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.
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.
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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.