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Who Invented Spoons, Forks, and Knives? (2017x53)


Air date: Mar 01, 2017

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Who Really Invented the Tea Bag? https://youtu.be/BpRCyLi5UXw?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan Who Really Invented Duct Tape https://youtu.be/JopYDWPLogo?list=PLR0XuDegDqP3XRa-w_G0dy_aMMXj0Uq-k In this video: Spoons are one of the oldest eating utensils on the planet. This isn’t particularly surprising if one considers that nearly as long as humans have needed food, they’ve required something to scoop it up with. Unlike knives and forks, that for the most part needed to be fashioned, natural spoons could be utilized by employing such things as seashells or conveniently shaped stones. Sure, the earliest known instances of these didn’t have handles yet, but from these humble beginnings, the spoon was born. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/10/history-spoons-forks-knives/ Sources: http://www.eatingutensils.net/history-of-cutlery/spoon-history/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Anna_Doukaina_Selvo http://leitesculinaria.com/1157/writings-the-uncommon-origins-of-the-common-fork.html http://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/of-knives-and-forks http://mentalfloss.com/article/20287/history-utensils-spork-included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle_Spoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_de_Medici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Samuel Imag

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