The story of how the salt got into the ocean: Once upon a time, a man was gifted with a small machine that would make anything you asked it to make. (Getting that gift is probably the elaborate and exciting part of the story, but I forget how it goes except that an old lady gave it to him.) Somebody stole it from him and ran away on a trading ship and wanted to make some salt with it. I suppose it was a story of back in the day when salt was expensive. The thief filled some sacks with salt, but didn’t know how to tell the device to turn off, and in order to prevent the boat from sinking under the weight of too much salt, threw it into the ocean. That is the story of how the ocean got its salt. It’s good to know these things.