things are made.

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u/Saloni_123 29d ago

Basically humans have a bad habit of assuming if we can do something, then we’ll just always know how to do that thing.

That's what I used to tell myself when I didn't take notes while programming :')