Inlaws still in town. Daughter still 2 weeks old. Feeling obliged to give all new followers something. First instinct was to post the ancient songs my iTunes algorithm throws up on my iPod while jogging but that seems a little too Facebook at the moment (despite my desire to subject 400 people to Dalek). So instead, a blast from the past that Reddit didn't care about three years ago.
You are now aware that the universal symbol for love ("❤") has nothing to do with the shape of the heart or the shape of a woman's butt and everything to do with the seeds of a plant that hasn't been seen in 2000 years.
Reading it made me wonder where they sourced a lot of their knowledge from. Not that I doubt it, but it cites some pretty obscure facts that I wonder how anyone would ever come to know! I have a friend who is going off to study folk medicine in Iran, so forwarding to him, thanks!
I did a fair amount of research for a script involving silphium (and haoma but that's another story). There's a fair amount of data available.