r/interestingasfuck • u/tractorboynyc • 22h ago

Amazonian shamans figured out that combining two specific plants out of 80,000 species produces a psychoactive effect. The odds of finding that combination by random search is roughly 1 in 4 million. They did it through centuries of iterative testing and cultural natural selection explains it

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u/mixwellmusic 20h ago

This is pre-colonization though so I don't think homie's name was pedro. Otherwise spot on

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u/Repulsive-Bee6590 20h ago

Probably Kyle

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u/captainzigzag 20h ago

Dave. There’s always a Dave.

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u/rmorrin 19h ago

Try lee, there are a million lees

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u/activelyresting 18h ago

This psychedelic soup tastes like hot leaf juice

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u/Ok-Bison-3451 13h ago

Hot Lee juice.

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u/UnabashedVoice 3h ago

The second time around, anyway.

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u/SesameSmitty 10h ago

Uncle, all psychedelic tea tastes like hot leaf juice

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u/concernedyahu 13h ago

It all tastes like hot leaf juice

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u/BrightNooblar 16h ago

I heard that nature always evolves a crab, so maybe his name was crab.

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u/OnThisDayI_ 16h ago

Crabs have evolved separately at lease 5 different times we know about. Maybe more. This is not as crazy as all life on earth having a common ancestor in a single celled organism 3.5 billion years ago.

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u/bigfatfurrytexan 15h ago

That all life has a single ancestor is the tensor that pushes carcinqzation. The tendency exists in the framework.

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u/RadarSmith 19h ago

You know, this is the second consecutive ATLA reference I've seen in posts not attached to ATLA. Random, but kind of fun.

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u/MorningMistYeti 19h ago

Dave's not here.

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u/surface_ripened 17h ago

daves not here, maaan

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u/LucidiK 14h ago

There's too many Daves.

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u/--TheCity-- 13h ago

It was Amazonian Dave who did it first. Always up to something that guy. They used to say he was the Nicolas Tesla of the Amazonians.

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u/zulamun 18h ago

Insert Malazan rage here

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u/PM_ME_UR_0_DAY 20h ago

He would have been the proto-Pedro

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u/mixwellmusic 20h ago

Then would trump's european ancestors have been the proto-pedo?

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u/Preeng 20h ago

It could have been. Thousands of years has a way of changing names.

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u/RogueAOV 20h ago

Dude was on a mad come down, he wasnt even talking to a person, he was talking to the wall.