Lie of the Day #147
April 3rd, 2007 by FweebArcheologists and anthropologists have repeatedly seen the term “the golden palm” referred to in various ancient texts across varying timespans and disparate cultures in history. They’ve always taken it to refer to a key component in a religious sculpture or shrine made of gold. Recently, however, they’ve discovered that this reference is actually to the common event of a child being potty trained… missing and splashing his or her hands on accident.
To say that the researchers were disappointed would be quite an understatement.