How A Cucumber Addiction Changed Everything You Eat 🥒 — Transcript
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- 0:00The only reason you can grow food in any
- 0:01part of the world is because of the
- 0:03cucumber.
- 0:05The Roman Emperor Tiberius was obsessed
- 0:08with the plant the Romans called
- 0:09Cucumis, the Latin word that usually
- 0:11gets translated to cucumber. They
- 0:13believed that it stopped the body from
- 0:14overheating and getting a fever. So, he
- 0:16ate it almost every single day. The
- 0:18problem was it only grew in the summer.
- 0:20So, a Roman Emperor needed a cooling
- 0:22medicine that nature only provided for
- 0:24half the year. So, for most years,
- 0:26nothing worked. It wasn't until they
- 0:27built garden beds that could move. They
- 0:29rolled them into the sun by day and
- 0:31pulled them inside by night. It was one
- 0:33of the earliest known climate control
- 0:35growing structures that we now call a
- 0:37greenhouse, the same structure keeping
- 0:39your grocery stores alive during the
- 0:41winter. So, many of the greenhouses
- 0:42you've ever walked past exist because of
- 0:44a cucumber obsession, which is pretty
- 0:46insane.
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