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It's Thursday, August 11th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. The science and history of bog butter. Still edible butter buried in Irish bogs thousands of years ago.

Plus, the first ever feature film dubbed entirely in the Comanche language and more cool

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At the start of the month, I discussed recent findings that early Europeans were apparently eating and drinking dairy products much earlier than previously believed, well before many of them had developed the enzyme that would allow them to easily digest those dairy products.

Of the many theories for how and why these ancient humans consumed dairy products

was that they may have decreased the amount of milk sugar by turning it into cheese or butter,

thereby still getting the valuable nutrients of the animal product, but not

getting quite as sick as they would from drinking it straight. A strong piece of evidence we have

for people having made butter thousands of years ago is the fairly regular discoveries of

technically still edible chunks of millennia old butter found in peat bogs in Ireland. Throughout the 2000s,

workers in the bogs have stumbled on butter dating back 2000, 3,000, even 5,000 years ago. Why were

people putting their butter in the bogs? Why did it stay there? And how the heck is it still pretty much good

thousands of years later? Well, bogs, wetlands that accumulate dead plant material like

sphagnum moss and end up with a thick layer of peat on the surface are great natural

refrigerators. That thick layer on top keeps out the oxygen, which means mold and other decomposers have nothing to feed on.

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