🪓 Did you hear about the time they invented the shovel?

It did so in other ways too ;) I heard about an ancient Chinese legend on the original CSI show that told the story behind how forensics was born.

According to the story, someone in a remote village was murdered, and nobody knew who it was. The guy they had working as their version of "law enforcement" questioned everyone in the village, but he got no answers. However, the murderer was caught anyway a few days later. Evidently he did not clean the shovel he used to kill his victim, and flies started buzzing around it, drawn by the traces of dried blood and flesh still on it. That was apparently how people got started using forensics to solve crime mysteries. I remember Grissom telling someone that story in one of the episodes.

That's true.
It was, Captain Obvious.

Keep em coming

Now there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home. And you may thank Odin for it. Thirty years from now when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you: "What did you do in the great Battle of Maldon?" You won't have to say: "Well, I shoveled shit in Kungahälla. "

I'm confused.

Did Vikings invent the shovel?