slave, n.Trivia

Ancient Egyptian pharaohs made slaves fan their wine all night to cool it down.

Slaves have it bad --- A pharaoh is said ot have lathered his slave in honey to keep bugs away from him.

Jack Daniels was taught by a slave, Nearest Green, how to make whiskey and is now credited as the first master distiller.

Ancient Romans appointed a slave as the CEO so the master could evade responsibility

Inoculation was introduced to America in 1706 by an West African slave named Onesimus, who taught his owner Cotton Mather how his parents inoculated him as a child. in 1721, Mather used this method to successfully combat a smallpox outbreak in Boston.