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Glass was invented when sand got hot and decided to glow up.

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Glass is made by melting sand (silica) with other materials at high temperatures, and the earliest known manmade glass dates to about 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia and Egypt. It did not form by sand deciding to glow up, though natural glass such as obsidian also exists.

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