Fun Historical Fact about Gourds

Gourd historian, Scott Nelson, shares a fun fact about gourd history in an article he wrote for Arizona Gourds:

"Here is an unusual use of gourds!  In the Popul Vuh - a pre-Columbian document of the Kiche people of Central America - a BOMB is mentioned: It's a gourd filled with live hornets. I can only imagine, in a feud/war, how nice it would be to have a stash of those around the house. And not much fun to be on the receiving end of the "first ever" hand grenade."

We will not be making any exploding gourds here, but phew! this gives me a whole new point of view regarding war and agricultural products, right?