Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Russian folklore, frogs are added to milk to keep it fresh. Scientific investigations have shown that some frog skin contains ...
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Why people once put frogs in milk to keep it fresh — and the strange science that says it worked
For centuries, communities across Russia, Finland, and parts of Eastern Europe dropped small live frogs into fresh milk to stop it from spoiling. It sounds bizarre, almost like a superstition passed ...
The European brown frog is also known as the common frog, although its unique abilities make it anything but. Long before we had the luxury of storing milk in refrigerators, households in Russia and ...
In the rural areas of Finland and northern Russia, communities had a fascinating custom of placing live frogs into milk ...
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