So, fun fact for all of you history dorks, but you know that legend about Cleopatra being so rich and trashy that she would drink her wine with crushed up pearls in it?
Pearls are mostly Calcium Carbonate. When they mix with acids (such as those in wine) they produce carbon dioxide like little balls of fancy alkaseltzer.
What Im saying is, call Cleopatra a trashy hoe all you want, but she was the trashy hoe who invented instant champagne. Bitch was living in 3018 while everyone else was in 18
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I just feel the need to add that it was something she only did once, she was proving a point about her extreme wealth. She was negotiating with I think a Greek and to prove the wealth of Egypt she took out one of her amazing massive pearl earrings (enough to buy some small countries) crushed it and drank it. The man she was talking with was absolutely flabbergasted. Ultimate power move. Pearls were incredibly expensive back then and that would be the equivalent of consuming like 100 pounds of diamonds.