TIL that in ancient times, the carob seed was used to measure the worth of gems and gold since the seeds have a general uniform weight. This is where the word "karat" comes from. thespruce.com Submitted by kkoolook t3_yhnn7d on October 30, 2022 at 7:34 PM in todayilearned 62 comments 3,349
clumsyguy t1_iufy4np wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:49 AM Lateral podcast? I’d never heard this before, but the answer immediately popped into my head when he read the question just because of the sound of the word. Permalink 21
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