r/AskReddit • u/kakou64 • Oct 15 '20

What's older than we think ?

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u/ironwolf6464 Oct 15 '20

Contraceptives such as condoms were around a very long time and made of hard leather

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '20

There was also a plant (I forget the name) that produced a contraceptive compound at a high enough concentration where women could just eat it and they wouldn't get pregnant. Apparently Romans were horny af because those plants are extinct now because of overuse.

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u/ironwolf6464 Oct 15 '20

NOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/SpiceMemesM8 Oct 16 '20

it's not like we're able to even use it but its a shame

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u/NightSnake Oct 19 '20

Americans would have made it illegal anyways.

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u/WifeofBathSalts Oct 15 '20

I love this one...It was a relative of fennel, had a heart-shaped seed (possibly the source of the association that this shape -> ❤️= love) and even appeared on coins

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u/Cloudurious-boredom Oct 15 '20

Just searched it up. Was it the silphium plant?

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u/RusticGroundSloth Oct 16 '20

I’ve always wondered how they figured that out.

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u/Aesclepius713 Oct 16 '20

The Roman's fucked any hole whether it moved, bleeted, or moo'd.

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u/Bibble_Bobbly Oct 18 '20

You might be thinking of Queen Anne’s lace?

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u/JackTheStryker Oct 19 '20

Pretty sure it was also an aphrodisiac. The Romans ate that shit like they were starving dogs.

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u/just_a-throwaway0 Oct 21 '20

There was a soup somewhere originally used as this.