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2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

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244 points benbreen | 1 comments | 15 Jan 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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poulpy123 ◴[17 Jan 25 16:14 UTC] No.42739442[source]▶
The thing that surprised me the most was to discover that there was patchouli perfume. I always associated it hippies and the hippie trail from the 60s and was thinking it was from Asia
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1. poulpy123 ◴[17 Jan 25 16:22 UTC] No.42739608[source]▶
After checking patchouli is indeed a south Asian plant, that is not endemic from the Mediterranean area, so it's even more fascinating than the wine