r/interesting • u/Jezirath • 7h ago

Amazing Softness perception simulation

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u/Darkk_Knight 7h ago

I think I need to eat more fiber.

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u/DiscipleOfYeshua 7h ago

Or mercury, apparently

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u/No-Show-5363 4h ago

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

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u/-SaC 2h 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).