The internet has become remarkably good at identifying mysterious objects. Post a photo of something unrecognizable, and within minutes someone in the comments will know exactly what it is, where it came from, and probably its entire manufacturing history. It is one of the more wholesome applications of collective human knowledge, and it works almost every time.
When a grain-of-rice-sized object appeared in a pill bottle in this son’s room, his mother asked Reddit what it was, got her answer faster than she expected, and then had to navigate a series of updates that started with mild concern and ended somewhere rather bittersweet.
