The Lycurgus Cup

[Maggot]

Pretty cool.

Lycurgus Cup - Wikipedia​

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The Lycurgus Cup is a 4th-century Roman glass cage cup made of a dichroic glass, which shows a different colour depending on whether or not light is passing ...
‎The glass · ‎Iconography · ‎History · ‎Notes

 

[FWoo45]

Pretty darn cool.

 

[W54/XM-388]

The Romans also had cups that would react to some poisons and change hue so you knew not to drink that stuff.

 

[Maggot]

The Romans also had cups that would react to some poisons and change hue so you knew not to drink that stuff.

But they damaged their brains by drinking red acidic wine out of pewter (lead) cups. The wine dissolved the lead and dumbed them down.

 

[W54/XM-388]

But they damaged their brains by drinking red acidic wine out of pewter (lead) cups. The wine dissolved the lead and dumbed them down.

Yep, and we are not much smarter today when it comes to things that poison your body long term vs stuff that kills you right away.
Chances are if humans evolve, some thousands of years from now, they will be looking back at how we ate and the chemical toxic soup we live in and digest and be shaking their heads about how could they have possibly been so dumb to do that to themselves.