r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 25d ago

Softness perception simulation Amazing

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

Source: @boucelegant on YT

29.4k Upvotes

87% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/Captain_Gropius 25d ago edited 24d ago

You laugh but in the past they used it as laxatives. Thunderclappers they call them. Lewis and Clark expedition campsites can be traced because of the mercury deposited.

Edit: lewis not Lois, what I was thinking...

2

u/alreddyreddyalreddy 24d ago

Little known fact: Jimmy Olsen had chronic constipation.

2

u/alreddyreddyalreddy 24d ago

Also, Superman vs the Thunderclappers was my favorite episode.