Today's interesting fact has to do with our ancestors.

Bread has been used as a foodstuff for thousands of years. It is often thought that bread only comes from the flour of wheat. Wheat was first cultivated around 8000 years ago. But bread only requires a starchy flour. The use of Wheat adds gluten, but so does the use of Rye or Barley, although the type of gluten in these are different to the one in wheat.

But flour and bread has been created from many other starchy sources, the corms and fruit from the banana plant, various grass seeds, such as maize (corn) and rice, indeed almost any starchy source will allow you to create a type of bread. While the bread created from these materials doesn't rise as much as it does in wheat breads. It is the type of gluten in wheat that causes modern breads to rise as they do.

Until the Victorian Age, bread was made from oats and rye, not just wheat. Bread was used as plates and bowels, especially for the poor.