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Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather.

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • kepix@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    poor ragebait

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  • moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The reason you find cold water refreshing is because of early humans.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you never been in a river in the spring?

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Water in streams, lakes, rivers, and springs is pretty much always a lot cooler than the air. Unless it’s a very small pond or a puddle, water is pretty cool, especially if you go deeper than just the surface to take your water.

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  • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    30°C air is hot as fuck, 30°C water is a perfect cold shower.

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  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Icy water yes. But cold water was available, the whole reason people find cold water refreshing is because running water/spring water etc are cold and more likely to be safe to drink. While stagnant water were more likely to be warm and have more bacteria, making it lot less safe.

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  • fixmycode@feddit.cl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    hot water is a relatively modern luxury. you probably have a living ancestor that remembers not growing up with easy, or any, access to hot water, just hurtfully cold, refreshing water.

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  • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, I bet they wished they had shade

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  • Nemoder@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You might only have ice-cold water during the spring if you’re near a river that just flowed down from the mountains but even most well water is going to be much cooler than surface temperatures.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you never been in a natural body of water in the summer?

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It depends on where you live. In some places they can get reasonable with temps being around 60-80F.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Even in Florida, even in tiny lakes and swamps, the water is plenty cool under the top 2’.

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      • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Size matters too.

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?

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    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is probably why cold water taste so good. It’s natural selection.

      There is so many diseases carried in water so there is no doubt that people doing extra effort to get that nice crispy water from the spring will survive longer that people getting warm water from the nearest water body.

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    • Kepion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My kitchen tap doesn’t carry that flavour

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      • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cold water is easy to heat if you know how to make fire. Most early humans probably knew how to make fire. Hot water, however, is difficult to cool without refrigeration.

    Spring and well water is often cool. I don’t know about the water that comes down from the mountains. Does it retain it’s coolness when the snow melts and runs down into the valley?

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    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hot water is pretty easy to cool. Just leave it in a vessel in a cool place and come back later.

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  • RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I feel like most natural spring water is pretty cool. They didn’t have refrigeration though, so this might be true for icy cold water?

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  • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People don’t understand that they don’t have to agree with a shower thought xD

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    • NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True. Upvote if it is interesting, thought provoking, well thought out, educational, etc.

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  • Rinn@awful.systems ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not necessarily? Icy water would have been rare, but even in the summer water from a stream or a lake is colder than the air, which is enough to make it refreshing. And well water can be very cold.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer. And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

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