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In other news, I may have spent all day working on an article about the ancient history of olive oil and OMG, it is an absolute rabbit hole.
The earliest evidence of humans eating olives goes back about 100,000 years. People first started making olive oil about 8000 years ago, and the oldest living olive tree is said to be up to 4000 years old. The history of olive oil is longer than actual history!
The ancient culture of Crete became prosperous by trading olive oil. When Crete fell, the Mycenaean civilisation arose, which eventually led to the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Greeks influenced both Western and Arabian civilisations ever since. The whole Western world is built on fruit from this one tree from Anatolia.
@XanIndigo I mean, I've had fresh olive oil on the Mediterranean. It's worth founding a civilization or two 
@XanIndigo Neat. Thanks for sharing.