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Things That Shouldn't Exist · No. 23

Pythagorean Cup

For the host who will let a guest find the trick themselves.

Oddity 1 is familiar. 5 is genuinely strange.

A ceramic cup with a hidden siphon. Fill it to the line and it is a cup. Fill it past the line and the whole drink runs out the bottom.

Three reasons

  1. The story is that Pythagoras used it to stop workers from pouring themselves too much wine.
  2. The mechanism is a siphon, not a hole you can see from the table.
  3. The link is the Talos Artifacts cup with the blue evil eye, handmade in Greece, not a randomly colored souvenir.

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