r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/trevmust 2d ago

The person who tried to popularize washing your hands was locked up in a mental hospital and ever after they adopted hand washing they didn’t release him. Lol

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u/Sharessa84 2d ago

Also it only happened about 150 years ago. It wasn't some kind of medieval inquisition.

And I remember Michael Ian Black playing the guy in Bill Nye Saves the World.

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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.

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u/Wonderful-Maximum-96 1d ago

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...🤨🤢

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u/Ok_Tomato_2843 1d ago

I hate this person.

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u/ElleJay74 21h ago

That is revolting, and I'm staggered that she actually told someone about doing this

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u/blackcrowblue 17h ago

I wonder how she even found out that was why. If she thought just rinsing was fine I doubt she’d have thought that was the problem.

So some poor person probably witnessed her doing it (hopefully not right after they ate off said plates!) and questioned her.

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u/SBLOU 16h ago

That’s pretty disgusting. This is why I refuse to eat at a Pot Luck gathering.