Up to 45 million years ago, a Lebanese weevil was trapped in amber in what is now Burma; inside its body it harboured a colony of bacteria and yeast which was extracted a decade ago and is now used to brew beer. Prehistoric yeast: how cool is that?
It turns out that since Corning sold the rights to use the Pyrex
name, Pyrex
dishes have been exploding left and right, maiming people and
generally being untrustworthy.
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