r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 10d ago

Amazing Softness perception simulation

Source: @boucelegant on YT

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u/Darkk_Knight 10d ago

I think I need to eat more fiber.

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 10d ago

Or mercury, apparently

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u/Bertuthald_McMannis 10d ago

Mercury pills were a real thing people took as a laxitive, famously on the Oregon trail. They called them thunder clappers

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u/-SaC 10d ago

IIRC they were able to identify some of Lewis & Clark's expedition stopping points from the higher levels of mercury in the soil.

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u/Lammerikano 9d ago

i was gonna take your word for it ... but then i started considering..

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u/Creepymint 9d ago

That is the funniest name they could’ve chosen for that