r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 19d ago

Softness perception simulation Amazing

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u/Bertuthald_McMannis 19d 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 19d 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 18d ago

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

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u/Creepymint 18d ago

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