A message in a “bottle” from 2300 years ago:
“ I, Gong Cheng De, together with Jiu Jiang Man, who are guards of the king’s tomb, hereby fishing on order of the king, sends our regards to future generations!”
The 19 characters in Chinese , is a stone inscription which was forgotten after writing for next 2200 years until 1937, when a farmer in China founded and brought it home to be used as a tool.
The archaeologists brought it to Hebei Museum in 1970s where it sits today.
After research, the text was deciphered, and the king refers to head of the Zhongshan State , who reigned between 309BC to 296BC,the State is one of the five medium states in terms of military strength during the Warring States period, located in the mountain area between modern-day Hebei and Shanxi provinces.
White Americans throwing up the Nazi salute will always be funny to me because weren’t they murking your grandparents friends and family 80 years ago? 😂
one of the most underrated perks of being warm-blooded is that you can spend your entire life surrounded in a cloud of potentially deadly fungal spores and not even realize it because fungi can't grow at body-temperature