Plus rice also needs to be polished, which is a not insignificant amount of processing.

Poetry was always about bringing an element of playfulness to language- if it brings you joy, do it.

We actually don’t know if distance is quantised- while distances smaller than the Planck length don’t make any sense with our current understanding of physics, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s the quantum of distance.

I take umbrage with the idea that gravity is necessarily quantisable- for all we know, it can’t be quantised.

*you leave grandpa and grandma out of this!

Is it surprising though? Natural fruit doesn’t have the same shelf life as modern farmed fruit, so it’ll start fermenting in just a few days - add in alcohol having a lot of calories, and so the chimpanzees naturally won’t skip out on it either.

Bottle gourds are still eaten pretty regularly in India, and I suspect, other parts of the world too.

Yep, I just checked Wikipedia, and yes, tons of people around the world still eat it.

There’s a LLE episode about it:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/lets-learn-everything/id1587816694?i=1000669246734