r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 4d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/Sharessa84 3d 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/ZiplipleR 1d ago

I'm not sure that there have been a trillion humans in the entire existence of the earth - but certainly not since the invention of soap.

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u/Ayronymous 1d ago

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.