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[โ€“] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Whoever first domesticated fire. Whatever his name was, I forgot.

[โ€“] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That was Ug. Really cool guy. His golf swing was immaculate, too.

[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Every hole, a hole in one.

And then his grandson invented the number two.

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I'd bet fire was involved in his/her name. Either fire was named after the inventor or the inventor was named after fire.

[โ€“] malean@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago
[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

I mean, that could actually be many people for all we know. Back that far it's hard to even pin down the millennia something happened.

[โ€“] arthur@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Fire domestication happened before our species even existed. Who ever did it, made us possible. Great answer.