If you ever thought about blogging, but gave up because you thought you have nothing interesting to write about, consider that 19th-century table sets used to have a third condiment shaker, other than salt and pepper. And we don't really know what it was for.
"A funny thing happens with history in that the most mundane, ubiquitous parts of daily life are the things that we've kind of lost the most because nobody wrote about them."
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