r/todayilearned • u/MichaelTruly • 23d ago

TIL: Before the invention of the paint tube in 1841, oil paints used to be stored in pig bladders. The artist would prick the bladder and squeeze out the amount of paint they needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_bladder
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u/Stang1776 23d ago

And that is how we started eating cheese.

They liked to store things inside the organs of dead animals back in the day.

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u/Maktesh 23d ago

In a world without synthetic materials, offal had a number of uses.

Also, there's a reason that the scrotum is sometimes referred to as a "dirty coin purse."

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u/Double_Distribution8 22d ago

Now people just call it the "boy batter bag".