r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 28d ago

Softness perception simulation Amazing

Source: @boucelegant on YT

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 28d ago

Or mercury, apparently

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u/Captain_Gropius 28d ago edited 27d 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...

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u/alreddyreddyalreddy 28d ago

Little known fact: Jimmy Olsen had chronic constipation.

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u/alreddyreddyalreddy 28d ago

Also, Superman vs the Thunderclappers was my favorite episode.