23/01/2026
According to the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, Ancient Egyptians had an interesting way of "pregnancy testing"...
The person in question would urinate on two different bags — one filled with barley and the other with wheat.
If the grain in either bag sprouted after being peed on, the woman was definitely with child.
If the barley sprouted faster, the baby would be a boy; if the wheat sprouted first, it would be a girl.
In 1963 the National Institute of Health put this to the test... and it was accurate 70% of the time!!!
Except for when it came to determining the baby's s*x- where it was not accurate at all.
While modern pregnancy tests rely on HCG (a hormone mostly only found while pregnant)to detect pregnancy, scientists speculated that this test worked so well because elevated levels of estrogen in a woman's urine might have promoted seed growth.
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