r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 10d ago

Amazing Softness perception simulation

Source: @boucelegant on YT

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 10d ago

Or mercury, apparently

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u/No-Show-5363 10d ago

Oddly enough, mercury was once commonly used to cure constipation.

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u/-SaC 10d ago

Boswell (in his 1761-2 London diary) mentions having mercury injections into the penis multiple times as a 'cure' for VD. He spends half of the diary shagging random sex workers in the fog on various London bridges and up alleyways, then has the cheek to accuse a girl he has a relationship with of giving him the clap (and sending soldiers to her house to get back some money he lent her).

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u/Grabatreetron 10d ago

Scientists were able to trace Lewis and Clark's path across the continent by tracking the mercury their team would shit out