My bet is that one of our great grandparents could have told us this. <<<
Or a couple hundred years ago, one of the Englishmen, or some native in any or several countries.
OK, so I am nosy and I like history.
Me too. I think I got the bug because I loved the "old" people in the family when I was a kid. I had time with all 4 of my great grandmothers. Lots of time with 2 of them.
My Scots great grandmother was widowed in 1921. She had 13 children all under the age of 20 at the time. 11 boys and 2 gals. Boys all decided that converting the 2nd outhouse to a still house was a good way to make money. Great-grandmother was a strict Nazarene, not sure how much she knew and overlooked but the family made it through the time after great grandfather's death and the depression okay. Ingenuity. Not a bad thing. I loved hearing all those old stories. As a young teen, I found I liked history because I could put the stories I knew of great grandparents, great aunts etc into the timeline. Was fascinating. Still is.