“How did people ever come up with making lime mortar in the first place?”
I imagine such a process goes something like this:
- Eat a bunch of snails.
- Have a pile of snail shells lying around.
- Kind of bored, guess I’ll take this rock and smash some snail shells against a bigger rock.
- Now I’ve got a big pile of white powder. Does it do anything good?
4a. Does not get me high when I snort it.
4b. Does not get me drunk/happy when I eat it.
4c. Works okay as wall coloring, but other stuff works better.
4d. Banishes spirits? Further research needed. - Bored now, plus raining.
- Hey! My smashing rocks are stuck together!
- Conclusion: snail dust makes rocks stick together good. Refine process with other great discovery, fire.
