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Today I learned about eyeglasses. The first use of corrective lenses dates (possibly) back to the first century, when Nero used an emerald to watch games that were far away. "Reading stones" were made in the 9th century out of glass. The first proper eyeglasses were invented in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. There are some awesome paintings on Wikipedia of dudes from the olden times wearing some jacked up early glasses. Early nerds!

You know, I feel like, what the hell were people doing before they had glasses? At least two out of the like, five people I talk to on a regular basis (the boyfriend and the roommate) are practically nonfunctional without their glasses. People just had to go about their daily lives not being able to see across a room or read something they were holding in their hands. That seems like a real bitch. So thanks, Salvino D'Armate. Way to be an inventor.