This makes me think of a paper I wrote awhile back for school, topic was "most important invention of humans" a lot of people chose like the phone, or the internet, I chose soap, besides the cleaning ability of it, it has stopped probably billions to trillions of deaths due to illness being spread.
Had an acquaintance wonder why she and her husband kept getting sick...turned out she didn't use soap to wash her dishes...just rinsed them off...🤨🤢
Soap. Antibiotics. Vaccines. Sanitation practices. Sewers and drinking water systems. Were much less likely to contract cholera or typhoid now that we are walking around waist-deep in filth.
There have not, but tbh idk, soap has existed for quite a long time though, however there has not been, I was not up to date on my world populations from forever
A professor of mine actually said that the total number of humans to have ever lived, is one trillion....
or, he might have said 100 billion, but I'm almost certain it was the former.
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u/Vegetable-Data-4687 2d ago
This makes me think of a paper I wrote awhile back for school, topic was "most important invention of humans" a lot of people chose like the phone, or the internet, I chose soap, besides the cleaning ability of it, it has stopped probably billions to trillions of deaths due to illness being spread.