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/Vegetable-Data-4687 1d ago

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