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🧐 Ancient Egyptian Pregnancy Test: Wheat, Barley, and Gender Prediction! 🌾 DID YOU KNOW? In ancient Egypt, women had a truly unique way to test for pregnancy and even predict the baby's gender! * Pregnant women would urinate on separate seeds of wheat and barley. * If the wheat grew, it was believed to predict a female baby. * If the barley grew, it predicted a male baby. * If nothing grew, the woman was considered not pregnant. The Science Behind It (Sort Of): While the gender prediction part
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