The Secret of the Beans

The Pythagoreans did not eat beans and in fact there's a story that Pythagoras died being pursued by a violent mob because he he was running away from them but he wouldn't run through a bean field. The modern observation that bean plants sometimes appear to bleed like human blood is based on the discovery of rhizobium, a bacterium which can be infected with hemoglobin. If you cut these things open you get this red juice coming out of them that looks almost exactly like human blood so somebody might have cut a bean plant open and been like whoa this thing is bleeding like a human or at least like an animalso i don't know maybe maybe we should need